Watch Me Pinch a World-Exploding Instant Detonation

Bao Liang had been transmigrated to the era of the Peerless Tang Sect on Douluo Continent for six years now.

As for how he transmigrated, he did not know.

Whether he had parents in this life, he also did not know-because the moment he opened his eyes he was an infant, still lying within a primeval forest, almost chewed up as a little bread by a big-eyed tentacle monster.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, a woman with vast and boundless divine powers descended from the sky and slapped that big eyeball into eyeball sauce.

The woman picked him up and scrutinized him for a long time; the things after that he could not remember clearly, only recalling that she carried him flying across the clouds, dropped him before a door, put him down, turned around, and left.

On the door sign five characters were written: Hope Orphanage.

Thus, Bao Liang grew up safely and insipidly in this orphanage until he was six years old.

The orphanage was not large, with two rows of single-story brick houses surrounding a courtyard overgrown with weeds, an old crooked-necked tree in the courtyard, and a few clotheslines tied beneath the tree.

The matron managed them loosely; children running, jumping, and playing were no one's concern, and the days passed just like that day by day.

In the first year he was still pondering what ghost of a place he had transmigrated into, until he overheard several older children mouthing "Martial Soul", "Soul Power", and "Soul Ring", and only then belatedly slapped his thigh-good grief, Douluo Continent.

As a transmigrator, Bao Liang once fancied himself another chosen son aside from Brother Hao, and then squatted at the base of the courtyard wall every day digging the dirt for a full three years, attempting to unearth some legacy of predecessors, but stubbornly dug up not a single thing, instead pulling the wild grass in the courtyard completely bald.

He even turned over all the soil of the orphanage.

The only things dug out were earthworms, pebbles, and a mole scared out of its wits.

Then he thoroughly resigned himself to his fate: he was simply an unlucky fellow who leaked in from who knew which spacetime crack, neither the protagonist nor carrying a system, and the only thing he could count on was that on the day of awakening he might pop out a decent Martial Soul.

The days in the orphanage could not be called bitter.

Although the matron's cooking was a bit plain, it had the advantage of being large in portion and filling.

Bao Liang had a sweet mouth, flattering people by the age of three, coaxing the matron until her eyebrows arched and her face beamed with smiles, and coupled with still being a child and thus able to count as cute, he mixed so well around the orphanage that people bestowed upon him the nickname "Little Dumpling".

Finally, the age of six had arrived-today was the day the Sun Moon Empire annually provided free Martial Soul awakening for orphans.

Early in the morning, the courtyard became lively.

The children were hauled out of their bedding one by one by the matron, slipped into clean clothes washed until they turned white, lined up to wash their faces, and squeezed together in a chattering cluster.

The big ones dragged the small ones, and the small ones tugged the even smaller ones, everyone hoping to draw good luck today.

Bao Liang was among them.

But now, there was a bad piece of news and a good piece of news laid out before Bao Liang.

The bad news: the Soul Master who came to help them awaken their Martial Souls was the one with the stinkingest luck in the entire Sun Moon Empire.

Other Soul Masters could more or less pop out a few children with soul power; as for him, not a single one.

Awaken one, scrap one.

People of the jianghu called him-the Dream Crusher.

This title was not earned for nothing.

The year before last, Bao Liang had personally witnessed it once across the courtyard wall: a weeping little girl walked into the formation full of anticipation, and when she came out she was clutching a withered blade of wild grass in her hand.

It was not Blue Silver Grass, but wild grass, wild grass that didn't answer to any name at all!

Su Haitao clutched his forehead on the spot, and the little girl was carried back by the matron to be coaxed for three whole days before recovering just a bit.

Ever since then, the reputation of the "Dream Crusher" spread through the orphanage, and the children privately all called him "Brother Dreambreaker", whichever of them drew him being down on their luck.

But the good news was...

Bao Liang stared at that face for a long time, then suddenly grinned and smiled.

The good news was that his name was Su Haitao.

Heehee, I am definitely going to awaken soul power, kouya.

The preceding children walked up one after another, and stepped down one after another with mournful faces.

Su Haitao's expression darkened visibly to the naked eye, and the auxiliary awakening Soul Tool for awakening Martial Souls, a specialty of the Sun Moon Empire in his hand, was almost squeezed until sweat came out of it.

One, two, three...

All were ordinary Martial Souls, all without a single one carrying soul power.

The courtyard was so quiet that the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the tree leaves could be heard.

Outside the door, the expression of the matron-who watched the children coming out one by one with lowered heads, dejected, and with tear-reddened eyes-also grew increasingly ugly, her fists tightly clenched, causing even the children waiting in line to not dare make a peep.

"Next."

It was Bao Liang's turn.

Bao Liang walked forward with short strides, smiling with an ingratiating expression: "That thing... Brother Tao, put some effort into it, and awaken a Martial Soul with soul power for me, how about it?"

Su Haitao did not even lift his eyelids: "You think I don't want to?! I, a Sun Moon person, even worshipped the Sea God next door, and it still didn't work! I've already become the Dream Crusher, alright!"

Bao Liang's eyes rolled: "That... Brother Tao, why don't you... worship the Angel God?"

Su Haitao took a deep breath, pressing his palms together, pious beyond compare: "Fine, fine, fine, I'll worship, worship, worship! Angel God above, I beg you to let me awaken a child with soul power today! Any amount is fine!"

After finishing, he glared: "Alright, hurry up and come over!"

"Will do!"

Bao Liang quickly stepped into the center of the awakening formation. Su Haitao released his Martial Soul, and two Soul Rings, one white and one yellow, revolved around him. The moment he infused the formation beneath his feet with Soul Power, it lit up.

"Relax. Feel the power hidden inside you. Don't resist it-actively awaken it!"

Bao Liang obediently did as he was told. He closed his eyes and began silently reciting:

Angel God above, please bless me, please bless me. As long as I can awaken Soul Power, I promise I'll help you take down Tang San.

The next second, a warm sensation enveloped his entire body.

The Soul Power in the formation resonated, and the power that had slumbered inside him for six years was completely awakened.

A sudden flash of inspiration.

Bao Liang instinctively stretched out his right hand, and his newly awakened power naturally surged into his palm.

An orange-red elemental sphere appeared, and it was... still expanding.

Su Haitao leaned closer, looking intrigued. "What the heck is this? A physical Martial Soul or an elemental Martial Soul?"

"It should be... an elemental Martial Soul... right?" Bao Liang stared at the growing orange-red sphere, the joy in his heart quickly overwhelmed by a nameless sense of crisis. "But, Brother Tao, why do I feel like my Star of Doom is flashing right above my head..."

"Don't worry about that for now! What's your Martial Soul called? Hurry up and put it away so we can test your Soul Power! You obviously have Soul Power. Whether I can shed my title of 'Dream Crusher' depends on you!"

"Brother Tao, I think my Martial Soul is called... Explosion?" Bao Liang swallowed, his face gradually turning pale. "But why can't I put my Martial Soul away..."

The sphere finally stopped expanding.

Instead, in an instant, it burst into blinding white light.

"Well, crap..."

BOOM-!

A deafening explosion.

Hope Orphanage's free awakening room in the Sun Moon Empire blew up.