It was early morning, the sky was just beginning to brighten, the purple light was hazy, and it was still very cold outside. Lin Qinghen got up early as usual and took a breath of cold air as he pushed the door open.
"It's a bit cold," he muttered softly, thought for a moment, and then carefully decided on breakfast, "Let's make porridge in the morning."
He muttered to himself as he stretched his body, feeling that something was different today, and after taking a deep breath, he felt refreshed as he stretched his body.
Lin Qinghen habitually put on a leather mask to cover his entire face when going out, and then walked forward along the path beside the small courtyard at a leisurely pace. After a while, he saw the familiar door through the layers of milky white mist.
In front is the Lin family's plantation.
He saw that the thick dark green vines formed a curved door. From a distance, the vines seemed to be glowing, and a closer look revealed that it was because there were pieces of spiritual stones embedded inside.
In the morning, bees and butterflies would fly around the spirit stones in the vines, sucking their essence. When they flew through the air, they would scatter tiny particles of digested spirit energy into the air, like falling stars. Even the bluestone bricks under one's feet contained crushed pieces of spirit stones. With every breath, the spiritual energy filled the air, making the entire area appear three times brighter.
The Lin family is indeed a well-known and prestigious family in the spiritual world, a family with wealth and power. Even though it is just a small piece of land on the most marginal plantation, it is so luxurious and grand.
Even though it has been eleven years since he traveled through time, when Lin Qinghen saw the scene before him, he still felt a sudden sense of fantasy and unreality.
This was very different from the fields he remembered.
His original name was Lin Qingheng, and before he traveled through time, he was a researcher living in the 21st century.
He still remembered that in his previous life, during a break from work, he had seen a question on the Internet: If you were to travel through time, what would you be able to do with your major
After graduating from school, he joined the Institute of Agricultural Sciences. The naive Lin Qingheng answered this question confidently at the time: "Thank you for the invitation. I am an agricultural scientist who is obsessed with farming. I have mastered the core technology. After traveling through time, I plan to benefit the people. I guess even the emperor will worship me."
Although it was a joke, he was not just talking nonsense at that time.
Lin Qingheng's family was well-educated, and his parents were both well-known in the industry. He was both virtuous and academically excellent all the way. When he was in research institute, he took the initiative to volunteer to take on a poverty alleviation project. For ten years, he was rooted in the grassroots to improve the varieties and large-scale cultivation of local specialty agricultural products. He has achieved fruitful results, is experienced, and has a bright future.
At that time, he had just received the advanced individual commendation certificate from the province. He had just eaten a bite at the celebration banquet held by the institute. Then he received a call from a village saying that there was a problem in the fields. Lin Qingheng was worried about his fields and rushed back anxiously. As a result, the tricycle he was sitting in overturned on the road. Then, when he opened his eyes, he arrived here. When he looked down, he saw his hands and feet that had become much smaller.
The original owner of this body was only six years old at the time. He was thin and small, with injuries on his body. He probably died soon after he died, and then his core was replaced by Lin Qingheng, an agricultural farmer who died accidentally.
The two people's names are very similar. The original owner's name is Lin Qinghen. This name does sound a bit strange and not very auspicious. When Lin Qingheng looked in the mirror, he quickly knew where this name came from.
This child has a big birthmark on his face.
Almost half of the face was covered with a dark blue birthmark starting from the center of the forehead and extending to the jaw. Only a small area around the left eye was the original skin. Under the cover of the large birthmark, it was difficult to see the facial features clearly.
When seeing it for the first time, Lin Qinghen himself was frightened by his own appearance, let alone others.
However, time travel is not so difficult to accept for modern people. It is a blessing to be able to live again after death, and appearance is not the point.
Lin Qinghen had read several time-travel novels when he was a teenager. Generally speaking, as a rare time-traveler who also had some farming skills, he might be the chosen one of this world!
This may be the reason why ugly people have good fortune!
Then Lin Qinghen, who was full of confidence and ready to do a great job, was once again shattered by reality.
The small courtyard where he lived looked shabby and small, and had some antique charm if you looked closely, but once you walked outside you could tell something was wrong.
Just the three "suns" of varying brightness and size hanging in the sky were enough to give Lin Qinghen, who was reborn after death, a huge shock again.
This was a fantasy world beyond his imagination, not the ordinary ancient world he had thought.
This place is called the "spiritual world".
The spiritual world covers an extremely vast area. Lin Qinghen has seen the map of the entire continent. According to a simple estimate based on the scale, this world is more than ten times larger than the Eurasian continent. It is roughly divided into five states according to the direction: east, west, south, north and center.
