Douluo: This time we will rewrite our destiny

By the time Huo Yuhao finished replying to the letter, it was already dark and the party was over. Xiao Hongchen, wearing a complicated and gorgeous prince-like outfit, walked towards Huo Qiu and the other person at the edge and snapped his fingers.

“Why do you look like that?” He leaned on Huo Yuhao’s shoulder, the metal accessories on his body clanking against each other. “Are you not having fun?”

“That’s not the case,” Huo Yuhao said, “But working overtime during the holidays would make it difficult for anyone to stay in a good mood.”

"what's up?"

"I guessed it before the fight. It's impossible for Douluo Three Kingdoms and Shrek not to take this opportunity to make some moves. However, Shrek's letter surprised me a little. I plan to deal with it after the holiday."

"It's too important for you to go." Xiao Hongchen pushed his shoulder, "Yuhao, even though you may not think highly of yourself, you are now the imperial teacher appointed by His Highness. If you go out to negotiate with Shrek, it will be a major diplomatic event."

"I know. Isn't this just right? Don't worry, Brother Xiao. I still have a lot to say to Shrek. I won't let you suffer any loss in diplomacy. I plan to go there this time mainly because I have some personal matters that may not be handled well if I leave them to others."

"Well, okay, I trust your decision, Yuhao. When are you going?"

"The reply letter said it would be after the holidays, which is a week later. I shouldn't be gone for too long, Brother Xiao. I'm going to be in seclusion for about five days starting tomorrow. Before I leave, I'll make arrangements for the Lingqi Sect. We'll take care of this matter when I come back. This is what I promised Senior Di Tian. Since I've asked him to help, I have to produce some results."

Xiao Hongchen nodded and wanted to say a few more words, but another noble came to toast him, so he just chatted for a few words and then picked up the wine glass from the table and went to socialize with others with a smile.

“Brother Xiao, this is quite tiring,” Huo Yuhao watched him socializing in the crowd for a while, then turned to Chi Qiu and said, “In fact, he has prevented me from having a lot of boring social interactions. I really have to thank him. I really don’t have much interest in this kind of life, but I need this position to help me do what I want to do.”

"I know how you feel, it's okay."

Chi Qiu leaned over the table and tilted her head to look at him, her golden hair falling from her shoulders like a waterfall. She stretched out a hand and patted Huo Yuhao's bandaged left hand: "After being in human society for a long time, I remembered some soul beasts that were locked in cages and sold on the human black market when I was still very hostile to humans. I sometimes feel that people wrapped in exquisite clothes and forced to do something are not much different from soul beasts locked in cages."

"Maybe cities like Mingdu that are close to the core will be like this. ... I can't comment too much. Although I have helped the royal family a lot, I don't fully understand the structure."

Huo Yuhao paused and continued:
"When I was a child, I lived in the Duke's Mansion of the Dai Family. I didn't fully understand the struggles of those people. I just felt that my father and other people in the mansion were as depressing as the long shadows on the wall in the middle of the night... Maybe my dislike for this environment has something to do with my childhood experiences."

"It's all in the past." Chi Qiu shook his hand. "No matter what choice you make now, we - at least I will definitely support you. You see, the reason why we are chatting here today is because we have won another victory."

Huo Yuhao also smiled with his eyes curved: "It's my pleasure."

They chatted for a while until Chi Qiu seemed to have drunk too much human wine and felt a little dizzy. Huo Yuhao then carried her on his back and returned to the room that Lingqi Sect had just cleaned up for the Sect Master and his wife.

The courtyard of Lingqi Gate was built according to the original plan of the two. The backyard was covered with the flowers and plants that Chiqiu liked. Although it was not the flower season in late autumn, there were still small flowers swaying in the bushes. The two stood by the window of the bedroom, Chiqiu gently leaned on his shoulder, and a long-lost sense of peace gently enveloped their hearts that were connected.

“This place will be my home from now on.” Huo Yuhao said softly, “Since the day I escaped from the Duke’s Mansion…how long has it been since I last thought of this word?”

"Then I have a home on both the soul beast and human sides." Chi Qiu's voice was a little hoarse from being drunk, and his tone was more lively than usual. "Does this count as an achievement that even Emperor Tian hasn't achieved?"

"There is one more thing."

"what?"

"Being loved by humans."

Chi Qiu was quiet for a while, and finally burst into laughter. Huo Yuhao felt her arms hugging his waist from behind.

“Actually, it doesn’t count,” she put her head on Huo Yuhao’s shoulder, her tone full of smiles, “Didn’t you read a street stall novel on the way to the Sun Moon Empire and imagined a love story between Emperor Tian and a human? That counts too!”

