Origin

Douluo Continent, Spirit City.

On the Martial Arts Arena, a six-year-old boy radiated boundless fighting spirit, growing fiercer with every battle. The opponent before him was gradually unable to hold on.

The boy's gaze sharpened, and with one punch, he sent the last person still standing before him flying. More than a dozen people lay sprawled around him, all of them knocked to the ground by him.

After finishing them off, Ao Zhan steadied his breathing and looked at the people lying every which way around him. He asked softly, "Can you still fight?"

The people playing dead on the ground all shuddered and hurriedly got up, waving their hands repeatedly.

"No more, no more!"

"Ao Zhan, you're too strong!"

"Yeah, there are so many of us, but we still can't beat you. We admit defeat."

"From now on, we won't cause trouble for you again."

Ao Zhan grinned. "Fine, then from now on, whenever you see me, you'd better greet me properly! Got it?"

"Got it, got it!"

Everyone nodded frantically like pecking chicks.

"Scram."

Ao Zhan waved them away. As though granted a pardon, everyone scattered and fled.

After all, if Ao Zhan decided to beat them up again, they would be finished!

Seeing them flee in panic, with some even losing their shoes as they ran, Ao Zhan burst into laughter. "Hahaha! And you wanted to cause trouble for me?"

"Brother Zhan~"

At that moment, a soft, sticky voice, like freshly steamed rice cake, drifted over. Ao Zhan immediately perked up and looked toward the sound.

A delicate and adorable blonde girl, as exquisitely sculpted as a doll and angelic in appearance, ran over.

Seeing her, Ao Zhan smiled gently. "Xue'er, why are you here?"

Qian Renxue's little face reddened as she ran up to Ao Zhan, panting. Just as she was about to speak, her dainty nose twitched. Her cute brows furrowed slightly. "Brother Zhan, why do you smell so sweaty? Did you get into another fight again!?"

With her hands on her hips, Qian Renxue spoke in a childish voice like a tiny adult. "Do you even know how many people you've beaten up!? You've injured so many elders' children! If this keeps up, you won't have any friends!"

"They came looking to get beaten up themselves. They're obviously so weak, yet they still dared to cause trouble for me. As for friends..."

As he spoke, Ao Zhan revealed a mischievous smile and pulled Qian Renxue into his arms. He lightly inhaled her fragrance, then leaned close to her ear and breathed warmly against it. "Having you is enough for me, Xue'er. I don't need any friends at all."

The reason he fought every day was not only because of his cheat ability, but also because Qian Renxue, this little beauty who brought trouble wherever she went, was part of it.

Qian Renxue was adorable and stayed close to him, so naturally many people found him unpleasant. Unfortunately for them, he was simply stronger than they were.

Every time they came looking for trouble, he would beat them until they fled with their heads in their hands.

Caught off guard and suddenly pulled into Ao Zhan's embrace, Qian Renxue's delicate little face was covered in a rosy flush. The masculine aura emanating from Ao Zhan nearly made her lose herself in it.

But she quickly came back to her senses, her heart filled with embarrassment.

She weakly patted Ao Zhan's back. "Y-you... what nonsense are you saying? Let me go already."

Qian Renxue's pats did not even count as scratching an itch to Ao Zhan, but he still released her in the end.

"Alright, Xue'er. Why were you in such a hurry to find me?"

After leaving Ao Zhan's embrace, Qian Renxue felt a faint sense of loss, but she still remembered why she had come.

"Brother Zhan, have you forgotten? You're already six this year! It's time for you to awaken your martial soul!"

"Uh, awaken my martial soul? Right! How could I nearly forget!? It's all those bastards' fault. They keep coming to cause trouble for me and nearly made me miss such an important day!"

Ao Zhan suddenly recalled that today really was the day Spirit Hall would awaken the children's martial souls. Thinking that he had nearly missed his martial soul awakening, he immediately wanted to go beat up those bastards.

Qian Renxue hurriedly stopped him. After all, this was not the time to do such things.

She stretched out her little hand, grabbed Ao Zhan, and ran toward the place Qian Daoliu and the others had prepared for their martial soul awakenings.

