This time I'm going to be the laughingstock of the entire family!

Lin Luo lay in bed, a wry smile on his face.

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He was actually knocked unconscious by a stone that fell from the sky during his training!

Although he was only at the second level of cultivation, far from being a master, he shouldn't have been knocked unconscious by a stone, and for three whole days and nights!

“But where did that rock come from? Judging by its height, it couldn't have been thrown from the training ground!” Lin Luo recalled, touching his head. Strangely, he didn't seem to have any injuries.

“Anyway, I'm already the family's acknowledged failure. Even if I make a huge laughingstock of myself, there's no way to be more embarrassing.”

Lin Luo gave a self-deprecating smile, but as the son of a martial arts family, who would be willing to become a waste? Not only would he be ridiculed by his clan members, but even the servants wouldn't regard him as their master!

“Although my aptitude is lacking, I have cultivated more diligently than anyone else! Heaven rewards diligence, heaven rewards diligence, could this be the reward for my hard work?”

He is the only grandson of Lin Hengan, the head of the Lin family. Logically speaking, he should have been living a prosperous life. However, three years ago, Lin Hengan went into seclusion to break through to the highest level of martial arts, and there has been no news from him since. His parents passed away earlier, and his only sister had entered some sect twelve years ago and disappeared without a trace, leaving him as an orphan.

If that were all, Lin Luo wouldn't be so miserable.

This is a world where strength reigns supreme. In any family, prodigies are the most precious treasure, the key to a family's survival and growth! Therefore, prodigies will be given special training and enjoy glory, while those with mediocre talents inevitably face discrimination.

Lin Xinan had only one son besides Lin Luo, which meant that after Lin Xinan's death, the head of the Lin family would definitely fall to another branch! Therefore, Lin Luo's position was naturally awkward. Before, he still had Lin Xinan as a backing, but as Lin Xinan's time in seclusion grew longer, Lin Luo became less and less welcome.

Now, the Lin family is under the control of Elder Lin Hongfeng, the patriarch. This man is ambitious and after Lin Hannan went into seclusion, he tried his best to suppress Lin Hannan's influence and support his own relatives.

Over the course of hundreds of years, the Lin family has branched out into countless lineages. Each branch strives to claim the position of head of the family, vying for more cultivation resources for their own lineage.

Over the past three years, the Lin family has almost gone through a change of generations. If it weren't for the fear of Lin Xingnan's formidable cultivation base at the twelfth heaven, Lin Hongfeng would have likely usurped the position of patriarch long ago.

In recent years, rumors have been circulating constantly about Lin Xingnan's failed assault and his likely demise. This has made Lin Luo's life increasingly difficult. Take the monthly allowance as an example; it should be ten ounces of silver according to regulations, but last year it was reduced to five ounces. Even more recently, starting from a month ago, it has been cut down to just one ounce!

No matter what, Lin Luo is still the eldest grandson of the Lin family. As long as Lin Xinan remains the head of the Lin family, this fact will never change! The people below dared to deduct his monthly allowance naturally with the acquiescence of the manager. Lin Luo could only suppress his anger in his heart!

On the other hand, he also hated his own mediocrity. If he had the talent of several geniuses in the Lin family, why would he be so passive?

“Blaming heaven and earth without reason is pointless, it's better to seize the time and continue cultivating!”

Countless scornful gazes did not let Lin Luo's will falter or give up on himself, but instead made him more and more tenacious. As long as he had identified the path ahead, even if he fell ten thousand times, he would get up for the tenth thousand and first time and continue forward!

Lin Luo sat up from the bed, drawing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth through the three activated acupoints on his body. Then, he used the Chiyang Jue to refine it into his own zhenyuan power.

A warrior, who seizes the essence of heaven and earth to strengthen himself, defies the heavens, and embarks on a arduous path of cultivation!

The human body has three hundred and sixty acupoints, each of which can absorb the surrounding spiritual energy to allow martial artists to steal the essence of heaven and earth, transforming it into their own power. However, not all acupoints are able to absorb spiritual energy from birth. Generally, a person is born with only one or two acupoints that can be used, while the rest need to be activated through postnatal cultivation.

The more acupoints activated, the faster the cultivation speed. Therefore, to determine how talented a person is in martial arts, just look at how many acupoints they have activated.

Lin Luo was born with only one activated acupoint, and after seven years of martial arts cultivation since the age of ten, he had only activated two more! His progress was naturally slow, and his cultivation level of only the second layer of the postnatal stage would definitely make people laugh out loud!

Even those with average talent, who were only at the second level of postnatal martial arts, had activated more than ten acupoints. This just showed how inferior Lin Luo's aptitude was!

“With my acupoints wide open, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth enters my body, refining!”

His body trembled, Lin Luo closed his eyes, but his consciousness was drawn by a strange force into the sea of consciousness!

This is a vast expanse of heaven and earth, nothingness, darkness. But in the very center of the sea of consciousness, there floats a broken purple cauldron, emitting a soft purple light!

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Lin Luo was startled and immediately withdrew from his cultivation state. He scrambled to his feet, his face full of astonishment.

