Faking Death to Get Away

Huo Yuhao gathered his thoughts and looked at the Snow Empress, who was still deep in contemplation.

If they had to choose between the Snow Empress's soul spirit, the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, and the entire Extreme North under the command of the Snow Empress at her peak, perhaps every Soul Master on the continent would choose the former—but he chose the latter!

You could hide for a while, but you could not hide forever.

No matter how far he kept himself from the heart of the turmoil, some things could not be avoided in the end.

The hatred between him and the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, Tang San's open and covert schemes—he would have to face them sooner or later.

Compared to the original Huo Yuhao, he had no teachers from Shrek, no powerful backing. Everything could only be won through his own efforts.

And before Electrolux recovered, the only powerful figure he could move was the Snow Empress!

Only through loss could there be gain. Since those opportunities could not bring about a qualitative change, then giving them up in exchange for protection while he was still weak was worth it.

At that moment, the Snow Empress also came to a decision. She looked at Huo Yuhao with a somewhat complicated expression. "Those weren't words Tian Meng taught you to say, were they? This deal was your own decision?"

Huo Yuhao did not answer.

Seeing this, the Snow Empress sized him up for a while, then shook her head helplessly. "Very well. I do indeed need the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow. As for the protection you require..."

At this point, the Snow Empress raised her jade-like hand and lightly tapped Huo Yuhao between the brows with her index finger, leaving behind a snowflake-shaped mark.

"With this mark, you may come and go freely in the Extreme North, and you can also use it to contact me."

As the ruler of the Extreme North, not to mention that the Ice Emperor was on him, even if she were not, she would disdain deceiving him.

So when he saw the Snow Empress give her promise so cleanly, Huo Yuhao did not hesitate either. "The Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow is in the Earth Dragon Sect. If you do not believe me, I can go with you as a hostage."

"Then come with me."

The Snow Empress gave Huo Yuhao one last look, wrapping both him and herself in wind and snow, while a strange premonition rose in her heart.

If the God Creation Plan was carried out by this youth, perhaps it really might succeed.

On this day, the members of the Earth Dragon Sect were sitting at home when disaster fell from the sky.

A sect that did not even have a Super Douluo had no ability to resist the Snow Empress at all. They could only hide far away and watch helplessly as she turned the Earth Dragon Sect upside down, digging away all the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.

With this Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, the Snow Empress's wounded origin rapidly recovered. She even relied on her previous failed experience to successfully condense the Yin-Yang Complementary Twin Soul Cores.

From then on, the Seven Hundred Thousand Years lightning tribulation could no longer do anything to her, and the Snow Empress completely broke free from her original fate.

Naturally, Huo Yuhao also became an honored guest of the Extreme North!

The Snow Empress granted Huo Yuhao all sorts of conveniences, taking action when he fell into danger and blocking many troubles for him.

Even Princess Tang no longer pestered him because of this.

After all, no matter how shameless Tang San was, he could not possibly throw his daughter into the core region of the Extreme North.

With all those worries gone, Huo Yuhao used the resources of the Extreme North to focus on cultivating the Ice Emperor Martial Soul, improving at astonishing speed.

However, he did not give up his talent in the Spirit Eyes Martial Soul and Soul Tools either. He often used his Spirit Eyes' Second Soul Skill—"Disguise"—to alter his appearance and go to certain academies to study.

During the All-Continent Soul Master Academy Tournament, he watched as a student from a small academy, watching Shrek Academy fall in the semifinals, watching Xuan Zi fly into a rage over it and thunder furiously, yet remain powerless to change the result...

On the eve of the Mingdu tournament, Huo Yuhao persuaded the Snow Empress and infiltrated Mingdu with her, "convincing" and taking away a number of frustrated, unrecognized genius Soul Masters and Soul Engineers.

When the Douluo Three Kingdoms and the Sun Moon Empire went to war, Huo Yuhao watched coldly from the sidelines. Only after a certain Empress Battle God was stopped by Tang San and forced into a ceasefire did he charge into the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, killing every person who had humiliated him and his mother, drawing a final line under the grudges of this life. All he left Dai Hao, whose hair had turned white overnight, was his departing back.

After that, Huo Yuhao devoted himself to cultivation and searched for suitable soul rings. When his Soul Power reached its peak, he perfected the Soul Spirit Method with Electrolux and took the opportunity to establish the Spirit Pagoda.

The rallying power of a Limit Douluo could not be underestimated, not to mention that over the years, Huo Yuhao had physically convinced no small number of geniuses as well. As the foundation of the Spirit Pagoda, there was no issue.

Together with the covert support of the Extreme North, certain forces with ideas about soul spirits could only suppress their thoughts and watch as they gradually grew stronger.

"Almost time."

At Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, Huo Yuhao looked at the cold, aloof woman below him and said in a low voice, "I am going into seclusion to comprehend a higher realm. From now on, the Spirit Pagoda will be led by you, Su Tong."

Su Tong, whose Martial Soul was the Heavenly Snow Woman and an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul, was a Shrek student who had only flashed by in the original work. But here, when Su Tong came to the Extreme North to hunt for a soul ring, Huo Yuhao discovered her, directly intercepted her, and pulled her into his own faction.

Now, Su Tong was already a Titled Douluo and one of the Spirit Pagoda's three Deputy Pagoda Masters. Although she was still a little inexperienced, with the others assisting her, she was more than capable of shouldering the responsibility.

Su Tong stood below, looking at the figure above her, somewhat puzzled.

Although the Spirit Pagoda had established itself on the continent, everyone could see the importance of soul spirits.

As the number of Soul Beasts declined, soul spirits would become increasingly important in the future. When the time came, the status of the force that controlled the method for creating soul spirits would naturally rise with the tide...

