Better That I Betray the World Than Let the World Betray Me

By simply following the steps to godhood, Huo Yuhao would immediately become the God of Emotions at the level of a God King.

However, in this life, Huo Yuhao did not want to be so easily bound to the Divine Realm.

Although the Divine Realm was not yet Tang San's personal domain, the fact that Tang San could make so many secret moves without the God of Destruction noticing already said a great deal.

It was not that the God of Destruction was unwilling to oppose Tang San, but that he was entangled in other matters and had not noticed at all.

Fortunately, because of the imbalance of Time and Space, he still had a chance to make arrangements in this world.

The enormous golden eye rippled with wave after wave of tremors before vanishing.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's voice rang out at that moment.

"Cough, cough... What was that just now... Huh, where did it go?"

Within the Spiritual Sea of Consciousness, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm manifested his true form and stared in surprise at the empty golden ocean.

"Who are you?" Huo Yuhao looked at Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, pretending not to recognize him.

"Cough, cough." Noticing Huo Yuhao's distrustful gaze, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm transformed into an exquisite blond doll, his voice becoming soft and childlike.

"Hello, human boy. I'm your first Soul Ring now! A Million-Year Soul Ring!"

As he spoke, the exquisite doll Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had become struck all sorts of poses, looking rather adorably naive.

It was Huo Yuhao's first time seeing Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in this form, and he was briefly dazed.

"Just as I thought..." Huo Yuhao murmured softly.

"What did you say?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had not heard clearly and blinked his big eyes at Huo Yuhao.

The gray sphere of light floating in the air gave a faint tremble.

"Nothing." Huo Yuhao shook his head, then seemed to remember something. "You... what is your name now?"

"Me? My name is Tian Meng. I'm the first Million-Year Soul Beast in the history of the Douluo Continent!"

At the mention of a Million-Year Soul Beast, Tian Meng put his hands on his hips, looking extremely proud.

"No, no, no. Aren't you interested at all in what I just said?"

"Not interested." Huo Yuhao directly cut off the conversation.

Those matters were more or less the same as before. There was no need to listen to Tian Meng repeat them. As long as he could confirm that Tian Meng had regained his true nature, that was enough.

But Tian Meng clearly did not want Huo Yuhao to leave. He immediately ran over and grabbed the hem of Huo Yuhao's clothes. "No, you have to be interested! Stay here today and listen until I'm done!"

Without caring what Huo Yuhao thought, Tian Meng immediately began telling his story.

Time passed second by second. Although Tian Meng insisted on telling his story and his hopes for the future, Huo Yuhao did not grow impatient. Instead, he patiently listened as Tian Meng spoke every sentence.

In this form, Tian Meng was like a younger sibling to him, giving Huo Yuhao a faint sense of family.

He had not felt that way in a long time, and it calmed his frenzied heart somewhat.

Family... Thinking of that word, Huo Yuhao could not help but think of his deceased mother.

In his previous life, the person who had influenced him most was his mother, who had died and then been revived. Yet at the time, he had not known that this so-called revived mother was nothing more than a puppet.

Only when he learned the truth in the end did he fall into complete despair.

Better that I betray the world than let the world betray me.

In this life, no one would ever control him again.

After Huo Yuhao withdrew his consciousness from the Spiritual Sea of Consciousness, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm belatedly released the little hand clutching Huo Yuhao's clothing and asked in confusion, "That's not right. How could he directly condense a physical form within the Spiritual Sea?"

The gray sphere of light floating above trembled, and a voice emerged from it. "Little bug, the person you chose seems to carry some great secret... Even I cannot see through him."

Hearing the voice from the gray sphere of light, Tian Meng looked up in fury. "Hmph, so you're the one trying to steal Yuhao from me? If most of my power didn't need to be sealed away, I..."

Huo Yuhao paid no attention to the exchange between Tian Meng and Electrolux. At this moment, he had already awakened in the outside world.

He tried circulating the Soul Power within his body. A gleaming white Soul Ring slowly rose from beneath Huo Yuhao's feet, reaching above his head before slowly undulating downward.

It was precisely the first Soul Ring granted to him by the Million-Year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

Just as in his previous life, it possessed four spiritual-type skills: Spiritual Detection, Spiritual Sharing, Spiritual Interference, and Spiritual Impact.

Next, Huo Yuhao began sensing the as-yet unformed Second Martial Soul Tian Meng had granted him.

Waves of icy chill continuously gathered in his hand.

"What are you doing? This Second Martial Soul has not yet taken shape. You cannot use it carelessly!" Tian Meng hurriedly warned Huo Yuhao within the spiritual world.

Huo Yuhao ignored Tian Meng's warning and bent down, bringing his palm close to the ground.

Accompanied by crackling sounds of ice forming, a stretch of ground centered on Huo Yuhao froze over.

"This... That's not right. The Second Martial Soul hasn't taken shape yet, so how can it be used?" Tian Meng was utterly shocked. He paced back and forth within Huo Yuhao's spiritual world, unable to make sense of it no matter how hard he thought.

"It felt like I could do it, so I did." Huo Yuhao casually offered Tian Meng a brief explanation, dispelling Tian Meng's urge to study the matter.

In the end, Tian Meng could only attribute it to Huo Yuhao's unusual physique.

After all, Huo Yuhao in this life was not physically frail as he had been in his previous life.

The body that had begun cultivating the Mysterious Heaven Skill in advance truly seemed somewhat miraculous to Tian Meng.

Just then, a massive patch of dark clouds streaked rapidly across the sky. When it reached Huo Yuhao's position, a soft sound of surprise came from within the clouds as they gradually stopped.

"Kid, are you alone?"

The black clouds slowly gathered into shape in midair, transforming into a very thin figure before Huo Yuhao.

It was an old man dressed in black, standing atop a mass of black clouds. His skin was also dark, and his uneven eyebrows—one high and one low—were particularly distinctive.

There was also a large black character for "king" on his forehead.

Those features reminded Huo Yuhao of someone.

The Holy Spirit Cult's Sixth Enshrinement, Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng.

Why was he here?

Huo Yuhao's heart was filled with doubt.

Yet outwardly, Huo Yuhao revealed nothing. He merely put on a frightened expression and asked, "Y-you... who are you?"

Although Scorpion Tiger Douluo was a member of the Holy Spirit Cult, he cultivated only by consuming Soul Beast blood. Unlike certain low-level Evil Soul Masters, he did not cultivate by consuming human blood or souls.

In the past, he had been misled by Shrek Academy, his entire way of thinking brainwashed by Shrek Academy.

But now that Huo Yuhao had recovered his true self, he possessed his own understanding and thoughts.

The so-called glory of Shrek was nothing more than doing what others had done, then declaring that others were wrong and they themselves were right.