Peerless Tang Sect, outside the gates of Shrek Academy!
"I actually transmigrated into Wang Dong from Peerless Tang Sect?"
"And I awakened the Soft Bone Rabbit martial soul and the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul... plus the Golden Dragon King Bloodline!"
A handsome boy with long pink-and-blue hair stood rooted to the spot, his blue eyes round and wide, his entire face practically screaming, "Holy shit."
Wang Dong took a deep breath. The last scene before his transmigration still lingered in his mind: while scrolling through short videos, he had come across a post.
[If you could transmigrate into the world of Peerless Tang Sect as Wang Dong and choose three of the following six Tang Family martial souls, which would you pick?] [Blue Silver Emperor] [Clear Sky Hammer] [Golden Dragon King Bloodline] [Soft Bone Rabbit] [Light Goddess Butterfly] [Sea God]
As a veteran Douluo fan, he had picked 2, 3, and 4 without a second thought.
Blue Silver Emperor? What kind of trash martial soul was that? He wanted nothing to do with it. Anything that used Blue Silver Entanglement was like something stuck to the floor that was impossible to peel off-soft and clingy, relying entirely on stalling in a fight, with no explosive power whatsoever.
As for the Light Goddess Butterfly martial soul, it was just another roadside nobody. What good was being able to fly early on? It couldn't hold a candle to the Soft Bone Rabbit martial soul.
The Soft Bone Rabbit martial soul was the truly nasty one; plenty of people simply overlooked it. Instantaneous Shift, Intangibility, Invincible Golden Body-each was more broken than the last.
What did Instantaneous Shift mean? You had barely raised your hand before your opponent was already in your face. Intangibility was even more outrageous: physical attacks passed straight through, like punching air.
And Invincible Golden Body went without saying. Three seconds of being a real man, standing your ground and brawling through anything.
As for the Sea God martial soul? It was even further behind the bloodline of the Golden Dragon King, a God King.
No matter how awesome the Sea God was, his power still came from the support of his divine position. The Golden Dragon King Bloodline was a genuine God King-level bloodline, crushing the competition in strength, physique, and recovery alike.
The strength of the Golden Dragon King Bloodline, plus the Soft Bone Rabbit's stats, plus the Clear Sky Hammer's Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer-that was the true answer to the current meta.
"Thank goodness, thank goodness... I really do seem to be male. A male Wang Dong?"
Wang Dong quickly accepted the reality of his transmigration. He carefully checked his current condition. Unlike the original story, he wasn't a girl disguised as a boy-he was a bona fide man.
After all, that dangling feeling was pretty hard to imitate. He looked down. Yep, confirmed: everything that should be there was there, and everything that shouldn't wasn't.
But now came the question. If he had transmigrated into a male Wang Dong, what would happen to Peerless Tang Sect's other protagonist...?
As Wang Dong pondered that, he suddenly caught sight of someone out of the corner of his eye.
A young girl was walking toward Shrek Academy's gates. The girl looked rather frail, with a slender figure and delicate features. At first glance, she wasn't breathtaking, but her eyes were bright, like two pieces of obsidian washed clean with water, sparkling so brilliantly that it was hard to look away.
There was a stubbornness in the girl's gaze. Her lips were pressed together slightly, as though she were holding a fierce determination inside.
She wore old clothes washed almost white and carried a bulging cloth bag on her back. Travel-worn and dusty, she looked as though she had walked a very long way to get here.
"So this is Shrek Academy? I really made it..."
The girl stood outside the academy, looking up at its imposing gates, his voice trembling slightly.
Just then, a voice rang out in his mind, carrying a lazy, smug air:
"Yuhao, you'd better work hard... I've entrusted my life and everything I'm worth to you. Hurry up and reach two rings, then just watch your big brother Tian Meng carry you to new heights."
"Mm-hmm."
Huo Yuhao nodded vigorously and clenched his fists. He would work hard... because he still had a great vengeance to exact.
White Tiger Duke's Mansion, just you wait!
He took a deep breath and was about to step inside when his gaze happened to sweep across a figure nearby.
It was a boy, his long pink-and-blue hair falling loosely over his shoulders, his blue eyes clear and deep. His face was almost unfairly handsome, his figure tall and straight. Standing there, he looked like a painting.
The boy was staring straight at him, as though he had seen something unbelievable.
Huo Yuhao felt a little uncomfortable under that stare, but he still summoned his courage and approached, asking politely, "Hello, senior. My name is Huo Yuhao, and I'm a new student this year... could you tell me where the new student registration office is?"
Wang Dong was completely thrown.
He stared fixedly at Huo Yuhao before him-or rather, "little girl Huo."
