"You actually dare to stay on the Douluo Continent."
Huo Yuhao sneered, his deep black robe flapping in the fierce wind. As the corners of his clothes fluttered, he looked thoroughly cold and stern. The glazed dual wings on his back slowly unfurled. With every flap, traces of cold air dissipated. Wherever it passed, the water vapor in the air instantly condensed, turning into ice shards that rustled down, piling up a layer of crystal under his feet.
This might be the fated battle. Before this, he had never truly faced Tang Wutong one-on-one, even though he had never truly taken Tang Wutong seriously.
Everyone present backed away slightly; after all, Tang Wutong's identity was no longer a secret.
"It is time to put an end to this completely..."
Huo Yuhao's eyes were as deep as an abyss. Within his ice-blue eyes, spiritual power surged madly like a vortex. The flickering cold light was like the gaze of a demon god from a land of extreme cold, exuding a terrifying pressure. Both hands tightly gripped the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe, his knuckles turning white. Surging soul power danced in his palms, as if eagerly awaiting the moment of release.
At this moment, Tang Wutong was like a fairy descending to the world. Her posture was light and agile, her pink dress fluttering in the wind, just like the rosy clouds on the horizon. Her waist-length hair flew wildly, and a faint soft light emanated from her hair, adding a bit of a dreamy aura to her. Her jade-like hands tightly gripped the Clear Sky Hammer, runes flowing over the hammer's body, shining with dazzling dark golden light.
"Yuhao, why don't you leave this to us." A group of partners blocked in front of Huo Yuhao. They were not clear about Huo Yuhao's current state. In their view, Tang Wutong was nothing more than a mere Soul Douluo.
Tang Wutong stared at Huo Yuhao and the others with her beautiful eyes, which were filled with the will to die, brimming with fearlessness toward death and a challenge to despair. Even if the person opposite her was an opponent her father could not defeat, she absolutely would not shrink back at this moment.
"Tang Wutong, today's battle is inevitable." Huo Yuhao's voice was indifferent and calm, like the tolling of an evening bell, piercing through the noisy crowd and passing straight into Tang Wutong's ears.
"Demon King, bring it on!" Tang Wutong shouted delicately, her voice like the cry of a phoenix. In an instant, her figure was like lightning, transforming into a pink stream of light, smashing toward Huo Yuhao with the force of a thunderbolt. The Clear Sky Hammer tore through the air, emitting a sharp whistle and dragging out a long phantom, seeming as if it wanted to shatter everything in its path into powder.
Huo Yuhao's gaze focused. Not dodging or giving way, his hands danced quickly in front of him, forming complex and mysterious hand seals.
This time, he didn't plan to use the abilities belonging to the original Huo Yuhao to deal with her.
Seventh Soul Skill, World Tree Avatar, Coiling Dragon Buddha.
In an instant, a huge wooden Buddha broke out of the ground. Although the large Buddha was only a few thousand zhang tall, a thousand dragons coiled around its body, exuding an ancient and mysterious aura. Facing the Great Sumeru Hammer displayed by Tang Wutong, the large Buddha merely threw a light punch.
With a muffled "bang", the Clear Sky Hammer was instantly knocked flying under the fierce impact of the large Buddha's fist. Tang Wutong vomited blood from the corner of her mouth, her figure retreating explosively.
Without the blessing of her father's divine thought, she was nothing more than a Soul Douluo with an unstable foundation.
Immediately after, the Thunder Hell Vine Soul Spirit darted out from Huo Yuhao's shoulder. Terrifying thunder poured down like a rainstorm, whistling and pouncing towards Tang Wutong.
Fourth Soul Skill, Spear of Ares.
Seeing this, Tang Wutong timely unfolded her Radiant Butterfly Goddess wings, dodging frantically under the ravages of the thunder.
In less than a moment, the battlefield was riddled with holes. The ground was pierced by the falling lightning, uneven and filled with potholes, with smoke and heat permeating everywhere.
Huo Yuhao suddenly focused his eyes. The thunder-attribute soul power in his body circulated madly. Under the state of Thunder God Possession, the Thunder Hell Vine transformed into a human shape, drawing a bow and shooting an arrow. In an instant, with him as the center, a thunderstorm domain expanded rapidly.
Fourth Soul Skill, Arrow of Artemis.
Tang Wutong, situated in this terrifying domain, immediately felt the raging thunder rushing at her face, striking fear into her heart.
Up until now, Huo Yuhao had not even taken a single step.
This was undoubtedly a desperate situation for Tang Wutong. Even if she went all out, she could not shake Huo Yuhao in the slightest.
Soon, Tang Wutong was wounded, blood overflowing from the corner of her mouth. The bloodstains quickly evaporated in the dense thunder, dyeing the lapel of her clothes red. But her offensive remained undiminished; every strike carried the absolute determination of mutual destruction.
It could be seen that Tang Wutong's hair was messy, a few strands sticking to her cheeks, and sweat soaking her temples, but her eyes became increasingly crazy, like burning stars.