Besides being a big place, the people inside are also very different.
Everyone here is born with spiritual energy in their body. Some people gradually cultivate and become powerful spiritual energy users, also known as spiritual masters. The strength of spiritual masters is graded from top to bottom, with different levels clearly defined.
It is divided into four levels: Heaven, Earth, Profound and Yellow. Each level is subdivided into nine stars. Powerful spiritualists possess terrifying abilities and a lofty status.
The Lin family he lives in is a world-renowned family of top spiritualists.
Moreover, the original owner, who lived in a dilapidated courtyard and died at the age of six and was emaciated, had a special status in the Lin family - he was the biological son of Lin Zhongtian, the current head of the Lin family.
A few days after traveling through time, the original owner's memory gradually became clearer, and Lin Qinghen also remembered some things.
His mother was originally a favored concubine. In her heyday, she was almost on par with the first lady. However, she died when he was very young. When she died, some of the bad things she had done were exposed, which made Lin Zhongtian furious. Her death was very ignominious.
But if it were just these two things, namely his biological mother and the birthmark on his face, Lin Qinghen would not have lived like this, dying at a young age in a dilapidated courtyard without being discovered.
The disaster did not affect the children, and the Lin family was wealthy and powerful. According to the memories left by the original owner, although Lin Chongtian did not like him, he lived a good life before the age of three.
Three years old is the time when children's talents are tested. After stepping down from the testing platform, Lin Qinghen's life changed dramatically.
The potential test of children here relies on a special stone called the Soul-Testing Stone. It is the size of a fist and looks like it is stacked up layer by layer. If you look closely, you can see ten layers in total. It can emit light when held in the palm of your hand.
As the layers on the stone light up, the more layers that light up and the brighter the light, the better the talent.
If all ten levels of the soul-testing stone light up, it means that the person has excellent innate talent and is a rare talent picked out of a million.
With just a little guidance and learning the basic operation and cultivation methods of spiritual energy, one can become a yellow-level one-star spiritualist within a day. This process is called "awakening the spirit". Such children will naturally practice much faster than others in the future.
The rest who have not reached the tenth level will have to spend time practicing and laying the foundation until they reach the standard of "awakening the spirit", which will slow them down at the starting line.
The Lin family is a top spiritual master family in the spiritual world, occupying Tongtianfu, one of the most prosperous cities in Zhongzhou on the mainland. In addition to the Lin family's relatives, some of the followers and disciples recruited by them number more than hundreds of thousands, and the annual test attracts everyone's attention.
Generally speaking, every year the Lin family can produce one or two children with tenth-level talent, who are trained as the focus. In the year when Lin Qinghen was tested, two things caused a stir in the city.
His elder sister, Lin Qingshuang, was only a few hours older than him, and they both had their souls tested on the same day.
As soon as Lin Qingshuang's fingertips touched the stone, ten layers of silver light lit up one after another, the light was almost blinding.
Moreover, after Lin Qingshuang's spiritual enlightenment, his starting point was the two-star yellow rank. However, ten days later, he successfully broke through to the three-star rank. In today's world, he was only one step away from the peerless genius of the Yin family, Yin Jiuxiao, who reached the three-star yellow rank after his spiritual enlightenment.
Lin Qinghen is at the other extreme.
As soon as he went up, the people below the spirit-testing platform looked at the birthmark on his face, and the noises of discussion and ridicule all poured into the ears of the three-year-old child.
What was even uglier was that he had been holding the spirit stone for quite some time, but the stone seemed to be broken, and the light it emitted was extremely weak. It was invisible unless you looked closely. In the end, it was barely half bright, and then not even a single light at all.
The people in the audience were in an uproar at that moment.
This is Lin Zhongtian’s child, but his talent is even worse than that of the lowest class of children!
Ten levels of full talent are rare in the world, but not being able to light up even one level of talent is even rarer than the previous one!
More importantly, the projection of the spirit stone on the ground is empty, which means that Lin Qinghen has no "marrow".
Everyone in this world has spiritual energy and can cultivate upward, but only about 30% of people possess the more vital and precious "marrow".
To put it simply, "marrow" is the power that gives spiritual attributes, just like the bones of spiritual energy. Common classifications of spiritual marrow include combat, alchemy, healing, animal taming, etc. Marrow also has various external forms, such as swords and so on. Only practitioners who possess spiritual marrow can be considered spiritual masters.
The practical spiritual power of spiritual masters will produce special effects and possess powerful abilities that ordinary people do not have, such as moving mountains and filling the sea, refining spiritual treasures, and even bringing the dead back to life.
