["Your presence... why wasn't your level reset to zero?"
Huo Yuhao asked hesitantly.
He and the others had been forcibly drawn into the Qiankun Asking Love Valley, but before anything had even begun, a mysterious voice had suddenly sounded.
At the same time, it had reset everyone's levels to zero and released them.
"Who said mine wasn't reset? Couldn't I have cultivated back to this level?"
Ye Xiao snorted, looking mockingly at the Shrek dream team before him.
His cheat was better suited to keeping his head down and developing, so he didn't have much to do with these people.
"Are you kidding me?"
Wang Dong knitted her delicate brows, her face full of displeasure.
Ye Xiao hadn't hidden his strength, and the pressure he exuded had made the hearts of the Shrek group skip a beat the moment they met!
With such might, he claimed he had cultivated back to this level?
Who would believe that?!
"A joke? Why would I need to joke with you?"
The amusement gradually faded from Ye Xiao's face, and a chill entered his eyes.
True, his relationship with this group wasn't much to speak of, but his relationship with Tang San was another story!
"Dong'er, be careful!"
Sensing the change in Ye Xiao's expression, Huo Yuhao's face changed dramatically. He stepped in front of Wang Dong.
Though his level had fallen to zero and all the Soul Bones and Soul Spirits in his body had dispersed, for Dong'er's sake, he would stop whoever stood in his way!
"Yuhao~"
Wang Dong gazed at Huo Yuhao, her tenderness flowing like water.]
"Wutong... her soul was split into three?"
Xiao Wu, who had also been sealed away, murmured as she watched the sky screen.
Her mind reeled!
"Tang San!"
"How could your heart be so cruel?!"
"You split Xiao Qi into three just to seize Douluo's destiny?"
Destruction demanded sharply. He had seen through what this little bastard was thinking at a glance!
One soul fragment had taken over the Auspicious Beast's body, while another had been bound to the child of destiny...
No wonder the sky screen had come home to mete out punishment. Tang San, as a god, you were bleeding a lower plane dry!
["Huo Yuhao, if I were you, I'd have killed myself the moment I met Wang Dong."
"But I can't be bothered wasting words on you, and you aren't worthy of hearing them."
Ye Xiao slowly shook his head and set Ye Guyi down. The two stood side by side.
"Wang Qiu'er, do you still remember who you are?"
Ye Xiao turned to look at Wang Qiu'er, whose expression was shifting between light and dark.
With everyone's levels reset to zero, the Auspicious Beast's consciousness within Wang Qiu'er had begun to awaken!
"I am..."
"I am..."
Wang Qiu'er clutched her head in agony as two consciousnesses fought a brutal, blow-for-blow battle in her Sea of Consciousness!
"Everyone, my only targets are Wang Dong and Wang Qiu'er. I ask anyone else uninvolved to step aside."
"Otherwise, don't blame me for showing no mercy with my sword~"
Ye Xiao summoned the Epiphyllum Sword and flourished it beautifully.
"Impossible!"
"Dong'er and I are the best of sisters!"
Xiao Xiao gritted her teeth and stepped straight to Wang Dong's side.
Right behind her, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan also stepped forward!
"Sorry, everyone. Our relationship as classmates ends here."
Ning Tian nodded apologetically and pulled Wu Feng back without hesitation.
As she saw it, this bunch of assholes had all gone fucking crazy. After so many years of history, hadn't they learned a thing about how overwhelmingly Soul Masters could suppress ordinary people?
If they wanted to court death, she wasn't going to join them!
"Why are you so determined to court death?"
Ye Xiao frowned slightly, and icy sword Qi instantly swirled around him!
"I'm withdrawing too!"
Just as Ye Xiao was poised to strike, a certain burly, bald, dark-skinned man could no longer bear the pressure and hurriedly shouted, under Xiao Xiao's disbelieving gaze!
"Too late!"
Ye Xiao gave a soft shout, and the icy sword Qi turned into cold light that poured toward the group in an instant!
He Caitou was the first to bear the brunt!
"Aah!!!"
None of the others made a sound. All were struck into a bloody escape and vanished into the air!
The shrill scream had come from Wang Dong, whose face was filled with disbelief!
Some distance away in the Asking Love Valley, Ning Tian heard the scream. Without looking back, she pulled Wu Feng along and picked up speed!
"And you?"
Ye Xiao dispersed the icy swords, and the pattern of a pure flower of ice and snow appeared beneath his feet.
"Did you kill them all?"
Huo Yuhao asked in a trembling voice, staring at Ye Xiao in disbelief.
They had all been his closest companions, bringing him the warmth of a real family...
And yet, beneath that single sword strike...
"Since you kept Great God King Tang's eyes off me for a few years, I'll give you one last choice: get lost or die here?"
Ye Xiao shrugged noncommittally.
Facing him, only Huo Yuhao remained, his eyes bloodshot; Wang Dong, pale-faced but gritting her teeth as she stared stubbornly at him; and Wang Qiu'er, who had rolled her eyes back and dropped onto her backside.
"I've lost everything!!!"
Huo Yuhao let out a hoarse roar.
Tian Meng, the Ice King, the Snow God Ape, Electrolux-all these companions had lost consciousness and dispersed because of the sudden plunge in his level!
His classmates, who had been like family to him, had also died beneath Ye Xiao's sword!
And now Ye Xiao wanted to kill his Dong'er too?
"I won't allow it!"
"Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon!"
"Even if I die, I'll die before Dong'er does!"
Huo Yuhao yelled and rushed toward Ye Xiao at a jog!
"Yuhao!"
Wang Dong clenched her teeth and took out a large pink hammer.
How could she watch Huo Yuhao face an enemy he couldn't possibly contend with alone?!
"Huo Yuhao!"
"Your mother is watching you from heaven in disappointment~"
Ye Xiao raised a brow and moved to Huo Yuhao's side like a ghost. Shaking his head, he patted Huo Yuhao on the shoulder.
The next moment, Huo Yuhao's eyes flew wide, and every bone in his body shattered!
"Tang San really does have a knack for training dogs. He can even make a dog forget who he is."
Ye Xiao gently raised his other hand, forming a sword with his fingers to block Wang Dong's hammer.
"You can't blame anyone else. This puppy's leash really is touching~"
Wang Dong's eyes widened, her arms fell limply to her sides, and her Martial Soul dispersed in an instant. Ye Xiao held her aloft by the throat.
"Huo Yuhao, can you still dream of that child who once swore to avenge his mother?"
Ye Xiao stared at Wang Dong with an indifferent gaze and slowly spoke.
Behind him, Huo Yuhao opened his mouth with a rasp, and the light faded from his eyes.
"Rather than becoming Dai Yuhao, perhaps dying here isn't such a bad ending for you?"
Ye Xiao had no need to turn around. He could feel Huo Yuhao's life slipping away.]
"Kill him!"
"I'll take full responsibility!"
The White Tiger Duke's Mansion, Star Luo Empire.
The duchess kicked Huo Yun'er in the chest and looked coldly at Dai Yuhao, who was crying and begging her not to.
If Ye Xiao hadn't spoken on the sky screen, she wouldn't even have known that Huo Yuhao was this little bastard!
Huo and Dai made it obvious!
Since he was the child of destiny, she couldn't let him live!