"Huo Yuhao's finished. Shrek pulled a move like this, and now they've got him completely under their thumb..."
Even now, most people no longer felt much sympathy for Huo Yuhao, who had been completely remade and brainwashed by Shrek Academy. But they still felt a chill run down their spines, along with the sorrow of a rabbit dying while the fox grieved.
Especially since, during the war on the continent, Huo Yuhao had even fought shoulder to shoulder with Dai Huabin—the man who had kicked his mother to death—and protected Dai Hao, the "White Tiger War God" he had once sworn to avenge himself against.
Seeing this, everyone could only think: Mourn his misfortune, rage at his failure to fight back!
What made everyone's blood run cold was still to come. During one of Huo Yuhao's duels with the Holy Spirit Cult, just as he was about to win, Tang Wutong suddenly stepped in front of him and took a blow from the Holy Spirit Cult's leader.
After that, Tang Wutong fell unconscious and wouldn't wake up, so Huo Yuhao had no choice but to take her to the Clear Sky Hammer for help.
At the Clear Sky Sect, Huo Yuhao was subjected to every kind of humiliation yet again.
The dignified Spirit Ice Douluo, one of the continent's few peak powerhouses, able to defeat the Holy Spirit Cult's leader and battle against Limit Douluos, was actually kicked off Clear Sky Peak by that "Second Sect Master of Clear Sky Sect"—a suspicious figure who didn't even possess the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul—and sent tumbling down while spewing blood!
"Damn, that's way too much. Is this how you treat your own son-in-law?"
"Why does he feel like a dog?"
"If I were Huo Yuhao, I'd just leave. I'd dump that mass-produced doll on them and let them save her—or not."
"Leave? I'd slaughter my way through them to blow off steam!"
What would really send everyone's blood pressure soaring was still to come.
"If you want to save Tang Wutong, you must give up your life! Transfer all your cultivation, your Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores, and your spiritual power into Tang Wutong's body. You die, and Tang Wutong lives. Huo Yuhao, are you willing?"
When they saw the Clear Sky Sect Master make such a demand, even the people watching from the sidelines were thoroughly enraged!
"Damn, go for it! Kill that old bastard!"
"No man could put up with this! What the hell is this? Why should I give everything I have to this mass-produced person? What, if we get divorced someday, will she take half my cultivation too?"
"Half your cultivation? She'll pack up your Soul Spirit, Soul Power, and Soul Core and take the lot. You'll be sent away with nothing!"
At that moment, it wasn't just Huo Yuhao, watching the Sky Screen and reliving the story, who could barely take it. The entire continent was ringing with sarcastic remarks!
And what left everyone speechless was that Huo Yuhao, kneeling before Tang Wutong's bed and utterly bereft, actually agreed with a look of complete devotion!
At that moment, everyone felt that Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul was no longer the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion. It was a fat cat eating McDonald's!
"Damn, is he even human?"
"Pah! You're a dog. You deserve to have your cultivation and Soul Cores plundered!"
Huo Yuhao didn't die. In the end, he opened his eyes alive and saw Tang Wutong, who had already awakened and was completely unharmed.
Everyone watching the Sky Screen saw it with their own eyes: while Huo Yuhao was unconscious, a sea-blue power connected him and Tang Wutong. Then, many things inside Huo Yuhao weren't merely "transferred"—they were "copied" into Tang Wutong's body.
In the end, while a portion of Huo Yuhao's essence was depleted, his cultivation foundation wasn't completely destroyed. His Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores, which he had painstakingly cultivated through countless hardships, were copied into Tang Wutong's body, intact.
Many of Huo Yuhao's other hard-earned gains were also quietly taken from him.
The moment the transfer was complete, even their cultivation levels became synchronized! It truly was half his cultivation taken away!
"They're not even married yet, and the bride price is already this hefty!"
Someone remarked sarcastically.
But the shocking part was still to come.
After they returned, Huo Yuhao hadn't even had the chance to do anything with his "wife," who had already collected her bride price. Just touching her a few more times or kissing her would trigger the mysterious golden seal on Tang Wutong.
A terrifying divine power would instantly blast Huo Yuhao away. Even with his Super Douluo cultivation, he couldn't resist it in the slightest.
"Wait. If you had that thing on you from the start, how could you have been injured by someone as insignificant as the Holy Spirit Cult's leader?"
Seeing this, everyone was dumbstruck! This was blatant monkeying around.
Monkeying around was one thing. He'd already paid the bride price, and now she was locked up, and he wasn't even allowed to touch her? In the eyes of that sea-blue presence behind the scenes, was Huo Yuhao a person or a dog?
By this point, the people of Douluo Continent were in a complicated state of mind. By now, the clever ones had already begun to guess at the identity of that sea-blue figure!
"That mysterious Gray Elder inside Huo Yuhao was killed by that guy too, wasn't he?"
"That must be it. That mysterious gray presence also met with an unexpected disaster at the Clear Sky Sect, sacrificing himself to protect Huo Yuhao. I don't know who he was, but I can't help admiring him."
"With the sun and moon in my hands, I pluck the stars; none in this world can compare to me! I remember him saying that before he disappeared. I wonder how powerful he was at the height of his strength."
"Heh. If he weren't powerful, would that person have needed to scheme against him like this?"
At that moment, who knew how many people on Douluo Continent were sighing with complicated feelings?
Who could have imagined that the one so many people worshipped—the figure shrouded in sea-blue light—would be tainted with so many stains?
"Hmph!"
Far above, in a world where golden mist drifted, a figure with long sea-blue hair sensed the violent fluctuation of faith from the lower realm. His expression darkened further.
He had noticed the Sky Screen that had suddenly appeared in the lower realm long ago. But to his astonishment, he found that even he couldn't interfere with it.
In fact, at that very moment, he couldn't even interfere with Douluo Continent! It was as if some unimaginably powerful force had cut off the Divine Realm from Douluo Continent. Even he, a God King, was powerless!
At the end of the Sky Screen, after Huo Yuhao broke through to Limit Douluo, he finally made it to the decisive battle between the allied forces of Star Luo City, Shrek, and the Star Luo Empire, and the million-strong army of the Sun Moon Empire!
Both sides sent out their elite forces in this battle. Even Xuan Zi, who had broken through to Limit Douluo earlier, came with Shrek's forces. But on the Sun Moon Empire's side, Kong Deming had also broken through to Level 10 Soul Engineer, and suppressed Xuan Zi as soon as he struck!
Anyone with eyes could tell by now that the three original kingdoms of Douluo Continent had long since lost the tide of the times. The Sun Moon Empire's unification of the continent was inevitable.
And that was before considering anything else: those who possessed Soul Guidance Technology ruled the world; those who possessed productive power ruled the world. With a stronger Soul Guidance Technology system, they could build low-cost Soul Engineer armies with immense combat power. Even Super Douluos and Limit Douluos couldn't withstand the combined concentrated fire of several Soul Master Regiments.