Children of the Version Gathered, But the Eras Misaligned Chapter 1

Douluo: Children of the Version Gathered, But the Eras Misaligned

Author: Bamboo Grove's Two Sages

Crossing over into Douluo Continent, Bai Chen acquired three martial souls in three different eras.

Next, let us welcome—

Three-Eyed Golden Lion!

The child of the Douluo II era, the Emperor Auspicious Beast, possessing dual ultimate attributes of Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Light, carrying the bloodline of the Golden Dragon within his body. His primary attribute of spiritual power was even stronger than the secondary attributes of the dual ultimates, and the destiny attribute could bring endless surprises.

Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff!

The child of the Douluo III era, the ancestor of lion-type and canine-type soul beasts, coming with a domain. His ten-thousand-year cultivation strength was comparable to a 480,000-year Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and a ten-thousand-year Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff was enough to suppress Title Douluo Tang Wulin who was not holding back completely. Moreover, he was immune to the Golden Dragon King's bloodline suppression, and his battle achievements were verifiable.

Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!

The child of the Douluo I era, possessing six attributes of evil, time, darkness, space, lightning, and hurricane, coming with a domain. His trump-card ultimate move, the Life-and-Death Arena, almost tricked Title Douluo Tang San to death, and he had the potential to grow into an Evil God, later even becoming the cheat of another protagonist, Zhou Weiqing, with remarkable achievements.

Gathering the power of these three children of the version, he would surely...

Wait, is the sequence somewhat wrong?

What do you mean the children of the version are not in their own versions?

Douluo I Bai Chen

Martial Soul: Three-Eyed Golden Lion

Soul Power Level: ??? (Currently in a state of fusion)

Soul Rings:

Three-Eyed Golden Lion Martial Soul: First ring (Skydream Iceworm), second ring (Fire Dragon King), third ring (70,000-year spiritual-attribute soul beast), fourth ring (Demon Spirit), fifth ring (Demon Spirit), sixth ring (Demon Spirit), seventh, eighth, and ninth rings (Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler)

Water Dragon King Martial Soul: First ring (Water Dragon King), second ring (Titan Snow Demon King), third ring (Ice-Snow Bear King), fourth ring (Ice Empress), fifth ring (Snow Empress), sixth ring (Snow Empress), seventh ring (Snow Empress), eighth ring (Deep Sea Demon Whale King), ninth ring (Demon Empress)

Soul Bones: Skydream Iceworm Skin Bone, Bright Dragon King Torso Bone, Water Dragon King Left Arm Bone, Fire Dragon King Right Arm Bone, Demon Spirit Left Leg Bone, Ice-Snow Bear King + Titan Snow Demon King fused right leg bone, Snow Empress Left Palm Bone, Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler Skull, Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler Eye Bone, Deep Sea Demon Whale King Fish Scale Bone

Soul Guidance Talent: 10

Forging Talent: 10

Status: Kindness God's Divine Trial Fourth Trial

Douluo II Bai Chen

Martial Soul: Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff

Soul Power Level: ??? (Currently in a state of fusion)

Soul Rings: First ring (1,000-year Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear), second and third rings (10,000-year Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear), fourth, fifth, and sixth rings (100,000-year Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear), seventh and eighth rings (Bear Lord)

Soul Bones: Bear Lord Right Palm Bone, Bear Lord Left Arm Bone, 100,000-year Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone, Mountain Dragon King Torso Bone, 100,000-year left leg bone (Tyrannosaurus Rex close relative), Golden Dragon Right Leg Bone

Soul Guidance Talent: 8

Forging Talent: 10

Status: Asura God's Divine Trial Fifth Trial

Douluo III Bai Chen

Martial Soul: Dark Demon Evil God Tiger

Soul Power Level: ??? (Currently in a state of fusion)

Soul Rings: First ring (Evil Tiger Shark), second ring (Evil Tiger Shark), third ring (Three-Eyed Demon Ape), fourth ring (Qiluo Tulip), fifth ring (Qiluo Tulip), sixth ring (Qiluo Tulip), seventh ring (Million-Year God-Given Soul Ring)

Soul Bones: Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Right Palm Bone, Time Dragon King Left Leg Bone, Dark Dragon King Torso Bone, Qiluo Tulip Left Arm Bone, Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Tail Bone

Soul Guidance Talent: 8

Forging Talent: 9

Status: Evil God's Divine Trial Fifth Trial

Chapter 1 Three Children of the Version

"Xiaochen, come, let the soul master adult help you awaken your martial soul."

"Bai Chen, it's your turn to awaken your martial soul."

"Student Bai Chen, center your mind and calm your breath, prepare yourself to awaken your martial soul."

Called by different awakening masters, Bai Chen in three worlds nodded simultaneously, excitement flashing through his eyes.

