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 Chapter 13: The Beginning of the Beginning 1
 Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
 Coming out of the ring satisfied, Garen removed his gloves and walked to Erwin's side.
 "Looks like I'll be able to catch up to you very soon, Senior Brother Erwin."
 "You think you’re the only one improving?" Erwin threw him a look of feigned contempt. "Alright, let’s put this topic aside. You have to go home for dinner later, right? It’s quite far from here to the city center, so head home then or else you won’t be able to find transportation later."
 "Okay, I'll be leaving first then." Garen was aware of the situation too. He greeted two other people on his way out the door, walked past the courtyard and exited the main entrance of the Martial Colosseum with a few other students.
 White Cloud Dojo was just a dojo in Huaishan City. It had two branches and a main Martial Colosseum. Both branches were within the city, and only the main Martial Colosseum was located in the outskirts, which was quite a distance from Bluetree Street where Garen lived.
 After finally managing to hail a carriage, both Garen and another female student going the same way squeezed into it. The carriage started heading down the gray cobblestone road towards the city center.
 Sitting on the right side of the carriage, Garen reclined on the leather seat, closed his eyes and rested with his head tilted slightly upwards. The crisp sound of hooves on cobblestone could be heard incessantly.
 The girl beside him took out a book and started reading it page by page; the sound of pages turning came at regular intervals.
 In a daze, Garen slowly fell into a half-asleep state.
 Some time passed. There seemed to be a slight commotion going on nearby. He gradually woke up and looked out the carriage window.
 The black-haired girl beside him also turned to her side to look out the left window. A group of colorfully dressed children were playing chase and ran past the side of the carriage. These children, seemingly from Zhejiang, each had an assortment of red, yellow, and green gift boxes in their hands.
 "Ahh, it's Children's Day today." Garen realized.
 "It was yesterday, but some families choose to celebrate it a day later. That way, it's less crowded and probably safer for the kids." The black-haired girl turned around to face the front of the carriage again. She took a glance at Garen and asked, "Where are you getting off?"
 "I'm getting off at Pennington."
 "It's already Blacktree Street here. We'll be at Pennington soon."
 It was then that Garen noticed the buildings passing by outside had become gray ones; the walls of each engraved with reliefs. Both sides of the road were each lined with a row of candlenut trees.
 "Thanks for the reminder. The corner of Pennington is just up ahead. Sir, if you could just let me down here?"
 "Of course."
 The black carriage slowed down to a stop at the corner of Pennington. Garen stepped off the carriage and paid the fare. Afterwards, he straightened his clothes and started walking towards Dolphin Antiques at the corner of the street.
 A ray of scarlet sunlight shone in and lit the whole antique store a warm shade of red.
 The old man was once again sitting in front of the bookshelf directly facing the entrance, and had dozed off at the desk.
 Garen walked through the door without disturbing him, and directly headed towards the left side of the store with a sense of familiarity, to where the Bronze Cross Emblem was placed.
 He picked up the emblem and examined it. There was a thin layer of glimmer on it, but that didn't matter. Holding the emblem, Garen's attention shifted to the Attribute Pane in the lower part of his field of vision.
 Although 100% of the Potential Attribute had been used up, several days of continuous "accumulation" had made Garen’s Potential rise to 47% once again.
 "You again, kid?" Old Man Gregor spoke from behind him, "You're here to see it everyday. If you like it so much, why not just buy it so you can look at it all you want?"
 "Am I not already trying to save up? Do you think it's possible for me as an ordinary student to casually come up with such a large sum of money?" Garen refuted without turning around to face him.
 "It's up to you. Your presence makes my shop seem livelier anyway. But rules are rules, it's 10 bucks an hour."
 "Yeah, yeah… You're really obsessed about money." Garen was rendered speechless.
 He dawdled for more than an hour holding the emblem, while the sky outside gradually darkened. Garen reluctantly put the emblem down after seeing his potential increase slightly at an infuriatingly slow pace.
 "Remember to take good care of it. I'll be back!"
