According to records, wherever a soul beast like the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad passed, it would leave behind a deadly poison that lasted for a long time. Even soul beasts stronger than it would find it difficult to harm it.
As a soul master's martial soul, the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad had appeared in the history of the continent, but it was extremely rare.
The situation with the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad was somewhat like Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul before—the internal cold poison could backlash against its owner. If not careful, the soul master would die from the cold poison attacking the heart, so it was rare for anyone to cultivate into a powerhouse with it.
Huo Yuhao didn't know what medicine Jing Hongchen had been using to suppress his granddaughter's cold poison. Since the old man trusted him with his granddaughter, he had to take responsibility and take good care of Meng Hongchen.
The most powerful aspect of the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad was its poison, a deadly toxin cultivated by absorbing the extreme cold energy of heaven and earth.
The reason this soul beast didn't live deep in the Extreme North was partly because the Three Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North resided there, and partly because although the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad was ice-attribute throughout, its pair of eyes were fire-attribute, which was extremely special and not very adaptable to the extreme cold.
Its special cold poison was produced through the alternating use of its own ice and fire abilities.
As one of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North, all ice-attribute soul beasts in the world today acknowledged the Ice Empress as their king. The Ice Jade Scorpion clan was their natural nemesis.
Even so, the Ultimate Ice granted to Huo Yuhao by the Ice Empress could only make him completely unaffected by the cold poison; curing it was out of the question.
"How did Hall Master Hongchen suppress her cold poison before?" Huo Yuhao forced himself to stay calm and first asked Xiao Hongchen, who knew the cold poison in Meng Hongchen's body best.
Xiao Hongchen lowered his head in shame. He used to be extremely self-centered. With Jing Hongchen around, why would he pay much attention to the cold poison in his sister's body?
He told Huo Yuhao that Meng Hongchen's condition only appeared when she awakened her martial soul at the age of six. At that time, Xiao Hongchen was just a half-grown child himself.
Hearing his words, Huo Yuhao frowned tightly. Probably only he in this world could save Meng Hongchen. The Vermilion Clear Ice Toad's cold poison was produced by alternating ice and fire attributes, and his Necromancer Holy Spirit God now also possessed ice and fire dual attributes, only with the word "Ultimate" added in front.
"Huo Yuhao, I don't want to die, wuwu..." Meng Hongchen was still conscious. The outbreak of cold poison was too sudden, and she didn't even have time to faint.
"Don't worry. How could I bear to let my girl die like this?" Huo Yuhao comforted her.
He had thought about directly using the characteristics of the Immortal Spirit Wood to absorb the cold poison in Meng Hongchen's body, but the cold poison was now hidden in Meng Hongchen's martial soul. This move would likely cripple her martial soul.
To be safe, Huo Yuhao first sank into his spiritual sea to search for a way to solve the cold poison from the pill formulas left by Senior Xiao Huohuo.
Before long, he focused on a piece of idle information in the corner: "There are thousands of poison bodies in the world, divided into innate and acquired. Innate is born with it, while acquired is artificially created. Between the two, the former is naturally more powerful and has no solution. But by chance, one can completely control the poison body, making the poison power in the body controllable at will."
"This control method, I call the Poison Pill Method. Condense all the accumulated toxins in the body and finally turn them into a poison pill in the body. If the poison pill is formed, the thousands of poison bodies in the world will become truly terrifying physiques. I have a female confidante who once caused a terrifying disaster because of a certain poison body. Fortunately, I found this method from my teacher, saving my close friend from tragedy."
Truly the omnipotent Senior Xiao Huohuo... Huo Yuhao sighed with emotion, then continued reading.
"To refine a poison pill, roughly only three things are needed. First, three kinds of special powerful flames. Second, the essence of a scorpion beast with high-level dragon bloodline. Third, the sap of a spirit tree comparable to the laws of the plane in ancient times..."
The first category was fine; Huo Yuhao had three powerful fire seeds in his hands. As for the latter two categories...
Huo Yuhao exited the spiritual sea and asked Xiao Hongchen and Nana beside him. Maybe Mingde Hall had these strange things in its collection.
Xiao Hongchen was very confused. The Dragon Clan was already the highest bloodline on this continent. How could one find a scorpion soul beast with a high-level dragon bloodline? As for the third category, that was even more fantastical.
"Let's go out and look first." Nana pulled the ugly-faced Xiao Hongchen. Rather than thinking hard here, it was better to go out and look for relevant clues.
"We'll help too." The Lan sisters and Die Qiu also seconded.
"Go ahead. I might have to make another trip to Star Dou." Huo Yuhao smiled bitterly. Maybe with Di Tian and the others' experience, they might have seen such existences.
After everyone left the room, Huo Yuhao took out the Plane Core, preparing to return to Star Dou again.
"Yuhao, I know about the latter two things."
Suddenly, the Ice Empress appeared in front of Huo Yuhao again in the image of a twintail loli, only with a somewhat strange expression.
