Reborn as Huo Yuhao, but also in Battle Through the Heavens

Chapter 3 Huo Yuhao and Xiao Yan

Gamma Empire, Utan City

A year has passed since that incident, and the initial enthusiasm has dwindled to almost nothing. People only talk about it when they encounter Xiao Yan himself. As for Xiao Yan, after numerous unsuccessful attempts to restore his Dou Qi, he seems to have given up and rarely appears in public anymore.

"Everyone else who transmigrates becomes a powerful and influential protagonist, but I'm stuck here as a useless nobody!"

On the back mountain, Xiao Yan lay on a tree and reached out to pick two fruits.

"Damn it, God! If I were just a good-for-nothing, that would be one thing, but you gave me talent, yet a year ago you made all my battle qi disappear..."

While cursing the heavens, Xiao Yan took a big bite of the fruit in his hand.

"Ptooey—" Xiao Yan spat it out the moment it entered his mouth, tossing the fruit aside. "It's so sour, even drinking water will make my teeth ache!"

"I didn't see any water, only fruit falling from the sky!"

A crisp sound came from under the tree. Xiao Yan looked down and saw a girl in a white dress looking up with a bright smile, still holding the fruit that Xiao Yan had just dropped.

Xiao Xun'er took a small bite of the fruit in her hand and smiled:

"Isn't it pretty sweet!"

Xiao Yan jumped down from the tree and asked, "Xun'er, what are you doing here?"

"Today is the day the clan tests its battle aura, you haven't completely forgotten, have you?"

Xiao Xun'er stepped forward, put her hands behind her back, and brought her face close to Xiao Yan's.

"Ah, oh oh!"

Xiao Yan turned his head and took a step back, saying somewhat dejectedly:

"What's the use of remembering? It'll just make us a laughingstock among the snobbish people in the clan."

"Since Brother Xiao Yan isn't going, then I won't go either."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan hurriedly said, "You can't not go, or those old guys will blame me for leading you astray! Never mind, let's go back together!"

Xiao Xun'er smiled and said, "Okay, then we need to hurry!"

……

Dusk is the busiest time of day in the market town of Wutan.

"Have you heard? The Xiao family is testing their battle qi this time..."

"Haha, I heard that Xiao Yan will have to climb up a ladder this time!"

"He really is a good-for-nothing. He only has three levels of battle qi right now, right?"

"Hahaha!"

Almost every merchant and mercenary was gossiping about the day's happenings, while also introducing Xiao Yan's exciting life to everyone who came to Wutan City.

Outside the city, Huo Yuhao saw the city gate of Wutan City and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Finally home."

Huo Yuhao has been in Dou Qi Continent for more than ten years. Since being taken in by Xiao Zhan, Huo Yuhao has been living in Wutan City as his adopted son.

In the God Realm, Huo Yuhao was accidentally swept into a spacetime turbulence. When he first arrived at the Dou Qi Continent, his body degenerated into that of a newborn child for unknown reasons. His body was extremely weak, and his spiritual sea was almost shattered, making it impossible for him to mobilize his spiritual power. It could be said that a stray dog ​​on the roadside could have killed our God of Emotions.

Thanks to Xiao Zhan for bringing him back to the Xiao family and taking good care of him, Huo Yuhao, who had never experienced fatherly love before, was naturally moved and truly regarded Xiao Zhan as his father and the Xiao family as his own home.

Huo Yuhao passed through the city gate and headed straight for the Xiao family.

As they passed through the market, a commotion arose, and Huo Yuhao suddenly stopped and went inside.

A vendor was gossiping with a customer about the news he had just heard when a travel-worn, handsome young man with blue hair interrupted him.

"Excuse me, what were you saying about Xiao Yan?"

The vendor glanced at Huo Yuhao, but didn't recognize him.

"Are you new here? You haven't even heard of any of the famous people in our Wutan City? What do you do for a living?"

"Is that Xiao Yan from the Xiao family? What did you say happened to him?"

Huo Yuhao didn't explain, but continued to ask.

"Let me tell you, Xiao Yan was originally a genius in our Wutan City, but a year ago, his Dou Qi suddenly disappeared..."

"Thank you." Huo Yuhao didn't ask any more questions, turned around instantly, and sped up, disappearing from the vendor's sight in the blink of an eye.

"What's wrong? Are you seeing things?" The vendor rubbed his eyes, looking surprised.

……

The night wind howled, the moonlight spilled, and the figure on the roof tightened his outer robe.

"Ouch—it's so cold today! I should have worn two more layers."

Xiao Yan lay on the roof, his hands folded behind his head, a blade of grass dangling from his mouth.

