Chapter 1: A Mysterious Transmigration, A Different Douluo Continent.
"I think this is a joke on me?"
The half-open door was gently pushed open, and a small head peeked out, looking left and right as if searching for something.
Seemingly realizing no one was around, the figure quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
"You want me to abandon all those forests and hang myself on a crooked tree? I'm telling you, no way!" He clicked his tongue in frustration and suddenly darted away.
A gust of wind swept by, and the figure, like a legendary martial arts master, leaped across rooftops and disappeared from the scene in a flash.
With the disappearance of the figure, the place fell silent once more.
Unbeknownst to anyone, a shapely figure stood motionless in the dark corner.
"Yahoo~ I escaped, didn't I? Contra, my foot! You couldn't even keep an eye on me, a Great Soul Master. With that kind of skill, you think I'll spend my life with you?"
The bright moonlight spilled onto the dark earth, and a figure seemed tireless, running wildly in the moonlight.
By the moonlight, one could see it was a boy who looked about eleven or twelve years old.
His long, jet-black hair flowed behind him in the breeze, and his face, enough to captivate countless underage girls, glowed slightly white in the moonlight.
He wore a silver-white robe, with sword-like eyebrows and bright, piercing eyes.
Unfortunately, his two rather comically short legs transformed his entire appearance from a handsome young man into an adorable little boy.
His name was Ji Wuchang, a high school student whom he considered "ordinary."
With his handsome appearance, excellent grades, and unusually strong physique, he seemed like the perfect male god who only existed in novels and anime.
His exceptional abilities made him a star at school, attracting countless admirers and leading a tedious and monotonous life.
Yet, this seemingly perfect young man was actually just an orphan, without parental love or care.
He didn't know how he had survived his childhood, only that every month a sum of money, just enough for his living expenses, would appear on the bedside table in his room.
As for where he got the room?
Who knows!
Perhaps it was left to him by his irresponsible parents. In any case, that house had existed as long as he could remember.
This day, after a date with a high school girl, he was walking home alone.
Suddenly, a flash of light!
The light of righteousness…
The light shone on the earth—no, on him—and then he fell into a deep sleep.
When he awoke again, he found himself reborn as a one-month-old baby!
This inexplicable turn of events left Ji Wuchang momentarily bewildered.
Then, he saw his aunt and uncle staring intently at him. To be precise, they were his parents.
Frankly, as a mature, soon-to-be adult, he was quite uncomfortable. What his parents didn't expect was that their beloved child would be engaged in a six-and-a-half-year-long cold war with them!
Although he didn't cry or make a fuss, he did many things that left them utterly perplexed.
First, he refused to nurse.
In Ji Wuchang's eyes, although he had become a little kid on the outside, he was still a nearly adult on the inside. Asking him to nurse like a child was absolutely impossible for him!
After all, he was an adult at heart, and going to do *that*... frankly, he wanted to slap himself.
Damn it!
Despite this, his mother could only try her best to keep Ji Wuchang fed.
Fortunately, although he wouldn't drink breast milk, Ji Wuchang readily accepted cow's milk and goat's milk.
After all, he was hungry!
Secondly, aside from the initial period when he couldn't move on his own, from the time he could walk, he never let his parents take care of his daily needs!
Of course, this only referred to eating, drinking, and toileting. After all, his body was still so small, he couldn't do anything else.
In the previous world, although he didn't have parents, he generally lived a relaxed and happy life, and had many friends he could talk to. He also had a very strong sense of belonging to his homeland, and before transmigrating, he had even planned to join the army… The sudden transmigration was something he couldn't accept.
He still held onto a sliver of hope. Maybe this was just a dream, maybe he would return to Earth soon.
But reality told him that he couldn't go back…
So he spent his days in a daze. Besides hiding in his study reading, he would lie in bed staring blankly. This eccentric behavior worried his parents greatly. But for some reason, this child had always been very opinionated, even actively separating himself from them when they were being intimate. But… for a small child, this was too abnormal!
Six years passed.
Six years isn't short, but it's not long either.
His strange behavior naturally attracted strange looks from everyone.
