"Houka!!"
As the berserk Conqueror's Haki and violent lightning subsided, the women saw Houka regain consciousness and immediately cried out in delight.
Their man was alright!
As long as he was alright!
"Shenwei!!"
Stussy hurried over in a panic. Seeing her newly awakened, weakened husband treating their pale-faced son, her heart clenched painfully.
"I'm fine! It's only weakness of the soul."
"Our child seems to have gained a blessing from this misfortune. He awakened my bloodline and even produced a Soul Fire!"
Houka stroked Gu Yue Shenwei's little head, his eyes filled with guilt and fatherly love.
Back then, if his luck and spiritual warning had led him to choose to save Rocks and Loki, he would very likely have died with them.
But fate was just that coincidental and strange.
When he had first fused with his eldest son, Shenwei, it had truly only been because he wanted to take this unconvinced eldest son to witness a top-tier war and see whether he could find an opportunity to awaken Conqueror's Haki.
Yet he had never imagined that this very thought would allow him to successfully save Rocks and Loki.
When the sun exploded at extreme speed, in order to keep the Rainbow Gate open long enough for the massive Loki to escape, he used Shenwei's Yamata no Orochi power and expended one life.
But the Devouring Soul Fire still suffered severe damage in the end.
However, Houka had also successfully rescued Loki, who had been almost impossible to save.
He had caused Imu's scheme to fail.
Otherwise, according to Imu's calculations, one or two of the three of them would have died no matter what.
But Imu had never expected that Houka's Lost World, along with the Yamata no Orochi ability gained through fusion—
Would make an almost impossible