"Am I a good person or a bad one? Little fellow, that is an excellent question. It proves that you have a very firm moral line in your heart. If I had never strayed down the wrong path, I suppose I would have been a good person too!"
Electrolux was overcome with emotion!
"I seem to have once harbored hatred etched into my very bones, yet now there is nothing but peace within me. My title is Holy Necromancer, so I suppose that makes me a bad person.
"But what I want to say is that this world has no absolute good or evil, no absolute right or wrong. Any ability can be used for good. Those who use an ability's evil nature as an excuse to commit evil must themselves be evil at heart. What do you think, little fellow?"
After finishing, Electrolux put the question to Huo Yuhao.
"I agree with you. This subordinate of mine is an Evil Soul Master, but from now on, I will have her use her evil power to carry out acts of justice.
"Congratulations, you've successfully convinced me. I don't care about your identity, your world, or who you were when you were alive. From now on, you can retire in my Spiritual Sea of Consciousness. I've already met plenty of unfortunate people, anyway. One more won't make a difference," Huo Yuhao said open-mindedly.
"Hahahaha! Little fellow, you truly are a man after my own heart. I am indeed a pitiful old man now, so you're not wrong." Electrolux stroked his illusory beard. Having gone who knew how long without so much as a smile, he actually burst into hearty laughter.
"Well? Interested in learning my Necromancy? After absorbing your spiritual power, my Divine Soul actually became more substantial. I imagine it won't dissipate for a very long time.
"I've accepted your generosity and even moved into your home, so I ought to pay some rent. I've spent my entire life alone, but now I suddenly feel like taking a disciple to inherit everything I have learned.
"You seem open-minded. You shouldn't be one of those pedants who refuses to learn anything except light-element skills."
"You don't know much about me. Isn't taking me as your disciple like this a little hasty?" Huo Yuhao asked in return.
"The word 'fate' holds wonders beyond description. You and I share a fated connection, and that is enough," Electrolux said with a smile.
"Indeed, a fated connection is enough. I, Huo Yuhao, have yet to ask your name, Master."
"I am the Holy Necromancer, the Undead Calamity, Electrolux."
Elsewhere in the Star Dou Great Forest.
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had successfully sealed himself inside Huo Xingling's body. Because her talent was so outstanding, he had only needed to seal away eight portions of his energy, using all that remained to improve her constitution and cleanse her body.
Huo Xingling had now fallen completely unconscious and was communicating with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm within her Spiritual Sea of Consciousness. Her body floated in midair as powerful yet gentle Soul Power continuously flowed out from within her, forming a self-sustaining cycle that cleansed her meridians.
Suddenly, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm within her Spiritual Sea of Consciousness seemed to sense something and asked anxiously.
"Little Xingling, two people dressed in black have suddenly appeared beside you. Take a look and see whether you know them. If they're enemies, we're in trouble. With me here, your life is naturally safe, but if the transformation is interrupted, you could suffer a very serious backlash.
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was clearly genuinely anxious. After finally finding such a promising youngster, having her half-crippled right at the start would only make things harder for him, wouldn't it? He hurriedly used his spiritual power to manifest the two visitors' appearances.
Once Huo Xingling saw their faces clearly, she froze too, because the people beside her were none other than Huo Yuhao and Zero.
Huo Xingling wore a shocked expression within her Spiritual Sea of Consciousness, but the shock on Huo Yuhao's face outside was no less pronounced.
After successfully securing Electrolux and becoming his disciple, he had left his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness. Electrolux's divine consciousness had only just stabilized and needed to recuperate. Besides, he wanted to see who the new Child of Destiny was-one of his two main reasons for coming here.
After all, avoiding the Child of Destiny meant avoiding Tang San. Everything about the Child of Destiny lay under Tang Buddha's control. It was truly pitiful.
If the extraordinary experience of transmigrating had not freed him from his identity as the Child of Destiny, then the person at Tang San's mercy now, who would still have to serve as his dog after becoming a god, would have been Huo Yuhao himself. Yet when he saw that the Child of Destiny was the little mute, he was stunned too.
So there truly was a predetermined order governing things unseen.
Fate had already arranged for the two Children of Destiny to meet.
A flicker of guilt immediately crossed his heart, but his keen powers of observation soon dispelled his sympathy for the little mute.
Of course. They were both Children of Destiny; how could their backgrounds be simple? All those Soul Tools she wore, along with that Storage Soul Tool, pointed to an extraordinary identity. Whether she was even mute remained an open question.
It seemed the two of them had been competing to out-act each other all this time!
"My lord, is she the person you were looking for?" Zero asked in confusion.
"More or less. Once she wakes up, we'll leave." Huo Yuhao raised his head slightly, narrowing his eyes as he gazed skyward at a forty-five-degree angle. Then he said slowly, "Things are about to get busy. Treasure this brief peace while it lasts."
Within Huo Xingling's Spiritual Sea of Consciousness.
"Brother Sky Dream, he's my neighbor. He probably won't hurt me. I don't know why he's here, but you don't need to be so nervous anymore. Let's continue!"
Huo Xingling had been deeply shocked to see Huo Yuhao. In her eyes, he had always been an extremely mysterious person, and she had no intention of provoking him.
"Xingling, could he have a crush on you? He's specially staying here to guard you. Still, the brat is quite a womanizer, eating from his bowl while eyeing the pot. He even has an unparalleled beauty with him!" The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm chuckled, his expression thoroughly lecherous.
"Brother Sky Dream, he doesn't know I'm a girl. Don't go pairing people up at random."
"Then you're the one who likes him. That naughty brat must have stirred your innocent heart at some point. Am I right?"
"No. I do have a favorable impression of him, but it isn't that kind of feeling. Until I avenge my great grudge, I dare not hope for anything else. Love is too extravagant for me."
Although she said that, Huo Xingling still instinctively glanced at the breathtakingly beautiful figure standing ramrod straight behind Huo Yuhao. A peculiar gleam appeared in her eyes, and she felt a faint discomfort in her heart.
Hearing Huo Xingling's rueful words, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm stopped teasing her and simply continued transmitting Soul Power in silence. He had examined her memories during their fusion. This girl had suffered far too much.
Outside, an entire day and night had passed. Huo Yuhao's brows were tightly furrowed. His own fusion in the original story had not seemed to take this long. Still, he could sense the aura around Huo Xingling steadily growing stronger, so he did not interfere with her.
Just then, his Psychic Power detected two figures, a man and a woman, approaching from a li away. Once he saw their faces clearly, he could not help smiling.
Tang Buddha really has no shame, he thought. He just has to tie the Child of Destiny to the Tang Sect. Over ten thousand years, the Tang Sect supposedly declined because of poor management and the impact of Soul Tools. But is that really the truth?
If your Tang Sect's existence truly made sense, would it have been wiped out? There are so many sects with ten-thousand-year legacies. Why was the Tang Sect, the most celebrated of them all and one that had even produced a God Level powerhouse, destroyed instead?
Tang Buddha never reflects on his own problems. He even tries to meddle and change the Tang Sect's fate. Utterly shameless.
Still, since Tang Ya and Bei Bei had appeared here, he could leave. He had met the Child of Destiny and secured Electrolux. All his objectives in the Star Dou Great Forest had been achieved.
It was just a pity that he had not met the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who had accompanied him all the way to godhood in the original story. He did feel a little regret over that. After all, to cast off his identity as the Child of Destiny, he had personally rejected him.
But life only ever offered the best available choice, not a wrong one. Once an arrow left the bow, there was no turning back. He, Huo Yuhao, did not regret rejecting the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm at the outset.
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