Dominating Martial King
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“It seems I really have traveled through time—”

In the luxurious and exquisitely decorated carriage, Zong Shou was expressionlessly looking at a round mirror before him.

The reflection in the mirror was clearly that of an underage boy, about thirteen, pale-faced.

However, his features were unusually handsome and exquisitely perfect.

A pair of narrow phoenix eyes shone brightly, but at that moment, they were filled with bitterness and helplessness.

He remembered that not long ago, he had still had an utterly ordinary face—one that would absolutely go unnoticed in a crowd.

Yet, unexpectedly, after waking from that dream, his body had turned into such a handsome man.

Although slightly sickly and frail, he was without a doubt exceptionally handsome.

Even the top male stars known for their good looks in TV shows from his previous life couldn’t compare.

If there was something lacking, it was only the aura.

At this moment, however, Zong Shou felt no joy at all, but rather felt utterly at a loss.

It was as if a fish that had been free and swimming in the sea had suddenly come onto land.

In this world, apart from the suffocating strangeness, there was also a sense of fear and loneliness.

Unwilling to give up, Zong Shou pinched his cheek hard, and immediately felt a burst of pain.

Naturally, he found no signs of cosmetic surgery on his face.

“—There is pain; could this not be a dream?

But who am I now?

And this place, where exactly is it?”

‘Zong Shou’ was the name in the memories of the body he currently inhabited.

He had another name in his past life, but in this situation, it became meaningless to him.

After muttering to himself for a few sentences, Zong Shou sighed and turned his gaze away.

He was filled with despair, having given up on the idea of returning or ‘waking from this dream.’

In fact, he had been in this world for several days already.

Almost every time he woke up, he would repeat the same actions as before.

Today was already the seventh day.

Looking at the style of the carriage’s interior, it seemed to be from ancient China, yet not quite right.

Upon pulling back the curtain, he saw vast expanses of wilderness outside, endless and lush, which invigorated the spirit.

The air was also fresh and clean, without a hint of the pollution of the modern world.

However, looking further down, he noticed that despite having wheels, the carriage was hovering three feet above the ground.

The sixteen single-horned horses in front also moved through the air, capable of undulating up and down.

Thus, although the carriage was huge—with just the cabin being forty square meters in size—no matter the complexity of the terrain, it moved as if on flat ground.

At that moment, no one was steering in front, and it was speeding straight ahead toward the distance.

The sword marks and slashes on both sides of the carriage were also very concerning.

Zong Shou felt dizzy and collapsed onto the velvet-covered soft couch.

Then, with just a slight thought, a series of fragmented memory images floated up in his mind.

They were all shattered and incomplete.

Many of them contained text, quite a few faces, and also, there was a towering mountain that pierced the clouds and an unbelievably large academy occupying most of an island in a lake.

It felt both unfamiliar and familiar, and there was vaguely a sense of fear.

Such emotions were indeed bizarrely complicated.

At the deepest part of his mind, the only memory that remained was of countless mysterious characters combined into one, forming a complete book.

These characters were entirely different from any language in his world.

Yet, they felt extremely familiar to him, almost as if he had mastered them in his previous life.

“Indeterminate Spirit Emperor Technique?

And this Demon Language.

Could it be that this place is really the Divine Emperor World?”

Zong Shou’s lips twitched slightly, but his face was full of confusion and helplessness.

—”Divine Emperor” was a globally popular online game that started in 2012.

It was unclear which game company had developed it, and all the related gaming equipment also suddenly appeared on the market.

It seemed as if overnight, the entire Earth had moved from 2D and 3D online games to the era of virtual holographic “Illusion Realm.”

And whether it was that academy, that mountain, or these demon clan characters in his mind, he had seen them all before in the Divine Emperor in his previous life.

Right, he remembered that in his previous life, his last conscious moment was in the “Divine Emperor” game.

Combat among the Seven Emperors of Cloud Realm.

Alone with a sword, he fought against many.

But at the last moment, his body suddenly felt an electric shock, and he lost all consciousness.

When he woke up again, he was in a different body.

And everything around him was no longer the familiar Earth.

So now, was he in the game, or was this a real world?

Or perhaps, did this world have some connection to “Divine Emperor”?

As his head spun again, Zong Shou simply gave up on thinking altogether.

In this train compartment, since he had nothing else to do, Zong Shou took out a Green Steel Sword, about three feet long, and started practicing his swordsmanship in the relatively spacious compartment.

His footsteps moved forward and backward, shifting in harmony with his body, making the sword light shine within the confined space of the compartment.

Just as in his previous life, each sword form, each step, was precise to the extreme, nearly perfect.

Yet, he had only practiced the Basic Swordsmanship for half a moment before Zong Shou was gasping for breath, his whole body drenched in cold sweat.

And the figure of the sword light inevitably started to distort.

It was only by clinging to his innate, indomitable spirit that he kept from collapsing completely.

When the last of his strength was finally exhausted, Zong Shou stopped the sword light and sat gasping on the couch.

Only when his intense concentration finally dispersed could he feel the pain in all his limbs and organs, as if they were being seared by flames.

This exercise was not merely out of boredom, but rather out of genuine unease.

The world around him, as well as his own situation, filled him with a sense of crisis and urgency.

He was anxious to gain some strength, at the very least, some ability to protect himself.

In “Divine Emperor,” everything was made to feel realistic: martial arts, languages, senses, combat, even everyday necessities had a complete system.

Most players relied on the system’s default settings to play and fight, not caring to understand more.

However, some would try their best to learn all sorts of knowledge and languages within Divine Emperor, delve into the principles of various martial arts, and deeply comprehend everything about this world.

They might even break free from the game’s constraints and create their own breakthroughs based on the existing foundation.

Zong Shou was not only one of them but was among the best of such people.

Basic Swordsmanship, Basic Boxing, Basic Lightness, Basic Evasion, Basic Step Technique, Basic Guarding, Basic Inner Strength—he had thoroughly studied almost all the fundamentals of a martial artist,