"That's great! Ice Empress, do you have them?" Huo Yuhao stood up as if injected with chicken blood, pleasantly surprised.
"Not me, you have them." The Ice Empress's expression became a bit stranger, "I chose to merge my origin into your body back then. Plus the small amount of Golden Dragon King essence you absorbed, you naturally meet the second condition."
"You mean, my essence blood?" Huo Yuhao was stunned, almost forgetting his own condition.
"Mmm... and about the third item..." The Ice Empress's expression became even stranger.
"Don't tell me it's that World Tree." Huo Yuhao's face darkened. He and Gu Yuena still couldn't figure out the origin of that thing.
"Although the Dragon Realm isn't stable, due to the special existence of the Dragon God's skeleton, not just any species can easily take root and grow in the center of the Dragon Realm," the Ice Empress reminded.
"That means the World Tree can rival the divine thought left by the Dragon God in the Dragon Realm." Huo Yuhao continued, hope gradually shining in his eyes.
"Worth a try." The Ice Empress smiled.
"Haha, as expected of the Ice Empress! Love you to death!" Huo Yuhao excitedly picked up the Ice Empress and rubbed his face wildly against her cold face.
"E-enough! Huo Yuhao, put me down—" The Ice Empress was startled by his sudden move and struggled hurriedly.
"Hahaha, Little Meng is saved!"
Huo Yuhao saw hope and laughed with his hands on his hips, completely disregarding the Ice Empress who was constantly whipping him with her twintails.
Without delay, Huo Yuhao plunged into the Dragon Realm. Under the puzzled gazes of his partners, he flew towards the World Tree in the center of the Dragon Tomb.
After a year, this giant tree towering into the clouds already couldn't be seen to the top at a glance, but Huo Yuhao could feel that the World Tree was still growing vigorously.
It was constantly absorbing the dragon power of the Dragon Realm, turning it into its own nutrients, and at the same time transmitting amazing heaven and earth origin power to this dead small plane, making the Dragon Realm stabilize at an amazing speed in this year.
Before long, the Dragon Realm would be able to become his mobile cabin for traversing the universe, taking him to the Abyss Plane to turn the tables on the Crimson Mother of the original future timeline.
And the Dragon Horse Twin Stars, which hadn't experienced the Dragon Transformation, apart from having huge energy, might not be comparable to the current Douluo Continent in other aspects.
Perhaps the future development of things might not be as smooth as Huo Yuhao planned, but at least Huo Yuhao determined the future goal through foreknowledge.
Thinking like this, Huo Yuhao had already arrived in front of the roots of the World Tree.
Looking closely, one could find that the roots of the World Tree were covered with dense scales of different shapes.
Huo Yuhao knew clearly that these were all dragon scales, genuine dragon scales. Could it be that the World Tree would turn into a giant dragon?
Reaching out to touch, he could feel that the hardness of the tree body was beyond imagination. Even bombing with Grade 9 stationary soul cannon shells might not be able to break the defense of the World Tree.
Picking up the Life Guardian Blade and preparing to act, Huo Yuhao instantly felt a strange feeling, as if he was planning to stab himself.
Undeniably, this towering giant tree rooted in the Dragon Tomb was naturally Huo Yuhao's second martial soul, the World Tree. As for why it differentiated a trace of origin to materialize in the Dragon Realm, this was a problem Huo Yuhao hadn't figured out yet.
Huo Yuhao shook his head. The urgent task was to get some tree sap from the World Tree first. Holding the Life Guardian Blade, he slashed at the bark.
The moment the sharp Life Guardian Blade with the property of indestructibility cut through the surface of the bark, a slight pain spread throughout his body, as if a small cut was made on a certain part of his body.
Good guy, have I turned into Huo Tree-man?
At this time, it could be seen that scarlet liquid was constantly flowing out of the small cut he made. That different feeling looked like he was bleeding no matter how you looked at it.
Damn! When I have time later, I must figure out what's going on with this tree!
Huo Yuhao took out an exquisite jade box previously used to hold medicinal herbs and caught the red liquid.
As if the wound would heal, just as Huo Yuhao filled half the box, the red liquid stopped flowing out, forming a red scab at the breach.
This tree definitely has something strange! Huo Yuhao's expression twitched, and he immediately transmitted a message to his partners not to approach it.
He was afraid that those reckless guys like Xie Huanyue would treat this tree as a sparring partner when they had nothing to do one day, and break his old waist then.
With strange emotions, Huo Yuhao returned to the outside world.
At this time, Meng Hongchen had completely fainted. Huo Yuhao came lightly to her bedside and took out the jade box filled with red tree sap.
Huo Yuhao thought for a moment and decided to wake her up.
"Yuhao?" Meng Hongchen's face was extremely pale. When she saw Huo Yuhao, she barely squeezed out a smile on her pretty face.
"Am I going to die?"
