In a forest filled with towering ancient trees, a Bronze Gate slowly materialized.
The gate opened, and a figure just over five feet tall stepped out. He had a youthful face, but was already exceptionally handsome.
Though still young, it was clear he would grow into a man of peerless grace.
The Bronze Gate vanished after the figure emerged.
Looking at the Star Dou Great Forest, which had barely changed in the ten thousand years since, Huo Yuhao blurred out of sight and appeared at Lake of Life.
The Sky Azure Bull Python was soaking in the lake.
The Titan Giant Ape was on the lakeshore, talking to a giant rabbit.
The three Soul Beasts spotted Huo Yuhao and immediately greeted him respectfully. "My lord."
They had no idea why a human was so revered by the Beast God, but as his subordinates, all they had to do was follow their leader.
The Titan Giant Ape's body almost completely blocked Sister Xiao Wu from view.
It was afraid Sister Xiao Wu might speak her mind and accidentally offend this human lord.
Unfortunately, Xiao Wu wasn't the sort of Soul Beast to sit still.
She cautiously poked her rabbit head out from behind the Titan Giant Ape and sized up the tiny figure before her.
She was bursting with curiosity, but she remembered what Daming and Erming had told her and didn't blurt anything out.
Huo Yuhao nodded to the three Soul Beasts, then vanished again.
Ten thousand years later, the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python weren't in the Star Dou Great Forest.
It seemed his butterfly wings were still too weak to change the two Soul Beasts' decision to sacrifice themselves in the future.
They had probably still become Tang San's Soul Rings, just as they had