Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 1166 Extreme Hatred (4K)

"Child, what do you want to know? As long as I know it, I will keep quiet about it."

After a long while, Ah Yin finally returned Tang Wutong's soul fragment to Huo Yuhao after much hesitation.

Huo Yuhao hesitated for a moment, but then he saw Ah Yin gently shake her head: "It's not safe for Wu Tong to stay with me. Although Wu Tong's soul fragments almost harmed you before, it wasn't her intention. I hope you don't mind."

After retrieving Tang Wutong's soul fragments, Huo Yuhao still asked the question that had been troubling him the most.

"Why would you, senior, be so determined to die? Isn't it your duty to cooperate with Tang San and complete his grand plan of ten thousand years?"

Huo Yuhao's question was quite direct and to the point.

Ah Yin simply shook her head: "Child, do you really understand plant-type spirit beasts?"

Huo Yuhao was stunned. Did he really understand plant-type soul beasts? Perhaps Wang Dong'er knew more than him, after all, she had at least two great soul spirits by her side: the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass and the Fiery Apricot.

Although he has a good relationship with the world of spirit beasts, in reality, whether it is the far north, the ocean, or the Star Dou Forest, he only has a good relationship with animal-type spirit beasts.

Among plant-type soul beasts, he only knew the Demon King and a group of immortal items in the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire.

"To know what you know, and to admit what you don't know," Huo Yuhao shook his head.

Ah Yin wasn't surprised by Huo Yuhao's answer. She said calmly, "We plant-type soul beasts are different from animal-type soul beasts. Before we gain more than 100,000 years of cultivation, we spend 99% of our time in slumber. We only wake up briefly when we are awakened by our natural enemies."

"For most plant-type soul beasts, if they haven't mastered the ability to move freely after 100,000 years, the sudden awakening of their intelligence after 100,000 years is a curse."

"But even so, at least we can willingly fall into a deep sleep."

At this point, Ah Yin turned her head to look at her true form, a complex expression on her face.

"But here, I can't fall asleep on my own."

Ah Yin's tone was calm, as if she had already accepted everything.

But Huo Yuhao felt as if a thunderbolt had struck his mind, and a chill spread from his spine to the top of his head.

Even the expression on his face when he looked at Ah Yin was filled with shock.

"If he had remained rational, would Tang San have buried him alive underground for ten thousand years?"

Huo Yuhao swallowed hard, his voice trembling slightly, and filled with a fear that seemed to originate from his very soul.

He had never imagined that such torture existed in the world, let alone that someone could calmly talk to him after enduring such torture for ten thousand years!

Huo Yuhao felt that his pain tolerance was already quite high.

For him, the pain of being stabbed and shattered to pieces was nothing more than a trifle.

Even the soul fire that Electrolux excels at burning, or the reforging of his entire body's nerve fiber bundles when absorbing the external bones of the spine, are not obstacles that he cannot overcome.

But what Ah Yin was experiencing at this moment was something that Huo Yuhao could never have imagined in his short twenty years of life experience.

Imagine a person buried alive underground for ten thousand years, still retaining their sanity, yet confined to a single place. This is the most fundamental, evil, extreme, and heinous form of torture for any intelligent life. Even being torn to pieces would be like a raw recruit in the face of such cruelty.

"You understand, right?"

Ah Yin's voice was bitter and trembling. He shook his head violently, like a drug addict going through withdrawal. His entire spiritual energy convulsed continuously, his face turned flushed and crazed, and it took several breaths for him to slowly calm down.

The moment Ah Yin's voice appeared, Huo Yuhao clearly sensed Ah Yin's most genuine and intense emotions.

It was a wanton outburst like a wildfire, an emotion as intense and volatile as the sun, which once gave Huo Yuhao the illusion that Ah Yin's emotions had reached the point where she could use her willpower to reverse the reality of the world.

For ten thousand years, a lonely soul witnessed the death of the Golden Tree, yet could do nothing, its consciousness confined to a small area near its heart.

Ah Yin's desire for death at that moment even surpassed all the emotions Huo Yuhao had ever witnessed.

That extreme, most vicious curse against Tang San, brewed from being forgotten in the cracks of time due to the surging river of time, was like something gushing out from the eighteenth level of hell.

The emotion was dark, terrifying, and profound; even the nearby Blue Silver Emperor roots showed signs of turning black.

But soon, a golden trident mark slowly lit up on Ah Yin's heart, purifying the power that was turning black, and then disappeared.

Ah Yin seemed to be used to this scene, her whole body like a corpse, indifferent to the scene before her, only with an extremely stiff smile on her lips.

"I should be thanking you."

Ah Yin glanced at Huo Yuhao, then turned to look at her own heart, her eyes filled with a sense of感慨 (gǎnkǎi, a feeling of deep emotion or reflection).

"If it weren't for the successive leaders of your Sea God Pavilion who went to great lengths to kill me several times, causing my soul to fall into a deep slumber several times, I might have gone mad long ago."

"Although the tranquility of death will soon be broken, it has kept me from going completely insane. If I remember correctly, the current leader of the Sea God Pavilion is named Mu En?"

A look of relief spread across Ah Yin's face: "That child paralyzed my soul with his soul power. I haven't had a proper rest for years. Thank you, thank you so much."

Ah Yin's tone was very sincere, but it brought a bitter smile to Huo Yuhao's face.

Neither Elder Mu nor the ancestors of the Sea God Pavilion were plotting for this reason.

Who could have predicted that such successive sacrifices would not only fail to kill Ah Yin, but also, by a stroke of luck, preserve Ah Yin's sanity and prevent her from going completely insane?

But this is good, at least he can get a lot of secrets from Ah Yin.

If Ah Yin really goes insane and becomes a puppet that can be controlled by others, it would be a more troublesome situation for Huo Yuhao.

It was precisely because of this that Huo Yuhao also understood many of the confusions in his heart, such as why Ah Yin kept actively seeking death, and those strange emotional reactions.

For Ah Yin, even if death is just a temporary relief, it is infinitely better than being trapped in this endless prison and living each day like a year.

Death has become a reward; isn't that ironic?

(End of this chapter)