Lin Tianran was an ordinary college student. All it took was buying a crystal necklace on a whim for a flash of white light to send his soul to another world, where he became Mills, a down-and-out baron ruling the border territory of Graystone Ridge.
There were no glorious legends of magic or battle aura here, only land so barren it was despairing: hundreds of ragged peasants, crumbling earthen walls, enormous debts left behind by his father, and neighboring nobles watching hungrily for an opportunity.
Fortunately, Mills awakened the lord talent [Ley Line Control]. He could draw on the spiritual energy stored in his territory's ley lines, letting him cultivate far faster than ordinary people. He could also return fortune and supernatural treasures to the land. From then on, he and the territory he protected were bound together: the stronger the territory, the stronger he became.
From winning hearts with a bowl of thin porridge to outsmarting wild boars, inventing papermaking, venturing into the Dark Forest to uncover supernatural resources, and navigating schemes with creditors and ambitious nobles, Mills gradually breathed new life into this forgotten borderland.
But he didn't know that, beneath the shadows of the Dark Forest, the gaze of the Abyssal Demons was quietly turning his way. When the storm came, could this transmigrator from the modern world use a barren territory as his foundation and write an era of his own amid the chaos?
The ley lines bear witness as a lord rises.
