Douluo: My Martial Soul is My Fiancée

Douluo Continent: My Martial Soul is My Fiancée by Ya Yue'er

Synopsis:

Zheng Li, who was just three days away from getting married, was taken by a system and transported to the world of Douluo Continent. He thought he would never see his fiancée again... but when his Martial Soul awakened, he was stunned...

Chapter 1, First Breeze

It was a spring night.

Gusts of breeze brushed against the willow tree that had just sprouted new buds in a farmhouse. The willow tree faced an open window, or rather, the window faced the willow tree.

The breeze blew in through the window.

"Smack!" The young man sleeping on the single bed inside, using his quilt as a body pillow, reached out and slapped his own butt hard, as if something were biting him.

It didn't seem to hurt much, as the young man only opened his eyes hazily before closing them again.

He was exhausted after a busy day.

However, at this very moment, a mechanical voice suddenly rang out in the young man's mind:

"Ding! System binding in progress, 10, 9, 8... 0, binding successful."

Zheng Li, his consciousness blurred, frowned slightly without opening his eyes. After just a few seconds, his brow smoothed out, and he mumbled in his sleep, "Am I dreaming? A system... how could such a thing possibly exist..."

After the mumble, Zheng Li seemed to think of something, his lips curling into a smile.

The system seemed to be choked up, remaining silent for a long while.

After another moment, the system asked abruptly, "Host, do you want to transmigrate?"

Zheng Li, still sleeping, turned over and ignored the system.

Seeing this, the system fell into a brief silence.

"Host, do you want to transmigrate?" The system's voice was much louder, still a mechanical inquiry, seemingly devoid of any emotion.

Zheng Li finally reacted, groggily asking, "Transmigrate?"

System: "..."

"Ding! Host permission granted, opening transmigration channel! Activating protection mechanism!"

As the voice faded, a black vortex quietly appeared above Zheng Li, immediately generating a significant suction force to pull him in.

At the same time, a faint white light appeared on the surface of Zheng Li's skin, enveloping him.

Outside the window, the willow branches danced and the breeze continued to blow, but Zheng Li's figure was gone from the bed inside.

Day and night shifted, and the sun shone brightly in the sky.

On the edge of a cliff, a warm breeze blew against Zheng Li, causing his oversized boxers—the only clothing he had left—to flutter... and in Zheng Li's dull gaze lay a seemingly boundless, dense forest at the bottom of the cliff...

Well, the scenery was beautiful and full of life, but...

"What the hell! What is this? Where is this place?" Zheng Li, having snapped back to reality, expressed his utter confusion. He even ignored the height between the cliff and the forest floor, despite his severe fear of heights.

"Could it be... am I dreaming?" Thinking of this possibility, Zheng Li reached out and pinched his own cheek...

Well, let's confirm, after all, the scenery before him was too realistic.

"Hiss~" The pain hit him, and then Zheng Li lowered his hand with a blank expression, his body stiffening slightly as his brain entered a state of system crash.

At this moment, a terrifying beast roar came from the forest below the cliff, pulling Zheng Li's consciousness back. He instinctively cast his gaze toward the source of the roar...

Zheng Li: "..."

"I must be dreaming..."

Reflected in his eyes was a giant beast! The giant beast was moving in the direction he was facing.

Although only a small part of the giant beast's body was visible above the treetops, it was clear that it had four legs and sharp spikes on its back, extending from its neck to the end of its thick, long tail. The exposed skin was entirely black, covered in patterns that looked like magma crawling over it, especially on each spike, where magma-like patterns spiraled from the rock-like skin onto every spike.

It was undoubtedly massive, and even though Zheng Li couldn't see the giant beast's face, just looking at the spikes on its back brought the word 'hideous' to his mind!

If one had to describe it, aside from the spikes and the tail, the beast looked somewhat like an ape.

Seeing this giant beast filled his heart with fear, not just for the beast, but for the place he was in.

After coming to his senses, Zheng Li suppressed his fear, his lips twitching slightly.

He thought to himself: This is definitely not a creature that exists in reality! I must be dreaming!

"Host, you are not dreaming. Everything you see is real."

The sudden voice startled Zheng Li: "Who?!"

Before Zheng Li could look around, the system followed up.

"Host, do not panic. I am the system."

Zheng Li was slightly stunned: "System? Host?"

He looked around; there was no one there. Combined with the unfamiliar environment and the pain he had just felt, his decent ability to accept new things naturally led him to...

"Believe in a ghost!" Although he said that, he already believed it nine-tenths in his heart... the forest could be explained, but the hideous giant beast just now could not.

"So, the dream I had about being bound by a system was real?" Zheng Li's lips twitched again and again.

If he was in this place, it must be the system's doing. Better ask.

Taking a breath and preparing to speak, Zheng Li noticed the situation beneath his feet.

"Holy crap!"

His heart rate spiked, and a sense of panic and loss of control washed over him. His body instinctively recoiled, but his legs refused to cooperate; they went limp, causing him to collapse onto the ground.

Zheng Li didn't even care about the cliff anymore; he used his hands and his weak legs to scramble backward.

After retreating a safe distance, Zheng Li caught his breath and snapped, "System, what the hell are you doing! Dropping me in this unknown place is one thing, but isn't this cliff a bit too much?"

