In Douluo Continent, I am the mastermind behind the scenes.

Chapter 37. Huo Yuhao's Second Martial Soul - A Ying

"It hurts so much!"

Huo Yuhao grumbled as he got up from the ground. Although the valley was only three or four meters high, he still couldn't ignore the pain in his body. After all... he had lived a life of luxury in the God Realm for so many years that he had probably long forgotten what pain felt like.

"Huh? What's that?"

As soon as Huo Yuhao steadied himself, a lotus flower the size of a human head came into his view. The lotus was pure white, even its roots and leaves were white, and its overall aura was extremely powerful, but he did not sense any dangerous aura from this lotus.

Hmm? It has a powerful aura, but there's no danger. Could it be that this lotus spirit beast hasn't developed any intelligence?

Wait, a lotus? A snow lotus? A 100,000-year-old snow lotus? A 100,000-year-old snow lotus with no intelligence?

For a moment, Huo Yuhao was lost in memories. He remembered that... in her previous life, the Snow Empress seemed to have accidentally obtained a 100,000-year-old Snow Lotus Soul Beast with little intelligence, which was enough to barely seal her 700,000-year cultivation...

However, this snow lotus spirit beast is not very meaningful to Huo Yuhao. At most, it is a 100,000-year spirit ring. With his current cultivation level, he would have to pay a huge price to actively absorb this spirit ring. For a snow lotus spirit beast that is not very meaningful, there is no need to give up most of his trump cards here.

Huo Yuhao shook his head and cautiously walked slowly toward the location of the snow lotus. "A common man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime." He knew he couldn't bring this snow lotus soul beast back to Shrek City, but picking some lotus seeds was still an option.

The lotus seeds of a 100,000-year-old snow lotus soul beast are definitely a great tonic. Hmm... this trip to the far north can be considered to have yielded some results.

But just as Huo Yuhao was about to touch the lotus's roots, he suddenly noticed that behind the Snow Lotus Soul Beast, there was a snow-white figure slumped on the ground. Was that... a cocoon? The Ice Butterfly Soul Beast, about to emerge from its cocoon?

"Wait, wait, this cocoon looks familiar. Have I seen a similar object somewhere before?"

Huo Yuhao slowly closed his eyes, and memories of his past life flashed through his mind like a revolving lantern.

Sun and Moon Empire, Mingdu, Exchange Student Program, Mingde Hall Warehouse, Snow Emperor... Embryo!

"This is... a 100,000-year-old soul beast embryo!"

Huo Yuhao rushed to the back of Xue Lian in one stride, and his right hand, as if possessed, placed on the cocoon and gently stroked it.

The next moment, the cocoon disintegrated instantly, turning into a wine-red energy that entered Huo Yuhao's brow.

Huo Yuhao felt powerful energies coursing through his meridians, as if they were about to burst his body at any moment.

"Damn it, damn it!"

Huo Yuhao quickly used the original power of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm to protect his spiritual sea, meridians, and internal organs. Then he sat down cross-legged and began to refine the energy accumulated in his body.

Fifteen days later.

Huo Yuhao opened his eyes and, seeing the illusory figure behind him and the purplish-red spirit ring beneath his feet, slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air. He! Huo Yuhao! Truly the chosen one! Even without the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion spirit, he still has, um… what was the name of this spirit again?

A woman with short, wine-red hair, a cat-face mask, a slender figure, carrying two Class B protected animals, and holding two dark red daggers... Hmm... Is there another humanoid soul beast on the Douluo Continent besides the Snow Empress?

"Why is it so hot?"

In an instant, Huo Yuhao felt a strange heat surge into his heart, as if his blood was about to boil.

With no other option, Huo Yuhao took off his clothes and rolled around in the snow, trying to combat the heat in this most primitive way.

"This is a special physique of our Blood Demon Clan. Every member of the clan who wants to cultivate must first overcome the negative effects brought about by this special physique."

Just then, a clear, cold female voice suddenly rang out. Huo Yuhao looked in the direction of the voice and saw... his second martial soul had somehow gained a physical form and was standing with its arms crossed, coldly staring at him.

Huo Yuhao gritted his teeth, quickly climbed out of the snowdrift, sat cross-legged, and, enduring the discomfort in his body, slowly closed his eyes.

As a reborn god-king, Huo Yuhao's willpower far surpassed that of ordinary people. Despite his best efforts to control himself, the burning sensation in his heart did not diminish, but... gradually, he seemed to adapt to the body temperature and gradually returned to his usual state.

"Not bad, not bad. At less than twelve years old, you completed the first stage of the bloodline power test in just half an hour. You are even stronger than I was when I was young."

As she spoke, the woman gracefully walked over, cupped her hands in a gesture of respect towards Huo Yuhao, and said, "Let me introduce myself. My name is Aying, and I come from... another world."

Another world?

This term was not unfamiliar to Huo Yuhao. He had heard of it before, whether it was Electrolux, the Six Great God Realms, or even the world outside the God Circle.

After a brief conversation, Huo Yuhao gained some basic understanding of A Ying. She had been chased in her own world and accidentally fell into a spacetime turbulence, eventually landing on the Douluo Continent.

Due to the flawed judgment in the Douluo World, A Ying, a member of the humanoid Blood Demon Clan, was classified as a Soul Beast, and was immediately faced with the first and second Heavenly Tribulations.

Desperate for a cure, driven by the instinct for survival, Ah Ying used the energy of the Snow Lotus Soul Beast to seal her primordial power and begin to take human form.

As for why she would sacrifice herself for Huo Yuhao, A Ying was vague on this question, simply saying that she only had her eye on Huo Yuhao's talent, which led her to the idea of ​​sacrificing herself.

Huo Yuhao suddenly stood up, bowed towards A Ying's position, and said, "Senior A Ying, thank you for your trust in me. I will definitely cultivate diligently and live up to your expectations. When I become a god, I will restore your freedom and give you a real body."

Ha ha!

Aying waved her hand, not taking Huo Yuhao's words to heart. She wouldn't expect someone who hadn't even grown up to rebuild her body. As the leader of a large assassin organization, she didn't even trust her butler who had been with her for decades, let alone a boy she had only met once.

If there were no other choice, who would be willing to sacrifice themselves to a stranger? If she were to seal all her cultivation and start cultivating again in this unfamiliar world, A-Ying didn't even know if she would be able to see the sun rise tomorrow.

Huo Yuhao was unaware of A Ying's thoughts. He sat back down on the ground, and a pale purple bead appeared in his right palm at some point.

(End of this chapter)