Chapter 149: Apologies And The Lord Of The Underworld
The smile on Huo Yuhao’s face at this moment could completely go next door to the Yu-Gi-Oh! set to play cards.
After Tian Meng summarized the various data of the Golden Ancient Tree into the server-side archive, he looked at Huo Yuhao with a face full of doubt, that smile capable of stopping a child’s night crying.
“Yu Hao, what happened again?”
“Your smile is so terrifying.”
Huo Yuhao coughed lightly, restored his facial expression, and just thinking of that kid Dai Huabin about to suffer a setback made him unable to hold back his laughter.
“Nothing, I’m going to the Fighting Arena to cheer for my most beloved brother.”
“In this world, only his younger brother me treats him this well.”
“Whatever good things there are, I think of him, without any reservation.”
Tian Meng Ice Silkworm immediately realized who the brother Huo Yuhao was referring to, and he suddenly thought of a plan that Huo Yuhao had personally stored in the server—Ultimate Insult!
He had read this plan with Huo Yuhao’s permission at the time, and the entire silkworm felt unwell; the poop of the golden little boy formed from spiritual power suddenly tightened.
It’s hard to imagine this is a plan a human could come up with; for the guy who designed this plan, no amount of family prayers would help!
Especially in this world where bisexuality is the absolute mainstream, this plan called Ultimate Insult is absolutely a double destruction of a person’s body and personality!
Tian Meng Ice Silkworm said tremblingly:
“Brother?”
“Is it that Dai Cinan from the plan?”
“Ah~ hahahaha, Yu Hao, you really treat your brother well.”
Huo Yuhao amusingly looked at Tian Meng Ice Silkworm’s frightened appearance in the Sea of Consciousness.
“Tian Meng Ge, what are you afraid of?”
“No one is using this plan on you.”
“The only one who can experience this plan is my dear Dai Cinan brother.”
“Others want to experience it but don’t have the qualification.”
“For ordinary enemies, I will directly use Amaterasu to send them warmth, repaying grievance with virtue.”
Tian Meng thought about it, and it seemed true; he had no reason to be afraid—who could use Ultimate Insult on him? Ice Empress?
“Hehe.”
“It’s not fear of that plan; that plan is indeed too cruel.”
After ending the conversation with Tian Meng Ice Silkworm, Huo Yuhao turned back once more to look at that ancient tree that blotted out the sky.
The tree’s canopy faintly emitted golden light, that light sacred and majestic, making all beings who gazed directly at it feel an urge to kneel from the bottom of their hearts.
But only Huo Yuhao sensed the deep chilling killing intent hidden within that golden light.
That brilliant sacred light, according to Ilex’s analysis, should be the energy overflowing after the burning of the soul’s Origin.
It was the Origin released after the successive Super Experts of Sea God Pavilion were turned into fuel and ignited by Blue Silver Emperor.
At this moment, Blue Silver Emperor was unconsciously devouring the soul of the previous generation Sea God Pavilion Master.
This so-called Soul Master holy land, the core of the Continent, the natural enemy of Evil Soul Masters.
Yet its successive Offerings’ Golden Ancient Tree perfectly fit every definition of an Evil Soul Master.
If the Spirit Hall’s Qian Daoliu from ten thousand years ago saw it, he would probably spare no cost to uproot this evil tree.
Just as Huo Yuhao was about to leave, a hazy voice reached his ears.
“Little friend, little friend, please wait a moment.”
Huo Yuhao was on full alert at this moment, Phasing activated, ready to enter Kamui Space at any time.
Ilex and Tian Meng Ice Silkworm began to bolster Huo Yuhao’s spiritual power realm; he turned back and saw a faint elderly face emerging from the trunk of the Golden Ancient Tree.
The elderly face was extremely similar to the soul being devoured by A Yin, none other than the previous generation Sea God Pavilion Master, Mu En’s master.
“Little friend, I am the previous generation Sea God Pavilion Master; this wisp of Remnant Soul won’t last much longer.”
“Your investigation of the Golden Ancient Tree with spiritual power awakened this wisp of Remnant Soul; you should now know the truth of this tree.”
“Unfortunately, I only realized the essence of this tree at the moment I fused my soul.”
“Little friend, this old man has never begged anyone in his life.”
“Please tell my unworthy disciple Mu En: after death, absolutely do not fuse with the tree!”
“The soul cannot reincarnate! It will only become nourishment for the monster below!”
Huo Yuhao, wearing the Spiral Mask, looked at this elderly face with his single eye and was silent for a long time before saying to him:
“Sorry.”
