Huo Yuhao looked speechlessly at this cheap-acting Ten Thousand Demon King, as if looking in a mirror.
In fact, it wasn't just the Ten Thousand Demon King; the Ice Empress was also tempted. Out of pride, she just didn't show it as bluntly as the Ten Thousand Demon King.
In the eight months at the academy, Electrolux had been holed up in Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea researching the soul spirits he had mentioned. Although there had been no experiments, as long as the soul beast side was willing to cooperate absolutely, with the support of the Rakshasa divine power, he was very confident in transforming a contracted ferocious beast into a soul spirit.
But the most urgent task now was to save Zhongli Yu.
"She is just a pure evil soul master. Her existence will surely make you stand on the opposite side of the public. You still want to save her?" Gu Yuena just casually used her spiritual power to check on the dying Zhongli Yu and said with disgust.
Huo Yuhao shook his head upon hearing this, recalling the bits and pieces of their time in the Holy Ghost Cult in his mind. He smiled and said, "I don't care about the result you speak of. I also refused at first, but no matter how evil a person is, deep in their heart, there must be a pure land reserved for someone. I am very honored to be the only person on that pure land in her heart."
Listening to Huo Yuhao's words, Bibi Dong at the side couldn't help but fall into past memories. The complex colors in her beautiful eyes also showed the unrest in her heart.
"In this world, be it good or evil, strength is what's revered. Why should you and I be constrained by the views of the world?" Huo Yuhao stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze deep as he looked into the distance.
"It was I who was presumptuous," Gu Yuena nodded as if she had felt something. She suddenly felt that this Son of Fortune before her was not so annoying after all. At the very least, he was not pretentious.
Zhongli Yu's injuries were too severe. Most of her body's functions had already stopped. Even if a Titled Douluo-level Nineheart Begonia martial soul soul master were here, it would be very difficult to save her.
What the Ten Thousand Demon King could do was only to use its wood-attribute soul power to maintain a thread of her life, and only after returning to the Star Dou Great Forest and troubling Bi Ji to take action would there be a possibility of saving her.
Gu Yuena also took action to rescue Zhongli Yu. The Silver Dragon King controlled the power of creation and could reignite Zhongli Yu's flame of life to the greatest extent.
Huo Yuhao moved to the side. Even though his heart was anxious, he was helpless.
About two hours passed. The Ten Thousand Demon King and Gu Yuena, one after the other, withdrew the soul power acting on Zhongli Yu's body.
"How is she?" Huo Yuhao hurriedly came over and asked.
"Her martial soul is ultimately evil. She must have devoured too many resentful souls in the past to improve her strength. These negative energies are constantly backlashing against her. Even with my intervention, I can only maintain the status quo."
Gu Yuena withdrew her palm and shook her head at Huo Yuhao. It wasn't that she was unwilling to treat her, but as an evil soul master, the slaughter Zhongli Yu had committed was now giving her its karmic retribution at the end.
This was the fate of an evil soul master!
Huo Yuhao's little face instantly turned deathly pale. He would rather not have any ferocious beast become his soul spirit and would hope for Zhongli Yu to be safe and sound!
"Is there no other way?" Seeing Huo Yuhao's lost and dejected appearance, Bibi Dong's heart couldn't bear it, and she asked sharply.
She was also a god of ultimate yin and evil. She was not at all skilled in the area of healing.
Gu Yuena shook her head at her. "I can teleport everyone back to Star Dou right now and ask Bi Ji to treat her, but I can assert that she will have the same conclusion as me."
"Ah!"
Huo Yuhao could no longer control his emotions. He slammed his fist on the ground and roared in pain. The joy of just obtaining his fourth soul ring was also completely washed away.
Even the future Life God-King had said so. Then wouldn't Zhongli Yu truly die this time?
One must know, there was no Yearning Heartbroken Red, the holy grass of healing from the original novel, here! Even if there was, the playboy Huo Yuhao would definitely not get its recognition.
Just when everyone was at a loss, the Ten Thousand Demon King blinked its eyes, looked at Huo Yuhao with fear, and had a look of wanting to speak but hesitating.