"How can I see my appearance in the sea of consciousness? The inner world, isn't this something only super-powerful beings above the tenth level of the acquired realm can do?"

He couldn't help but be shocked. Martial artists were divided into twelve realms based on their strength. He was only at the second level of the acquired realm, and the tenth level of the acquired realm was as far away as heaven and earth!

“Could it be an illusion? Yes, it must be an illusion! Otherwise, how could there be a broken cauldron in one's sea of consciousness?”

Lin Luo muttered to himself, slowly calming down, and sat back cross-legged, once again entering a state of cultivation.

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His consciousness was once again pulled into the sea of awareness, seeing the void and dark expanse, seeing the sinking and floating broken cauldron.

“What’s going on!” Lin Luo opened his eyes, this time he could be sure that what he saw was definitely not an illusion, but something real!

The most significant thing about young people is their adventurous and curious spirits. Lin Luo sat cross-legged for the third time, entering the sea of consciousness once again.

In this world, he could roam freely, his consciousness approaching the dilapidated purple tripod. Lin Luo instinctively realized that his transformation must be related to this broken cauldron! The more he looked at it, the more familiar it seemed, as if it were the very culprit that had struck him on the head three days ago! It must be!

He thought it was a rock, but it turned out to be a broken cauldron!

"But why would this cauldron be in my sea of consciousness? That's simply impossible!"

Though this purple cauldron is broken, it is still filled with a magnificent aura, as if it could suppress heaven and earth, causing one's heart to tremble. The complete purple cauldron should have eight legs, but now only three remain, and its body is also damaged.

"Words!"

Lin Luo noticed that on each of the remaining three tripod legs, there was an unusual character engraved. He couldn't quite make out what it meant, but he felt like the pattern seemed to contain some kind of profound truth. It was indescribable and unexplainable, causing him to be involuntarily lost in its depths.

The purple cauldron suddenly shook, and Lin Luo's sea of consciousness was rippled. He was forcibly pulled out of the state of inner vision and fell onto the bed with a thud.

“Strange! Too strange!” Lin Luo was extremely puzzled, as if this purple cauldron was preventing him from looking closely at the three characters. He pondered for a moment, took out his pen, ink, paper and after racking his brains and recalling with all his might, wrote down one of the characters he had seen on the purple cauldron.

The last stroke fell, and the paper inexplicably shattered into a thousand pieces! Lin Luo also felt a wave of dizziness, as if writing down this character had drained all his energy.

"This..." Lin Luo was no longer a believer. After recovering some of his spirit, he picked up another piece of paper and took a pen to rewrite a character on it.

Likewise, as the final stroke fell, this second sheet of paper crumbled into dust.

Lin Luo was stunned for a moment. Ignoring the splitting headache, he picked up a pen and dashed out of the house. On a stone about the size of his head, he wrote down this character.

Without exception, this stone immediately turned into gravel!

Lin Luo wrote out the other two characters as well, but they were still written on something, and that something immediately shattered without any explanation!

“It seems like an unseen force is preventing these three characters from appearing. What kind of power could this be, to give a single character such terrifying might! If I were to draw these three characters on an unparalleled powerhouse at the twelfth level of Heaven's Layer, would they also instantly turn into dust?”

"Forbidden words! Are there forbidden words that cannot exist in heaven and earth?"

"What on earth... have I gotten?!"

He crossed his legs and sat down, entering the sea of consciousness again. He came to the front of the purple cauldron. This time, he didn't observe the three characters on the cauldron's feet, but looked at the cauldron itself. To his disappointment, there was nothing unusual about the cauldron's body; there were no characters or patterns on it.

Lin Luo was a little disappointed. After a moment of hesitation, he lightly touched the purple cauldron with his consciousness. Suddenly, countless golden lights flew out from the purple cauldron and transformed into golden characters in his sea of consciousness, then disappeared one by one.

A cryptic incantation was imprinted into Lin Luo's memory, merging with his bloodline, every single cell!

"The Cauldron of Chaos!"

Lin Luo muttered to himself, this was the name of that spell. This technique was to use oneself as a furnace, refining all the power between heaven and earth for one's own use!

"Is there really such a magical technique?"

“However, the three forbidden characters on the tripod are enough to prove that this purple cauldron is extraordinary. So, the formula passed down from the tripod definitely won't be an ordinary one!” Lin Luo couldn't hide his excitement. “Although my cultivation aptitude isn't good, with the Chaos Furnace, I can refine all kinds of power, which is enough to make up for the weakness of having insufficient activated acupoints!”

“This is my great opportunity, it will surely help me transform from an ordinary person into a dragon!”

Lin Luo clenched his fist tightly.

"Just wait and see, I will definitely become the strongest warrior, standing tall between heaven and earth!"

"I'll have Liu Bo buy some demon pills in a moment to see if this chaotic furnace can refine them. If it can, then I'll have found a secret path to the supreme Dao! Even reaching the twelfth heaven of the afterlife won't be out of reach, and I might even be able to challenge that supreme innate realm!"

At this moment, a huge crash came from outside the house, accompanied by muffled voices arguing. Lin Luo frowned involuntarily, stood up, and walked out of the house.

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