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

Chapter 6 What? Awakening a Martial Soul costs money? (New book launch, please add to your collection!)

Upon hearing the sound, Tang San frowned slightly, stood up, dusted off his backside, and walked into the shop.

Although, according to his memory, this father often beat and scolded him, for someone who hadn't experienced much fatherly love in his previous two lives, the fact that the other person was able to cook for him after he turned six and give him someone to call "Dad" was already very satisfying.

After all, he was an orphan in his first life, and Tang Hao in his second life did not give him any fatherly love when he was young. In fact, after he took the initiative to cook, the task of cooking fell on his shoulders.

As the capital, Tiandou City is extremely valuable, and Tang Ba's ability to acquire even one shop was already at its limit. Therefore, they made do with their daily meals and lodging in the foundry at the back of the shop.

Since Tiandou City is located in the northern part of the continent, the temperature is relatively low for most of the year, so sleeping in the foundry room can help keep warm by the heat emitted by the furnace.

As soon as Tang San entered the foundry, he saw a disheveled middle-aged man carrying two plates of food out of the kitchen. The man's face darkened visibly as soon as he saw Tang San.

"You know you're back when you hear 'dinner'? You make me wait on you all day long, even serving you the dishes. You useless thing, do I have to feed you too?!"

The man is naturally Tang San's father after his rebirth, Tang Ba.

Seeing Tang San lower his head and remain silent, Tang Ba snorted coldly and raised his chin toward the place where wine bottles were piled up.

"Go get me two bottles of wine."

"Okay, Dad."

After rummaging through a pile of empty bottles for a while, Tang San's face gradually showed an embarrassed expression. He looked at Tang Ba and whispered.

"Dad, it seems like all the wine is gone."

Upon hearing this, Tang Ba clicked his tongue in annoyance. After searching his entire body and only managing to pull out two silver soul coins, his expression grew increasingly displeased.

The blacksmith shop wasn't doing well, and nobody knew if they'd get any work in the next few days. If they used the little money they had left to buy wine, they were afraid they'd starve.

"Alright, come over and eat. Why didn't your mother take you with her back then? Now I can't even drink..."

Without any restraint, Tang Ba vented his emotions on Tang San, plopped down in his seat, picked up his rice bowl, and started eating.

There were only two vegetarian dishes on the table. The one in front of Tang Ba had some minced meat on it, which was meant to be eaten with drinks.

Tang San could only eat another purely vegetarian dish, but this was nothing to him, since he had survived the days when he could only drink plain porridge in his previous life.

You have to understand, the other party is his father!

In Tang San's view, no matter how wrong the father is, he is still the father. In his first life, he had heard a saying: "Of all virtues, filial piety is the most important."

Although he was an orphan at the time, he longed to have a family, so he wholeheartedly agreed with this statement.

Perhaps it was this mindset that moved the heavens, so that in each of his subsequent rebirths, a father was by his side!

Tang San also had some impression of the mother mentioned by the other party. In his memory, she was a very beautiful woman. Although her appearance was not particularly stunning, she would be very eye-catching and outstanding among ordinary people.

As for how the two met, the original owner had heard his mother tell him when he was a child that after Tang Ba came to Tian Dou City, he was arrogant and his life was very difficult for the first few years. However, he was lucky because he came from Haotian Sect, so he was able to occasionally receive orders for hidden weapons from Tang Sect, the number one sect on the continent ten thousand years ago.

Although the Tang Clan had declined, Tang Ba still managed to earn some money by clinging to life, and his life gradually improved. It was during this time that his mother recognized Tang Ba's abilities and married him. Two years later, Tang San was born.

But the good times didn't last long. The decline of the Tang Clan continued. Before long, there were no more orders for Tang Ba. Having lost his biggest source of income, Tang Ba developed an alcoholic habit due to the pressure of life. He frequently argued with his mother, which eventually escalated into domestic violence.

At first, the mother hoped that the father would get out of his predicament and return to his former self, but what she got was disappointment after disappointment. Finally, when Tang was three or four years old, she could no longer bear it and chose to abandon her husband and child and fly away.

From then on, Tang Ba's drinking problem became even more serious. Not only did he curse the Tang Clan more often when he was drunk, but he also transferred all his anger at being abandoned by his mother onto Tang San.

Before this, Tang Ba named him Tang San as an outlet for his own grievances at the Clear Sky Sect. Now, with the two combined, the beatings and scoldings naturally became even more severe.

Of course, this is nothing to Tang San now. After all, filial piety is the most important virtue. No matter how his father treats him, he is still his father.

Coincidentally, although his mother was an ordinary person without soul power, her martial soul was Blue Silver Grass, while his father's martial soul was Clear Sky Hammer.

Thinking of this, Tang San couldn't help but feel a sense of destiny welling up in his heart. Overwhelmed with excitement, he looked up at Tang Ba and said.

"Dad, I'm six years old now. When can I awaken my martial soul?"

Tang Ba frowned slightly, looking at him as if he were an idiot. "What's the point of awakening a martial soul? With that money, I could have drunk countless times. I'm already being generous by feeding you, and you still want to spend my money to awaken your martial soul?"

Upon hearing this, Tang San was taken aback and subconsciously asked, "Isn't awakening a martial soul free?"

"free?"

Tang Ba chuckled, "There are free ones. You can awaken your martial soul for free by joining a noble family as a servant or by enlisting in the army. When you're older, I can indeed send you there."

"But I heard that ten thousand years ago, the Spirit Hall would help commoners awaken their spirits for free."

Upon hearing this, Tang Ba raised an eyebrow. "Oh? It seems you're not just someone who knows how to eat all the time? You even know about the Spirit Hall. Who told you that?"

However, he didn't dwell on it too much. Before Tang San could speak, he started talking again, but with a hint of sarcasm in his tone.

"The Spirit Hall used to awaken spirits for free, but where is the Spirit Hall now? It was destroyed ten thousand years ago."

Tang San's expression stiffened for a moment. If he were a god, he would naturally not care whether he could awaken his martial soul for free. After all, there are rules in the God Realm that gods cannot interfere with the lower realms at will.

As one of the three great enforcers of the God Realm, Tang San naturally had to set an example.

It was precisely because he always performed his duties diligently and never overstepped the rules that the two god-kings, the evil one and the good one, placed high hopes on him and entrusted the divine realm to him before leaving.

However, now, the bitter fruit he himself sowed ten thousand years ago has been presented to him.

He was forced to taste it himself.

(End of this chapter)