Huo Yuhao was just about to leave when he heard the Snow Emperor speak, "My split soul's energy is limited, I can't help you. However, you can go to the Extreme North to find my main body later."
Hearing this, Huo Yuhao's lips curled. "I said, uh... Snow Emperor, can you try not to pause so much when you speak? And when did I say I was going to the Extreme North?"
Huo Yuhao originally wanted to call her "Big Sister," but he wisely changed his address after seeing the Snow Emperor's increasingly cold gaze.
"Oh, so how do you plan to send the little dumpling's child back? Give it to your subordinates? How will you explain it to them? Say you bought a soul beast just to release it?"
"That's right, Yuhao, I also want to go back and see. I wonder how my clan is doing now that I'm gone," Ice Emperor chimed in from the side, her amber eyes filled with anticipation as she looked at Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao's lips twitched. He'd have to be crazy to go to the Ice Emperor's clan. If they found out their emperor had been forced to sacrifice herself by him and Sky Dream, they'd skin him alive. Although the original story didn't mention much about the Ice Emperor's clan, Huo Yuhao guessed there were at least some hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, maybe even quite a few. The Douluo Continent, besides the ocean, had seen the least human development in the Extreme North, so it had the most powerful soul beasts.
Moreover, not to mention the hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, Huo Yuhao's current strength would require extreme caution even against sixty or seventy-thousand-year soul beasts. He could handle one, but if there were more, he'd have to run.
Therefore, Huo Yuhao simply ignored the Snow Emperor's words.
However, what the Snow Emperor said made sense. If he had the Ben Ti Sect handle it, how would he explain it? Saying he bought the soul beast at the auction just to release it would probably get him labeled a traitor.
He could ask Lin Xi to do it, but to seek guidance from the Snow Emperor, he might have to make a trip to the Extreme North himself.
Having made up his mind, Huo Yuhao stopped overthinking and nodded slightly to the Snow Emperor, "Thank you, Snow Emperor, and for before."
Before? The latter was taken aback, but quickly realized that her earlier deliberate act had been seen through, and a blush rose on her face, as fair as jade.
Huo Yuhao smiled. The Snow Emperor's behavior was too unusual. Her personality was cold and indifferent; in the past, she was never good with words, always staying quietly in his Sea of Consciousness, like an observer.
Today, she suddenly became talkative and displayed those little feminine gestures, which was not at all like the demeanor of the leader of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North.
He didn't expect the Snow Emperor to comfort people, which was truly rare. That's right, Huo Yuhao had just realized this. The Snow Emperor saw that he was in a bad mood, so she deliberately tried to divert his attention.
As for why, Huo Yuhao couldn't figure it out. But he didn't bother to get to the bottom of it. As long as the Snow Emperor didn't intend to harm him, what else mattered?
He shifted his gaze to the right and saw the sleeping Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. Huo Yuhao was speechless. How is this guy so different from the original? He just sleeps, sleeps, sleeps. Even when the Ice Emperor is here, it's the same. "You don't even know how to seize the opportunity when your beloved is right in front of you. No wonder you've been single for so long."
Huo Yuhao spoke softly, but the Ice Emperor still heard him. In an instant, she was like a cat whose fur was standing on end. She glared at Huo Yuhao fiercely, furious. "Who's her beloved? Explain yourself!"
However, Huo Yuhao was nowhere to be seen. He had already slipped away.
The Ice Emperor was enraged. She strode forward and kicked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm more than ten meters away.
"Who, who disturbed me? Don't they know I'm sleeping?" After being tossed around by the Ice Emperor, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm woke up, but perhaps because he had slept for so long, his words were muddled and he wasn't quite clearheaded.
"It's this Emperor. What, do you have an opinion?" The Ice Emperor clenched her fists and approached the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, looking fierce.
Behind them, the Snow Emperor covered her mouth and giggled.
"Ah, Ice, Ice Ice, it's you. No problem, how could I have an opinion? Whatever you do, I'll support you." Seeing the Ice Emperor's unfriendly expression, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm waved his hands repeatedly, feeling like he was in trouble.
"Oh, really? You'll support me no matter what I do?" The Ice Emperor suddenly smiled, but the smile seemed a bit terrifying to Sky Dream.
Sky Dream was at a loss, instinctively retreating. "Ice… Ice… You… ah, ah, easy… don't hit my face…"
Sigh, how pitiful. The instigator, Huo Yuhao, had already withdrawn from the Sea of Consciousness, but that didn't stop him from observing the scene within. He hadn't expected his casual words to make the Ice Emperor so angry.
Sigh, Sky Dream, you should lick up to her well in the future, be a qualified sweet-talking worm. Although you're a lickspittle, as long as you don't give up, persist, and persevere, one day you'll find that the lickspittle…
Still ends up with nothing.
Back at the hotel, Huo Yuhao first met with his master, Du Busi, and asked about the method of cultivating a Soul Core. The information he received wasn't much different from what the Snow Emperor had said.
After returning to his room, he saw Ye Lingling sleeping on the sofa. Hearing the little girl's even breathing, Huo Yuhao was slightly moved. He knew that his excessive reaction during the day had worried the little girl, which was why she had been waiting for him to return.
People are all made of flesh and blood. Huo Yuhao had never been able to be without desires or emotions. He had brought Ye Lingling back in the first place because he was interested in her Nine-Hearted Begonia. The purpose was naturally to assist his cultivation; one could say he had completely treated Ye Lingling as a tool.
Having a Nine-Hearted Begonia soul master around makes it difficult to die. Although this statement is a bit of an exaggeration, it also shows how unreasonable this martial soul is.
The facts also proved that Huo Yuhao's move was a good one. Ye Lingling played a crucial role in his later cultivation, when he created the Lightning Body Forging Technique.
Ye Lingling probably thought of this too, but the little girl never complained. Moreover, Huo Yuhao felt that the little girl cared for him even more than his master, Du Busi. Perhaps this was the reason why she had been saved by him in the first place.
Huo Yuhao squatted down and gently picked up Ye Lingling, being as gentle as possible. He placed the little girl on the bed, took off her shoes, and tucked her in.
Gazing at the little girl's delicate sleeping face, Huo Yuhao had no impure thoughts at the moment. Instead, he felt a warmth, a feeling similar to what he had only experienced when he was a child, before his martial soul awakened, and when he was with his mother.
As for the terrible experiences of mother and son after the martial soul awakened, they were not worth recalling, let alone feeling warm.
"You treat me sincerely, and I will never let you down," Huo Yuhao promised Ye Lingling in his heart.
He came to the sofa and sat cross-legged. A night passed quickly in cultivation.
The next day, when the first ray of sunlight of the morning pierced through the gap in the curtains and shone into the room, Ye Lingling sleepily opened her eyes. She hadn't slept very soundly, because she was always worried about someone.
After her vision cleared a bit, Ye Lingling sat up abruptly, clutching the quilt in front of her with both hands. Her eyes scanned the surroundings warily. This wasn't her room. But when she saw Huo Yuhao sitting upright on the sofa, she breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, she remembered what had happened yesterday, and why she was in her big brother's room.
It was just that she clearly remembered being on the sofa. How did she end up in bed? She secretly lifted the blanket and saw that her clothes were intact and hadn't been touched, only then did the little girl relax.
If Huo Yuhao knew what Ye Lingling was thinking, he would probably fall over on the spot. What a joke! Ye Lingling was only nine years old. No matter what, he wouldn't do something so beastly. That would be too criminal!
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