"All right! Want to have a fishing contest? Last time, you spent the whole morning catching nothing!"
"Sure enough, anglers can reel in anything except fish!"
Huo Mu lay back in his rocking chair with a contented expression, holding a fishing rod in one hand and resting the other behind his head.
Called a fishless angler by Huo Mu, Tang San looked helpless. He pinched the bridge of his nose. As the Sea God, he had failed to catch even two fish last time. He had truly lost all face.
Another rocking chair appeared beside Huo Mu. Under the effects of his divine power, all of Tang San's Sea God Divine Armor came off, leaving him in casual clothes.
Tang San wore a white short-sleeved shirt printed with a rabbit on top, pink rabbit shorts below, and a straw hat on his head. He held a fishing rod in his right hand and a bucket in his left, and even wore flip-flops.
Who could have imagined that this was the exalted Lord Sea God! Tang San plopped into the rocking chair, and the two began their fishing contest.
Huo Mu reached a large hand through the void and modified some code in the system that came with Huo Tian. Whenever Huo Mu used his power, he compressed it to the absolute limit, afraid that his power might shatter the entire Douluo Star.
Hailing from the multiverse, Huo Mu had fled pursuit with his younger brother all along the way, ultimately escaping to a forsaken corner of the multiverse, where he discovered the Douluo Universe floating there.
Huo Mu ultimately concealed this universe and slipped into the Douluo God Realm of the white world, while Huo Tian was placed on Douluo Star by Huo Mu to grow up.
Holding Huo Yutong's little hand, Huo Tian headed up the stairs, with Bai Qi following closely behind. Along the way, people looked at Bai Qi with disgust, but Huo Tian's imposing aura intimidated them all into looking away.
Huo Tian arrived at room 403 and pushed the door open. Waves of rose fragrance filled the room, and the furnishings inside were quite luxurious.
"Bai Qi, go bathe and change your clothes. I'll wait for you before treating your hidden ailments!"
Huo Tian sat upright on the bed and looked at him. Huo Yutong kept clinging to Huo Tian, lying in his arms the entire time, her gaze never leaving his face.
"Yes!"
Bai Qi stood silently to one side, then turned and strode into the bathroom. Mist instantly covered the bathroom door.
"Sleepy?"
Huo Tian pinched Huo Yutong's fair, tender cheek. Huo Yutong rubbed her eyes with both hands and nodded, burrowing his head into Huo Tian's embrace.
"If you're sleepy, go to sleep! Bai Qi and I will go somewhere else so we don't disturb you!"
"No!"
Huo Tian gently stroked the top of Huo Yutong's head. He had just started to stand up and move away from her when Huo Yutong pressed him firmly in place with both hands, refusing to let him leave.
Huo Tian shook his head helplessly. He had not expected her to become so clingy after spending only a year with him. He did not think much of it, since she was still young. Once she grew up, she would know to avoid impropriety.
"Yutong! You're still young, so there's nothing wrong with clinging to your master like this!"
"When you grow up, you need to understand the distinction between men and women and make sure you protect yourself, all right?"
Huo Tian explained these rules to Huo Yutong with a serious expression. Huo Yutong listened quietly beside him, nodding from time to time.
Huo Yutong had always lived in such an oppressive environment that she was like a blank sheet of paper when it came to many things. Huo Yun'er did not know much herself, so what she could teach her was limited.
Huo Yutong knew absolutely nothing about matters between men and women. Huo Tian was truly afraid that his precious disciple would be lured away. Who would not love such an adorable Little Huo Girl?
"But Master isn't someone else. You're Tongtong's family!"
Huo Yutong raised her head and looked at Huo Tian with a radiant expression. She had always been able to trust Huo Tian, and her voice was very soft.
Huo Tian sighed silently, and the two continued lying on the bed. Huo Tian opened the system panel and began browsing the system shop.
Looking at the points beneath the system shop, Huo Tian began considering what to buy. A tier-two Martial Soul Evolution Pill and a tier-one Marrow Cleansing Pill were still stored in the system space.
