Huo Yuhao was born as the son of the Duke of the White Tiger Clan and his maid. Following the Duke's departure to the on-going war, the Duchess took over the reins of the manor and, being jealous and seeing Huo Yuhao as a threat to her children, secluded him and his mother in a shack making up stories that she contracted an infectious disease. This plus the malnourishment caused Huo Yuhao's mother, who already had a weak constitution, to fall sick and die when Huo Yuhao was 10 years old. He vowed to become a great Spirit Master and take revenge.
At the age of six, he awakened his spirit, an extremely rare variant body spirit known as Spirit Eyes. However, at the time of awakening, his Spirit Power was only at rank 1 and it took him 5 years to get to rank 10 which is 2 years more than what people usually take.