Haodong Power

The young man had delicate features and fair skin. His large eyes were especially unusual, a faint pinkish-blue. His neat short hair was the same color. He was so handsome that he seemed even more striking than Beibei, whom Huo Yuhao had seen before. He was undoubtedly the best-looking person Huo Yuhao had ever met among his peers. He appeared to be about the same height and age as Huo Yuhao.

It couldn't be such a coincidence, could it? Huo Yuhao's brows twitched wildly.

The young man shot him a rather haughty glare. "Move."

"Of course." Huo Yuhao put on a meek expression and stepped aside to clear the way for him, inwardly crying out, Please, please don't notice me!

Seeing the young man's lofty attitude, one of the freshmen could not help getting angry. "Why should he listen to you? Do you think you can strut around the academy like you own the place?"

The young man snorted coldly. "If you don't listen, I'll beat you out of here. Try me if you don't believe it."

Who among those admitted to Shrek Academy was weak? Some of the freshmen especially despised this sort of arrogant attitude and immediately crowded over. "Then let's try it. We'll settle this outside."

Rather than being intimidated by the freshmen's unyielding attitude, the young man smiled. His smile was beautiful, but the contempt and disdain within it only further ignited the freshmen's anger.

"Remember my name. Wang Dong. Today, I'll defeat every last one of you!" the young man said disdainfully.

Wang Dong's words immediately caused a commotion. It was their first time seeing someone their age dare to be this arrogant in Shrek Academy.

"Get him!"

"Beat him flat!"

Watching the furious freshmen shout, Huo Yuhao could not help sighing. Her God King father had left a strand of Divine Sense in her Sea of Spirit. Forget a series of one-on-one battles—even if all the freshmen attacked together, the moment she was in danger, the Sea God could descend and cripple them all with a single trident strike.

That was right. The newcomer was the original story's female lead, Huo Yuhao's future wife, the Dragon Butterfly Douluo, Butterfly God Tang Wutong, using the male disguise and alias Wang Dong—Wang Dong'er. She was also the beloved daughter of Sea God Tang San and Asura Sword Sheath Xiao Wu.

Yet Huo Yuhao had another suspicion in his heart.

Tang Wutong—her name naturally meant the little phoenix of Sea God Tang San and Xiao Wu. But the question was, could Tang Wutong truly be considered only their daughter?

Perhaps Tang Xuetong would be a more appropriate real name for her.

Certainly, no one could deny the blood relationship among the three of them. Tang Wutong's first Martial Soul was the Light Goddess Butterfly. But had anyone ever heard of grass combined with a rabbit mutating into a butterfly? Or a hammer combined with a rabbit producing a butterfly? Could the combination of a plant, a mammal, and a tool mutate into an insect?

If this were on Approaching Science, they could probably make thirty episodes out of it.

There was nothing much to say about the other two Martial Souls among Tang Wutong's Triple Martial Souls: the hereditary anti-wolf Clear Sky Hammer, and her biological father's god-position Martial Soul. The issue lay with her first Martial Soul, the Light Goddess Butterfly.

A goddess? Light attribute? Able to fly? That was already enough to make people's imaginations run wild. Perhaps believers of the Sea God would consider it a miracle created through divine authority, but then why not give Tang Wulin a dragon-type Martial Soul later on? At the very least, it would have made absorbing the Golden Dragon King's essence much easier.

The original work never explained Angel God Qian Renxue's final fate. But with Tang Buddha's ruthless methods and duplicitous nature, would he really tolerate a powerful woman who had once ascended a godly throne remaining alive and secretly causing trouble on his Tang Family Continent? Many knowledgeable figures on the Douluo Continent believed that Qian Renxue, whose god-position had shattered, was most likely suppressed or imprisoned for life.

And Qian Renxue's scattered Angel God power naturally could not be allowed to benefit outsiders. It was highly possible that the Asura Sword Sheath had absorbed it, causing Tang Wutong's first Martial Soul to mutate into the Light Goddess Butterfly.

