The Divine Realm.
The vast sea of clouds stretched out like a white ocean.
A palace was hidden within the clouds, beautiful and ethereal.
In an open pavilion inside the palace, a tall man with long, water-blue hair stood quietly.
He was none other than Sea God Tang San, a renowned enforcer of the Divine Realm, famed as the Divine Realm's most devoted lover.
Tang San's face was expressionless, his eyes half closed. A light seemed to ripple within them.
As the divine light in Tang San's eyes shifted, the sea of clouds below gradually parted, revealing a deep-blue planet beneath it.
"Third Brother, it's so late and you're still awake. Are you exhausting yourself over Douluo Continent again?"
A beautiful woman with a pink ponytail and a pink dress came around the back of the pavilion.
At the sound of her voice, Tang San immediately changed his expression. He turned and smiled. "Xiao Wu, is Xiao Qi asleep?"
Xiao Wu sighed. "Yes. I don't know what's gotten into Xiao Qi lately. She seems completely out of sorts and keeps falling asleep. Third Brother, do you think we should ask the Goddess of Life to take a look?"
Tang San's expression changed slightly, but he quickly smiled reassuringly. "Don't worry, Xiao Wu. Xiao Qi is just growing up. Children fall asleep at the drop of a hat. Besides, I'm right here. How could anything happen to her?"
"That's true." Xiao Wu didn't give it another thought, much less suspect her Third Brother. After all, how could anyone be born by splitting their daughter's soul into three parts?
Tang San's eyes flickered, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
He was about to reassure Xiao Wu a little more and maintain his good-dad image when, just then, a strange light flashed across the beautiful planet in the sea of clouds. The light seemed to descend somewhere on the planet.
Rumble.
A sudden change swept through the scene. The entire planet dropped out of the sea of clouds and disappeared from view.
Tang San's expression turned terrible.
"Who was it? Who concealed Douluo Continent from my sight? Not only that, I can't even manipulate the fate of that brightest new star as I please anymore. How could this happen?"
Tang San roared inwardly.
Douluo Continent has to be the Tang Clan's backyard. Hurry up and grow, one-third of Xiao Qi, then help your father get the Child of Destiny under his thumb!
"Third Brother, are you all right?" Xiao Wu asked worriedly when she saw the look on Tang San's face, as though he'd just eaten something revolting.
Tang San suddenly remembered the image he was supposed to project and swiftly put on a serene expression. "Xiao Wu, don't worry, I'm fine. A new star is rising over Douluo Continent, and I'm simply overjoyed."
"Mhm, Third Brother, that's just like you. If we ever get the chance to meet this new star, we should help him as much as we can, right, Third Brother?"
"Heh, of course."
Tang San's expression was a little unnatural.
Douluo Continent.
At the outermost edge of the Star Dou Great Forest.
Beside a crystal-clear river, Huo Yuhao crouched and carefully studied his reflection.
A handsome, refined face with black hair and black eyes was reflected in the water.
His appearance closely resembled young Sasuke from Naruto.
A cool little heartthrob.
"I was just bored, so I put on a few episodes of the Douluo II anime, and I actually got transmigrated!"
Huo Yuhao touched his face and sighed helplessly.
That's right. This Huo Yuhao was no longer the original Huo Yuhao.
The current Huo Yuhao was a transmigrator.
He came from Earth and had been an ordinary Naruto fan.
He remembered that before he transmigrated, he'd already watched Naruto so many times that he had nothing new to eat along with his meals. Bored, he'd put on an episode of the Douluo Continent II anime to watch while eating.
Over dinner, he'd even complained, "No wonder they call Douluo Continent the Hydrogen Continent. The power levels are ridiculously low. The protagonist's Martial Soul is way too useless. If he had the Sharingan, I can't even imagine..."
He never expected to wake up and discover that he'd actually transmigrated!
From the memories lingering in his body, he learned that this was Douluo Continent, and he was the protagonist, Huo Yuhao—the one who began with a blood feud, only to be bullied and abandoned by the White Tiger Duke Mansion!
What were the odds?
Huo Yuhao had been abused since childhood, and his constitution was already poor. After several weeks of long-distance travel, he simply couldn't hold on and collapsed by this river, allowing the transmigrator to take over.
Bad news: he'd become the future servant of the Huang family's three demons.
Good news: he'd brought a cheat with him.
Huo Yuhao hadn't originally had black hair and eyes. The reason he now looked exactly like Sasuke from Naruto was directly related to the cheat in his mind.
The panel in Huo Yuhao's mind was called the Uchiha Sasuke Evolution System.
Its use was simple. Each time he attached a Spirit Ring, he could unlock one of Sasuke's stages and gain all of Sasuke's abilities from that period.
Including ninjutsu, Taijutsu, and every other skill.
