Douluo Continent: Reborn as Yuhao, they all have ulterior motives.

Chapter 393 Aren't my tentacles beautiful? (Part 2)

"You mean to say..."

The Evil Emperor glanced at Tianmeng, who was shaking his head to the side, and asked hesitantly, "If I become your soul, can I become a god like this guy?"

Huo Yuhao helplessly spread his hands: "Although I don't like to describe this kind of thing as a transaction, that's really what it means."

Do you think I'd believe your side of the story?

The Evil Emperor sneered, "Although I don't know how you got this worm to cooperate with you, this one case alone is not enough to convince me."

"Even if your explanation is true, who can be sure this wasn't a coincidence? What guarantees that I will be able to achieve godhood like him?"

"I can guarantee that."

As if he had anticipated his reaction, Huo Yuhao calmly replied, "Because Brother Tianmeng is not the first soul beast to become a god through this method. Hmm, speaking of which, you should know the other one as well."

I know him too?

The Evil Emperor was stunned for a moment. Before he could react, he saw a girl in a white dress with a face that looked very much like Huo Yuhao separate from him.

"You're the Snow Emperor!?"

Sensing the aura of the other party, which was similar to that of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm and had also achieved the status of a divine official, the Evil Emperor was shocked, but a look of realization flashed in his eyes.

No wonder he felt an indescribable, familiar yet unfamiliar aura about Huo Yuhao the moment he first saw him.

It turns out it came from Xue Di.

I never expected that this overlord who rules the far north would actually be willing to become this kid's soul?

And judging from the looks of it, their relationship seems to be more than just ordinary.

Suppressing his shock, his eyes flickered slightly.

"Snow Empress, you also became a priest after becoming the soul of this human?"

"As you've sensed, you should already be able to tell from my current state whether it's true or not, shouldn't you?"

Xue Di said in a calm tone: "Don't try to make me prove anything more. My standing here is the best proof. I don't stoop to lying about such things."

The Evil Emperor remained noncommittal, but his eyes suddenly held a deeper meaning: "But I also noticed that your state is different from that of this worm. It is merely an energy body, while you still retain your original physical form."

"These are some personal reasons that I can't disclose."

Xue Di glanced at Huo Yuhao, her tone somewhat meaningful: "You can simply understand it as a racial talent unique to me."

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The Evil Emperor couldn't help but roll his huge eyes upwards, but he didn't ask any further questions.

Although he wasn't very familiar with the Snow Emperor, he had heard a little about the arrogant personality of this king of the far north.

It's no exaggeration to say that only if Xue Di stood in front of him would he believe that what Huo Yuhao had just said was not a lie.

On the contrary, even if it were the Beast God Emperor Tian, ​​if it weren't the Snow Emperor, he would still remain skeptical.

Because he knew very well that Di Tian was never an arrogant person, or rather, a person with inner pride.

He would not hesitate to abandon the principles he had long adhered to for the sake of what he considered to be a greater cause.

Whether it's slaughtering a group of soul beasts or killing himself, who is only slightly weaker than him and ranked second on the ferocious beast list, as long as Di Tian feels that doing this is beneficial to the entire clan, he will choose to take action.

Even if it's shameful to deceive with lies, even if it comes at the cost of one's reputation.

Of course, the beast god might hesitate for a moment during the process, but that doesn't affect the final result.

He didn't comment much on Di Tian's way of doing things, after all, he himself wasn't a good person either, and was even worse.

Di Tian at least has some principles, but when faced with a problem, he truly stops at nothing without hesitation.

In contrast to the other two, Xue Di, who ranked third, was somewhat different. Her pride did not allow her to achieve her goals through despicable means such as deception. Rather than doing so, she might prefer to beat herself up, hold a long sword to her neck, and force herself into a life-or-death choice.

"I understand the situation."

Looking at Huo Yuhao again, the Evil Emperor gave him a suspicious once-over: "But I still want to know, why did you choose me?"

"Logically speaking, with this ability, even if you only find a ten-year-old spirit-type soul beast, you could still help it become a priest during its journey to becoming a soul spirit, right?"

Huo Yuhao shook his head: "It's not as simple as you say. Putting aside the fact that this method is not a panacea, we are just feeling our way across the river right now."

"Although Xue Di and Tian Meng Ge have both succeeded, their two experiences are not enough to allow me to transform souls into priests at will."

