Although Huo Yuhao's escape speed was very fast, he was far from having escaped this range.
When this strange spiritual fluctuation landed on him, he only felt the Evil Eye soul bone in his storage soul tool heat up slightly.
This is bad! Huo Yuhao immediately realized something was wrong.
The Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord was certainly unable to find the place where his son had died all at once, but through this spiritual call, it could find the soul fluctuation of the hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant.
Without any thought, Huo Yuhao's third soul ring instantly lit up.
In the very next instant, the huge blood-red eye in the sky was as if it had activated refraction. A blood-red pillar of light with a diameter of a hundred meters suddenly refracted down from a height of a thousand meters.
In a certain part of the Evildemon Forest, or rather, a certain place where Huo Yuhao had been before, a huge mushroom cloud instantly rose.
If one could overlook it from a high altitude, one would see that in the vast area of the Evildemon Forest, a region had suddenly turned blood-red. The originally dark green forest in the area had just melted away... in the true sense of not a single blade of grass being left! In the place that had been bombarded by the terrifying red light, for the next month, no soul beast would dare to approach.
The red light in the sky gradually faded, and the blood light converged, falling back to the core of the Evildemon Forest. A thick sense of sorrow then emanated from that place. The powerful emotional fluctuation seemed to infect the entire great forest, and countless soul beasts growing here couldn't help but shed tears.
In the Kamui space, Huo Yuhao's somewhat shabby figure appeared in Ju Zi's field of vision. He supported himself with one hand on his Soul-Slaying Blade, his face incomparably pale, panting heavily.
In this life, he did not have the head soul bone given to him by the Emperor Destiny Beast, so he naturally did not have the skill of spiritual immunity. If he had been directly hit by the Evil Emperor's move, he would have been silently evaporated from this world.
"Yuhao!" Ju Zi hurriedly ran over to support him. In the previous battle, because Huo Yuhao had opened the observation perspective of the Kamui space, Ju Zi could see his battle from inside.
The enemy Huo Yuhao had faced was strong to that extent, yet he had still won. In the end, he had even successfully escaped from the Evil Emperor's wrath. How many people in the world could do that? One must know, the martial soul of Huo Yuhao with the most soul rings still only had four rings!
"I'm fine, just a bit drained," Huo Yuhao waved his hand at her. Liberating the Soul-Slaying Blade was undoubtedly a terrifying consumption for him now. His remaining soul power was only just enough to open the Kamui space. At the same time, he had also completely recovered to the body age of his original timeline.
The effect of Shi Xing's ninth soul skill, Time Reversal, on him was already minimal. At most, if he insisted for one more day, he would probably have to return to the original timeline and thus bid farewell to Ju Zi.
Looking at the incomparably handsome white-haired youth before her, Ju Zi couldn't help but purse her lips. "Yuhao, you are not an ordinary person, are you?"
Huo Yuhao hadn't expected her to ask this. He was stunned for a moment, then silently nodded. He really didn't want to lie to her.
"Actually, I am not a person of this time. If I said I came from the future, would you believe me?"
Listening to his words, Ju Zi's beautiful eyes gradually dimmed. "Are you leaving? Are you deliberately coaxing me like this?"
Huo Yuhao was at a loss for whether to laugh or cry. Looking at Little Orange's wronged appearance, he was suddenly overcome with a playful impulse. He stretched out his hand and pinched her tender little cheek.
"How could I be willing to? You should call me 'big brother' now."
"Clearly you're still a little brother!" Ju Zi pouted, throw away his hand with dissatisfaction, and said proudly.
"Alright, it's getting late. We should go back," Huo Yuhao raised his head to look at the gradually slanting sun and began to sense the Kamui coordinate he had left in front of the restaurant.
Huo Yuhao's consumption was by no means small. The coordinate that could originally be sensed in a moment, he had spent a full half an hour on.
Ju Zi just sat quietly in front of him, carefully studying the appearance of the future Huo Yuhao, as if she wanted to completely engrave this face deep in her mind.
"Found it! Let's go home!" Huo Yuhao's eyes suddenly lit up. He immediately stretched out his finger and placed it on his forehead. The Kamui space immediately began to transfer. The heavens and the earth around them were in a state of chaos. The next moment, they were back in front of the restaurant's main door.
Using his soul skill once again, Huo Yuhao only felt the world spin. His spiritual power was almost exhausted, and his soul power was even more over-consumed. He was not a person of this timeline and could not recover his soul power and spiritual power in this timeline.
Even the head soul bone obtained from hunting the Evil Eye Tyrant could not be taken away.
That was why Huo Yuhao had chosen to turn the hundred-thousand-year soul ring into nourishment for his fifth soul ring before, instead of using the Immortal Spirit Wood to absorb and supplement his soul power.
"Yuhao, not good!" Just as Huo Yuhao was preparing to take Ju Zi and leave the Kamui space, Ju Zi suddenly grabbed his hand, her beautiful eyes looking towards the direction of the restaurant.
Huo Yuhao followed her gaze and saw that the originally beautifully decorated main door of the restaurant was half-shattered. There were even traces of a fight inside the restaurant. Tables, chairs, and benches were all overturned.
The hearts of the two sank. Huo Yuhao hurriedly opened the Kamui space and took Ju Zi out. The moment they left the Kamui space, Ju Zi rushed into the restaurant without stopping.
"Dad! Mom!"
