Huo Yuhao: Mom, I did it! I avenged you!
Under the envious gazes of the others, Qian Renxue completed the Soul Spirit Contract with the Divine Pegasus.
Soul Rings rose from beneath her feet, one after another.
Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, red.
That Soul Ring Configuration would have been considered bizarre in any era.
Qian Renxue calmed her excitement, turned to Su Tianxuan, and pressed her lips together.
Then she bowed to him with solemn gratitude:
"Your Holiness, I will forever remember your kindness. If you ever need me, I will go through fire and water and face ten thousand deaths without hesitation."
With this Divine Pegasus Soul Spirit, she had made up for all the cultivation time she had wasted undercover in Heaven Dou over the years. On top of all the intelligence she had obtained, she refused to believe she still couldn't finish off Tang San!
If you want to thank someone, thank the System. It had nothing to do with me.
Su Tianxuan muttered inwardly and stepped slightly to the side rather than accept her bow. He turned to Leng Yaozhu and asked:
"I'd like to take them on a tour of the Spirit Pagoda. Would that be all right?"
"Even if you wanted to bring them into the Spirit Pagoda, I wouldn't object."
Leng Yaozhu teased him with a smile, then asked with some curiosity:
"Is this young lady from Heaven Dou? Why is she using Heaven Dou etiquette?"
Su Tianxuan almost burst out laughing at that. He covered his mouth and coughed lightly before saying to Qian Renxue:
"She's asking you. Are you from Heaven Dou?"
The smile on "former Heaven Dou Crown Prince" Qian Renxue's face instantly turned awkward.
She shot Su Tianxuan a vicious glare.
I never should have been nice to this guy! He's always looking to pick on me!
After choosing her words, she replied:
"Your Holiness, I went to Heaven Dou before... to study, so I learned a little."
Leng Yaozhu smiled without pointing out the problem with her answer and led them downstairs.
In the Douluo I era.
Hearing the name Heaven Dou, Xue Ye finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Nearly a day had passed without a single sign of Heaven Dou. He had been worried sick and had almost thought someone had wiped out his Heaven Dou.
Thankfully, it seemed the Sun Moon Federation was simply rather isolated and had little information about foreign countries.
But before long, he began to worry whether his empire would also become a federation.
"Sigh, Qian Renxue has been pretending to be Qinghe for so long, yet she hasn't even asked what becomes of Heaven Dou.
"The people of Spirit Hall really are heartless. Why should someone like that be chosen? Sigh."
Xue Ye had something of a headache. Spirit Hall had gained so many benefits from the future. What was he to do if it still intended to make a move against his Heaven Dou?
"Someone, pass down the order! Send more people to find Tang San and Shrek!"
Now that Tang San had been exposed, the whole of Spirit Hall was probably hunting him down.
Xue Ye felt it would be difficult for Tang San to lead them to destroy Spirit Hall as the sky screen had said.
But what if he could?
There was nothing to lose by trying.
If it really didn't work out, he could capture Tang San and sell him to Spirit Hall. That would count as a contribution too.
On the sky screen.
Su Tianxuan and the others followed Leng Yaozhu back to the first floor of the Spirit Pagoda and admired the mural of Huo Yuhao beating up Di Tian.
"That is our first Spirit Pagoda Master, Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao.
"Beside him is his wife, Dragon Butterfly Douluo Tang Wutong.
"The one fighting them is the Beast God Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, Di Tian."
Leng Yaozhu pointed to the three protagonists in the mural and gave Qian Renxue and Ye Guyi a brief introduction.
Each of the eighteen Spirit Pagoda branches had a portion of this mural. Put together, they depicted the fight between Huo Yuhao and Di Tian at the end of Douluo II.
This wasn't Su Tianxuan's first time seeing it, either.
He had studied it a few times before, suspecting that Huo Yuhao used it to gather faith. Why else would it be everywhere?
Unfortunately, there was nothing special about it.
He rested a hand against his chin as a question suddenly occurred to him:
"Speaking of which, was this painting put up after Di Tian and the others were driven out of the Spirit Pagoda, or was it always here?"
Leng Yaozhu choked and nearly lost her breath.
Half amused and half annoyed, she slapped Su Tianxuan on the shoulder:
"Why do you always ask such damned questions?"
Then she hesitated briefly and glanced around. Seeing that no one was looking their way, she spoke quickly in a low voice:
"I read in an ancient book at home that it seems to have been here from the beginning. The Beast God said at the time that losing to Spirit Ice Douluo was nothing to be ashamed of."
"He was that magnanimous? I wonder if he thought being driven out of the Spirit Pagoda was embarrassing."
"Will you give it a rest?"
In the Douluo II era.
The northern frontier of the Heavenly Soul Empire.
Hearing his own name on the sky screen, Huo Yuhao froze.
The first Spirit Pagoda Master, Spirit Ice Douluo... had the same name as him?
He was amazing.
"What do you mean, the same name? That's you! Look at that handsome, dashing Ice Silkworm, as graceful as a jade tree in the wind! That's me! Di Tian, you little crawler, your day has finally come! Hahahaha!"
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's excited voice echoed in his mind.
In fact, the muralist had never seen Tian Meng's true form, and their appearances were a hundred and eight thousand li apart.
But that didn't matter. It was enough to know it was an Ice Silkworm.
How could Tian Meng not know what trash Soul Beasts Ice Silkworms were?
What other Ice Silkworm but him could follow such a top expert?
Besides, it had ten golden markings on its body. Surely there couldn't be another million-year Ice Silkworm?
Hearing him say that, Huo Yuhao went blank and asked in a trembling voice:
"Brother Sky Dream, are you sure?"
That was the power he had dreamed of, the power to take revenge on the White Tiger Duke!
"Relax. When have I ever lied to you... Oh! Could that scorpion be Bingbing? Ah, my Bingbing, we're finally together! Wait for me, I'll come get you right away..."
Tian Meng's lovestruck voice gave Huo Yuhao goosebumps all over.
He lowered his head, took out the White Tiger Dagger, and silently prayed to his mother, Huo Yun'er:
"Mom, I did it! I avenged you!"
As for whether he would avenge his mother once he had that power?
There was no need to even think about it.
Was the fire of hatred that had burned in his chest for two years a lie?
Just as the man and the beast were each occupied with their own thoughts, the gray bead belonging to Electrolux in Huo Yuhao's sea of consciousness suddenly stirred again:
"Ah, death after so long. How I've missed it."
As it turned out, Su Tianxuan's earlier "blessing" across the sky screen had also struck Electrolux, who had yet to recover.
Unlike the others, however, he enjoyed this death and this future.
Even though he could have broken free long ago, he had willingly sunk into it.
Only when the power of the prophecy had completely dissipated did he awaken from it, filled with regret.
In this possible death, he had once again killed another woman whom he both loved and hated, then ended his own life.
Under that stimulation, his remnant soul, consciousness, and memories had also partially recovered.
When the bead of light suddenly turned into a strange old man, Tian Meng and Huo Yuhao were both startled.
"How are you still alive? Speak! Who exactly are you?"
Tian Meng asked warily.
"Hmm? Haven't I already introduced myself?
"With the sun and moon in my grasp, I pluck the stars; none in this world are my equal. I am Electrolux, the Necromancer Saint."