“I won’t tell him.”
“This is his fate.”
The elderly face paused, squeezing out an ugly smile, half-smile half-cry.
“Forget it.”
“Thank you, little friend, for giving me a bit of sober time”
“My unworthy disciple! It depends on whether fate favors him.”
The elderly face slowly dissipated on the trunk, his soul sinking back into silence, bit by bit swallowed by A Yin.
Yet the golden light of the Golden Ancient Tree grew even brighter.
“Yu Hao………”
A faint light shone from the single eye under Huo Yuhao’s mask.
“Tian Meng Ge, you know it—fate will not favor Mu En.”
“The only one favoring him is me.”
“I gave him a suitable heir, and I allowed his all-important Shrek Academy to continue in the future; this is already my greatest boon to him.”
“All gifts of fate come with a price tag in the shadows.”
“That price is Mu En must be devoured by A Yin after death.”
“Of course, even without my interference, he would choose this path himself.”
“I am already merciful enough.”
“When fate’s boulder rolls down from the mountain peak, no one can intercept it midway; they will only be crushed by the boulder.”
Tian Meng Ice Silkworm fell silent; he sensed Huo Yuhao’s seriousness and gravity, knowing this was a key link in the plan.
For Huo Yuhao’s plan, he was willing to execute it 100%, without any objection!
“But that old man’s last mention of reincarnation is indeed interesting.”
“Does this world have an Underworld?”
Interest flickered in Huo Yuhao’s eyes; he had initially thought this world had no Underworld.
After all, the Original Work never mentioned any gods related to the Underworld.
Tian Meng Ice Silkworm couldn’t answer this question; only the soul domain expert—Ilex—knew the answer.
“Of course there is, Xiao Yuhao.”
“No matter which world, the Underworld exists.”
“Without the Underworld, how do souls reincarnate?”
“Without the Underworld, where do the souls of deceased beings rest?”
“If a world has no Underworld, its present world would long be overrun by lonely souls and wild ghosts!”
“Everywhere fierce ghosts eating people, evil spirits rampant.”
“Since this world hasn’t seen that, it means this world’s Underworld is operating normally.”
“Moreover, from observing this world’s ghost and monster occurrence frequency on the Magic Net, this old man can see that this world’s Underworld is extremely healthy, even possibly having birthed its own reasonable operating rules.”
“However, this world’s Underworld should have no Master—no! It definitely has no Master!”
Tian Meng Ice Silkworm asked Ilex even before Huo Yuhao.
“Elder Ilex? Why is that?”
“Ge is quite skilled in spiritual power, but purely a muggle when it comes to souls.”
“Souls exist after death—though it’s Continental Common Sense—no one has ever known where souls go.”
Elder Ilex’s aged voice laughed in the Sea of Consciousness.
“Big Bug, spiritual power and souls are never separate.”
“Deceased souls can’t use soul power, but can use spiritual power to a certain extent.”
“From that alone, you should guess souls and spiritual power have a very close relationship.”
“Alright, regarding soul knowledge, this old man will compile a book later.”
“One copy each for you, the little turtle, Yu Hao, um, and that dumb Snow Woman.”
“All of you study it.”
“As for why this old man is so certain this world’s Underworld definitely has no Master, it’s because if the Underworld had a Master, that little girl called Xia Die could not have been born!”
“If the Underworld Master already existed, at the moment Yu Hao injected the Martial Soul, that little girl would have self-destructed.”
“Because Death cannot tolerate two Masters.”
“That girl called Xia Die has Death stably existing in her body, besides the sustenance of powerful Life bloodline, also the acknowledgment of the Underworld.”
“Without the Underworld’s acknowledgment of this Pure Death, mortals cannot hold this power in the present world.”
“In a sense, from the moment of her Martial Soul Awakening, that girl has already been half an Underworld Master.”
“Hahaha! This old man is very curious about the day Yu Hao’s daughter becomes the Underworld Master.”
“An Underworld Master who extremely loves Life—sounds fun just thinking about it!”
Hearing Ilex’s explanation, Huo Yuhao’s brow twitched hard.
He finally understood why the Goddess of Life had yet to send down a Divine Trial to Xia Die.
“Good grief, so that’s how it is.”
“The Goddess of Life, as a God King, saw through Xia Die’s essence.”
“She herself is acknowledged by a Divine Position, so naturally she dares not send a second Divine Position to Xia Die.”
“To think I messed things up myself.”
Huo Yuhao smiled helplessly.
