"Uh, where am I?"
Shaking his groggy head, Li Lin felt his surroundings were damp, and his entire body ached to the point of numbness. A cold wind was blowing, causing him to shiver uncontrollably.
Thinking of this, Li Lin felt a chill on his scalp and hurriedly opened his eyes, only to find darkness all around. In the sky above, there was a crescent moon. Moments later, with the faint moonlight, he saw that he was in a pond, and it seemed to be deep into the night.
"Ah..."
A scream induced by a headache ensued. Li Lin felt as if an inexplicable force was colliding with his mind, and then he passed out again.
As the sky slightly brightened, Li Lin slowly woke up, contemplating the piece of news he had just received in his mind, almost passing out again!
"I must be incredibly lucky to have traversed through time. Is this a dream?" Li Lin widened his eyes and looked around. From the information in his mind and having read countless transmigration novels, Li Lin was certain that he had traveled through time. This opportunity was even rarer than winning a billion-dollar lottery, yet he had encountered it.
Li Lin recalled that he had just graduated from a third-rate university and found a menial office job. While helping the office’s old lady photocopy documents, who knew the photocopier would leak electricity, and his luck would make him travel through time.
With no attachments or prospects in his previous life, maybe transversing was a good thing. Perhaps he could make a name for himself in this new world. Based on the transmigration novels he read, those who transversed never fared badly; they either had numerous wives and concubines or were unparalleled in a different world. At the very least, they were rich and powerful. He hoped he wouldn't be too unlucky.
Having confirmed his transmigration, Li Lin felt no reluctance, but rather a sense of liberation. In his previous life, he was neither a government official's nor a rich person's child, nor a celebrity's child. His future was utterly bleak.
"Where is this place, and why did I transverse to such a dreadful location?" Li Lin looked around, thinking about the memories in his mind that weren't his own.
Moments later, Li Lin felt a suicidal urge, wondering if he could transverse again. Others would transverse into a young master or a prince, or at least a handsome and elegant scion of a powerful family.
However, in his transversed life, he was indeed a young master, surprisingly also named Li Lin, only sixteen this year. But this young master was an illegitimate child, his status in the family lower than even the servants. He had a mother who was originally a slave in the family. After giving birth to the young master, she suffered even more oppression from the legitimate wife and led a life worse than a slave.
This mother and son were often bullied by people in the family, even the servants didn't take them seriously, especially a few maids and servants around the legitimate wife, who had been humiliating them since childhood.
Just yesterday, after the young master talked back a few words, he was brutally beaten and accidentally killed. In panic, those people probably didn't know where they had thrown the young master's body, which ended up in the pond under a cliff. Now, Li Lin, with his extraordinary luck, had transversed into this young master's body.
Thinking of his pitiable situation after transversing, Li Lin felt like crying without tears. Was his luck good or bad? He hadn't done anything particularly good in his previous life, so his luck probably wasn't great either.
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Since he was here, Li Lin had no choice. He had narrowly escaped death and couldn't just die again. Anyway, surviving was a blessing, and hopefully, surviving a great disaster would bring great fortune.
"Considering we share the name Li Lin, and I'm using your body, I'll help you avenge your grievances if I get a chance. I'll take care of your mother from now on," Li Lin murmured to himself.
As soon as Li Lin finished speaking, his mind suddenly cleared, as if a turbid air had instantly dispersed from his mind.
"It seems your grievances are deep. I, Li Lin, will find an opportunity to avenge you," Li Lin said, looking up at the sky.
After speaking, Li Lin had to face a realistic problem. He was still lying diagonally in the pond, seemingly leaning against a dead tree. The pond was freezing, probably due to the severe winter weather. Perhaps he was already numb from the cold, as he felt little sensation while soaking in the pond.
Struggling to swim to the edge of the pond, Li Lin couldn't help but curse inwardly. His legs seemed to be broken, and his arms, initially fine, now felt fractured after exerting a little effort. He couldn't use any strength in his upper body. Moving to the edge of the pond was impossible, let alone moving a little bit.
"Oh heavens, don't do this to me." Li Lin cursed helplessly at the sky, completely unable to move and seemingly destined to freeze to death.
"Swoosh..."
A swishing sound entered Li Lin's ears, resembling the movement of an animal swimming rapidly in the water.
"Could it be a demonic beast?" A terrifying thought flashed through Li Lin's mind. From the information left in his mind, he knew that this world was entirely different from his original one. It was a world where martial arts were revered, vast and boundless, inhabited by demonic and spiritual beasts, as well as warriors and spirit masters.
Warriors and spirit masters held extremely high status in this world, especially spirit masters, whose status was supremely exalted.
However, the young master he had transversed into was incapable of becoming a warrior or a spirit master, which is why his status in the family was so pitiful, even lower than that of a servant.
"Screech..." Just as Li Lin was pondering whether a demonic beast was approaching him, a screeching sound came from above, followed by what seemed like a passing cloud of darkness, and a gigantic bird, hundreds of meters in size, appeared in the sky.
The giant bird, with its wings spread wide, circled directly above Li Lin. It resembled an eagle, with blue feathers and white down on its belly. Its curved talons gleamed coldly, and it was staring intently at Li Lin.
"A demonic beast. Have I just transversed only to become the meal of this creature?" Li Lin was incredibly surprised, never having seen such a giant eagle in his previous life. He could only helplessly smile in despair, unable to move while the demonic beast was about to devour him.
"Swoosh, swoosh..."
Li Lin felt something rapidly moving and jumping behind him, with the sensation of wings flapping against the water surface, creating waves and causing him to drift forward.
"Screech, screech..."
The giant eagle in the sky let out a shriek, its eyes flashing fiercely. With a flap of its wings, it created a strong gust of wind and dove down, its talons contracting and then extending swiftly, striking down like lightning.
"I am doomed." Li Lin's heart sank, resigned to becoming the meal of a demonic beast just after transversing. Such bad luck!
"Swoosh..." Just as Li Lin was in despair, suddenly, a black flash passed in front of his eyes. A shadow leaped from behind him, moving too fast for him to see clearly. It was a gigantic flying demonic beast, hundreds of meters in size, resembling a bat, with pure white fur. As it faced Li Lin, it appeared to have a massive gash on its belly, bleeding profusely, likely injured.
"Bang! Bang!"
In that instant, the two gigantic demonic beasts collided in the sky. Continuous screeching and squawking filled the air. Li Lin, lying helplessly in the pond and swaying with the water, was unable to move.
After several collisions, Li Lin saw the giant eagle retract its talons and flap its wings, creating a huge gust of wind and fiercely attacking the bat-like demonic beast.
"Squeak, squeak." The bat-like demonic beast let out a squeal, and to Li Lin's astonishment, it exhaled a white mist from its mouth.
As the white mist sprayed out, a bone-chilling coldness spread through the air, rapidly freezing the entire pond into ice.
The giant eagle was instantly frozen mid-air, then its huge body plummeted straight down.
"Bang..." The giant eagle crashed onto the ice surface ahead, shattering it and creating cracks. The bat-like demonic beast, now appearing extremely weak, slowly moved towards the fallen giant eagle on the ice.
"Crack."
Li Lin saw the bat-like demonic beast open its sharp mouth, revealing rows of sharp fangs, and tore open the giant eagle's belly. A baby fist-sized, translucent blue orb, stained with a trace of blood, rolled out onto the ice.