Chapter 1: Past Life and Present Life

  Ling Lin's consciousness wandered in the darkness, and he didn't know how long it had been. A strange feeling floated to his mind. It seemed that something was attracting him, and he moved forward in a daze.

  A cluster of white clouds flickered with a faint, weak light, gradually growing dimmer. This was a soul body that was about to disperse...

  "Wake up, young master! Wake up! Don't scare Xiao Huan!" A sobbing voice came from the darkness, filled with anxiety and fear.

  "Who is this? Am I not dead?" Ling Lin thought dazedly, slowly opening his tightly closed eyes.

  "Little... little ring?" Dazed, Ling Lin stared at the unfamiliar face in front of him, feeling very strange. Although he didn't know the person, he felt a strong sense of familiarity, and more surprisingly, he had called out the other's name. "What, what is going on here?"

  "Master, you've finally woken up! Waaah, I was so scared to death!" The girl wiped away tears from the corners of her eyes, looking very happy. "Master, what's wrong with you? Why did you suddenly faint?"

  Looking at the scene in front of him, Ling Lin was certain that it wasn't an illusion caused by death, and he couldn't imagine that he had actually been reborn.

  Scenes from past life floated in my mind, my parents were high-ranking white-collar workers of a well-known enterprise, with good living conditions. Born into such a family should have been great, but happiness was frozen at the age of 3. A very ordinary fall, a very ordinary check-up, brought devastating news that could ruin one's life.

  Terminal illness! Yes, at the age of three, I was diagnosed with a rare terminal illness. Since I was old enough to understand, my only companions were large amounts of medication and cold surgical instruments. I couldn't go to school, couldn't play with other kids, and even getting out of bed for a short walk was a luxury, all while facing the possibility of death at any moment, making me increasingly withdrawn as a child.

  Luckily, there are books. Books have given me a spiritual world. Through books, I crazily absorb all kinds of knowledge, astronomy, geography, history, and even some incredible stories.

  That was the happiest time I spent, feeling unprecedented fulfillment. However, good times didn't last long, the devil of illness was ravaging me all the time, my condition got worse and worse, my body getting weaker and weaker.

  Finally, after an operation, he never woke up again.

  ……

  The master of this body is the young master of the Ling family. The Ling family has a good reputation in the surrounding area, with over a thousand members and many skilled individuals. Under the management of the current head of the household, Ling Lin's father, Ling Yao Tian, the Ling family has been thriving. However...

  Ling Lin was born weak and sickly, and after practicing for many years, he was still struggling in the third stage of martial arts. It's said that even this third stage was achieved with the help of spiritual medicine. His father was the current head of the family, but he was quite indifferent to his son. Although Ling Lin had no worries about food or clothing, he didn't have any innate talent for cultivation and wasn't favored by his father. Even the only maid who could serve him was left behind by his mother after she passed away. This showed how lowly regarded Ling Lin was in the Ling family... Various reasons made young Ling Lin's life increasingly difficult, and his weak body continued to deteriorate until he finally reached the end of his rope.

  Ling Lin couldn't help but sigh after reading through these memories. This was a mystical world that could only exist in a past life, and he had inherited the memories of this body's original owner. No wonder he had reacted so strongly when he first woke up. However, thinking about his own situation, Ling Lin began to feel a headache coming on. His mother was dead, his father didn't want anything to do with him, and he was still carrying the burden of being known as a "good-for-nothing". Was there really anyone who had it worse than him?

  "Master, Master!" Ling Lin, who was deep in thought, suddenly felt a wave of dizziness and then saw the little maid Xiaohuan shaking his hand vigorously. "Master, how could you fall asleep again? Don't you know that the old master sent someone to find you just now, inviting you to attend tonight's banquet? How can you still be sleeping?" Xiaohuan was very anxious, her eyes welling up with tears. Although they were father and son, the old master was quite cold towards Master Ling, and they rarely saw each other. This time must be something important, yet Master Ling was still asleep!

  Looking at the girl in front of him, who was just wondering how she had fainted and now was telling herself not to fall asleep, a warm feeling flowed through Ling Lin's heart. It was clear that this was genuine concern for himself. Ling Lin knew that there were very few people in this world who truly cared about him, and the girl in front of him, named Xiao Huan, was one of them. Embarrassed, he rubbed his head, but Ling Lin couldn't tell her that he was digesting the memories of the original owner of this body.

  "Xiao Huan, you go out for a while and let me calm down." Ling Lin said.

  "Uh-huh, okay, but young master, don't fall asleep again, it's getting late." It seemed she was still a bit worried, so Xiaohuan added this sentence before leaving.

  "Do I fall asleep that easily."

  "Who made you like sleeping so much, hehe..." The silvery laughter gradually faded away.

  Ling Lin fell into deep thought once again. As the saying goes, to cure a disease one must start from the root. To shake off this useless reputation, he first had to improve his physical condition.

  After a moment, "Strange, there's nothing wrong with the body", although it was said to be somewhat weak, but this was only in comparison to cultivators. To put it bluntly, this body would have been an excellent physique even in Ling Lin's past life. Although it was difficult to cultivate, the spiritual medicine that Ling Lin had eaten as a child was not insignificant, "How could he not be able to cultivate?"

  After a long time of thinking and not being able to figure it out, Lin decided to stop thinking about it, as thinking more wouldn't be as good as giving it a try. Lin closed his eyes and slowly ran the ancestral method of the Lin family in his body according to the memories in his mind.

  Ling Lin's consciousness pierced through the layers of obstacles, advancing, advancing... and after an unknown amount of time, suddenly a bright light appeared before his eyes, he saw another world, a world entirely composed of light points.

  At this moment, Ling Lin was suspended in mid-air, his body covered with these jumping light spots. "Too beautiful, too shocking." It was as if he was in the starry sky, surrounded by twinkling stars. He could even see some light spots running into his own body one after another.

  Inside the room.

  Ling Lin sat cross-legged on the bed, his eyes tightly closed, without any sign of waking up. At this time, if someone was beside him, they would discover that it seemed like a whirlwind had blown up, and countless heavenly spiritual energies were gathering around Ling Lin at an astonishingly fast speed that was visible to the naked eye.

  Warm and comfortable, Ling Lin's entire body was fully immersed in the ocean of spiritual energy, with every one of his millions of pores beginning to excitedly jump. A thread of blackness slowly began to flow out from within his body, this being the impurities that had accumulated within him over the years! It should be known that aside from some heavenly and earthly spiritual medicines, humans could only slowly expel the impurities within their bodies after entering the Pre-Heaven stage, but the scene before them undoubtedly overturned this notion.

  What a great opportunity!

  Time flies...

  "Whoa!" Ling Lin let out a long breath and opened his eyes. The whirlwind of spiritual energy around him also vanished instantly. He didn't know what had just happened with the spiritual energy storm, nor did he know how shocking it was. However, he knew that his strength had increased!

  "What a powerful force!" Ling Lin clenched his fist, "With just one cultivation session, the effect is already so apparent. I reckon it won't take long before I can enter the fourth realm of martial arts."

  In my past life, I was entangled by a terminal illness and had no strength for anything else. In this life, I must live out a brilliant life!

  Getting out of bed and looking at the starry sky outside the window, Ling Lin murmured: "This life..."