Chapter 1: Both Parents Died Just After Birth? Wolftaken!
Douluo Continent, Spirit City.
Xie Family.
A man who appeared to be around thirty years old paced back and forth in front of a room, with a two-year-old child standing beside him.
Suddenly, a baby's cry came from inside the room, and the middle-aged man was overjoyed. He quickly knocked on the door and asked, "How is it? Has my wife given birth?"
But the urgent voice of the midwife came from inside the room: "Lord Xie, madam… Madam is carrying twin dragons and phoenixes this time. The older brother has already come out, and now there's still the younger sister."
That's right—the person before him was Xie Tian, the father of Xie Yue and Hu Liena.
It wasn't until half an hour later, with the successful birth of the second child, that Xie Tian finally breathed a complete sigh of relief.
Although he and Hu Leyao were both Soul Masters of considerable strength, as a father and husband, he couldn't help but feel nervous.
The little boy beside him looked innocent and delighted: "Dad, am I going to have a younger brother and sister?"
Xie Tian squatted down, smiling as he stroked Xie Yue's head: "Yes, Yue'er, you are an older brother now. In the future, you must set an example. If Dad and Mom are not around, you must protect your two younger siblings."
Xie Yue also nodded heavily, his eyes filled with determination.
Subsequently, the room door opened, and Xie Tian strode forward. He didn't immediately go to see the two children, but first concerned himself with Hu Leyao's condition. Looking at her pale face and beads of cold sweat, Xie Tian's face filled with heartache: "Yao'er, how are you feeling now? It's all these two rascals; when they grow up, I'll make sure they repay you well!"
The two: "Alright, alright, you two are truly in love. We are just an accident."
Hu Leyao, however, smiled: "Brother Tian, I've already given birth once, so there's no danger. It's just that, perhaps because of giving birth to twins this time, my physical strength and soul power were significantly depleted. Alright, come and see the two children."
A boy and a girl, both infants, wrapped in baby blankets, now lay beside Hu Leyao's pillow.
"Yao'er, you name them. We agreed that Xie Yue would take my surname, and the second child would take yours."
Hu Leyao originally wanted the boy to take Xie Tian's surname, as there were two children, but Xie Tian felt it didn't matter. There was no need to divide it like that; anyway, he was the only one left in his family. He would love the three children regardless of their surname. Of course, his wife came first.
This made Hu Leyao laugh and scold him, saying that they were an old couple, yet he still said such cheesy things.
Ultimately, the boy was named Hu Bai, and the girl was named Hu Liena.
Hu Bai lay to the side, watching the two display their affection, and sighed inwardly. Were these two his parents in this life?
When he heard the names Hu Liena and Xie Yue, the brother introduced to him, he was certain: this was undoubtedly the World of Douluo Continent. He had been reborn into this world after dying on Blue Star. Damn that truck driver!
Since in the original work, Hu Leyao's second birth was only Hu Liena, Hu Bai's existence was not possession but rather a rebirth into a fetus.
There wasn't much mention of Hu Liena's parents in the original work, but it was certain that they had died for some reason before Hu Liena's Martial Soul Awakening. Didn't this mean he would be orphaned from a young age?
In other words, this would be a typical protagonist template, but in this world, Hu Bai sighed. If possible, he would try his best to keep his parents by his side to take care of them, at least so they wouldn't die inexplicably.
Because he had just been born, an infant's brain capacity couldn't support him thinking too much, so he soon fell into a deep sleep.
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Six years later.
Now, Hu Bai and Hu Liena both possessed exquisitely beautiful faces that could charm all beings, perfectly inheriting Hu Leyao's temperament.
Hu Bai wore a white robe and had long, snow-white hair. Although there was still a hint of childishness on his face, he was already a handsome kid.
"Brother Bai, Na Na, Father is taking you to the Supreme Pontiff Palace today for your Martial Soul Awakening. Let's hurry and go. I wonder if you two will awaken Father's Moon Blade Martial Soul or Mother's Charming Fox Martial Soul."
"I think Brother Bai and I will both awaken the Charming Fox Martial Soul. Mother said that a Martial Soul will subtly influence a Soul Master's temperament, even before awakening. Look at me, I'm naturally beautiful, and Brother Bai is even more so—he's the best-looking among the three of us."
Hu Bai retorted helplessly: "Na Na, you should say 'handsome,' not 'beautiful' when describing a man. Or, you can say I'm good-looking."
"Hmph, I won't, nah nah nah~~" Hu Liena playfully stuck out her small tongue.
Xie Yue nodded; he strongly agreed with what his sister said. As he walked, he said, "Na Na is right. Sometimes, I feel you are too intelligent, little brother. At such a young age, you could discover that whale rubber is not only an aphrodisiac but also capable of improving a Soul Master's physique.
If you hadn't submitted this discovery to Spirit Hall, allowing Mother and Father to stay two years ago, they might have already…"
Two years ago, Xie Yue awakened his Martial Soul, Moon Blade, with level 9 innate soul power. Spirit Hall also assigned a mission to Xie Tian and Hu Leyao, who had been resting for many years: there were suspected large numbers of Wolftaken appearing within the Heaven Dou Empire, and they needed to lead Spirit Hall Soul Masters to encircle and suppress them.
At that time, Hu Bai went crazy and insisted that Xie Tian and Hu Leyao not go on the mission unless Spirit Hall dispatched a Titled Douluo to accompany them.
Undoubtedly, this was initially rejected by Bibi Dong. Although Wolftaken were cunning by nature, Xie Tian and Hu Leyao, as Soul Saint powerhouses, even possessed a Martial Soul Fusion skill. Wasn't it a simple matter to deal with a group of Wolftaken?
But at that time, Hu Bai had a very strong premonition. He felt that if he didn't do something, his parents might perish on this mission.
One must know that in the original work, Tang San and his group encountered Wolftaken and had a very difficult fight. Even with Tang San's cheating, Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun still suffered considerable injuries.
The strength of an ordinary Wolftaken might only be at the level of rank twenty or thirty, but Wolftaken were pack creatures. Five hundred Wolftaken could resist ten thousand soldiers.
And in this world of Douluo, whether a Titled Douluo could resist ten thousand soldiers is still debatable.
Although a Titled Douluo's strength was formidable, their soul power was limited!
Ultimately, Bibi Dong personally used her soul power to test Xie Yue's physique. Having just awakened his Martial Soul, he could already withstand a soul ring of about six hundred years, breaking through the theoretical limit for the first soul ring announced by Yu Xiaogang!
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End of Chapter