Meeting His Majesty

The banquet at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace ended with both host and guests thoroughly enjoying themselves.

Zhu Huang brought the Ice Empress and Snow Empress back to his Duke of Hell Mansion. The once-cold and empty estate now had quite a few young, beautiful maids.

These were all outstanding palace maids chosen by the empress at Emperor Xue Ye's instruction and sent over to serve Zhu Huang. After all, with such a large villa, it was impossible to have no servants. Whether it was cleaning, cooking, announcing visitors, or delivering messages, the master could not possibly do everything himself.

Zhu Huang gladly accepted this. Although he would not live here often for the time being, the villa still needed people to clean and maintain it every day. In a few years, he would be staying here frequently, and maids and servants would all be necessary.

After staying in Heaven Dou City for a few more days, Zhu Huang took the Ice Empress and Snow Empress back to the Star Dou Great Forest.

"My Emperor!"

Inside Sky Demon Palace, a group of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts had all come to pay their respects.

Zhu Huang looked them over. Among the familiar faces, there were a few new ones: an old man with a sinister expression, thin and long like a bamboo pole, his whole body giving off a cold aura; a gorgeous, charming young matron; and a burly man with a hooked nose, a purple complexion, and thunder feathers on his forehead.

"Your Majesty!"

Tao Yaoyao, whose entire body exuded a strange charm, looked at the two ice and snow empresses nestled on either side of Zhu Huang, her eyes full of grievance. I worked so hard behind the scenes to guard your home, coordinate all these Soul Beasts for you, and help you subdue subordinates, yet you went out and found little vixens to enjoy yourself with. Where is your conscience?

"Who are they?"

Tao Yaoyao could not help asking about the origins of the Ice Empress and Snow Empress. Their appearance made her heart sour, and she felt a sense of crisis, especially since both women were so beautiful, not inferior to her at all. Clearly, she had come first. If she had known earlier, she should not have been so reserved and should have taken His Majesty down before he left.

Xiao Wu, who stood off to the side, did not look very happy either. She was the first female demon to follow His Majesty, all right? Why did His Majesty not pay more attention to an incredibly cute little rabbit like her? Xiao Wu looked down at her own delicate figure. Although she could not compare with the Snow Woman and Tao Yaoyao, she was not worse than that green-haired little loli!

Zhu Huang sensed Tao Yaoyao's gaze and gave her a look to soothe her, then introduced them to everyone. "This is the Snow Empress, a seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Snow Woman from the Far North Ice Plains. This is the Ice Empress, a four-hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Empress Scorpion. From now on, they are the mistresses of Demon Emperor Palace. When I am not here, you must all listen to them."

Zhu Huang gave a simple introduction and established the two women's status as second only to his.

"Yes. Greetings, Snow Empress. Greetings, Ice Empress!"

When the Soul Beasts heard that they were actually four-hundred-thousand-year and seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts, their hearts were shaken. They did not dare show the slightest dissatisfaction.

In the world of Soul Beasts, the strong were respected. The weak obeying the strong was a matter of course. The two women were far stronger than all of them, and with Zhu Huang endorsing them as well, no one dared have any objection.

"Heehee, so they'll be my subordinates from now on?"

The Ice Empress beamed with joy. She had some clansmen in the Far North Ice Plains as well, and many Soul Beasts submitted to her, but those were all low-level Soul Beasts with limited intelligence. There was no sense of achievement at all.

The ones before her eyes, however, were all Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. Their intelligence was no different from humans'. Aside from lacking education, these Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, who had lived at least ten thousand years, were even more cunning than most humans.

The Ice Empress put on an affected air and waved her hand. "All of you may rise. My sister and I will also live in Sky Demon Palace often from now on. We're all on the same side, so there's no need to stand on ceremony."

"All of you, rise."

The Snow Empress also nodded. She did not have much interest in power or status, but she was very happy that Zhu Huang had publicly established her title as Snow Empress, and she also wanted to help Zhu Huang lead these Soul Beasts to rise.