As the battle continued, the sky became increasingly gloomy. Amidst lightning flashes and thunder roars, it seemed as if heaven and earth were trembling for this destined battle.
Huo Yuhao sighed inwardly. The Huo Gua of the original world had probably never thought that one day he would stand on the opposite side of Tang Wutong, fighting to the death like this. But the timeline had already been altered. For the sake of the partners behind him, and for his own fate, he absolutely would not show any mercy.
"Ah ah ah ah—Huo Yuhao, I'm going to kill you—"
Tang Wutong seemed to have gone mad. No longer caring about the raging thunder coming at her, she flapped her butterfly wings, gathered the Dragon Dance Radiant Sun in her hands, and charged straight at Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao neither dodged nor evaded, allowing the Thunder Hell Vine on his shoulder to increase its output.
Tang Wutong's figure finally stopped one zhang in front of Huo Yuhao. This short distance of one zhang had become a natural chasm she could not cross!
Her entire body was firmly entangled by the terrifying thunder net, unable to advance even half a step further!
Third Soul Skill, Prison of Zeus.
"Die!"
Tang Wutong shouted sternly, the two light balls in her hands erupting with purple-gold light pillars.
At the same time, Huo Yuhao's dark golden fifth soul ring lit up. Fifth Soul Skill, Ocean-Rending Dragon Whale Swallow.
A huge Dragon Whale phantom emerged, swallowing all of Tang Wutong's desperate counterattack.
"It's over, Tang Wutong." Huo Yuhao reached out his hand to her, firmly gripping her snow-white throat. The sixth soul ring subsequently lit up. Sixth Soul Skill, Golden Dragon Berserk Domain, Golden Dragon Body.
"It's not over yet!"
At this time, the Clear Sky Hammer that had been knocked away earlier arrived from behind with an unparalleled evil wind, smashing fiercely towards Huo Yuhao's head.
Clang!
Tang Wutong's beautiful eyes widened slightly—
The Clear Sky Hammer ultimately smashed onto the turbulent dragon aura. The eighth soul ring on Huo Yuhao's body pulsated briskly.
Eighth Soul Skill, Golden Dragon Waterfall.
"Can you still dance?" Huo Yuhao's eyes, devoid of any emotion, made Tang Wutong feel incomparably ashamed and restless all over.
This was extreme humiliation!
But, this was all she could do.
"Then I will use your favorite Golden Dragon King ability to send you to see your father. Goodbye, Tang Wutong."
As his words fell, Huo Yuhao's turbulent dragon aura flowed backwards, forming a blood-colored torrent that washed Tang Wutong's entire delicate body into mid-air.
Eighth Soul Skill, Golden Dragon Prison Suppression Kill!
Under everyone's shocked gazes, Tang Wutong's delicate body shattered and melted bit by bit in the blood-colored torrent.
Huo Yuhao's eyes flickered slightly. Raising his hand and grabbing, he captured a wisp of the origin of light from Tang Wutong's collapsing physical body.
This thing should be what Tang San extracted from Qian Renxue's body over these ten thousand years.
Over these ten thousand years, Qian Renxue was suppressed under Sea God Mountain, like a cow raised in captivity, continuously providing light energy for the Tang family.
A moment later, there was no longer any sign of Tang Wutong in the turbulent blood-colored torrent.
Huo Yuhao silently retracted his martial soul. To the Huo Gua of the original timeline, Tang Wutong was his everything. Now standing on the opposite side of the Tang family, he had specially saved this girl for last.
This battle was his complete farewell to the original timeline. From now on, he was no longer Huo Yuhao (雨浩), but Huo Yuhao (宇浩).
Therefore, this battle had to be fought by himself personally, allowing no interference from outsiders.
With Tang Wutong completely evaporating from the world, Huo Yuhao also felt a slight change in his state of mind. There was an indescribable feeling that made his whole person relax.
The crowd watching the battle collectively fell silent. From the very beginning of this battle, the strength of the two sides was completely unequal. Tang Wutong was practically suppressed and beaten by Huo Yuhao the entire time, without any chance of winning.
And Huo Yuhao didn't use the Spirit Eyes martial soul or Ultimate Ice martial soul originally belonging to Huo Gua; he purely used his unique abilities from this life to kill his opponent.
He only felt that his entire soul seemed to have sublimated, as if he was about to transcend from this world. The pressure of the laws from the plane also gradually grew stronger, even though he currently possessed no god position inheritance.
On that vast and boundless spiritual sea, irregular pieces of land began to appear. The originally bright sky in his sea of consciousness transformed into a sky full of stars.
From this moment on, Huo Yuhao's spiritual realm broke through the barrier of the God King realm, beginning to transform in an unknown direction.
Feeling the changes on Huo Yuhao, the crowd present felt something in their hearts and fell into epiphanies one after another.
This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. How many times in a human soul master's life could they experience an epiphany?
By the time Huo Yuhao fully recovered from his comprehension, it was already noon the next day.
"Thank you, Demon King!"
The people present bowed and thanked him one after another. Many even had their soul power improved because of this brief epiphany.