The Martial Soul Evolution Pill would evolve Bai Qi's Martial Soul, while the Marrow Cleansing Pill would clear the residual Soul Power from his meridians. Bai Qi had cultivated blindly for so long that his entire body was half crippled.
A Mystic Water Pill could not change Bai Qi's foundation at all, and there were also the many hidden injuries in his body and the scar on his face.
Huo Tian spent 1.2 million points in the system shop to buy a tier-one Healing Pill and a bottle of whitening cream. The Healing Pill cost one million points, and the whitening cream cost two hundred thousand.
Huo Tian did not feel any heartache over spending the points.
The bathroom door opened, and Bai Qi walked out silently in black robes. Huo Tian looked toward him.
"Bai Qi, take these three pills at the same time! But you'll have to rely on your willpower to endure the pain they bring!"
Huo Tian stood up and strode over to Bai Qi. Three pills of different colors appeared out of thin air in his palm, giving off waves of utterly intoxicating fragrance.
Without the slightest hesitation, Bai Qi accepted the pills from Huo Tian. He sat cross-legged on the floor and swallowed the pills in his hand in one gulp.
To avoid disturbing them, Huo Yutong lay quietly to one side, her long blue hair spread across the pillow.
The moment the three pills entered Bai Qi's mouth, they turned into three gentle streams of warmth that flowed into his abdomen. The medicinal power released by the three pills was not something an ordinary person could withstand.
In an instant, Bai Qi's entire body turned red from head to toe and began giving off heat. Everyone felt as though they were inside a furnace.
The Marrow Cleansing Pill began taking effect, rampaging through his internal organs, limbs, and bones as it tried to clear the impurities from his body, while the Healing Pill slowly repaired his hidden ailments.
Bai Qi gritted his teeth. Cold sweat began pouring from his forehead and dripping madly onto the floor. His entire face twisted, and his eyes turned bloodshot.
What tormented him most was the Martial Soul Evolution Pill. The Martial Soul pill shattered the Martial Soul within his body countless times before gathering it back together, making Bai Qi's soul feel as though it were being sliced apart over and over.
I can't pass out, or all of this will come to nothing!
Bai Qi frantically circulated the power in his dantian, trying to suppress the medicinal power constantly boiling within him. Huo Tian sent his Evil Fire spreading over, wrapped around his Soul Power, and the Soul Power immediately poured into the space between Bai Qi's brows.
With Huo Tian's immense Soul Power pouring into him, Bai Qi's will gradually steadied. Huo Tian had not expected that such intense pain would fail to make Bai Qi utter even a sound.
Even fate could not completely crush Bai Qi, so how could mere pain break him? Bai Qi was someone who intended to shatter fate's curse.
The scenery outside the window shifted from darkness to light, and a cry within the city broke the utter silence of Lingdou City.
A foul, rank smell filled the room. Bai Qi was covered from head to toe in black grime, and he immediately ran into the bathroom.
Huo Tian stretched. He had consumed so much Soul Power that his body was gradually struggling to bear it. Huo Yutong slept peacefully beside him.
Bai Qi quickly finished bathing and ran out. He felt refreshed and clearheaded. Under the medicinal power of those three pills, he had been reborn, his bones remade.
Bai Qi's formerly dark skin had become smooth, fair, and tender, and his body was no longer as scrawny as before.
"Master! My Martial Soul has evolved into the Starry Night Demon Scythe! It seems to possess the Ultimate Darkness attribute!"
Bai Qi summoned his Martial Soul, and a large scythe appeared in his palm. The formerly rusty scythe had undergone a tremendous change in appearance after evolving.
Huo Tian took the Starry Night Demon Scythe and discovered that it weighed 3,000 jin. What he had not expected was that Bai Qi's cultivation had also risen by five levels.
Bai Qi's cultivation fed back into Huo Tian, and Huo Tian felt that he was not far from becoming a level-77 Soul Saint. Over the past year, Huo Tian had spent every day fooling around and had barely cultivated at all.