"If you have something to say, say it!" Huo Yuhao had been staring at him fiercely and roared irritably. If not for this guy messing things up and forcing them to intervene, how would Zhongli Yu have been so heavily injured?
"I can transfer her injuries to you. This way, she can return to the state she was in before she was injured. This is also the only way to save her at present," the Ten Thousand Demon King said weakly.
"Pah! What kind of crooked trick is this? Are you deliberately trying to kill Yuhao?" Bibi Dong was the first to object and immediately rejected this method.
"He should be fine. I have a way to make him recover as soon as possible," the Ten Thousand Demon King cautiously glanced at Gu Yuena beside it. "It's just that to carry out this plan, there is one condition."
Huo Yuhao did not look up, and the expression hidden under his bangs could not be seen. "What is the condition?"
"Yuhao, don't be impulsive," the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm placed a hand on his shoulder. This operation was simply too incredible. Even it was not optimistic about the feasibility of this plan.
"As the big bug just told me and the Ice Empress, first I have to become your martial soul and soul ring, only then can you obtain this self-sacrificing ability of mine," the Ten Thousand Demon King continued to explain. "Your second martial soul is an ice-attribute martial soul. I can change it to a wood attribute, but this way you won't have an ultimate ice martial soul in the future."
Hearing this, Huo Yuhao let out a light laugh and shook his head. "If ultimate ice cannot save the person I cherish, then what use do I have for this ultimate ice?"
The moment these words were spoken, Gu Yuena and the Ice Empress were both moved. One must know, the Ice Empress's ultimate ice martial soul was far superior to the ordinary wood attribute of the Demon Eye Demon Tree.
The reason the Ten Thousand Demon King could rank fifth among the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts was entirely because of its importance to the Star Dou Great Forest and its 530,000-year cultivation.
"Have you decided?" Bibi Dong came to Huo Yuhao's side and asked softly.
"If it were you lying here now, I think I would still do the same," Huo Yuhao looked up at the distant horizon, then turned his gaze back to Bibi Dong and said softly.
Bibi Dong was silent. The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was silent. The Ice Empress and Gu Yuena were also silent. From another perspective, Huo Yuhao might be promiscuous, but he was undeniably good to the women he cared about.
"Don't think I'm that useless, okay?" the Ten Thousand Demon King was displeased. "Do you really think my wood attribute is inferior to the Ice Empress's ultimate ice? My wood attribute has been improved by that Immortal Spirit Grass! Once Brother Hao fuses with my spiritual origin, I can let him have an Immortal Physique!"
"Immortal Physique?" Huo Yuhao's mouth gaped in astonishment. This was the first time he had heard the term "immortal" in this fantasy world of Douluo. At the side, Gu Yuena had no choice but to explain, "When the Ten Thousand Demon King was born, an immortal grass was born alongside it. It is said that it was something dropped by a great power from another plane who passed by Douluo by accident. The Ten Thousand Demon King eventually devoured it and thus underwent a mutation, finally becoming one of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts."
Huo Yuhao couldn't help but recall the description of the Ten Thousand Demon King in the original novel. The Immortal Spirit Grass was naturally intelligent. From the moment it began to grow, it possessed an intelligence comparable to that of an ordinary soul beast. After continuous growth, it would quickly become strong. But likewise, it itself also had extremely high nutrients. For all soul beasts and human soul masters, it was a great supplement.
"As a human, after absorbing the origin of the Ten Thousand Demon King, you can obtain the body of an immortal," Gu Yuena continued. "Although I don't wish for the Ten Thousand Demon King to become your martial soul, as it is the king of the plants of Star Dou, it has also suffered such a heavy blow and will absolutely not be able to survive the next great limit. It's better to just let you have it."
"The body of an immortal possesses a powerful self-healing ability. I think this woman's mere fatal injury should be nothing to you."
"A mere fatal injury..." Huo Yuhao's head was full of black lines. But he had no choice now. He shouldered the expectations of Bibi Dong, Brother Tianmeng, and Electrolux and shouldn't have taken the risk. But if he didn't do this now, when he had the ability to bear this injury, he would regret it for the rest of his life.
