Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 546 - 540: Coming Into the World 1

Chapter 546: Chapter 540: Coming Into the World 1

Gurgle...

A series of bubbles erupted from Lin Xin’s mouth.

He slowly opened his eyes, finding himself suspended upside down in a bright red liquid. His body had curled into a ball.

He was extremely weak, so much so that even the slightest movement was difficult and exhausting.

It seemed he was in a closed space, an oval area filled with a large amount of viscous fluid.

"Where is this...?"

His mind was somewhat muddled, but he instantly recalled his identity and origin like a flash of lightning.

"Is this the prenatal environment?"

He looked down and saw something attached to his navel, connecting him to the surrounding red flesh walls, and he could feel the continuous flow of air and nourishment into his skin.

He instantly understood his situation.

"I’ve succeeded..."

He was a little excited.

He had reincarnated into another world with all his memories from his previous life intact.

Apart from a one-fifth loss of his soul power, there were no other losses.

He could feel his Sacred Body, the Stars still shining in the sky’s void, ready to descend to the Lower Realm and restore the Demon God’s Sacred Body at any moment.

"Does this mean I’ve officially entered the mother’s womb?"

With a slight sweep of his spiritual power, his formidable consciousness instantly projected the surrounding environment deep into his mind.

Inside a clean and tidy wooden loft.

A beautiful woman, with a happy smile, gently caressed her belly.

Her belly was at least two months large, slightly protruded, clearly showing the shape of pregnancy.

"Nila!"

Suddenly, a young girl called out in an unfamiliar language and quickly walked into the loft, crouched down beside the woman, and carefully touched the woman’s belly.

"Oshiro..."

The woman also spoke, uttering something in a language Lin Xin couldn’t understand.

The lady and the girl conversed with each other, and there was an undertone of affection in their interaction, showing they were very close relatives.

Lin Xin could distinctly feel the girl’s furrowed brows and obvious displeasure, somewhat troubled.

The woman, on the other hand, seemed somewhat helpless and overwhelmed, yet she concealed it well and was comforting the young girl in return.

The two chatted for a long time. After listening for a while without understanding, Lin Xin retracted his spiritual power and spread it in other directions.

As soon as he left the loft, a hot wind suddenly blew outside, as if pouring a pot of boiling water on his face, the searing air hitting Lin Xin’s spiritual force and causing him to quickly retract it.

"Could the elemental energy between heaven and earth here be so much heavier than the yang energy of the Underworld!?"

Lin Xin had anticipated this, but he was still startled when he actually made contact.

Just a momentary contact had burned a small area of his spiritual power, and that was only from the elemental energy and air of this place.

He hesitated whether to summon his Sacred Body now, but the depth of the Mortal Realm was unknown, and it was the perfect opportunity to naturally establish his new identity.

If destroyed by his own doing, it would truly be a loss.

After hesitating for a while, Lin Xin still withdrew all his spiritual consciousness, returning it entirely to his still developing infant body.

"My current mother couldn’t withstand the power of my Sacred Body; she would likely burst instantly if I summon it back. It wouldn’t help to conceal my identity either."

Lin Xin carefully checked his current body.

It had just developed its basic brain and heart from the fertilized egg. Now was the best time to mold and improve his innate quality.

Still, after some thought, he decided not to make any reckless moves and to instead observe the environment for a while longer before beginning to design his path of cultivation for this life.

After all, the cultivation methods from the Underworld might not be suitable here.

However, upon checking, there were some subtle anomalies in his current body; his back had a pair of tender skeletal structures that seemed to be developing wings and feathers.

Observing the changes quietly, Lin Xin soon consumed the extremely scarce energy of his infant body and fell back into deep sleep.

Days passed by.

The young woman lived in the wooden loft every day, going nowhere else. Apart from basic needs and day-to-day life, she continually hummed a soothing and pleasant lullaby.

The loft occasionally saw visits from the sharp and spirited young girl, and sometimes a middle-aged man with a small mustache came to take care of the woman.

The man had a dignified aura but always had a frown that seemed hard to unravel. Only when he was with the woman and gently touched her belly did he seem briefly happy.

But the man appeared to hold an important position and would quickly leave after a short while.

The person who spent the most time with the beautiful woman was still an elderly person in white with an age-worn face, along with some maids serving her.

A month passed by.

Lin Xin’s moments of awareness became more frequent.

He couldn’t help but start to regulate his own Qi-Blood, doing nothing else but just adjusting his Qi-Blood so he could maintain consciousness for a longer time.

He had mastered countless secret techniques and cultivation methods, but because he did not understand the composition of the Heaven and Earth’s Elemental Energy here, he did not dare to recklessly absorb it.

Therefore, he only transported Qi-Blood, cleared the obstructions in his meridians, and simultaneously stimulated the pregnant woman to increase her appetite, improving her body to provide more Qi-Blood for him.

Then, he began to carefully make contact with the Elemental Energy of the outside world.

He came into contact with that kind of Elemental Energy, which to him was hotter than boiling water.

Now, more than ninety-nine percent of his cultivation and Soul Power were residing near the mother star, transformed into revolving stars.

The spiritual power he could mobilize was only a bit stronger than after Foundation Establishment.

