Electrolux Awakens

"Mmm, as expected, this really is an incredibly rich Life Crystal."

Who knew how much time had passed?

Tang Ya, done cosplaying as a Peashooter, lifted her head, wiped her mouth, and smiled with satisfaction.

She felt the Soul Power inside her flowing more smoothly.

Beside her, Huo Yuhao's face was beet red as he stiffly and frantically tried to straighten himself out.

Seeing him like that, Tang Ya couldn't help blushing too. She gave a light cough and gently patted his shoulder, her voice full of sincere gratitude and reassurance:

"Yuhao, I really have you to thank for this.

Once we get to Shrek Academy, whether you run into trouble with your cultivation or someone dares to bully you, you can come to me. Your big sister will have your back."

"Ah... mm, mm-hmm!"

Huo Yuhao hurriedly nodded, his head nearly buried in his chest, his heart still pounding wildly.

He drew a deep breath and backed away two steps as if fleeing for his life, then sat cross-legged beside the campfire again.

He closed his eyes and focused on entering a state of cultivation, hoping to ease his embarrassment by cultivating.

But the moment he circulated his Soul Power, Huo Yuhao froze.

After the impurities deep inside his body had been purged, his cultivation speed was so fast it felt like he was flying!

By the latter half of the night, his cultivation had finally reached the threshold of level twelve!

Huo Yuhao could no longer contain his joy. He immediately sank into his sea of consciousness and called out excitedly:

"Master! I'm almost level twelve!"

His eyes shone brightly. The embarrassment and awkwardness he'd felt earlier had long since been swept away by the delight of his surging Soul Power.

He had only had one level of Innate Soul Power before meeting Zhao Ze.

Even after cultivating with all his might, it had taken him more than five years to rise by nine levels!

But now, in just half a day, his cultivation had surged from level eleven to nearly level twelve!

He never would have dared dream of this before!

Zhao Ze leaned against the chaise longue, watching him practically burst with joy, and said with a smile:

"You don't need to be so surprised.

The life force I infused into you was the source energy I extracted from tens of thousands of years' worth of cold marrow, refining it over and over more than a hundred times.

An improvement like this comes with not the slightest side effect. It'll only make your path of cultivation smoother and smoother."

Huo Yuhao nodded again and again, excitement in his eyes and resolve in his heart.

This brought him another solid step closer to his wish of becoming strong and avenging his mother!

As he was celebrating, he suddenly noticed that Zhao Ze's gaze had remained fixed on the gray bead floating quietly in the middle of his sea of consciousness.

Curious, he leaned closer and asked:

"Master, what is that bead? Ever since I came in here, I've seen you staring at it."

Zhao Ze pointed to it and explained:

"This is a fragment of a mighty expert's divine sense. It was probably drawn here by the enormous fluctuations in spiritual power when I offered myself as a sacrifice to you earlier.

As it happens, I've just figured out how to awaken him. Since you're here too, you can meet him with me."

In fact, Zhao Ze had been examining the fragment ever since they'd started traveling that afternoon.

After spending the whole afternoon taking it apart and studying it, he'd finally figured out how to awaken Electrolux.

"An expert?"

Huo Yuhao nodded blankly, his eyes full of curiosity. Anyone his master called an expert was surely unfathomably powerful.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Zhao Ze point a fingertip at the gray bead.

In an instant, a vast, almost terrifying force of spiritual power surged toward the bead like a tidal wave.

It held not the slightest trace of aggression. Instead, it gently enveloped the entire bead, slowly sorting through and repairing the shattered fragments of divine sense within.

The next moment, the gray bead, dormant for so long, suddenly trembled!

A terrifying pressure, ancient and primeval, filled with an endless aura of authority and deathly stillness, erupted from the bead and swept through the entire sea of consciousness!

Huo Yuhao felt his whole body stiffen.

Under that pressure, he was as insignificant as an ant. Even breathing became difficult.

"Th-that's incredible pressure!"

Huo Yuhao was secretly shocked, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

He swallowed and looked at Zhao Ze, stammering:

"Master, is this expert... a Titled Douluo?"

With his limited knowledge, the only possibility he could think of was a Titled Douluo, one of the Soul Masters at the pinnacle of the continent.

At that, Zhao Ze smiled and shook his head, his voice carrying a deeper meaning:

"A Titled Douluo? He's no Titled Douluo.

To be precise, he isn't even from this world.

Oh, he's awake. Let him tell you himself."

The instant the words left his mouth, the gray bead trembled violently once more.

Gray light suddenly blazed from it.

An aged voice slowly came from inside the bead, tinged with the confusion and bewilderment of someone newly awakened:

"Where... am I?"

With his arms folded, Zhao Ze looked at the bead glowing gray and said:

"You're awake? Can you still remember who you are?"

The gray bead rotated gently once.

A moment later, the hoarse, authoritative voice sounded again:

"I remember now. I am... Electrolux! Electrolux, the Scourge of the Undead!"

Even with only a wisp of divine sense remaining, Electrolux still carried an aura of cold disdain for the world.

But the next moment, that aura abruptly faded, and his voice took on a hint of melancholy:

"Wait, I remember... I should already be dead... Yet this remnant of my consciousness has survived, and even arrived in such an unfamiliar world."

Zhao Ze smiled and nodded at that.

It seemed Electrolux's divine sense had fully awakened, and his memories had all returned. Nothing had become jumbled.

Huo Yuhao, standing off to the side, was already completely dumbfounded.

The Scourge of the Undead?

Just hearing that title was enough to tell him what a terrifying expert this must be!

Suppressing his shock, he cautiously stepped half a pace closer and asked respectfully:

"Senior Electrolux, may I ask... are you really from beyond this world?"

"Indeed."

Electrolux's voice settled, and he showed a little more patience toward the young man, who clearly meant him no harm.

"I was indeed born in another plane. Where is this place? And who are you?"

"You can call this world the Douluo Continent..."

Zhao Ze snapped his fingers. A strand of icy-blue spiritual power gathered at his fingertips and sketched the outline of the Douluo Continent in midair. Then he began explaining the world to Electrolux at an unhurried pace.

Before long, he had presented a detailed and clear picture of this world to Electrolux.

Huo Yuhao stood to the side, just as stirred by what he heard.

He had lived in the back courtyard of the White Tiger Duke Mansion since childhood and knew very little about the world beyond it.

Zhao Ze's explanation had flung open an entirely new door for him, letting him see the true shape of the world for the first time.

After a long while, Electrolux finished listening to the whole account and let out a drawn-out sigh:

"I never would have imagined... that I would come to such a completely new world, so different from the Holy Demon Continent."

He had witnessed countless strange and wondrous things, yet had never imagined that one day he would cross between planes.

Just then, Zhao Ze suddenly said with a serious expression:

"Electrolux, since fate has brought you here, would you be interested in making a deal with us?"