Douluo Dalu 2: Heavenly Eyed Douluo

Title: Chapter 1 — Worlds Beyond

Warning: Do no read this if you want spoilers!

Special thanks to ShadowDio for the numerous ideas and suggestions you shared with me to help create this storyline!

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"Hmhm....Which universe should I and my dear wives visit for our anniversary?" A man muttered as he stood in the vast, boundless space between galaxies, where stars shimmered like scattered diamonds on an endless canvas and varying planets spun lazily in the distance, each glowing with its unique hue.

The man, dressed in a regal dark-blue yukata trimmed with golden patterns resembling majestic dragons, exuded an aura of calm and chill vibe—which is crazy to see, considering he was standing afloat in the void. He had long, neck-length black hair tied into a loose ponytail, with a few stray strands framing his sharp yet relaxed features.

His deep blue eyes, as vast and mysterious as the cosmos itself, seemed to hold the secrets of countless worlds. They sparkled with a quiet curiosity, as though he were savoring the endless possibilities laid out before him. His posture was relaxed, one hand casually tucked into the pocket of his yukata while the other held a porcelain cup of steaming tea.

The man looked entirely at ease, an image of serene confidence, despite the swirling chaos of galaxies, stars, and cosmic winds that danced around him.

Huo Yuhao's eyes flickered, turning jet-black with the pupils shaped like intricate snowflakes, a chilling yet mesmerizing transformation that reflected the vast power he wielded.

A faint smile played on his lips, "I'll scout out a few worlds first. I don't want another repeat of last time, going in blindly and ending up in the middle of a divine war. Hmm. Now that I think about it....should I visit that world again? Before I left, I had felt the aura of that universe's chosen had been born. I think his surname was...Lin?"

As he was mumbling about his thoughts, the space around Huo Yuhao seemed to ripple faintly, and distortions of space-time energy surged as dozens of 'mirrors' appeared around him.

They were worlds: of parallel worlds, alternate timelines and distant realities, each one alive with its own unique tapestry of events and characters.

"Let's see...." Huo Yuhao hummed, leaning towards one of the mirrors.

The mirror shimmered like liquid glass, showing him of a familiar world—of a distant past, but with a different background. It was the Douluo Dalu, set during his father-in-law's youth—specifically Sea God Tang San's era.

The difference between this one and his own, was that there was another profession besides soul master—martial artist and alchemist!

Martial Artists are like soul masters, but they used mystical cultivation techniques and martial arts that gathers an energy called Dou Qi, which makes them typically stronger than almost all soul masters. And Alchemist is a branch-off of martial artists, they are primarily focused on making miracle pills.

"How fascinating. Just how wide is the difference of history between our two worlds for it to become like this?" Huo Yuhao muttered, observing the alternate reality before him.

His eyebrows raised when the viewing mirror rippled and showed him an image of a young man, lamenting his lack of strength and his lost genius as he threw away a black ring over a cliff.

"To show me this image....is this boy a heaven's chosen?"

Heaven's Chosen is a title that Huo Yuhao and the others Gods dubbed certain monstrously genius people as; for they have the potential to go beyond most "geniuses" and probably reach their level of power someday.

Huo Yuhao hummed and sped-up the viewing further, showing him more of the boy's story.

"Xiao Yan....hm? He's a reincarnator from another world? Oho. And the cultivation method he chose is certainly dangerous, yet is extremely rewarding. Should I recreate it and gift it to one of my children?"

Huo Yuhao pondered as he watched the world for a while before shifting his focus on another 'mirror'.

And in this viewing, it was in the same era as Tang San and there were no difference from this world to Huo Yuhao's, making him raise an eyebrow.

"Huh? Oh shoot, am I viewing my homeworld's past?"

Just as Huo Yuhao was confused, the mirror rippled and showed him an image of a young man meditating on a boulder. He had long reddish-black hair cascading down his back, handsome features, and a katana on his lap.

Moreover, there seems to be a mysterious energy surrounding him constantly—which is how the soul beasts had kept a hundred meter distance away from him, not daring to take a single step near.

Huo Yuhao hummed, taking a sip of his tea.

"Another Heaven's Chosen? Hoho. His name is Feng Qin, born in a small kingdom, lived a normal life, awakened a strange and mysterious martial soul....Eh? Isn't this the Magic Cube that woman showed me?" His eyes widened in shock, clearly recognizing it from a universe he visited before—specifically the one he accidently stumbled into.