Huo Yuhao also smiled helplessly: "Qiu'er, you really drank a lot tonight..."

"Well, after all, I had a great time celebrating my first human festival. I was very happy..."

As she spoke, her voice became more and more confused, perhaps because she was sleepy.

"However, if you can really overcome all difficulties and reach the next level in the future, I can really say that Di Tian has not achieved this: being loved by God... Is there a soul beast in this world that is loved by God? No, not even one, God hates us. But if it is Yu Hao, it will definitely be different..."

Her voice gradually became quiet in his ears, leaving only the sound of her even breathing. Huo Yuhao turned around quietly, picked her up carefully, and placed her back on the bed.

Although Chi Qiu's physique meant she would never catch a cold, Huo Yuhao still tidied up the corners of the quilt for her. Finally, he sat back on the bed, leaned over, and kissed her trembling eyes.

"I will," he said.

……

Huo Yuhao began his retreat early the next morning. The door to the top floor of the Lingqi Sect’s attic was closed, and the extremely cold snow brought by the silver frost froze the entire gate.

The room on the top floor was filled with natural treasures carefully selected by Chi Qiu from the core circle of the stars to assist his retreat. On the four walls were painted four rounds of core magic arrays close to level ten that Kong Deming gave to his students, making this room have an aura similar to that of the room in the basement of Kong Lao himself.

Even if an ordinary soul master with poor talent cultivates here, his cultivation will probably improve by leaps and bounds. Huo Yuhao sat cross-legged in the center of the room. He removed the bandages on his arms, revealing the dark scales. He closed his eyes, but the silver-green eye on his forehead opened, and the whole room was instantly enveloped by a cool green halo.

Beside him, the spirit bodies of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, Ice Emperor, and Electrolux appeared. They were like real entities, able to move around the room and do whatever they wanted, which showed the depth and breadth of Huo Yuhao's spiritual cultivation.

"Oh, oh, Xiao Yuhao has been in trouble lately and I can't help him. I'm a little depressed. I feel like I'm eating free rice in someone else's spiritual sea. But today, I can finally help a little!"

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm had one hand on his waist, and the other hand was stretched out, gently sorting out the materialized spiritual threads that had overflowed from Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea. The fact that so much could overflow showed that he had made great progress, but he just lacked integration.

"In fact, you are just eating Yuhao's soft rice." Bingdi said mercilessly, "Tracing back to the source, if Yuhao hadn't saved you, you would have been captured and sucked dry by Ditian."

She was organizing Huo Yuhao's ultimate ice soul power. Now Huo Yuhao had various abilities intertwined and complicated. The first thing to do was to separate them clearly, and then consider unifying them.

"Xiao Bing, what are you talking about? When Yuhao was helpless in the early days, I helped him a lot, okay?"

Alex smiled, but did not comment on the argument between the big bug and the small scorpion as usual. Obviously, he was more concerned about Huo Yuhao's condition.

Life, the dead, time, space... He pondered the relationship between these attributes. If we really want to summarize them, life, death, time and space are actually all things and laws in the world.

Electrolux still remembers the scene when Di Tian first taught Huo Yuhao how to use the power of space. At that time, Huo Yuhao saw another side of the world for the first time. He saw destiny, a path that ordinary people could not see, and the line of cause and effect of reincarnation. At that time, during the impact, Di Tian asked him what he saw, and he ignorantly said that he saw the world.

Thinking about it now, Alex felt that the words were the truth. When these abilities converged on Huo Yuhao, everything became connected to him.

He knew that at this level of enlightenment, the big bug and the small scorpion could no longer help Huo Yuhao, but his old soul could still give him help and advice. Even if he was below the level of a demigod, he could still continue to be Huo Yuhao's teacher. And when it came to the world, the first important thing he could think of was the undead demiplane that he had gifted to Huo Yuhao.

That was an unfinished world. Unfortunately, his true body was dead, and there were too many unfinished things. Originally, the undead demiplane was given to Huo Yuhao just to give him a life-saving skill to help him survive a major crisis that he could not resist. But with the child's current situation, Alex could not help but wonder whether he had the ability to continue to expand this demiplane.

This is not impossible. Ever since Huo Yuhao appointed Jiang Yang to rule the demiplane for him, that lifeless world has begun to undergo a slight transformation. During this battlefield cleanup, Huo Yuhao helped Jiang Yang absorb the Bone Dragon King beast spirit left by Zhongli Wu, allowing this top ten thousand year soul beast to directly break through the hundred thousand year mark.

