First Meeting with Huo Loli

The first time he met Huo Yutong was three years ago.

That was not long after he had first gained the ability to move around freely.

That day, he was wandering through the duke's mansion, observing his surroundings.

Suddenly, a burst of crying and the rowdy laughter of several children came from a corner.

Qian Chaoguang, who did not want to cause trouble, had intended to pretend he had seen nothing and simply walk past.

Unexpectedly, when he looked closely, he found that several older children were bullying a little girl of about three.

The little girl was holding her head, curled up in a corner, while the other children giggled and threw clods of dirt and pebbles at her, spouting filthy words as they laughed.

He had seen the bullies before too. They were all servants' children.

And every one of them was a brat, the kind nobody liked in the first place.

With those two things added together, the anger in Qian Chaoguang's heart flared up at once.

Damn it, what kind of skill was it for several boys to bully a little girl?

Although his physical condition at the time was not much different from that of an ordinary three-year-old child, the skills, reflexes, and eyesight he had trained over many years were still there.

After easily knocking those little brats flat, Qian Chaoguang pulled the little girl up and ran, not stopping until they had returned to his own small courtyard.

"Th-thank you, big brother."

The little girl crouched on the ground and said timidly in a small voice.

Qian Chaoguang waved his hand to show he did not mind, handed her a damp towel to wipe her face, and casually asked, "What's your name? I don't think I've seen you in the duke's mansion before."

"I-I'm called Huo Yutong."

Qian Chaoguang was stunned on the spot, shock written all over his face.

"What did you say your name was? Huo Yutong? Then is your mother called Huo Yun'er?"

Huo Yutong seemed frightened by Qian Chaoguang's questioning and fell to the ground at once.

She squeezed her eyes shut, curled her body up tightly, hugged her head with both hands, and her whole body trembled nonstop.

"Wuwuwu, big brother, don't hit me, don't hit me."

"I won't, I won't. I won't hit you. I won't, I promise."

Qian Chaoguang had no time to dwell on his shock and hurriedly comforted her.

Huo Yutong tremblingly opened her eyes a crack, a faint mist appearing in them.

"R-really?"

"Of course it's true. Otherwise, why would I have saved you earlier? Right?"

"Wuwuwuwu, thank you, big brother."

It would have been better if he had not said anything. After he did, Huo Yutong instead plunged into his arms and began crying loudly.

At a complete loss, Qian Chaoguang froze on the spot, not knowing what to do.

Although he had indeed been an adult in his previous life, he truly had no experience coaxing little girls.

"Little Guang, what's this?"

Old Butler had just returned from outside. Seeing his own grandson being hugged by a little girl who was crying, he immediately started wondering what was going on.

Qian Chaoguang hurriedly explained, "Grandpa, it's like this. Just now..."

After he explained the whole story to Old Butler, Huo Yutong gradually stopped crying as well, sobbing in little hiccups.

When she saw that another old man who looked rather hard to provoke had arrived, she immediately ducked behind Qian Chaoguang, tightly clutching his clothes as her body began trembling again.

"So she's Huo Yun'er's daughter. No wonder."

Old Butler did not say much more. Carrying the things in his hands, he went into the house.

As the old butler of White Tiger Duke's Mansion, although he had long since stopped managing affairs for many years, every movement within the mansion still could not escape his eyes.

Naturally, he also knew about Huo Yun'er and Dai Hao.

"What you did today was very right. If you see those little bastards who were born to mothers but never taught by them again, beat them half to death for me. Your grandfather isn't dead yet. No one dares touch you."

"You don't blame me?"

Old Butler glanced at him through the open door and frowned.

"Blame you for what? You did the right thing! A man should have some spirit. That stinking brat Dai Hao leaves for years at a time every time he goes and never comes back. Even when he does come back, it's to handle military affairs. He sure has it easy as a hands-off master. A perfectly good White Tiger Duke's Mansion is getting more and more foul by the day!"

Hearing this, Qian Chaoguang was delighted inside.

This old man had a temper!

When he was young, he had definitely been a troublemaker too.