That Elemental Energy, comparable to boiling water, was simply a lethal weapon for him. Although if this consciousness were destroyed, he could still use the Soul Imprint from the mother star to remain indestructible and reshape his Soul Body, initiating such a reaction would inevitably cause violent changes and expose his unique traits.

This was not what he wanted.

In the fourth month in the womb.

Lin Xin officially began contacting the first strand of Heaven and Earth’s Elemental Energy.

He stretched his consciousness into a very long thin line, with a fragile weak point at every interval to facilitate cutting off contact at any moment.

Then, while the woman took her noon nap, he transformed his conscious Soul Power into a tendril, quietly reaching out toward the outside of the attic.

He now understood that around the attic, someone had specially arranged a unique formation to keep the Elemental Energy here unaffected by the outside world. That was why he could survive unharmed, but outside was different.

As soon as his consciousness passed through the attic and touched the ubiquitous first strand of Heaven and Earth’s Elemental Energy outside.

In an instant, an extremely terrifying force of combustion spread rapidly from the end of his consciousness.

Lin Xin was immediately taken aback, his Soul Power vibrating. He deployed the Soul Formation Secret Method, and his entire conscious force directly turned into a long whip, fiercely lashing at the incoming burning Elemental Energy.

Snap!

The Elemental Energy was suddenly whipped away, back outside the attic, restored to calm.

Lin Xin analyzed the pattern in his mind but still slowly shook his head.

"Even mere contact is impossible; I can only abandon the parts touched by the Elemental Energy like severing my own limbs. It’s too damaging..."

He finally decided to start using his stockpile of Free Attribute Points to strengthen his physical body.

During his time in the Underworld, he had accumulated over thirty thousand Free Attribute Points. It was unclear where these points were stored, but even with his current frail body, he could summon them anytime, which made him marvel.

He didn’t dare to use too much but instead increased his body’s attributes very cautiously, bit by bit.

Attack, Defense, Evasion, Constitution—each of the four major Attributes had extremely important uses, and advancing them together would also strengthen his spiritual power.

He basically increased his Attribute Points step by step each month.

At the same time, from his countless cultivation techniques, he chose one that was solely used for transporting Qi-Blood and training the physical body—Zhengyang Cultivation Technique.

This technique was unearthed by him from a relic and did not involve Heaven and Earth’s Elemental Energy at all; it was merely an exercise of his own Soul Power consciousness and Qi-Blood within his body.

By eating, his Essence Qi and spiritual quality were continuously strengthened.

It was also one of the positive attributes cultivation methods he had collected by casting a wide net across the world.

At that time, it was just right to use it here.

The Zhengyang Cultivation Technique had thirteen layers. With each advancement, the body’s Qi-Blood would double. It was not a simple increase on the original basis but rather each increase was doubled from the previous layer’s foundation.

It was like numbers, one generates two, two generates four, four generates eight...

Such that, in the end, one could reach an extremely terrifying level of Qi-Blood.

Moreover, the stronger one’s Innate Qi and Blood, the more suitable they were for practicing this cultivation technique.

Lin Xin simply practiced this Cultivation Decision in the womb while continuously enhancing his Attribute Points.

According to Taoism, the womb environment is known as the Innate Body, which has not been tainted by the impurities of the outside world and the Heavens, and legend has it that infants still retain a trace of Innate Essence. It is only with Postnatal birth that it gradually dissipates.

However, Lin Xin did not find any such Innate Essence at all. Due to not contacting the outside Elemental Energy, his body was exceptionally transparent, his Qi-Blood was almost without impurities, and transporting and refining it was extremely easy; this was indeed true.

He had not yet broken through the first layer of the Zhengyang Cultivation Technique, after all, Attribute Points could continuously strengthen his Innate foundation. Thus, the larger the base of Innate Qi and Blood, the stronger the effects would be once the Zhengyang Cultivation Technique advanced.

So, he continuously suppressed the technique, merely laying a solid foundation and strengthening his own Qi-Blood. The first layer of Zhengyang Cultivation Technique also served to steadily enhance Qi-Blood.

As he practiced the Zhengyang Cultivation Technique inside his mother’s womb and increased his Attribute Points, the pregnant woman, a beautiful lady, suffered the consequences.

Stimulated to increase her appetite more and more, from the fifth month onward, her food intake doubled every meal.

In the sixth month, it increased to twice the amount.

By the seventh month, it had increased to seven or eight times the original!

This prompted the middle-aged man to instruct people to find some high-nutrition Spiritual Medicine ingredients to curb the horrifying increase in the woman’s appetite.

Over these months, Lin Xin gradually learned the language spoken by the woman and the girl, the elderly man, and the middle-aged man.

He mastered dozens of languages and even had experience reconstructing original language systems from extremely fragmented remnants of relics from the Outer Regions.

So, deciphering the everyday language here was not difficult.

By the ninth month, he was able to understand the conversations between the woman and the others fluently and gleaned some information he wanted from them.

This woman, who would be his mother in this life, was named Yuan Wanqing and was a young lady from a common, affluent family.

And his father, named Lin Hao, was the patriarch of a reclusive, illustrious family clan. Moreover, he was not of the Human Race.

The girl who often came to see Yuan Wanqing was the current candidate to become the next family patriarch. She also happened to be Lin Xin’s biological sister in this life, Lin Yaoyang, and she was not of the Human Race either.