Ju Zi shouted anxiously along the way, as if expecting her parents' response.
Huo Yuhao was faster than her. With one stride, he rushed into the back kitchen of the restaurant.
Various kitchen utensils were on the floor. Pots, bowls, and ladles were everywhere. There were also dried soup stains remaining on the ground. As far as the eye could see, it was a complete mess.
Recalling the description of Ju Zi's life in the original novel, Huo Yuhao's heart couldn't help but skip a beat. He hadn't expected this day to come so quickly.
Ju Zi had already come down from upstairs. Her beautiful large eyes were now completely red. It was clear she had not found any trace of her parents upstairs.
"Let's go out and see."
Huo Yuhao gritted his teeth, his face pale. He turned around and rushed out of the restaurant. He now didn't even have much soul power to use his simulation ability to return to his child form.
Ju Zi followed behind him, lost and at a loss. It wasn't just their family's restaurant; many private houses in the town had traces of having been fought in.
What on earth happened? Ju Zi's tears fell uncontrollably. No matter how strong the future her was, right now she was still just a nine-year-old little girl!
The once-prosperous small town was now a sheet of desolation. Huo Yuhao and the other finally, after running to more than ten houses, saw a living person.
The remaining townspeople were mostly women. Just this noon, the empire's conscription team had entered the small town and, without a word, had taken away all the age-appropriate men in the town. For this, they had even fought fiercely and forcibly taken the people away.
Precisely because of this, what was left in the town now was only this group of old, weak, women, and children.
Ju Zi's mother, because of her husband's leaving, had had a conflict with the conscription team and had been beaten up. She was now lying in the town's only clinic, being rescued.
The original text recorded that when Ju Zi was twelve, Lihua had fallen seriously ill due to excessive grief. Three years after Huang Bin had left, she had also left Ju Zi.
Learning this news, Ju Zi's mind went completely blank. Then she rushed towards the clinic without any regard.
Huo Yuhao followed behind her. Soon, the two arrived at the town's only clinic. At this time, the clinic was full of people lying down. Ju Zi searched for a long time before she found Lihua on a crowded sickbed.
"Mom!" Ju Zi cried out in pain and threw herself at Lihua's bedside. Huo Yuhao at the side could tell at a glance that Lihua had fallen into a deep coma. Seeing the thick gauze wrapped around her head, he figured she had been fiercely smashed on the head with something.
The reason why Lihua had passed away not long after was likely greatly related to the serious internal injuries she had suffered this time.
No matter how Ju Zi called, in her current state, Lihua could not possibly give her any response. Huo Yuhao pulled her into his arms, letting her hold onto him and cry her heart out.
Huo Yuhao was not a healing-type soul master. Even if his Immortal Spirit Wood martial soul had a certain ability to transmit life energy, with his soul power almost exhausted now, he was naturally helpless.
Huo Yuhao couldn't imagine how miserable Ju Zi, who had lost both her parents at a young age and had wandered alone for those years, had been. So much so that later when she met Huo Yuhao, the man she loved most in her life, that one meal of roasted fish had brought back so many of her sad past memories.
In order to completely control the original Huo Gua, this son-in-law who had married into the family, how many divine sense warnings and threats had the Tang Buddha in the God Realm secretly sent down to Ju Zi? He had forcibly snatched away a portion of the love that Huo Gua could have shared with Ju Zi.
In the end, Ju Zi, full of gratitude, had taken back a child who had no father's love. The mother and son, in their high positions, had relied on each other. In the drastic changes of the continental situation, she had strongly endured until the day her son became a great ruler of a generation.
The Tang Buddha had once said that his own daughter was also innocent. Who would come to pity his, Tang San's, daughter?
Then could one not turn it around and ask, who would come to pity the daughter of the ill-fated Lihua and Huang Bin?
It seemed that the suffering of a certain someone's daughter was caused by himself, right? To personally tear his daughter's divine sense in two, to let his son-in-law go and pick an immortal herb to treat her, and then to put shackles on her. The son-in-law couldn't even be intimate, turning him into a loyal dog who was satisfied with just hugging his daughter.
At this thought, Huo Yuhao's hatred for the Tang Buddha in the original novel instantly filled him. Looking at Ju Zi, who had cried until she fainted in his arms, he silently made an oath in his heart.
Ju Zi, in this life, I will make you happy.
Huo Yuhao carried the sleeping Ju Zi back to the tattered restaurant and carefully placed her on her bed. He gently bent his head down and gave the girl's forehead a light kiss.
The next moment, Huo Yuhao did not delay any longer. His time was running out.
Huo Yuhao borrowed a fast horse in the town. After asking for the direction, he grabbed a refined steel long spear and sped straight towards the direction the conscription team had left.
Under the moonlight, the youth on horseback galloped, his reflected figure having a peerless style.
Even if he had to risk his last bit of soul power and spiritual power, he had to rescue Ju Zi's father from Dai Hao's hands!
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Author's Note: When writing the latter part, the author's entire emotion was quite furious. It is always said that a person must pay the price for their actions after going crazy. Then who will make the backstage manipulator who drove them crazy pay the price? If you have not experienced pain, have not felt pain, how can you resolve others' pain? How can you persuade others not to be in pain? You can't even feel the same pain, so how can you talk about letting people let go of hatred?
In a word, if you had experienced my suffering, you might not be as kind as I am.