Chapter 1: Reborn in Another World
Shi Yan suddenly woke up, feeling a severe headache, as if his brain was filled with lead, extremely heavy.
This is a dimly lit stone cave, the size of a basketball court. The stone floor was piled with layers of white bones, and more than ten newly deceased bodies in strange and exotic clothing were scattered around them. The clothes on the corpses still looked very bright, as if they hadn't been dead for too long.
Where is this? Is it still in the Bahamas of the Caribbean Sea?
Shi Yan is an extreme sports enthusiast who is almost fanatical, 27 years old. His mother died early and his father accumulated a lifetime of wealth but died of cancer in his prime. He inherited a fortune that he can't squander for a lifetime.
What others have pursued with sweat and toil for a lifetime, he has obtained effortlessly, having possessed it from the start.
The best years of youth are there, but the goal can't be found for a long time. This kind of rich but directionless feeling makes him always unhappy and depressed.
Until the age of seventeen, he came into contact with extreme sports and suddenly felt that life had become interesting. With a huge fortune in his hands, he was able to indulge in this sport that ordinary people could not participate in.
Free solo climbing, crocodile bungee jumping, low-altitude skydiving, volcano boarding, cliff diving, and car-bottom sliding are his greatest pleasures.
He enjoys that kind of thrilling adventure on the line between life and death!
For ten years, he has tried every extreme sport that is the most crazy and dangerous, wherever it is life-threatening, he runs to wherever.
Ten years of extreme sports have made Shi Yan's physical quality extremely excellent, and hundreds of times of near-death experiences have made his nerve endurance extremely abnormal. He joked that he is the person closest to the god of death.
Exploring the blue holes in the Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, was his last extreme challenge. Some of these blue holes are hundreds of meters deep and some are as complex as a maze. Even with the slightest movement, the sediment at the bottom of the hole would rise up, making it impossible to see any direction no matter how bright the lighting equipment worn was.
No matter how skilled the diver is, they must tie a steel rope before jumping into the blue hole. This is the lifeline of the blue hole explorer, and pulling the rope to the end means reaching the limit of diving. If you want to continue swimming forward, it means suicide, because no one can swim out of the "maze" without relying on the rope. According to statistics from the Bahamas Maritime Department, an average of 20 extreme divers die in the blue hole every year, most of whom died due to getting lost.
In this most dangerous extreme adventure in the world, Shi Yan voluntarily dropped the steel wire known as lifeline and conducted a crazy adventure equivalent to suicide, eventually getting lost in the mysterious blue hole.
In the blue hole, getting lost means death...
The stone rock slumped on the icy rocky ground, relying on the flickering eerie glow on the rock wall to scan the surroundings, only to feel that there seemed to be some fragmented memories in his mind that didn't belong to him.
That's another memory of the rocky shore...
That guy has the same name as him, and is only seventeen years old. He's a crazy archaeology enthusiast who has reached the point of madness in his investigation of various ancient ruins. Because of an old tattered map, he brought some guards from his family and arrived here after half a year of hardship.
Shi Yan furrowed his brow and slowly stood up, feeling weak all over, his body frail.
The next moment, Shi Yan realized that this body was not his own, but another Shi Yan, the one who was only seventeen years old.
His face suddenly changed color, and he was shocked into a wooden chicken.
I'm dead in the blue hole after all, no, I'm still alive, and it's in an unbelievable way!
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Through fragmented memories of another rocky era, he knew that this place was called the Divine Grace Continent, where there was no technological civilization, constant war and strife, and martial artists roamed freely!
Here, many people are born with unique talents, and some have mysterious powers that manifest soon after birth. Some are born with the power of lightning within them, others can control plants, while others can move freely through the earth. Some are born with a magical sense that allows them to communicate with demonic beasts, and others have icy powers within their bodies...
All kinds of innate talents are strange and mysterious, these people with extraordinary talents almost all become warriors, and the talents on their bodies are called "martial souls".
"Martial Souls" are almost all born with, only an extremely small number can be obtained through some kind of strange encounter, the probability is so small that it can be ignored. This continent is called the Divine Favor Continent, because martial artists all think that "Martial Souls" are a gift from the gods to them.
Not all warriors can possess a "Martial Spirit", on the contrary, the vast majority of warriors do not have a "Martial Spirit". Ordinary people can become warriors through postnatal cultivation, but they cannot acquire a "Martial Spirit" through cultivation. However, special "Martial Spirits" can accelerate a warrior's cultivation speed, greatly enhance their combat power, and grant them special abilities...
Therefore, martial artists of the same level, those who possess a "martial soul" are often much more formidable, and their future achievements will also be far superior to those without a "martial soul". These individuals with a "martial soul" have an unfair advantage on the path of cultivation.
"Martial Soul" can be inherited through bloodline and has a high probability of doing so.
Generally speaking, if one of the parents has a "martial soul", then there is a high possibility that their child will also have the same "martial soul". If both parents have a "martial soul", then their child has an even higher chance of inheriting a "martial soul", either from the father or the mother, but almost always only one.
