Where Are the Things I Want?

Huo Yuhao's mind went blank for a moment.

Tang San was interested in Zhu Zhuqing? Huo Yuhao's first reaction was that it was impossible. No one knew better than him 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 The killing intent around him was completely withdrawn, and the ice crystals vanished along with it. Only the leaves that looked frostbitten proved that this power had existed moments ago.

Xiao Wu looked at the unpredictable man before her in utter terror. She had only felt his killing intent for an instant before, but this time, it had persisted.

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

Hearing Huo Yuhao's words, Xiao Wu finally remembered. Tang San's master, Yu Xiaogang, was a theory master and naturally understood the theories related to soul bones. Perhaps that was the truth. She had simply been consumed by jealous rage all this time, and regret and excitement rose within her at once.

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 this god of slaughter, leaving herself in this predicament.

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 to self-destruct. Even if she died, she could not let Tang San come to harm!

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 if 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.

Then he turned to Xiao Wu. Moving as fast as lightning, he bound her up, then grabbed her and rushed toward those two familiar presences.

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

After roughly the time it took to drink a cup of tea, 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 made no move to stop her, allowing her to finish. Words were the best things for provoking emotions. At the same time, he released Ghost Sculpture, its dark blue dagger aimed directly at the back of Xiao Wu's head.

"Human, I brought what you wanted. Let Sister Xiao Wu go." Seeing that strange little dagger, Er Ming's fingers still throbbed dully. He scratched the ground irritably and growled at Huo Yuhao.

"I want to see the item first." Huo Yuhao refused to yield in the slightest. Ghost Sculpture pressed down another inch, determined to see the item before anything else.

Er Ming turned to Da Ming. Da Ming glanced at Ghost Sculpture and nodded lightly.

The instant the Azure Bull Python nodded, a three-hundred-meter radius centered on it instantly transformed into an azure world. At the same time, black light erupted from Er Ming's body, and Huo Yuhao felt the air around him turn viscous.

Seeing that their strike had succeeded, the two beasts immediately charged Huo Yuhao. One would rescue Sister Xiao Wu, while the other would take care of this brazen villain who dared covet the treasures of the Lake of Life!

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

The mountain-sized Titan Giant Ape and the 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 realize that they had been surrounded by countless skeletons.

Dozens of bone dragons flew through the sky. Judging by their auras, they were at least eighty- or ninety-thousand-year soul beasts. Many creatures they did not recognize circled around them as well, and their auras were all immensely powerful.

What terrified them most was a grayish-white ice bear. It was enormous—beside it, even the Titan Giant Ape looked somewhat small. More strangely, this ice bear's aura was even stronger than that of the woman they had once encountered, 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 varying colors.

Endless deathly aura spread across the scorched black earth.

Yet none of this strangeness compared to the white-haired youth standing in the ice bear's palm, gazing down at them with an indifferent expression.

"Where are the things I want?" Huo Yuhao asked coldly. He had originally intended 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 guards of the Lake of Life, occasionally keeping an eye on the Emperor Auspicious Beast when it woke up to prevent it from running away. How would they dare touch the things within the Lake of Life?

As for the Saint Soul Grass, they had brought one stalk, but its age was unimpressive—not even three hundred years old.

Looking at the two soul beasts below, who were clearly trembling in fear, Huo Yuhao raised a hand. A lich brought the pitiful, less-than-three-hundred-year-old Saint Soul Grass to him.

Huo Yuhao clenched the Saint Soul Grass in his hand, a cold smile curling at his lips. "It seems you didn't 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 swooped toward the two beasts, clearly intending to tear them apart.

Even though Da Ming and Er Ming were both hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, they could not withstand the simultaneous attacks of so many bone dragons, much less contend with the ice bear keeping them pinned down.

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

"Sister Xiao Wu! You can't!" Er Ming shouted anxiously as he attacked the incoming bone dragons.

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

"I'm taking their soul rings and soul bones for certain. But if you find what I want, I can promise to preserve their souls and consciousness. That could even be considered another form of immortality." Huo Yuhao spoke with a gentle, sincere tone, a faint curve on his lips.

Er Bai, holding him in its palm, nodded solemnly as well. "That's right. I gave Grandpa my soul ring and soul bone, 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.