Of course, people without marrow can also practice. As ordinary people continue to practice, their strength and physical intensity will increase. Some people without marrow practice to a high level and become warriors with considerable strength, but the gap between warriors and spiritual masters of the same level still exists and is almost insurmountable.
Most of these talents are determined at birth, and some powerful marrows will become family heirlooms passed down from generation to generation. For example, the Lin family's representative "marrow" is the combat system, and its externalized form is the continent-famous glazed two-handed blade. The spiritual energy gathers into an icy blade in the two hands, which can cut through even low-level yellow-grade iron like mud.
This is an extremely powerful innate weapon. It is with this kind of "marrow" that the Lin family has been able to maintain their position as the overlord of this area for generations.
When Lin Qingshuang was testing, the projection of the soul-testing stone on the ground was two blades as clear as glass. But when it came to Lin Qinghen, there was nothing.
If the Lin family's bloodline was not indeed fake, everyone would have doubted whether he was the patriarch's biological son.
how so
Lin Qingheng, who traveled through time, did not actually experience this period, but in the memories of his original body that gradually returned, this period was the most painful and profound.
The law that spiritual power is supreme in the spiritual world seems to be engraved in everyone's bones. It is well known that Lin Qinghen has poor talent. Therefore, with many factors combined, such as his biological mother's death, the head of the family's disgust, his relatives' dislike, the outside world's ridicule, and the lack of background, his situation took a sharp turn for the worse.
The servants who served him left one after another, and he soon moved to a new courtyard. His living conditions became worse and worse. The birthmark on his face looked scary and unpleasant. Gradually, it seemed that everyone in this place looked down on him, and other children in the family also took advantage of his misfortune and deliberately bullied him.
Even his original name was Lin Qingheng, which seemed like a sibling of Lin Qingshuang. Soon, it was deliberately changed by an elder in the family.
It is said that this person had always been at odds with his biological mother and had been holding a grudge against her. She took this opportunity to add insult to injury and found a random fault to change his name to Lin Qinghen, pointing directly to the ugly birthmark on his face, which was full of mockery.
His biological father, Lin Zhongtian, has never liked this child and has ignored it, acting as if he doesn't exist.
From the age of three to six was the most difficult period for the original body.
A child of this age had been practicing very hard, almost forgetting to eat and sleep, but the soul-testing stone was correct. His talent was indeed very poor. He made no progress until his death because of his poor health. In the end, he lost his life.
The same thing happened when Lin Qingheng traveled through time and became Lin Qinghen. His time travel did not change anything. The child's talent did not reverse overnight and remained the same as before.
The most was that his mentality was better because he had lived once. He gradually got used to the birthmark on his face and didn't want to attract unnecessary scrutiny, so he made a soft leather mask and wore it every day. He didn't complain about himself, but did his best to keep himself alive.
This is the situation and we have no choice but to accept it.
He occupied this body and lived again. No matter how bad the situation was, it was worth it to live well, to be worthy of himself and the original owner who had died.
The so-called Chosen One who travels through time and space really does not exist. Lin Qinghen has tried it many times.
As far as cultivation is concerned, this body's meridians are blocked, and the circulation and absorption of spiritual energy are very poor. There are restrictions everywhere. Practicing for one hour a day is the limit, and there will be no effect if you continue practicing.
If you overdo it a little, your whole body will ache and your face will feel hot. Moreover, when I first came here, my physical condition was poor and I would stagger after walking a few steps.
Lin Qinghen, who had just traveled through time, tried repeatedly on the path of cultivation for a few days, and then gave up his fantasy of becoming the protagonist of the time travel.
It is better to be down-to-earth in life.
Compared to himself, his elder sister Lin Qingshuang is more like the protagonist, and he is just a meaningless cannon fodder used to set off the protagonist.
The experiences of the past ten years or so have also proven that he was absolutely right not to make cultivation his main occupation.
From the age of three to now, Lin Qinghen barely reached the tenth level of soul testing when he was ten years old. Others could only open their spirits in one day, but he took three or four days to succeed.
When he was a little over seventeen years old—to be exact, it was last night—he finally reached the second star of the Yellow Rank. When he woke up this morning, he felt that his body was much lighter and he had more strength.
In other words, the seventeen-year-old Lin Qinghen was still not as good as the three-year-old Lin Qingshuang. The talent gap was so huge that there was nothing he could do.
After Lin Qinghen quickly gave up his cultivation, he pondered for a few days and resolutely devoted himself to farming.
Whether he is a spiritual master or not is all just empty talk. No matter whether you are in ancient or modern times or in fantasy or other worlds, as a Chinese soul, he must stick to his original heart and honestly return to his old business - farming.
