Chapter 1 One soul and two bodies

 It is snowing in the middle of winter and the north wind is howling.

Kanazawa County.

 Chen Lin was walking on the desolate streets carrying a load of unsellable dry firewood, with a hatchet hanging on his waist. He was wearing a linen jacket stuffed with straw and sawdust, his lips were bruised and chapped, and his eyebrows were covered with ice and snow.

 There are twenty large coins in his pocket, which are rice, food, oil and salt for the next few days.

 The rice noodle shop on the street corner was surrounded by people, and they were asking the price with their necks hunched.

“Why is it so expensive again? Yesterday, brown rice was only six cents per catty, but today it is eight cents?”

“It's freezing cold and the war is still going on in the south. How can there be so much rice...”

 “Two pounds of brown rice and replace the rest with bad salt.”

Chen Lin stepped forward, let out a breath of heat, and handed over all the twenty large coins he had on him.

The people around him stopped and looked at him, and then the quarrel continued.

 No matter how much you argue, there will be no results.

　　People have to eat. In the cold winter, in this hellish world, no matter how expensive rice is, you still have to buy it.

 Chen Lin raised his eyes and looked at the sky, and suddenly remembered that he had been in this world for two months. It could be said to be time traveling or the awakening of Su Hui. The time was neither long nor short. He had adapted but not fully adapted.

 “The rice and salt are ready...Guest?”

"Um."

Hooking up the brown rice and salt from the waiter, Chen Lin bent down slightly, picked up the dry firewood and walked towards the city gate step by step.

 He is ready to go home.

The houses in the county are all in a row, old and new, high and low, with ice and snow hanging from the eaves. The excrement and urine poured on both sides of the road overnight have frozen into ice, and there is still a cold stench.

 “Get out of the way, quickly—”

The son of a wealthy family in the west of the city returned from winter hunting, and the driver of the family slave drove through the snowy street with a whip.

There were several snowshoe rabbits with white fur hanging outside the carriage, and a flag with the word "he" swaying in the air.

 The sound passed by in a flash.

 People bargaining in front of the rice noodle shop were dispersed.

They all scolded the rich young man from behind, saying that he had no conscience for the last eight generations...

Chen Lin stood carefully on the edge of the feces and urine, still one foot away from the changed color of the snow.

 He spat and returned to the middle of the road, walking along the ruts made by the carriage in the snow to save some energy.

Every house along the way has its doors and windows closed.

 Far away from the rice noodle shop, not even a person can be seen.

Only the gray warm smoke blown by burning charcoal in the sky above the high-rise residences showed some signs of human presence.

 Come to the city gate.

 Similarly there is no one.

 But Chen Lin was stopped.

“Who is that, stand there and don't move!”

 The voice came from heaven.

　　A soldier in a thick coat stepped down from the tower and shouted loudly: "The war has been tense recently. You must carefully check your belongings when entering or leaving. Quickly take off all your belongings!"

 The war in the south is thousands of miles away, what does it have to do with this place?

Chen Lin wanted to question him, but he saw a figure moving on the surrounding wall from the corner of his eye, so he suppressed it again.

 “I'm full of unsold firewood.”

 He unloaded the firewood on his shoulders into the snow.

The soldier in thick coat squatted down and pretended to check, while waving his hand to indicate that Chen Lin could leave.

 However, several breaths passed.

 He found that the young man in front of him was still standing in the snow ignorantly.

Even took a few steps closer to him.

 “Sir, have you checked?”

When asking questions, Chen Lin was breathing heavily, his chest heaving, white mist constantly spraying out, and the hatchet on his waist faintly shaking.

The thick-coat soldier looked up and was suddenly shocked to find that one was taller and the other was shorter, and one was standing while the other was squatting.

 The posture is very suitable for beheading…

His heart tightened, and he quietly turned his eyes towards the city. His colleagues were all ten feet away.

“…Carry it back with you, a little bit of tattered firewood and brown rice, you think grandpa cares about it!”

The thick-coat soldier withdrew with a dark face, holding two sticks of dry firewood in his hand.

Chen Lin couldn't argue with him, so he picked up the firewood again, listened to the faint teasing coming from the top of the wall, and carefully walked out of the city along the base of the wall.

After a while, Kanazawa County turned into a small dot.

　　Can't be seen anymore.

 Go all the way to ten miles away.

 Stretching mountains are revealed in front of us. The snow-capped mountains in the winter are undulating like silvery white strips. At the foot of the mountains, more than a dozen families are nestled in the ice and snow.

 The smallest household among them is Chen Lin's home.

There was a donkey cart parked at the entrance of the small village, making two ruts in the finger-thick snow, and a family was moving things out.

A little old man wearing a thick coat stood at the door cheerfully, and even took the initiative to say hello when he saw Chen Lin.