An image of a beautiful woman, dressed in yellow robes, and her clothes flowed down the contours of her body like streams of water. Her eyebrows were curved as if she were deeply focused about something, her skin was as fair as snow, she was tall and had a curvaceous figure that most women would die to have.

'Miss Mo....'

Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes and sighed, "No. It doesn't seem like this one is the same one that she showed to me. Is it a divergent singularity?"

Divergent singularity is a extremely rare phenomenon that occurs when something from another world travels into another and becomes assimilated with the world's laws, thus making it a part of the world's natural order, yet fundamentally altering its trajectory.

Such phenomena were anomalies, even by the standards of the multiverse, and they often created ripple effects that could spawn entirely new paths of evolution and history.

The perfect example was him, a incarnation of Indra Ōtsutsuki. When his soul passed through the universal barrier and arrived in the Douluo Plane, the remnant consciousness of Indra had to use the forbidden jutsu—Izanagi, to rewrite the world's history a bit to have a family possessing the Sharingan bloodline and it in turn became a martial soul.

And from what Huo Yuhao was seeing of this world's history, the cube possess a certain amount of intelligence as when it arrived in that universe it had used up some of its vast power to assimilate itself to the world's laws and be reborn as a martial soul to hide from the Gods and the outer beings.

"Interesting. Unlike most heaven's chosen, this boy doesn't have a tragic background to push him forward—but simply out of sheer determination and grit to reach the peak of the world, the peak of martial arts."

Huo Yuhao smirked. "Well, he's quite interesting and a suitable candidate for a God Position."

He chuckled, shaking his head as he turned to another mirror. "That is if he doesn't create his own."

Just as he took a sip of his tea—

"I am the bone of my sword"

"Pffft—!" Huo Yuhao did a spit-take, his eyes wide in shock as the mirror viewing showed a world of fire and steel, as a red haired young man stood in a small hill with a flaming sword in his right hand.

He faced against three evil soul masters who radiated overwhelming auras that Huo Yuhao judged to be Limit Douluos!

"Holy shit! What's going on here? Three Limit Douluos that are Evil Soul Masters? No, the woman is a false god! What era is this?"

Caught completely off-guard by the unexpected scene, Huo Yuhao leaned forward, his tea momentarily forgotten as his interest on this world intensified.

The mirror's reflection rippled slightly, showing him the world's timeline and its history within a split second. Thousands of years of events and other information was quicky absorbed by Huo Yuhao as he rub his chin in contemplation.

"I see....So this is ten thousand years into the future, but following the original destiny of myself and becoming a pitiful dog to Tang San—thus leading to the decline of the soul beasts' population, the successful invasion of the Sun Moon Empire over the mainland, and the Divine Realm had been caught into a space-time turbulence."

He deeply sighed, feeling a bit sad and angry for how this version of himself let himself get leashed because he was a sucker for Wang Dong'er—ah no, Tang Wutong.

He remembered that was her real name before she descended into the mortal world, and she fully embraced the name Wang Dong'er after she found out what her dad had done throughout the years and what he was planning to do to her future husband, aka Huo Yuhao.

"Impressive. In ten thousand years, the potential of humans had increased with around at least a dozen Limit Douluos in the world. And, wow, following after the battle armor I made, they managed to replicate and developed the armor further so that even someone at least Soul Emperor could use it."

"There are a few of Heaven's Chosen here, unfortunately, they are bound by the world's limitations as it lacked a God Realm to provide a God Position for them to ascend further. How utterly disappointing for this to happen..." Huo Yuhao sneered, inwardly blaming this world's Huo Yuhao and Tang San.

He sighed, there was no use crying over it. It wasn't his world, so he had no right to get involved. Plus, he could tell it would all be worked out by the natives.

"But this boy..." His attention quickly turned back towards the red haired young man, his lips curved. "Amazing. With just the cultivation of a Soul Douluo, though he has an impressive set of soul rings, he's standing against three powerehouses that stood at the peak of the Douluo world! Recklessness and inflated ego or confidence could only get someone so far, but this is sheer determination and willpower to achieve victory!"

Huo Yuhao's eyes narrowed, peering into the boy's existence, his history.

"His body is made out of steel, fire running through his veins. A blade of steel cutting no flesh, nor bones and neither life."

