"It's no trouble, no trouble at all."
"It's just that Yuhao will definitely misunderstand me because of this."
"Remember to save a record of this scene. You can show it to Yuhao later and clear up the misunderstanding."
Dai Lingfeng knew full well how important it was to leave a paper trail at work.
He was happily playing the villain now,
but when the time came, Huo Yuhao might not believe him if he said he had been forced into it.
He had to preserve the evidence!
He had been forced into it too.
"Don't worry about that. I'll not only preserve the evidence, but also testify for you and prove your innocence."
"Just bear with it for now. Thanks for the effort."
Dai Mubai agreed at once.
They were both his descendants, and he didn't want to see the two youngsters truly turn against each other.
Besides, once such an outstanding pair of brothers
grew up,
his own standing would rise with the tide!
When that happened...
Tang San wouldn't be able to call him Mubai anymore. He'd have to call him Boss Dai!
And he wouldn't be able to call Tang San by name anymore. He'd have to call him Little Scumbag!
Dai Mubai's imagination ran wild.
Dai Lingfeng and Huo Yuhao were a pair of dragon-and-tiger brothers who really delivered. The older brother had the White Tiger and Hell Spirit Cat as Twin Martial Souls, and the younger brother was a child of destiny!
People said a mother rose in status through her children,
and he, their ancestor, could also rely on his descendants to make him proud!
"Then I'm relieved!"
Dai Lingfeng smiled in relief, as though a heavy burden had been lifted from his shoulders.
Of course, he wasn't relieved about clearing his name,
but about being able to play the villain properly and torment Huo Yuhao mercilessly!
With Dai Mubai backing him up,
he, the older brother, truly had no choice!
It was all the fault of that innately evil Tang San!
"Get lost!"
"You trash with only level-one Innate Soul Power!"
"Your Martial Soul isn't even a White Tiger."
"You're not qualified to be my little brother. From now on, you're not allowed to say you're my little brother!"
Dai Lingfeng gave an arrogant, cold snort.
He even unleashed the pressure of his Soul Power. A wave of suppression surged out, shaking Huo Yuhao back several steps.
"What?!"
Huo Yuhao felt as though he had been struck by lightning. His eyes widened, his pupils going unfocused for an instant. His head swam, and everything before him felt unreal.
This is a dream, isn't it?
This has to be a nightmare!
His brother would never act like this!
"How could this be?!"
Tears blurred Huo Yuhao's eyes.
He had never imagined anything like this. He couldn't believe that the brother who had once cared for him had become like this,
and even thought it was a nightmare, an illusion.
But reality was cruel.
The pressure from Dai Lingfeng's overbearing Soul Power hurt more than Dai Huabin's had just now.
"Lingfeng!"
"Yuhao!"
Huo Yun'er covered her mouth, not daring to speak.
She didn't understand why her son, who had always been so obedient and sensible, had become like this either.
But after Dai Lingfeng awakened his Martial Soul and became a Soul Master, their social standing was already as far apart as heaven and earth.
Especially with Dai Lingfeng being so cold,
Huo Yun'er felt terribly inferior before him. Just as she had countless times before when facing powerful Soul Masters, she humbled herself into the dust.
She didn't dare put on the slightest airs as his mother.
"Hmph."
"Did you hear that? I don't have a son like you!"
"And Lingfeng doesn't have a little brother like you either!"
"Don't go around saying such things again."
Dai Hao, eager to show himself off, also seized the chance to throw stones at someone who had fallen into a well, harshly scolding Huo Yuhao.
As for Huo Yuhao and his mother,
he barely remembered them.
And as for love,
it was entirely Huo Yun'er's own one-sided wishful thinking. Dai Hao didn't even remember that a person named Huo Yun'er existed.
How had the Huo Yuhao brothers come to be?
You'd have to ask Dai Mubai and Tang San about that. It was probably the work of those two old things.
"I heard you."