As they ran, Ao Zhan's thoughts could not help but churn.

He was not from this world, and this was not even his first transmigration.

The first time, he had transmigrated to Super Beast Armed World and become a member of the Azure Dragon Clan in the Second Parallel Universe. He had also gained a system called the Ultimate War God System.

It had only one function: allowing him to become Battle-Hardened in combat like Feng Yao, that War God.

He was even more terrifying than Feng Yao.

Feng Yao's so-called Battle-Hardened Alien Energy had a limit to its growth, and it was only temporary.

It was like a rage meter in a game. Once it reached a certain threshold, his Alien Energy would stop increasing. At that point, if he unleashed his full power and fired off a Flash Spirit Strike, no one beneath the Nebula Body could block it except Ye Lingyun.

Afterward, Feng Yao's Alien Energy would slowly decline unless he continued fighting to bring it back to that threshold.

Ao Zhan, however, was completely different. His Alien Energy had no threshold. No matter what enemy he encountered, as long as they could not kill him in a single move, he would grow stronger and stronger until he defeated them.

And after the battle ended, his Alien Energy would not decrease. Whatever amount it increased by would remain his permanently.

The time he had transmigrated there was also one hundred thousand years before the plot began, when the Wolf Clan and White Tiger Clan were at war.

So, he disguised himself and went to the Fifth Parallel Universe, where he increased his strength on the battlefield.

He joined neither side, because whether it was Snow Empress or Pluto, given enough time, both would become opponents he could defeat.

Thus, he became a lone wanderer on the battlefield, continuously increasing his strength.

However, he was still discovered by that old bastard Gui Gu. Although his Alien Energy soared after a narrow escape from death, he still could not defeat Gui Gu, that scheming old bastard with the Alien Energy of six Black Holes.

Still, Gui Gu made for a good whetstone, so Ao Zhan would seek him out from time to time to increase his Alien Energy.

By the time the Holy Realm and Underworld went to war completely, his Alien Energy had become roughly equal to Gui Gu's. Knowing that the Fifth Parallel Universe was a massive trap, he decisively fled to the Sixth Parallel Universe.

But because the Mysterious Underworld Black Hole had happened to activate while he was crossing between Parallel Universes, his transmission passage became extremely unstable and generated terrifying spatial distortions. During the transmission, his body was nearly torn apart by twisted space, and when he fell into the Sixth Parallel Universe, he was already deeply unconscious from severe injuries.

Because the Baboo Clan had nearly been exterminated due to Gui Gu, and the Sixth Parallel Universe had few living creatures after the volcanic eruptions, no one discovered the sleeping Ao Zhan.

He slept for one hundred thousand years. Only when Miao Tiaojun's Ren and Du meridians were opened and the ensuing burst of Alien Energy awakened him did he finally wake up. By then, his injuries had already healed completely.

Wanting to secretly screw Gui Gu over, he followed Miao Tiaojun to the Fifth Parallel Universe after Miao Tiaojun left.

Things unfolded exactly as he had expected. After Gui Gu revealed his identity and stopped pretending, Ao Zhan made a grand entrance, toyed with Gui Gu for a while, and then killed him.

He had thought everything was settled, since no one in the Seven Parallel Universes could defeat him anymore, especially when Snow Empress and Pluto had barely any Alien Energy left.

However, to his surprise, the world consciousness of Super Beast Armed World noticed how defiant he was and directly intervened, granting Pluto, Snow Empress, and the Super Beast Team enormous amounts of Alien Energy.

After an intense battle, they threw him out of Super Beast Armed World and into the Douluo Universe.

However, when he arrived on Douluo Continent, he had become a three-year-old child, and all his Alien Energy was gone. Fortunately, Qian Daoliu, who had been out at the time, found him and brought him back, making him the playmate of the three-year-old Qian Renxue.

Because he was more mature, Qian Renxue called him "Brother Zhan."

And the reason he fought those people was not only to establish his authority, but also because his system had told him that the more battles he experienced, the stronger his Innate Soul Power would become.

Soon, I'll have a martial soul.

Ao Zhan thought, a trace of anticipation flashing through his eyes.