"Then Huo Yutong...?"

"Heat some water and let her wash up. I'll go find two pieces of clothing she can wear, then get another bowl and pair of chopsticks. We'll eat early at noon, and after we're done, you send some food to her mother too. Sigh, she's another poor soul. No food to eat, no clothes to wear..."

"Okay!"

During lunch, Qian Chaoguang's thoughts had already drifted off beyond the skies.

An hour earlier, his understanding of this world had taken a vicious punch to the face.

No, wait—this was the Douluo Continent during the Peerless Tang Sect era!

This was also the White Tiger Duke's Mansion!

Her mother was Huo Yun'er too!

Where was Huo Yuhao?

Where was the future God of Emotion, Tang San's bootlicking son-in-law?

Could someone please explain to him why Huo Yuhao had turned into a little loli?

No one could explain it to him, and no one could tell him the truth.

After confirming it by every means possible, Qian Chaoguang was completely certain.

This Huo Yutong was absolutely Huo Yuhao from the original work. For some unknown reason, he had simply become a little girl.

No wonder he had searched all through the White Tiger Duke's Mansion for Huo Yuhao and found no such person. It turned out the guy had directly changed genders.

Only, in that case, his own plans would need quite a few adjustments.

Two years ago, after Qian Chaoguang had confirmed the timeline he had transmigrated into, he had already set himself a small goal first.

He would try, six years later, to snatch the two biggest cheats of the current era: Electrolux and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

As for why he was only going to try?

Because he was not confident enough to believe he could awaken a spiritual-type Martial Soul from odds of less than one in ten thousand.

Without a spiritual-type Martial Soul, going to the Star Dou Great Forest would basically be a waste of effort. The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm would very likely ignore him completely.

As for Electrolux, he could only say there was a sliver of a chance, but the specifics would still depend on luck.

If that really did not work, he could only bring Huo Yuhao along and, while he fused with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, see if he could intercept this fragment of the Undead Saint Magic God's Divine Sense.

In the end, he had never expected that Huo Yuhao would actually become Huo Yutong, going from male to female and turning into a pitiful little loli.

All of a sudden, he felt just a tiny bit reluctant.

Mm, only a tiny bit.

Even if Huo Yuhao had been gender-swapped, it still could not stop Qian Chaoguang's firm desire to snatch those two great cheats.

He had finally transmigrated once. If he did not become a god, he would be letting himself down.

But at this point in time, the First Generation Asura God and Sea God had retired, while the God of Goodness and Evil had been inherited by Lie Yan and Ji Dong respectively.

Rong Nianbing only had one thing on his mind: running away.

The only one who could wrestle with Tang San, Destruction, only cared about how to expand the God Realm and did not concern himself with anything else at all.

As a result, the God Realm had completely become Tang San's one-man show.

He did not want to cultivate bitterly for decades, ascend, and then become Tang San's dog.

For all he knew, one day Tang San might decide he had a "path to death" and kill him.

Therefore, Electrolux's importance to him was maxed out completely.

In particular, that experience of creating a plane was the top priority among priorities.

So Qian Chaoguang was absolutely determined not to waver in his resolve to snatch the cheats. No one could change his mind.

Originally, to avoid the factor of Huo Yuhao as the Child of Destiny, his initial plan had been to completely change the course of Huo Yuhao's original life.

However...

Since Huo Yutong had now become a little loli, perhaps his plan could be modified.

After all, her talent with Soul Tools was genuinely very strong.

Rather than being enemies, it would be better to be friends.

Wouldn't having one more helper be nice?

Once Soul Tools were researched to their peak, even a God King would not be able to handle them!

Step one in overthrowing the God King: start by roping in Huo Yutong!

I refuse to believe that a daughter-con like Tang San could be insane enough to gender-swap Tang Wutong into a man just to seduce her!

Please keep reading, bros xd. Only with more follow-up reads can this get recommendations, and Douluo fanfiction needs even more follow-up reads than books of other genres to get recommended. Please, please, everyone, don't stockpile chapters before it goes premium. That can easily stockpile it to death!