Electrolux had never paid much attention to these subtle changes before, because if the quantitative change does not accumulate to a certain extent, there will be no qualitative change. The demiplane lacks a complete ecosystem and cannot become a world.

But what happens once this demiplane begins to be endowed with the cycle of life and death, and is given the first timeline?
Alex was not sure about the feasibility of this idea. After all, even he had only created this lifeless half plane in his lifetime. But the success of the Equality Contract gave him confidence. He would try to guide it once anyway. If he could succeed one day in the future, then Huo Yuhao would directly surpass his past.

Perhaps Huo Yuhao really has infinite possibilities - just like what the owner of the tower in Qiankun Questioning Valley said, he is the one chosen among countless possibilities, and all other possibilities collapse because of this choice, and those lines of cause and effect converge on him. Perhaps this cause and effect can really transcend time and space, and let the demiplane come alive in his hands.

With this in mind, Alex gradually came up with an idea to unify all the powers in Huo Yuhao. He came in front of Huo Yuhao, pressed his five withered fingers on the open eye on Huo Yuhao's forehead, and said in his old voice:
"Yuhao, my good student. Are you still confused about the direction of these powers? I will give you a direction now..."

……

In the blink of an eye, Huo Yuhao had been in seclusion for more than four days.

"Yuhao said five days, so it must be five days." Chi Qiu, who was guarding the door, said so. However, the Hongchen brothers and sisters were a little anxious waiting. After all, it was not without precedent that Huo Yuhao and Ji Juechen both meditated deeply after fighting. After Shrek received the reply, Zhang Lexuan wrote again, seemingly accepting Huo Yuhao's proposal to send Ma Xiaotao back first.

"I brought her here," Wang Dong sighed for half a minute within a minute, "Ma Xiaotao is homesick now. I don't know what she will think when she sees Shrek now. But these are not important. The important thing is that I really can't stand her noise anymore."

"Why is she making such a fuss?" Xiao Hongchen frowned. "Wouldn't it be better if she just waited quietly to go home?"

"She recognized me, and realized that the two Holy Spirit Saints who saved her, plus me, were the three children she almost burned to death by the Sea God Lake. I don't know what she went through, but she apologized immediately after recognizing me, and now she's clamoring to apologize to Yuhao and Sister Qiu. I told her that they can't leave now!"

"Oh, it's strange that a person like that would apologize."

Xiao Hongchen didn't have a good face towards Ma Xiaotao. When he first participated in the competition, Ma Xiaotao almost burned his senior to death in front of him.

"That's what I was saying, it's really strange." Wang Dong shrugged, "I guess it's Yuhao's work again. If you ask me, is it because he is a spiritual master? He is really good at influencing others. Haven't you been changed a lot by him?"

Xiao Hongchen hummed vaguely, and was about to express his opinion when he felt a violent soul power fluctuation coming from the room. Almost everyone waiting at the door immediately turned back to look at the frozen door, only Chi Qiu leaned against the door holding the golden dragon spear and remained motionless.

"Just wait a little longer," she said. "It should be ready soon."

Another half hour later, although there was no more noise, the ice on the door had melted away naturally. After a while, the door was opened from the inside, and the first ray of light came into the attic that had not seen the sun for five days, reflecting on Huo Yuhao's face as he stood behind the door.

With just one glance, everyone could feel that Huo Yuhao's temperament had improved even more than before. Those eyes that shone in the darkness seemed to have the power to see through a person, making it difficult for people to look at him. Yin Shuang looked him up and down and was the first to speak:
"Level 85? Level 86? Hmm, no, I have absorbed a lot of what Emperor Tian left behind, I think I am already at level 89. How terrifying. Why don't you stay in seclusion for a few more days and strive to become the fastest person to be awarded a title?"

“Level 88.” Huo Yuhao nodded. “If I want to challenge the title, I have to condense the second soul core. I want to master the ability of space more proficiently, and then go to find Senior Di Tian to guide me to condense the second soul core.”

"Good plan." Yin Shuang nodded. "There's really no need to be too eager for quick success. Given your age and your cultivation level, others would be scared to death if you told them about it."

Huo Yuhao smiled and turned to look at Chi Qiu. "Everything went well," he said, "Then I will prepare to go to Shrek immediately."

Chi Qiu put away the dragon spear and came to his side. Wang Dong pointed to the reception room of the Lingqi Sect downstairs and said, "Go quickly, really, Ma Xiaotao is so annoying." (End of this chapter)