"Before you fully understand and master this method, it would be best if a soul beast like you, who is only one step away from becoming a god, tried it."

At this point, he suddenly paused, glancing sideways at the Evil Emperor with an enigmatic tone.

"Besides that, there are some private reasons that I can't disclose."

This was his concern. Compared to Xue Di, Tian Meng Ge, and Hai Gongzhu, whose cultivation had already reached the pinnacle of the world, the remaining souls in the spiritual space had not yet reached the qualification to cross the threshold of becoming a god.

For example, Ice Emperor, whose cultivation has reached 400,000 years, is still at level 98, considering that a soul beast that has broken through 500,000 years is comparable to a Limit Douluo.

As for Xiaobai, whose cultivation is less than 300,000 years, Alu, whose cultivation is 200,000 years, and Liya, whose cultivation is 100,000 years, and the Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass, they are even further from their limits.

Huo Yuhao didn't know if these people would face any risks during their life leaps.

Although the method should be feasible, judging from the fact that Niu Tian and Titan were resurrected as gods in the God Realm with only 100,000 years of cultivation, he still planned to experiment with top-tier soul beasts like the Evil Emperor first, and then let the Ice Emperor and others try it after he had thoroughly figured out the pattern.

Furthermore, there was another reason he didn't mention: the Evil Emperor, as the most powerful spirit-type soul beast on the continent, provided skills that were absolutely top-tier.

This can be seen from the battle just now. The skills Light of Destruction and Light of Time and Space are not even divine skills yet, but they were already able to hurt Brother Tianmeng to such an extent. If they were divine skills, what would happen then!?

Huo Yuhao, who was a god in his previous life, knew very well that even if they became gods of the same level, their combat power would still be divided into different grades. Given the opportunity, he would naturally choose a more powerful soul beast as his soul spirit.

"I think I've explained everything that needed to be explained. Now it's your turn to make a choice."

Staring at the enormous eyeball, Huo Yuhao asked, enunciating each word clearly.

"You only have this one chance. Tell me your choice: yes or no?"

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For no apparent reason, the Evil Emperor couldn't help but shudder.

For some reason, when he heard Huo Yuhao mention personal reasons, he felt a sudden panic.

Did I offend this guy at some point?

Wait a minute! Haven't I been sleeping all these years?!

Although he was somewhat worried that Huo Yuhao might make things difficult for him, it was absolutely impossible for him to give up this hard-won opportunity.

Just kidding. He finally got a chance to become a god, and if he lets it slip away, given his current severely injured state, he probably won't live for more than a few years.

Of course, even if he hadn't been injured, he would have died in the upcoming eight hundred thousand-year tribulation.

After all, he didn't have the Lake of Life to help him recover from his injuries. Although he successfully escaped from the Star Dou Great Forest, the injuries he sustained have not yet fully healed.

It is no exaggeration to say that from the moment he was defeated by Di Tian, ​​his essence was damaged, and he was destined to have no future.

Without further hesitation, the Evil Emperor gave his answer: "I agree."

"A wise choice. We can now prepare to begin the ceremony."

Huo Yuhao nodded slightly, then suddenly asked, "By the way, don't you have a human form? If you're too big, it might be inconvenient when the ritual starts later."

The Evil Emperor was somewhat confused: "Why transform into human form? Aren't I perfect or beautiful enough as I am now?"

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The entire room fell silent.

Looking at the enormous eyeballs before them, waving dozens of dark tentacles—eyes that would shatter the worldview of an ordinary person and make them question their existence—Huo Yuhao and Tianmeng opened their mouths, but hesitated to speak.

After hesitating for a while, he finally couldn't help but ask again.

"Are you serious?"

"Of course I'm serious. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, before I was even the strongest in my clan, I was already the most popular member of the Evil Eye clan."

As he spoke, the Evil Emperor's dozens of tentacles danced even more wildly.

"Look at these dark tentacles, this smooth skin. Oh, I'm sorry, my essence was damaged a bit earlier, and I've developed some wrinkles. I've indeed become a little uglier."

I think the key point might not be the wrinkles.

Huo Yuhao silently complained in his heart, but did not argue about this meaningless aesthetic issue. Instead, he gently comforted the other party.

"Don't worry, once you become a spirit, these injuries will be fully healed."

The Evil Emperor nodded seriously: "That's good. I'll definitely show you my most beautiful self then. I'm sure it will impress you."

