Time rewound slightly by a few hours.
Underground at Illustrious Virtue Hall.
"Someone's ahead!"
When Huo Yuhao appeared in the underground passage, Nan Men Yun'er, who was flying in front to scout the way, couldn't help but let out a cry of surprise.
Behind them, the passage was continuously collapsing. It looked as if the heavy all-terrain detector was about to be buried alive by earth and stones.
"Advent of a Thousand Hands of Wood!"
Huo Yuhao immediately took action. This was already deep underground; the fragile rock layer just needed to be secured with tree roots.
"Yuhao?"
Nan Men Yun'er and the others were all too familiar with Huo Yuhao's abilities. They had been fleeing wretchedly underground for half an hour and were almost buried alive.
The soul tool headlights in front of the all-terrain detector shone on the young man's straight body. A face that was even more gaunt slowly emerged from the darkness.
Finally, the young man who had appeared in their dreams countless times over the past three years had returned to them.
Nan Men Yun'er simply gave up on decelerating and flew straight towards him, plunging into the warm embrace she had missed for three years.
"Yuhao, Yuhao..."
Nan Men Yun'er held him tightly, constantly burrowing into his chest. Tears instantly soaked the front of Huo Yuhao's clothes.
Ning Tian and Ju Zi also rushed out of the soul tool almost at the same time, coming to Huo Yuhao's side, their moist, beautiful eyes staring at this face that had appeared in countless late-night dreams.
"Your eyes have recovered?" Ju Zi pressed her lips tightly, her voice trembling slightly.
"Yes, they have. Three years have passed, and you've all become even more beautiful." Huo Yuhao said with a smile.
Ning Tian instantly burst into tears and followed by throwing herself into his arms. For the past three years, she had mobilized almost half of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's manpower to thoroughly investigate Huo Yuhao's whereabouts. However, she had not found any clues.
For a period of time, she had even thought that Huo Yuhao had met with misfortune.
After all, there were so many on the continent who wanted his head.
After Nan Men Yun'er and Ning Tian had calmed down a little with Huo Yuhao's comfort, Huo Yuhao turned around, opened his arms to Ju Zi, "Do you want a hug too?"
Ju Zi immediately broke into a smile through her tears, cast aside all her reserve, and wrapped her arms directly around his neck, kissing him heavily.
After a long while, interrupted by a light cough, Ju Zi finally let go of Huo Yuhao with a flushed face.
"Yuhao, it's been ten years. You didn't even say hello to us, you punk?" Huang Bin's face showed a teasing expression. He held Lihua's hand and walked towards Huo Yuhao. At the same time, Nan Men Yun'er's parents were also there.
It was the first time Nan Men Yun'er's parents had seen Huo Yuhao. They had wondered what kind of ferocious face this famous Demon King of the continent had, but they hadn't expected him to be such a handsome young man.
From Nan Men Yun'er's behavior just now, it could be confirmed that their precious daughter had completely fallen for him.
In fact, Nan Men Yun'er's parents had not originally supported their daughter in following Huo Yuhao. Just as their daughter was a supporting character who had appeared for less than two episodes in the original novel, an ordinary family only pursued an ordinary life. They had even hoped that Nan Men Yun'er would be more mediocre and live her life like an ordinary soul master.
Ju Zi's parents, Huang Bin and Lihua, were the same. Moreover, in this life, they were alive and well. Ju Zi didn't have to follow Xu Tianran on military campaigns, let alone become the so-called Empress War God.
However, the moment they saw Huo Yuhao, they instantly understood their daughters.
Although Huo Yuhao did not have the extreme handsomeness of Ji Juechen, he could still be called a handsome guy. The key was that this kid was born with a kind of evil and charming temperament that could make people involuntarily attracted to him.
Moreover, what the hell were those messy-colored soul rings under this kid's feet? Dark green? Green-gold? Orange-gold? Dark gold?
"Greetings, Uncle Huang. Greetings, Aunt Hua." Huo Yuhao bowed slightly to them. These were his future father-in-law and mother-in-law; he had to be mindful of his image.
