Kicking Tang San, Punching Yu Xiaogang

Lin Mo sat on the steps before Spirit Hall. Today was the day he would awaken his martial soul.

He was somewhat worried about his martial soul awakening. After all, martial soul awakenings on Douluo Continent depended entirely on bloodline.

As a transmigrator, he did have parents in this life, though they had both already passed away.

Still, they had at least left Lin Mo with the foundation needed to awaken a martial soul.

Lin Mo's parents in this life had been two company commanders in the Angel Legion. When Lin Mo was one year old, they had unfortunately perished during an operation to eliminate evil soul masters.

Anyone able to join the Angel Legion naturally possessed considerable talent. According to the people at the orphanage, his parents had already become Soul Emperors in their thirties.

Of course, if you asked how Lin Mo had died in his previous life—

Well, that was a little ridiculous.

Lin Mo had just been accepted into university when the God of Trucks sent him straight to Douluo Continent.

Right from the start, Lin Mo learned that both his parents were dead. What an absolutely screwed opening.

Afterward, he lived in Spirit Hall's orphanage. Once he had gained a basic ability to move about, Lin Mo gradually figured out his current situation.

Douluo Continent.

Yes, that was right. He had transmigrated—and into a novel, at that.

Fortunately, it was Douluo Continent, a novel Lin Mo had read before. In his previous life, Lin Mo had been a fan of novels, and Douluo Continent had been one of the first novels he read.

Even though Douluo Continent had later been mocked heavily online, it could not stop Lin Mo from loving it.

After all, Lin Mo had read all five parts of the Douluo series. Had you?

Lin Mo had figured out the rough timeline. Qian Xunji was still alive. So, unless the plot had somehow corrected itself, there was only one possibility: Tang San had not yet been born.

Now that was comforting.

Since Tang San had not been born yet, Lin Mo could make plans for many opportunities in advance.

As long as Lin Mo had a martial soul—and the chances of that were extremely high—even Yu Xiaogang's pig martial soul would do.

After that, Lin Mo became the most well-behaved child in the orphanage. The nurses all liked him, since he neither cried nor caused trouble and simply enjoyed sitting by himself and reading.

Lin Mo did not read for any other reason. He simply wanted to learn more about this world; after all, what he had read in his previous life's novels had been incomplete.

This was a place where immortality truly existed—and there were so many beautiful women, too.

As people online always said, who wouldn't want to transmigrate to Douluo Continent, awaken an overpowered martial soul, beat up Tang San with their fists, and kick Yu Xiaogang with their feet?

With Ning Rongrong in his left arm and Qian Renxue in his right, surrounded by a circle of beauties—tsk, tsk, wouldn't that be wonderful?

"Lin Mo, Grandpa told us to go awaken our martial souls."

Qian Renxue ran over to Lin Mo's side, interrupting his thoughts.

"Alright, let's go."

Lin Mo stood up and dusted off his hands. Qian Renxue instinctively slipped her hand into his palm.

The two entered the grand hall of the Enshrinement Hall together.

"Well, well, you two little ones are late."

Lion Douluo teased them from the side.

Yes, that was right.

Lin Mo was quite familiar with the enshrined elders of the Enshrinement Hall. It was not because he was especially outgoing.

It was simply because, when Lin Mo turned two, Qian Daoliu had taken him away and brought him back to the Enshrinement Hall to raise him.

Thus, Lin Mo and Qian Renxue could be considered childhood sweethearts. They had grown up together since they were young.

Lin Mo roughly swept his gaze around the room. Qian Daoliu sat in the seat of honor, while standing at the front of the awakening ceremony was the Second Enshrined Elder, Golden Crocodile Douluo.

The other enshrined elders sat around the awakening formation.

When Guangling Douluo met Lin Mo's gaze, he raised an eyebrow at him and smiled. However, there was clearly no good intent behind that smile.

Lin Mo's mouth twitched as well, and he turned his head away speechlessly.

After transmigrating here, he had discovered that Guangling Douluo was completely an old child at heart. Due to his martial soul, he already looked like a child.

But why did the way he interacted with others also make him seem like a child?

In any case, ever since Lin Mo began living in the Enshrinement Hall, Guangling Douluo had messed with him terribly. He either took Lin Mo to steal spirit herbs or took him to steal alcohol.

He truly had the art of sneaking around and stealing down to perfection.

And he always dumped the blame on Lin Mo. Half of Lin Mo's current scheming nature was thanks to Guangling Douluo.

"Hey, relax, kid."

"Your parents' martial souls and innate soul power were both fine. As their son, there definitely won't be any problem with you either."

"You've eaten and drunk well in the Enshrinement Hall."

"Especially since you and Guangling secretly ate so many spirit herbs belonging to the Sixth and Seventh Enshrined Elders. Your body is definitely in top condition!"

At some point, Golden Crocodile Douluo had already come to Lin Mo's side. Seeing him deep in thought, he assumed Lin Mo was worried about his martial soul awakening and offered words of comfort.

But the moment anyone said Guangling was stealing, he refused to take it lying down. He slammed a hand on the armrest, rose to his feet, and shouted loudly.

"Who stole anything? Who stole anything? We were borrowing it, understand? Borrowing!"

"Can a scholar's business be called stealing?"

Before the Sixth and Seventh Priests could speak, Qingluan Douluo could no longer stand watching. He patted Guangling on the shoulder and spoke helplessly.

"Alright, alright, you didn't steal anything. You didn't steal anything, happy now? Stop shouting. The children are still here—sit back down already."

Having gained the upper hand, Guangling finally shut his mouth and sat back down with great satisfaction.

"You can't even read a single word, and you call yourself a scholar..."

Subduing Demon Douluo might have arrived late, but his jab did not. The instant he said it, the entire hall burst into laughter.

Qian Renxue held Lin Mo's hand and hid behind him. Lin Mo could clearly feel the muscles in his back twitching along with Qian Renxue's trembling.

This girl was laughing her heart out.

"You..."

"Enough. Quiet down, all of you."

Just as Guangling Douluo was about to say something else, Golden Crocodile Douluo cut him off. With his back to Qian Daoliu, Golden Crocodile cast a meaningful glance behind him.

Following Golden Crocodile's gaze, everyone saw that Qian Daoliu was indeed somewhat displeased.

Lin Mo keenly noticed that Qian Daoliu did not seem displeased because of this farce. After all, Qian Daoliu had such a good temper, and it was perfectly normal for these brothers to bicker and fool around.

After giving it some thought, Lin Mo realized what was wrong. The most important people had not arrived.

Where were Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong?

Qian Renxue's spirits sank. She had realized it too—her father and mother had not appeared, especially not for the most important martial soul awakening ceremony of her life.

"Alright, since you're here, let's begin quickly."

"Which of you two will go first?"

Golden Crocodile Douluo raised an eyebrow and stood in the center of the martial soul awakening ceremony, looking at the two of them.

Lin Mo gave the hand Qian Renxue was holding a squeeze, bringing Qian Renxue, who had been hanging her head beside him, back to her senses.

"I'll go first."

Qian Renxue was a little upset, but she quickly adjusted her mood and strode onto the awakening platform.