The flames are blazing. Within the house the fire spread with ease, turning the once pretty first floor into a maze of flames.

Black smoke billowed up the stairwell and there was alarm to sound.

"Please save my child! She is on the ninth floor!" A middle aged woman cried out, as she is trapped in the burning building, with no path of escaped.

Shen Huo, a 28 years old veteran firefighter, ran inside the burning building, without a moment of hesitation.

'I hoped that at least I could save the child, if it's not possible to save the two.' Shen Huo thought to himself, as he shown a begrudgingly sad expression.

He climbed up on the fire truck extendable stairs, and broke a window on the fourth floor. He then enters the burning building.

The fire truck's extendable ladders could not make it that far. So he has no choice, but to climb up the burning building on foot, from the fourth floor to the ninth, through the stairwell.

With his fireman helmet on and torched light lit, he dived into the pit of black smokes.

He slowly made his way to the ninth floor, clearing through the burning maze of debris. With his fireaxe in his right hand, he then chop down the door; the door handle being completely unsusable because it melted.

Shen Huo then enters the ninth floor. The fire was still blazing hot, as he quickly made his way to the burning apartment, that contains the trapped mother and her child.

When he got there, the mother was already dead from the carbon dioxide intoxication.

Her lungs were so filled with the burning building's black smoke, that she slowly suffocated to death due to a lack of oxygen in her system.

'It seems I was too late.' Shen Huo was being remorseful because he was too late to save them.

However, when he turned around, he suddenly heard the sounds of a crying infant. The infant was still alive, tugged underneath her mother's arms. 

"Waaaaa! Waaaaa!" The infant loudly cried.

'It would seem that on her last dying breathe she managed to protect you long before we arrived.' Shen Huo thought, looking at the dead corpse of the infant's mother.

"I've got you." He carried the crying infant within his arms, wrapping around a fire proof blanket.

Crackle! Crackle!

The sound of the building collapsing.

Burning debris has fallen on top of him, but Shen Huo has managed to protect the still alive infant from the falling debris. He tried to moved his left leg, but it was trapped underneath the burning debris. 

"Damn it!" He shouted out in frustration.

He called out to his teammate that accompanied him, "Team, I'm struck down, and can't move! Can you guys help me!" 

Hearing this, his teammate tried to lift the fallen debris off of him, but it was impossible. The fallen debris was too heavy.

"I'm sorry, but we can't get you out." His teammate spoke with a face full of sadness.

"I know," Shen Huo then resigns to his fate, "At the very least, could you please carry this infant to safety. He still has a chance to live, whilst I don't." He said.

"I got you man!" His teammate reluctantly left him behind, he then carries the crying infant within his arms, and escaped the burning building.

One by one, the building pillars that support the floor that he is on collapses. He then died trapped underneath the burning rubble.

• • •

In the halls of the sanctuary, which is the gate that leaves towards the afterlife.

King Yama stood behind a desktable. He slowly reads Shen Huo's files. "You have saved many lives whilst you were still alive. You've earned enough that said merit to deserve a reward." He said.

"So what world do you wish to reincarnate in as your chosen prized?" King Yama said to Shen Huo.

"Any world that I like even made up fiction ones." Shen Huo asked King Yama, and King Yama nodded.

"Yes." A single word from him is enough to fill Shen Huo with a sense of excitement.

"Thank you, Lord Yama!" Shen Huo appreciated King Yama's kindness. 

"I wish to reincarnate into the Douluo Dalu Universe." Shen Huo immediately gave his answer. He liked the first and second novel of Tang Jia San Shao's Douluo Dalu franchise.

Shen Huo has yet to read the third book in the Douluo Dalu franchise - The Legend of the Dragon King.

"Okay, then. I will reincarnate you into the Douluo Continent, as a bonus for the hardship you've commited, I will give you a Leveling System." King Yama said, as Shen Huo then jumps around in joy.

"Yes!" Shen Huo loudly exclaimed, profusely expressing his sense of Joy.

• • •

In the Hongxie Province, a six years old child then walks out of the dark alleyway.

His clothes were dirt poor and is very much in tatters. Bandages are wrapped around his skinny frail little childlike arms.

The boy's murky unkempt hair was red in colour. Eyes a blazing gold colour like the fire he died in.

This six years old boy was none other than Shen Huo.

He was indeed reincarnated into the world of Douluo Dalu like he wished for, but not everything is all merrily and happy like he expected. 

He wasn't borned into a well off family with status. He has no family background. No money. No anything.

Shen Huo is a dirt poor beggar child living off on the streets, living off the scraps and waste of another.

"This is not like what I wished for. You goddam fucking Yama." Shen Huo cursed the divine being that send him here.

Shen Huo sIghs, feeling very depressed.

"Let's forget about everything at the moment, and check out the Leveling System that I've got." He said to himself, eyes filled with burning determination, that defies fate itself.

'Status.'

Name: Shen Huo

Age: 6 years old

Gender: Male

Race: Human 

Bloodline: None

Class: Spirit Scholar

Spirit Rank: 01 (0% exp)

Spirit: Elemental Fire

~ Spirit Ring: None

~ Spirit Skill: None

~ Domain: None