The youth had a handsome and fair face, and a pair of large eyes that were a very special, faint powder-blue. His neat short hair was also the same color. His handsome features seemed to surpass even the Bei Bei that Huo Yuhao had seen earlier. He was indeed the best-looking person of the same age that Huo Yuhao had ever seen. His height and age seemed to be about the same as his.
It can't be this much of a coincidence, can it? Huo Yuhao's eyebrows twitched wildly.
The youth shot him an arrogant glare. "Get out of the way."
"Okay," Huo Yuhao put on a weak appearance and stepped aside to make way for the youth, while internally screaming: Please, please don't notice me!
Seeing the youth's high-and-mighty attitude, a new student at the side couldn't help but get angry. "Why should we listen to you? Do you think you can just walk sideways in the academy?"
The youth snorted coldly. "If you don't listen to me, I'll just beat you out of here. Try me if you don't believe it."
How could those who could get into Shrek be pushovers? Some of the new students couldn't stand this kind of arrogant attitude the most and crowded over. "Try us then. Let's go outside."
Seeing the group of new students showing no weakness, the youth actually smiled. His smile was very good-looking, but the disdainful and contemptuous flavor of it further ignited the anger in the hearts of the new student group.
"Remember my name, Wang Dong. Today, I will defeat you all one by one!" the youth continued to say contemptuously.
Wang Dong's words immediately caused a commotion. This was the first time they had seen a peer who dared to be so arrogant at Shrek Academy.
"Get him!"
"Beat him to the ground!"
Watching this group of new students shouting indignantly, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but sigh. His God-King old dad left a wisp of divine sense in her spiritual sea. Forget taking turns, even if all the new students attacked together, the moment she's in danger, the Sea God will descend and cripple you all with one strike of his trident.
Yes, the person who had arrived was none other than the main female lead from the original story, Huo Yuhao's future wife, the Butterfly Dragon Douluo, the Butterfly God Tang Wutong, in her cross-dressing alias: Wang Dong. The precious daughter of the Sea God Tang San and the Asura Sword Scabbard Xiao Wu.
But in Huo Yuhao's heart, there was another layer of speculation.
Tang Wutong. As the name implied, the little phoenix of the Sea God Tang San and Xiao Wu. But the question was, could Tang Wutong really be considered just their daughter?
Perhaps, Tang Wutong's real name should more appropriately be Tang Xuetong.
Admittedly, one couldn't deny the blood relationship among the three of them, but Tang Wutong's first martial soul was the Radiant Butterfly Goddess. Have you ever heard of grass plus a rabbit mutating into a butterfly? Or a hammer plus a rabbit making a butterfly? Can the combination of a plant, a mammal, and a tool mutate into an insect?
If this were on Close-up on Science, they could probably make thirty episodes out of it.
There wasn't much to say about the other two martial souls in Tang Wutong's three-soul set: the ancestral wolf-repelling Clear Sky Hammer and her father's god-seat martial soul. The problem lay with the first martial soul, the Radiant Butterfly Goddess.
Goddess? Light attribute? Can fly? This was enough to let one's imagination run wild. Perhaps believers in the Sea God would think it was a miracle created by the power of a god, but then why not give Tang Wulin a dragon-type martial soul later? At least it would have been much more comfortable when absorbing the Golden Dragon King's essence.
The original novel did not specify the final fate of the Angel God Qian Renxue, but with the Tang Buddha's ruthless methods and two-faced personality, how could he tolerate a powerful woman who had once climbed to a divine throne still being alive and well, secretly causing trouble on his Tang family's continent? Many insightful people on the Douluo Continent believed that the god-seat-shattered Qian Renxue was most likely suppressed or imprisoned for life.
And the overflowing Angelic divine power from Qian Renxue naturally couldn't be given to an outsider. It was highly likely that the Asura Sword Scabbard absorbed it, which led to the first martial soul of the born Tang Wutong mutating into the Radiant Butterfly Goddess.
And research had long recorded that a child's martial soul would follow the side of the parent with the higher quality martial soul. Compared to the heaven-defying Blue Silver Emperor and the number one tool martial soul, the Clear Sky Hammer, a mere rabbit, even if it was a Soft-Boned Rabbit, was completely outclassed, wasn't it?
Where did the Radiant Butterfly Goddess, which could rival the Blue Silver Emperor plus the Clear Sky Hammer, come from? The original Angel God Qian Renxue, suppressed on Sea God Island, had something to say about that.
Therefore, in his heart, Huo Yuhao was more willing to call Tang Wutong, Tang Xuetong.
Mmm, Tang San and Qian Renxue's little phoenix, incubated by the Asura Sword Scabbard. Hahahaha!
The original Angel God Qian Renxue, suppressed on Sea God Island, would be pissed. She was still a ten-thousand-year-old virgin, yet her plundered Angelic divine power had actually combined with Tang San's to give birth to a child.
If it were the lovesick Qian Renxue from before the battle of two gods versus two gods, she might have been delighted. But as for her current self, having been treated like that, well, it was hard to say...
Huo Yuhao's thoughts were shared with Bibi Dong, so the Empress in his consciousness was now looking at Wang Dong with an incredibly complex gaze. If this girl really is the combination of Tang San and Xiao Wu's bloodline and Qian Renxue's divine power, then I should be her maternal grandmother...
"Don't think too much about it. Regardless of the martial soul, she is essentially their daughter," Huo Yuhao reminded Bibi Dong, to prevent her from becoming emotionally unstable.
"Xue'er... is she... still alive right now?" No matter how strong Bibi Dong was on a daily basis, she had once been a mother. Thinking of Qian Renxue, who had very likely been suppressed for ten thousand years, she couldn't help but burst into tears, crouching on the ground and sobbing.
