Douluo: Legend of the Holy Land

Chapter 1 The Rebirth of Douluo Continent

"Ouch—my head hurts so much!"

With a soft murmur, Xiao Yu opened his eyes with some difficulty, raised his hand to his forehead, and gently rubbed his temples to relieve the pain before sitting up.

"Wait a minute, this...this is my hand!"

The next moment, Xiao Yu realized something was wrong. The hands that came into view were definitely not the same hands he had seen before. These hands were childish and not the kind of hands a man in his twenties should have. Instead, they were similar to the hands of his nephew whom he had seen a few days ago.

"This body... Holy crap, how did I turn into a child?!"

Upon finally discovering the whole picture, Xiao Yu felt a wave of dizziness. Already suffering from a severe headache, he swayed and fell back onto the bed.

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"I've been transported to the Douluo Continent!"

Xiao Yu sat on the threshold, resting his chin on his hand, and sighed helplessly. What kind of luck did he have?

Xiao Yu vaguely remembered that the day before he transmigrated, several old classmates who had been busy since graduation invited him to a gathering. The old friends naturally drank heartily, and after a few drinks, they chatted about this and that. At one point, they talked about the Douluo Continent anime that had just finished airing and the protagonist Tang San.

Xiao Yu read the original novel when he was in high school. At that time, he didn't notice anything wrong. But as he grew older and gained more experience, he looked back and felt that something was not right.

Taking advantage of his drunken state, he said, "Tang San's life can be summarized into three stages. The first stage is my titled Douluo father, the second stage is when the God of Asura and the God of the Sea fed me, and the third stage is how to turn the ownerless Douluo Continent into the private property of my Tang family."

"Haha, that's a brilliant summary, no wonder you're Lao Xiao!" Xiao Yu's words instantly resonated with the remaining old friends.

Xiao Yu, emboldened by alcohol, boasted, "If I had Tang San's script, I could become a god too. In the early stages, with my father protecting me, who would dare to mess with me except the Spirit Hall, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, or Dugu Bo? In the later stages, when my father couldn't defeat the Spirit Hall alone, he sent two gods to protect me. Even if I died, I could be resurrected."

"No way! I was just joking around, and they actually dumped me here? What kind of mess have I made?!"

Xiao Yu shook his head in distress, but since he was already here, he might as well make the best of it. After all, he had experienced the harsh realities of society, and Xiao Yu's mental fortitude was quite strong. After realizing that he really couldn't leave, Xiao Yu had no choice but to settle down in Douluo Continent.

After several days of making inquiries, whether intentional or not, Xiao Yu finally managed to roughly confirm the timeline and his own identity.

The original owner of this body was also named Xiao Yu, and he was four years old this year. He was an abandoned baby or an orphan, and was picked up by the village chief of a small village. However, the village chief had both a son and a daughter and had no interest in adopting Xiao Yu. Instead, he packed him up and sent him to an orphanage in the city.

As for Xiao Yu's location, it was not the famous Notting City or Soto City in the book, but thousands of miles away from the legendary Holy Soul Village. This place was under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Sylvia, another vassal kingdom of the Heaven Dou Empire, located in the northwesternmost part of the Heaven Dou Empire, which was exactly on the opposite side of Holy Soul Village, which was located in the southwestern part of the Heaven Dou Empire.

Currently, the renowned Douluo Qian Xunji is still serving as Pope, meaning that the even more famous God King Tang should not have arrived in this world yet.

However, Xiao Yu, who lives in a remote town and is just an ordinary member of an orphanage, has no way of knowing the exact timeline, such as whether Bibi Dong has experienced the secret room incident, whether the most beautiful and elegant woman in Douluo Continent, the Angel God Qian Renxue, who is admired by countless perverts on Earth, has descended into the world.

Although he couldn't learn much, in order to better establish himself in the Douluo Continent, Xiao Yu adjusted his mindset and began to train himself to lay a good foundation for his martial soul awakening at the age of six.

As for training methods, Xiao Yu is not Tang San and does not have a cheat-like skill like the Xuan Tian Gong. Therefore, he can only choose the most primitive method, which is also the most common method in Shrek Academy: running, specifically weighted running.

I have to add here that although Yu Xiaogang, like his beloved disciple Tang San, has terrible character, his theoretical knowledge is not entirely without merit.

According to Xiao Yu's guess, his theory should be based on the information collection of his own family, the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan, and the Spirit Hall. He extracted, analyzed, summarized, and refined the information from these massive amounts of data to make bold guesses and hypotheses. It was definitely not just a simple case of plagiarism, otherwise it would be difficult to deceive others.

Bibi Dong, with her love-struck mind, is relatively easy to deal with. However, later, Ning Fengzhi, the sect leader of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, and Emperor Xue Ye also highly praised him, elevating him to the position of National Preceptor of the Heaven Dou Empire and entrusting him with the training of the royal family's directly subordinate Soul Master Legion. If it were simply a matter of winning over his disciple Tang San, then high-ranking positions and generous rewards would suffice. After all, Tang San is an elite force directly under the Heaven Dou Empire; what if Yu Xiaogang ruins him during training?

However, to be fair, Yu Xiaogang's theories are by no means invincible. Xiao Yu guessed that because his own strength was still limited, his theories and the training of Soul Masters still had many flaws, but they were a good guide for low-level Soul Masters.

Actually, it's quite simple. Low-level Soul Masters can train their bodies by carrying stones while running. However, as their strength increases and they reach a certain level with extremely strong Soul Power, they can easily carry not only a basket of stones but also a hundred baskets of stones. Of course, this loses its original purpose.

This also explains why Ning Fengzhi and Emperor Xue Ye dared to entrust him with training the Heaven Dou Empire's Soul Master Legion. As lower-ranking officers in the army, the highest cultivation level was probably Soul King, and most should be at the Soul Sect, Soul Venerable, or Great Soul Master level, which perfectly suited Yu Xiaogang's theoretical and operational standards. As for the high-ranking members of the Soul Master Legion with profound cultivation, they had a lot of military affairs to handle and no time to come and receive guidance from Yu Xiaogang.

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A year later, as the sun set, Xiao Yu returned to the orphanage after a day of training. However, the fact that Xiao Yu could return so leisurely suggests that his training intensity hadn't reached the level of the Shrek Seven Devils in the book.

This is understandable, after all, after their grueling training every day, they have medicinal baths to soak in, while Xiao Yu, an orphan with nothing to his name, doesn't have such conditions. Training too hard might cause irreparable damage to his body, thus affecting his future.

Just as Xiao Yu finished showering and was preparing to go home for a good night's sleep, he overheard two caregivers from the orphanage talking on the way: "Have you heard? Pope Qian Xunji of the Spirit Hall passed away a few days ago, and Holy Maiden Bibi Dong has taken over the papacy!"

(End of this chapter)