[Load Uchiha Sasuke's Stage One Template?]
When he'd first transmigrated, Huo Yuhao hadn't understood what the system in the depths of his mind did, so he'd casually tapped yes.
With a buzz, he'd fallen into chaos.
[Loading Ninja Academy Sasuke template...]
In the chaos, Huo Yuhao became Uchiha Sasuke at seven or eight years old. Every day, he diligently practiced ninjutsu and Taijutsu. His older brother, Itachi Uchiha, was both his idol and his goal. One day, he would surpass him.
Born in Konoha and the young clan leader of the Uchiha Clan, Sasuke naturally carried a sense of pride.
But everything shattered that night.
When Sasuke returned home that night, all he saw were the bodies of his clansmen, strewn everywhere. The kind aunties and uncles he'd known for years had all been brutally killed.
Terrified, Sasuke raced home like a madman. But an even more despairing sight awaited him: his father and mother had been pierced through and lay in pools of blood.
Sasuke broke down. The next moment, the older brother he'd always loved appeared before him. As if grasping at a lifeline, Sasuke seized his brother's arm and sobbed, "Brother, something terrible's happened! Everyone in the clan, and Mom and Dad, they..."
But in the next instant, his brother's usual kind smile vanished. Only a hellishly evil voice remained. "You foolish little brother, let me show you how it all began."
Then Sasuke was plunged into an illusion. Within it, he saw his brother massacre every member of the Uchiha Clan.
The terror in the clansmen's eyes as they died, the horrific sight of his parents being killed—all of it assaulted his mind again and again.
Sasuke was going mad. Fear, confusion, rage, and hatred filled his mind.
"No!"
Huo Yuhao shouted. His body jolted as if struck by lightning, and he snapped his eyes open, back at the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest.
He sat by the river for half an hour before he finally managed to pull himself out of Sasuke's memories.
That pain and madness kept assaulting his Spirit Sea. Fortunately, he'd lived two lives, and that was how he managed to endure it.
Only then did Huo Yuhao have time to check his situation.
A panel appeared in his mind.
[Soul Power: Level 10] [Template: Uchiha Sasuke (Ninja Academy period)] [Martial Soul: Sharingan, One-Tomoe]
His appearance had changed too. At least, anyone who'd known him before wouldn't recognize him now.
From today onward, I'm Huo Yuhao, he said silently to himself.
Huo Yuhao: protagonist of Douluo II, Child of Destiny, a man who enjoyed cheat after cheat, eventually becoming a First-Level God and the God of Emotions.
As for the plot of Douluo, unfortunately, before transmigrating, Huo Yuhao had only known Douluo I.
That is, the rise of that great man.
He remembered the general outline of Douluo II's plot, but had long since forgotten many of the details and characters.
The young Huo was supposedly good-natured, one of the few boys in Douluo Continent with a truly upright worldview. He bore a blood feud, which did have some similarities to Sasuke from Naruto.
But after falling for Tang San's beauty trap, he became a lovesick fool in the later story and even developed the famous Haodong Three Ultimates. He'd casually shout a line or two, making your scalp crawl with embarrassment.
In the end, he was completely tamed and became that great man's slave.
The Divine Realm's second-most devoted lover.
Tsk, tsk. It was truly absurd.
But all of that was about to change.
Huo Yuhao had come to Douluo Continent to do only three things: fairness, fairness, and goddamn fairness!
Why did Shrek Academy get to monopolize the continent's educational resources and turn the entire place into a one-man show run by the Sea God Pavilion?
Why did a perfectly good Douluo Continent have to become the Tang Clan's backyard?
Daughter, son, grandson—every ten thousand years, they came out to reap another harvest of resources.
That alone was bad enough. But arranging to have their own parents possess the Will of Douluo Planet? That was going too far.
And that White Tiger Duke Mansion—just you wait!
If this version of Huo Yuhao didn't hit you with ten Amaterasus, these Sharingan would be wasted.
"Gurgle." As he planned out his future, his stomach growled.
Huo Yuhao rubbed his belly and looked at the bluefish swimming happily in the little river.
He casually caught a few and tossed them aside, then gathered some firewood and lit a fire.
Huo's secret-recipe barbecue was back in business.
He skewered the bluefish on wooden sticks and sprinkled them with some seasonings he'd brought in his luggage.
Before long, the grilled fish in Huo Yuhao's hands began to give off an incredibly tempting aroma.
No wonder he had the Innate Grilled Fish Sacred Body. Even a casual grilling smelled this good.
"Wow! That smells amazing! What is it?"
Two figures appeared in the nearby forest. One of them exclaimed in amazement.
Here they come. But they could've come early or late—why show up right after I finished grilling the fish? Were these two fixed NPCs who spawned whenever someone grilled fish?
Huo Yuhao grumbled inwardly.
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