Sure enough, since he had become male, Huo Yuhao had naturally become female. What was this? A balance of yin and yang?
But that wasn't the important part. The important part was that this "little girl Huo" was far too good-looking. Those features, that bearing, that frail yet fiercely stubborn appearance... they struck him squarely in the heart.
Especially those timid eyes. They made him want to protect him.
Seriously, nobody could turn down a sweet, soft little girl Huo.
Wang Dong put on a gentle, harmless smile.
"I'm a new student too. I only just arrived. But I saw the registration office over there when I passed by earlier. I'll take you."
Huo Yuhao paused, not expecting him to be so approachable. "Then... thank you, senior."
"Don't call me senior. I'm Wang Dong." Wang Dong waved a hand. "Come on. I still need to finish the rest of my paperwork anyway."
Nothing happened along the way. There were quite a few people at the new student registration office. The two queued for a while, filled out several forms, then went to have their soul power tested.
After a good deal of running around, they finally completed all the formalities.
Grrrrumble!
Just then, Huo Yuhao's stomach growled.
His face instantly flushed bright red. He hurriedly pressed a hand against his stomach, lowering his head and not daring to look at Wang Dong. "Um... I, I left in a hurry this morning and didn't have time to eat..."
Wang Dong chuckled inwardly, but kept a perfectly serious expression. "Come on. Lunch is on me."
"No, no!" Huo Yuhao waved his hands repeatedly. "I brought some dry rations..."
As he spoke, he took a dry flatbread out of his cloth bag and awkwardly bit into it. The flatbread looked hard, as though it had been sitting around for several days. He struggled to bite through it, but still did his best to chew.
Watching this, Wang Dong felt an inexplicable ache in his heart.
He sighed. Without another word, he stepped forward, grabbed Huo Yuhao by the wrist, and pulled him toward the cafeteria.
"Huh? Senior Wang Dong? You..."
"Enough arguing." Wang Dong didn't look back, his tone carrying an overbearing firmness that allowed no refusal. "Come to the cafeteria with me."
Huo Yuhao couldn't break free of his grip and could only stumble along behind him. Growing anxious, he said, "But... but it's too expensive. We've only just met. I can't..."
"I have plenty of money," Wang Dong interrupted breezily. "Besides, my favorite thing to do is cut down the strong and help the weak. You're a girl who came all this way to study at Shrek, and you can't even get a proper meal. I can't stand by and watch that."
He paused, then added, "Besides... I have a younger sister who looks a lot like you. The moment I saw you today, I felt especially close to you."
Of course, that was all made up. Wang Dong didn't have any younger sister. Even his biological parents were parents he had acquired through transmigration.
But he sounded so sincere, with a trace of nostalgia and tenderness in his voice, that Huo Yuhao's heart trembled.
He looked up at Wang Dong's profile. Sunlight fell on his long pink-and-blue hair, gilding it with a faint halo. This boy, whom he had known for less than two hours, had given him a warmth he hadn't felt in a long time.
"Then... thank you," Huo Yuhao said softly, his voice a little nasal.
Wang Dong didn't turn around, but the corners of his mouth quietly lifted.
In the cafeteria, Wang Dong ordered two of the most expensive set meals and pushed one in front of Huo Yuhao. "Eat."
Huo Yuhao looked at the lavish meal before him: braised soul beast meat, stir-fried spirit vegetables, a steaming bowl of spirit rice porridge, and a plate of delicate little pastries.
He swallowed, but still hesitated, not daring to pick up his chopsticks.
"This... this is too expensive, Senior Wang Dong. I really can't..."
"I told you, I have plenty of money." Wang Dong sat opposite him with his arms folded, making it clear that this wasn't up for discussion. "Just eat. Don't overthink it."
Huo Yuhao bit his lip, his eyes reddening a little. In all his life, no one had ever treated him this well.
"Thank you..." His voice choked up. "Thank you so much."
He lowered his head, picked up his chopsticks, and began eating in small bites. At first, he was still a little restrained, but he was simply too hungry. Gradually, he relaxed, eating thoroughly and leaving everything clean, not even a drop of broth at the bottom of the bowl.
Wang Dong simply sat opposite him, quietly watching him eat, watching his frail shoulders, his lowered eyes, and the way he ate every last grain of rice.
This girl really was starving.
P.S. What can I say? This book is pure wish fulfillment. No eating humble pie...
The Clear Sky Hammer, the Soft Bone Rabbit, and the Golden Dragon King-just how strong would all three be together? A lot of people really are curious, so I wrote it.
Nothing tasteless, and no handing the girls over to someone else.
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