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"Yuhao, now that things have been resolved, I'll head back now."

"Brother, brother too."

As if by unspoken agreement, Xue Di and Tian Meng pursed their lips tightly and, without any warning, re-integrated into his body, as if they were fleeing from some primordial beast.

Hearing the unrestrained laughter coming from the mental space, Huo Yuhao took a deep breath, trying to calm his emotions, and urged him with a smile.

"Alright, let's not talk about that anymore, let's begin."

"oh."

The Evil Emperor obediently retracted his tentacles: "What am I supposed to do?"

"Just stay where you are and don't move."

After saying that, Huo Yuhao began chanting obscure inscriptions, and gray runes appeared from the void, falling like streams of light around the Evil Emperor, encircling the two of them.

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Just as Huo Yuhao was turning his head to move Gu Yuena away, he seemed to suddenly remember something and looked at the Evil Emperor again.

"By the way, do you know what's in the center of the Jingyang Mountains?"

After their investigation, he and Gu Yuena have confirmed that the Dragon King's remains are not in the Demon Forest.

Adding to the Qiankun Wenqing Valley he had visited before, he had already ruled out two of the three possible locations. Now, the only one left was the Jingyang Mountains, which he initially considered the most likely.

Considering that the Demon Forest is adjacent to the Jingyang Mountains, and the Evil Emperor, who has lived there for many years, might know some inside information, he casually asked about it.

However, to Huo Yuhao's surprise, what he thought was a casual question actually led him to uncover some unknown secrets.

"I don't know exactly what's inside, but I can vaguely sense that it's something terrifying."

As he spoke, a hint of fear flashed across the Evil Emperor's enormous eyes, and he added with lingering fear, "The reason I live in the Demon Forest, where resources are even scarcer, is because I sensed the existence of that thing."

"Is it really that exaggerated?"

Huo Yuhao frowned slightly. Referring to the situation of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, although the power left behind by the Dragon King after his death was very strong, since the main body was already dead, the destructive power of this power to the surrounding environment was not actually too high.

Just like the lava in a volcano, it doesn't pose much of a threat to the surrounding area on ordinary days, but it has a terrifying destructive power when it erupts.

Similarly, even the most powerful force, without conscious control, will only dissipate little by little and will not intentionally bring destruction to its surroundings.

If that's the case, then what is the Evil Emperor afraid of?

Even the immortal herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, which are hundreds of thousands of years old, are not afraid of the energy emitted by the Ice and Fire Dragon King. Yet, he, a guy with nearly eight hundred thousand years of cultivation, was forced to live in a different place.

"The horror I'm talking about might be different from what you're thinking."

As if considering how to explain, the Evil Emperor hesitated for a long while before slowly speaking: "You should know that we soul beasts need to undergo a heavenly tribulation every 100,000 years, right?"

Huo Yuhao nodded: "What's the connection between these two things?"

"Of course there's a connection. That thing's effect is to greatly enhance the power of the lightning tribulation."

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Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao frowned sharply: "Is that so?"

"right."

The Evil Emperor's tone was somewhat solemn: "Haven't you ever thought that, even though the Jingyang Mountains are the largest gathering place for soul beasts on the Sun and Moon Continent, why don't you have even one ferocious beast on the list? You should know that even a place like the far north can produce two beings that rank on the ferocious beast list."

Huo Yuhao seemed to understand something: "So you mean that all the 100,000-year-old soul beasts in the Jingyang Mountains who were qualified to enter the ranks of ferocious beasts died without exception under the greatly amplified heavenly tribulation, which led to the situation you described?"

Before the Evil Emperor could answer, he couldn't help but ask, "Then why didn't they leave like you?"

"Because only I know about this."

The Evil Emperor spoke arrogantly: "I suppose you also know that when one's spiritual power reaches a certain level, one can vaguely sense things like luck or destiny. As a member of the Evil Eye clan with a single spiritual power attribute, my talent in this area is naturally unmatched by those clansmen with mixed attributes, or even other spiritual attribute soul beasts."

Huo Yuhao nodded; he already knew this in his previous life.

The attributes of the Evil Eye clan are incredibly diverse. Almost every Evil Eye possesses two or three different attributes, and some even have as many as ten attributes, which is even more exaggerated than that of Gu Yuena, the Silver Dragon King.

But what's strange about this race is that they are not stronger the more attributes they have. On the contrary, those Evil Eyes with few or no attributes possess greater talents and strength.

