Transmigrated, but Huo Yuhao

White Tiger Duke's Mansion

This enormous estate sprawled across more than three thousand mu. Every brick and tile gleamed with a hazy golden light beneath the sun, while sunlight passing through the glazed roof tiles cast ripples like water across the ground.

Any random tile or stone here was worth what an ordinary citizen of Douluo Continent might struggle half a lifetime to afford.

After all, this was the White Tiger Duke's domain. At the thought of the Star Luo Military God who guarded the Ming Dou Mountain Range, as well as their ancestor Dai Mubai, who had ascended ten thousand years ago, even the lowliest serfs would proudly puff out their chests!

Of course, not every corner of such a vast estate could bask in the sun's grace.

Inside a simple house near the mansion's back gate, a slightly frail black-haired boy of around ten sat on a stool, gazing wistfully out the window.

The servants hurrying back and forth were like sprawling tree roots, freely absorbing nourishment from the earth to sustain the great tree that was the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.

Watching them bustle about, Huo Yuhao's mind, which had been dazed by an overwhelming flood of information, gradually regained clarity.

"Douluo Continent? And during the era of Absolute Tang Sect? This is bad."

If online users from his previous life had debated which era of the Douluo Continent series was best suited for transmigration, they would probably have argued endlessly.

But if they were discussing the least suitable era for transmigration, then the Absolute Tang Sect era would undoubtedly have been the unanimous choice.

There was no other reason: every transmigrator of this era had Buddha Tang looming over their heads as an enormous threat.

That pure and immaculate man would watch over the entire continent whenever he had the chance, treating Douluo Continent as his personal Back Garden.

For those prodigies who wished to become gods on Douluo Continent, Buddha's Startling Wisdom was an unavoidable part of the experience.

As everyone knew, the most important thing about Startling Wisdom was not the wisdom, but how startling it was.

"I'm ten years old now, with rank nine Soul Power. That means there's roughly a year before the plot begins."

"The only thing I know is that the original Huo Yuhao left the White Tiger Duke's Mansion at eleven, just after reaching rank ten Soul Power."

"Then he encountered Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux, two massive cheats, in the Star Dou Great Forest."

Having somewhat recovered his composure, Huo Yuhao immediately began recalling the original story and roughly planning how to obtain those cheat-like opportunities.

That was right. The current Huo Yuhao was a transmigrator. Strictly speaking, he had not possessed someone else's body.

In his previous life, he had also been named Huo Yuhao, and he had even had a close brother named Wang Dong.

As for why he had transmigrated, it was because Earth in his previous life had not been peaceful either. Their sun had suffered a helium flash crisis and begun rapidly aging.

The entire world had launched The Wandering Earth Project, but while using Jupiter for a turning maneuver, they had been captured by Jupiter's gravity.

A large number of Planetary Engines had stopped working, and his mission had been to rescue Singapore No. 1 Turning Engine.

Unfortunately, when they were still a hundred kilometers from the Planetary Engine, his rescue team encountered a massive geological collapse caused by Jupiter's gravitational influence.

Huo Yuhao used all his strength to push Wang Dong and the other team members to safety, while he himself fell into a fissure.

Countless falling rocks crashed down around him, and bone-chilling winds slipped through tears in his protective suit, sucking away his dwindling Life like vampires.

Fortunately, before his vision completely darkened, he saw a blue pillar of light shooting into the sky. It was the glow of the Planetary Engine.

It had been a saturation rescue operation. Someone must have restarted Singapore No. 1 Turning Engine before they did.

Amid faint cries and the thunderous roar of heavy fusion tearing through the atmosphere, he forced his stiff facial muscles into an ugly smile before completely losing consciousness.

After death, his soul had been guided by some voice to this world, where it entered Huo Yun'er's body and was nurtured anew.

He did not know whether his soul had been damaged during transmigration or whether there had been some other cause, but he only recovered his memories yesterday, after Huo Yun'er died and his grief overwhelmed him.

After considering his current situation, Huo Yuhao shifted his gaze from the busy servants outside to the exquisite dark-green short blade on the table before him.

The White Tiger Dagger was a rank-five melee Soul Tool. It had been Dai Hao's token of love to Huo Yun'er and was also Huo Yuhao's most valuable possession.

Huo Yuhao drew the White Tiger Dagger. Strange Runes could faintly be seen on its slender blade, and he guessed they were Soul Tool Circuits.

He injected a trace of Soul Power into it. Soon, a hazy blue glow appeared out of nowhere around the White Tiger Dagger, forming a white blade aura along its edge.

The blade aura was faint and translucent, making one wonder whether a gust of wind might blow it away. Though it looked incredibly fragile, Huo Yuhao could clearly sense the danger contained within it.

As a spiritual-type soul master whose Martial Soul was the Spiritual Eye, and with the added advantage of being a transmigrator, his spiritual power had probably already reached the Spirit Connection Realm if measured by the spiritual power rankings of Legend of the Dragon King.

Spiritual power at the Spirit Connection Realm allowed him to sense danger around him. It was basically a budget version of spider-sense.

In his perception, the faint blade aura on the White Tiger Dagger radiated an utterly terrifying pressure, as though a fully powered electric saw stood upright directly before him.

As a rank-five melee Soul Tool, the White Tiger Dagger could undoubtedly pierce the defenses of an ordinary thousand-year Soul Beast with ease. As an early-game weapon, its stats were utterly broken.

Unfortunately, the original Huo Yuhao's cheats had been far too overpowered, leaving the White Tiger Dagger with practically no presence at all.

Looking at the blade that reflected half his face, Huo Yuhao realized that two paths lay before him.

The first path was to do nothing and simply cultivate like the original Huo Yuhao, putting in three times the effort until he reached rank ten Soul Power, then leaving the White Tiger Duke's Mansion for the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain the two most crucial opportunities.

The second path was to leave the White Tiger Duke's Mansion now. He could spend a year making his own way outside before heading to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain the two great opportunities of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux.

With the White Tiger Dagger, spiritual power at the Spirit Connection Realm, and the Combat Skills forged in the extreme environments of his previous life, Huo Yuhao was confident he could escape unscathed as long as his opponent was below rank thirty.

As long as he avoided places like the Sun Moon Empire, Shrek, and the famous major cities from the original story, and instead traveled through remote little places that had never appeared in the original work, his safety could still be guaranteed.

The half of his face reflected in the White Tiger Dagger wore a smile distorted by the blade aura. He looked like a clown, but also like a madman.

In his previous life, Huo Yuhao had lived in Hefei No. 1 Underground City.

He had been brought into the underground city at the age of three and had grown up in an Orphanage.

He had no impression whatsoever of his father, who had probably died during the Moon Crisis. His mother, Huo Yun'er, had died of Type II Radiation Sickness.

Blue skies, white clouds, warm sunlight, endless grasslands and Forests, and animals that had not been preserved in formaldehyde were things Huo Yuhao's generation could only see in virtual reality.

But data was ultimately just data. It could never simulate the warmth of the world or the pulse of nature.

When the helmet came off, there was still only a cramped room and dried earthworms in every flavor.

Continuation, endurance, and survival had been that world's main themes. Most forms of entertainment had been canceled, and people could only seek a little comfort by reading webnovels or watching films from before the Braking Era online.

Now that he had been granted another life and come to a world with a stable sun, he no longer needed to suppress his individual nature deep inside for the sake of the world's tomorrow.

The current Huo Yuhao wanted to live a different kind of life!

"So the answer is obvious. I'll use the original plot as a reference and walk my own path!"

The White Tiger Dagger's blade aura slowly faded. Huo Yuhao sheathed the dagger and decided to take the second path.