He successfully earned the title of "freak."
And he, who was originally a tiny little thing, successfully became… a giant.
This world is very different from Earth. Whether it was a genetic issue or something else, his other peers seemed to be growing rapidly, as if they had taken hormones. Five- or six-year-old children reaching 1.3 or 1.4 meters was not a problem, at least 1.1 or 1.2 meters was no problem.
But at six years old, he had only gained a little weight and grown a little taller, going from a tiny little thing less than half a meter tall to a giant less than a meter tall. It's easy to imagine how difficult this was for him, who was originally at a perfect height.
However, no matter how difficult it was to accept, with the passage of time, he gradually got used to it.
Well, it wasn't really a big deal...
probably?
Anyway, from then on, he gradually began to accept the things around him and gradually integrated into this world. It wasn't that he forgot the past, but simply sealed the memories deep in his mind.
And it was at this time that he realized what kind of world he had come to!
Heavens behold, there wasn't a single book in the study that introduced this world!
He spent two years learning the language of this world, but those books were all about martial arts and poetry, and he was almost sick of looking at them.
And all of this, until he was six years old, a strange ceremony was held.
That ceremony was called, Martial Soul Awakening!
Yes! Only then did he clearly understand this world.
Martial Soul, Soul Power. The four empires of Heavenly Soul, Fighting Spirit, Star Luo, and Sun Moon, and Shrek Academy!
Isn't this the Douluo Continent from Tang Jia San Shao's novels? He was actually reborn here?
He had read Douluo Continent, and even read it several times because he was in a reading slump at the time. Before he transmigrated, Tang Jia San Shao had already published the fourth installment of Douluo Continent.
However, he only read the first three books. Oh no, the first two and a half.
In his opinion, the pinnacle of Douluo Continent was the second book, Peerless Tang Sect, and the first book was a classic, needing no further explanation. But from the third book onwards, it started to change. Even when he was in a reading slump, he never bothered to read the third or even the fourth book.
And this second book was the one that left the deepest impression on him! The protagonist Huo Yuhao's stubbornness, his step-by-step progress and growth, the friendship of his companions, the fate of Shrek Academy, and the rise of the Tang Sect.
Undoubtedly, it was the book that stirred his heart the most!
And he, naturally, had once fantasized, in a somewhat childish way, about one day traveling to the Douluo Continent to experience things with Huo Yuhao and the others, becoming close friends with them, and experiencing a new lifestyle that he could never experience in China!
But he never expected that he would actually arrive in the world of Douluo Continent!
Moreover, the current timeline is very similar to the timeline of the second Douluo Continent, one could even say that it is the development of this timeline!
His basis for this conjecture was that the next Continental Elite Tournament of Advanced Soul Master Academies was to be held in the Star Luo Empire in seven years!
One can imagine how excited he was after learning about this world and about to awaken his Martial Soul. He was already planning to make a big splash!
His only worry was that his awakened Martial Soul wouldn't come with Soul Power, because then all his ideas would be useless!
His parents didn't know what their Martial Souls were either; at least they had never told him or shown it to him.
Fortunately, his only worry completely disappeared on the day he awakened his Martial Soul.
His Martial Soul was a sword! Although he didn't yet know what special abilities his seemingly ordinary sword possessed, the tenth-level full Soul Power, symbolizing genius, was undeniable! Not to mention he also had… well, back to the point, after awakening, he naturally went to acquire his first Soul Ring! And it was then that Ji Wuchang learned that his parents were actually Soul Saints with Martial Soul True Forms!
Keep in mind they were only around 30 years old, which was already quite remarkable in Ji Wuchang's eyes! After all, not everyone is a monster from Shrek Academy, right?
His mother's martial soul is called the Hundred Weapons Manual, which, as the name suggests, is a martial soul that can contain hundreds of weapons. She can use hundreds of weapons to fight. Ji Wuchang never expected that his seemingly gentle mother's martial soul would be so violent!
As for his father, he's even more extraordinary.
A martial soul is something that can be seen but not touched.
Martial arts!
(End of this chapter)