Douluo: Ruo Tuo Save Me

Douluo: Ruo Tuo Save Me! Author: Ruo Tuo Save Me

Synopsis:

Shocking: Why did a Hundred-Thousand-Year rabbit weep late at night? Why was a Sixty-Thousand-Year tiger king brutally beaten by a child? Why did a Thousand-Year spider have its limbs torn off? Why was a centenarian forced into marriage? Is this the collapse of morality, or...

Zhong Li, Your Mom Wants You Home for Dinner

Chapter One: Zhong Li, Your Mom Wants You Home for Dinner

Legend had it that when a person possessed a powerful wish and was watched by a god, Celestia would bestow a God's Eye upon them.

Those who obtained a God's Eye could not only gain immense power, but also the possibility of becoming a god.

"Before I transmigrated, I was clearly playing Genshin Impact. Why did I end up on Douluo Continent?!"

The child frowned tightly and muttered to himself.

The child's name was Zhong Li. He had once been a third-year university student on Blue Star.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival break, he should have gone out to work part-time, but after his roommates persuaded him, he gave up on it.

After all, he had been making a killing in the stock market lately! He was not short on money.

Working part-time had only been his way of reminding himself not to forget where he came from.

He lay alone in the dormitory, playing a game called Genshin Impact.

After his roommates introduced it to him and told him there was a character in the game with the exact same name as him—and that character was incredibly powerful—he started playing...

As a complete newbie who had never played games before, after entering the game, he experienced the joys of being an Adventure Rank 8 newbie!

What could possibly be more fun in Genshin Impact than carrying newbies?

Zhong Li accepted everyone who came his way. Hearing people call out, "Big shot, carry me!" made him feel quite good.

In three days, with ten Adventure Rank 8 big shots taking turns helping him, he gathered forty pink wishes, commonly known as Intertwined Fates. That was even counting the newbie benefits they had given him...

Those ten Adventure Rank 8 big shots had nearly been driven away by Zhong Li. They had suffered beyond words.

A person who had never played games before understood nothing. Tell him to unlock a teleport waypoint, and he would spend ages looking for it. Couldn't he just look at the map? It was such a huge pillar...

Even when they controlled their characters step by step to lead him there, he could still get lost... Then he would run off to open a chest with no Primogems...

Yet they could not lose their tempers. Those repeated cries of "big shot" were just too satisfying. No one had ever sweet-talked them so much before.

Amid those repeated cries of "big shot," they lost themselves. They suffered miserably, painfully yet happily.

Thinking of the past three days, Zhong Li shook his head helplessly.

He knew his own circumstances best.

He had grown up in an orphanage. Only he knew the bitterness and hardships he had endured.

Forget playing games—after the old Dean passed away, he had left that orphanage as well. He worked while attending school.

After finally getting into university, he spent two months hauling bricks. Only after paying his tuition did he have enough money to buy a secondhand phone.

Perhaps it was Heaven's compensation, but after he entered university, his life completely changed.

He picked up a lottery ticket and actually won first prize.

The key was that after he reported it to the police, no one came forward to claim it, so it became his.

He entered the stock market. Whatever he bought rose, and whatever he sold fell...

Even while walking down the street, money could fall from the sky...

His heart pounded, his hands trembled.

When he tapped the ten-pull button, Zhong Li's heartbeat sped up. This was the result of three whole days of grinding. How could spending money possibly be as fun as getting things for free?

Golden light flashed, and Zhong Li froze.

What was this golden light?

Why was it so dazzling?!

Was this game really so friendly toward newbies?

Or could his luck affect the game itself?

When he had watched videos before, he seemed to recall some streamer saying that if golden light appeared, do not skip it. A ten-pull Diluc!

With trembling fingers, he tapped Skip. The next moment, something he had never dared imagine appeared.

"Ten? Rock King Emperor? Zhong Li?"

The next moment, Zhong Li was utterly dumbfounded!

His heart stopped on the spot, and his mind went blank. In the final second before his consciousness faded, he seemed to hear a voice sighing beside his ear:

"This king has never seen anyone whale with his life! Black and White Impermanence, go bring him down!"

When Zhong Li regained consciousness, he had already become a half-formed fetus. Three months old! Only then did he realize that he had transmigrated!

When he was two years old, he saw the seven rings around his father in this life—two yellow, two purple, and three black. Only then did he realize that he had actually transmigrated to Douluo Continent!

Zhong Li had read Douluo Continent in his previous life, back during his second year of university.

When his roommate watched the Douluo anime, he became curious and watched it as well. Because the updates were slow, he went on to read the original novel.

He had also finished the second and third parts afterward.

At the time, he had even sighed. Why was Tang San in the second and third parts so different from Tang San in the first?

The boy who slayed the dragon would eventually become a dragon himself.

In this life, Zhong Li's father was named Zhong Tian. He was a level 78 Assault Type Battle Soul Sage whose Martial Soul was a long spear. He was currently thirty-eight years old.

His mother was no ordinary person either. She was also a level 75 Battle Soul Sage, and her Martial Soul was a greatsword. She was currently thirty-seven years old, surnamed Gongsun and named Li.

As for Zhong Li, according to Zhong Tian: "I couldn't be bothered to think of a name. I gave him my surname and added your mother's name, so he's simply called Zhong Li..."

Zhong Tian's little maneuver had allowed him to use the name Zhong Li once again.

"Zhong Li, your mom wants you home for dinner!"

"..."

Just as Zhong Li was lamenting life's unpredictability, feeling like his intestines had wrapped around his intestines, a little kid shouted at him from nearby.

