The What If Series Descended Again! What If Huo Yuhao Had Never Joined the Tang Sect and Headed for the Sun Moon Empire!

[The Soul Tool before the Sea God's statue lit up with white light, but gold engulfed the Sky Screen first. Tang Ya gripped Bei Bei's wrist, her voice tight: "It isn't over yet."]

[Bei Bei stared at the churning golden light. "The last scene exposed the academy's shackles. This one might turn Huo Yuhao's entire life inside out."]

[He Caitou hugged the Soul Cannon barrel, his knuckles tapping its metal casing. "As long as it gets him out of those people's hands, I'm willing to watch again."]

[Huo Yuhao raised his face, golden light spilling into his pupils. "If I hadn't met Tang Ya and Bei Bei back then, where would I have gone?"]

[Tang Ya's fingers stiffened, and she released Bei Bei's cuff. "Yuhao, don't speak of this path so lightly."]

[Bei Bei turned sideways, shielding her with half a step. "The Sky Screen shows what-ifs. The people in it might never meet us."]

[The voice within the Sky Screen did not answer. Golden light spread, and a line of text floated above everyone's heads: What if Huo Yuhao had never joined the Tang Sect, but instead headed for the Sun Moon Empire?]

[Xu Tianran rested his hand on his wheelchair's armrest, his gaze settling on that line. "If the Sun Moon Empire took him in, Shrek would lose a disciple, but the empire would gain a Soul Engineer."]

[Jing Hongchen lifted his chin. "You make it sound like choosing a weapon. Huo Yuhao is a person."]

[Xu Tianran lightly tapped the armrest. "The imperial family only asks what he can do. No one will ask where he came from."]

[The scene within the Sky Screen shifted to the Star Dou Great Forest. A young Huo Yuhao emerged from the woods with a tattered bundle on his back. Neither