Back from Another World: The Archmage of the Cultivation City

Lin Chen’s life in another world began the day goblins tied him up like a hog. Just as they were about to strap him to a spit and roast him, a passing regiment of royal knights happened to rescue him while clearing out bandits. From then on, Lin Chen trained his body and practiced swordsmanship. In just a few years, his hand-to-hand combat skills surpassed those of the knight captain. It wasn’t until he saw an army mage blast a rock wall apart with a fireball that he found his true calling: real men should use magic. Fueled by the determination to keep pushing himself as long as it didn’t kill him, he devoured every magic tome he could find. And with his solid foundation in close-quarters combat, he founded a unique school of battle magecraft. After successfully sealing away the Demon King’s army, Lin Chen became a savior revered by everyone. But he hadn’t enjoyed his fame and success for long before he made up his mind to run away. The reason was simple: he didn’t want to be a lonely bachelor. The young women who had shared hardships with him had either become his trusted subordinates or his personal disciples. He knew them too well to make a move. And after he became famous, every girl on the continent could only look up to him in awe, leaving no room for romance. Even worse, those sly old church officials had turned him into the perfect icon of “eternal chastity,” putting him on a pedestal he couldn’t climb down from. He had to go home, back to Earth. But no matter how many magic books he searched, he couldn’t find anything about spatial magic. In the end, he chose another hard-core path: going to the Demon King’s castle to study forbidden black magic. A thousand years later, he finally succeeded. Except, well, this Earth seemed to be just a tiny bit different.