Chapter 5: Marrying a Rich and Beautiful Woman, Reaching the Pinnacle of Life

Lin Li walked quickly toward an unremarkable little tree. The tree was two meters tall and did not look lush, giving off a feeling of malnutrition.

Looking at the egg-sized fruit on the tree, which was as bright as a flame, Lin Li fell into deep thought.

Just as he was considering whether or not to pick this red fruit, a faint golden light suddenly flashed across its surface.

Lin Li was all too familiar with this color of light... it was spiritual energy!

Upon seeing the faint golden light flash across the surface of the fruit, Lin Li no longer hesitated and immediately reached out to pick the small fruit from the tree.

The fruit seemed to be perfectly ripe; after Lin Li grabbed it, he didn't even need to use any force, and the fruit was plucked right off.

Looking at the fruit he had picked, Lin Li suddenly smelled a fragrance that made his mouth water.

This fragrance was emanating from the fruit in his hand... it was truly magical; there hadn't been any scent at all before he picked it.

The alluring fragrance grew more and more intense, and Lin Li, holding this magical fruit, had a feeling... if he didn't eat it quickly, the fruit in his hand would dissipate and vanish.

"Although I've never seen this type of fruit before, its scent is so fresh and alluring that it shouldn't be poisonous."

Worried about being poisoned after eating it, Lin Li comforted himself in his heart, then gritted his teeth and shoved the fruit into his mouth.

"Crunch, crunch..."

His teeth collided, and the red fruit in his mouth was instantly crushed to pieces.

Sweet juice flowed between his lips and teeth, and the delicious taste made Lin Li lose himself in it.

"This is the most delicious fruit I've ever eaten, and it doesn't even have a pit, which saves me the trouble," Lin Li muttered after eating the red fruit.

"It seems like there's no reaction at all! Could this little fruit just be an ordinary, tasty piece of fruit?"

Lin Li's disappointment hadn't even lasted three seconds when he felt a warm current suddenly surge within his body.

He was very familiar with this warm current; it was the same feeling he got every time he exercised and his body absorbed the free-roaming spiritual energy in the air.

"It's here, it's here... I knew this little red fruit wasn't ordinary." Feeling the warm current in his body growing stronger and stronger, a look of pleasant surprise appeared on Lin Li's face.

What was that saying again... joy begets sorrow.

"Slow down, slow down, don't come so fast, I can't take it anymore!"

Feeling the warm current in his body becoming increasingly fierce, Lin Li felt as if it were about to burst his body apart.

"No!" The look of surprise on his face turned into terror in that instant.

"Ah..."

Unable to hold on, Lin Li let out a loud cry and fainted.

After he fainted, the unconscious Lin Li lying on the grass began to glow with a faint golden spiritual light.

As time passed, if a cultivator had been present, they would have been able to clearly perceive the spiritual energy fluctuations in Lin Li's body increasing rapidly.

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"I, am I still alive...?!"

He didn't know how much time had passed, but when Lin Li opened his eyes and saw the familiar scene before him, he scrambled up from the grass.

He felt his body all over, front and back, and upon confirming that he wasn't missing any arms or legs, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Huh? Why is there so much abundant spiritual energy in my body?"

Lin Li suddenly sensed the change in the amount of spiritual energy within him, and a look of astonishment appeared on his face.

If his previous spiritual energy was like a ladle of water, then the spiritual energy in his body now was like a bucket of water—the kind that was a meter high and half a meter wide.

Although he didn't know what level his cultivation was at now, Lin Li was absolutely certain that he had become a cultivator.

"Hahaha... I've become a cultivator... Hahaha... eh..."

Lin Li, who had been laughing heartily, suddenly stopped his laughter and stared at his right hand in a daze. He saw a small fireball emerging from his fingertips.

The fireball was the size of a pigeon egg and emitted an orange-red glow.

"An ability, I, I've awakened an ability..." Looking at the small fireball appearing on his fingertips, Lin Li murmured.

When anyone reaches the age of fifteen, they have a certain chance to awaken their spirituality, and then, through physical exercise and absorbing the free-roaming spiritual energy in the air, they can become a cultivator.

After becoming a cultivator, a very small number of them are lucky enough to awaken various strange abilities, making these people the elite among cultivators of the same level.

If you say that the vast majority of people who work hard, persist in physical exercise, and awaken their spirituality will eventually become cultivators, then abilities are not something that can be obtained through hard work! Those cultivators who have awakened abilities can almost be said to be favored by the heavens.

And now, on this mysterious little island, Lin Li had not only seen his cultivation increase significantly in a short time just by eating a small red fruit, but he had also gained a fire ability.

If he were to tell this to others, they certainly wouldn't believe him and would only think that anyone saying such things was a lunatic.

It would be possible to have a sudden increase in cultivation after eating a fruit containing spiritual energy, because there are some plants in this world that have turned into spiritual plants due to spiritual energy, and some of them bear spiritual fruits that can increase a person's cultivation.

But a spiritual fruit like the one Lin Li ate, which could grant an ability, had never been seen by anyone until now.

"Big, big, big..."

Lin Li looked at the pigeon-egg-sized fireball on his fingertips, shouting as he channeled the spiritual energy from his body into the fireball.

After Lin Li injected spiritual energy into the small fireball, its volume grew continuously. When it grew to the size of a soccer ball, Lin Li felt that his spiritual energy was about to run dry, so he quickly stopped injecting it.

"Go!"

Lin Li waved his hand toward the water in the distance, and the soccer-ball-sized fireball he had condensed shot out with a "whoosh."

"Boom..."

After the rapidly shot fireball fell into the water, a violent explosion occurred immediately.

A wave several meters high was kicked up by the explosion of the fireball and then rushed toward Lin Li, who was standing on the shore.

"Splash."

"Ouch..."

Startled by the power of the fireball's explosion, Lin Li didn't have time to dodge the three-meter-high wave rushing toward him and was immediately knocked to the ground, soaked from head to toe.

"Hahaha..."

Lying on the grass, soaked by the wave, Lin Li didn't make any sound of dissatisfaction; instead, he lay on the grass and laughed out loud.

"I'm going to take off... this time I'm really going to take off... marrying a rich and beautiful woman, reaching the pinnacle of life—this dream is finally more than just a dream."

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(End of chapter)