"Come on, Ten Thousand Demon King."
Huo Yuhao made his decision, stood up resolutely, and faced this object he should have hated.
The Ice Empress at the side, seeing this, seemed not to have reacted. Originally, she was the one to be chosen by this Son of Fortune, Huo Yuhao, as his second martial soul. Why, after several twists and turns, did the object change from herself to this tree? She couldn't help but point at herself, as if asking: What about me? What about me?
Ever since seeing hope in Huo Yuhao, even if the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm set her free now, she wouldn't leave no matter what. Still that same sentence: isn't becoming a god fragrant?
"Uh..." At the side, Electrolux seemed to have seen through the Ice Empress's thoughts. He stroked the beard on his chin. "Since the Ten Thousand Demon King will be Yuhao's second martial soul, why doesn't the Ice Empress directly become the released entity of the third martial soul I bestowed upon Yuhao, the Soul-Slaying Blade?"
A few people listened in a fog. After all, Electrolux came from another plane, so it was reasonable that his language was incomprehensible.
"Yuhao, as you've seen, Her Majesty gave me her Rakshasa Scythe to reforge into your martial soul's affiliated weapon, but its power has always been in a state of restraint. This led to Her Majesty being able to restore it to its original scythe form with just a slight move. If we can integrate the Ice Empress's origin force into it this time, to bring the Soul-Slaying Blade to a state of sublimation, then it can be released into a stronger, brand-new weapon," Electrolux explained to Huo Yuhao.
Released Soul-Slaying Blade? Huo Yuhao pulled out the purple scythe from his back. After being used by the possessed Rakshasa God Bibi Dong, it had changed back to its original form. To reforge it back to the original great-blade, it would probably take some time.
Then what Huo Yuhao needed to do now was completely clear. One was to turn the Ten Thousand Demon King into his own martial soul, so as to be able to transfer Zhongli Yu's injuries and achieve the effect of saving her; the second was to let Old Yi have free rein, to integrate the Ice Empress into his third martial soul, allowing it to obtain the power of release.
"There's no time to lose. Let's begin then," Huo Yuhao took a deep breath, a look of determination on his face as he spoke.
"Human, I ask you one last time. Are you truly willing to withstand the pressure of the universe's laws for my soul beast lineage in the future and help us become gods?" Gu Yuena suddenly spoke up, stopping the few who were about to act. Her face was serious as she looked at Huo Yuhao, as if making a final confirmation.
Seeing this, a look of displeasure appeared on Bibi Dong's face. How can this Silver Dragon King be so naggy? For some reason, she was just inexplicably annoyed with this common lord of soul beasts.
Huo Yuhao naturally saw her hesitation. After all, he was about to take away two kings from the soul beast lineage. He raised a hand and said in a deep voice, "Before the previous generation's Dragon God, I, Huo Yuhao, swear in the name of the contractor of two great ferocious beasts, if I deceive the Silver Dragon King and am unwilling to fight against the laws of the universe for the soul beast lineage in the future, may everything that belongs to them be stripped away by the heavens and the earth."
Seeing Huo Yuhao swear an oath before the previous generation's Dragon God, the Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena's face looked much better. But she never expected that this shameless fellow's next sentence would almost make her lose control of her emotions.
"When the time comes, I, Huo Yuhao, will help Gu Yuena become the Dragon God again and marry into the Dragon Clan to be her man!"
Thump!
What greeted Huo Yuhao's face was the pink fists of both Bibi Dong and Gu Yuena. His face even caved in directly.
Younger sister-in-law is pretty good, isn't she? Younger sister-in-law is great, isn't she? Besides, if there's no younger brother in the future, is she still a younger sister-in-law?
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TLNote: The chapter title is a humorous reference. From Huo Yuhao's future knowledge, Gu Yuena becomes his de facto younger brother's (Tang Wulin) wife, making her his "younger sister-in-law" (弟妹 - dìmèi). The title is a playful, admiring comment on her.