KOF: Rise of the King of Fighters

The forest, which had just been engulfed in a raging storm with thunder and lightning, gradually fell silent. The dark clouds dispersed, revealing the golden glow of the moon. As the moonlight shone upon the earth, the surrounding vegetation visibly began to heal and grow, and the body of the deceased child was also gradually being restored. The blood that had flowed onto the ground transformed into golden flame energy, which flowed back into the child's body. When all the golden light had returned to the child's body, the golden moonlight gradually dimmed, returning to its normal, bright white state.

After a long time, the child gradually regained his vitality...

My eyes hurt so much... I can't open them... Ugh... Ah Wen struggled in agony. He discovered that he couldn't move his hands and feet at all, as if they were broken. He tried to move them for a long time, but he had absolutely no feeling in his hands and feet...

"Help!"

"save……"

Holy crap! Why does the voice sound like a child's? Did the flames burn my vocal cords? Awen was really scared.

He racked his brain trying to recall what had happened, and seemed to remember something incomprehensible: he had blown up his computer while playing a game, which burned him to death... When he died, there seemed to be... golden moonlight and flames.

Ah Wen is feeling very wronged. He has been a good person all his life, and this is how he ends up? This series of changes has left him with no chance to catch his breath. Now he can't see, his hands and feet seem to be broken and he can't move them. His body has also turned into that of a child.

Fear, doubt, anger and a whole host of other emotions caused Awen to explode, lose his mind, and cry, laugh and curse at the same time, basically uttering every curse word he could in his past life.

After going crazy for a while, the delirious Awen gritted his teeth and thought fiercely: I've already died once, so what if I die again! He thought that rather than living a life worse than death, I might as well just lie here, not eating or drinking, and die sooner or later.

However, Awen underestimated the body's resilience. Three whole days passed without him eating or drinking, yet his body showed no signs of weakening. Even more surprising, during those three days, no wild animals or insects attacked him. Although Awen could clearly hear the breathing and footsteps of wild animals, they merely approached to observe for a moment before quietly departing.

On the fourth day, Awen's heart gradually calmed down, as if he had accepted his fate. However, he was surprised to find that although he had lost his sight, his other senses had become unusually sharp. He could clearly feel the invisible fluctuations in the air around him, like tiny ripples spreading through the air.

He could accurately perceive the sound and trajectory of birds flapping their wings in flight, as well as the formation of ants busily carrying food on the ground. Even passing beasts, the rustling of grass in the wind, and the falling of leaves could form a vivid picture in his mind, like a black-and-white holographic 3D projector. What's even more amazing is that, as time went on, Awen vaguely felt that this perceptual ability was constantly increasing.

By the fifth day, Awen's body began to show obvious signs of weakness. He realized he might really be dying, with only one or two days left to breathe. This made him sigh: he had barely struggled back from the brink of death, and had a glimmer of hope for survival, but was he really going to face death again? A sense of despair welled up inside him; he felt like the whole world was collapsing. At the same time, as he had expected, Awen's sensory range did indeed expand further.

On the morning of the seventh day, the dying Awen suddenly sensed two long-bearded old men searching for something nearby. Driven by a strong will to survive, Awen mustered the last of his strength to let out a weak cry…

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2 years later

At Wudang Mountain, 7-year-old Yan Yue, dressed in pure white, sat in a wheelchair and was already able to use her spiritual energy to control her body and perform some simple activities.

Yan Yue is Awen's name in this world. Because he has no memories of his life before the age of five, he only remembers seeing golden flames and the moon before his soul transmigrated in his previous life. Therefore, the old man who adopted him named him "Yan Yue". The two old men who saved Yan Yue at that time were grandmasters of Chinese martial arts - Tang Fulu and Zhen Yuanzhai.

From the outlines Yan Yue sensed, she discovered that Tang Fulu was an elderly man dressed in Tang-style clothing, bald, with a long beard, and a straight posture. Zhen Yuanzhai was an elderly man with disheveled hair, wearing a round hat, a vest, shorts, and slippers, and of short stature.

Within two years, Yan Yue realized that she had truly transmigrated to the KOF world, a world where martial arts power reigns supreme.

At the time, Grandmasters Tang Fulu and Zhen Yuanzhai were observing the celestial phenomena when they suddenly noticed the strange phenomenon of nine stars aligning in the sky. Then, the full moon turned golden, as if foreshadowing the imminent arrival of some mysterious power. Realizing this might be related to China, they agreed to search for clues. After much effort, they finally discovered strong fluctuations of spiritual energy in a forest. It was there that they encountered Yan Yue. They were greatly shocked to learn that Yan Yue had survived seven days without food or water.

Both masters believed this was a divine will, and thus discussed how to care for the poor child. Ultimately, Tang Fulu decided to adopt Yan Yue and take him back to Wudang Mountain to recuperate. Because Yan Yue was blind and his meridians were severed, he was already lucky to be alive and was unable to learn the martial arts of the Bajiquan school.

Therefore, Tang Fulu could only teach him the only Qi cultivation method. This method was extremely difficult to learn; although it was a lost internal cultivation technique that combined spiritual power and internal energy, it might be effective for Yan Yue, whose spiritual power was extraordinary. He hoped that Yan Yue could regain his health through cultivation, although this hope was extremely slim. As for the mystery of Yan Yue's background, the two agreed to investigate it when the time was right.

Yan Yue gazed up at the sky, longing to see what the skies of this world looked like, her mind wandering to the various factions within the King of Fighters world. Because the King of Fighters story was so fragmented, Yan Yue only vaguely remembered a few things, having forgotten almost everything else. Moreover, listening to the conversation between the two grandmasters, it seemed she wasn't an ordinary person; she wondered what kind of butterfly effect her transmigration would have on the plot…

I definitely want to participate in the King of Fighters tournament. But it's still several years away. First, I need to get my health restored.

Every day, Yan Yue sits cross-legged on a cliff in Wudang Mountain, memorizing the Qi cultivation method, which has enhanced his perception to another level. Whenever he tries to calm his mind, listen to the voice of all things, and achieve oneness with nature, his consciousness transforms into a calm ocean, on which the blueprint of the meridians of his body appears. And he often sits like this for a whole day.

In her mind's eye, Yan Yue saw a golden flame slowly rebuilding her damaged meridians. And so she continued her cultivation day after day.

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