Chapter 3: Landing in Lin'an City

  "The host enters a secondary dimension of martial arts world, the legendary martial arts task system is activated."

  "Phase Task: Recognition of the Five Absolutes. Task Description: Obtain the inner recognition and basic respect of more than half (including half) of the existing five absolutes in the world."

  "Task Completion Reward: Allows the host to bring back all personal powers acquired in the secondary world of Wuxia to the primary world, those who have reached a certain level of intimacy with the host in the secondary world of Wuxia can choose to return to the primary world together with the host, and reincarnate in the primary world."

  "Mission failure penalty: The host's true spirit lingers (disperses) in the secondary plane of the martial world, losing consciousness in the primary plane world, and the body falls into a long deep sleep."

  As soon as Ling Muyun entered the World's Gate, a series of information suddenly flooded into his mind. It was the task information released by the attached game to him. His heart couldn't help but move: "Stage tasks? It seems that in this world of shooting eagles, there is not only one task, and it seems that it is not necessary to complete all the plot before returning to the main world..."

  Ling Muyun's thoughts hadn't even finished turning when he felt his consciousness being enveloped by an irresistible force, descending from the blue sky and rapidly approaching the earth. In an instant, it entered a city, weaving through the eaves of houses, before entering the body of a young man lying on a bed covered in brocade quilts. As soon as Ling Muyun entered this young man's body, he felt an overwhelming drowsiness wash over him, and his vision went black as he fell into a deep sleep.

  ……

  Ling Muyun slowly woke up from his daze, only to find that the sky had darkened and it was already sunset. After sorting out the fragmented memories left in his body, Ling Muyun finally knew the background of the person whose body he had taken over. The previous owner of this body was also born into a wealthy family, and was a rich young master from Lin'an City in Southern Song Dynasty. As the only son of the family, although their wealth couldn't be considered as extremely rich, it wasn't much different either.

  The previous owner of this body was born into a good family, but his fate was not good. A few years ago, his parents suddenly passed away in an accident. After burying them with the help of the housekeeper, he became the head of the household overnight. However, he was still young and didn't know how to manage the family business. He was deceived by the servants in the house, who colluded with each other, and within a few years, they had squandered more than half of the wealth left behind by his parents, leaving only the residence and dozens of hectares of good land as assets. As the previous owner grew older, he became increasingly depressed about the decline of the family business, and his health was not good for a long time. Recently, he caught a cold and fell ill in bed, but medicine was ineffective, and eventually, he died, which led to Ling Mu Yun's rebirth through transmigration.

  After figuring out the cause, Ling Muyun struggled to get up from bed, put on his shoes and went downstairs. He found a copper mirror in the house and took a look at his current body shape. This look was a big surprise for Ling Muyun, as it turned out that this body not only had an age equivalent to his true body but also looked 80-90% similar to his original face, except that he appeared slightly weaker.

  He carefully examined his body again, and apart from not having cultivated the inner family's true energy, it was basically identical to his main world's true body. Only then did Ling Muyun finally understand what the so-called "transmigrator" in the game information meant, who had attributes that matched with him. Suddenly, a thought surged up in Ling Muyun's heart: "Is this just a coincidence? Maybe this is really my transmigrated body in this world, otherwise why would it be so similar to me?"

  At this point, Ling Muyun's mind was flooded with thoughts, thinking about his past and present lives. Thousands of thoughts surged up in his mind, and he couldn't express any particular feeling, only that the will of heaven was unpredictable, and he felt like a wooden puppet controlled by invisible threads, every move being manipulated and monitored under some kind of will.

  After a moment of wild thinking, Ling Mu Yun felt a wave of fatigue and drowsiness coming on. He knew it was because he had been bedridden for many days and his body was still weak. So he didn't think about it anymore and went back to bed, covering himself with the quilt and lying down. As the saying goes, "The body is the capital of revolution." Even if you want to do something, at least you have to recover from your illness first. Otherwise, you'll be like a hero who dies before achieving his goal, and that's just tragic.

  Perhaps it was Ling Muyun's possession and rebirth that brought vitality to this body, Ling Muyun's body became better day by day, and after being nursed for over a dozen days, Ling Muyun recovered.

  Once his body had recovered, Ling Muyun couldn't stay idle. He left his house and went out onto the streets to ask people about the location of Niu Jia Village. Now that he had arrived in the world of The Legend of Archery, the first thing he needed to do was determine the time period, so as to judge which stage of the plot development they were at, before making detailed plans. The plot of The Legend of Archery started from Niu Jia Village, and since he had been reborn in Lin'an City, searching for Niu Jia Village was naturally the most convenient way to determine the time period.