The Evil Emperor was the only member of the Evil Eye clan at the time whose sole attribute was mental power, which gave him a terrifying talent in mental power that was almost unmatched by anyone.

Under these circumstances, it's understandable that the Evil Emperor could sense more of the unseen fortune than other soul beasts.

Seeing that Huo Yuhao understood his meaning, the Evil Emperor continued to explain.

"With my innate spiritual talent, when my cultivation was close to two hundred thousand years old, I vaguely sensed that I might not be able to survive this tribulation. So I thought of going to other places to look for a breakthrough opportunity. Unexpectedly, not long after I left the Jingyang Mountains, that premonition disappeared in a miraculous way."

"From that moment on, I became more cautious and moved to the then desolate Demon Forest, only returning to the Jingyang Mountains to forage for food when I was hungry."

"In the long years that followed, as my mental strength grew stronger and my premonitions became clearer, after several comparative experiments, I finally determined that the source of all this was in the center of the Jingyang Mountains."

"I see."

Huo Yuhao nodded slightly and pressed on, "Didn't you tell the other soul beasts about this?"

"what?"

As if he couldn't quite understand his question, the Evil Emperor asked in confusion.

"Why tell them? Wouldn't it be better to let them die and become the boss yourself?"

Huo Yuhao choked for a moment, instinctively wanting to say something, but unexpectedly, the Evil Emperor interrupted him.

"I know what you want to say is that my strength has surpassed that of the soul beasts in Jingyang Mountain Range and Demon Forest. Even if I tell other soul beasts this, their strength will not be able to surpass mine, and I will still be the king here."

"But I'm different from that guy Di Tian. I don't care at all about the life or death of the soul beasts in Jingyang Mountain Range. This world is a dog-eat-dog world. Even if they can't threaten me right now, what if I get injured like I am now?"

"I don't want to be seriously injured one day in the future, only to have someone suddenly appear on my turf trying to challenge my position."

Huo Yuhao remained silent, but did not say anything more.

He had no interest in demanding high moral standards from those around him, especially since the person in front of him was a soul beast who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years and whose thinking was already fixed. As long as they didn't provoke him, he wouldn't care about so much.

After thinking for a moment, he continued, "Speaking of which, haven't you ever thought about going to see what's hidden at the heart of the mountains?"

"Of course I thought about it, but I didn't go myself. Instead, I sent a member of my clan to explore. According to that member's description, it was a desolate place shrouded in purple energy. Although he couldn't go much further because of his insufficient strength, he could vaguely hear thunder coming from the depths."

"Purple energy, thunder."

Huo Yuhao frowned. So the Dragon King's power is lightning-attribute?

I've never heard of that before. Wait a minute!

Recalling the Annihilation Lightning unleashed by the God of Destruction in his previous life, which was also composed of a ball of energy flashing with purple arcs of electricity, his pupils suddenly contracted.

That wasn't ordinary lightning; it was destructive power!

Combining what Gu Yuena had said about how the aura of the Dragon King in the Jingyang Mountains disgusted and felt unfamiliar to her, and some legends circulating in the Sun Moon Empire, he finally understood the origin of that Dragon King.

Purple Radiance Annihilates Heavenly Dragon.

Thinking of this, he subconsciously looked at Gu Yuena with a questioning gaze.

The two did not exchange words, only a brief glance. Gu Yuena shook her head as if she understood his thoughts.

"It can't be the Purple Emperor Annihilation Dragon. Although it also controls the power of destruction, as a sub-dragon, its strength is at most equivalent to an ordinary true dragon. The one that is strong enough for me to sense should be the sub-dragon ancestor who was personally killed by the Dragon God."

"As for the relationship between the two, you can understand it as the so-called Purple Emperor Annihilating the Heavenly Dragon being just a stronger branch among the countless descendants of the sub-dragon ancestor."

Huo Yuhao suddenly understood and nodded slightly.

He had just been wondering how the Purple Emperor Annihilation Dragon, if it truly possessed the strength of a God-King, could possibly have become a human's Martial Soul.

Just as someone might be lucky enough to awaken the Ice Dragon Martial Soul, no one is born with the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul.

Generally, innate martial souls have an upper limit. Someone like Elder Mu, with his Radiant Dragon, is already at the very pinnacle, and it's almost impossible for him to go any further.

(End of this chapter)