Calm and an Unexpected Visitor

Huo Yuhao's presence was far too familiar to them. The instant he appeared in the living room, all three people on the sofa unconsciously turned their eyes toward him.

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Huo Yuhao instinctively took a step back.

Sister Tianmeng and the Ice Empress's gazes were still fairly normal, but Gu Yuena's eyes were far too calm. So calm that Huo Yuhao felt a little afraid!

What was going on here?

Having weathered countless storms, Huo Yuhao actually felt the urge to turn around and run from this scene!

After a brief pause, Huo Yuhao steadied himself and decided to strike first:

"Nana, you're back? Perfect, let me introduce you. This is the Ice Empress, and she's also my soul spirit.

"Ice Empress, this is Nana. Well... she's someone very important to me."

Someone very important.

Gu Yuena froze slightly. The calm she had maintained vanished, revealing a flicker of astonishment before she swiftly returned to normal.

She remained seated, but the aggressiveness she had directed at the Ice Empress and Tian Meng vanished without a trace. In its place was an indescribable gentleness.

Little Scorpion's eyes widened slightly, filled with disbelief.

That solved it?!

Not long after Huo Yuhao had left, the Co-lord of Soul Beasts whom she had learned from Tian Meng was someone they absolutely needed to be wary of had returned.

The Co-lord of Soul Beasts had not attacked them, but she had continued to glare at them with hostility until just now.

And now, that look had suddenly disappeared, all because of a single sentence from Huo Yuhao.

Thinking of how Tian Meng treated Huo Yuhao, then recalling Snow Empress's inexplicable trust in Huo Yuhao when they had first met, and finally adding the Co-lord of Soul Beasts before her attitude toward Huo Yuhao, the Ice Empress fell into deep thought.

What exactly is up with this guy?!

While the Ice Empress was lost in thought, Huo Yuhao let out a small sigh of relief.

He had noticed long ago that his Nana seemed to have a rather strong possessive streak. Was that one of a dragon's habits?

But precisely because of that, Nana was rather easy to coax.

After a slight pause, Huo Yuhao looked at the Ice Empress and Tian Meng on the sofa and said:

"Sister Tianmeng, Ice Empress, go back into the soul rings and rest first."

First, divide the battlefield.

"Alright, Yuhao!"

Tian Meng, who had been hiding behind the Ice Empress without saying a word, was the first to respond. Without the slightest hesitation, she returned directly to Huo Yuhao's soul ring.

The Ice Empress paused, then finally nodded. Without saying anything, she transformed into a streak of jade-green light and entered the first icy-blue soul ring of Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice Martial Soul.

Huo Yuhao sighed in relief again and turned, about to look at Gu Yuena.

Yet in the next instant, Huo Yuhao felt his hand being grabbed. A tremendous force followed, pulling him over directly.

The sudden turn of events made Huo Yuhao's thoughts stall briefly. In the next moment, he felt himself sink into two soft masses.

Gu Yuena had hugged him.

Perhaps because her former daily routine had consisted either of sleeping or recovering from injuries, even after two years together, most of her interests lay in food. Thus, the Gluttonous Dragon King was not good with words.

Compared to speaking, she seemed to prefer using clear actions to express her emotions.

—Just like now.

Huo Yuhao lowered his gaze slightly. In the end, he said nothing, only hesitantly reaching out to gently wrap his arms around Gu Yuena's waist.

The distance between their bodies closed, and with it, they shared their heartbeats, breaths, and warmth.

Calm gradually spread.

The next time he woke, it was the following morning.

After the two had embraced on the sofa for who knew how long, Gu Yuena suddenly got up and pulled Huo Yuhao into the bedroom. Then, Huo Yuhao once again served as a body pillow for the entire night.

Huo Yuhao slowly opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw, as expected, was the girl's flawless face.

He sighed softly, his emotions somewhat complicated.

Just as he had once thought, if he wanted to change more things, he would inevitably come into contact with more people. And once he grasped them, he would not want to let go.

He seemed to be a little greedy.

It was the same with Tian Meng, and it was the same with Gu Yuena.

What did that make him? A scumbag?

But he really did not want to let go.

He looked at the girl so close before him, at her peaceful sleeping face, as thoughts flashed through his mind.

Well... I don't need to get up early to cultivate anyway, so it's perfectly reasonable to sleep a little longer, right?

Huo Yuhao blinked, the corners of his lips lifting into a faint smile. Then, unconsciously, he held her a little tighter.

Closing his eyes, Huo Yuhao sank into a brief moment of relaxation.

In the blink of an eye, it was the morning a week later.

After experiencing a peaceful week, Huo Yuhao had inexplicably relaxed.

Aside from serving as a body pillow every night, accompanying Tian Meng while she shopped and listening to her complaints, and nourishing the Ice Empress's body to fill the gaps in her form, his daily routine consisted of matters related to Shrek Academy.

Perhaps due to Mu En's support behind the scenes, Huo Yuhao did not encounter anyone coming to provoke him. Funding, laboratories, all kinds of equipment, and the rest were basically arranged immediately.

Besides that, Fan Yu would occasionally come to seek his guidance with questions.

Huo Yuhao did not hold anything back. After all, Fan Yu had been his mentor in Soul Tool studies in his previous life, and Huo Yuhao still had the respect he should have for him.

However, regarding Zhou Yi, Huo Yuhao's former homeroom teacher... Huo Yuhao already had an idea in mind.

In the laboratory, Huo Yuhao was researching the Energy Soul Ring Convergence Generation Device. Of course, some people might not understand that name, so Huo Yuhao generally called it the Artificial Soul Ring Device instead.

After becoming a god, aside from his research into soul spirits, Huo Yuhao had also studied the essence of soul rings.

At its core, a soul ring could be said to be composed of energy plus memories.

The so-called memories were a Soul Beast's memories of one of its soul skills, and that portion of memory was imprinted upon the soul ring.

When a soul master used a soul skill, they needed to expend Soul Power to trigger that portion of the memory. Like an instinctive response, after the memory absorbed the soul skill and was activated, it mobilized the soul ring and unleashed the soul skill.

The Artificial Soul Ring Device was a device Huo Yuhao had developed that could absorb sufficient energy and condense a Blank Soul Ring.

Although Blank Soul Rings did not yet possess soul skills, they could still help people break through bottlenecks. Moreover, because they were Artificial Soul Rings, the age of the soul ring would always be the limit of the person absorbing it.

Unfortunately, the device still had some flaws that needed improvement. Coupled with the fact that it could currently only condense Blank Soul Rings, it probably would not be very popular.

There was no possibility of promoting it in the short term, but its future held promise. Huo Yuhao was not in a hurry.

Suddenly, the indicator light beside him flashed, informing Huo Yuhao that he had visitors.

His hand, which had been conducting research, paused slightly. Huo Yuhao looked toward the nearby screen and, through the surveillance device he had installed at the entrance, saw what was outside.

There were two people.

One was Yan Shaozhe, whom he had met at the Sea God Pavilion meeting last week. The other, standing beside him, was a fiery red-haired girl.

Huo Yuhao was slightly surprised and unconsciously murmured, "Sister Xiaotao?"