You can also exercise!
However, in the process of gradually becoming familiar with this place, Lin Qinghen also learned that farming here is also very different. Spiritual power is needed in many places. The reason why powerful spiritual masters have such a high status is because spiritual power is indeed the most important energy source in this world.
That's why Lin Qinghen still spends an hour practicing at a fixed time every day. If he had some spiritual power, farming and daily life would be more convenient.
Although the yellow rank two stars is also low, Lin Qinghen has a good mentality and does not have high requirements, so this is barely enough for now.
Lin Qinghen, who had just made a breakthrough last night, suddenly thought of these things on the way to the plantation. He still had mixed emotions, but after arriving at the place, he put those past events behind him and got down to business.
He wore a straw hat on his head and the same clothes as the farmers in the garden. He had two bamboo baskets hanging around his waist and another basket on his back. When he entered the garden, no one would notice his identity.
The Lin family plantation is circular in shape, and the closer to the center of the circle the spiritual plants planted are, the more valuable they are. The plants and animals here are also graded like humans, in the same way as the spiritual master Tiandi Xuanhuang’s grading method.
The outermost plantation is the largest, with a large circular plot covering nearly thousands of acres of land, and all that is planted or raised are yellow-level spiritual plants and spiritual beasts.
The Lin family is a wealthy and powerful family. The spiritual plants and spiritual beasts below the yellow rank three stars in the plantation are generally used as ingredients for daily meals at home. In other words, this large piece of farmland actually belongs to the Lin family.
Of course spiritual masters also need to eat, especially combat spiritual masters who not only feel hungry but also have a large appetite. Even top spiritual masters who have reached the heavenly level and have the ability to fast for a long time will still choose to eat under normal circumstances, so that they can absorb a little spiritual power while restoring their physical strength.
Besides, the desire for food and drink is one of the strongest desires of human beings, and practitioners in the spiritual world never practice the idea of purifying the mind and abstaining from desires.
Of course Lin Qinghen also needs to eat. The spiritual energy in the food is one of the sources of his spiritual energy cultivation. Although life in the Lin family is not easy, the good thing is that they are indeed wealthy and powerful.
From childhood to adulthood, no one cared about him when he sneaked in to pick some food. At least he didn't starve to death. His strength was not high, so he ate low-star vegetables and meat that no one cared about, and he survived.
Lin Qinghen was in a good mood today. He happily placed a fish cage by the stream, and then plucked a handful of wheat from the round wheat field next to it.
Round wheat is a very common yellow-grade one-star spiritual plant. It looks somewhat similar to the wheat in his impression, but it is much larger and can grow to the height of an adult's shoulders. The grains are round and have a softer texture, hence the name.
He put the round wheat shelling tool in his backpack. It was light and flexible. With a little spiritual power, he could husk the wheat very quickly. Soon he got a handful of round and crystal clear wheat grains.
After being here for a long time, I felt that this world was truly blessed by God compared to Earth. There were many tools powered by spiritual power, from the small shelling machine in his hand to the flying spacecraft that could carry thousands of people. In terms of the level of development, it was actually higher than where he lived in his previous life.
And because of the blessing of spiritual energy, crops grow very fast. It only takes two months from sowing to maturity to grow round wheat, a common staple food, on ordinary land. It has strong survival ability and requires almost no time to take care of it.
The Lin family's plantation also has an additional formation. The concentration of spiritual energy is much higher than outside. The growth rate of round wheat here is even more outrageous. It only takes about twenty days for a crop to grow. The same is true for other types of plants and animals.
This favorable geographical environment is truly a dream environment for the farmer Lin Qinghen. After traveling through time, he adhered to the excellent principle of keeping a low profile in the Lin family, not causing trouble and running away when things go wrong. He secretly pretended to be a farmer and indulged in farming.
After so many years, many people in the Lin family seemed to have forgotten about this loser, which was exactly what he wanted.
Of course, some people have not forgotten.
At this time, Lin Qinghen prepared the staple food, turned around and went to the stream to pick up the fish basket. He didn't catch any fish, but there were a dozen lively shrimps in it, just enough to make a bowl of fresh shrimp porridge.
He was happily carrying the ingredients and preparing to go to the old place to make breakfast, but he didn't expect to run into someone when he turned a corner.
This man was wearing the same clothes as him. He was a farmer on the plantation. His name was Seventeen and he was still young. Lin Qinghen had been here for a long time, so he was familiar with him.
When Seventeen saw him, his eyes lit up at first, and then he pulled him and ran forward before he even opened his mouth.
"Master Qinghen, please come with me. Master Lin Fei is in the garden and is angry again!"