Otherworld Gate Martial Soul, Starting Out in Battle Through the Heavens

"Eat!"

A heap of cabbage was placed in Qin Luo's bowl—not because Qin Luo liked cabbage, but because he disliked it.

Qin Luo looked at the bowl of cabbage, then at his father, Qin Hao. He shoved the bowl away and stared at that so-called father as though he were an enemy.

"You little bastard! What kind of look is that?!"

Qin Hao raised his hand to hit Qin Luo, but Qin Luo's mother, Su Muyue, grabbed his wrist.

"Qin Hao! What are you trying to do?!"

"Make him eat!"

"If the child doesn't want cabbage, then he doesn't have to eat it! He's not eating anything from your Qin Family! You are not allowed to bully my son!"

"What do you know? Only by being bullied enough at home from a young age will he not fear being bullied by others in the future!"

Qin Luo sneered. "If being bullied enough at home from a young age means you won't fear being bullied by others in the future, then why don't you bully him?"

Qin Luo looked toward a child. The instant Qin Hao saw that child, his previously icy face immediately broke into a smile.

"Dad, I want Soul Beast Meat."

"Of course, of course. It's just a Soul Beast. Dad will buy it for you." Qin Hao's face was full of smiles, with none of the harshness he had shown Qin Luo.

Watching those completely different standards, Qin Luo picked up the bowl full of cabbage and hurled it at Qin Hao's head. As a transmigrator from modern Blue Star, he did not possess Tang San's foolish filial piety. His principle was simple: treat him as he treated you.

But just as the bowl was about to hit Qin Hao in the head, Qin Luo woke up.

"Fuck! It would've been better if I'd woken up later."

Qin Luo was thoroughly annoyed that he had not seen the bowl smash into Qin Hao's head in his dream.

"What kind of nightmare were you having? You nearly hit me just now." A little girl who looked around ten years old spoke.

"Sorry, Xiao Yi Xian. How is my mother?"

Qin... ah, no. Su Luo, who had already changed his name, anxiously asked about his mother's condition.

"Her life has been saved. She just needs some time to recuperate, and there shouldn't be much of a problem." Xiao Yi Xian wiped her hands and answered.

"Thank you."

Su Luo sighed in relief, then thought of that so-called father of his. His fingernails nearly dug into his flesh. "You actually came for my mother's life. You really are ruthless!"

After ending his life on Blue Star in his previous life, Su Luo had transmigrated by soul into Douluo Continent. At first, his life had been fairly good. Although his father, Qin Hao, was merely an insignificant illegitimate son of a Viscount Manor, his mother, Su Muyue, had been the most favored daughter of a Count Manor in the Star Luo Empire.

When Su Muyue married into the Qin Family, the Su Family had produced nearly half its assets as her dowry. Thus, even though Su Luo had not awakened the Qin Family's Martial Soul and received no resources from the Qin Family, he had still lived quite well.

After all, whatever the Qin Family refused to provide, his mother's side could provide—and in greater quantity and better quality.

Although his father forced him every day to do things he disliked and eat food he disliked, his mother had blocked every one of those attempts.

Therefore, although Su Luo's father wanted to bully Su Luo and make him properly experience the dangers of the world, Su Luo's life had remained fairly good under his mother Su Muyue's protection.

That lasted until Su Luo's father successfully became the viscount of the Viscount Manor.

After Qin Hao secured his position as a viscount of the Dou Ling Empire, he soon brought home Su Luo's younger brother, whom he had fathered with some unknown woman. That younger brother even possessed Innate Full Soul Power.

At that point, although Su Luo's mother, Su Muyue, had been furious enough to want to fight Qin Hao to the death, and Su Luo saw the different treatment between himself and his younger brother, everything was still more or less normal.

That was until Su Luo's grandfather, the Su Family's only Soul Douluo, died.

While Su Muyue was grieving, Qin Hao proposed using Su Muyue's dowry to raise Qin Hao's other son, Qin Teng.

Qin Hao's reasons were plentiful. First, his son Qin Teng had the potential to become a Title Douluo.

