Your Will Is the Direction My Sword Points

Rumble—!

The instant that rainbow pillar of light pierced heaven and earth, it became the sole master of the entire Star Dou Forest.

A terrifying storm of energy erupted around the pillar and swept wildly in every direction.

The sky was dyed a magnificent rainbow.

The clouds churned and gathered, then finally formed a vast vortex that covered the entire heart of the forest.

Within the forest, all was silent.

Whether Hundred-Year Soul Beasts, millennium overlords, or even the ten-thousand-year-old beings hidden deep within the core, unknown to all, every one of them was prostrate on the ground, their massive bodies trembling.

A pressure that came from the very source of life stripped them of even the courage to lift their heads.

It was the birth of a king. The descent of a god.

Li Hao stood at the very center of the storm, his clothes snapping in the gale.

He felt no pressure at all. Instead, a warm sensation enveloped his entire body.

He stared blankly at the scene before him.

Amid the blinding rainbow light, the enormous, rainbow-colored serpent body was dissolving inch by inch before his eyes.

It was neither burning nor breaking apart.

Instead, it was turning into the purest points of rainbow light and merging into the pillar that reached the heavens.

The old wounds, shattered scales, and poison that had seeped into her bones...

Along with the resentment and unwillingness she had felt on the brink of death, everything was completely washed away and purified in that sacred light.

In their place came the power of rebirth.

A new bond that transcended worlds.

The points of light rapidly took shape again.

First came slender, fair ankles.

Then long, straight calves.

A waist narrow enough to encircle with one's hands.

And curves so stunning they could drive any man mad...

A flawless female body, too perfect to belong to a mortal, slowly coalesced within the light.

No one knew how long it took, but the pillar of light shooting into the sky began to draw inward, and the raging storm of energy gradually subsided.

When the final trace of rainbow light faded away,

the deep crater had vanished, replaced by a flat surface as smooth as a mirror.

A woman hovered in midair.

She wore a tight-fitting purple gown that outlined her voluptuous figure to perfection.

Her long, glossy black hair fell to her waist like a waterfall.

Her beauty was cold and peerless, imbued with an innate nobility and majesty that made her impossible to look at directly.

When she slowly opened her eyes,

they were golden, with vertical pupils, filled with an icy indifference to all life—and a trace of confusion, like that of a newborn.

She lowered her head and looked at her flawless hands.

Then she felt the vast, surging power within her, even greater than it had been at her peak.

She had come back to life.

And she had grown stronger.

The next moment, her gaze settled on the small figure not far away.

The six-and-a-half-year-old boy who had pulled her back from the abyss of death.

Boom!

Deep within her soul, an invisible chain of a contract snapped taut!

An irresistible and incomprehensible flood of information forcibly poured into her mind.

The boy before her.

Was her new life.

Was her everything.

Was her... master.

The confusion and coldness vanished from her golden eyes in an instant, replaced by emotions of the utmost complexity.

There was shock. There was bewilderment.

But above all, there was an absolute obedience she herself had not even noticed.

Behind a distant rock, Xiao Wu covered her little mouth in shock.

Li Hao was just as dumbfounded.

Then, under the stunned gaze of father and daughter,

the peerless beauty, who had just descended and radiated a queen's aura, slowly drifted down from midair.

Barefoot, she walked toward Li Hao one step at a time.

Then, beneath Li Hao's disbelieving gaze, the proud, cold queen—whose presence could eclipse mountains and rivers—slowly lowered herself onto one knee.

She bowed her noble head and placed her right hand over her ample chest.

Before the boy who barely reached her waist, she offered the highest form of loyalty of the Snake-Person Tribe—and the only loyalty she would ever give in her life.

"Master."

Her voice was cool, yet carried an unshakable resolve.

"Your will is the direction my sword points!"

Li Hao's brain crashed.

He looked down at Queen Medusa, kneeling before him with boundless reverence.

Then he turned to look at Xiao Wu, who was peeking out from afar, her little face full of adoration.

"Who am I?"

"Where am I?"

"What the hell have I even done?"

In the space of a single day, he had gained a hundred-thousand-year-old little-girl daughter for free, then taken a queen from another world as his subordinate.

Was life... a little too fantastical?

Did this... count as having a complete family, just in a different way?

Li Hao felt like his CPU was about to burn out, his logic modules already spitting out nonsense.

Just then, the system's voice rang out in his mind, its tone carrying a hint of gloating amusement.

[Congratulations, Host! Hidden achievement unlocked: A Complete Family!]

[You have successfully raised your second Soul Beast Girl: Queen Medusa (Otherworldly Projection)!]

[High-difficulty raising achievement detected. Massive rewards incoming!]

[Reward One: Your Soul Power Level has soared to Level 29!]

[Reward Two: You have automatically obtained your Second Soul Ring (Millennium · Purple)!]

[Reward Three: You have obtained your second Soul Skill—Petrification Eye (originating from Queen Medusa's innate power; can evolve as the target's strength and your Soul Power increase)!]

Boom!

The moment the system's notification ended, an unprecedented surge of Soul Power burst from every part of Li Hao's body!

The power was so immense it nearly burst his little body apart!

"Ugh!"

Li Hao grunted. He felt every meridian in his body being violently widened, while his bones creaked under the strain.

A deep purple Soul Ring rose fiercely from beneath his feet and spiraled upward.

At last, it hovered quietly beside him, shining in harmony with the red Soul Ring that represented Xiao Wu.

One red, one purple.

One represented a bond spanning a hundred thousand years.

The other represented the submission of an otherworldly queen.

Li Hao slowly opened his hands and felt the power within him, so full it seemed ready to spill over.

"So this is... the power of a Soul Grandmaster?"

And he was already a Level 29 Soul Grandmaster, on the verge of advancing to Soul Elder!

He turned to look at a boulder half his height in the distance.

A thought flashed through his mind.

Petrification Eye!

The next second, a faint gray glimmer flashed in his eyes.

There was no sound, no flashy effect.

The moment his gaze touched the hard boulder, its color rapidly shifted from blue-black to gray-white, and countless fine cracks appeared across its surface.

Then a breeze passed by.

Crash—

The entire boulder silently crumbled into a pile of fine, gray-white powder.

Li Hao sucked in a sharp breath.

"This... this is my power?"

"This is way too overpowered!"

He was still reeling from the terrifying increase in his strength.

But Medusa, who was kneeling before him, suddenly stood up.

A flash of killing intent crossed her cold, beautiful face.

She turned around, her icy golden eyes fixed on a certain direction deep in the forest, and bowed slightly to Li Hao.

"Master."

Her voice was cold as ice.

"Trouble is coming."

"Those flies who injured me have followed my scent here."