In this case, there is also an extremely small probability that the child born will not inherit even one "martial soul" from either parent and become a normal person. This probability is very low, occurring only once in every hundred couples.
One hundred times smaller than this probability is another situation - the child born can inherit all the "martial souls" of both parents! This type of martial soul is called "double birth martial soul", and such a person who has been favored by heaven is also known as "God's favorite child"!
The probability is even smaller, among 10,000 couples with different "martial souls", there may be only one special case.
Shi Yan stood there, continuing to sort out the fragmented memories in his mind...
The original owner of this body came from the Shi family of the Merchant Alliance. The Shi family possessed the "Petrification" martial soul, which could petrify their body during battle, making it as hard as a boulder and able to withstand partial spiritual invasion. As their realm increased, the "Petrification" martial soul would become even more formidable, almost rendering them impervious to swords and guns.
Unfortunately, this guy did not inherit the "petrification" martial soul and was determined by the Shi family to be unsuitable for practicing martial arts. This guy himself has no interest in martial arts and has never studied it from childhood to adulthood, but instead puts his energy into exploring ancient ruins.
It was all because of this tattered old map that they had braved countless dangers to get here, and if it weren't for the map in his hand, he wouldn't have been able to find this ancient stone cave hidden behind layers of foliage.
"Wooo... Hoo hoo hoo..."
A wailing sound like a malevolent spirit crying out suddenly came from within the stone cave, causing Shi Yan to be shocked and hastily look towards the blood pool where the sound was coming from.
The blood pool is located in the center of the stone cave, only about 10 square meters in size. The pool is filled with a terrifying, blood-red liquid that emits a gurgling sound, and when the bubbles burst, they produce a frightening, mournful howl that sends chills down one's spine.
He knew that the newly dead guards beside him had suddenly gone mad and killed each other due to the howling sound in the blood pool, and fell one after another in the stone cave. Another rock was also affected by the terrifying howl, and suddenly fainted and fell to the ground.
It's all because of the blood pool!
He stared at the pool of blood, his expression heavy, those wailing sounds stimulating his nerves, stirring up a desire for slaughter from the bottom of his heart, making him feel an urge to kill everyone around him!
The stone cliff still had a splitting headache, and the howling sound from the blood pool tortured him, making it difficult for him to concentrate his mind.
There must be something strange about this Blood Pool!
Shi Yan's face was calm, his mind firm, the tough nerves he had cultivated over the years in life and death struggles were at work. Although his head still hurt terribly, he remained relatively calm and walked step by step towards the blood pool.
"Crack! Crack!"
A few fragments of grayish-white dry bones crumbled under his feet, Shi Yan's expression was solemn, from the white bones inside the stone cave, it could be seen that before they entered, many people must have died in the cave, and the blood pool was the source of evil, did he want to explore the mystery of the blood pool, wasn't it seeking death?
The closer he got to the blood pool, the more intense and piercing the howling sound became, like a sharp knife stabbing his brain repeatedly. The killing frenzy hidden in the whistling sound almost destroyed all his rationality and calmness. If it weren't for his years of challenging limits and having an extremely resilient nervous system, he would have collapsed long ago.
Next to the blood pool, a field of corpses; in the center of the blood pool, white skeletons faintly appear. The small blood pool is like the Asura Blood Sea, and it's unknown how many lives have been swallowed up by it.
Shi Yan faintly felt that the reason why his soul had come here was closely related to this eerie blood pool. He thought that he might still be able to return through the blood pool, back to the familiar world, back to the Blue Hole on the Bahamian islands.
As he got closer to the Blood Pool, Shi Yan suddenly discovered a strange phenomenon - the blood water in the pool was crimson and thick, but he couldn't smell even a hint of blood.
On the contrary, the air here is extremely fresh and even has a faintly unreasonable fragrance. After careful feeling, he found that the fragrance actually came from the blood pool!
Shi Yan was full of curiosity and even more convinced that there must be something strange in the Blood Pool.
He walked a few more steps, and suddenly, an endless sea of blood appeared in his mind, with countless corpses piling up into islands. Some of the corpses were intact, like white limestone dinosaur fossils, as big as small hills. In the sea of blood, a voice seemed to be repeating over and over: "Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!"
He stood firm in his heart, but his heartbeat accelerated uncontrollably, and the suffocating terror pressed down on him. He felt the familiar taste of death, and he thought he had never been so close to death before.
He knew that the next step might be death!
However, years of death-defying adventures have not only failed to intimidate him but also made him thoroughly enjoy the thrill! Embracing death head-on and seeking life in its midst is indeed the ultimate truth of extreme sports!
One step, another step, and yet another step!
Under the overwhelming pressure of the Blood Pool, Shi Yan finally walked to the edge of the Blood Pool, looking at the not-so-large Blood Pool. The crazy side of his personality was triggered, and he roared: "I'd like to see what's so strange about this small Blood Pool!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Shi Yan coldly smiled and jumped into the Blood Pool.
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