Huo Yutong tightened her grip on the Mystic Water Pill. Gazing at the crystalline pill, she was momentarily taken aback, its wafting fragrance soothing her.
"Little Yutong, take out the advanced meditation method from your Storage Soul Tool. Your master will first teach you the basics of circulating Soul Power!"
"All these years of blindly cultivating on your own have left your meridians badly blocked, so we need to clear them first."
Huo Tian walked over to the bed and sat down. Huo Yutong immediately took out the advanced meditation method and sat cross-legged on the bed.
Huo Tian released his Soul Power and channeled it into Huo Yutong's body, trying to clear her meridians first while explaining the secrets of cultivation.
Huo Yutong felt her blocked meridians begin to open up, Soul Power flowing through them continuously. After an hour of explanation, she also understood where to begin her cultivation.
Huo Yutong was truly thankful that she had blindly cultivated for four years without dying. All was well indeed.
"Take the Mystic Water Pill!"
Huo Tian stopped teaching, stood up, and headed toward the balcony. He knew what happened after taking a Mystic Water Pill-the grime that formed on the body truly stank.
"Okay!"
Without any further hesitation, Huo Yutong immediately popped the Mystic Water Pill in her palm into her mouth. The moment it entered her mouth, it began taking effect.
Huo Yutong circulated the Soul Power in her dantian, steadily working through the medicinal effects of the Mystic Water Pill in her belly. She felt her abdomen grow a little hot, and a sensation rushed straight to the crown of her head. His fair little face instantly flushed.
Once the medicine took effect, Huo Tian released his Soul Power to guard Huo Yutong so she would not be disturbed. He stood on the balcony, gazing at the lights of countless homes outside.
Bored, Huo Tian opened the system panel. This system really was rudimentary. Apart from the system inventory space and the system shop, all the other panels were blank.
"What kind of damned system are you?!"
Huo Tian grumbled and opened the system shop. He had been none the wiser before looking, but one glance gave him a fright. There was even Pangu Essence Blood for sale.
Huo Tian wiped the sweat from his forehead. Buying these things required system points, though, and he was utterly penniless right now.
"Ones, tens... a hundred billion!"
Huo Tian counted all those zeros in disbelief. Who knew in what year of the monkey and month of the horse he would finally be able to buy Pangu Essence Blood?
[Ding, issuing epic main quest-] [The black and white worlds will counterbalance each other, beginning in five years.] [Black World's son of destiny, Huo Yuhao, VS White World's daughter of destiny, Huo Yutong.] [In five years, the system will compare them in every aspect... then the two will decide the victor through the Scales Battlefield.]
[Will the host accept the quest?]
Huo Tian studied the quest entry that had suddenly popped up, stroking his chin with a serious expression. He truly had not expected to refresh a side quest.
Huo Tian immediately pressed yes. He really wanted to see what it would look like when Huo Yuhao met Huo Yutong.
If possible, he would also have the future God of Emotion, Huo Yuhao, meet the Huo Yuhao who had just left the White Tiger Duke's Mansion. If Huo Yuhao learned that he had never avenged his mother, would he slit his own throat and depart for heaven on the spot?
The black world, during Douluo's Peerless era.
Huo Yuhao had just finished burying his dead mother. He knelt firmly on the ground, kowtowing over and over, his eyes filled with hatred.
[Comparison System successfully bound. Host: Huo Yuhao!]
"Who's there?!"
An electrical buzzing sounded in Huo Yuhao's mind. He looked around warily but found no one.
[Don't be nervous!]
Huo Yuhao's consciousness appeared in his Sea of Consciousness, and a transparent figure emerged before his eyes. Huo Yuhao immediately clenched both fists and watched him warily.
[Don't you want revenge? I can help you get revenge.] [All you need to know is that I can help you cultivate!]
The Comparison System condensed a humanoid phantom. The phantom paced back and forth through the Sea of Consciousness, its voice devoid of emotion.
"Yes, of course I do!"
"If you help me, what price will I have to pay?"
Huo Yuhao's eyes were bloodshot, and he panted like an ox. He bit his lip until it bled.
Huo Yuhao desperately craved power now. He wanted revenge, to wipe out the White Tiger Duke's Mansion completely.
[You and I can have a symbiotic relationship. All you need to do is defeat your counterpart from a parallel spacetime in five years!] [If you defeat him, I can resurrect your mother.]
To fully awaken Huo Yuhao's potential, the Comparison System immediately offered what he cared about.
"A counterpart from a parallel spacetime? What's that?"
Huo Yuhao looked at it in bewilderment.
[You can think of her as your opposite!]
"All right! I agree!"
Huo Yuhao was elated. Clenching his fists, he managed a confident smile.
To resurrect his mother, Huo Yuhao had to pay any price to defeat his counterpart from a parallel spacetime five years from now.
"It stinks!"
After cultivating all night, Huo Yutong had completely refined the Mystic Water Pill. She was now covered from head to toe in a layer of black grime that gave off a foul, fishy stench.
This black grime was precisely the impurities expelled from her body. Huo Yutong looked around the room and finally saw Huo Tian sitting upright on the balcony. Reassured, she ran to the bathroom.
I'll go to the Star Luo Empire Auction in a bit and buy the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife! I need to prepare for Huo Yutong's future.
Huo Tian rested both hands on the railing, gazing contentedly at the azure sky. When he returned in a year, he would have to set Shrek Academy in order.
"Master, I feel like the Soul Power in my body is circulating more smoothly."
Huo Yutong had finished bathing and wore a white dress. Under the effects of the Mystic Water Pill, her skin had become even fairer, softer, and smoother, like a white lotus.
Huo Yutong ambushed Huo Tian from behind, crossing her little hands around his waist and pressing her head against him, her face brimming with delight.
Today was Huo Yutong's happiest day in her ten years of life, because she could finally begin cultivating and was one step closer to avenging her mother.
"All right! Little Yutong, I'll take you somewhere."
Huo Tian gently stroked Huo Yutong's silky blue hair. He released his Martial Soul and transformed into a Vermilion Bird wreathed in Evil Fire, standing on the railing.
"Climb on!"
Still standing to one side in a daze, Huo Yutong immediately leaped onto Huo Tian's back at his urging.
Huo Tian had already perfected his Vermilion Bird body in the Vermilion Bird Secret Realm. He could switch between human and beast forms; one could also call him a Soul Beast.
A fiery-red Vermilion Bird swept over the inn. Huo Yutong's tiny body lay against its feathers, where the warmth made him feel very safe.
"From now on, Master can only let me ride!"
Huo Yutong muttered softly, tracing circles on the Vermilion Bird's body with an auntie smile on her face.
Before long, the two arrived at the largest auction house in the Star Luo Empire. It was packed with a sea of people.
Many people came and went through the auction house's main entrance, making it clear that business was booming.