“Hey, the firewood hasn't been sold out today?”

"Uncle Sheng." Chen Lin nodded, both as a greeting and in response to the little old man's question.

"You came back too early. If we had waited a little longer, we would have sold out before and after dinner..." The little old man, Uncle Sheng, was pointing at the door, and a strong man suddenly appeared in the house behind him. He lowered his head and turned sideways from the door. When he came out, his thick-legged arms held a large solid wood table.

 He didn't even look at Chen Lin.

 “Dad, it's time for us to go.”

"Okay!" The little old man put away his face, jumped on the donkey cart nearby, and his son led the cart out of the village.

Chen Lin did not watch, and turned around and walked towards his home.

Memories about this "Uncle Sheng" automatically appeared in his mind:

“He was a bad gambler just like his father, except that his father ruined his family due to gambling and died of poverty before three months.”

“This 'Uncle Sheng' has a son who is a martial artist to protect him. If he owes money, no one else dares to come to ask for money... Today he even came to pick up his father to spend the winter in the county town.”

Standing in front of his home, Chen Lin looked back.

Uncle Sheng's son is as strong as an ox and is said to be born with amazing bones, so the martial arts gym in the county will take him into the gym to train him without charging tuition...

 When he was a child, his father and Uncle Sheng went out to gamble, and the original person would occasionally play with Uncle Sheng's son. It wasn't until he was accepted by the martial arts school that the two became strangers.

He has only been practicing martial arts for seven or eight years, and he is already a figure in this small village of more than a dozen households.

 It is said that he has recently fallen in love with wealthy households in the county and has become their guest...

  “It's incomparable.”

He shook his head and opened the door of his cabin.

A creak.

 The wooden door suddenly became stuck.

Chen Lin's face darkened, he put down the firewood on his shoulder, sighed and walked sideways through the open door. He grabbed the door leaf with both hands and fumbled patiently until he stuck the fallen door shaft back on the door pillow...

In this way, the door can be opened smoothly.

There are no furnishings in the house, only an earthen stove that cannot be dismantled.

 The rest were sold by the gambler father before his death.

 Carry the dry firewood outside the door back into the house.

 Hold up a handful of hay and go to the small earthen stove to light the fire.

 Chen Lin started a fire with flint, then added dry wood to bake his cold body.

 Amid the rising flames, he breathed out a breath of cold air.

 In this gray world, there are no modern takeaways, no mobile phones, and no big meals.

　There are only hunger, cold, sickness, lamentation, war, oppression...

“I can't do business or make inventions, and even a small guard can make things difficult for me.”

“I have no skills in martial arts and no money, so the martial arts gym won't take it.”

“I am originally a hunter, but the only hunting activity I have participated in in modern times is Ark Survival Evolved. Moreover, the mountains are now covered by heavy snow, and my father sold my bow and knife to gambling…”

 Chen Lin let out a long sigh.

 When he came to this world, it was not that he had nothing to rely on.

 It's just that relying on it will not play a big role in changing the status quo for the time being.

“Unknowingly, today is the first day of the twelfth lunar month.”

The new moon has risen outside at some point, and the bright moonlight splashes on the snow-capped mountains, shining silver all over the ground.

 “Should it be coming soon?”

 Chen Lin murmured...

 The next moment, the flames in front of him stopped jumping.

 The other world.

Zhizhi~

The cries of baby birds were heard in the trees.

The great sun gradually rises from the east, and the sky and the earth are full of vitality, and the purple air is like clouds, stretching for thousands of miles.

 Chen Lin opened his eyes, and the water in the copper basin in front of him was rippling, reflecting a pair of deep eyes and the magnificent scene of the sky.

 “Chen Lin, leave quickly!”

 Someone pushed him on the shoulder, then turned around and left in a hurry.

 A few breaths passed.

 Chen Lincai gradually recalled his previous experiences.

　　'Yes, in this world, I am now a Talisman Master apprentice... Today is the day to teach skills! '

He finished washing up in a hurry and quickly followed the pace of the person in front of him.

 Chen Lin touched the suitable and decent clothes on his body. Although it was not silk, it was much smoother than linen. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

“Other people have one soul and two souls at most, but I have one soul and two bodies. According to the current rules, on the first day of every month, I will switch to a body in another world..."

“Furthermore, in which body my consciousness is in, the time in that world will start to move, while the time in the other world will remain unchanged...”

 'There were martial artists in the previous world, which seemed to be a world of martial arts. '

 'And this world…'

 He traveled through the martial arts world for two months, changing worlds once a month. This was already his second time traveling to this world.

Chen Lin lowered his head and glanced at the purple thunder spell pattern embroidered on his sleeves:

 'This is the world of cultivating immortals! '

 (End of this chapter)