Research had long recorded that a child's Martial Soul would follow whichever parent possessed the higher-quality Martial Soul. Compared to the heaven-defying Blue Silver Emperor and the number one Tool Martial Soul, the Clear Sky Hammer, what was a mere rabbit—even a Soft Bone Rabbit—supposed to amount to?

So where had a Light Goddess Butterfly, capable of rivaling the Blue Silver Emperor and Clear Sky Hammer combined, come from? The former Angel God Qian Renxue, suppressed on Sea God Island, had something to say about that.

Thus, in Huo Yuhao's heart, he preferred to call Tang Wutong Tang Xuetong.

Mm, Tang San and Qian Renxue's little phoenix, carried by the Asura Sword Sheath. Hahahaha!

The former Angel God Qian Renxue, suppressed on Sea God Island, felt utterly cheated. She was clearly still a ten-thousand-year-old virgin, yet the Angel God power stolen from her had combined with Tang San to produce a child.

If it had been the love-struck Qian Renxue from before Dual Gods Battle Dual Gods, she might even have approved. But after being treated like this, who could say how she felt now...

Huo Yuhao's thoughts aligned with Bibi Dong's, so the empress in his consciousness was also looking at Wang Dong with an incomparably complicated gaze. If this girl truly was the union of Tang San and Xiao Wu's bloodline with Qian Renxue's divine power, then wouldn't she be the girl's grandmother...

"Don't think too much about it. No matter what her Martial Soul is like, she's still their daughter in essence." Huo Yuhao reminded Bibi Dong, lest her emotions become unstable.

"Xue'er... is she still alive?" No matter how strong Bibi Dong usually was, she had once been a mother. Thinking of Qian Renxue, who might have been suppressed for ten thousand years, tears streamed down her face. She crouched on the ground and began to sob.

"Don't worry. As long as she's alive, I'll definitely find a way to save her." Huo Yuhao sighed. His self-manifested Divine Sense in the Sea of Spirit sat beside Bibi Dong and comforted her.

If Qian Renxue was truly still alive, there was a ninety-percent chance she was imprisoned on Sea God Island. As the Sea God's inheritance site, it was naturally the place Tang San could interfere with most easily. Without sufficient strength, going there would only be walking into death.

"You need to speed up your cultivation. I'll create your fourth and fifth soul rings as quickly as possible according to the abilities you envisioned." Bibi Dong raised her head. This tragic woman's face was now filled with resolve. Even for her daughter's sake, she had to pull herself together!

"There's still too little time." Huo Yuhao fell silent. Since arriving in this world, aside from the years when he had no choice but to remain by his critically ill mother's side, he had been giving everything he had. From leveling the Ducal Palace, to leaving the Holy Spirit Cult a year later and arriving at Shrek, he had constantly cultivated, recruited people, and built his own team. He had even been willing to make use of an Evil Soul Master organization like the Holy Spirit Cult—all so that he could one day wrestle with God King Tang, far away in the God Realm.

"Unfortunately, in this life, I have to stay away from Wang Dong. The four Martial Soul Fusion Skills are out of the question, and I'll probably have to give up the support of Haodong Power as well." Huo Yuhao rose to his feet and sighed as he watched Wang Dong challenge the freshmen from afar.

In the original plot, Huo Hang had relied on the support of Haodong Power to cross the awkward early stage of cultivating an ultimate Martial Soul at the fastest speed and advance to higher realms.

But if Huo Yuhao came into close contact with Wang Dong in this life, his identity as the Son of Fortune might be exposed to God King Tang's surveillance. Even Bibi Dong's Rakshasa God Divine Sense within him would be in danger of exposure.

"Yuhao."

Just as Huo Yuhao was agonizing over how losing Haodong Power would affect his future, the newly composed Bibi Dong walked over to him.