Tap-tap ...

"I told you not to disturb me. I'm currently cultivating with the help of moonlight. I'll soon have mastered my divine skills!"

"I've never heard of you knowing this kind of skill."

"Yuhao?"

Xiao Yan quickly turned around, somewhat surprised:

"When did you get back? What have you been doing all year?"

After seeing the boy's appearance clearly, Xiao Yan paused in his speech.

"Hahaha! You didn't go stealing landmines, did you?! What a pathetic sight you're in!"

Huo Yuhao laughed and said, "I heard someone didn't eat enough for dinner and is now starving here?"

"I'm definitely not full yet."

Xiao Yan stood up, revealing a tender and affectionate expression.

"While you were away training for a year, I couldn't eat or sleep!"

"If you do that again, you'll never eat again for the rest of your life."

"Haha, just kidding, just kidding, let's go to the usual spot."

……

Beside a stream, Huo Yuhao and Xiao Yan sat on the ground, the flickering fire dispelling the chill of the night. An unknown magical beast sat on the fire, its grease dripping onto the firewood with a crackling sound. Huo Yuhao used a small brush to brush his secret sauce onto the meat. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan, ignoring the scalding heat, was gulping down a bowl of freshly cooked fish soup.

"Ha—I feel like I'm alive again!" Xiao Yan wiped his mouth.

"Is the meat ready?"

"No." Huo Yuhao's hands didn't stop moving as he carefully brushed the sauce all over the monster's body, even inside.

"Just wait a little longer."

After saying that, Huo Yuhao turned his head and asked the question that concerned him the most.

"What's wrong with your fighting spirit?"

Xiao Yan stared longingly at the roasted meat, and said indifferently:

"Not long after you left, my battle aura suddenly disappeared. No matter how I cultivate, I can't recover it. I've come to terms with it. Anyway, I'm not the protagonist. It wouldn't be bad to go on to conquer the business world and become the richest man in the empire."

Huo Yuhao frowned and pressed for an answer:

"No way? What have you tried this past year? Don't tell me you've been lying in bed the whole time."

"After my battle aura disappeared, no matter how I cultivated, I couldn't retain it; it would dissipate quickly. I've consumed a lot of various medicinal herbs and pills during this time, and my father even invited Master Gu Ni from the Mittel Auction House to take a look, but nothing worked."

Seeing Huo Yuhao's grave expression, Xiao Yan realized something and hurriedly said, "It's definitely not the cultivation technique you gave us that's the problem. So many people in the Xiao family have practiced it, and not a single one of them has had any problems."

"My father and other elders also gave me a few cultivation techniques, but they are not as effective as your 'Zhou Tian Jue'. They deplete my battle qi much faster."

Huo Yuhao didn't reply. After thinking for a moment, he decided to observe for himself.

"Xiao Yan, why don't you try cultivating now?"

"What a nuisance!" Xiao Yan complained as he sat cross-legged and began circulating his cultivation technique. At the same time, Huo Yuhao's eyes turned golden as he fully mobilized his spiritual power, covering Xiao Yan's body inside and out, including his dantian, leaving no possible abnormality undetected.

The primordial energy of heaven and earth was drawn in and rapidly merged into Xiao Yan's body, transforming into Dou Qi as his cultivation technique circulated. A small ball of shimmering white Dou Qi appeared in Xiao Yan's dantian.

Soon, a familiar feeling returned, and Xiao Yan smiled bitterly as the Dou Qi he had just cultivated disappeared again.

"Look..." Xiao Yan was about to speak when Huo Yuhao interrupted him.

"Just now, a surge of spiritual energy appeared in your dantian and absorbed your fighting spirit."

"Huh? Someone's messing with me?"

"I just sensed that the source of this spiritual energy is you, or more precisely, the ring you're wearing around your neck."

"How is this possible! This is..." Xiao Yan exclaimed in shock.

Before he could finish speaking, the ring inside Xiao Yan's clothes floated out automatically.

"Quite perceptive, little guy." A transparent figure with white hair and red eyes, dressed in a pure white robe, appeared on the ring.

Who are you, and why are you inside my ring? Have you been absorbing my fighting spirit all year?

Upon seeing the figure, Xiao Yan hurriedly took off his ring and threw it out, pointing at the figure and questioning it.

Yao Chen's soul hopped and skipped along with Xiao Yan's ring on the stream, but he showed no sign of stopping, a strange smile appearing on his handsome face.

"Hehehe, don't worry, I won't harm you. But I still have to thank you for the fighting spirit you've offered over the past year, otherwise I'm afraid I would have had to continue sleeping."

"Fuck you!"