If there were no Limit Douluo holding the fort, there would be no shortage of people eyeing the Spirit Pagoda. As a mere Titled Douluo, she could not shoulder this heavy responsibility.

As if seeing Su Tong's unease, Huo Yuhao walked past her and said solemnly:

"Don't worry. I have already reached cooperation with the Snow Empress of the Extreme North and Di Tian of the Star Dou Great Forest. No one will dare make things difficult for you."

He understood Su Tong's unease. After all, unlike the original Spirit Pagoda, which had Shrek and the various Douluo nations supporting it from the side, the Spirit Pagoda he had created had none of those backers—only one Limit Douluo who had suddenly appeared.

Without him, the Spirit Pagoda's strength would shrink by eighty percent.

But since Huo Yuhao was leaving, he had naturally made preparations.

There was no need to mention the Snow Empress's side. As for Di Tian, he had always been worrying over the future of Soul Beasts. Even if Huo Yuhao went to him with the incomplete Soul Spirit Method from the original work, he was confident he could make Di Tian agree to cooperate.

Not to mention, what he had brought out was the Soul Spirit Method that he and Old Yi had spent decades improving. It was greatly beneficial to the reproduction and survival of Soul Beasts.

As he thought this, Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes slightly and strode out of the room.

All the arrangements had been planted. Now, all that remained was to wait for the right moment.

"After I leave, erase every trace of me from the Spirit Pagoda."

Su Tong stared blankly as Huo Yuhao left the room, her mind in chaos.

Di Tian and the Snow Empress were joining the Spirit Pagoda? Didn't that mean that, aside from the Evil Emperor, all of the Ten Great Fierce Beasts had joined the Spirit Pagoda? How had the Tower Master done it?

"Because of the Soul Spirit Method and the Contract Dissolution Method?" Su Tong murmured to herself, the shock in her heart still lingering.

Only after her emotions settled did Su Tong recall Huo Yuhao's instructions, and she could not help but feel puzzled.

Tower Master Huo Yuhao was an extremely mysterious Limit Douluo. He had left very few traces in the world, and the world knew very little about him. Even his real name had never spread outside.

The Spirit Pagoda was the place where the other party had left the most traces. If those traces were erased, then ten thousand years later, the world would probably only remember the title of the First Generation Tower Master of the Spirit Pagoda—Spirit Ice Douluo!

Huo Yuhao had just walked out of the Spirit Pagoda when a figure came toward him.

"You're leaving?"

The Snow Empress looked at Huo Yuhao and asked in a low voice.

"That's right."

Huo Yuhao nodded slightly and brushed past her. "Thank you for all these years, Snow Empress. We'll meet again when the time comes."

With her back to the direction Huo Yuhao had left in, the Snow Empress stood in place for a long time before leaving with the wind and snow.

Were they to scheme together to become gods ten thousand years later?

All right. I'll wait for you.

"Old Yi, I'm ready. We can begin."

In his Spiritual Sea, Electrolux slowly opened his eyes. "Yuhao, the rules of Douluo Continent also affect my magic. Your plan to extend your lifespan by turning into an Undead Creature may be obstructed because of that, and may suffer unknown effects."

Huo Yuhao smiled faintly, his gaze firm. "I prepared myself long ago for a small price. Besides, to me, the most important thing this time is to break free of Douluo's destiny. I'll be counting on you."

"Then use the Gold of Life to preserve your last spark of vitality. I'll begin now."

Seeing that Huo Yuhao had made up his mind, Electrolux no longer tried to dissuade him. "You must die once first!"

Huo Yuhao took out the Blade of Life Protection and merged it into his chest.

This world had destiny, and he was the Son of Destiny of this era. So even if the process had been different, opportunities like the Gold of Life and the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone had still ended up in his hands in the end.

The Son of Destiny...

Huo Yuhao suddenly felt somewhat emotional.

Even though he had rejected the Emotion God Position over the years and Princess Tang had never appeared again, he also understood that that person could not possibly have shifted his gaze away completely.

And the reason Tang San paid special attention to him was precisely because he was the Son of Destiny of Douluo Continent. Without that identity, the other party probably would not have cared to look at him even once.

Only death, only breaking free of his identity as the Son of Destiny, could let him leave the other party's sight!

And only then would he have the chance to use it.

Huo Yuhao's attention lingered for a moment on the mark in the deepest part of his Spiritual Sea, before he finally looked away.

Electrolux's magic unfolded silently. Huo Yuhao assumed the posture of forcibly breaking through to the God Realm, and his eyes gradually filled with deathly energy, but the conviction in his heart did not diminish.

The day the divine realm disappeared would be the beginning of... his era!

At the same time, in the divine realm.

Tang San discovered that Douluo Star's Son of Destiny had vanished and deliberately took a look. Seeing that Huo Yuhao was dead, he completely gave up and shifted his gaze away.

A proud and arrogant Son of Destiny—fine, not accepting the Emotion God Position was one thing, but he had actually dreamed of creating a god position of his own?

Your blessings were indeed stronger than mine, but with a foundation of a few decades, you thought you were worthy?

Hmph. He had wasted so much of his and Xiao Qi's time, only for such a farce to come of it. He truly had a path to death!

"This Huo Yuhao is useless. He's far inferior to me. It seems I'll have to make other plans."

A wise light flashed through Tang God King's eyes. "Rong Nianbing hasn't found a suitable successor and will continue to remain in the God Realm. I can make use of that. As for Destruction..."

This God Realm belonged to him.

Destruction opposed him at every turn. He already had a path to death!

One day in the God Realm was one year on earth. While Tang God King was pondering his grand plan, on the other side, Huo Yuhao, who had turned into a corpse, reopened his eyes decades later and slipped into the Undead Demigod Plane...