Intercepting the Old Man

"Yuhao, call me sister, and I won't let you call me that for nothing."

"Since you're here to hunt a soul beast, sister will help you."

Seeing Huo Yuhao rise to leave, Ye Guyi followed their prior plan, putting on an appearance of great enthusiasm.

"Sister Guyi, I..."

Huo Yuhao instinctively wanted to refuse, but Ye Guyi cut him off.

"It's nothing, just a century-level soul beast; it's just a matter of convenience."

"If you don't want to owe me, just help me make more grilled fish later."

"A-Que loves to eat them!"

Ye Guyi was firm and brooked no argument. According to what A-Que had said, Huo Yuhao at this stage was very thin-skinned, valuing his dignity while feeling deeply inferior. It was best to offer him a task he could perform in exchange for help, so he could accept it with a more settled heart.

"Thank you, Sister Guyi!"

Hearing these words, Huo Yuhao's expression shifted, and even his eye sockets turned slightly red.

In the end, he lacked the courage to refuse.

Although he had never seen a soul beast before, he still knew how powerful they were.

"That's right, little Yuhao, we'll go hunt with you too."

"It's on our way!"

As soon as Tang Ya heard that helping to hunt a soul beast could be traded for grilled fish, she perked up and hurriedly chimed in.

Having already accepted Sister Guyi's help, Huo Yuhao did not feel embarrassed or refuse when Tang Ya spoke up.

As for Bei Bei, he had no objections whatsoever.

Ning Que looked uninterested.

He had no intention of subduing Huo Yuhao, the Son of Destiny, nor did he intend to deliberately make things difficult for him.

Everyone called Huo Yuhao "Huo the Cheat," but he felt he was just average.

The cheats Huo Yuhao possessed were certainly top-tier on Douluo Planet, but compared to the God Realm, they were nothing special.

It looked exaggerated, but the ceiling was already set.

Compared to the cheats of Tang San, Tang Wulin, and Lan Xuanyu, what did this even count for?

Not to mention Tang San's Tang Sect Unique Skills, or the fact that he had a cheating father protecting him and the limitless help of a deity; just looking at the inheritance of the Asura God King, which was a direct transfer of a divine trial, this cheat was far beyond what Huo Yuhao could compare to.

Tang Wulin—did he really have it hard?

Every crisis was quietly resolved, and the villains he faced were all one-dimensional and dim-witted...

Countless people wanted the ability to improve through hard work, but most people worked hard and gained nothing at all.

His suffering was merely an illusion!

Even just the Golden Lama sealed within his body was a cheat that Huo Yuhao's many fortuitous encounters couldn't match.

As for Lan Xuanyu, there was no need to even mention him.

Aside from some fortuitous encounters and resources, there was no conflict between him and Huo Yuhao.

In fact, once upon a time, he had watched "Prisoner Huo" grow up step by step, but later, when his path went astray, he simply stopped watching.

In this era, it was very difficult for him to create a god!

He could only exploit loopholes, use Huo Yuhao as a target in the open, accumulate power in the shadows, and wait for the right moment to have a glimmer of success.

At this moment, Ning Que was pondering something in his mind: after successfully intercepting the opportunity, it was time to arrange a god-level opponent for Guyi.

Only by slaying a god-level fallen one could Ye Guyi restore the glory of the Angels.

This opponent was not hard to choose: the boss of the Holy Spirit Cult, Ye Xishui.

A mini-version of Bibi Dong.

The problem was, how to make her reach the god level?

Or rather, how to make her find the inheritance of the former Rakshasa God.

With the destruction of Slaughter City, the paths to the inheritance of the Asura God King and the Rakshasa God had both been severed; the Rakshasa divine position had returned to the God Realm to hang vacant, and the Rakshasa Secret Realm had become a mystery.

How difficult it was to open the Rakshasa God's inheritance.

But it was not impossible; by following the guidance of the Angel Divine Sword, some traces could still be found.

He knew this process was extremely dangerous—one careless step and he would be arming the enemy or ruining everything—but this was the most crucial step in restoring the glory of the Angels.

No matter how dangerous, it had to be attempted!

As the group moved forward, they casually slaughtered a ten-year Wind Baboon.

Just then, a powerful wave of spiritual pressure suddenly descended from the heavens.

