A Web of Lies, with No Way to Beg for Mercy

"My father... No, I already have a teacher. That's enough. More than enough."

"I don't need a father at all!"

A strange feeling had just stirred in Huo Yuhao's heart, but then he thought of his teacher and snuffed it out at once.

Meeting his teacher had already been the luckiest thing that had ever happened to him.

What could be better than that?

A father?

He had no such thing.

"Yuhao's here. Good. We can head to the Star Dou Great Forest together."

Huang Jinxu had sensed Huo Yuhao's arrival long ago. He did not ask about the fluctuation in the boy's emotions.

All that remained was to take him to hunt for a Soul Ring.

"Teacher, thank you."

At the sound of Huang Jinxu's gentle voice, something came over Huo Yuhao, and his eyes grew slightly moist.

"Let's go!"

Huang Jinxu smiled and patted Huo Yuhao's head, then led him out of Shrek City.

"Teacher, my Martial Soul has changed a little..."

On the way to the Star Dou Great Forest, Huo Yuhao could not help telling Huang Jinxu about the changes to his Martial Soul and his two failed attempts at Martial Soul Fusion.

Huang Jinxu was genuinely surprised to hear it.

The change to Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul was not hard to explain. The Plane Will had most likely stepped in and perfected it.

But what was with two failed attempts at Martial Soul Fusion?

And he could use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Ning Tian too? What was going on?

"Yuhao, the main reason your Martial Soul changed a second time is that its original awakening was incomplete."

"Back then, to complete its awakening, I fused a wisp of my Martial Soul Origin into your Martial Soul. That was how your Spirit Eyes gained