Chapter 2

Douluo Continent[1]

southwestern Heaven Dou Empire[2]

Fasinou Province

Holy Spirit Village

"Holy Spirit village" If one only heard its name, it might sound like a rather impressive village. In fact, this was merely a single village of three hundred south of Fasinuo province's Nuoding city. The reason why it was called "Holy Spirit" was because in a legend, a hundred years ago a Spirit Sage ranked Spirit Master originated from there.

Holy Spirit village has a vast expanse of farmland where grain and vegetables were produced and were sent to supply Nuoding city.

Nuoding city was located in the middle of Fasinuo province, and while it wasn't considered a major city, the border of another empire was very close to it and naturally, merchants of both great empires traded there. Consequently, Nuoding city flourished and the lives of the commoners in the villages around the city were better than elsewhere.

Under the shade of a tree there was a thin and small 5 or 6-year old boy with short black hair with light blue tips, gray eyes, pale skin and face as if sculpted with jade with a stalk of blue silver grass in his mouth looking lazily at an approaching thin and small silhouette

It seemed to be only a five or six-year old child. If you look closely they look similar but this one has plain black short hair and an ordinary face

Evidently, every day this child endured the heat of the sun. His skin was a healthy wheat colour, his black short hair appeared very neat, and his clothes, though simple, were clean.

They are Tang Yuntian and Tang San

"San Ge your finally back hurry up and make dinner"

I said to my brother

Starting from four years old, before Tang San was tall enough to reach the kitchen counter, cooking was already his daily task; even if he had to stand on a stool in order to be able to reach the top of the kitchen counter.

It wasn't because Tang Hao demanded it, but rather because if he didn't do it, Tang San and Tang Yuntian would practically never be able to eat their fill.

"If you're hungry you know you can cook too

all you have to do is heat up the porridge it's not complicated"

Tang San's lips twitched

Every day, before going up the hill, Tang San always made sure to put rice in the pot to cook and prepare the firewood so that when he returned, the congee would be cooked well.

"Why would I do that when you can do it for me"

I replied sheepishly with a smile

"All you do is either sleep, watch the clouds or stars can't you at least exercise"

Tang San looked over speechlessly

"Sleeping is much better than waking up every morning to watch the sun rise"

I replied with a smirk

"I'm going to go wake up father then set up dinner"

Tang San said quickly before running off

"Haha"

I laughed lightly when he disappeared

'I remember that time I followed him when he went out to practice purple demon eye I can't believe he wakes up so early every day, when we finally got there I asked what he does here everyday and he started to become a little panicked and he came up with watching the sunrise'

'Out of all the techniques he has the one I like the most is purple demon eyes even though I would have to wake up early to cultivate it but he never taught me, so now I tease him about his genius excuse every now and then, although I never did ask him directly and pretended that I believed him'

*sigh*

' I can't believe it's been 5 years since I came to this world, time seemed to pass so slow but at the same time it was pretty fast when I look back at it '

'I don't know what I was expecting when I first came to this world, it was really boring as a baby especially with an irresponsible father who constantly drinks and is depressed all day and also there's no beautiful mother '

'The quality of life so far is terrible my dad barely paid attention to us especially after me and Tang San turned 4, when Tang San started cooking daily which surprisingly isn't bad even though it can barely be called rice congee but the real bad part is that there's no bathroom and instead of baths I have to get water from the well to wash off '

' I'm pretty sure it's because we're poor and my dad doesn't really care about hygiene I guess he just uses spirit power to clean himself, I don't know how Tang San never noticed that he never washed himself or how he barely eats and is able to be a blacksmith and lift those heavy hammers easily '

'Can't he build a better and bigger house it probably won't even take much time and effort does he really not care even if he's depressed can't he take out a couple gold coins to make someone do it for him there's no way he has no money as a titled douluo'

'I don't understand why he always pretends to be poor it's not like bandits will come and even if they do he can take care of them without anyone noticing and I doubt spirit hall will come if he takes out a lil money sometimes I'm tempted to just ask him or try to expose him'

'Of course the worst part is no anime, manga, games, novels or any sort of entertainment whatsoever of course besides watching clouds and stargazing'

' Well so far there's some good things I've discovered for example the environment is so much better than on Earth, life here is extremely leisurely after I got used to no technology I've had a pretty relaxing life and it's fun teasing Tang San about how mature he is or about all of his techniques'

I reminisced

"Xiao Tian dinner's ready"

Tang San yells

"Coming"

I yelled back before walking into the house

[1] (斗罗大陆) Also the name of the original novel, "Douluo Dalu". "Dou" means fight, "Luo" means gauze or "to sift", It might be meant to be read as "battle sifting continent", as in a world of advancement through battle, but that makes for a terrible title.

[2] (Tian dou di guo 天斗帝国) "Heaven Fighting Empire"