"Don't worry. As long as she is still alive, I will definitely find a way to save her," Huo Yuhao sighed. His own spiritual consciousness in the spiritual sea sat down next to Bibi Dong and comforted her.
If Qian Renxue was really still alive, she was most likely imprisoned on Sea God Island. As the place of the Sea God's inheritance, it was bound to be the place Tang San could most easily interfere with. Without a certain level of strength, going there would just be serving himself up on a platter.
"You need to accelerate your cultivation. I will create your fourth and fifth soul rings according to the abilities you've conceived as soon as possible," Bibi Dong raised her head. At this moment, the face of this tragic woman was full of strength. Even if it was for her daughter, she had to pull herself together!
"There's still not enough time," Huo Yuhao said silently. Since transmigrating, aside from the few years he had to stay by his terminally ill mother's side, from blowing up the Duke's Mansion to leaving the Holy Ghost Cult a year later and arriving at Shrek, he had been desperately cultivating, recruiting troops, and building his own team. He didn't even shy away from using an evil soul master organization like the Holy Ghost Cult. His goal was to one day be able to wrestle with the Tang God-King who was far away in the God Realm.
"It's just a pity that in this life, I have to stay away from Wang Dong. The four-person martial soul fusion skill is out of the question, and the assistance of the Power of HaoDong will probably have to be ruled out as well," Huo Yuhao stood up and looked at Wang Dong, who was arranging a fight with a group of new students in the distance, and sighed.
In the original plot, it was precisely with the help of the Power of HaoDong that Huo Gua was able to cross the awkward period of cultivating an ultimate martial soul at the fastest speed and advance to a higher level realm.
But in this life, the moment Huo Yuhao got in close contact with Wang Dong, his identity as the Son of Fortune might be exposed to the Tang God-King's surveillance. Even the divine sense of the Rakshasa God Bibi Dong within his body would be in danger of being exposed.
"Yuhao."
Just as Huo Yuhao was struggling with the impact the loss of the Power of HaoDong would have on his future, the re-energized Bibi Dong walked over to him.
"The so-called martial soul fusion is actually established on the complete complementarity and perfect matching of the two parties' martial souls. And I, who have lost my physical body and have no martial soul, can also achieve this through linking my divine power to your spiritual power. You can call it spiritual fusion."
"And after our spiritual fusion, your body will be able to contain the Rakshasa divine power to assist in the circulation of your soul power. Coupled with the dual fusion, your cultivation speed will not be worse than the Power of HaoDong in the original plot!"
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's try it now!" Huo Yuhao was overjoyed. To him, Bibi Dong's words were simply like finding a village amidst the shade of willows and brightness of flowers when he thought there was no path forward!
"This spiritual fusion is actually..." Bibi Dong's pretty face suddenly turned rosy, and she stammered, unwilling to continue. Although she could know Huo Yuhao's thoughts at any time through their spiritual connection, with her ability, she could definitely achieve a one-sided block, not letting Huo Yuhao understand her thoughts.
"Your Majesty, you've given me such a big surprise. Why are you unwilling to say it now?" Huo Yuhao cried out, on the verge of going crazy.
"It's actually... divine... communion..."
This time, it was Bibi Dong's voice that was as soft as a mosquito's buzz. Unfortunately, this was in Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea. He could hear even the faintest sound.
"Divine... communion?" Huo Yuhao felt his brain short-circuit for a moment, but with this lecher's reaction speed, he quickly understood.
As Huo Yuhao's gaze towards her gradually became ambiguous, Bibi Dong irritably went forward and grabbed his ear. "You brat, don't get any funny ideas. I'm just a remnant wisp of divine sense."
A complete remnant soul's divine sense? Huo Yuhao couldn't help but think wickedly.
"How about... we give it a try?" Huo Yuhao opened his arms in an embracing gesture.
"I really regret telling you!" Bibi Dong shot him an annoyed glare, but no matter how one looked at it, her expression was incredibly alluring.
And so, in a vast palace, a man and a woman stood opposite each other. One could see the woman walking forward with slight hesitation, bending down to gently embrace the youth's waist. Instantly, the youth grew to the size of an adult and, in a reverse move, pulled the woman into his arms.
"Be gentle!" Bibi Dong's face was rosy, as if reprimanding the youth for his roughness.
Huo Yuhao chuckled. His spiritual power naturally connected with Bibi Dong's divine power. However, because their divine sense avatars did not merge together, only a small portion of the completely different energies circulated between the two avatars, quietly fusing into one.
You are in me, and I am in you.
Just by circulating like this for a moment, both of them had a feeling of being refreshed and invigorated. It was obvious that if they were to cultivate in complete, negative-distance fusion, the speed would be much faster than maintaining a distance like this now. Moreover, they both deeply felt that this was just the beginning. The perfect fusion of spiritual power, soul power, and divine power, what it could derive would surely be more than just being able to cultivate together.
Only Bibi Dong knew the accurate answer to Huo Yuhao's true stockpiled soul power: Soul Emperor.
As long as the two of them could maintain this whole-hearted fusion cultivation, Bibi Dong was even confident that she could let Huo Yuhao achieve the Titled Douluo realm before he turned eighteen. And she herself could also restore her spirit body to its peak state at the fastest speed.
"It's a success! We succeeded!" Huo Yuhao was as excited as a child, as if a toy he had lost had been found again.
Bibi Dong was held tightly by him. The pleasant feeling brought by the brief divine communion made her unwilling to leave this embrace, but in the end, she forcibly suppressed the ecstasy deep in her soul and laughed by Huo Yuhao's ear, "Then this Empress shall give this divine soul fusion a name."
"Let's just call it... the Power of HaoDong?"
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In canon it was HaoDong (Huo Yuhao & Wang Dong'er), now its HaoDong too (Huo Yuhao & Bibi Dong)