Huo Yuhao felt that the dead, burly men had had a point. Gods truly would not cast their divine light upon the pitiful, for they were foolish, ignorant, and faithless.
They had just said they would serve him, even offering up their own souls and their daughter's freedom.
Yet when they actually saw a god, they could do nothing but frantically beg for mercy, displaying their cowardice to him without restraint.
Huo Yuhao had only wanted to ask for directions. After all, he had been gone for ten years and had forgotten many things.
Unfortunately, the mother and daughter had given him no practical help. Worse, before the city guards arrived, they had splashed all the dirty water onto Huo Yuhao to shirk responsibility.
Though it hardly counted as dirty water. He had indeed killed those men.
After easily shaking off those worthless city guards, Huo Yuhao pinpointed the Star Dou Great Forest and flew toward it at tremendous speed.
He had never considered going back. After all, he had been dead for ten years. Surely everyone had grown accustomed to it by now.
In any case, he would be leaving this world. He was no good with words and did not know how to say goodbye, so his death conveniently spared him that awkward scene.
As he flew, he gradually came to understand his body and learned just how much it had changed.
The system had not explained one of the Thousand-Day Resurrection Powder's most important effects: the longer it took to revive him, the greater the benefits he would receive.
Huo Yuhao had been dead for a full ten years before reviving-more than three thousand six hundred and fifty days. His divine-grade Six-Winged Angel martial soul had undergone a powerful mutation, becoming the embodiment of ultimate evil: the Six-Winged Blood Angel martial soul.
Its grade surpassed even the divine grade!
His Glazed Divine Fire Eyes martial soul had also been affected by that trace of evil power, undergoing a particularly bizarre transformation.
One could call it a god or a demon with a single thought!
Normally, his martial soul was the Glazed Divine Fire Eyes, but he could switch to another form at any time: the Red Lotus Demon God Eyes!
That was the form he had used when he killed those thugs earlier.
It was extraordinarily powerful. Beyond releasing intense killing intent, it had many more powerful functions waiting for him to develop.
Another point worth mentioning was that his Angel Domain had evolved into the Blood Angel Domain. Within his domain, an enemy's strength would drop by at least one major rank.
Meanwhile, his soul power had reached level 90. All he needed was to absorb a soul ring, and he could break through to Titled Douluo at any time.
That was why he was heading to the Star Dou Great Forest.
His first mission truly deserved to be called a freebie. Knowing he would do something stupid, the system had given him this item in advance.
He had woken from a single sleep with the strength to kill Tang Hao. Huo Yuhao had no words left to describe it. Only one phrase rose in his mind: Winning while lying flat.
But winning while lying flat had come at a price: ten years. According to his original plan, he could have completed the mission within five years. He had been that confident.
Now, one foolish choice had stretched that time by at least five years. The system had said that the mission's rating depended on the time taken.
Huo Yuhao was no fool. He knew that faster had to be better. There was no way slower progress would earn a greater reward. That would make no sense.
Still, he no longer cared much. Without the power of the nine Sacred Cups, his first mission would have ended in failure. If the Thousand-Day Resurrection Powder had not dropped, Huo Yuhao's mission would have ended long ago, and he would have been sent packing back to his own world.
At the same time, his own stupidity filled him with despair. If he could botch even a freebie this badly, how was he supposed to handle the extremely difficult missions that came afterward?
What misery. Utter misery!
For now, though, he had to obtain soul rings first. With his current strength, he could easily absorb hundred-thousand-year soul rings. In fact, he could already storm into Holy Soul Village and kill Tang Hao and Tang San.
To be safe, however, he chose to add soul rings first before hunting the two of them down.
After all, Tang San was the protagonist, and Tang Hao was the protagonist's own father. Anything could happen with them. He had to prepare for every possibility; he did not have a second dose of Thousand-Day Resurrection Powder.
Tang Hao had always been very powerful. The fact that he had single-handedly overpowered the entire Spirit Hall made that clear, though it had been Spirit Hall's Pope Hall rather than its Elder Hall.
Moreover, Bibi Dong had not revealed her true strength. Still, being able to crush so many Titled Douluos single-handedly was certainly impressive.
Tang Hao possessed the Divine Slaughter's Domain, a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, the powerful Clear Sky Hammer martial soul, and the Clear Sky Sect's various self-created soul skills and Clear Sky True Art.
Challenging opponents above his level was a breeze!
The greatest respect one could show an enemy was to go all out. He would bring his full strength to bear against Tang Hao.
Huo Yuhao was incredibly fast now. Bolstered by his surging soul power, he raced like the wind and lightning, chasing clouds and pursuing the sun.
In less than half a day, he reached the Star Dou Great Forest.
The Star Dou Great Forest had two great beast kings: the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape. Both were exceptionally powerful hundred-thousand-year soul beasts with tremendous combat strength. Even his mother, Bibi Dong, would need to assemble a soul-hunting squad of Titled Douluos to kill them.
In truth, he currently had a better option: the hundred-thousand-year Soft-Boned Enchanting Rabbit that had taken human form and begun cultivating anew.
Tang San was twelve now, which meant the two of them were still studying in Nuoding City. Without the Grandmaster's interference, they would most likely attend one of the Heaven Dou Empire's regular advanced soul master academies.
They certainly would not go to Shrek Academy.
Neither of them could possibly know what kind of academy Shrek Academy was, where it was, or what strengths and weaknesses it had.
Huo Yuhao admitted that, for a moment, he had been tempted to hunt Xiao Wu down and obtain her hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
But reason ultimately triumphed over his evil!
He had indeed become someone who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals. Everything he was doing now was evil, but he had to do it.
He wanted to be a good person, but the system gave him no choice.
With Tang San, Tang Hao, and Yu Xiaogang, he had no choice. He could only kill them mercilessly.
But with Xiao Wu, he did have a choice.
He would not kill her because Huo Yuhao still considered himself human, at least for now-a person with a moral bottom line.
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