Douluo Continent: Angel Saint Huo Yuhao

Chapter 212 The right to choose

As the tide receded, several figures fell from the sky like kites with broken strings.

"It's almost time."

Huo Yuhao looked up at the powerful sea princess, his gaze passing through the waves and her body, and looking toward the gradually brightening source.

Even before her origins were sealed within the altar, she had already begun to transform into a beast spirit. Her current immense power is undeniable, but so is the rapid loss of her life.

Having squandered her resources to this extent, she was practically at her wit's end.

Destroying the heads of all the Soul Douluos and tearing apart the spiritual seas of the Title Douluos was already the limit of what she could do. If Zhang Peng and the Grand Elder hadn't been severely injured by Huo Yuhao, they probably could have survived this offensive.

"Now it's time to talk, isn't it?"

Huo Yuhao gathered his mental energy to transmit his voice from a distance, but what he received in return was a mental wave from the other party.

"Humans...please leave this place!"

The sea princess, whose form was becoming increasingly ethereal, looked grim: "You've come for my soul bone too, haven't you? And the Snow Empress..."

"Yes~ and Xue Di!"

At this point, the Sea Princess's eyes held not only sorrow but also fury: "You've even turned the monarch of the far north into a beast spirit, what more could you possibly want?"

"asshole…"

The auspicious beast, its wings flapping to block the waves, couldn't help but grind its teeth: "Is this how you treat your benefactor? Is this how the merfolk are?"

"benefactor?"

The sea princess sneered, turning her attention to Huo Yuhao: "Humans are all the same—all they do is for my power! Dare you say 'no'?"

"Hmph! He really doesn't..."

The auspicious beast frowned, its expression strange. Before it could finish speaking, Huo Yuhao pulled it behind him and said, "You're right. I came here to obtain the power within you."

"Oh?"

Huo Yuhao's candor caused the sea princess to look at him strangely, unable to understand what this human wanted to achieve: "So what exactly do you want to tell me?"

However, what happened next horrified her instantly.

A gray portal stretching across the sky suddenly opened, expanding layer by layer until it completely filled the interior of the light shield. What emerged from it was no longer chains or tentacles, but a gray sky curtain.

Countless rays of light merged into one, descending from the portal to the ground and even seeping into the soil, locking down all living things and those that died within the entire light shield.

Then, the light and shadow shifted, and the world transformed!

The sea princess felt her senses being obscured by the gray sky, and then the space she was in quietly changed; she was packed up and transported to this world without a sky.

What I want to say is very simple.

Huo Yuhao scratched his head, feeling a bit of a headache. He was at his wit's end with this stubborn soul beast: "I wanted your power, and originally there was no need to negotiate anything..."

"But now, we will give you a chance to have a dialogue."

The Snow Empress's indifferent voice rang out from beside Huo Yuhao. After a brief rest in her spiritual sea, she had recovered some of her energy and once again revealed the aura befitting a monarch.

"you?"

The sea princess was stunned for a moment, then pointed at the Snow Empress's spirit body with some disbelief: "You really are the Snow Empress! Ah... no... it should be, you're actually still alive? Alive in this state?"

After witnessing the Beast Spirits, she thought that those slightly intelligent things were the limit of the intelligence that Soul Beasts could retain. But now, the existence of Soul Spirits has truly opened her eyes.

"otherwise?"

The Snow Empress raised her hand, and a snow lotus flew out from Huo Yuhao's body, taking root on her shoulder. At the same time, the spirits of Tianmeng and the Ice Empress appeared on Huo Yuhao's left and right sides, both displaying the auras unique to ferocious beasts. 'This kind of being… isn't an isolated case!'

The sea princess completely lost her composure: "So you mean—my people and I can coexist with humans in this way and have a chance to survive?"

This mode of existence can already be considered a completely new system of soul power cultivation.

And all of this actually happened to this young boy. It's unclear whether it was the work of those three ferocious beasts or that inconspicuous old man over there...

"...!"

The sea princess's expression immediately hardened, and she stared nervously at the creature that had silently entered her detection range.

Completely unaware, even when she focused her attention on perceiving, she still couldn't detect the old man's presence, as if he were just a ghost floating on the surface of the world.

'Who exactly is he...?'

"He is my teacher."

Huo Yuhao interrupted the Sea Princess's thoughts, watching Elder Yi pace back and forth, leaning on his staff to turn over the mermaids shrouded in black energy: "Besides... it is you, not your people, who truly need the Soul Spirit Technique to prolong their lives."

"They can still survive?!"

The sea princess seemed to have been struck in her weak spot, and her current aloofness could no longer be maintained.

Huo Yuhao shrugged and spoke under the auspicious beast's serene gaze: "Although I really don't want to take advantage of someone in distress, I still want to say that it depends on..."

"I am willing!"

Before he could finish speaking, the sea princess responded with delight in her eyes.

In her view, if her dying body could be exchanged for the entire tribe, it would be beyond just being 'worth it'.

"The source of life is excessively extracted. As for other spiritual power, soul power, and blood and qi, they can be replenished by life energy."

After taking a general look around the entire area, Old Yi casually read out the diagnosis certificate before turning his attention to the corpses of the evil spirit masters. Of course, he was also somewhat surprised to find that Zhang Peng still had some vitality left.

as well as…

"There is one less!"

Huo Yuhao and the Sea Princess followed his gaze and instantly realized that there was something wrong with the number of people who fell from the sky back then.

The Grand Elder of the Holy Spirit Cult has simply disappeared!
"It should be spatial teleportation."

Old Yi glanced at the sea princess, whose eyes were filled with hatred, and comforted her, "Don't be upset. Discovering and interrupting the teleportation was beyond your capabilities."

Although the Sea Princess's mental strength was powerful enough, her condition at the time was also quite low. In addition, she had not studied spatial power much, so it was normal that she could not sense it, let alone counterattack.

Without further ado—

With a wave of his staff, Elder Yi created a domain of life, and the mermaids within it instantly began to recover: "Let's begin."

"it is good…"

The sea princess gave a wry smile, knowing that the other party was demonstrating their abilities to dispel her doubts, that they were urging her on, and that whether or not they would keep their promise depended entirely on the other party's character.

"Bingbing!"

As Tianmeng watched the large fish fall into her pocket, she immediately cheered, "Soul Bone Sealing Technique activated!"

Back when the third martial soul was added, the remaining essence within the Ice Emperor's soul bone was almost completely squandered, and now it's just the right time to make room for a newcomer.

(End of this chapter)