Huo Yuhao lowered his head, tears pattering onto the ground. He struggled not to sob aloud and make too ugly a sight of himself.
He clenched his teeth and balled his fists so tightly that his nails dug into his flesh, as though the pain could make him forget the humiliation he was suffering.
"Yuhao!"
Huo Yun'er hugged Huo Yuhao, her heart aching for him. Her own heart felt as though it were being cut by a knife, and she didn't know how to comfort her son.
"Lingfeng, shall we go?"
Dai Hao came over to Dai Lingfeng and bent slightly as he asked.
Damn it,
what a snobbish little man!
Looking at Dai Hao's fawning smile, Dai Lingfeng felt a wave of disgust and irritation.
He was playing the villain because Dai Mubai and Tang San had forced him to.
He had no choice.
But this old fellow was evil through and through!
In the original plot, Dai Hao had even ascended to the Divine Realm in the end and become a winner in life.
But with Dai Lingfeng here, this old thing could still ascend to the Divine Realm-he'd just have to change his surname to Huo!
Huo Hao!
"Let's go."
Dai Lingfeng reined in his emotions as he answered Dai Hao.
After hearing his words,
the White Tiger clan leader and Dai Hao immediately cleared the way for him. The three promptly left Huo Yuhao and his mother's residence and strode away.
"Yuhao, don't hate your brother..."
Huo Yun'er could do nothing but cry.
"He's not my brother."
"I'm just trash with level-one Innate Soul Power. How could I be worthy of being his little brother?"
"Mom, from now on, the two of us will rely on each other."
"Dai Lingfeng is above our station!"
Huo Yuhao smiled bitterly, feeling utterly inferior.
It was true!
His brother was so illustrious now that even the clan leader and Dai Hao obeyed his every word.
Little people like him and his mother would only bring shame on his brother!
"Yuhao, having you is enough for me."
Huo Yun'er cried even harder, but there was something a little strange about her emotions.
If a Limit Douluo had been present,
he would certainly have noticed something was off.
She was too much like an NPC!
It was as though Huo Yun'er existed solely to mechanically play up her misery with Huo Yuhao...
"Come, Yuhao, don't be sad. I'll tell you the story of our ancestor Tang San."
"Our ancestor Tang San was a very great man..."
Huo Yun'er cried a little longer, then wiped away her tears and began telling Huo Yuhao a story to cover up her sorrow.
Young Huo Yuhao had only this one form of entertainment. He was soon absorbed in it and gradually forgot his sorrow.
The Divine Realm.
"Mubai, this descendant of yours is quite good."
God King Tang San was watching the lower realm. After taking in all of Dai Lingfeng's reactions, he made the remark mildly.
"Yes, he's very sensible. I've already given him his instructions."
Dai Mubai spoke up hurriedly.
What he meant was
that Dai Lingfeng would be very obedient and wouldn't ruin God King Tang's ten-thousand-year plan,
so Tang San needn't worry.
"Is that so?"
Tang San fell into thought.
He hadn't expected the child of destiny's older brother to be so heaven-defying too, with the White Tiger and Hell Spirit Cat as Twin Martial Souls!
It was an unexpected windfall!
The Dai and Zhu families had intermarried for ten thousand years,
and they'd finally pulled an SSR!
Didn't that mean Dai Lingfeng might be able to use the Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill all by himself?
The Hell White Tiger was the Shrek Seven Devils' trump card!
No,
wouldn't it be far too much of a waste to really leave a little genius like this to Dai Mubai?
He had to bring him under his own command!
Huo Yuhao and Dai Lingfeng-
Tang San wanted them both!
Only children made choices!
But he had already claimed Huo Yuhao. If he claimed Dai Lingfeng too, wouldn't he look too greedy?
Would he drive Dai Mubai to leap over the wall like a cornered dog?
Tang San was a man who cared a great deal about saving face.
At a time like this, he could only rely on his daughter to fall in love freely.
What?
He only had one daughter, so how would she be shared between the brothers?
Don't worry about that...