What I Want

Huo Yuhao's mind went blank for a moment.

Tang San cared about Zhu Zhuqing? Huo Yuhao's first reaction was disbelief. He knew better than anyone how deeply Tang San loved Xiao Wu.

Then he came to his senses. The killing intent around him was completely withdrawn, and the Ice Crystals vanished with it. Only the leaves that looked as though they had been frostbitten proved that this power had existed moments before.

Xiao Wu stared in terror at the moody, unpredictable person before her. She had only felt that killing intent for an instant before, but this time, it had lingered.

She could now be certain that this killing intent was the same as the one carried by the woman who had killed her mother—the same domain skill.

"Heh, did you never consider that his goal might be the same as yours? That he was after Zhu Zhuqing's soul bone too?" Huo Yuhao sneered.

Only after hearing Huo Yuhao's words did Xiao Wu realize it. Tang San's master, Yu Xiaogang, was a theory expert and naturally understood the theories related to soul bones. Perhaps that was the truth. She had merely been consumed by jealousy all along, and regret immediately rose in her heart, followed by excitement.

She was excited because Tang San had no other intentions, which meant she still had a chance. She regretted attacking Zhu Zhuqing and drawing the attention of such a murderous demon, landing herself in this situation.

All she could do now was wait. It would be best if she could return to Tang San's side. If she could not, then she could only choose self-destruction. Even if she died, she could not allow Tang San to be put in danger!

Looking at Xiao Wu's expression, Huo Yuhao could more or less guess what she was thinking, but he had no interest in figuring it out.

He kept feeling as though he had overlooked something.

After thinking it over, he still could not come up with anything, so Huo Yuhao could only set it aside for now.

He then looked at Xiao Wu beside him. Moving as swiftly as lightning, he directly bound her up. Then Huo Yuhao grabbed Xiao Wu and rushed toward the two familiar auras.

Huo Yuhao's physical body was already incredibly powerful. Carrying Xiao Wu did not slow him down in the slightest.

About the time it took to drink a cup of tea later, two figures appeared before Huo Yuhao. One was the Titan Giant Ape he had encountered before, while the other was a black giant python with an enormous bull's head. They were Da Ming and Er Ming.

The two sides stopped a hundred meters apart.

"Da Ming! Er Ming! Be careful, he can teleport!" Xiao Wu cried anxiously at the two beasts.

Huo Yuhao heard her but showed no intention of stopping her, letting her finish shouting. Words were the most effective things for stirring emotions. At the same time, he summoned the Ghost Sculpture, its dark blue dagger aimed directly at the back of Xiao Wu's head.

"Human, I have brought what you wanted. Release Sister Xiao Wu." Seeing that strange dagger, Er Ming's fingers still throbbed with dull pain. He impatiently scraped the ground and growled at Huo Yuhao.

"I need to see the item first." Huo Yuhao refused to yield. The Ghost Sculpture even lowered its dagger another inch, determined to see the item before anything else.

Seeing this, Er Ming turned toward Da Ming. Da Ming glanced at the Ghost Sculpture and gave a light nod.

The instant the Sky Azure Bull Python nodded, an area three hundred meters around it instantly turned into a blue world. At the same time, black light erupted from Er Ming's body, and Huo Yuhao felt the air around him grow thick and viscous.

Seeing that their attack had succeeded, the two beasts immediately charged at Huo Yuhao. One would rescue Sister Xiao Wu, while the other would take the opportunity to eliminate this audacious villain who dared covet the treasure of the Lake of Life!

The two beasts were extremely fast. Just as the Titan Giant Ape's massive hand came within half a meter of Xiao Wu, a gray soul ring suddenly shone. A gigantic gate radiating the aura of death abruptly appeared behind the youth, instantly swallowing the human and the three soul beasts on the field.

The mountain-sized Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python fell from the air and crashed heavily onto the ground.

Da Ming and Er Ming rolled across the ground twice before staggering to their feet. Only then did they discover that they were surrounded by densely packed skeletons.

Dozens of Bone Dragons flew through the sky, each emanating the aura of at least eighty- or ninety-thousand-year soul beasts. Many creatures they did not recognize circled around them as well, all with exceptionally powerful auras.

What terrified them most was a grayish-white ice bear. Its body was colossal; even the Titan Giant Ape appeared somewhat small before it. More bizarrely, the ice bear's aura was even stronger than that of the woman they had once seen, the woman who had killed their foster mother.

Moreover, like the creatures surrounding them, the ice bear's eyes were not made of flesh and blood, but clusters of ghostly flames in various colors.

Endless deathly energy spread across the scorched black earth.

Yet none of this strangeness compared to the one thing that truly unsettled them: the white-haired youth standing on the ice bear's palm, gazing down at them with an indifferent expression.

"Where is what I want?" Huo Yuhao asked coldly. He had originally planned to deal with these two later, but plans could not keep up with changes, so he simply went with the flow.

Naturally, the two beasts had brought nothing. They were merely the guardians of the Lake of Life, occasionally watching over the Emperor Auspicious Beast after it awoke to keep it from running off. How could they dare touch anything within the Lake of Life?

As for Saint Soul Grass, they had brought one stalk, but its age was nothing remarkable—not even three hundred years old.

Looking down at the two clearly trembling soul beasts, Huo Yuhao raised a hand. A lich brought the pitiful three-hundred-year Saint Soul Grass to him.

Huo Yuhao clenched the Saint Soul Grass in his hand, a cold smile curling onto his lips. "It seems you did not take my words to heart. Then you can... die."

As soon as the youth's words fell, Er Bai swung a bear claw. The Bone Dragons flying in the distance charged toward the two beasts as though they intended to tear them apart.

Even though Da Ming and Er Ming were both Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, they could not withstand so many Bone Dragons attacking at once, let alone the ice bear holding them back.

Xiao Wu lay sprawled on Er Bai's palm. Seeing her two younger brothers about to perish, tears streamed uncontrollably down her face as she pleaded, "I'll take you there. I'll take you to find it. Whatever you want, I'll find it for you. Just spare them!"

"Sister Xiao Wu! You can't!" Er Ming shouted anxiously while attacking the incoming Bone Dragons.

If Xiao Wu truly took something from the Lake of Life, then death would be her only fate.

"I am determined to have their soul rings and soul bones. But if you bring me what I want, I can promise to preserve their souls and consciousness. That could even be considered another kind of immortality." A faint curve lifted at Huo Yuhao's lips as he spoke, his tone gentle and sincere.

Er Bai, who held him in its palm, nodded solemnly as well. "That's right. I gave my soul ring and soul bone to Grandfather, and then I survived like this."

The youth's warm smile, the eerie words spoken by the Zombie Ice Bear King, and this world of the dead where life and death blurred together made Xiao Wu tremble uncontrollably.

She knew that the "they" in the youth's words included her as well.