"Got it, Huzi!" Zhong Li said weakly, patting his forehead with his right hand.

Huzi was a child from Grassroots Village. His name was Zhang Hu, and he was the same age as Zhong Li.

Upon hearing Zhong Li's reply, Huzi ran off without even turning back.

He had heard from his father that Zhong Li's father was incredibly fierce and could beat a tiger to death with his bare hands.

He absolutely could not offend Zhong Tian's family. More importantly, his father Zhang San's Martial Soul was a tiger!

Seeing Huzi run away, Zhong Li smiled. Having a family truly felt wonderful.

He had no parents in his previous life. Only the old Dean had treated him like his own child. Before Zhong Li became capable, the old Dean had passed away.

What was the point of earning so much money, other than repaying the orphanage?

Zhong Li had occasionally heard rumors in the village that his father might be a Spirit Master hiding from enemies or something of the sort.

Everyone in the village held his family in deep awe. After all, they were Spirit Masters who could beat tigers to death with their bare hands.

As for why his parents were so young, yet both possessed the strength of Soul Sages while living in such a tiny village...

Zhong Li had once asked Zhong Tian about it.

Zhong Tian said, "Your grandfather and maternal grandfather did not support your mother and me being together. So we made the rice into cooked rice. Even then, your mother was worried it might not be enough, so she took me and eloped..."

Fine, it was that melodramatic. It had even been Gongsun Li who took Zhong Tian and ran away...

When he returned home, his mother had already set out the bowls and chopsticks. Sitting on a stool and watching the busy figure in the kitchen, a happy smile never left her lips.

Ever since Zhong Li could remember in this life, every meal he had eaten had been cooked by his father.

After meals, his mother would have his father take him away to rest while she silently washed the dishes. He was not even allowed to help!

Sometimes, he truly felt that the two of them were the real lovers, while he was merely an accident.

"Dad, Mom, I'm back!"

"Mhm. Son, hurry and tell Mom where you ran off to play today."

"If Zhang Hu could find me so accurately, I would almost believe you really did not know where I was."

Author's note: This was just to explain Zhong Li's background in both his past and present lives. It's my first time writing a novel, so please forgive any shortcomings.

The System Arrived, Gave Its Rewards, and Left Again

Chapter Two: The System Arrived, Gave Its Rewards, and Left Again

Grassroots Village was located east of Nuoding City in Fasnuo Province of the Heaven Dou Empire on Douluo Continent, and it belonged to the Heaven Dou Empire.

It was a small village with only a little over two hundred households.

It was more than a hundred li away from Holy Spirit Village, but it was not far from Nuoding City, only a little over twenty li away.

The night was quiet. Stars dotted the sky, their scattered light shining upon the Blue Silver Grass that could be seen everywhere.

Zhong Li's home stood at the western edge of Grassroots Village.

The house was not particularly lavish on the outside, and there were not many furnishings within.

There was a table and three stools in the main hall. Other than that, there were two rooms—one for his parents and one for Zhong Li. The kitchen was diagonally opposite the front door.

Outside the door, beside the kitchen, stood two trees. One was a peach tree, and the other was also a peach tree.

His father loved Peach Blossom Brew, so his mother had planted two peach trees. When the peach blossoms bloomed...

"Ding. The Strongest Novice Gift Pack System is now online. Would you like to bind with the system?"

A mechanical voice suddenly rang out in the sleeping Zhong Li's mind.

Fortunately, the first thing he did after waking in shock was not scream, but open his eyes.

Otherwise, with his parents' Soul Sage-level cultivation, they would definitely have noticed something was wrong.

"A system? What kind of system are you?" Zhong Li had read some system novels before and had fantasized about having a system that would let him blow up the heavens, the earth, and the air.

In the novels Zhong Li had read, some systems would erase their hosts at the drop of a hat. He needed to ask clearly first.

Besides, Zhong Li did not particularly need a system right now.

His parents were healthy and powerful. Generally speaking, there was a ninety percent chance that he would inherit his parents' Martial Souls, and his Innate Soul Power would not be below level 8.

Zhong Tian, Martial Soul: Dragon Gallbladder Spear. Innate level 9 Soul Power.

Gongsun Li, Martial Soul: Storm Greatsword. Innate level 9 Soul Power.

The two of them were geniuses rarely seen in their families in a hundred years.

As their son, there was no reason for him to be useless.

Of course, one particular Luoshanpao did not count.

Even if his Martial Soul mutated into something like Luoshanpao, it would not matter.

Wasn't there still the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well? His parents might not be able to defeat Dugu Bo, but his grandfather and maternal grandfather...

Zhong Li had learned about his parents' Martial Souls and cultivation after Zhong Tian got drunk and he asked about them. Zhong Tian had also revealed the cultivation of his grandfather and maternal grandfather. That was right, they were Title Douluos!

If not for that, Gongsun Li would not have dragged Zhong Tian away and eloped back then.

As for why he was so certain that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was still there, it was naturally because Brother Tao had visited Grassroots Village last year and the year before!

At that time, Brother Tao was level 25. He was one level lower than he would be when awakening Tang San's Martial Soul.

Zhong Li did not take the possibility of stealing Tang San's opportunity to heart.

The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and the Immortal Herbs were right there. Whoever obtained them first owned them.

They had once been the Ice Fire Dragon King's gift to nature. Later, Dugu Bo occupied the place, but he did not recognize them and missed the opportunity. He had missed it.

Later, Tang San came. He swept everything clean, claiming that he had left behind seeds and that they would grow again. Indeed, they did grow again.