The next day, Yuhao woke up at five-thirty as usual.
He stepped out of his room and greeted his mother. She was already awake, preparing for her maid duties.
Yuhao began getting ready himself, and at six o'clock sharp, he left the house.
He had followed this routine since the age of four, so much so that by now, it had become a second nature to him.
Every morning, he would go for a run. After half an hour, he would reach a secluded spot. There, he would train his body for an hour before returning home in the same way.
When he first began, he had doubted whether his body could even endure.
In his mind, just half an hour of running was too much.
But reality proved him wrong.
In less than a month, he could already run for an hour without stopping.
This world was not his previous one.
Soul power made all the difference, improving the body's capabilities.
Otherwise, for a four-year-old kid, this kind of stamina and endurance was simply off the charts.
Once running became easy enough, he slowly included other exercises. By the end of the second month, his two-hour routine was born.
In his past life, this kind of training at four was impossible.
If a child did something similar, neighbors would have called the police for child abuse.
But here, soul power made it possible.
On Douluo, not only are children able to train from an early age, but their bodies also mature faster.
Yuhao at six already looked like a nine in his previous life.
The children of aristocrats, people from different soul clans, and from various sects also start training and creating a foundation from age four.
So when he turned four, He also had to start doing the same.
The only difference being he didn't have the luxury of meditation rooms or elemental training instruments.
So running it was.
Basic and Efficient
One has to bow to the circumstances. He was poor and a bastard on top.
He also didn't wish to tell other people that he was doing such a thing. So he did it in a secluded place he found not long after he had started.
After two years of training, he clearly felt the results; he has a well-built physique and a slim and sturdy body.
After returning home, Yuhao would take a bath, and she and Yun'er would depart together from home.
Yun'er would go to the mansion for her work, and Yuhao would go to the blacksmith workshop.
This was another benefit of going on the run. In his first two months, he had explored all the areas around the mansion.
In this way, he found out about the blacksmith workshop. Upon seeing it, he got a brilliant idea.
He didn't have much to do during the day; instead of wasting his time at home, why not start coming here?
Not only will it create a foundation for Soul Engineering. He will also be able to observe forging.
There was only upside and no downside.
So he asked Old Zhou about it.
In the beginning, Old Zhou refused, but later, under Yuhao's persistence, agreed.
He went to talk to the workshop's boss and made him agree to keep Yuhao as an apprentice.
Of course, there was no pay.
It was no loss to boss Min, the owner of the workshop, and he could even receive a favor from Old Zhou.
'There aren't any laws against child labour here.'
So Boss Min agreed.
Yuhao now had to go to the workshop at nine and come back home at six in the evening.
Boss Min didn't give him much work, just told him to observe. He had thought that the child was just curious, and in due time, he would get bored and then leave.
But when Yuhao didn't leave, even after two weeks. He decided to interact with him and started assigning him some minor work.
Thinking this will finally make the kid go away.
Yuhao listened to his instructions obediently and did not give him a chance to complain.
Boss Min really wanted to test if Yuhao would really hold on.
But once Yuhao did, Boss Min had to keep him at work.
Now, Old Min was worried that Yuhao might get injured, but Yuhao once again promised that he would not play around, and he kept his word.
In this way, Yuhao spent his first six months of apprenticeship.
Seeing his perseverance, Boss Min decided to keep Yuhao even after the apprenticeship.
This time, Yuhao even got a salary.
Full fifty silver coins per month.
Although it was only half of what other regular blacksmiths earned, Something was better than nothing.
Yuhao wasn't expecting anything anyway, as it didn't matter to him.
He was here to learn, and he will do that to the best of his abilities.
That became his routine, Exercise in the morning, workshop during the day, and meditation at night.
In a similar way, two years passed.
In this time, he learnt a lot of knowledge related to forging.
How much if someone might ask.
He could now open his own workshop and put Boss Min out of business.
He even got some practice, though nothing noteworthy, as he wasn't allowed to do dangerous work.
But playing with metals when they cooled down was an option. And he took full advantage of it.
Blacksmithing was, in a sense, the first step for the soul engineer, and he understood this process in-depth in these two years.
He could now identify more than 1000 types of different metals, minerals, and other alloys that were used in the creation of soul tools. He knew their properties and use cases.
In a way, this is the knowledge even original Huo Yuhao never learned, as he always started with ready-prepared metals.
But how could he, as a reincarnated person, not be interested?
Everything in its basic form was just an element and its mixture.
When we add soul power and different types of other energies. There is an unlimited number of variations they can create. So he started to understand the characteristics of these metals, which will become the foundation when he goes to learn soul engineering in the future.
He also gained a lot of practical knowledge of working while working with these minerals.
He also learned the economic side of things, their prices, their use cases, and even their markets.
The idea of where to go after leaving the duke's mansion also came from here.
It happened when Boss Min told Yuhao about one of his apprentices, who had hit it big and became a soul engineer teacher at an academy. And how it was so far away that he had not even come to see his old boss again.
Yuhao urged the boss to continue and found out about the place. This was the place where he could go.
Now he had to tell Old Zhou so he could help them reach there.
After finishing his routine, he did not directly return home today, but went to find Old Zhou first.
Fortunately, Old Zhou was still there.
Upon seeing Yuaho, Old Zhou also got curious.
"What happened?" he asked.
"Grandpa, I met Boss Min today, and he said that I should go to a soul master academy to learn Soul Engineering."
Yuhao directly told his purpose. Although it hadn't happened.
Old Zhou fell into thought. Then looked at the boy.
'Could this be an angle?'
He had been trying to convince Yun'er for years.
'I might succeed if I asked for the sake of Yuhao's education.'
Yuhao didn't need any elaborate plans.
Just a hint, and it was enough.
Old Zhou already wanted them to leave.
"Can you ask Mom to so she will let me attend one?"
"I'll talk to her," Old Zhou replied.
But Yuhao saw a hint of conviction.
"Don't tell anyone that you are attending an academy."
"The fewer people that know, the better."
Yuhao nodded. He understood the need for secrecy.
He would not allow any accident to happen.
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