"Yes!"

Having waited for six years, he was finally going to awaken his own martial soul.

Six years ago, because of an accident, he—who was originally just an ordinary college student—crossed over into the world of Douluo Continent.

Yet, different from ordinary crossovers, this time his crossover spanned three eras simultaneously.

Namely, the Douluo I, Douluo II, and Douluo III eras.

Moreover, due to the difference in the crossed eras, his identity in each era also had subtle distinctions.

He in the Douluo I Era transmigrated into a village near the Star Dou Great Forest. His parents died in an accident when he was very young, and now he was living with relatives.

He in the Douluo II Era became the orphan of a Nine-Treasure Glazed Sect member. Relying on the Nine-Treasure Glazed Sect, a major sect, he was doing pretty well, at least better than he did in the Douluo I Era.

He in the Douluo III Era was the only son of a big boss in Skysea City. His father, who had him late in life, doted on him immensely, granting almost every request he made.

Generally speaking, the later the era, the more privileged his family environment was.

After transmigrating, what he looked forward to the most was the Martial Soul awakening he would undergo at the age of six.

The core cultivation system of the Douluo Continent was the soul master system. This system could be said to judge a person's potential at six. The Martial Soul awakened at six and the innate soul power were basically enough to determine a child's cultivation limit.

If he didn't even have level-one innate soul power, then this child was considered hopeless in terms of Martial Soul cultivation.

Bai Chen did not ask to awaken some overpowered Martial Soul; his requirement was at least being able to cultivate.

No matter in which era, soul master lords were superior beings. To live a good life, awakening soul power was indispensable.

He in all three eras made preparations respectively under the guidance of those around him.

Seeing that he was ready, the Martial Soul Hall member, the Nine-Treasure Glazed Sect elder, and the Spirit Pagoda Master successively began the ceremony of awakening the Martial Souls.

Wha-?!

As their soul power poured into Bai Chen's body, Bai Chen in all three worlds experienced a jolt, showing painful expressions.

The moment the awakening ceremony began, he felt a strong sense of discomfort welling up from deep within his body.

Perhaps because the awakened Martial Souls were different, the discomfort felt by him in the three eras was also entirely different.

He in the Douluo I Era first felt his mind become unprecedentedly clear.

The next moment, an intense scorching sensation spread from his chest, accompanied simultaneously by a warmth like being illuminated by sunlight.

As higher levels of temperature, scorching and warmth could not possibly appear simultaneously, but somehow he was producing both of these sensations at the same time.

As this bizarre sense of discord intensified, countless red and golden light spots appeared in his field of vision. The moment these light spots saw him, they approached affectionately and came to his side.

Are these... fire and light elements?

Bai Chen instinctively perceived the truth.

Behind the red and golden light spots, what appeared in his perception was a profound and abstruse power.

He could not articulate what this was, only sensing that it was incomparably noble and powerful.

Subsequently, he felt a magical new vision mysteriously added to his forehead—he had actually grown a third eye.

Unlike himself in Douluo I, the experience felt by himself in Douluo II was extremely simple.

It was simply a very pure, excruciating pain, a pain that felt as if it were going to tear his entire body apart.

All the blood in his body was boiling, and his body was making cracking sounds. Under this matchless, excruciating pain, the entire world seemed to distort.

Golden fur grew from the surface of his skin, and Bai Chen's body directly bulked up a size after the Martial Soul awakening.

Meanwhile, he in Douluo III felt the least amount of pain.

He only felt as though he had fallen into an ice cellar, a chill emanating from the depths of his soul.

Countless whispers sounded in his ear, attempting to lure him and make him fall.

Ultimately, these whispers synthesized into a singular, strange voice.

Detected awakening of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Martial Soul. Go kill, go devour, go plunder. When you reach the Seven-Ring, the divine trial of the Evil God will unfold for you.

As this voice ended, the icy coldness that had originally permeated Bai Chen's body and mind vanished completely in an instant.

Whether by coincidence or something else, the pain felt by him in the other two space-times also vanished without a trace, as if his experiences just then were merely a dream.

However, feeling the sense of power transmitting from within his body, he realized that this was not a dream. He had truly succeeded in awakening Martial Souls, awakening three Martial Souls that were like cheats.

These three Martial Souls were respectively the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion, the Emperor Auspicious Beast, possessed dual ultimate Martial Souls of Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Light, shouldered part of the Dragon God bloodline, was capable of materializing the Golden Dragon Martial Soul possessing ultimate power, and simultaneously possessed spiritual attributes stronger than the two ultimate attributes. On top of that, it possessed the Power of Destiny, a power transcending the mortal realm.