 "Yeah! Scram kid, you're even more long-winded than me!" The old man impatiently waved his hand and continued, "It's time for me to close up anyway."
 "No wonder you don't get any business here." After multiple interactions, Garen was already familiar with the old man's temper. Initially, there was still a veil of civility between the two, but after growing more familiar, both just let it all go and spoke their minds.
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 More than two weeks had passed.
 Garen resumed his normal routine in the academy, travelling between the antique store and the dojo day in and day out. His Potential steadily increased past 100%, allowing him to allocate new Attribute Points again.
 It's just that he hadn't decided on what to add the points to. Originally, he meant to raise his grades in a few subjects, but unfortunately, not all skills could be enhanced with Attribute Points.
 Only a few special skills allowed such enhancements, and not others; for example, National Studies and Foreign Languages. The high-grade learning materials for these subjects weren't even distributed, and Garen had no relevant memory of them, so naturally, he couldn't understand any of it.
 It dawned on him that his Attribute point enhancements could only work on skills and subjects already within his field of knowledge.
 Simply put, if he was taught a level of the White Cloud Secret Method but had no clue about its further levels, he would need follow-up training before he could enhance it. So, under such circumstances, he wouldn't be able to compel an Attribute point enhancement since his memory bank didn't have the blueprint for further enhancements.
 Attribute Points and his Unique Skills, as Garen concluded, were more like means with which to substantially develop, mine and utilize his potential, expressed in the form of skills and levels. They were not like skill points in a videogame that allowed him to learn new things instantly.
 Therefore, to enhance a skill, one would have to have a comprehensive understanding of the content of the next skill level. Leave something out, and the skill couldn't be upgraded.
 Putting aside his own development, his relationship with his sister Ying Er seemed to have changed. Ever since that odd session of playful slapstick the other day, Ying Er would be in a hurry and wouldn’t say much every time they interacted. What happened? Garen wasn't sure what was going on with Ying Er. He just felt that things had become more awkward than before. After meals, she would clear the dishes quickly, then dash back to hide in her room, not speaking to Garen anywhere near as much as she used to.
 In the blink of an eye, midterms were approaching fast. Confederate schools had three semesters in a year, so each semester was quite short. Ying Er's archery tournament was about to begin too.
 Garen did some light reviewing. Only the exams in third year of high school were important anyway, so he didn't really bother about the other semesters. It's not as if university was the only option. Moreover, Mathematics and Physics here were effortlessly simple. It took him a mere ten days to boost his mastery of both subjects to the advanced level. He even managed to attain elementary level for both National Studies and Foreign Languages through rote memorization.
 After enhancing his intelligence, his memory and comprehension had improved as well. Pairing that with his adult consciousness and mind, this made his results far better than that of the previous Garen. If not for the fact that his focus wasn't on studies, he would probably be on par with the top students.
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 The afternoon sun shone on Pennington Street at an angle which cast long silhouettes on the street. Both sides of the street were deserted, and only a few pedestrians passed by, all with thick windbreaker jackets on.
 Two black cars were parked by the side of the road. The polished surface of the car bodies reflected a pale yellow glow. In one of the cars, the driver could be seen sleeping soundly at the wheel.
 On the right side of the street, a purple-haired boy with burgundy eyes was rubbing his hands together and striding along in a hurry. His hair was slightly long, extending from his temples to his chin. His purple hair wrapped around his face, occasionally being blown backwards by the wind. He was wearing a light gray sweater and trousers, which accentuated his porcelain white skin.
 The boy looked up at the advertisement banner on a distant building.
 The red banner read: From 21st to 25th of September, Elizabeth Jewelries Autumn Bargain, Discounts ranging from 50 - 90 %.
 "It's already September? Time sure flies…" Garen quickened his pace. He was on his way to the antiques store. It was already a few days past the time limit that the old man had mentioned. Because he had only just been freshly selected as a disciple at the dojo, he could only participate in the internal tryouts in the next quarter; there was no way he could make any money from tournaments for now.
