Heavenly Sun Douluo clearly hadn't expected Huo Yuhao to do this, but he didn't complain at all about Du Busi.
By the time Clone Huo Yuhao returned to the camp, Heavenly Sun Douluo had almost woken up.
Upon arriving at the command tent, Heavenly Sun Douluo's face was ashen. He looked at Huo Yuhao with a blank and incredulous expression.
Heavenly Sun Douluo said to Huo Yuhao, "Young friend Yuhao, why did you attack me?"
Huo Yuhao remained calm, looking at Heavenly Sun Douluo as if it were none of his business, and said, "When did I attack you? It was clearly Death God Douluo Ye Xishui who suddenly attacked, and her Soul Power pressure made you faint instantly."
"I ran for my life to save you, and that's how I escaped the range of Death God Douluo Ye Xishui and the others."
Heavenly Sun Douluo's pupils contracted, and he exclaimed in disbelief, " Death God Douluo, the leader of the Holy Spirit Cult? Ye Xishui?"
Huo Yuhao nodded calmly, then looked at the Body Douluo, Du Busi, and said, "That's right, the Old Poison can attest to that."
At this moment, Du Busi truly understood, because he could sense the true identity of the man in black who had saved him—it was most likely Huo Yuhao.
He immediately picked up the conversation and said to Heavenly Sun Douluo, "That's right, Yuhao is right. Something unexpected happened this time. Death God Douluo Ye Xishui, as Limit Douluo, actually discovered your trail at the scene and followed you all the way."
"Fortunately, there was a senior man in black, a Limit Douluo, who suppressed the Dragon Emperor Douluo Long Xiaoyao so much that he couldn't even raise his head. That's how I managed to survive. When he left with me, he wanted to meet up with you. It was only because of that Limit Douluo senior in black that we were able to escape this calamity."
Heavenly Sun Douluo listened to Du Busi's narration as if it were a story, clearly in a daze.
Huo Yuhao was also somewhat impressed by Du Busi. As expected of a thousand-year-old fox with ten-thousand-year-old cunning, someone who could become Titled Douluo must have accumulated enough cunning to fill a building to the top of a tower after cultivating for so long.
Heavenly Sun Douluo was still somewhat bewildered, completely taken aback by the rhetoric. He then asked in a daze, "So, our mission this time failed?"
Huo Yuhao shook his head and said, "No, this variable was actually mentioned by the black-clad Limit Douluo senior that Old Poison Master spoke of."
Heavenly Sun Douluo asked in confusion, "What makes you say that?"
Huo Yuhao began with a solemn expression, "That senior is unfathomable, possessing strength far exceeding that of ordinary Limit Douluo. Even Long Xiaoyao wouldn't dare say he could pose a threat to him."
"He first captured Ye Xishui, forced Long Xiaoyao to harm himself, and then our group was able to escape successfully thanks to that senior's help during that brief opening."
"That senior had already killed Xu Tianran before forcing Long Xiaoyao, so this plan can be considered quite successful."
Heavenly Sun Douluo showed a Sisi bitterness. "This assassination plan wasn't actually that successful, Yuhao. We still have a hidden, crucial mission that we haven't completed."
Huo Yuhao asked Heavenly Sun Douluo with a puzzled look, "Oh? What other plan could be more important than killing Xu Tianran?"
The sounds of Heavenly Sun Douluo and the others in front of the command tent had already been heard by Duke Dai Hao of the White Tiger Duke, who then stepped out of the tent.
He said to Huo Yuhao and the others, "This hidden key mission is really not honorable, which is why it's called a hidden key mission."
Huo Yuhao, feigning ignorance, asked Duke Dai Hao of the White Tiger Duke, "So what exactly is this hidden mission? Why have I never heard of it before?"
Duke Dai Hao of the White Tiger Duke said, " Yuhao, you are a young man. I don't know if you can tolerate this kind of thing, which is why I spoke to the two elders about this privately."
"I want to kidnap Xu Tianran's newborn child."
Huo Yuhao's voice turned extremely cold and stern. "Holding a newborn child hostage?"
Duke Dai Hao of the White Tiger Duke said, "That's right."
Huo Yuhao's voice, radiating a chilling aura, said, "Who came up with this plan?"
Duke Dai Hao of the White Tiger Duke said, "It was me who came up with this plan. The purpose is to use this child as leverage to return some territory of the Heavenly Soul Empire and to achieve certain necessary conditions."
Huo Yuhao sneered and said to Dai Hao, " The White Tiger Duke is truly clever, actually coming up with such a despicable method to kidnap a newborn child. You know that child was just born."
White Tiger Duke Dai Hao of the White Tiger sighed and said, " Yuhao, war can be so cruel sometimes. Even a child, if they pose a threat to us, can force us to do something we don't want to do."
Huo Yuhao chuckled, "Helpless? Bullshit! We are indeed in dire straits with the Sun Moon Empire, but that only applies to Xu Tianran. My sole purpose is to kill Xu Tianran. Otherwise, why do you think I would discuss this matter with the two princesses?"
Why did I want to assassinate Xu Tianran alone?
"It's all because of Xu Tianran's incompetence and tyranny that I wanted to fight to avert some war between the Heavenly Soul Empire and the Star Luo Empire."
"However, what can a newborn child understand about the filthy things you vile people come up with?"
Do you know how terrified a newborn child is when they lose their mother? How painful it is for a mother to lose the baby she gave birth to, a child she considered the price of her life?
Seeing Huo Yuhao's excited state, White Tiger Duke tried to calm Huo Yuhao down, saying, " Yuhao, calm down."
Huo Yuhao glared at White Tiger Duke and said to him:
"Calm down my ass! All you can do now is spout high-sounding platitudes. War? Can a child be sacrificed? He was just born! No matter whose child it is, he was just born! How could you possibly want to do such a thing?"
"Don't you have any family? Have you ever cared about your family? I know what it feels like to lose family, do you know that, White Tiger Duke?"
"Is that so? You didn't even know someone in your family died? Don't come here and judge me."
White Tiger Duke Dai Hao of the White Tiger was speechless in the face of the rebuttal, because, indeed, he truly did not know that someone in his own family had died. He was too busy and had no time to care about such things. It was precisely because of this that he only found out that Huo Yun'er was dead when he returned.
Huo Yuhao said sarcastically, "Only a despicable person would think of such a thing."
"Is it true that you don't care about your children, White Tiger Duke, Dai Yueheng and Dai Huabin, and would kill them if you wanted to? What do you consider your relatives and family to be?"
P. S.: Heavenly Sun really does seem to be making a desperate gamble, the kind of person who wants to go all in, thinking that taking hostages will guarantee victory. But whether it's Huo Yuhao in his previous life or this one, he would never say anything about watching a child being used as a tool of war by these adults.