The red haired young man raises his blade, the three evil soul masters quickly rushed at him but they were being impeded by a relentless attack of hundreds of weapons flying at them.

"What he seeks for is the clearance of resentment. The cutting of bonds, fate and destiny."

The young man's golden eyes flickered with clear resolution, for the brightest of flames burned within them.

"That is, to free oneself from Karma."

Thousands, limitless swords converged into the one sword in the young man's hand. The flames it emitted grew ever brighter, roaring with a ferocity that seemed to devour the very air around him.

The young man's stance was firm, his body exuding an aura of absolute defiance, as if declaring to the world that no chain of fate, no predestined outcome, would bind him.

Huo Yuhao's breath hitched, a rare flicker of awe flashing across his usually composed face. "To sever karma itself...." he murmured, his voice low but reverberating with astonishment and excitement. "Such ambition. Such resolve! For a mere mortal.... This boy....he's not just a Heaven's Chosen. He's a Heaven's Equal!"

Heaven's Equal, a title reserved for those who defy the will of heaven and the Gods. A status that was both a blessing and curse. It was a title that came from the first rebel of the universe; the Great Sage, Equal of Heaven—who earned such infamy after he wreaked havoc throughout several Divine Realms while still being a mortal.

At that moment, the flames of the sword peaked.

"His whole life was for this single swing..." Huo Yuhao muttered, watching intently as the young man swung down the sword and a flash of light illuminated the world of limitless blades, brighter than the sun and fiercer than the core of a star.

Huo Yuhao smirked and said, "This guy's interesting! I can tell, he would become a powerful person in the future. He could possibly even rival me.... Unfortunately, judging by the flow of time in this world, it's going to take a few years before we meet."

He shook his head and swiped his hand, continuing on his search for a vacational spot for him and his wives.

"Oh? This is interesting." A deep voice interrupted his train of thought.

Huo Yuhao raised an eyebrow, surprised, as he stared at a demonically handsome man dressed in casual clothes consisting of a white shirt, black pants and black rubber shoes. He has blond hair and with different colored eyes; his left eye was ocean-blue while the other was blood-red. He gave off a divine feeling, yet also a demonic aura as well.

Similar to Huo Yuhao, the mysterious man stood in the middle of vast space with his arms crossed, looking a bit amused.

'He's strong.' The two thought, smirking as their dormant fighting spirit began to surged once more after many centuries.

The stars behind them suddenly lost their splendor, their sheer aura effortlessly snuff out the radiance of the celestial bodies, leaving the void around them darker than ever.

The cosmos itself seemed to hold its breath, sensing the convergence of two beings whose power far exceeded the limits of divine comprehension.

"Well, spying on someone's universe without saying a word is pretty rude, y'know." The mysterious man began, unfolding his arms and took out a can of beer out of thin air.

Huo Yuhao smiled and said, "Apologies. I was merely scouting the vast multiverse in order to find a suitable honeymoon for my wives."

"Oho. I see you are a man of culture as well."

"Oh? You as well?"

The two smiled and laughed together, quickly forming a bond.

"My name is Huo Yuhao. I have many titles, but I have been known as the Heavenly Eyed Douluo."

"I'm Zenkichi Hitoyoshi. I also hold many titles, but I have been mostly known as the Demon Emperor."

The two started chatting with one another, exchanging summarized information of their universe to the other and a bit of their life story as well.

"Well, it was nice knowing you, Zenkichi." Huo Yuhao said, raising his cup of tea.

Zenkichi chuckled, raising his beer to him. "Likewise, Yuhao."

Huo Yuhao swiped his hand, closing the mirror.

"Now then, what's next?"

.....

"Zenkichi. You suddenly disappeared."

"It was nothing Medaka-chan. I just met an interesting guy is all."

....

Several minutes later

"Hmm. Well, isn't this quite an interesting timeline? Ten thousand years in the future and the dragons are finally beginning to stir, while an Ancient Order from another world is slowly awakening due to the birth of an anomaly..."

Huo Yuhao tilted his head, his lips curving upwards.

"Such an exciting plot....I'm sure my wives would forgive me if I went out for a little while."

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AN: Merry Christmas to everyone! Hope you had a wonderful year of 2024. As a Christmas Present, enjoy 5 chapters at the end of year~

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