Brother?
Huo Yuhao frowned. He didn't know the other party, but anyone in the world today who would open their mouth and call him brother, he could know who it was without even thinking.
"Dai Luoli." Huo Yuhao turned around and revealed a smile: "Long time no see."
Dai Luoli's eyes were somewhat complicated. The change in Huo Yuhao's whole person could be described as quite drastic. If not for the spread through soul guide media, he wouldn't have recognized the current Huo Yuhao.
In the original timeline, after Huo Gua founded the Spirit Pagoda, he inexplicably returned to the Star Luo Empire to join the army, and it was there that he met this half-brother.
"Brother, let's go home..." Dai Luoli gritted his teeth and still said this sentence.
Huo Yuhao's eyes flickered slightly, then shifted his gaze: "Home? My home is quite big, you are welcome to come and play when you have time."
"No..." Dai Luoli shook his head. The home in Huo Yuhao's mouth was undoubtedly the new large family he created with his many female confidantes, while the home in Dai Luoli's mouth was naturally...
"Brother, father... he really wants to see you."
"Oh? Wants to see me?" Huo Yuhao shifted his gaze to the newly renovated tombstone. The signature of the two characters Dai Hao was clearly visible, and the inscription was specifically changed to "Tomb of Beloved Wife Huo Yun'er".
"If he wants to see me, then let him come over personally. I'll wait here."
Huo Yuhao felt the soul power fluctuations of the two brothers Dai Hao and Dai Yaoheng from the new Duke's Mansion from far away. He didn't even want to set foot there, lest he be tainted with bad luck.
"Okay, brother, wait, I'll go invite father right away!" Dai Luoli hurriedly ran towards the new Duke's Mansion. He had just obtained his third soul ring not long ago, and his strength was also outstanding among his peers. He almost slipped into the mansion in a flash.
Huo Yuhao stood still. He came this time exactly to handle this matter.
Not long after, a group of people walked out of the Duke's Mansion majestically. The leader was impressively Huo Yuhao's biological father, the man Huo Yun'er loved most in her life, Dai Hao!
Upon learning the news of the Demon King's personal arrival, Dai Hao hardly dared to neglect for a moment and brought people towards Huo Yun'er's tomb. The current Huo Yuhao was truly invincible on the continent, an existence that all parties dreaded extremely.
Soon, this group of people arrived beside Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao also noticed that Xu Yun, whom Dai Luoli had admired for a long time, was surprisingly among them.
"Brother, father and the others are here." Dai Luoli hurriedly trotted towards Huo Yuhao, trying to ease the weird atmosphere between the two sides.
"Mmhmm." Huo Yuhao didn't even look at them, just silently gazing at Huo Yun'er's tombstone.
"Child..." Dai Hao first sighed, took a big step forward, and wanted to reach out to pat Huo Yuhao's shoulder.
Bang!
However, his hand was bounced away in mid-air by the flowing dragon aura around Huo Yuhao.
"Dai Yaoheng, Dai Huabin, kneel down to my mother." Huo Yuhao didn't want to talk nonsense with him at all. His voice carried terrifying spiritual power, directly rushing into the minds of the two brothers Dai Huabin and Dai Yaoheng.
Hiss...
The two brothers Dai Huabin only felt a severe pain in their brains as if pierced by ten thousand needles, and immediately hugged their heads and cried out in pain.
"What are you standing there for? Kneel down!" Dai Hao turned around abruptly, slapped Dai Huabin on the face, and said furiously: "You knew, you knew of his existence back then. So to speak, in the entire Duke's Mansion, I was the only one who didn't know I had such a son?"
Dai Huabin was slapped to the ground by Dai Hao, kneeling there and no longer standing up, but lowering his head, not saying a word.
Dai Hao turned his head again, looked at Dai Yaoheng, and roared: "Speak, did you also know at that time?"
Dai Yaoheng smiled bitterly and knelt on the ground. Of course he knew, even the young Dai Huabin knew, how could he not know: "Back then, not long after Aunt Yun died, he disappeared. Father, I..."
"You don't need to say anymore." Dai Hao kicked him to the ground. He, who had always been strong, was already in tears at this time.
"Yun'er, I failed you! And I failed our son. In the eyes of others, I am a commander, a hero, but in front of you, I am an out-and-out bastard!"
Dai Luoli beside them dared not even breathe loudly. He also knelt down beside his father and bowed directly to that tombstone.
Only the White Tiger Duke was still standing, but at this time, he was already sobbing uncontrollably.
"Yun'er, Yun'er, I failed you. I didn't even know you bore me a son..."
