Chapter 2: Crossing Over!

A brilliant white light gradually dimmed, and consciousness was slowly eroded by darkness.

Until a certain moment.

A filthy six- or seven-year-old child suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze filled with intense fear and a sense of relief from a narrow escape.

“Damn it, that old man! If he didn’t want to give me the prize, he didn’t have to drag me down with him!” The child cursed loudly, drawing strange looks from passersby.

However, seeing this dirty child, the passersby assumed he was just a neglected, mentally unstable street urchin and quickly went about their business.

“Wait, this voice…” The child was startled, quickly touching his throat and looking down at his body.

On the verge of tears, he muttered, “No way, I really crossed over?”

He saw that he was wearing tattered coarse linen clothes. Through the holes, he could see his grimy skin, clearly unwashed for a long time. Most notably, this body appeared very young.

It lacked the usual baby fat of other children, appearing thin and frail instead.

As his senses gradually returned, he first smelled the stench from his unwashed body, then felt the weakness from malnutrition, and finally, a throbbing headache as the original memories of this body flooded his mind.

Holding his head, the child sat on the ground for a long time before slowly standing up, looking at his hands with a complicated expression.

“So that’s how it is…”

After reviewing the original memories of this body, he understood his situation.

Douluo Continent!

It turned out that the shopkeeper really did send him across worlds, and to the world of a novel he had read before. Although the novel’s plot was criticized, the world itself was undeniably fascinating.

Surprisingly, this body’s original identity was quite extraordinary, for his name was Yu Tianjie!

Yes, Yu, as in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s Yu. He was the grandson of Yu Luomian, the second patriarch of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Yu Tianjie had two older brothers, Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin, aged thirteen and twelve respectively.

“What a joke.” Yu Tianjie looked at his hands mockingly, lamenting the tragic fate of this body’s previous owner.

The sparse soul power in his body faintly surged, and a weak light glowed in his hands. When the light faded, two short daggers appeared in his hands.

This was his martial soul and the main reason he was expelled from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

In the original Yu Tianjie’s memories, he didn’t know why he was expelled from the clan. Before he awakened his martial soul, his life was happy; as Yu Luomian’s grandson, he held a high status in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

However, less than a month after his martial soul awakened, his status and treatment plummeted. His once loving grandfather Yu Luomian became cold and disappointed upon seeing him.

Eventually, he was expelled from the clan. How could a six-year-old survive on his own? As a street urchin, he eventually starved to death.

Just as he took his last breath, his body was taken over by the soul from another world.

“Double daggers… Innate soul power of level one.” Yu Tianjie muttered, “No wonder you were expelled from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. What you couldn’t understand is quite clear to me…”

The last person expelled from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was the useless Yu Xiaogang. Now, it was his turn.

But it made sense.

The eldest grandson, Yu Tianheng, inherited the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul, possessed exceptional talent, and had close ties with the granddaughter of the titled Douluo Dugu Bo, potentially bringing a titled Douluo to their clan.

The second grandson, Yu Tianxin, also inherited the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul. Though he had no illustrious in-laws, his talent surpassed Yu Tianheng’s, with potential to break through to titled Douluo himself.

Even though these were future possibilities, both brothers, at twelve and thirteen, were close to breaking through to Soul Elder. This level of talent was rare in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

As for the third grandson, not only did he fail to inherit the powerful Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul, but he inherited a dagger martial soul from a concubine, mutated into double daggers, resulting in only level one innate soul power.

With true dragons ahead, Yu Tianjie seemed like a clown.

Moreover, being the child of an unfavored concubine, Yu Luomian simply neglected him, eventually despising him enough to have him expelled from the clan.

Unbeknownst to both Yu Luomian and Yu Tianjie, Yu Luomian had left some compensation for Yu Tianjie. Although not much, a hundred gold soul coins were sufficient for him to live until adulthood.

However, the two guards who escorted Yu Tianjie out of the clan coveted the money, thinking it too much for a discarded child, and split the coins between themselves.

Yu Tianjie never knew about this.

He only knew that after being abandoned in Heaven Dou City, he struggled to survive by scavenging, but died within three months.

Yu Tianjie…

When Yu Luomian named him, he probably hoped he would be a prodigy like Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin, a hero of his generation.

Unfortunately, things didn’t turn out that way.

After silently standing for a long time, reviewing the memories of his body’s past six years, Yu Tianjie smiled wryly.

Crossing over was one thing, but ending up in such a useless body was another. Survival itself was a challenge, a dire start indeed.

“Is this what the grand prize of crossing over is?” Yu Tianjie frowned deeply, feeling very dissatisfied.

Yet, he couldn’t help but recall the strange “magic” character on the scratch-off ticket for the grand prize.

That character now loomed large in his mind, eventually transforming back into the scratch-off ticket.

Simultaneously, a mechanical, emotionless voice echoed in Yu Tianjie’s mind.

“Crossing over completed. Now issuing a grand prize gift package.”

The gift package had arrived?

Though the voice was mechanical and devoid of emotion, it sounded heavenly to Yu Tianjie at this moment.

Great! Wonderful!

I knew a grand prize crossing couldn’t start off this badly.

Tears of joy filled Yu Tianjie’s eyes.

(End of chapter)