With Nan Men Yun'er's introduction, Huo Yuhao continued to greet her parents.
"Your demeanor is not bad, just a little young." Huang Bin said lightly. "I heard from Ju Zi that you, kid, traveled back in time to meet our family?"
Huo Yuhao nodded. There was no need to hide this. Besides, the ninth soul skill of Time's Flourish was too special. His ability to smoothly change the timeline was also thanks to the fortune of the spatial-temporal turbulence.
"Good kid. Speaking of which, you saved my life." Huang Bin couldn't help but think of the scene ten years ago, when Huo Yuhao, with a single horse, had led him out of the encirclement of a ten-thousand-man army.
"It was just this junior's duty." Huo Yuhao had no intention of using this to make any threats. He just held Ju Zi's hand tightly and said with a smile.
Huang Bin stared into his eyes, as if confirming something. Then he laughed heartily, patted Huo Yuhao's shoulder, and said in a deep voice, "You must make Ju Zi happy, otherwise I'll be the first to beat you to death!"
"Dad..." Ju Zi couldn't help but say with a pout.
Nan Men Yun'er's parents looked at each other. They just sighed lightly, then looked at Huo Yuhao fixedly, saying nothing, but it was as if they had said everything.
It was the first time in his two lives that Huo Yuhao had met the parents, and he had met two pairs at once. It was naturally impossible not to be nervous.
However, for Ju Zi and Yun'er's parents to agree so nonchalantly to let them follow him, the two girls must have spent a lot of effort to persuade these four.
Thinking of this, Huo Yuhao looked at Ju Zi and Nan Men Yun'er with even softer eyes.
With girls as outstanding as Ju Zi and Nan Men Yun'er, how could they have trouble finding a good match?
But he had also overlooked one point. That was, without what he had done for the few girls, Nan Men Yun'er would still have been a small supporting character who was killed off after two episodes. And Ju Zi, because of the loss of her parents, would have later become Xu Tianran's tool, and then lost her beloved, and been threatened by the God King with her son to retreat her troops.
Huo Yuhao's appearance had allowed Nan Men Yun'er to become a true prodigy and had also saved Ju Zi's life.
Just as the few of them were filled with joy from the reunion, a sharp rap landed on Huo Yuhao's head.
"You brat, you only remember a few little beauties. You don't even want me, your benevolent teacher, anymore?"
Mu Jin stood behind Huo Yuhao, looking as if she were rubbing her hands together.
"How could I?" Huo Yuhao smiled awkwardly. Of course he couldn't have not sensed Mu Jin on the side. It was just that meeting Ju Zi and the others' parents for the first time, and bringing a teacher along was really...
"Hmph, I'll teach you a lesson later, you disrespectful and vile disciple!" Mu Jin snorted coldly, but the glint in the corner of her eyes betrayed her.
"Let's go back to the surface first. The air in this underground is too thin." Huo Yuhao had to change the subject first. One had to know that Ning Tian, Nan Men Yun'er, Mu Jin, and Ju Zi were actually just the tip of the iceberg of his harem. In the future, there would probably be a time when everyone gathered in one bed.
"Wait, Xiao Cui hasn't caught up yet!" Ju Zi quickly reminded him.
"She's fine. I've already had her go to Rising Sun City to support Fatty and the others." Huo Yuhao said with a smile, signaling for her not to worry.
"You let her go alone?" Ju Zi's pretty face turned slightly pale. "You probably don't know how many level-nine stationary soul cannon shells and linked soul tool matrix cores Illustrious Virtue Hall has transferred over this past month."
"They plan to use soul tools to deal with me?" Huo Yuhao frowned and said coldly.
His Immortal Spirit Wood martial soul was almost the nemesis of beast martial souls. Not long ago, he had obtained the fifth soul ring of his Evil Eye, the Crown of the Demon King, which was precisely the nemesis of tool martial souls.
It could be said that as long as a true god did not appear, Huo Yuhao had almost no opponents on the Douluo plane.
However, this did not include advanced soul tools.