 He didn't have the money, but the other buyer that Old Man Gregor mentioned hadn't appeared either. Garen felt at ease and justified to continue making one to two hours of contact with the emblem every day to absorb more Potential.
 "Enhancing skills with Attribute Points still isn't as worthwhile as using it on my own Attributes," Garen carefully analyzed, "Skills can be improved through mastery. Unless it's a difficult skill to improve, using Attribute Points on my own body would be better. Improvements like these are long-term enhancements. If I used a few Attribute Points on Physics or Mathematics just to make it easier for myself to attain an advanced level, it would have been a waste. The most that would have achieved was saving me some time. It would be more worthwhile if I used it on the difficult-to-improve White Cloud Secret Method…"
 Garen glanced at the Attribute Pane in his lower field of vision.
 Strength, enhanced by two points, was now at 0.52. Potential was at 124%.
 "I obtained the improvements in strength by training in the White Cloud Secret Method, and partly through daily strength exercises. Moreover, since gaining Attribute Points seems to have the effect of fortifying and maintaining the body, my strength won't decrease from lack of training."
 He glanced at the Skills Pane.
 White Cloud Secret Method: Intermediate. Fundamental Combat Skills: Elementary. Explosive Fist Arts: Uninitiated.
 "Explosive Fist Arts, the fighting technique that only Formal Disciples can learn upon initiation, as well as the intermediate level White Cloud Secret Method - I could use Attribute Points to enhance these." Garen hesitated. "Explosive Fist Arts can raise the strength of the whole body to its highest limit, and the strength of the fists can be increased by threefold; it is the upgraded version of Fundamental Combat Skills. Generally, it takes two years to master the basics, at which point the skin would harden and hitting a sandbag with gloveless bare hands wouldn't cause any injury, whereas the White Cloud Secret Method is the basis of all fundamentals, capable of producing exceptional results if accumulated throughout a long period of time. It has been said that it takes more than 10 years to reach the advanced level, and one would have to possess extraordinary talent…" /
 Garen was particularly interested in the martial arts of this world now. It was very similar to the national martial arts on Earth in his previous life, but was much more commonplace than the latter. Even though both were difficult to train in and apply, this wasn't a problem for him because he had his special ability.
 He had wanted to learn martial arts to strengthen himself in his past life, but he lacked the conditions to. Now that all the conditions were met, naturally, his interest has piqued; it was almost as if he had become obsessed with them..
 "Fortunately, I have the emblem, which allows me to accrue Attribute Points. Following this progression for enhancements, I'll enhance the White Cloud Secret Method first, then boost my Explosive Fist Arts to the most advanced level. By then, I'll be able to reach the upper tier of the entire dojo! Even the Dojo Master of the White Cloud Dojo himself had merely attain the third tier in his Explosive Fist Arts and advanced his White Cloud Secret Method by another level, although it wasn't a full mastery."
 "As long as I keep using the emblem to aid my enhancements, I can boost my martial art skills to a level similar to that of the Dojo Master with just five Attribute Points!"
 Snapping out of his excitement, Garen had reached the corner of Pennington. Unusually, the entrance of Dolphin Antiques seemed a bit messy today.
 He quickened his pace and walked into the store. He was greeted with a shock.
 It was chaos inside: antiques and broken debris were strewn all over the floor, it was all a mess.
 A man and a woman, both clad in windbreakers, stood at the store entrance while interrogating the old man.
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 One moment, Luo Jing was at the brink of death after accidentally touching a power outlet while showering. The next, he was in the body of a man named Garen, with memories of a past he was never a part of flowing into his head. As he slowly gets used to the body of Garen, he begins to explore a planet beyond his own logical comprehension. His journey will see him go from surviving in a planet locked in the 20th century, to wielding secret techniques so powerful that they level cities overnight. However, his journey doesn’t end with Garen. Instead this is but the first of many bodies that Luo Jing will come to wield in his mystical journey between worlds.
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 Encountering a car crash, the King of Silver Screen, Ye Sinian, was bound to a Cannon Fodder Counterattack System.
