What's more, the current Dou Ling royal family and the Mysterious Underworld Sect were already in-laws.
If a commoner were imprisoned for "research," who would truly care?
In this world, Huo Yuhao died a tragic death within the Mysterious Underworld Sect before he even turned sixteen.
After his death, Xu Sanshi clutched his corpse, wailing loudly and repeating, "I'm sorry, I love you; I'm sorry, I love you; I'm sorry, I love you..."
At that moment, Xu Sanshi's Black Tortoise Turtle martial soul evolved once more. The phantom of a black tortoise appeared behind him, and the extreme chill on his body transformed into Mysterious Ice, howling mournfully at the sky.
However, accompanied by Xu Sanshi's roar, that extreme Mysterious Ice suddenly shattered. In its place, pitch-black flames engulfed the entire Black Tortoise Turtle martial soul, and even Xu Sanshi's own body.
At this moment, inside Shrek Academy, Ma Xiaotao's pupils constricted. How could she not recognize this? It was the same Evil Fire as her own! It was even more violent and intense. It had likely reached the level of an Ultimate Fire!
"Is this... the reversal of fortune?"
Within the Clear Sky Sect, the two sect masters watched this scene, unable to help but think of the explosion of the Snow Empress's Snow Core in the previous Sky Screen! And at this moment, driven by extreme grief, indignation, and desire, Xu Sanshi had reached the extreme of Yin, giving birth to Yang, transforming into this figure with Evil Fire soaring to the heavens!
Such a horrifying scene sent a chill down the spines of everyone watching outside the Sky Screen!
Bei Bei felt his hair stand on end. By now, how could he not guess the source of the awkward relationship between Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan?
He never imagined that his "good brother" actually possessed such a shocking fetish!
He had already made up his mind: once he returned to the academy and saw this guy again, he would stay as far away as possible!
Who knew if, after seeing the situation in the Sky Screen, certain thoughts he hadn't even realized he had might truly awaken?
[Rank 2 Mysterious Underworld Sect Yuhao. Alone and helpless, he was lured into the Mysterious Underworld Sect to awaken the martial soul for the second young master, Xu Sanshi. Afterward, he was imprisoned, exploited, and died a tragic death.]
[Comprehensive Evaluation: A total disaster!]
Seeing this evaluation, the hearts of everyone on the continent were filled with mixed emotions.
So, even possessing genius talent didn't necessarily mean anything. So, even avoiding a pit like Shrek Academy didn't guarantee a good outcome!
[Reward: Lubricant x1, physical strength increased to the Soul Saint level.]
With a flash of golden light, a bottle of lubricant, just like the dog collar from before, dropped to Huo Yuhao's feet.
Tang Ya and Bei Bei both looked at the lubricant on the ground with strange, sympathetic gazes, then glanced at Huo Yuhao.
"That... little brother. You should keep this too. Perhaps... you'll find a use for it later."
Bei Bei looked at Huo Yuhao with some embarrassment and spoke after weighing his words.
"Find a use for it? Heh, perhaps so."
A surge of anger flared in Huo Yuhao's chest for a split second.
However, the very next moment, that anger subsided. Huo Yuhao chuckled, then truly bent down again, picked up the canister, and placed it into his backpack. A flicker of mockery and contempt flashed subconsciously in Bei Bei's eyes.
He did not notice that when Huo Yuhao picked up the canister, he also glanced at Tang Ya, who was standing beside him.
Huo Yuhao licked his lips and tucked the canister into his pack, placing it right next to the collar.
There might indeed be a time when it would be useful in the future. As for who it would be used on, that was hard to say!
At this very moment, Huo Yuhao could also feel his physical strength quietly and imperceptibly strengthening rapidly.
The muscles beneath his clothes were quickly reshaping; his skin became white and smooth, like jade porcelain, yet hard enough to withstand the slash of blades and even the shots of some low-level Soul Tools.
Huo Yuhao vaguely understood why he received this reward. Every time the Sky Screen's review ended, the rewards he received were likely related to the experiences of the Huo Yuhao in that parallel world.
In the world of that Mysterious Underworld Sect Yuhao, to prevent Huo Yuhao from being tortured to death too early, the Mysterious Underworld Sect had fed him a large amount of precious "Mysterious Water Pill" to help him improve his physical strength.
Otherwise, how could Huo Yuhao have possibly persisted until he was fifteen or sixteen?
Under such brutal enhancement by the Mysterious Underworld Sect, although the Huo Yuhao of that world didn't reach a high cultivation level in the end, his physical strength was comparable to a Soul Saint, and he had forged a "Mysterious Yin Body."
Don't be fooled by how Huo Yuhao was acting obediently beside Bei Bei and Tang Ya right now. If he were to make a move, he could probably beat Bei Bei—that silver-plated, wax-tipped spear—into a dead dog in minutes!
At this moment, the image on the Sky Screen updated once again. The eyes of everyone on the continent were instantly drawn back to it.
[Myriad Worlds Parallel Universe Huo Yuhao Rank 8: Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Yuhao!]
This time, after the Mysterious Underworld Sect, it was actually the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect again?
However, relatively speaking, this didn't seem strange to everyone; in fact, it seemed quite fitting.
After all, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had been one of the soul master sects most keen on recruiting talents from all over the world since ancient times, never closing itself off.
Other martial soul sects, such as the Clear Sky Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, which were once ranked among the Upper Three Sects alongside the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, relied entirely on the power of their core inherited martial souls and were fully capable of standing on their own and dominating a region.
But the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was different. Their family inherited an auxiliary-type martial soul, so relying solely on themselves was clearly insufficient to support a powerful force; they had to have other military support.
Especially the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul inherited by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect; this martial soul had inherent flaws. It had a total of seven levels and could only carry seven soul rings, meaning one could only cultivate to the Soul Saint realm at most.
Although there had been a Nine-Colored Goddess, Ning Rongrong, in history who evolved the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the unprecedented Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, capable of breaking the Soul Saint limit and even eventually becoming a god, she unfortunately left no descendants and did not pass down the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul. The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect simply basked in the glory of this deity and changed the sect's name to "Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect."
But perhaps precisely because of this, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had always maintained the habit of recruiting talent and cultivating strong individuals without restraint, and they were also the fastest to accept Soul Tools.
To this day, the Clear Sky Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect had completely declined, yet the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect remained a famously wealthy power.
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