"I remember now, you are that little bastard from back then!" Dai Huabin suddenly said coldly.
"Mmhmm, the bastard in your mouth, however, personally blew up the Duke's Mansion level." Huo Yuhao finally turned around, looked at him, and sneered: "The death of the Duchess seems to have stimulated you greatly, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't have entered Shrek Academy with a cultivation close to Soul Elder."
"You, it's you... you really did it?" Dai Huabin was furious, immediately got up from the ground. Six soul rings rose one by one from under his feet, and he was about to attack.
"Stop!" Dai Hao hurriedly shouted to stop him. However, Huo Yuhao was faster than him.
Dai Huabin only felt a blur before his eyes. Countless vines rose from the ground, binding his whole person firmly.
The characteristics of the World Tree were crazily swallowing the soul power in his body, making him unable to use any soul skills at all.
"In front of a mother's tomb, wanting to kill her son, Dai Huabin, you really have ability." Huo Yuhao's killing aura almost condensed into substance, making everyone present feel cold all over.
"Yuhao, let Huabin go. He, he is your biological older brother!" Dai Hao hurriedly advised, but didn't dare to make the slightest move. If he completely enraged Huo Yuhao at this time, the entire White Tiger lineage would very likely stay here.
Huo Yuhao didn't even look at him, his voice just became extremely cold, "Your legitimate wife abused my mother. Our mother and son were worse than servants in the mansion. I still deeply remember, in order to let me eat hot sesame seed cakes, mother didn't hesitate to put the newly out-of-the-pan sesame seed cakes into her bosom to bring them to me to eat, but she herself was already burned."
"Mother is dead, but even in the instant before she died, I never saw a trace of regret in her eyes. I really don't understand what you have that was worth her liking. All the misery in mother's life was given by you. You might be a good marshal of the Star Luo Empire, but you are not a good husband."
Huo Yuhao's body was trembling constantly. He had always been busy dealing with threats from Tang San. Waiting for this day, both he and Huo Yun'er in the underworld had waited for too, too long.
"In the final analysis, it's because she fell in love with me. It's all because of me that your mother suffered so much." Dai Hao finally cried out loud at this moment.
Of course Huo Yuhao knew what Huo Yun'er hoped for the most back then. It was definitely not status or anything else. She was just a little woman hoping her husband could return, could guard by her husband's side!
Wasn't what the original Huo Gua wanted to do exactly making Dai Hao repent in front of his mother's grave? But under the influence of Tang San's divine thought, the obsession originally in Huo Gua's heart finally faded gradually at the end of the story.
As a transmigrator, influenced by his past life, he couldn't do the act of personally killing his father and brothers in front of his mother's grave. That approach was too extreme.
But the death penalty could be avoided, while living punishment was hard to escape. In this life, no one could break the backbone of the person Huo Yuhao anymore.
"All of this is my fault. I couldn't give her happiness, but insisted on being with her. In the end, I harmed her. Yes, all of this is my fault. Yuhao, I know you hate me, and I don't have the face to ask you to call me father!" Dai Hao continued to wail, his voice mournful.
"Brother..." Dai Luoli tugged at the corner of Huo Yuhao's clothes, trying to beg him to forgive the past actions of his father and older brothers.
"Yuhao, please give me another year. Now His Majesty has died, and the country is in turmoil. When I arrange all domestic affairs properly, I will come here to build a hut and live. At that time, I can finally be idle, talking with your mother every day, repenting to her every day." Dai Hao continued to plead.
"When the day comes for me to die, if you allow it and think I am qualified, I will also be buried here to accompany her. If there is a next life, I will use all my ability to love her."
"Sorry, I don't believe any verbal promises." Huo Yuhao finally turned around and looked at his biological father in this life: "I only believe in my own abilities."
Hearing this, Dai Hao's face changed, "You, what do you want to do?"
Huo Yuhao's left eye glowed with black light. Fourth Soul Skill, Kotoamatsukami, True Name—Will Reversal.
"You were wrong about one thing just now. In the final analysis, what is wrong is this world, this era of feudal nobles and supreme imperial power."
"God King Tang San is dead. All forces on this continent will not be protected by divine power. Human beings themselves are the masters of this world."
"I won't give you any chance to go back and organize an army to defend your rights. The royal nobles should be overthrown by all poor masses. The brand new era has no ship to carry you."
"You... No! Star Luo is my whole life..." Dai Hao just wanted to struggle, but Huo Yuhao's spiritual soul skill had already taken effect. He was now just an ordinary Titled Douluo; how could he resist Huo Yuhao's divine thought?
