Douluo Continent: Reborn as Yuhao, they all have ulterior motives.

Chapter 5 The Blacksmith Boy (New book launch, please add to your collection!)

Huo Yuhao looked at the bracelet handed to him, then looked up and gave Zhu Lu a deep look.

Zhu Lu didn't notice the change in Huo Yuhao's expression. She glanced at Dai Huabin beside her and handed the bracelet to Huo Yuhao.

"You'd better hurry, I might not be able to keep this a secret for long."

"..."

Huo Yuhao took a deep breath, took the bracelet, and his voice became much gentler.

"Thank you, I'll return it to you next time we meet."

In his previous life, he was the god of emotions, and he was very sensitive to emotions. Although he no longer held the divine position, he could still judge whether a six-year-old child was lying by looking into their eyes and the emotions they exuded.

He knew that the other party's help was not just about money. With the storage bracelet, he could help his mother pack her luggage more quickly, and she would no longer need to carry a cumbersome burden on her way out of the Duke's mansion.

Leaving the Duke's mansion was the only option.

Even if he hadn't crippled Dai Huabin, he couldn't have let his mother stay here any longer. After all, the news of her awakening martial spirit had reached the Duchess's ears, and suppression was inevitable. Continuing to stay here would only cause the events of his previous life to repeat themselves. Beating Dai Huabin now only made the plan a little more urgent.

As for whether his mother was willing to leave the Duke's mansion, he already had a plan in mind. This time, no matter what method he used, even if it meant deceiving her, he would trick his mother into leaving this place.

Zhu Lu only slowly withdrew her gaze after Huo Yuhao's figure disappeared into the woods. Looking at the pebbles at her feet, she couldn't help but kick one. Unexpectedly, the pebble flew up, hit a big tree, and by sheer coincidence, bounced onto Dai Huabin's head.

With a loud thud, Dai Huabin convulsed as if electrocuted, exacerbating his already severe injuries.

Zhu Lu was startled, but then couldn't help but laugh out loud at the comical scene. Most of the fear that lingered in her heart disappeared, replaced by curiosity that grew with her rapid heartbeat.

Who would have thought that just by accompanying his mother to the Duke's mansion and being persuaded to meet this supposedly exceptionally talented second young master, he would witness such a shocking scene.

The entire battle could be described as utterly devastating. A boy of similar age to her, who didn't even have a spirit ring, actually killed four guards so easily. No one would believe it if they heard about it.

"What will the other person be like next time we meet?"

……

Heavenly Soul Empire.

Tian Dou City.

Over the course of ten thousand years, although the location has changed, the symbolic name was adopted by the Heavenly Soul Empire for its capital in order to commemorate the prosperity of the Heavenly Dou Empire ten thousand years ago.

In an inconspicuous alley within the city, a somewhat shabby-looking blacksmith shop is located. The dilapidated signboard is covered in dust, but the words "Old Tang Blacksmith Shop" can be vaguely discerned. Inside the shop, a few pieces of armor made of fine iron and some swords that look to be of good quality are displayed in the display cases.

A child who looked only five or six years old and had a very ordinary appearance was sitting on the steps in front of the shop, staring blankly at the street in front of him where few people passed by.

The boy was none other than Tang San, the divine enforcer who had just won a victory in the factional struggle of the divine realm, only to be betrayed by his good son-in-law and dragged into the temporal turbulence to perish together with him.

Memories of his past life kept surfacing in his mind. With his extraordinary wisdom and ingenious planning, he successfully won the power struggle against the God of Destruction. The God of Destruction, because of the sudden appearance of the spacetime turbulence that only he could vaguely sense, sacrificed himself to protect the safety of the divine realm.

With the departure of the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life, the four senior members of the Divine Realm Committee, all of whom had served longer than him, eventually left the Divine Realm for various reasons.

A group of dragons cannot be without a leader for even a day, and for the sake of the overall situation of the divine realm, he naturally has an inescapable responsibility.

However, just when he was about to be forced to take over all matters related to the God Realm, his son-in-law, the God of Emotions Huo Yuhao, betrayed him at the critical moment and joined forces with the remnants of the God of Destruction to launch a sneak attack on him!

Thinking of this, a hint of ferocity appeared in Tang San's eyes.

"Huo Yuhao, I kindly nurtured you as my successor, yet you betrayed me for a soul beast! Such ingratitude is worthy of your death!"

After merging with the memories of the original owner of this body, Tang San confirmed that he had indeed been reborn back to Douluo Continent, even back to ten thousand years before he entered the spacetime turbulence, during the time when Huo Yuhao was developing in Douluo Continent.

Whether it was fate or a coincidence, the name of his body was also Tang San. Once, he heard his father talking in his sleep while drunk. It seemed that his father was often bullied by his third-born brother when he was young, so he gave him this name. As a result, the owner of this body was often beaten and scolded by his father after he grew up.

His father in this life, Tang Ba, like Tang Hao, was once a disciple of the Haotian Sect. He was the eighth among his peers, hence the name Tang Ba. However, he later violated the sect rules and became a sinner of the Haotian Sect, and was eventually stripped of his cultivation and expelled from the sect.

After losing his soul power, Tang Ba could only rely on his Clear Sky Hammer martial soul. He found a job as a blacksmith in Heaven Dou City and was called Lao Ba by his neighbors.

Logically speaking, people who come from the Haotian Sect should be quite good at blacksmithing. Although they might not become extremely wealthy, they should be able to make a living with their skills.

The problem naturally lies with Tang Ba himself. Although he was expelled from the Haotian Sect, he still retained the arrogance typical of disciples of a reclusive major sect. In the first few years after opening his blacksmith shop, Tang Ba wouldn't even glance at orders for things like farm tools, only accepting orders for armor and weapons.

However, such items are generally only purchased by the imperial army, and are handled by specialized blacksmiths. Occasionally, when an order comes out, it is snatched up by blacksmiths with connections, and it simply doesn't fall into the hands of a small blacksmith like him who has no reputation whatsoever and whose shop is in the most remote place imaginable.

Furthermore, now that we live in the era of soul tools, the Heavenly Soul Empire naturally focuses on soul tools and doesn't pay as much attention to armor and swords as before. With less demand, blacksmiths can only compete fiercely and lower prices, resulting in little profit from armor and weapons.

In contrast, if one could receive an order to forge a soul tool, it would be an order that could sustain them for three years. Although blacksmiths cannot make core formations, they can make the outer shell of soul tools!

It should be noted that in order to catch up with the Sun Moon Empire's soul tools, all three empires have invested a lot of money in this field, and even a little bit of profit from it would be enough for them to make a fortune.

However, as a typical representative of the conservative faction among the hidden sects, the Clear Sky Sect can be said to have an extreme aversion to soul tools. Tang Ba, as a disciple of the Clear Sky Sect, was naturally unwilling to accept such orders. Occasionally, when he was drunk, he would curse the Sun Moon Empire and soul tools in front of Tang San.

Just as Tang San was sorting through the original owner's memories of the past six years, a voice filled with anger came from the shop behind him.

"Tang San! Where have you been? Get back here for dinner!"

(End of this chapter)