"...Host, this system will not take the blame. According to system settings, the landing point for transmigrating is randomized. In this situation, you can only blame your own bad luck." The mechanical voice spoke without a hint of emotion.

Zheng Li: "..."

Although the system's voice lacked emotion, he could have sworn it was looking down on his luck...

But that wasn't the point.

Transmigration? The word made Zheng Li pause.

Come to think of it, he hadn't immediately thought of this concept because of his fear of heights, but now that he had calmed down slightly, he should have realized it...

After pondering the general reasons for his appearance here, Zheng Li couldn't help but look up at the sky with a resentful gaze, muttering to himself, "Transmigration, huh. Well, that's fine. But! My wedding is in three days..."

"..." The system remained silent.

Zheng Li had only just reached the legal age for marriage, but under his parents' influence, he had been on many blind dates. He had hit it off with the last one, and since their families were well-matched, they had spent half a year together before deciding to get married.

As Zheng Li said, there were only three days left until the wedding...

"Sigh..." Zheng Li sighed. Some of his friends would ask: Why are you getting married so young? In truth, he didn't want to marry so early, and he scoffed at his parents' traditional views. He had been going through the motions with the blind dates, and he hadn't expected to get along so well with the last one. In short, things had just gone smoothly.

So, if he was going to get married, then so be it. He didn't want to, but he wasn't exactly repulsed by it either.

And yet? He had actually transmigrated!!

What kind of mess is this!

He shook his head, pulled himself together, and decided to stop overthinking. He needed to learn about this world from the system first; judging by the giant beast he'd seen earlier, this clearly wasn't a simple world.

"System?"

"Present."

"I want to..."

At that moment, a whistling sound cut through the air behind Zheng Li. His subconscious told him something was wrong! Just as he was about to turn his head, the system issued a warning in the next second.

"Host, watch out! Move forward!"

The voice remained devoid of emotion, but Zheng Li didn't hesitate for a second; he scrambled to his feet and lunged forward.

The next second, a thick, dark green vine pierced the exact spot where Zheng Li had been sitting! There was no telling how deep it had gone. At the same time, the immense power carried by the vine caused the cliff to tremble slightly, and cracks began to spread from the point of impact, snaking out in both directions!

After moving a few more steps forward, Zheng Li turned around and discovered that the dark green vine belonged to the most developed plant in a patch of similar vegetation not far behind him.

Having missed its target, the plant immediately retracted the vine from the ground and, coordinating with another, lashed out at Zheng Li! However, at that moment, the section of the cliff where Zheng Li stood—along with a large area of the surrounding ground—began to collapse!

The speed of the vines made Zheng Li's pupils shrink. He was about to dodge, but he plummeted toward the forest below along with the collapsing cliff!

Although he had escaped the pursuit of the vines, Zheng Li really wanted to curse someone—no, curse the system!

Couldn't it have dropped him somewhere safe?

He was on the verge of tears!

The vines seemed to have eyes, too, as they chased after him, which terrified him! Was he going to be skewered by these vines first?

Fortunately, after chasing for a short distance, the vines stopped abruptly, as if they had reached their maximum length. Otherwise, given their speed, he definitely would have been caught.

Seeing this, the terrified Zheng Li breathed a slight sigh of relief, though only a slight one.

"System, help me!"

The cliff was incredibly high above the forest below! Falling from this height would at least leave him half-dead, if not worse.

"Host, this system would like to... never mind."

"Initiating protection mechanism."

"Initiation successful. Reminder: The protection mechanism can only protect the host's soul!"

Zheng Li: "?!"

"Then what's the difference between that and not protecting me at all?"

"Physical body destroyed, soul remains intact. The host may choose to reincarnate."

"..."

He really wanted to punch the system!

"Host, do not be pessimistic. The forest is so dense, perhaps some tree will find you familiar and catch you."

"System!"

"Present!"

"You may uninstall."

"Ding! Uninstall command received, uninstalling..."

Zheng Li: "(⊙o⊙)"

"No, no, no, I was joking, just joking!" After his initial shock, Zheng Li hurriedly shouted.

Uninstall? Don't joke around. Setting aside the life-or-death situation he was currently in, he had to remember this was an otherworldly realm. If he truly uninstalled the system, he would likely be unable to take a single step. Besides, he still wanted to return to his own world.

"Ding! Uninstall terminated."

Hearing the system prompt, Zheng Li breathed a sigh of relief. He had been terrified that it couldn't be stopped; that would have been a disaster...

As for now...

"Help!!"

Zheng Li opened his mouth and shouted for help. The odds of someone being nearby might be slim, but it was still a glimmer of hope.

Some might wonder: you're falling off a cliff, even if someone were there, how could they save you?

Zheng Li didn't think that far ahead, and even if he had, he certainly would have said: it's an otherworldly realm, after all; perhaps it's possible for humans to fly on their own.

After shouting for help a few times, Zheng Li had already fallen into despair...

Now he could only hope that, as the system said, some big brother tree or big sister tree would take a liking to him, or... that the reincarnation the system mentioned was reliable?

Just at that moment, a beam of emerald-green light rose from the forest in the distance and rushed toward Zheng Li. The distance, which seemed so vast, was crossed by the beam in mere seconds.

As the emerald-green light drew near, Zheng Li felt himself being lifted by a gentle force, and the sensation of falling vanished in an instant.