While Tang Chuan was consolidating his cultivation, the Ice Empress in the Far North finally decided to accept the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's offer. She unleashed an intense energy field, transforming into a second martial soul and merging into Huo Yuhao's body.
Boom!
The terrifying energy field triggered by the Ice Empress's sacrifice immediately drew the scrutiny of several powerful beings. Amid the snowstorm, a graceful figure slowly approached.
It was the Snow Empress.
She gazed at the Ice Empress's gradually vanishing figure, her eyes filled with tenderness. She had heard the conversation between the Ice Empress and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and she respected the Ice Empress's choice.
As for herself...
She intended to face the heavenly tribulation head-on!
"Bing'er, I hope we both succeed."
The Snow Empress spoke softly, then turned and left.
An unknown amount of time passed.
Huo Yuhao finally completed his fusion with the Ice Empress. Feeling the all-around enhancement that his second martial soul and a torso soul bone had brought him, he could not stop marveling.
"It worked!"
"Teacher will definitely be pleased with what I've accomplished this time."
Huo Yuhao spoke excitedly.
"Tian Meng, Ice Empress, thank you."
Huo Yuhao thanked them from the bottom of his heart, then eagerly hurried toward the outskirts of the Far North. He wanted to return to Shrek Academy as soon as possible to see Tang Chuan.
Several days later, Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek City in high spirits. It was already late at night, yet to his surprise, he saw Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, who seemed to be waiting in Shrek City.
"Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao!"
Huo Yuhao ran toward them in utter surprise. "What are you doing here?"
"Class monitor!"
Xiao Xiao was equally delighted.
"I came into the city with Wang Dong to buy some things. Judging by the time, you and Teacher should have been coming back soon. Since it was still early, we thought we'd wait here a while and enjoy the scenery. We never expected to actually run into you."
Perhaps because it was such a coincidence, all three were delighted. Huo Yuhao seemed to remember something and asked Xiao Xiao, "Xiao Xiao, has Teacher returned?"
Xiao Xiao shook her head.
"Not yet..."
Huo Yuhao was immediately a little disappointed, but considering Tang Chuan's identity, he figured nothing should happen to him and decided to return to Shrek Academy first.
"So, class monitor, you've already obtained your second martial soul?"
Xiao Xiao was immensely curious.
"Yuhao, you'll have to find time to show us."
Wang Dong chuckled.
"Of course."
Huo Yuhao nodded. The three walked along the deserted street, but just then, Huo Yuhao's pupils suddenly contracted. He had clearly sensed a dangerous presence approaching.
"Watch out!"
Huo Yuhao cried out.
Sure enough, a black-robed assassin flashed out of the darkness the next instant, striking at the three of them with a sharp blade.
Only then did Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao react. Both immediately released their martial souls, and the three hurriedly gathered together as Huo Yuhao used his Spirit Eyes to scan their surroundings with his spiritual power.
"An assassin?!"
Wang Dong frowned and immediately had a suspicion.
"Dai Huabin did this!"
"Dai Huabin?"
Huo Yuhao's gaze turned cold. They had clashed before, but he had never expected this fellow to actually hire assassins.
"Wang Dong and I had some more clashes with Dai Huabin over the past few days, so he might be holding a grudge..."
Xiao Xiao quietly reminded him.
Boom!
An utterly terrifying blast of soul power crashed down toward the three. That strike likely possessed the strength of a Soul King or even a Soul Emperor. Knowing they were no match for it, they immediately scattered.
"Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, run toward the academy!"
Huo Yuhao shouted.
The assassin's attacks continued relentlessly. Huo Yuhao knew very well that they would all likely suffer if this went on, so he immediately took out the signal flare Fan Yu had once given him.
Bang!
The signal burst in the night sky.
Far away in the Sea God Pavilion, Yan Shaozhe and the others immediately noticed what was happening. Their expressions changed, and they appeared in the sky at once. Meanwhile, as they waited for reinforcements...
Huo Yuhao and the two girls could only keep dodging the assassin's attacks. But the gap in strength was too great; even a casual strike from that Soul Emperor assassin was enough to blast all three back.
"Oh no!"
The assassin's attack was about to hit.
The Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron descended from above, briefly blocking the attack. Yet the cauldron itself hummed violently, trembling without cease as it suffered severe damage.
"Twin Martial Soul Resonance!"
"Break!"
Xiao Xiao cried out, forcing her body to hold on.
A musical attack suddenly erupted from the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron. As it drove the assassin back, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong had already begun burning their soul power to unleash their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
Boom!
Their strike blasted out. Even the Soul Emperor assassin could not help feeling a deep chill of fear, but killing the assassins remained extremely difficult.
"Go!"
Wang Dong supported Xiao Xiao while Huo Yuhao brought up the rear.
All three had nearly exhausted their soul power. Shrek Academy was right before their eyes, yet several more assassins came straight at them.
"Life Collapse!"
At that very moment.
The ground was instantly torn apart. Then stalks of Blue Silver Emperor inscribed with golden patterns burst out of the earth, piercing straight through the two Soul Ancestor assassins ahead. Blood poured ceaselessly from their chests.
Splat!
Two rank-forty-one Soul Ancestors were killed instantly with a single strike!
Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao stared blankly at the golden-patterned Blue Silver Emperor. As though realizing something, they cried out in delight, "Teacher?!"
The remaining assassins gathered together.
"Who's there?!"
The Soul Emperor growled.
With a dragon's roar, blue-gold light bloomed. Then Tang Chuan's figure slowly descended from the sky, and the Life Dragon Wings behind him instantly unleashed the Life Domain.
Within the Life Domain.
Huo Yuhao and the two girls felt their injuries healing, and even their soul power recovering!
"This is... a domain?!"
Wang Dong exclaimed.
"Teacher, you're back!"
Huo Yuhao gazed excitedly at Tang Chuan, who seemed like a god descending to earth. Tang Chuan looked back and smiled at the three of them. "Your teacher hasn't returned too late, has he?"
"Teacher's strength seems to have undergone a qualitative leap."
Sensing the terrifying aura within Tang Chuan, Huo Yuhao was filled with amazement. As expected of a former God King. Even cultivating all over again, he's still this terrifying.
"Kill them. Leave no one alive."
The Soul Emperor assassin spoke in a low voice. He could sense that although the fellow before him looked imposing, he was merely a Soul Elder at his core, no different from an ant.
Boom!
Tang Chuan's gaze gradually turned icy. As his two domains blossomed simultaneously, an incomparably brilliant golden light suddenly burst from his hand, and a dragon's roar tore through the night sky.
The Golden Dragon Clear Sky Hammer!
Tang Chuan swung his hammer, the wind of its strike as forceful and ringing as a roaming dragon. With a splat, it smashed a Soul Ancestor before him into a mist of blood.
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