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This was the darkest place in the world.

Someone raised their head in the endless darkness, but what they saw was still a void without a sound or shadow.

As the continent's most talented martial arts genius, the family's most beloved young master, and the sect's most talented junior, Ling Xiao had never thought that he would one day be reduced to such a state.

If one day he could leave this place, Ling Xiao swore to himself that he would make those people who framed him pay the price!

"Do you want to leave?" Suddenly, a voice rang out in the boundless darkness.

Ling Xiao hesitated, "Who?!"

No one answered, as if it was just an illusion.

Ling Xiao, Ling Xiao, what are you waiting for? To be framed by the most trusted, being scolded by the closest, being locked in this sinister place by the most respected, who do you expect to save you?

"Do you want to leave?" The voice was calm.

Ling Xiao heard it clearly this time and asked in surprise, "Who are you?"

The other did not reply, but continued, "If you intend to, close your eyes later. No matter what happens, do not resist."

Ling Xiao was wondering what was going on. A sharp pain spread from between his eyebrows and quickly spread to every part of his body.

At first, it was only a slight pain, but it quickly turned into unbearable pain. The burning feeling became more and more intense and Ling Xiao finally lost consciousness in the endless darkness.

Ling Xiao didn't expect that when he opened his eyes again, his soul would be possessed by an orphan without a surname, an orphan without a parent.

In a chaotic battle, the original owner was hit by an inner strength. The original owner had no cultivation. Even his physical fitness couldn't compare to an ordinary person. So, he fell to the ground with a serious injury. Soon, he lost his breath.

The people here valued force greatly. If there was any disagreement, they would attack. Unless it was an outrageous scene, no one would care about it.

A nobody like the original owner, who didn't even have a name, would die like a blade of grass. Of course, no one cared about it, not even Ling Xiao, who helped collect the corpse.

"Since your body is trapped in the void, I just randomly found a body and stuffed your soul inside." An unfamiliar yet familiar voice rang out.

Ling Xiao couldn't help but ask, "A void place? Is that where I was trapped before? "

The other didn't answer.

Ling Xiao pondered for a while, "What conditions do you have to bring me out?"

The mysterious person opened his mouth, his tone was filled with easily discernible disdain, "I've never done good deeds, I'll definitely have something that I need you to do in the future." He added, "Don't worry, I won't let you do anything outside your capabilities. You don't have anything worth scheming about, so you don't have to worry about me harming you."

Ling Xiao frowned: why does the voice sound so close? Moreover, there seemed to be some … Immaturity?

He turned his head slowly and finally found something strange at his feet.

Four short legs, a soft, pink body, and a round, furry face... This little thing that couldn't even stand properly, was that mysterious person who saved him?

When he saw Ling Xiao's gaze looking over, the thing immediately raised its head and puffed up its chest, putting on the look of "what's so good about you stupid mortal".

Ling Xiao's expressionless face couldn't help but twist a little.

Noticing Ling Xiao's weird expression, Lil Thing arched his body and faced him with a disdainful look.

Ling Xiao felt his head hurt. He didn't have time to ask for more details. He picked up the little thing that was baring its fangs and brandishing its claws and slowly got up from the cold ground.

The body that Ling Xiao had taken over was not very robust and now that he was hit by inner strength, it was in a worrisome state. The brute force rampaged inside Ling Xiao's body, but Ling Xiao had no choice but to grit his teeth and endure.

In order to distract his attention, Ling Xiao started to flip through the original owner's memories. Soon, he realized that the original owner was not hurt accidentally, but it was intentional!

The original owner had an exceptionally worshipped goddess. The goddess was beautiful and had a powerful and noble identity. The most important thing was for her to be close to others. Even the original owner who was a wandering child without anything was very close to her.

The original owner, who was always scolded, was very happy. However, some people were not as happy. The goddess had a brainless mother, and was already at the seventh stage of Qi Cultivating Stage. She was only one step away from becoming an official Martial Cultivator, and her strength was incomparable to an ordinary person like the original owner, who was unable to cultivate.

He could not bear to see the original owner trying to get close to the goddess, so he finally found an opportunity to send a surge of inner strength into the original owner's body.

The original owner, as an ordinary person without any ability, naturally was unable to resist and was killed by someone just like that.

Ling Xiao, who knew the truth, silently said in his heart, "Don't worry, I won't let go of the person who killed you!"

However, he had overestimated the endurance of this body. Ling Xiao reluctantly walked back to where the original owner resided. He staggered and then kneeled to the ground. His vision became blurry. He immediately fell asleep without caring about anything.

In his dreams, the original owner's memories flashed across his mind more clearly. Only then did Ling Xiao realize that the continent he was on was the same as the world he was in before, also known as Martial Arts Continent.

On this Martial Arts Continent, there existed the three great empires of Zhong Wu, Xuan Gu, and Qian Hui. This was Intermediate Martial Empire under the jurisdiction of the Intermediate Martial Empire, Tianning Palace.

The Kata City was extremely desolate. Even though the region was vast, the population was sparse, and all sorts of resources were scarce.

Similarly, the Qi of Heaven and Earth that was used as a cultivation resource in the Martial Cultivator was also abnormally barren. In the original owner's Kata City, as long as a person could draw energy into their body and have the qualifications to become an official Martial Cultivator, then that was enough for them to receive respect.

Ling Xiao woke up with a sigh.

Martial Cultivator?

He was already a Seventh Level Martial Soldier when he was eight years old. He never thought that he could become such an extraordinary existence here, which made him feel an inexplicable sense of absurdity.

According to the description of the little thing called a "divine beast", the Martial Cultivator was split into two layers, the continent that he was on earlier was called Upper World, and the current Martial Arts Continent was called the lower realm. There was only one way to go from the lower realm to the upper realm, and that was to enter the Sky-bearing Column that connected the two worlds.

He also told Ling Xiao that the Sky-bearing Column's position wasn't fixed and would move once every hundred years. He could vaguely sense the approximate direction the Sky-bearing Column was at, but Ling Xiao still needed to find the specific location himself.

Regardless of whether it was Upper World or going down into the world, they were never peaceful. Martial power was the key that determined one's status. Under such a dangerous situation in the world, it was hard for people without fighting power to leave the boundaries of Kata City, let alone explore the continent.

In other words, if Ling Xiao wanted to return to the Upper Realm, he must have the power to protect himself.

However, when Ling Xiao transmigrated over, he found out that the original owner did not have any Inner Bead in his body!