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, ancestor of canine and feline soul beasts, naturally possessed the Overlord Domain. The strength of a ten-thousand-year Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff was enough to rival a Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear of at least four hundred and eighty thousand years. Using the body of a ten-thousand-year soul beast, it suppressed the careless Title Douluo Tang Wulin, was able to easily ignore the bloodline suppression originating from the Golden Dragon King, and was evaluated by Tang Wulin as being sufficient to be on par with Er Ming of the quasi-god level upon reaching one hundred thousand years.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, simultaneously possessing the six attributes of evil, time, darkness, space, hurricane, and lightning, harbored the inheritance of the Evil God on its body and possessed a powerful innate domain. At one hundred thousand years, it had the ability to simultaneously face the two top-tier hundred-thousand-year soul beasts Da Ming and Er Ming, and its ultimate move, the Life-and-Death Arena, even nearly tricked and killed Tang San, who had already completed the Seven Trials of the Sea God.

These three types of soul beasts were entities that could be called versions of the favored child. Normally, it was impossible for them to appear on a soul master as Martial Souls, but perhaps because of Bai Chen's transmigrator status, he simultaneously awakened these three beast Martial Souls that could be called the strongest of each era.

Logically speaking, having awakened three such powerful Martial Souls, Bai Chen should have felt ecstatic.

Yet for some reason, his state of mind at this moment was somewhat subtle.

Because...

Bai Chen of Douluo I blinked the third eye atop his head, struggling to adapt to the strange sensation brought by the new vision.

Bai Chen of Douluo II swung his right fist forcefully, the immense power contained within his body making him feel as though he could accomplish anything.

Bai Chen of Douluo III retracted the wings and tail hook located behind him, smiling sheepishly at the Spirit Pagoda Master.

Were the awakening times of his three Martial Souls slightly problematic?

Chapter 2 Misaligned Version Answers

Since Bai Chen evaluated these three Martial Souls as version children, there was naturally a reason for it.

In his view, the first three installments of Douluo each had different version answers.

In the Douluo I Era, the Douluo Plane had not yet been reduced to Tang San's back garden, and many gods in the Divine Realm were watching the Douluo Continent. Therefore, the version answer for Douluo I was the Divine Trial, and the four deities who finally ascended to godhood all made their way up through Divine Trials.

In the Douluo II Era, thanks to the unprecedented cheat that was the Skydream Iceworm, the version answer was undoubtedly the mental-attribute Martial Soul, because only mental-attribute Martial Souls were qualified to fuse with the Skydream Iceworm.

In the Douluo III Era, the bloodline system first showed its edge, and the original soul power and soul skill system was gradually replaced by the bloodline and physical blood system. In this era, the most important thing was to have a powerful bloodline and a fierce physical strength.

Summarizing it this way, one could see why these three Martial Souls were said to be the version answers corresponding to their versions.

The version answer for Douluo I was the Divine Trial, so the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Martial Soul came with its own Divine Trial, and it was even the Divine Trial of the Evil God King.

The version answer for Douluo II was the mental attribute, so the Three-Eyed Golden Lion not only possessed the mental attribute, but its mental attribute even backed up its two ultimate attributes. It was definitely the entity with the strongest mental power in the Douluo II version.

The version answer for Douluo III was bloodline and strength, so the strength of the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff even backed up Tang Wulin, who possessed the Golden Dragon King's Bloodline, and at the bloodline level, it was not suppressed by Tang Wulin's bloodline either.

However, right now, these three version children failed to awaken in the versions belonging to them.

Then big trouble was coming...

A very important reason why the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was strong in the Douluo I Era was that there was no concept of Evil Soul Masters at that time, and the number of soul beasts was large and fully supplied, allowing him to devour and level up at will.

Without an environment like Douluo I, it was entirely possible for him to be treated as an Evil Soul Master and hunted down. Meanwhile, in Douluo III, due to soul beasts being on the verge of extinction, even knowing how to cultivate was a huge hassle.

Most importantly, the Evil God, which originally belonged to the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's future direction of advancement, had already been inherited by Ji Dong at this time. Even if he passed the Divine Trial, it would be of no use; if the most crucial Divine Position could not be obtained, everything would be in vain.

At the same time, the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, which should have appeared in Douluo III, appearing on the timeline of Douluo II also directly resulted in it missing out on the two biggest cheats, the Skydream Iceworm and Elex.

Among the three version children, only it had absolutely nothing to do with the mental attribute. The Evil God Tiger at least had an ability slightly related to the mental attribute, which was Multi-Element Control; as for the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, it had no dazzling mechanisms or special abilities at all, possessing only incomparably overpowered stats.

As for the last Three-Eyed Golden Lion, it awakened in the Douluo I Era, where the cultivation speed was at its slowest, right when it was already difficult to cultivate after reaching level thirty with an ultimate Martial Soul.