Faced with this heavy pressure, Bei Bei and Tang Ya fainted on the spot, while Ning Que and Ye Guyi remained largely unaffected.

The reason was simple: it had to do with the external soul bones in their heads.

Ning Que's head Soul Bone originated from a 190,000-year-old Green-Eyed Golden Crystal Beast, a gem-type soul beast.

It possesses powerful spiritual and holy attributes.

To be honest, the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect went to great lengths, scouring for information and maneuvering everywhere, just to successfully obtain this skull bone.

As for whether they resorted to forced sales, murder, or looting during the process, while Ning Que did not know the specifics, he could roughly guess the nature of their methods.

As a beneficiary, he would not judge the morality of the matter, nor did he have the qualifications to do so.

It was merely the law of the jungle, survival of the fittest.

There is no simple distinction between good and evil; although he tried his best to cultivate Ye Guyi toward holiness, radiance, and absolute perfection, he himself never claimed to be a good person.

In fact, he could state without hesitation that he was nothing more than an opportunistic villain, a demon intending to subvert the world and bring chaos to the masses.

As for the head Soul Bone possessed by Ye Guyi, it was the very one once owned by the Angel God, Qian Renxue.

Qian Renxue was indeed incompetent—this could not be denied—but she had certainly reaped the benefits of her era, reaching the god-level tier.

Her entire set of Angel Soul Bones consisted of 99,999-year-old bones; once fully fused, they would all evolve into Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, and through her divine trials, Qian Renxue had promoted them into god-level soul bones.

Obtaining Qian Renxue's legacy involved a significant element of luck.

Among the descendants of the Angel clan, there was a legend passed down through generations of family heads: before the Angel God vanished, she had left behind a massive treasure, yet later generations had searched for it repeatedly to no avail.

Initially, Ning Que had only acted on a whim, utilizing the power of the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect to search, and they had actually succeeded.

As for why Ye Guyi did not obtain all of this in the original story, perhaps it was because her parents had been slaughtered by Evil Soul Masters before they could tell her.

Qian Renxue's legacy was simple: a full set of god-level soul bones, a divine artifact, the Angel clan's meditation technique, the fragments of the godhead she had collected, and a suicide note.

That brainless fool had only realized, after her total defeat, that her divine trials had been tampered with by other gods.

She had only met Tang San a few times and merely considered him a talent worth recruiting; how could she have inexplicably fallen in love with him shortly after beginning her divine trials?

She had held back at every turn, ultimately leading to the total destruction of Martial Soul Hall.

She hated herself and tried every possible way to start over, but to no avail.

She never married in her lifetime and left behind no heirs.

According to the claims in her suicide note, Ning Que speculated that Ye Guyi's Holy Angel Martial Soul contained a fragment of the Angel God's godhead, which was why she could increase her strength simply by slaying Evil Soul Masters.

By fusing the Angel God set, collecting all the broken godhead fragments to repair it, and using the Angel Holy Sword as a catalyst to open the Angel Temple, one could reclaim the Angel God position in the Suspended God Realm.

It was precisely because of this that Ning Que conceived the idea of creating a god.

But would Tang San sit idly by and watch?

Beyond that, Qian Renxue's soul had completely dissipated; she could no longer offer them any further assistance.

Ning Que had hoped at the time that, since she was a god after all, she might have used her final strength to forge a god-level martial soul for him.

With the god-level head Soul Bone, the spiritual power of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could not affect Ye Guyi at all.

Facing the sacrifice of the million-year soul beast, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, neither of them intervened, for they could not; neither of them were spirit-type soul masters.

Just then, the sky changed abruptly; amidst rolling black clouds, a powerful force began to churn.

"Holding the sun and moon in my hand, plucking the stars, there is no one in this world like me. To think that this old man still has a sliver of a remnant soul preserved..."

Seeing this change, at Ning Que's signal, Ye Guyi manifested her martial soul while simultaneously summoning the Gold of Life from her spiritual sea.

"The aura of holiness and light, and it even possesses the Gold of Life..."

"Very well, very well. This old man shall not fight you for territory, you big worm."

Electrolux sensed the power that resonated more with his own, and immediately veered, diving directly into Ye Guyi's spiritual sea.

"It's done!"

Ye Guyi and Ning Que exchanged a glance, both seeing wild joy in each other's eyes.