Well, No Title, Couldn't Think of One

Well. No title, couldn't think of one.

"Not bad. It wasn't difficult—I just spent a little time cutting it off."

The Eye of Destiny on his brow slowly closed. Huo Yuhao opened his azure eyes, then reached out and grasped the Sea God Trident before him, which had already taken on his imprint.

Three hours earlier, after showing off his "One-Ring Soul Master engraving a level-four Soul Tool" stunt in front of everyone, Huo Yuhao had sensed the aura of a certain Dragon King. Her gaze had locked directly onto him and Meng Hongchen, who was holding him.

With no other choice, Huo Yuhao casually made up an excuse, then returned to the dormitory Jing Hongchen had arranged for him while carrying a book he had borrowed from the library as a cover.

The moment he entered the dorm, he saw a girl holding the Sea God Trident and dressed in a loose short-sleeved shirt step out from ripples in space.

Huo Yuhao had been thoroughly shocked at the time. He instinctively revealed two Silver Radiance Soul Rings and summoned the Eye of Destiny, preparing to fight. Yet after looking for a long while, he did not see even a trace of Tang San.

Only after Gu Yuena explained did he finally relax and turn his attention to the Sea God Trident.

To be honest, the moment Huo Yuhao saw the seal at the trident's core, he knew who had crafted it.

Using the Asura God's divine power to seal the authority within an artifact belonging to the Sea God—

There would be no issue in the short term. But over time, the Asura God Power and the Sea God's divine power would instinctively begin rejecting each other. The seal would gradually crack and dissipate, and the Sea God Trident itself would suffer a certain degree of damage.

Of course, there was naturally no problem now.

After experiencing death once, Huo Yuhao's Eye of Destiny had already undergone a transformation. It was only one step away from becoming a Super Divine Artifact.

Using the Eye of Destiny and relying on his God King-level Spiritual Power control, Huo Yuhao spent two and a half hours successfully eradicating the rootless Asura God Power within the Trident.

After that, he sent his Spiritual Power inside and continued using the Eye of Destiny's power to gradually sever every trace belonging to Tang San, completely making the Sea God Trident his own.

And afterward, Huo Yuhao found the complete Sea God Divinity within the Sea God Trident. From the dim remnants of Divine Sense inside, he finally learned of the current situation.

First, two years ago—most likely when he had been reborn—the World Will had used the fortune it had accumulated over ten thousand years to construct a barrier that blocked the God Realm's prying awareness.

This was good news for Huo Yuhao. It meant he could act even more freely, without having to invoke a trace of the Power of Destiny every time he acted to conceal his own destiny and avoid the upper realm's scrutiny.

Second, Tang San had spent two years opening a crack in the Destiny Barrier. He then sent a strand of Divine Sense carrying the Sea God Divinity and its Divine Artifact down to the lower realm, intending to become a god again in the lower realm through an avatar puppet.

And because the Destiny Barrier existed, the God Realm could not see what was happening in the Douluo World. Destruction naturally could not interfere, allowing Tang San to run rampant across the Douluo World with the strength of a First-Rank Deity.

Unfortunately, the World Will of the Douluo World seemed to have staked everything on one last gamble. It directly began hunting down Tang San's Divine Sense, forcing him to abandon his Trident and Sea God Divinity in order to evade pursuit.

And now, the complete Sea God Divinity and the Sea God Trident, the Divine Artifact exclusive to the Sea God, had fallen into his hands.

"The World Will's favor? It knew Gu Yuena was connected to me, so it had Gu Yuena hand the Sea God Trident to me?"

Huo Yuhao lowered his eyes slightly, and a rough guess formed in his heart.

Good news: he seemed to have gained an ally by accident.

Good news: Tang San's Trident had fallen into his hands and become his own. That meant most of Tang San's plan had nearly come to nothing.

Even better news: through the connection between the Sea God Divinity and the Sea God's Examination, Huo Yuhao had effortlessly locked onto Tang San Divine Sense's current location.

The most wonderful news of all: although Huo Yuhao had not undergone the Sea God Nine Trials and thus could not directly inherit the Sea God Divinity or wield its power—

Because of the connection between the Sea God Divinity and the Sea God's Examination, Huo Yuhao could remotely edit the contents of Tang San's Sea God Nine Trials.

Tsk.

For some reason, Huo Yuhao suddenly found this scene rather familiar.

In his previous life, it seemed that his entire life had been completely manipulated. Only after he ascended to the God Realm and saw his mother had he suddenly come to his senses and realized that everything was wrong.

And in this life... had their positions been reversed?

A smile unconsciously appeared on Huo Yuhao's lips, and his mood began to brighten.

"Yuhao?"

The soft call from the girl by the bed pulled Huo Yuhao's thoughts back to reality.

When he looked over, the girl seemed to have just awakened. She sat lazily at the bedside, tightly hugging a soft pillow in her arms. Well, it was his pillow.

Her waterfall-like silver hair hung down in slight disarray, a few strands playfully resting across her smooth forehead.

The loose short-sleeved shirt hung casually on her body, yet it could not conceal her lovely figure. Its collar slanted slightly, revealing one round shoulder, her skin as fair as congealed cream.

The hem of the shirt naturally fell with her seated posture, outlining her slender waist as though it could be easily encircled by a single hand.

White socks extending past her knees wrapped around her long, straight legs. The lines from thigh to calf were smooth and beautiful, while the shirt's hem clearly could not fully cover her thighs, exposing the soft flesh pressed between the socks and her thighs.

At that moment, the girl hugged the pillow and leaned forward slightly. Her graceful curves flickered in and out of view under the lamplight, while her purple eyes held a mysterious glow through the haziness of waking, like unfathomably deep violet crystals reflecting his image.

Huo Yuhao's heart inexplicably stirred, but the rising emotions were soon suppressed bit by bit.

For now, he could still control himself.

"What is it, Sister Nana?"

"Is that Trident so interesting?"

"Ah..."

Her words were calm—too calm, to the point of being frightening.

After a brief analysis, Huo Yuhao suddenly remembered that once he had confirmed the Trident's origins, he had immediately started studying it. And that study had lasted two and a half hours.

Hiss—

This is bad!

Huo Yuhao immediately gave up on the idea of explaining the specifics to Gu Yuena. After all, a woman in the middle of a tantrum would not care what your reasons were.

Reasoning with her? Her reason was the only reason!

He tossed the Trident into his Spiritual Sea and left it under the Eye of Destiny's care. Then Huo Yuhao walked over to the girl and reached for the pillow in her arms.

The girl looked somewhat puzzled, but she did not resist. She let Huo Yuhao toss the pillow aside. Then, in his next move, Huo Yuhao stepped forward and gently embraced her.

—(Pay attention and take notes.) Compared to meaningless apologies and explanations, actual actions made it easier for the other person to feel your sincerity.

As their bodies pressed close, the girl, who had been upset, revealed a trace of bewilderment and panic at the boy's sudden initiative. Though her expression remained calm, the temperature in her cheeks rapidly rose without her noticing.

"I'm a little sleepy... Stay and rest with me for a while."

Burying his head against the girl's neck and breathing in the pure scent of elements from her body, Huo Yuhao spoke softly.

The girl froze. For quite some time, she did not react, and more than half of her anger simply vanished.

After a long while, the girl lowered her eyes slightly and answered softly:

"Mm."

Please keep reading, brothers!!!!

(I've hit one hundred thousand words today. Starting tomorrow, I'll post three chapters a day and see if I can get it published before the end of the month.)

(By the way, is anyone reading this book? It feels like there aren't many readers.)