The Possibility of a Martial Soul Fusion Skill

"Second Brother?"

"Second Brother, what's wrong?"

Huo Yuhao slowly opened his eyes. Tang Wulin's worried little face filled his vision.

At the sight of Tang Wulin, Huo Yuhao remembered what was going on with him and instinctively stepped back. But when he saw the hurt look on Tang Wulin's face, his heart softened at once, and he took two steps forward instead.

"Third Brother, I'm fine. I might just be too hungry. I spaced out for a moment."

Huo Yuhao came back to himself and explained. But both of them froze at his words. Hadn't they heard that somewhere just now?

Hearing his explanation, Tang Wulin scratched his head and glanced in the direction Wang Dong had gone. Sure enough, there was no one there.

"If you're hungry, Second Brother, wait a moment."

Tang Wulin drew on his Golden Dragon King Bloodline. A golden Blood Essence Soul Ring rose around him, and golden scales gradually appeared on his fair right arm. His five fingers became five sharp talons: the Golden Dragon Claw.

Tang Wulin took a heavy step toward Sea God Lake and unleashed the Golden Dragon King's power. Dragon's might swept out in every direction, and Huo Yuhao felt as though the air around him had suddenly frozen.

"Ahhh, Yuhao, look!"

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm screamed frantically in the Sea of Consciousness, but Huo Yuhao shut him out without thinking. His eyes remained fixed on Tang Wulin.

"Rooar..."

A low growl came from Tang Wulin's mouth. At the same time, ripples spread across the lake before him, as though something had happened beneath the surface.

Within seconds, a heap of fish floated up, white bellies turned skyward. They lay motionless on the water.

The dragon's might had scared every one of them to death.

"All right, Second Brother. Once we clean these fish, we can start grilling them."

Tang Wulin's delighted voice rang out.

"And the water in Sea God Lake is excellent. Even ordinary fish from here taste much better than fish from anywhere else. I wanted to use these fish from the start, but Big Brother ran off too quickly."

"So they taste really good."

Huo Yuhao repeated the words in a daze. He couldn't help rubbing his eyes, but the scene before him remained.

"Wulin, your Soul Ring—"

Huo Yuhao didn't finish, but Tang Wulin knew what he meant.

Withdrawing his Martial Soul, Tang Wulin changed from the imposing Golden Dragon King back into a cute, fair-skinned boy from next door. He shuffled his feet and said, a little embarrassed, "That's a Blood Essence Soul Ring. It comes from the power of my bloodline, so it's a little different from what ordinary Soul Masters have."

"I see."

Huo Yuhao nodded thoughtfully, then said nothing more.

That left Tang Wulin bursting to speak. He had wanted to show off to his second brother. Once Huo Yuhao recovered, perhaps Tang Wulin could even teach him a thing or two.

"Second Brother, don't you have anything you want to ask?"

"Hahaha! Wulin, you're not going to stop calling me your second brother because of that power. What else do I need to ask?"

Huo Yuhao laughed, casting aside every thought that had been running through his head. Wulin was clearly so adorable. Why make such a tangled mess of things?

"Besides, be careful."

Remembering what Elder Yi had said before falling asleep, Huo Yuhao couldn't help adding that worried warning. Then he crouched down and, with the sharp eyes and quick hands his Spiritual Eyes gave him, began scooping up the fish that had been scared to death.

Be careful.

Those two words silenced Tang Wulin. He said nothing else and simply helped gather the fish.

Huo Yuhao took out a dagger and began gutting them.

Thanks to his Spiritual Eyes, he worked quickly, taking one fish after another from Tang Wulin.

Perhaps because neither was paying attention, their fingers brushed.

A strange sensation stirred in both their hearts, and they instinctively looked up and met each other's eyes.

"Ahem. Let's keep cleaning them."

Huo Yuhao said nothing more. After two soft coughs, he lowered his head and went on cleaning the fish, though part of his mind kept returning to what had just happened in the Sea of Consciousness.

Tang Wulin's cheeks suddenly flushed. He said nothing either, but their fingers still brushed from time to time.

"Ahhh!"

"What are you two doing?"

Wang Dong's indignant cry rang out from above. He dropped to the ground like a flapping moth and stared at them with a face full of grievance.

He was the young master of the Clear Sky Sect. For the first time, he had gone out to buy ingredients for his two younger brothers, only to return and find them gutting fish. What was the fish he had bought supposed to be, then?

At the sound of Wang Dong's voice, both of them instinctively pulled back their hands. They exchanged a glance and saw the complicated emotions in each other's eyes. Only when they realized Wang Dong's attention was fixed on the fish did they breathe a sigh of relief.

Neither of them even knew what they were so flustered about.

"Big Brother, Second Brother was starving too. The reason I brought you here in the first place was that there are fish in Sea God Lake. You just ran off before I could tell you."

Tang Wulin tried to keep explaining, but under Wang Dong's stare, he retreated step by step, his voice growing quieter and quieter.

"You can have the first grilled fish today."

Huo Yuhao's voice rang out, full of laughter. He knew how to coax Wang Dong.

Wang Dong's eyes darted about. After thinking for three seconds, he raised his right hand, held up one finger, and said haughtily,

"No. I'm the big brother, so I should get the first one anyway. The second one is mine too. That'll count as your apology."

"All right, all right. You can have the second one too."

Huo Yuhao agreed as though coaxing a child. Beside him, Tang Wulin watched Wang Dong's smug expression and felt glum. Was this what his sister was like?

Once appeased, Wang Dong joined in cleaning the fish. But he had never so much as dipped his fingers in housework before, and he got filth everywhere. Luckily, the fish were dead. If one had slapped Wang Dong in the face with its tail, he might have killed it to silence the witness.

The charcoal caught fire, and Huo Yuhao placed the fish on the grill, watching them on the wire rack without blinking.

Wang Dong sat leisurely to one side, enjoying the view of Sea God Lake.

"Big Brother, do you know about Martial Soul Fusion Skills?"

Tang Wulin wrestled with himself for a long while. He glanced at Huo Yuhao, who was focused on grilling the fish, then finally confided in his sister, even if his own sister was now his sworn big brother.

"Martial Soul Fusion Skills?"

Wang Dong turned and looked at Tang Wulin curiously.

"Third Brother, why ask about that all of a sudden? They say that when two Martial Souls are highly compatible, their users can perform a fusion skill. Once the two meet, they'll both feel something."

Tang Wulin already knew all that. He had glanced over it while studying. He only wanted to confirm it now.

"When Second Brother and I were cleaning the fish, our hands touched. Then I felt something."

Tang Wulin looked bewildered as he spoke. He wasn't sure whether the two of them could perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but that sensation had certainly left him itching to know.

"You felt something? Maybe you really can!"

Wang Dong couldn't help exclaiming. Then a cheerful grin spread across his face. If it was true, he was genuinely happy for them both.

Especially Huo Yuhao. He was so weak that Wang Dong didn't know whether he could keep up at Shrek Academy.

But Tang Wulin was a genius. If the two of them could perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Shrek Academy would surely keep Huo Yuhao.

Off to the side, Huo Yuhao's hand stopped mid-turn over the grilling fish. Surprise flickered in his eyes.

He and Third Brother could perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill?

Like the one passed down through the Dai Family and Zhu Family for ten thousand years?