Douluo's self has a soul beast clone

Star Luo Kingdom.

A palatial building with golden glazed tiles shimmering brilliantly in the sunlight. Its vast expanse seemed to stretch endlessly. Upon the towering main gate, standing five zhang tall, were inscribed the bold characters: "Duke's Mansion."

This enormous estate, covering over three thousand mu, didn't belong to any city but was built separately fifty li northwest of Star Luo City, the capital of the Star Luo Kingdom. This showed the esteemed position of the mansion's owner within the Star Luo Kingdom.

At this moment, the north side's back door of the Duke's Mansion silently opened, and a small, slender figure quietly slipped out.

It was a girl who appeared to be eleven or twelve years old.

She had beautiful blue hair, styled into two braids that fell over her slightly protruding chest, already showing signs of becoming a graceful young woman at such a young age.

Her equally blue eyes were incredibly moving, paired with her delicate and pretty face, enough to stir a desire to protect her in any man.

Upon this delicate girl's back was a small bundle, her light red lips tightly pursed, her expression revealing a determination that belied her gentle, harmless appearance!

Gently closing the back door of the Duke's Mansion, being careful not to make a sound, the girl quickly took a few steps before abruptly stopping, turning back to look at the Duke's Mansion. Her touching eyes now revealed a deep hatred!

"Mother, may your spirit in heaven watch over me. No matter how much effort it takes, one day, I will return and trample everything here under my feet. From now on, I will take your surname, Huo, Huo Yuqing."

After saying these words, she took another deep look at the Duke's Mansion, turned, and resolutely left.

The small figure gradually disappeared into the strong midday sunlight, her figure delicate and thin, yet her departure did not give off any sense of helplessness.

Wide official roads led away from the Duke's Mansion in every direction. Huo Yuqing ran forward, her eyes gradually reddening.

"Mother..."

The image of her mother's reluctance and unwillingness at the time of her death involuntarily appeared in her mind again, and Huo Yuqing couldn't help but bite her red lips.

Strong, I must be strong. Mother taught me that people can only rely on themselves. Only by being strong can you live a better life!

Huo Yuqing's mother was the Duke's personal maid, having grown up with him since childhood. A personal maid was meant to serve the master; therefore, twelve years ago, Huo Yuqing quietly appeared in her mother's womb.

Ten months of pregnancy, a birth in one morning.

No matter how lowly Huo Yuqing's mother's status was, she was still the White Tiger Duke's bloodline. Her treatment in the mansion was not good, but not too bad either. Her mother no longer served as a maid; the mother gained status through her child and had her own small courtyard.

If things had developed normally, as a daughter, Huo Yuqing, without posing a threat to the Duchess's two sons' inheritance rights, should not have been deliberately targeted or suppressed by the Duchess.

But sometimes, when a woman's jealousy arises, she doesn't care about anything. Women are very emotional creatures, and sometimes they are the most unreasonable.

Huo Yuqing's touching beauty and temperament were inherited from her mother, so it's conceivable that Huo Yun'er, as the mother, also had an appearance that could evoke a man's desire to protect her.

In men's eyes, Huo Yun'er was gentle and virtuous, giving people a feeling of wanting to protect her. But in the Duchess's eyes, Huo Yun'er was a scheming green tea b*tch who was good at pretending to be weak. In short, she was displeasing in every way.

Moreover, this b*tch seduced her man, became pregnant secretly, and wanted to climb the branches and become a phoenix. It was simply wishful thinking!

So, prejudiced and disliking this mother and daughter, the Duchess, while the White Tiger Duke was away fighting for the Star Luo Kingdom and she was in charge of all the affairs in the mansion, used the excuse that Huo Yuqing's mother was suffering from a contagious disease to drive them to live in the woodshed behind the servants' quarters, cutting off all their financial resources.

At that time, Huo Yuqing was only two years old.

What was even more excessive was that whenever the White Tiger Duke rarely returned to the mansion, the Duchess would take the mother and daughter back to their original residence, showing off her demeanor as the Duke's wife in front of the White Tiger Duke, pretending to be extremely kind to the mother and daughter.

Once the White Tiger Duke left, the mother and daughter would be driven back to the woodshed.

At that time, the young Huo Yuqing had wanted to expose the Duchess's ugly face to her father, but was stopped by her mother, who sternly warned her not to accuse the Duchess.

At that time, Huo Yuqing didn't understand why her mother was unwilling to tell her father that they were living a hard life.

But as she gradually grew up and understood the ways of the world.

Huo Yuqing finally understood why her mother didn't dare to expose the Duchess's actions back then.

In the final analysis, it was still a matter of status.

Her mother was just a maid who wasn't even a concubine. What could she do to the Duchess, who was the Duke's legal wife? What if she accused her? Would the White Tiger Duke really uphold justice for them? Not necessarily.

A plaything-like maid, how could she compare to a wife who had been through thick and thin with him.

If she really accused the Duchess of her actions, then perhaps the White Tiger Duke would instead think that the mother and daughter were ignorant of propriety and were even overstepping their bounds. What were they trying to do?

Were they trying to affect the relationship between him and his wife?

Their fate would definitely not be good.

So Huo Yuqing's mother could only endure! She could only endure!

Afterward.

Years of hard living caused Huo Yuqing's mother's already poor health to gradually collapse, not to mention the occasional suppression by the Duchess's servants... Finally, in the year Huo Yuqing turned ten, she fell ill and passed away.

Due to the collision of the Douluo Continent with the Sun Moon Continent drifting from the Western Sea more than 4,000 years ago, the area greatly increased. At the same time, the unified pattern that had been stable for 6,000 years changed.

While four independent kingdoms were added to the Douluo Empire, wars became frequent between these kingdoms. To fight for benefits, wars occurred year after year!

Therefore, the White Tiger Duke often needed to go to the battlefield and spent very little time in the mansion. Under the Duchess's deliberate concealment, Huo Yuqing and her mother were gradually forgotten by him.

Once, when the Duke asked about them, the Duchess only said that Huo Yuhao's mother was suffering from a serious illness, and then it was over. The White Tiger Duke completely forgot about this pair of pitiful mother and daughter.

In fact, before Huo Yuqing awakened her martial soul, the White Tiger Duke was not bad to the mother and daughter. Although it was not as good as to the Duchess, he at least fulfilled the responsibility of a father and husband.

But all of this changed when Huo Yuqing awakened her martial soul at the age of 6.

Huo Yuqing still can't forget the suddenly strange look in her Duke father's eyes when she saw that she had not awakened the White Tiger martial soul, but instead awakened the body martial soul, Spirit Eyes, especially when her innate soul power was only level one... and the empty and desperate look in her mother's eyes, as if all her energy had been drained!

At that time, she didn't understand, but now she understands!