"A Martial Soul fusion is essentially formed when both parties' Martial Souls completely complement and perfectly match each other. Though my physical body has perished and I no longer possess a Martial Soul, I can achieve the same thing by using divine power to connect with your Spiritual Power. You can call it spiritual fusion."

"Once we achieve spiritual fusion, your body will be able to contain Rakshasa Divine Power and use it to assist the circulation of Soul Power. With the double fusion, your cultivation speed won't be any worse than the Haodong Power from the original plot!"

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's try it right now!" Huo Yuhao was overjoyed. Bibi Dong's words were like finding a new village beyond the darkest mountains and deepest waters.

"This spiritual fusion is actually..." Bibi Dong's pretty face suddenly flushed. She stammered and refused to continue. Though she could use their spiritual connection to know Huo Yuhao's thoughts at any time, with her abilities, she could certainly cut off the connection one-sidedly and keep Huo Yuhao from understanding her own thoughts.

"Your Majesty, you gave me such an enormous surprise. Why won't you explain it now?" Huo Yuhao cried out in frustration.

"It's actually... divine, divine intercourse..."

This time, Bibi Dong's voice was as faint as a mosquito's buzz. Unfortunately, they were inside Huo Yuhao's Sea of Spirit, where he could hear even the faintest sound.

"Divine... intercourse?" Huo Yuhao's mind short-circuited for a moment, but with this lecher's quick reaction, he soon understood.

As Huo Yuhao's gaze gradually became suggestive, Bibi Dong irritably stepped forward and grabbed his ear. "Brat, don't get any ideas. I'm merely a lingering fragment of Divine Sense."

A lingering fragment of Divine Sense from a complete soul? Huo Yuhao could not help having a wicked thought.

"How about we give it a try?" Huo Yuhao spread his arms as if inviting an embrace.

"I really regret telling you!" Bibi Dong shot him an annoyed glare, though her expression looked incomparably alluring.

Thus, within a vast palace, a man and a woman stood facing each other. The woman could be seen approaching with slight hesitation, bending down to gently wrap her arms around the youth's waist. In the next instant, the youth grew into an adult's form and pulled her into his arms.

"Be gentler!" Bibi Dong's face flushed, seeming to reproach the youth for his roughness.

Huo Yuhao chuckled. His Spiritual Power naturally linked with Bibi Dong's divine power. Yet because their Divine Sense incarnations had not fully merged, only a small portion of their utterly different energies circulated between the two incarnations, quietly fusing into one.

You are within me, and I am within you.

After only a brief period of circulation, both of them felt refreshed and invigorated. It was obvious that if they fully merged at zero distance to cultivate, it would be much faster than maintaining this distance. Moreover, both of them could deeply sense that this was only the beginning. With Spiritual Power, Soul Power, and divine power fused so perfectly, what could they produce beyond merely cultivating together?

Only Bibi Dong knew the exact amount of Soul Power Huo Yuhao had truly accumulated: Soul Emperor.

As long as the two of them could maintain this wholehearted fused cultivation, Bibi Dong was even confident that Huo Yuhao could become a Titled Douluo before the age of eighteen. As for herself, she could restore her spiritual body to its peak state at the fastest possible rate.

"We succeeded! We really succeeded!" Huo Yuhao was as excited as a child, as though a toy he had lost had suddenly been found again.

Bibi Dong was held tightly in his arms. The pleasant sensation brought by their brief divine intercourse made her reluctant to leave this embrace, but in the end, she forcibly suppressed the ecstasy deep in her soul and smiled into Huo Yuhao's ear. "Then let this empress give this Divine Soul Fusion a name."

"Let's simply call it Haodong Power."

Following a certain reader's suggestion, Huo Hang's leveling cheat has been arranged. As for the upgraded version of Martial Soul Fusion Skills, the Divine Soul Fusion Skill, everyone can speculate about it later. I've made arrangements for it.