Spirit Devouring Dagger, Gold of Life

Hiding his presence, Huo Yuhao swiftly returned home.

"Yuhao, why are you back so soon?"

Tian Meng held Huo Yuhao's hand, her face full of confusion.

Every time they returned from Treasure Pavilion before, Huo Yuhao would take her shopping for a while, then visit the shop he had opened outside, only returning home in the early hours of the morning.

But why had they come back so early today?!

Tian Meng was unhappy.

Tian Meng was angry!

Tian Meng suddenly thought of something!

Could it be... Huo Yuhao wanted to come back and find that Bad Woman?!

After a string of strange thoughts, Tian Meng's emotions successfully shifted from confusion to anger. Sensing the emotions coming from beside him, Huo Yuhao's expression changed slightly.

What happened?

Why had Sister Tianmeng suddenly gotten angry? Huo Yuhao blinked, suddenly feeling that women's thoughts were so hard to understand. Their fickleness was downright outrageous.

Unable to figure out why, Huo Yuhao could only apologize sincerely. "Sorry, Sister Tianmeng. I came back this time because I have something important to do. Can I make it up to you next time?"

After spending time with the increasingly strange Gu Yuena and Sister Tianmeng, who would occasionally get angry out of nowhere, Huo Yuhao had developed a strategy.

When in doubt, apologize first.

No matter the situation, he was definitely the one at fault. Apologizing was always the right choice.

And reality had proved that Huo Yuhao's method was indeed extremely effective.

Watching Huo Yuhao apologize so earnestly, his increasingly beautiful azure eyes filled with remorse, Tian Meng blinked. For some reason, she felt her heartbeat quicken.

She unconsciously coughed twice to conceal the fluster in her heart, then spoke in a casual tone.

"Fine, then. Your Sister Tianmeng will reluctantly forgive you. But you owe me one shopping trip now! Remember to pay it back, got it?!"

"Mm, I'll listen to Sister Tianmeng."

"Emotion Soothing Protocol, Rule Three": When Sister Tianmeng is angry, you should comfort her appropriately. For specific methods, refer to how Mother comforted me when I was four or five and got bullied. It is extremely effective on Sister Tianmeng. (The same applies to Sister Nana.)

PS: This method must not be used on the Gluttonous Dragon King (entire paragraph crossed out), this method must not be used in front of the beautiful, elegant, charming, understanding, kind-hearted Sister Nana.

The "Emotion Soothing Protocol" he had written specifically for dealing with Sister Tianmeng and Sister Nana naturally flashed through his mind.

Seeing that Tian Meng was no longer angry, Huo Yuhao collected his thoughts and turned his attention to the ring in his hand.

This was the Storage Ring the Noblewoman had given Huo Yuhao earlier. Inside were various metals and medicinal herbs that Huo Yuhao had entrusted the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to purchase for him.

The metals were for making Soul Tools, while the herbs were for tending to his mother's health.

Although his mother's health had already been restored to roughly normal levels half a year ago, she was still an ordinary person without Soul Power to nourish her body. Coupled with years of exhausting labor, her body remained in a subhealthy state.

To prevent any accidents, Huo Yuhao still prepared herbs to improve his mother's health, which she usually steeped in water to drink.

This time, however, Huo Yuhao's focus was not on the metals or the herbs, but on something else.

Huo Yuhao swept his Spiritual Power through the Storage Ring and quickly found his target.

With a thought, a brocade box appeared in Huo Yuhao's hand.

"What... is that? I can sense a very dense aura of resentment, Yuhao?" Tian Meng poked her head out and looked at Huo Yuhao with slight confusion.

"This is a treasure that has been disgraced."

As Huo Yuhao spoke, the Silver Radiance Soul Ring flashed. Spiritual Power mixed with Soul Power, the two interacting to instantly construct a complete high-level barrier that enveloped the entire room.

Huo Yuhao reached out and gently stroked the brocade box, erasing the several sealing Soul Guide Arrays inscribed upon it. Then, he opened the box.

The next moment, countless wronged souls surged out of the brocade box. Boundless resentment and malicious thoughts rose up, charging directly into Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sea.

Yet in the next moment, the Seed of Emotion trembled slightly before swallowing the resentment in a single gulp!

Huo Yuhao was not surprised by this.

The body carried the soul, the soul carried memories, and memories carried emotions.

The path of emotions was immensely broad. So-called resentment and malicious thoughts were, in essence, merely extensions of certain extreme emotions.

After dealing with those things, the Eye of Destiny appeared on Huo Yuhao's brow. He coated his fingertip with a trace of Spiritual Power, then lightly brushed it over the Spirit Devouring Dagger, erasing every curse contained within.

As Elder Yi's inheritor, Purification of the Spirit Devouring Dagger was no difficult task at his current strength. In the next moment, the originally cold silver-gray dagger revealed a streak of dazzling green.

Extremely dense life force poured from it, and the aura of life immediately filled the entire room.

"What powerful life force... What exactly is this thing?" Tian Meng muttered softly without realizing it.

This life aura, nearly dense enough to become tangible, was far too different from the earlier aura filled with resentment and curses!

"This is Gold of Life. It is the solidified and purified form of life force, a heavenly treasure that can only possibly form after immense life gathers together and is nurtured for tens of thousands of years."

As Huo Yuhao explained, he reached out and lightly touched his Eye of Destiny.

The next moment, a strand of Divine Sense radiating an aura of death slowly emerged from the Eye of Destiny.

Huo Yuhao's gaze held a trace of emotion.

After two years of nourishment within the Eye of Destiny, Elder Yi's strand of Divine Sense had finally recovered somewhat. But there was no helping it. The Eye of Destiny was ultimately not the Eye of Life. Though the Eye of Destiny was a Divine Artifact, its effects lay more in "Destiny."

But now that he had Gold of Life, Huo Yuhao no longer needed to worry too much.

The gray Divine Sense drifted bit by bit toward the Gold of Life, then gradually merged into it with the aid of Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Power.

In an instant, an aura of death began to spread, easily suppressing the aura of the Gold of Life!

"Holy shit! What is this?!"

Tian Meng's eyes widened. Without hesitation, she followed her instincts and hid behind Huo Yuhao, then cautiously poked her head out to watch the Gray Shadow gradually condense before her.

Was that a god?

That was a god, right?!

This definitely had to be a Deity!!!

This aura completely did not belong to mortals. It was on par with the aura of the Eye of Destiny on her Yuhao!!!

Remembering the Little Gray Ball that had inexplicably appeared when she and Huo Yuhao signed the Soul Spirit Contract, Tian Meng could only be grateful that she had not attacked it back then. Fortunately, Yuhao had placed the Little Gray Ball into the Eye of Destiny.

She absolutely could not afford to provoke it!!!

In that instant, Tian Meng felt inexplicably desolate. She could not beat that Bad Woman, she had to respect Huo Yuhao's mother, and Huo Yuhao would occasionally make her angry...

And now, this being that seemed to be a Deity was the master Yuhao had personally admitted to having during their previous conversation...

She had no standing at all in this household anymore!

Tian Meng's expression drooped, and feeling somewhat dejected, she could only grip Huo Yuhao's clothes slightly tighter to barely find a little sense of security.