"He won't be in danger, will he?" Snow Girl pointed at Huo Yuhao lying in the snowdrift and asked Ice Empress.
"Don't worry about me!" Huo Yuhao called from the ground. "Ice Empress, use the method I told you to guide Snow Girl's spiritual consciousness over. When the Snow Lotus was damaged just now, the part of her soul she'd already transferred into it was injured. I can repair it."
Inside his Sea of Consciousness, Huo Yuhao stared at Snow Girl's fair cheeks, momentarily dazed.
"Hey, what's wrong with you...?" Snow Girl's clear voice rang out in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness, sounding almost coquettish.
"Nothing!" Only then did Huo Yuhao realize how awkward his current position was. He began using his divine consciousness to guide his spiritual energy into repairing Snow Girl's soul origin.
At his core, Huo Yuhao had a mother complex-not that he harbored any improper thoughts toward his mother, Huo Yun'er, but that he instinctively felt close to girls overflowing with maternal affection. In his previous life, he had ended up with Tang Wutong purely because the strength she displayed while disguised as the boy Wang Dong had left the deepest impression on the young Huo Yuhao. Thus, when Tang Wutong revealed herself as a woman, what Huo Yuhao perceived was a woman made strong by motherhood.
In this life, however, Huo Yuhao had figured it out: the reason that woman, Tang Wutong, had deceived him for so many years was simply that he had been deceiving himself. In his previous life, even after reaching great heights, he had remained an overgrown child at heart, unwilling to shoulder many responsibilities.
With that, Huo Yuhao's tastes naturally changed.
Just as he had with Electrolux, Brother Sky Dream, and Ice Empress before, Huo Yuhao concealed nothing from Snow Girl and explained his circumstances.
"Yuhao, when did you realize that your training in the Clear Sky Sect back then was a murder plot orchestrated by your father-in-law from your previous life?" Snow Girl's cool voice echoed in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness.
After listening to Huo Yuhao recount his previous life, Snow Girl spoke in a grave voice.
"It doesn't take much thought to realize that. Tang San first plotted to destroy the Divine Sense Elder Yi had left in my Sea of Consciousness, then destroyed the belongings Elder Yi left me. Isn't it obvious what he wanted?"
Huo Yuhao shook his head, his expression dimming. "It's just that, in my previous life, I was an overgrown child who never grew up... I lived as that dog, Huo Yuhao. In truth, that life was nothing more than me burying my head in the sand like an ostrich."
At this point, only coldness remained in Huo Yuhao's voice. "In my previous life, I eventually became the God of Emotion. My power was emotional divine power, and both the medium that activated it and its core were Tang Wutong's image. I accepted that Princess Tang as the exalted Other to whom I devoted myself, as everything external to me. So long as Tang Wutong was by my side, I could deceive myself into ignoring so many things, even things I knew."
"Didn't those of us by your side back then say anything to you...?" Snow Girl's voice was full of worry. "Put that way, Tang San really is a terrifying figure."
"You?" Huo Yuhao looked at the woman who had become his Soul Spirit in his previous life, a wicked smile appearing on his face. "My mother, Huo Yun'er, was in his hands. Even if you wanted to tell me something, and I truly intended to do something about it, what do you think I could have done?"
Although his Soul Spirits, such as Brother Sky Dream, Ice Empress, and Snow Girl, had lived for tens of thousands of years, they were untouched by the smoke and fire of mortal life. Their actual mental maturity was only that of young children or adolescent girls, falling short even of his own at the end of his previous life.
Tang San merely had to display a kind of paternal authority to keep them from daring to entertain any thought of resistance. And in the Douluo God Realm, Tang San, the God King, was the emperor; opposing him was rebellion. First, they did not dare. Second, they could not.
Huo Yuhao understood Tang San's true personality better than anyone, because the Huo Yuhao persona that had been induced within his consciousness was a shadow Tang San had projected into him.
"If that's the case, once the Sea God discovers you've strayed from the course of fate he laid out for you, he'll surely spare no effort to correct it and use any means necessary against you. What will you do next?" Snow Girl suddenly thought of something.
After repairing the damage her soul had suffered when the Snow Lotus broke, Huo Yuhao sent her soul out of his Sea of Consciousness and back into the Snow Lotus. As Snow Girl departed, he said, "I anticipated that too, so my main reason for coming out this time was to return to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion and take care of a few things..."
"But I'll have to lie here for a few days first." Earlier, Ice Empress had used his current Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster body to unleash an Ice Explosion Technique powerful enough to severely injure three Level 9 Soul Engineers. The backlash had inflicted far too grievous an injury on Huo Yuhao. Even as a God King who had lived two lives, he had only barely kept this body from collapsing.
After her soul recovered and returned to the Snow Lotus, Snow Girl did not rush to take human form and begin cultivating anew. Instead, she channeled the Snow Lotus's power to heal Huo Yuhao's body.
As Huo Yuhao quietly circulated his Divine Sense through his body to heal his injuries, he watched Snow Girl slowly take human form using the white runes he had given her and asked Electrolux:
"Elder Yi, how certain are you that, in the Divine Realm's eyes, this spell is merely an ingenious scheme for Drilling Through Plane Law Loopholes, rather than a power from beyond this plane?"
The runes Huo Yuhao had given Snow Girl were a Resurrection Spell he had cast with his Divine Sense through Electrolux's Necromancy. After this Resurrection Spell, the Snow Girl who took form would be a true human, not a Snow Lotus Soul Beast.
From the perspective of the Douluo God Realm-especially [Tang Bingqing], who sat before the Divine Realm's central hub watching the mortal world-such a method of completely abandoning a beast's body to obtain a human one was clearly a tremendous heresy.
Although Huo Yuhao had left no trace of Divine Sense fluctuations in this Resurrection Spell, he remained extremely wary while casting it. After all, this truly was a power that did not belong to the mortal world.
Hearing Huo Yuhao's question, Electrolux smiled. "Little Yuhao, you told me that the Plane Master holds authority over resurrection... What's wrong with you, a child of this plane, resurrecting someone with my help?"
Half a month later, Huo Yuhao recovered. By then, Snow Girl had also become fully human, taking the appearance of a girl of about fourteen.
After briskly packing his belongings, Huo Yuhao looked into the distance, ready to set off for the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.
"Yuhao, will you be in danger if you go back this time?" Snow Girl was puzzled, though there were many questions she still could not voice.
According to Huo Yuhao, controlling Huo Yun'er's soul had been a crucial step in Tang San's process of creating Huo Yuhao.
In other words, a pair of eyes had actually been watching the White Tiger Duke's Mansion all along.
"Snow Girl, don't be anxious. I'll explain when I have the chance. We'll be safe on this trip back to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion."
After reassuring Snow Girl, Huo Yuhao looked toward the White Tiger Duke's Mansion with a smile that never reached his eyes. In this life, I haven't gone to Shrek or met Wang Dong. The Tang family hasn't begun grooming me as their son-in-law, and their schemes against me haven't started. Why would they already be plotting the fate of my mother Huo Yun'er's soul, when she's nothing but a lowly maid in their eyes?
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