The Abyssal Sage King, having suffered twice already, did not strike immediately. Instead, he cautiously led the Abyssal Plane to hide far away.
Nonsense, the God Realm hasn't been swept away by the space-time turbulence yet; wouldn't going to the Douluo Planet now be seeking death?
The Abyssal Sage King knew very well that back then, Tang San had triumphantly announced his complete ten-thousand-year grand plan right in front of him. So, as long as he didn't fall for it and didn't invade the Douluo Plane, Tang San's ten-thousand-year plan would be all for naught.
But if he didn't take revenge on these grandsons of the Tang family, would he even be fit to be a Plane Ruler?
Truth be told, the current Abyssal Sage King had long since abandoned any thoughts of creating a God Realm. What he wanted to do now was just one thing: make those bastards of the Tang family, who had schemed against him, pay the price they deserved.
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The nine-colored light on the Silver Dragon Spear gradually dimmed, as if resonating with the Silver Dragon Inverse Scale on his chest.
It's finally over... Just as Huo Yuhao was thinking this, in the next instant, his eyes widened.
He felt a surge of pure energy rushing from the Silver Dragon Spear into his body. It wasn't soul power, but rather energy rushing straight into his brain and entering his Sea of Consciousness. Huo Yuhao felt as if his Sea of Consciousness was being washed clean.
Spiritual power?
Although this pure spiritual power wasn't enough to make Huo Yuhao leap directly from the Spirit Abyss Realm to the Spirit Domain Realm, there was no doubt that this energy would significantly shorten the time it took for him to cultivate to the Spirit Domain Realm. The fusion of his own spiritual power and soul power would also speed up considerably.
Even though Huo Yuhao himself was a spiritual-type Spirit Master, everyone knew that the hardest thing to cultivate was spiritual power!
Gu Yuena's cold and melodious voice rang in Huo Yuhao's ear.
"I will find you when you break through to five rings."
Then, the Silver Dragon Spear in his hand turned into a streak of silver light, bored into the Silver Dragon Inverse Scale on his chest, and disappeared...
Long Qiu'er retracted the Golden Dragon Spear and came to Huo Yuhao's side. She looked him up and down and said somewhat sourly, "The Lord truly regards you highly."
"Is... is that so?"
Long Qiu'er turned her head away somewhat proudly, "Anyway, I've never seen her be this attentive to anyone else..."
Seeing Miss Long Qiu'er's rare jealous display, Huo Yuhao didn't dare to make any more jokes. Instead, he turned to look at the Snow Emperor, took out a box made of cold jade from his storage belt, and handed it over.
"By the way, Miss Snow Emperor, this is for you. Please rest assured, I traded with someone for this."
The Snow Emperor curiously took the box and opened it.
Those beautiful blue eyes suddenly widened, filled with a hint of anger, "This is!?"
As the Ruler of the Extreme North, how could the Snow Emperor not recognize the origin of this soul bone?
"It's probably from the Ice Jade Scorpion that those humans hunted in the Extreme North last time..." Huo Yuhao gave a bitter smile. "I got it from an auction. It's said to have the solidified soul skill Ice Explosion. I thought this soul skill would be very useful to you."
"Ice... Ice Explosion..."
The Snow Emperor was also startled. The Ice Explosion soul skill was a lethal weapon for any ice-attribute Spirit Master, but similarly, this move was extremely rare. Even the Snow Emperor, a seven-hundred-thousand-year Ferocious Beast, did not possess this soul skill.
With such a good thing appearing before her, it was impossible for the Snow Emperor not to be tempted. One must remember that the current Snow Emperor had already transformed into a human and could absorb soul bones.
As for the Ice Emperor saying she could challenge the Snow Emperor if she had this soul skill, that was just talk... The Ice Emperor belonged to the type who never yielded with her mouth but never won in actual combat—a classic prideful little lolita.
Meeting Huo Yuhao's eyes, the Snow Emperor's gaze became somewhat blurred and distracted, her cherry-colored tender lips slightly parting and closing.
She really owed him so many favors...
The original Snow Emperor was completely ignorant of romantic matters; otherwise, she wouldn't have beaten the Titan Snow Devil King into a thousand-year recovery just for confessing his love...
But at this moment, the young girl's icy heart of the Heavenly Snow Woman had unknowingly begun to melt.
Even the Snow Emperor herself didn't notice that her originally cool voice had become much gentler, "...Consider it that I owe you one."
Huo Yuhao nodded vigorously, finally breathing a sigh of relief. He had been afraid the Snow Emperor wouldn't accept this gift.
"Good, we will protect you!"
After taking the soul bone, the Snow Emperor sat cross-legged and began to absorb it, using the massive origin power within her body to modify the soul bone.
The pure white Snow Pill at her lower abdomen spun rapidly, and circles of pure white halos fell onto her left arm, merging and resonating with the jade-green of the Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone. The original jade-green faded under the washing of the white halo; when the two combined, it was actually a pure blue-white color.
This Snow Pill was naturally the origin power accumulated from the Snow Emperor's seven-hundred-thousand-year cultivation, sealed within her body using a Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus. She intended to use this energy to condense soul rings for herself when her cultivation broke through.
However, the Snow Emperor's current physique after re-cultivating as a human was completely insufficient to withstand this power. She could only rely on the Snow Lotus seal and the magic seal taught by Electrolux to keep it in her body.
In other words, this massive origin power was like a backup emergency energy source in the Snow Emperor's body; if she wasn't careful, it could become a time bomb. Using a bit more of it now was actually a safeguard for the future.
Although it was impossible to make this soul bone gain an extra soul skill out of thin air, she could increase its quality from nearly seventy-thousand years to one-hundred-thousand years.
A hundred-thousand-year Ice Explosion!
Huo Yuhao suddenly had a strange thought: if the Snow Emperor used this move, she should be able to blow that fellow Xuan Zi to death, right?
At this moment, his hand was suddenly held. From that soft yet warm palm, an incredibly mellow energy was transmitted, causing his body to tremble involuntarily.
This pure energy flowed directly into the blood essence vortex at his chest. The scales of the Deep Blue Glazed Dragon martial soul emerged uncontrollably, each dragon scale filled with dazzling glazed light. His whole body felt as if it were soaking in a hot spring, so comfortable he almost groaned aloud.
This is...
Huo Yuhao looked beside him in surprise, only to see Long Qiu'er's cold yet stunningly beautiful profile, backlit by golden light.
Swallowing hard, he suddenly felt that perhaps saying nothing was best right now.
He tightened his grip on Long Qiu'er's hand as well.
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Somewhere on the outskirts of Star Luo City.
"Idiots! Idiots! You two fools!"
A green-skinned, burly old man gave Yu Tao and Lang Ya each a flick on the forehead.
Though Lang Ya and Yu Tao felt aggrieved, they could only rub their heads and lower their gazes, not daring to speak.
"Forget it, forget it. If that kid didn't explicitly refuse, then there's hope. I'll go see him personally."
Yu Tao asked in surprise, "Eh, Sect Master, you're going personally? Isn't that..."
Du Busi waved his hand, "A great talent like that is naturally worth me paying a personal visit."