"What are you thinking? You haven't married me yet..." Huo Yuhao gently held her hand and smiled softly.
Meng Hongchen didn't shy away from this topic this time. She stared at Huo Yuhao fixedly, "From the first time I saw you, you teased me in front of the Sun Moon Team. At that time, I always wanted to teach you a lesson..."
"As that competition progressed, your figure became more and more dazzling. Even though you were younger than me and my brother, your strength far surpassed ours."
Seeing Meng Hongchen falling into memories, Huo Yuhao couldn't help recalling when he took Xie Huanyue and the others to join the Sun Moon Team a few years ago.
At that time, he had just returned from the Extreme North. Just as Huo Gua in the original timeline experienced a transformation, he also ushered in an epic change.
If not for Tang San secretly strengthening his daughter, there probably wouldn't have been any team in the audience that could be his opponent.
It was also at that time that Meng Hongchen gradually fell for Huo Yuhao's heroic posture.
It was Huo Yuhao who led her Sun Moon Team to defeat the arrogant Shrek Academy participating team.
"At that time, you were particularly philandering, being good with Senior Sister Juzi while flirting with Ning Tian and the other two..."
Hearing this, Huo Yuhao didn't feel embarrassed. Looking back now, there was only warmth left.
"As they became more and more powerful, I was so worried about being left behind, until you took me to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well." Meng Hongchen continued to reminisce, her beautiful eyes slightly lost in thought.
It was also there that Meng Hongchen obtained the first soul spirit in her life, and also the only plant-type fierce beast soul spirit obtained by Huo Gua at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in the original timeline, the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.
"Later, you disappeared. Everyone was very worried. Although I sent people to look for you, you disappeared as if you had evaporated from the world..."
Huo Yuhao finally touched the tip of his nose awkwardly. Even now, the scenes of being imprisoned in the Holy Spirit Cult for those three years still gave him endless aftertastes from time to time at midnight...
Although it looked enjoyable, it was also the most dangerous situation since Huo Yuhao descended to this world.
Truly fish on the chopping block, at the mercy of others!
"At the blind date conference, you finally came back. The reason why my brother and I could ignore our identities to help you was also what I constantly fought for with Grandpa..." Meng Hongchen finally told the truth she had been hiding, moving Huo Yuhao.
He always thought that the Hongchen siblings rushing into the battlefield with the Martial Soul Fusion Skill Red Dust Love to relieve the siege for their partners was instructed by Jing Hongchen.
Hearing it now, it was the result of Meng Hongchen's constant striving.
Huo Yuhao sighed. The hardest blessing to accept is the grace of a beauty...
"Little Meng, don't be afraid. I can save you." Huo Yuhao could guess that Meng Hongchen told him these things because she thought she couldn't live.
"I believe you." Meng Hongchen gently closed her beautiful eyes and smiled sweetly.
The Vermilion Clear Ice Toad's cold poison was accumulated in the martial soul for many years, definitely not poisoning in the body's blood. She thought Huo Yuhao's way of saving her would naturally be to cripple her martial soul.
In that way, Meng Hongchen, reduced to an ordinary person, would no longer be qualified to fight everywhere with Huo Yuhao.
At that time, she would leave quietly alone until Huo Yuhao, Grandpa, and Brother could no longer find her, growing old alone listening to the legend of Demon King Huo Yuhao.
"Good, in that case..." Huo Yuhao took a deep breath first, then sat on Meng Hongchen's bed and hugged her in his arms.
"Then be my woman, Little Meng'er." Huo Yuhao hugged very tightly, his tone allowing no rebuttal.
Like an arbitrary Demon King, domineeringly declaring his sovereignty.
Looking at Huo Yuhao's affectionate eyes, Meng Hongchen was stunned at first, then bit her red lips lightly with her white teeth and nodded somewhat shyly.
She didn't know that Huo Yuhao was fully prepared to help her solve the cold poison in her body. Even with such a domineering request, she didn't want to refuse. Otherwise, how could she be worthy of her love all these years?
"Before this, I want you to let go of the suppression of the cold poison and fully trigger the toxin."
Huo Yuhao didn't know what Meng Hongchen was thinking. He took a deep breath, his palm trembling uncontrollably. If he couldn't really solve the cold poison in the end, Meng Hongchen would probably die on the spot.
Seeing Huo Yuhao's slightly trembling palm, Meng Hongchen realized that Huo Yuhao wanted to detoxify her first. A moving smile appeared on her pretty face.
"Take off your clothes. I'm starting!"
Hearing this, Meng Hongchen was stunned. A blush quickly flew onto her pretty face. But seeing Huo Yuhao's solemn face without any other emotions, she bit her white teeth lightly. Anyway, it was impossible for her to fall for anyone else, so she didn't mind giving herself to him!
Although compared to Yu'er, other female characters don't have much ink spilled on them, the author also tries to give each of them a separate branch story. Wonder if everyone likes Little Meng'er?