Second, Su Luo, who had still been called Qin Luo at the time, possessed only level-six Innate Soul Power. His future achievements were practically locked at Soul Sage. Compared to Qin Teng, he was no longer worth the Qin Family's investment.

Third, the Su Family was beginning to decline and needed a Title Douluo to support them.

Those were the three reasons Qin Hao gave Su Muyue. But when Su Muyue, as the young lady of a Count Manor, married Qin Hao and used her dowry to help him rise to the position of viscount in the Dou Ling Empire, she had merely been blinded by love. That did not mean she was an idiot.

Using her own resources to raise someone else's child—especially the child of a romantic rival—was something only someone whose brain had been kicked to pieces by a donkey would do, or something forced into a happy ending in a domestic drama. Naturally, Su Muyue could not agree.

Qin Hao did not get angry at Su Muyue's refusal. At least, she had not seen him get angry at the time.

As for afterward, afterward was when Su Luo was obtaining his first Soul Ring. Qin Hao mobilized members of the Qin Family and prepared to eliminate both Su Muyue and Su Luo.

The Su Family's only Soul Douluo was dead, and those remaining were merely Soul Sages. Meanwhile, Qin Hao's son Qin Teng possessed Innate Full Soul Power and the potential to become a Title Douluo. Many factions were willing to befriend him and offer them some convenience.

Under such circumstances, although Su Muyue herself had the cultivation of a Five-Ring Soul King and several servants brought from the Su Family, and although they had gone to a Soul Beast Forest where Soul Beasts were artificially raised, Qin Hao still decided to move against Su Muyue and her son.

A Soul Sage family wanting to cross national borders and cause trouble did not frighten Qin Hao at all. With a son possessing Innate Full Soul Power, the normal upper limit for Qin Teng was at least Soul Douluo, perhaps even Title Douluo. It was destined that Qin Hao would have people backing him up enough to call a deer a horse.

During that sudden attack, the servants Su Muyue had brought from the Su Family quickly died in battle. Su Muyue, the only one remaining, was soon severely injured as well. Fortunately, it seemed that Su Muyue and Su Luo were not fated to die.

Thanks to the special nature of the Su Family's Otherworld Gate Martial Soul, as well as the eruption of potential at the brink of life and death, Su Luo, who possessed only one Soul Ring, forcibly accomplished what Qian Lei had only managed with two Soul Rings in Douluo Continent Season 4: opening the Otherworld Gate.

Moreover, compared to Qian Lei, Su Luo's Martial Soul was a gate rather than money, so his control over gates was far more precise than Qian Lei's.

On top of that, Su Luo's Martial Soul had possessed a target from the beginning. It directly brought Su Luo and Su Muyue to this Dou Qi Continent, giving them a sliver of hope for survival.

"Because several precious medicinal herbs were used, the consultation fee comes to a total of 1,327 gold coins." While Su Luo was burning with rage, Xiao Yi Xian's voice pulled him back to reality.

As Xiao Yi Xian's words entered his ears, embarrassment flashed across Su Luo's face.

He had money. There were still quite a few Gold Soul Coins in his Storage Soul Tool. The problem was, were Gold Soul Coins and gold coins the same thing?

Battle Through the Heavens and Douluo Continent had been written by authors from the same country, so their languages were mutually understandable. Even some idioms were the same. But what about their currencies?

Were Gold Soul Coins the same as gold coins? If he took out Gold Soul Coins and they were not the same thing as gold coins, would Su Luo be treated as a spy from another country?

Su Luo was not sure.

Seeing Su Luo's suddenly embarrassed expression, Xiao Yi Xian helplessly sighed. "I can give you a month at most. If I keep losing money, I won't be able to continue."

"Thank you." Su Luo clasped his fists toward Xiao Yi Xian, then walked out of Myriad Medicine Hall.

Looking at the bustling crowd, Su Luo sighed helplessly.

Before transmigrating, he had to slave away to make money. After transmigrating, he still had to slave away to make money. This fucking...