  Niujiacun is under the jurisdiction of Lin'an City. Since the scope has been determined, it's not too difficult to ask around. After asking for several days in a row, Ling Muyun found Niujiacun. When he arrived at Niujiacun and asked the old residents there, Ling Muyun only knew that the disaster of the Guo and Yang families had occurred 16 years ago. Calculating the time, Guo Jing and Yang Kang were already 16 years old at this time, one year older than himself.

  If Ling Muyun's memory was correct, Guo Jing should still be on the grasslands of the great desert, being trained by the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan, while Yang Kang was in the Zhao Wang Fu of the Jin Dynasty as his young prince. It would take more than two years for the two to meet in the Jin Dynasty. If he wanted to complete the stage task released by the game system, it would be best to intervene at that time and follow the development of the plot, naturally meeting the four remaining members of the Five Greats. Otherwise, each member of the Five Greats was as elusive as a dragon, making it difficult to even see them, let alone gain their recognition.

  And what he should do is to improve his own strength as much as possible in these two years, and wait for the time to come again. It's not easy to raise one's own strength to a level that can win the recognition of Wu Yue in just over two years. Fortunately, Ling Mu Yun is familiar with the plot and has the ability to foresee, this task is difficult for him, but it's not without hope.

  Ling Muyun left the Niu family village and returned home to Lin'an after learning what he needed to know. After returning home, he dismissed all the servants and slaves in his household on the grounds that the family business had declined and there was no way to continue. He then sold all his property and land. Since he had decided to spend the next two years or so improving himself as much as possible, he naturally would not continue to stay in Lin'an wasting time. His family didn't even have a single relative left, so what's the point of leaving these houses and lands behind? It's better to sell them off.

  Because Ling Muyun was in a hurry to sell, the property and land were naturally taken advantage of by others to lower the price. In the end, Ling Muyun sold for less than half the actual value of the house and land, making him a complete prodigal son in the eyes of his neighbors. However, Ling Muyun didn't care about this. The swallow knows not the ambitions of the swan, his goal was to roam freely in the world, not to be a idle young master in Lin'an City.

  During this time, Ling Muyun had already made up his mind to leave Lin'an and head to Zhongnan Mountain, as for the goal, of course, it was the "Chongyang Monument" in the tomb of the living dead.

  In the past, Wang Chongyang, the leader of the Quanzhen Sect, and Lin Chaoying, the founder of the Ancient Tomb Sect, were entangled in a love-hate relationship. After Lin Chaoying retreated to the ancient tomb, she created the "Nine Yin Manual" out of love and resentment, which completely broke through Wang Chongyang's Quanzhen Sect martial arts. After Lin Chaoying's death, Wang Chongyang secretly entered the ancient tomb to pay his respects, where he saw the inscriptions on the wall that revealed the secrets of the Nine Yin Manual, breaking through all the Quanzhen Sect's martial arts. Feeling resentful, Wang Chongyang then inscribed a part of the Nine Yin Manual's techniques, broke through Lin Chaoying's "Nine Yin True Classic", and left behind his own "Heavy Yang Inscription", which surpassed the Quanzhen Sect. Throughout his life, Wang Chongyang was never weaker than others. These two sentences prove that although Lin Chaoying's martial arts broke through the Quanzhen Sect's, he was not weaker than Lin Chaoying, hence the origin of the "Chongyang Inscription".

  Ling Muyun was going to the Zhongnan Mountain's Tomb of the Living Dead to steal a glimpse of the "Chongyang Legacy", after all, he wanted to greatly increase his strength within two years, and it was necessary to cultivate top-level skills. As one of the top skills in the Golden Great Hero world, the "Nine Yin True Classics" was naturally a good choice. Although the Chongyang Legacy only recorded part of the "Nine Yin True Classics", it was enough to make Ling Muyun's strength soar rapidly.

  Before leaving Lin'an, Ling Muyun made a special trip to the most famous and prosperous armory in Lin'an City, where he bought a precious sword at a considerable price. Although it was not a divine sword that could cut through gold, jade, or iron like mud, it was still forged from high-quality steel with excellent sharpness, unmatched by ordinary swords.

  Ling Muyun did this also to be prepared for any eventuality, the era he was in wasn't peaceful at all. Traveling alone through the jianghu wasn't a safe matter, if one didn't have some ability, they might easily get robbed and killed by some mountain bandits.

  Fortunately, Ling Muyun had many years of martial arts training and was quite familiar with the 72-road evil-warding sword technique. While he would be no match for a true master of the martial world, it was enough to deal with ordinary bandits and robbers. If not for this, Ling Muyun might not have dared to venture to Mount Zhongnan alone.