Douluo Dalu: A reincarnated teen's pathway to ascension

As they slowly ceased their laugh at their son's innocent but very valid question, Ryan's parents looked at the cute sleeping baby in his father's hands and said "Aw...". But then his mother's face was filled with tiredness and she said, "Shan ge, little Yan, I am gonna get some sleep. I still haven't completely gotten used to this spike in my spirit power". Shan's face suddenly had a serious expression as he nodded. Even though he was confused, Ryan did the same. As his mother entered one of the two bedrooms that the hall led to, its door slowly closed.

Ryan repeated his question, "what happened in the forest dad? And who's that baby?", now more seriously. "Did you notice anything different about your father and mother when you saw us right now?" Qing Shan asked him back. Now, although Ryan knew that the difference was in spirit power, such a small kid isn't supposed to be able to describe it very well. So, Ryan replied, making the answer as vague as possible, "Yeah, when I saw you guys standing there, you felt stronger compared to before, I felt like I was being tied down to the floor". "Good. So you're able to detect spirit power changes at such a young age. That is exactly what happened my son, me and mommy both became really powerful", Shan said. "How?", asked Ryan. Shan described what happened, "Well, you know that we both went to the forest to get mommy a spirit ring right?". Ryan nodded quickly. "Well, when we went there, as we started moving towards the centre of the forest, we saw two really strong beasts attacking each other. They fought for hours on equal footing, but, slowly, one of them started to the lose its energy. Although both were injured badly, the losing one seemed to have even more, so we guessed it was already injured when it had started fighting with the other one. But, what caught most of our attention was that the dying beast had baby near it. You see, it had been protecting that baby all this time, which looked like it was abandoned in the forest. Its scent must have attracted other evil beasts to it. When we saw this, we quickly jumped in front of them and started helping the dying spirit beast. We killed its opponent after a couple of hours and tried to help the injured beast. But it was too late and there was nothing we could do. So it thanked us for our help. It also requested us to take the baby with us to avoid its death. That's when we understood it wasnt just any spirit beast, but a 100000 year-old one. What happened next shocked us. As it finished talking, it immolated and became your mother's spirit ring. It also gave her a torso spirit bone. All this caused her cultivation to shoot up all of a sudden, to Rank 97. But, as her average Titled Douluo body couldn't handle all that power, she became unstable. As I had already come into contact with the beast's energy during its immolation and was a Super Douluo, I absorbed the excess spirit energy from her body and used it to improve my cultivation. So, your mother's rank stabilised at the very peak of Rank 94 and she now has enough spirit power in her to break through into Super Douluo realm. But, I told her to wait some time before doing that, as to give her body enough time to adjust to the new power. As for me, I broke through the 95th ranks during the absorption and my power stabilised at halfway through Rank 96. I have enough power currently stored in me to break through to 97, but, am waiting for the same reason as your mom. Also, Super Douluo level breakthroughs have an even more serious effects on our body than Average Titled Douluo ranks. So, I might probably be able to progress to Rank 97 in a few more weeks, if I maintain steady cultivation and physical training, which is a great thing because.....".

Shan instantly stopped talking, as he didn't want to scare his son by telling him about spirit hall. But still, damn. That was one hell of an achievement. 1 and a half ranks in a day at the Titled Douluo realm was nothing to sneeze at. Qing Shan felt very lucky and proud of this fact. Moreover, he still has enough power to advance. 'That beast must be very special to give such benefits', thought Ryan, still shocked by the story he had heard. Indeed it was. What they encountered was a really rare beast, but Shan didn't mention its name to Ryan because he thought it would be better to tell him about all the things together, when he is old enough to understand. His son wasn't even a year old. Although the kid was a genius for his age, Shan still didn't think he was matured enough to know about his ancestry.

Ryan slowly walked closer to his father and held up his arms, to receive the baby. Shan hesitatingly and slowly placed the cute little baby girl in his hands, holding his own arms below Ryan, as if to immediately catch the baby if he accidentally dropped it. But, he didn't. Ryan's hands weren't shaking. Instead he held on strong, with tears of joy slowly finding their way down to his small cheeks. He said, "I will protect her in the future Dad, just like that noble beast did. Even if I don't know where she came from, from today, she is my little sister". The orphan in Ryan rejoiced as he had gained one more family member, thus reducing his loneliness by that much. Qing Shan was really happy when he heard this. He knew his good son wouldn't be sad or angry because of this. So, in order to protect this happiness, he decided to keep his strong doubts about who xiao Jin was to himself......

A month passed in a flash. Tomorrow, Xiao Yan will turn a year old. Xiao Jin was around 2 months old by now, but looked like she was already about 4 months old, when Ryan looked almost the same as before, but an inch taller. His mother, Luo Hua had broken through Rank 94 a week ago, and entered the Super Douluo realm, while his father had become a Rank 97 Super Douluo just that evening. He felt very proud of both of them. But what he felt more proud of was the fact that he had achieved both of his short-term goals. The fact that he was able to walk and talk normally. In fact, one could say he had "mastered" them both. He knew he would get the body cultivation techniqueand weapon manual tonight, as he was ready and had met the initial conditions. Also, tomorrow was the day his father said he would start training Ryan. So, he went to sleep early and entered the mental realm immediately.