"Yuhao, do you resent these divine skills themselves?" Tian Meng asked with endearing foolishness after hearing Huo Yuhao and Electrolux's conversation.
"Resentment? I suppose so! But there's also a pain like having a wound torn open." Huo Yuhao's voice was low.
In his previous life, Huo Yuhao had understood the true nature of his teacher Nian Bing's Divine Seat of Emotion. Naturally, he understood why the Haodong Three Wonders had to become the core of the God of Emotion's Divine Seat in the life blueprint the Tang Family had drawn up for him.
For Rong Nianbing, this subtle relationship was really no more than a thin sheet of window paper.
Interestingly, that raised another question: if Rong Nianbing had known from the outset that, after completely merging with the Divine Seat of Emotion, Huo Yuhao would try every day to refine away his original self, could that original Huo Yuhao still have received the Godhood Inheritance back then?
In his previous life, Huo Yuhao had scarcely ever ventured into such matters. He had not even dared to think about them.
That night, Huo Yuhao did not talk for long with Brother Sky Dream, Ice Empress, and Elder Yi. After watching a few episodes of the "Peerless Tang Sect Animation" through his [Audience] authority, he fell asleep amid shattered illusions.
The next day, he learned that the "Haodong Three Wonders" he had taught those little troublemakers yesterday had already spread.
"Your cultivation method is amazing! Could you teach Baby too?"
"Baby can trade you a Light Element Cake for it!"
The one who told him about it was actually the baby angel inside Sister Guyi's Little Angel Pendant.
Early that morning, as soon as Huo Yuhao entered the Infirmary, the little angel sensed his arrival and flew up to tell him.
In just one night, word had spread that the divine skills Huo Yuhao had taught the spoiled scions of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy's Martial Soul Department-the "Haodong Three Wonders"-could let a soul master's cultivation advance a thousand miles a day.
Although he had expected it, Huo Yuhao still sighed. On the Douluo Continent, where competition had spiraled to extremes yet no one could find a way out, there truly was no wall that could keep the wind from seeping through.
"You want to learn?" Huo Yuhao asked, stroking the little angel's soft, rosy cheek.
The little angel nodded her tiny head. "Entrust all your troubles to an utterly exalted other. In seeing yourself within that other, you also see the truth. Such profound mysteries!"
"Provided that other really is utterly exalted." Huo Yuhao shook his head and told the puzzled little angel, "It's only an illusory dream. By the way, how is Sister Guyi?"
Seeing that he refused to impart the teachings, the little angel was immediately a little crestfallen. Then, hearing his question, she answered, "Big Sister is out of danger! But she's still unconscious. She woke up a few times yesterday."
They exchanged only a few pleasantries before the little angel flew back into the Little Angel Pendant.
This was the Sun Moon Empire, where the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters stood. The little angel, who was extremely sensitive to the dark attribute, was more cautious than anyone.
The unconscious girl was not deeply asleep. Ever since Huo Yuhao had brought her back to the Infirmary, Ye Guyi's consciousness had remained hazy.
As the God of Emotion in his previous life, Huo Yuhao could sense that, even after suffering such torment, Ye Guyi had not harbored the slightest poisonous resentment.
She had this disposition because the path she had chosen was the bright heart.
"Yuhao, you're here! Thank you for saving... me... again..." Much later, Ye Guyi slowly awoke. The moment she saw Huo Yuhao, she realized what had happened.
Her face flushed crimson as she spoke. Ye Guyi had a strong sense of dignity. To conceal her exceptionally voluptuous figure, she usually wore loose Palace Dresses-even though such dresses were very expensive for her.
But in that Interrogation Room, her body had been put on display stark naked. Recalling the experience, she wished she could find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.
"If it weren't for you... I might no longer be in this world..."
Had Huo Yuhao and Xu Tianran not arrived in time, at the very least, her buttocks would already have been reduced to pulp on that Dragon-Peeling Pillar.
"Sister Guyi, why stand on ceremony with me?" Looking at the girl's curled eyelashes, Huo Yuhao smiled. "I came to see how well you were recovering, but there's also something I wanted to ask you."
Naturally, Huo Yuhao wanted to ask Ye Guyi about what had happened at the West Mountain of Mingdu a few days earlier. After returning from the Star Dou Great Forest, his divine sense had detected explosive undead energy there, along with lingering traces of light- and dark-attribute Dragonkind auras.
Those two elders, Mu En and Long Xiaoyao, must have clashed with Ye Xishui! Huo Yuhao could roughly infer what had happened. What intrigued him was simply why Mu En, his teacher from his previous life, had appeared there.
"So that was what you saw happening in midair from inside Mingdu that day?"
"After Mu En appeared, Ye Xishui withdrew with her people, and neither side continued the clash-even though Long Xiaoyao had already arrived?" A trace of bitterness crossed Huo Yuhao's face as he listened to Ye Guyi's account.
Huo Yuhao knew this meant that, in his previous life, even at the very end, Mu En and Ye Xishui had still been feeding him lies.
Clearly, the version of the love triangle between Long, Mu, and Ye that Long Xiaoyao had told Huo Yuhao was the true one.
After chatting with Ye Guyi for a while, Huo Yuhao returned to his dormitory and began modifying the Soul Tool known as the "Eye of Destiny."
Since Huo Yuhao's "Haodong Three Wonders" had spread, humans had gradually mastered another method besides directly cultivating bloodline power: externalizing spiritual power into elemental energy, then solidifying and imprinting that elemental energy into bloodline power.
This was the change taking place for individual soul masters.
For the Soul Master World as a whole, however, soul hunting was gradually ceasing to be a way to break through bottlenecks. A change in the plane's rules at this level was undoubtedly enough to overturn heaven and earth.
First and foremost, this meant that, in terms of the Heavenly Dao's balance, soul beasts were no longer the monopolists of life capable of enduring through the long river of time.
At first, the Soul Master Academies and sects thought only soul beasts had suffered a calamity. Soon, however, they discovered that the traditional cultivation method of the Soul Master World-taking something from soul beasts to aid cultivation-had become useless.
To the Soul Master World, this was undoubtedly a sign of the sky falling and the earth collapsing. Books such as the "Soul Beast Compendium," for example, had become wastepaper overnight.
"It really came out of nowhere! No more Soul Rings are being produced below the Seven-Ring Soul Sage level, or even by beasts under ten thousand years old!"
Someone from one of the sects that had come to participate in this soul hunting tournament spearheaded by Shrek sighed.
"This change is still spreading toward higher-level soul masters! It's simply unbelievable!"
Everyone understood that if they failed to kill the Auspicious Beast and take its ring and bones before this change spread to ten-thousand-year soul beasts equivalent to Seven-Ring Soul Sages, all of Shrek's preparations would inevitably come to nothing.
Under the portion of the plane's laws that had already changed, anyone who wantonly slaughtered an intelligent being would suffer the Heavenly Dao's backlash.
If this trend spread to the Soul Saint level and above, killing the Auspicious Beast would become nothing more than the murder of a spiritual creature.
Everyone who participated would inevitably suffer heavenly punishment.
But if Shrek could kill the Auspicious Beast of the soul beast lineage before these altered planar laws spread above the seven-ring level, then it would mean, "Dragonkind's fortune is rightfully destined to belong to us at Shrek."
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