 After reincarnating for hundreds of lives, he has finally earned enough “travel expenses” to go back home.
 However, he didn’t think that the system would suddenly malfunction, making returning back home from then on hopeless.
 With the shackles of a millennium broken, Ye Sinian aggressively counterattacked!
 Reversing fates while hugging the mentally ill* Lord Seme, he walked towards the apex of humanity!
 *Mentally ill – Schizophrenic
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 Lin Mu rescued a Samoyed.
 Capable of eating, smiling, has a high IQ. Picks up anything you teach him quickly, a good helper around the house.
 The only thing was that he doesn’t bark nor wag his tail.
 Lin Mu took a ham sausage and coaxed for the thousandth time, “wag your tail, and this ham sausage is yours to eat.”
 The Samoyed raised his eyes impatiently, and with a single shake of his tail, shook out nine.
 Lin Mu: …… F*ck.
 Afterwards, the fox that did not wish to reveal his name, Mr. Yan Xuanjing, said in an interview: “Now I regret, I deeply regret. At that time, I shouldn’t have pretended to be a dog to take advantage of him, shouldn’t have touched him, rubbed against him, eaten his food and slept in his bed. Now I have a home that I can’t return to and a wife I can’t sleep with, I regret, deeply regret.”
 A learned and easy-going professional grudge-bearing Shou x A certain nine-tailed fox who refuses to say his name and was forced to go to the mortal realm without money Gong
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 With a marriage contract forcefully done, he married her, and all she could do was comply, and resent him deeply for that and for all the following misunderstandings they faced, and she understood too late she loved him.
 But after a life of misfortunes, she’s reborn to the very beginning, the day he told her they were married, and she was determined to cherish him in her second life!
 Lin Mu Mu’s life goal is to : grow flowers and plants, and take care of Yun Ting.
 Yun Ting’s life principles are : Love Lin Mumu, Love Lin Mumu, Love Lin Mumu!
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 When she fell into the book transmigration system, Jiang Shi Ning not only had to be the mother of various villains and supporting characters to get them back on track, but also had to ‘leave in death’ at the right time. After five lifetimes of reincarnation, the highest level. She can finally return to the normal world. But …… she never expected to see a familiar face.
 The emperor and prince brother: “Mother, this time, this sons will protect you!”
 Republican marshal/female writer brothers and sisters: “Mother, it’s okay, we’ll start from zero together.”
 Sword Saint of the Immortal World: “Mother. Son will take care of you.”
 Little Monster of the Apocalypse: “Mother Mother, here’s an apple for you!”
 Jiang Shi Ning: “…… don’t mess with that, no fighting ah, you’re not allowed to fight ah!”
 Also known as: “Mom love me again” “Mom who do you love most?”
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 Xie Xi was someone with luck off the charts! The advantage was that any game could be easily cleared. The disadvantage was that all games were boring! Then one day, the words ‘Game loading’ appeared in front of his eyes and he began to clear real games!
 The emperor of luck ran into a bottleneck in the first game.
 Game Name: Love to the Left or Right
 The vampire prince has invited you to a meal. Will you go?
 Xie Xi: I won’t go.
 Arrow through the heart. The vampire prince says you can’t leave him and takes your life.
 After loading the file, Xie Xi changed the option: I will go.
 The housekeeper has cut off your head because of love and hatred.
 Xie Xi: ???
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 This is the story of the Phoenix Vidyarāja and a Grand Demon just awakened from Hell.
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 On the ancient battlefield, two armies were standing in stalemate. On one side were the Vajras, the Arhats, the Gods and the Buddhas from the Realm of Gods. On the other side were all the of monsters and demons from the Blood Sea in Hell.
 The personification of that Grand Demon leaped forward, holding a long sword across his chest. He flew across the battlefield, insolently cutting in halves the eleven Phoenix Bone Arrows, each of which was enough to destroy the world.
 Then, he arrived in front of the Phoenix Vidyarāja, who was standing high above the masses:
 “Your Majesty, please don’t move—”
 “I didn’t come for the war. I came to propose to you.”
