Perfect. This changes everything and makes the foundation even more profound. Here is the revised Chapter 1 with the "Baby Bind" protocol integrated.
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Chapter 1: The Silent Thief of Fate - From The Cradle
Location: White Tiger Duke's Mansion, Huo Yuhao's Attic
The fusion was agony. Ayush's modern mind and Huo Yuhao's bitter soul collided, a storm of righteous fury and deeply personal pain. The vow solidified in the chaos: This. Will. Change.
As the vow crystallized, a silent command echoed not through space, but through time.
[TEMPORAL ANCHOR ESTABLISHED: SOURCE - HUO YUHAO, AGE 11.]
[INITIATING RETROACTIVE TEMPORAL BINDING PROTOCOL.]
[TARGETING PRIMARY LIFE-MOMENT OF DESIGNATED 'RESOURCES': THEIR BIRTH.]
[PROTOCOL: 'CRADLE COLLECTOR'.]
The blue screen burned before Huo Yuhao's eyes. But now, the data stream was not just spatial—it was historical.
Host: Huo Yuhao (Temporal Anchor Point)
Cultivation Base:Mortal, Spirit Eye (Unawakened)
Accumulated Lifetime Feedback:CALCULATING...
Linked Resources:7/7 (STATUS: BOUND FROM BIRTH)
A cascade of information flooded his mind. The system showed him not seven warriors, but seven infants, at the moment of their first breath across the multiverse. An invisible, timeless thread connected his core to theirs, not from now, but from then.
[RETROACTIVE BINDING CONFIRMED.]
[FEEDBACK STREAM OPENED FOR FULL LIFESPAN OF ALL RESOURCES.]
[CALCULATING 11-YEAR BACKLOG OF 2X FEEDBACK...]
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The "Cradle Collector" At Work (A Retroactive Summary):
· The Birth of Xiao Yan: As the infant took its first breath in the Xiao Clan, a wisp of his nascent, heaven-defying soul potential—a spark that would one day command all strange flames—was silently taxed. Double that spark flowed backward through time to a newborn Huo Yuhao in the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, calming his crying and strengthening his frail infant body.
· The First Cry of Shi Hao: In the Stone Village, as the future Heavenly Emperor wailed with primordial vitality, a tiny fraction of that monstrous life essence was diverted. Two droplets of that purest vitality nourished Huo Yuhao through a childhood illness that should have killed him.
· Ye Ming's First Struggle: As the infant Ye Ming fought to survive a taxing bloodline ritual, the fierce, unyielding will he manifested was siphoned. A double portion of that foundational willpower seeped into the young Huo Yuhao, giving him the mental fortitude to endure years of humiliation and cold hunger.
· Lin Dong's Innate Connection: The moment baby Lin Dong subconsciously brushed the world's energy, his freakish innate perception was tapped. Huo Yuhao gained a doubled, faint intuitive sense for energy flows, making his later Spirit Eye awakening far more profound.
· Yang Kai's Spatial Affinity, Wang Lin's Ruthless Instinct, Yun Che's Tenacious Hatred— the foundational trait of each legend, at its very origin point, was silently sampled and duplicated for the primary host.
For eleven years, Huo Yuhao had lived unknowingly fortified by the stolen foundations of seven future kings. His meridians were wider, his soul more resilient, his will harder than any child's had a right to be. He survived the Duchess's neglect not just on luck, but on the stolen, compounded essence of other worlds' protagonists.
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Back in the Attic - The Present.
The calculation completed.
[BACKLOG PROCESSED.]
[11 YEARS OF COMPOUNDED 2x FEEDBACK CONVERTED AND INTEGRATED.]
It was like a dam breaking.
A torrent of energy—Dou Qi essence, Primordial Vitality, tempered Will, Spatial fragments, and more—erupted within Huo Yuhao. It was not a violent flood, but a deep, overwhelming saturation. His body, already subtly enhanced over a lifetime, now underwent its first conscious transformation.
His bones hummed. His blood shimmered. The dormant Spirit Eyes between his eyebrows blazed with psychic light, awakening spontaneously without the need for a ritual. His spirit power didn't just rise to Rank 1; it surged, stabilized, and vibrated at the peak of Rank 5.
He was no longer a frail orphan. He was a vessel containing the compounded, foundational potential of eight destinies.
The system screen updated:
Host: Huo Yuhao
Cultivation Base:Rank 5 Spirit Scholar (Peak) | Spirit Eyes (Awakened - Enhanced)
Accumulated Lifetime Feedback:11,427 Units (Amalgamated Foundational Essence)
Linked Resources:7/7 (ACTIVE. FEEDBACK STREAM: REAL-TIME + HISTORICAL)
Current Real-Time Feed:
· Xiao Yan refining Dou Qi... +2 Units.
· Shi Hao consuming beast meat... +2 Units.
· Wang Lin executing a target... +2 Units (Killing Intent).
Huo Yuhao opened his eyes. The world was different. He could see the flow of energy in the dust motes, sense the latent cold in the attic walls. He felt strong. Not trained-strong, but fundamentally-strong, as if his very cells were forged from a better grade of existence.
The realization was dizzying. They weren't just giving him a share of their current power. They had been funding his entire life. Every ounce of potential they had ever manifested, from their first breath, had been taxed to build his foundation.
A cold, transcendent calm settled over him. The bitterness remained, the fury of Ayush burned bright, but it was now anchored in absolute, secret power.
You lived your first chapters, he thought, gazing at the seven pulsing stars on the cosmic map—now representing not just warriors, but their entire life stories. And I read every one. Now, I will write my own.
The thief in the cradle had come of age.
End of Chapter 1.
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Ready for Chapter 2, where this unimaginably solid foundation meets the first plot point of the Douluo Continent—perhaps his journey to the Star Dou Great Forest? With his current strength and the real-time 2x feed from seven legends constantly refining and battling, his growth will be explosive.