Among them, Di Tian's expression was the most complicated. The human in front of him had become completely unfathomable to him. Even when they first entered the Dragon Realm, he could still sense Huo Yuhao's rough cultivation level, but the current Huo Yuhao gave him a chaotic feeling.
Only a deity could make him feel this way.
"Alright, everyone, let's part ways here." Huo Yuhao's eyes flashed, branding the complete Soul Spirit ceremony into everyone's memory through the spiritual link.
With the matters here concluded, he only had a few things left to do on the Douluo Continent.
"Young Master Huo, I'm planning to take the brothers on an adventure on the sea, see you when fate allows!" Xie Huanyue came over and punched his chest, smiling as he bid farewell.
"Alright, see you when fate allows, Fatty." Huo Yuhao nodded to him. With Xie Huanyue's current strength, as long as deities did not appear, there was no longer any existence on the continent that could threaten him. Moreover, this guy's abilities simply overturned common sense.
Behind him, Ji Juechen, Jing Ziyan, Zi Mu, Ye Wuqing and Yan'er, Ling Luochen, the Lan sisters, Tang Xiaolei, and Wu Ming bid farewell to Huo Yuhao one after another. They were all current members of the Straw Hat Brigade.
"Huo Yuhao, I plan to follow grandpa back to the Sun Moon territory to find a place, marry Linlin, and then live in seclusion," Xiao Hongchen said, holding Ye Linlin's hand and standing beside Jing Hongchen.
Now that the Sun Moon Empire royal family had been wiped clean by Tang Hao's hammer, the world was about to fall into great chaos. Retiring at this time was undoubtedly their best choice.
"Mmhmm, looking forward to the day you become a Level 10 Soul Engineer." Huo Yuhao offered his blessings.
"Heh, this old man will go stay in your Republic first. I am very interested in your so-called battle armor theory. If you need anything, you can contact me anytime." Kong Deming chuckled, preparing to depart with Marshal Evil Dragon's army.
"I plan to return to the sect to inherit the position of Sect Master. Demon King Huo Yuhao, we part ways here." Long Aotian bowed deeply to Huo Yuhao: "If you need any help, call me anytime."
"With the Body Sect in your hands, it will definitely reproduce its glory." Huo Yuhao patted Long Aotian's shoulder and smiled.
"Yuhao, treat Xiao Feng and Xiao Tian well." Ning Yunyuan and the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect crowd also prepared to leave.
"Kid, put in more effort, let this old man hold a grandson soon!" Wu Jie shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Definitely, definitely." Huo Yuhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
...
After saying goodbye to everyone one by one, Huo Yuhao took out the Plane Core.
Because the current situation of the Douluo Continent was not optimistic, the light on this Plane Core had dimmed a lot.
"I wonder if the God of Destruction and the others have found the cosmic coordinates of the Longma twin stars..." Huo Yuhao muttered, and then with a flash of silver light in his eyes, he disappeared from his spot.
Looking at the suddenly deserted outskirts of Star Dou, Di Tian and the other fierce beasts also returned to the core area one after another. They needed to prepare for the mobilization of all soul beasts.
It is believed that it won't be long before the Soul Spirit system created by Huo Yuhao sweeps across the continent. By then, the era of peaceful coexistence between humans and soul beasts will truly arrive.
In the future, countless soul beasts will choose to enter the human world to live. And this day won't be too far away...
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Star Luo Empire, site of the former Duke's Mansion.
A silver light flashed high in the sky, and Huo Yuhao revealed his figure.
Here was the first place he arrived in this world, and also the beginning of the timeline's alteration.
In the ruins, the outline of the former Duke's Mansion was faintly visible, and not far away was the newly built Duke's Mansion.
Huo Yuhao felt something in his heart. With a flash of his figure, he arrived at the place where Huo Yun'er was previously buried.
This place was no longer as deserted as before. The entire tomb seemed to have been artificially repaired, looking quite luxurious and grand.
"Hehe, has that guy been here?" Huo Yuhao sneered. Huo Yun'er had been dead for many years. Not thinking of treating someone well when they were alive, what was the point of doing all these flashy but useless things after they died.
No matter what, Huo Yun'er was his mother in this world; she was the one who blocked Dai Huabin's kick when he transmigrated over.
Huo Yuhao, following the customs of his previous life, offered a few sticks of incense to Huo Yun'er and placed delicacies obtained from Xie Huanyue.
"Mother of this life, may your soul in heaven be happy and joyful."
As Huo Yuhao spoke, tears couldn't help but fall. When he first transmigrated over, he was completely powerless to protect anyone.
Most importantly, now he could only offer sacrifices to an otherworldly mother in another world. He would probably never see his parents from his previous life again.
At this time, a figure walked over.
Huo Yuhao noticed him, felt something in his heart, but didn't hide his figure.
Soon, that person noticed Huo Yuhao. When he saw Huo Yuhao's appearance clearly, the offerings in his hands trembled and fell to the ground in unison.
"Are you... Brother?"