Xiao Yan nodded and began with his childhood. Apart from his greatest secret-that he had transmigrated into this world-there was nothing else he needed to hide.
He had cooked at four and carried water at five. His father did nothing but drink every day, and he had relied entirely on the old village chief's help to keep from starving. Next, Xiao Yan explained that when he awakened his martial souls at six, he had innate full soul power and, like Tang San, twin martial souls.
Then Xiao Yan described how Tang Hao had slapped him and threatened him, forbidding him from joining Spirit Hall, and how he had changed his surname to Xiao in a fit of anger. He went on to explain how Grandmaster had wanted to take him as a disciple when he went to Nuoding Academy, only for him to refuse.
He also recounted in detail how he had entered Heaven Dou Royal Academy and everything that had happened afterward.
Listening carefully to Xiao Yan's account, Dugu Bo was deeply astonished. He could not believe that the once-renowned Clear Sky Douluo had fallen so low as to become a blacksmith who did nothing but drink.
"Heh, how interesting. You and Tang San were born to the same parents, yet your martial souls are completely different. No wonder Tang Hao treated you that way." Dugu Bo sneered, evidently having guessed the real reason Tang Hao had treated the two differently.
It was simply that Tang Hao believed Xiao Yan was not his biological son.
"Old Poison, do you know who Tang Hao really is?" Xiao Yan asked.
Dugu Bo nodded. "From what I know, your father, Tang Hao, is the Clear Sky Douluo who once shook the continent. As for why he secluded himself in Holy Soul Village