"Brother Sky Dream... though I know I might sound a bit cowardly saying this, the problem is, are you really certain about this?"
Huo Yuhao was genuinely worried and scared. Even if the other party had some connection to Tian Meng, the problem was—what if! What if! The other party refused to listen to Tian Meng at all, or in their eyes, a soul beast sacrificing itself to a human was an absolute joke, and then, completely disregarding Tian Meng's feelings.
And then directly attacked; by then, he would be completely finished.
So Huo Yuhao was truly terrified at this moment. If this possibility actually happened, the consequences would be extremely grave. Huo Yuhao also had no idea whether Tian Meng was certain of anything, since Tian Meng had never mentioned having any trump cards or the like.
Tian Meng always told him to leave it to him and not worry, but the problem was—not telling him what the trump card was? Could he possibly relax?
Huo Yuhao's thoughts were actually understandable. After all, without seeing a trump card, expecting others to simply trust him.
Tian Meng's behavior made it genuinely difficult for anyone to feel at ease. Although Tian Meng's explanations sounded logical and well-founded, the issue was that without revealing what the trump card actually was, how could anyone trust him?
"Yuhao, this means you don't trust me. When has big brother ever lied to you?" Tian Meng said.
Although Tian Meng said this on the surface, he knew deep down that he wasn't telling the whole truth. His actual goal was to bring the person he liked to ascend to godhood together, having Huo Yuhao lead them to become gods so they could eventually reach the God Realm and attain eternal life.
Soon, Huo Yuhao reached a high vantage point. Arriving at the destination, Tian Meng began making preparations.
"Huo Yuhao, to win over this powerhouse, you must listen to me and not mess anything up. Otherwise, the slightest mistake could affect our ultimate ending."
"Understood."
Huo Yuhao said this.
Just a moment later, Tian Meng began taking over control of the body, and Tian Meng started getting serious.
(Is this what a true million-year soul ring feels like?)
Watching his soul ring change colors, Huo Yuhao also knew he could not yet withstand the power of a million-year soul ring.
Soon, nine balls of light condensed into a human shape. This human shape strongly resembled Huo Yuhao, clearly created by Tian Meng molding it out of Huo Yuhao's appearance.
"Ice Empress, I know you can sense my presence. I, Tian Meng, have now returned for revenge. Do you dare come out and see me?"
Tian Meng shouted loudly at this moment.
He also broadcasted his telepathic message, but the moment this message went out, Huo Yuhao began to sense that something was amiss—Tian Meng might not have told the whole truth. Bringing him here had other hidden purposes.
"Brother Sky Dream, what should we do if that Ice Empress comes over? Shouldn't you tell me what the trump card is now? If one of the Ten Great Fierce Beasts charges over here, we're going to be finished."
At this point, Huo Yuhao hoped Tian Meng would quickly reveal the trump card so he would know what it was and feel a bit more at ease.
"Don't worry, once she arrives, I'll release the trump card immediately. I just hope I can persuade this old friend of mine to be willing to join our God-Making Plan."
Though Tian Meng claimed on the surface that the Ice Empress was his old friend, the reality was that their relationship could only be described as food and hunter.
After all, when has someone eating a meal ever fallen in love with the food?
Such an absurd thing... well, maybe only Tang San would do it. After all, Tang San's Bashu Tang Sect in his past life was a place famous for eating rabbits; rabbit culture and cuisine there were basically exceptionally renowned, and Tang San must have grown up eating rabbits.
Yet he ended up falling in love with the 100,000-year Soft Bone Rabbit Xiao Wu—truly absurd enough to actually fancy a rabbit.
If it were just liking a rabbit, that would be one thing, but the problem was the adaptability of the Soft Bone Rabbit was completely different.
First of all, Xiao Wu was at least around 100,000 years old, a 100,000-year Soft Bone Rabbit, yet she fell for a little squirt like Tang San. Although Tang San himself was a transmigrator—and a very old transmigrator at that—the problem was that compared to Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu could easily be Tang San's ancestor's ancestor.
For instance, Ah Yin was much older than Tang Hao, yet she still called Tang Hao "Brother Hao," and Tang Hao was utterly shameless himself.
Furthermore, Xiao Wu—she was unchaste!
Soft Bone Youkai—no, Soft Bone Rabbits belonged to an extremely inferior tier of soul beasts, sitting right at the bottom of the soul beast hierarchy.
Such inferior soul beasts possessed no sapience before breaking through to ten thousand years.
Almost all of them survived purely on instinct. Even after ten thousand years, instinct still dominated most of them.
Only upon breaking through to one hundred thousand years did they truly acquire human intelligence.
Moreover, whether it was the Soft Bone Rabbit or other inferior rabbit-type soul beasts, they all belonged to the lowest tier of soul beasts under equivalent cultivation.
The soul beasts they could actually defeat were vanishingly few; basically, they could only win against plant-type soul beasts like Blue Silver Grass. Consequently, Soft Bone Rabbits served as the rations for the vast majority of non-herbivorous powerful soul beasts in the soul beast forest.
With so many powerful soul beasts preying on Soft Bone Rabbits and other rabbit-type soul beasts, why did they continue to exist across all major soul beast gatherings? And why were their numbers still so massive? What could the reason possibly be? Only the fact that rabbit-type soul beasts possessed terrifyingly strong reproductive capabilities could explain all of this.
Even more absurdly, Soft Bone Rabbits naturally belonged to the rabbit family of soul beasts.
Normal wild rabbits entered heat 8 to 10 weeks after birth and then began reproducing.
Rabbits also held another moniker: the birth machines of the animal kingdom, possessing two reproductive organs.
Growing up to 3 or 4 months, they could reproduce, giving birth to 6 to 10 kits per litter, 4 to 6 times a year—producing two to three hundred babies a year was completely effortless!
Moreover, Xiao Wu was a Soft Bone Rabbit among soul beasts, belonging to the rabbit family. Her reproductive capacity might have some differences from ordinary wild rabbits, but it would certainly not be inferior; it was even possible that a Soft Bone Rabbit's reproductive capability was far more terrifying than that of wild rabbits.
Additionally, according to the world-building of Douluo Continent, because the physical size of soul beasts continuously expanded as they cultivated, this also meant their appetites increased accordingly, which in turn meant the number of Soft Bone Rabbits they needed to hunt and eat per meal increased.
To ensure the survival of their species, rabbit soul beasts needed an even stronger reproductive capability than wild rabbits.
Xiao Wu, 10,000 years ago, had lived for at least tens of thousands of years before ascending to godhood.
During all those years before Xiao Wu's cultivation reached 100,000 years and her sapience was completely unlocked—during the eras when her body was governed purely by instinct—how many times had Xiao Wu reproduced?
Nobody could say for sure.
Besides, male rabbits did not care for their homes. In rabbit culture, male rabbits were like patrons in a brothel, utterly devoid of a shred of responsibility. Exactly how many rabbits had Xiao Wu reproduced with?
So one could only imagine how many male rabbits Tang San had cuckolded, or perhaps he wore plenty of green hats himself.
And yet he actually fell in love with a rabbit. He himself ought to have known the issues with rabbits, yet knowing his woman was a rabbit, while still loving her—that lifetime of his was truly speechless.
So why on earth did Tian Meng ever think that a hunter would fall in love with its own food?
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