Looking at the already sluggish Dai Hao, Huo Yuhao sighed and looked at Huo Yun'er's tomb.
Mother of this life, this is what you want to see, right? Now, he has finally returned to your side. In the future, with him accompanying you, you will never feel lonely again.
"You, what did you do to father?" Dai Yaoheng's face changed drastically, and the aura of an evil soul master burst from his body. After a few years of not seeing each other, relying on the slaughter on the battlefield, he had officially become a Soul Douluo powerhouse.
"It seems Shrek failed to cure the problem of your martial soul mutation." Huo Yuhao smiled lightly: "But it doesn't matter. If they can't cure it, I'll cure it for you!"
Saying that, the World Tree vines wrapped Dai Yaoheng tightly and began to absorb his soul power.
"Brother, don't!" Dai Luoli pleaded, almost crying.
Regarding Dai Luoli's crying and shouting, Huo Yuhao was unmoved. The characteristics of the World Tree suddenly exerted force, completely swallowing the soul power of the two brothers Dai Huabin and Dai Yaoheng in an instant. Even their martial souls shattered accordingly.
Huo Yuhao then noticed that Xu Yun had been standing beside Dai Luoli all along. Could it be that due to the timeline alteration, they got together earlier?
"Dai Luoli, this continent is about to usher in a new changing situation. Take Xu Yun to find a paradise isolated from the world and live a peaceful life."
Hearing Huo Yuhao's words, Dai Luoli couldn't help being stunned.
"The three of them will absolutely be fine, it's just that I will give them the punishment they deserve. If you continue to pester, those spiritual soul skills of mine will also fall on you." Huo Yuhao hardened his heart and scolded him.
"Brother... you..."
"Go, Luoli." Dai Hao sighed. His will had completely transformed. From now on, he would be Huo Yun'er's tomb keeper until the end of his life.
Xu Yun was somewhat flustered. She pulled Dai Luoli's hand hard, trying to take him away from here.
Dai Luoli took a last look at Huo Yuhao, but found that Huo Yuhao was also looking at him.
At this moment, he seemed to have read something from Huo Yuhao's eyes.
"Father, older brothers, you all... take care!" Dai Luoli, his face covered in tears, bowed straight down to Dai Hao, then got up and left with Xu Yun without looking back.
"Take this." Huo Yuhao thought for a moment and threw a storage ring to Xu Yun. Inside was some money, enough for Dai Luoli and Xu Yun to spend the rest of their lives.
Xu Yun caught the ring, thought for a moment, and still left a sentence: "Tell your brother named Xie Huanyue that my sister Xu Jiujiu is looking for him."
Princess Jiujiu? Fatty?
Huo Yuhao instantly felt exasperated and amused. The crux of the problem still lay with that fatty. How could that guy understand things like feelings?
Moreover, the Duchess who directly abused Huo Yun'er came from the Xu family. Xie Huanyue naturally knew this matter, which was why he deliberately avoided Xu Jiujiu.
After watching Dai Luoli and the other go far away, Huo Yuhao finally turned his attention back to Dai Huabin and Dai Yaoheng.
Their martial souls had already been crippled by Huo Yuhao, and they would not be able to become soul masters again for the rest of their lives.
"Little bastard... you will die a horrible death!" Dai Huabin struggled, his eyes blood-red.
"I hate it so much. I hate why I didn't kick you to death along with her back then!"
"What a pity, time cannot be turned back. You missed the best opportunity to kill me." Huo Yuhao stared at him coldly, stretched out his hand and patted his own head, and a concretized scene appeared before everyone's eyes.
In the picture, Huo Yun'er protected the young Huo Yuhao with her weak body, letting Dai Huabin's guards' punches and kicks fall on herself.
"Now, you are also an ordinary person."
Huo Yuhao exhaled a long breath, his eyes becoming increasingly cold and stern, muttering words in his mouth: "Feel the pain, think about the pain, accept the pain, understand the pain."
"Those who have not experienced pain cannot understand the feelings of those being bullied."
Only to see him push his palm forward, and that picture of concretized thoughts also drifted towards the two brothers Dai Huabin.
"From now on, let you feel the pain!"
First Soul Skill, Mental Disorder—
As the picture of Huo Yuhao and his mother suffering bullying in the past fell on the two brothers Dai Huabin, that pain purely triggered by memory instantly swept through their whole bodies.
Screams, in the next moment, resounded through this sky.
They would feel the pain in this purely deliberate memory for the rest of their lives, until the day they die.