Zhu Huang looked at this group of subordinates. They would all form his future foundation. When he went to war with the divine realm in the future, if these Soul Beasts could cultivate to the divine level, they would be useful too.

Although they were still weak now, after bringing the Star Dou Great Forest and the Far North Ice Plains under his command, Zhu Huang could already clearly feel a vast amount of fate blessing him, causing his cultivation to rise rapidly at every moment.

He had originally thought it would still take several more years to break through to the level of a rank ninety-nine Limit Douluo, but now, under the blessing of this vast fate, he could break through at any time.

At this rate, breaking through and becoming a god within twenty years would not be a problem. If he could seize the fate of the human race, that speed would become even faster.

It was not only Zhu Huang who would benefit. Those who cultivated the Demon God Art and had been conferred by Zhu Huang as Demon Gods would also share in the benefits brought by fate, allowing their cultivation to increase faster. All of them had the potential to break through and become gods.

Moreover, the closer their relationship with him, the greater the benefits they obtained. The Heavenly Demon Creation Art was a supreme scripture encompassing all things, so naturally it also included the profound and unfathomable great Dao of dual cultivation between yin and yang. This was prepared specifically for the Demon Emperor and demon empresses. In these short few months, the Ice Empress and Snow Empress had both gained tremendous benefits through dual cultivating with Zhu Huang, and their rate of improvement far surpassed their previous slow cultivation on their own.

This was Zhu Huang's current foundation. As time passed, his strength and forces would become more and more powerful. One day, he would be able to overthrow the divine realm and become the supreme ruler of the Douluo world himself. Then, using the Douluo Divine Realm as a foundation, he would integrate all universes of the same Three Cosmology. With the boundless fate he would obtain then, he dared not imagine what level it would push him to, but he would absolutely transcend Tang San's universe and achieve true immortality.

As for now, he would naturally lie low first and try not to attract the attention of the divine realm, simply waiting for the final eruption.

Although Tao Yaoyao was unwilling in her heart, she received a hint from Zhu Huang's eyes, and joy rose within her. His Majesty still had a place for her in his heart. As for sharing him with others, what was so serious about a powerful being having a few more mates in the Soul Beast world?

Although Tao Yaoyao, the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress had never had any mates, she had seen plenty of such things and could accept a powerful man having a harem more easily than humans could.

"Your Majesty, these three are Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts we have subdued one after another over the past few years. I mentioned their identities to you before."

Tao Yaoyao cast Spider Emperor a beautiful, flirtatious glance, her eyes full of meaning, then pointed at the cold, bamboo-pole-thin old man and said, "His true form is the Black Water Mysterious Snake from Ghost Fog Swamp. His current name is Hei Xuan."

She then pointed at the lovely, graceful young matron in purple and introduced her. "Her true form is the Nether Purple Fox from Misty Forest. Her current name is Zi Ming."

Finally, she pointed at the hooked-nosed, purple-faced burly man with thunder feathers on his head and introduced him. "He is the Purple Lightning Peng King from Flying Peak. His current name is Lei Peng."

"Greetings, Your Majesty!"

The three beasts saluted honestly, without the rebellious arrogance of the Soul Beasts subdued before. Clearly, they had been intimidated by Zhu Huang's strength.

Putting everything else aside, how strong must a man be if he could possess two great ferocious-beast-level empresses of four hundred thousand years and seven hundred thousand years?

Not to mention that they could not even deal with Zhu Huang's subordinates in the Star Dou Great Forest. If they had not submitted early, they would have been beaten to death.

Although life-and-death slaughter between Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts was not common, it was not nonexistent either. If they refused to submit, their end would probably be death.

Besides, they also deeply longed for the Demon God Art Zhu Huang had created. Among Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, none did not fear heavenly tribulation. As long as it could help them survive heavenly tribulation, they could practically give up everything.