 Phoenix was the Buddha’s inexorable doom for thirty-thousand years, while Zhou Hui was Phoenix’s redemption that could free him from the fate of his eternal life.
 After hundreds of thousands of years of endless light and shadow, this handsome yet devilish man finally emerged from Hell,
 To bring the Phoenix Vidyarāja away from the gandah-gajah Kingdom of Buddhism and the boundless lotus sea.
 “Let me follow you to that world. For you, I’ll be invincible forever—”
 You’re my shore after swimming across hundreds of miles of water. You’re my destination after traveling through thousands of miles of land.
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 The world’s shared, open interactive communication game ‘Forces of Temptation’ went online and quickly took the world by storm.
 There was a perfect ecosystem, a physics engine that was completely close to reality and game instances that opened up dimensions that could be chosen. In particular, the supernatural instances received rave reviews.
 Almost everyone thought they were playing a normal game until one day, millions of people saw a dialog box that appeared in the sky.
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 Huang Dan’s pain nerve is innately different from the ordinary people. A little tore in his skin can cause him to sweat all over his body painfully to the point of him unable to make a word out.
 Somehow, he began to cross world, following Mr. System to do the tasks…
 In the first world, Huang Dan realizes what it means to die painfully and to live to die again.
 TL’s summary: 
 MC suddenly transmigrated and is bind to a system, requiring him to solve mysteries. Born with a higher degree of pain sensitivity, he met different people in the different worlds and learns what kind of emotion smiling is.
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 When you read this online novel on the Internet, congratulations, you have been selected as an experiencer of the world of “horror online literature” and entered the world of horror novels. I sincerely hope…you…can come back alive!
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 “Terrorist Web Articles” task release group: 161866011
 After joining the group, please ask the private group owner to inquire about the coupons and plots, exchange and strengthen them!
 The list of participants in the world of each terrorist mission will be announced in the group announcement, the dead will be automatically kicked out of the group, and newcomers will join.
 This is a game of death, this is a slaughterhouse of slaughter, here, you are welcome to come and join, let us experience the thrill of struggling online and the excitement of intrigue!
 [Special reminder]: Don’t trust anyone after joining the group, because they all hope that the next person to die will be you!
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 After traveling for three years, Lin Yu was drawn into a horror game unexpectedly.
 However, he discovered one thing.
 The dungeon boss feared by countless players turned out to be the little loli who called her big brother next door.
 then.
 In the horror hospital, the director of the hospital turned out to be the uncle downstairs who made him and his granddaughter fall in love.
 In the bloody slaughterhouse, the existence known as the bloody butcher turned out to be the uncle upstairs who wanted him to be his brother-in-law.
 In Changteng Ghost School, the woman who frightens countless students is actually the long-legged sister Yu who invites her to her house for dinner whenever she has nothing to do.
 …
 Traveling through three years, you told me that this place is actually a horror game world?
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 Weary reader, it is an honor for you to choose this book in this heavy, dark library room.
 Somewhat sadly, the book is sick.
 Your fingers should be able to feel the raised growths on the surface of the book cover,
 The words written in the old days are like parasites rooted in the pages of the book, hoping that someone can observe their wriggling,
 To feel, to analyze, to touch the story of the disease.
 If you insist on borrowing this book, be sure to check your physical condition regularly.
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 You were taken to another world by a ghost ship. 
 You are uneasy. 
 There are ravings in your ears, accompanied by weird bgm, you sing and dance rap in pain. 
 You pick up a magic lamp, and after making a wish, it says it’s just a lamp. 
 You are impoverished, and you swear by your personality that you made a deal with the devil, and in the end the devil was sold by you. 
 You are walking on the road, and you meet a down-and-out princess who is begging for a child with a lot of money, and you yell “Mom~” in the street out of the principle of helping others 
 In the middle of the night, you flipped through the pages of “Ten Thousand and One Nights” in your hand, and your excitement became stronger and stronger…
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