I can still hear things…?Wait. I can feel something.
Was I… dreaming just now?
As that thought formed, his eyelids fluttered open. Lin Tianyu's vision swam as light rushed back in, his eyes were met with the sight of rows of desks and familiar white walls.
…Classroom?
He was sitting at a desk, his hands resting on a familiar wooden surface filled with scuff marks and old doodles. Sunlight streamed in through the windows at an angle that felt impossibly nostalgic.
At the front of the room stood a woman holding a piece of chalk.
She was tall, well-dressed, and very familiar.
Lin Tianyu froze.
Teacher Zhang…?
His first instinct was disbelief, followed immediately by embarrassment.
"Did I fall asleep in class?, Was everything now just a dream?"
The thought barely formed before he discarded it, Teacher Zhang was his high school teacher, he graduated from high school 7 months ago, how could he have vividly dreamt of the past 6 or 7 months like that?
Did I… travel back in time?
The thought surfaced instinctively, the kind of thought every webnovel reader had entertained at least once.
Then his gaze drifted to the blackboard.
His pupils shrank.
Written in neat, unfamiliar characters were several large words:
"Geography of a Divine Realm"
Lin Tianyu understood every single word.
Yet when put together, they felt fundamentally wrong.
"…Divine Realm?" he murmured under his breath.
His thoughts raced.
Parallel world…Judging from the word 'divine,' this should be at least a high-tier martial world.A cultivation world, maybe.There's also a chance it's a mythic world.
Before he could dig any deeper—
"Tianyu."
The voice was sharp.
Lin Tianyu jolted upright.
Teacher Zhang stood at the front of the classroom, chalk resting lightly between her fingers, her gaze fixed squarely on him. The murmuring around him had already died down.
"Why were you sleeping in class?" she asked coolly.
Dozens of eyes turned toward him.
Lin Tianyu's mind blanked.
What do I say?That I just got struck by lightning and transmigrated across worlds?
He opened his mouth.
Just as he was about to speak, a dinging mechanical sound rang in his ears, drawing him from his dilemma. His face lit up with a bright smile.
As an avid webnovel reader, how could he not know what this was?
This was the legendary golden finger loading.
As if to confirm his thoughts, faint golden light flickered at the corner of his vision, appearing and disappearing like unstable sparks.
Lin Tianyu's heart surged with excitement.
It's real.I really transmigrated.
In that instant, he completely forgot about the dozens of eyes on him, forgot about the teacher standing in front of the podium, and even forgot that he was supposed to answer a question.
Unfortunately, reality was less cooperative.
Before the golden light could fully form, a sudden heat rushed up his chest and straight into his nose.
"Huh…?"
Something warm dripped down.
"Hey—Tianyu!" someone whispered urgently."Your nose is bleeding!"
A drop of blood landed squarely on his desk.
Then another.
The classroom erupted into quiet murmurs.
Teacher Zhang's brows knit together. "Lin Tianyu?"
Her voice sounded distant, as if coming from underwater.
Lin Tianyu tried to wipe his nose, but the world suddenly tilted. The golden light in his vision flared violently, fragments of unreadable text flashing past.
" Wait—don't tell me the golden finger has side effects… Why did those novels not mention it? "
That was his last coherent thought.
His body swayed once, then slumped forward.
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Lin Tianyu woke up in the infirmary, the middle aged nurse assured him he had just suffered a minor capillary rupture probably due to over excitement or lack of rest, he would be fine after some days.
" I almost died before I could leave this new life " He sighed, he found that new memories had appeared in his mind, these were the memories of this world's Tianyu, in fact they were the same people, it could be said that this world's Tianyu had only now unlocked the memories of his past life.
Blue Star, the planet he had woken up on, looked like Earth at first glance — blue oceans, green continents, sprawling cities, and forests stretching beyond the horizon. But there were also secret realms hidden in places and much like how Earth had places inaccessible to humans , Blue Star had a few like the Bermuda Gates, Eternal Northern Ice Spires, the Abyssal Trench and others.
As for why these places were inaccessible, the original body had no idea, he had to carry his own research.
Blue Star was in a mythic era. Its people the humans of this planet had awakened the power of the divine ancestors and gods, inheriting fragments of their strength through trials, cultivation, and acts of valor.
They could wield powers beyond ordinary comprehension, calling upon the divine essence of gods, beasts, and legendary heroes to change the course of fate.
The whole world was a giant stage to rise through the ranks becoming rich and famous in the blink of an eye , an ordinary person could become a person capable of shattering rivers and hills after awakening.
As a webnovel reader, and a transmigrator Lin Tianyu would not settle for a normal life like his previous life, he had to set goals, maybe strongest on the planet or maybe the galaxy.
But before that
Why was the progress bar for his golden finger stuck at 99 percent for the past two hours since he passed out.
" Could it be a glitch? "
What do I do " he began to think of what to do.
" Maybe it needs to absorb some form of energy to start" This is where years of novel reading experience came to play.
" But where do i get it " he thought and came up with an answer before long.
" The Awakening Ceremony "
Lin Tianyu's eyes lit up, the golden light of the 99% progress bar flickering faintly at the corner of his vision.
Of course! He almost laughed aloud. How could I forget the basics? Every cultivation world, every divine system, the first thing you do is awaken. The rest of the stats, abilities, and powers? They all come after.