[Ding! Hidden mission completed: Huo Yutong's martial soul has undergone a second evolution.] [Distributing system rewards...] [Two-hundred-thousand-year Ice Wolf King right leg bone ×1, two million system points.] [All rewards have been deposited into the system space.]
Just as Huo Tian was rejoicing over Huo Yutong's martial soul evolution, the system panel popped up again. Huo Tian was startled; he had never expected to complete a hidden mission.
Huo Tian gazed at the two-hundred-thousand-year Ice Wolf King right leg bone in the system space and sank into thought. This soul bone should have been prepared for Huo Yutong's second martial soul.
Huo Tian's martial soul was fire-attributed, so an ice-attributed soul bone was of no damn use to him. Huo Yutong now had two ice-attributed soul bones, and the seventy-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone might evolve to a hundred thousand years in the future.
"The points this time are pretty generous! The last side mission only gave ten thousand."
Huo Tian stroked his chin with one hand, staring speechlessly at the system panel. He began to suspect that the system only offered generous rewards for missions involving his disciple.
"Master! What points?"
Huo Yutong watched Huo Tian talking to thin air, her eyes filling with confusion. She crawled over to him, raised a hand, and waved it in front of his eyes.
"N-nothing!"
Huo Tian came back to his senses, held his right fist to his mouth, and coughed twice to ease the awkwardness. He raised his hand and gently stroked Huo Yutong's long blue hair.
Huo Tian used his soul power to examine the channels inside Huo Yutong's body. Fed with heavenly treasures, her foundation had become much stronger.
Had Huo Yutong never met Huo Tian, the maximum age she could withstand for her first soul ring would have been fifty years.
Now, however, she could withstand a seven-hundred-year first soul ring, thanks largely to the Mystic Water Pills and thousand-year whale rubber Huo Tian had fed her over the past three months...
Shrek Academy's current first-year class still had six or seven months until graduation. After graduation, the academy would begin admitting new first-year outer court students.
Huo Tian planned to take Huo Yutong traveling around the continent for another few months, raising the age she could withstand for her first soul ring to fifteen hundred years.
That way, Huo Yutong could better absorb the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux. With the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's origin power, Huo Yutong's first soul ring would be a thousand years old or higher.
"Little Yutong, in half a year, Master will go obtain his first soul ring!"
"Mm!"
Taking advantage of Huo Tian's fully relaxed state, Huo Yutong immediately threw herself into his arms. She crossed her hands and locked them tightly around his waist.
Huo Tian froze at Huo Yutong's behavior. Her grip was powerful, as though she wanted to merge herself into his flesh and bones.
"Master~ just like this. Don't let go. Tongtong is afraid of having nightmares tonight!"
Huo Yutong squirmed in Huo Tian's arms, speaking in a weak voice. Her eyes began to redden, as though she had suffered the greatest injustice in the world.
Seeing her like this, Huo Tian could not bear to refuse. The two maintained that intimate pose and sank deeply into sweet dreams.
The corners of Huo Yutong's lips curved slightly. Under the moonlight, her face looked exceptionally bewitching. Her plan had succeeded, satisfying her twisted psyche.
Not only was Huo Tian himself affected by the aura of evil fire on his body, but Huo Yutong's disposition was also quietly changing.
Throughout those ten years, Huo Yutong had constantly suffered bullying and verbal abuse from the people of the White Tiger Duke's Mansion. Deep inside, her heart had long since been battered to pieces.
After Huo Yun'er left, the crack in Huo Yutong's heart where love was missing widened further, and Huo Tian appeared at just the right moment to completely fill that absence.
The evil fire continually magnified the possessiveness deep within Huo Yutong's heart, making her increasingly possessive of Huo Tian.
Although Huo Yutong had only spent a few months with Huo Tian, she had long since regarded him as someone important to her. In her heart, Huo Tian held the same standing as Huo Yun'er.
Huo Tian had always thought that Huo Yutong was still young, and that after living under such oppressive conditions for so long, she must have felt deeply inferior. Thus, he showered her with affection, hoping she could emerge from that shadow.
Huo Tian had absolutely no idea that his indiscriminate affection was guiding Huo Yutong toward becoming a yandere.
Everyone online said they liked yanderes, but if I actually met a yandere in real life, I really would call the police.
There simply wasn't a yandere like Huo Yutong in this world.
The white world, the Douluo God Realm.
The vast Divine Realm was deserted, with only a handful of second-level gods patrolling. In the past, plenty of gods wandered around the Divine Realm every day.
Ever since that godlike fellow from beyond the universe arrived, the entire Divine Realm had begun to grow abnormal. He brought advanced technology, as well as a soul tool called a mobile phone.
Ever since this kind of soul tool was created, the gods of the entire Divine Realm had become absorbed in the pleasures of their phones. The invention of the mobile phone also brought many things, including food delivery, online shopping, and short dramas...
Even the Sea God, Tang San, discovered that his relationship with the God of Destruction had eased considerably. And the Tang San of this Douluo Universe was the original world's Tang San, who had devoured the soul of Tang San from another world.
Although this Tang San could not be considered a good person, he was much better than the Tang San of the original story, because this Tang San had been raised by the Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin.
During the ten thousand years of the Douluo Continent's development, the white world's Sea God Tang San had not interfered excessively, nor had he severed the link between heaven and earth for the Douluo Plane.
The Douluo Plane had very few godhood inheritances, so over these ten thousand years, whenever soul masters from the Douluo Plane died and met the requirements for godhood inheritance, Tang San would step in and grant them godhood.
Over those ten thousand years, six third-level gods and five second-level gods had ascended from the Douluo Plane. Thus, the claim that no one on the Douluo Continent became a god ten thousand years later was entirely a misunderstanding.
Tang San's frantic efforts to scoop people up also displeased the Destruction God King, but Destruction could do nothing about him.
After all, the Douluo Plane was brimming with talent.
The central hall of the Douluo God Realm.
"Bid for landlord!"
"I'll take it!"
At that moment, three figures sat around the conference table in the central hall, cards in hand, playing Fight the Landlord together.
"You little punk San! You stole landlord from me again this round!"
A white-haired boy in cute black rabbit pajamas glanced at the blue-haired man opposite him.
"What can I say? I've got a lucky hand. Hehe!"
The blue-haired man opposite him wore a white short-sleeved shirt, with a lollipop in his mouth and flip-flops on his feet.
"San, hurry up and play!"
A red-haired young man sat in the middle with one leg crossed over the other.
"Pair of threes!"
"Bomb!"
Tang San tossed down two threes, and the Destruction God King immediately followed with four fives, putting them together into a rocket.
"You really play those cards so well!"
Huo Mu stared speechlessly at the Destruction God King.
"By the way, you little punk San, did your daughter run off to the Douluo Plane to gallivant around?"
The Destruction God King turned to look at Tang San.
"Probably. Maybe she'll run into Old Mu's little brother."
Tang San answered indifferently, then looked at Huo Mu with a chuckle.