NOVEL WEB Chapter 228: Entering the Dragon Valley
"Evil Emperor, you really are ruthless," Tian Meng recalled the previous scene and sighed.
He wasn't referring to the scene where the Evil Emperor beat up the Evil Eye Tyrant. Although it was brutal, it was also their way of expressing love between father and son.
The scene he referred to was when the Evil Emperor had Huo Yuhao leave a countermeasure for the Evil Eye Tyrant.
He really went all out.
"Hmph, so what? Given its nature, if not restrained, it will surely be fickle," the Evil Emperor snorted coldly. "This is to prevent it from betraying us."
It was precisely because he knew his own nature that the Evil Emperor made such a choice.
His son was no different in this regard.
If there were other options, they would surely betray them. Blood ties? Family bonds? Those were just relationships from ten thousand years ago.
In their hearts, they might not truly care.
While the discussion about fatherly love and filial piety was stirring in the spiritual sea, Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena had already arrived at a remote place. They exchanged a glance, and Huo Yuhao opened the passage to the Necromancer's Half-Plane.
In an instant, dozens of various soul beasts, led by Snow Empress and Bear Lord, emerged from the Necromancer's Half-Plane.
As soon as they stepped out of the Necromancer's Half-Plane, the soul beasts, who had been stuck in that ghostly place for two months, couldn't help but want to roar at the sky.
But a single glance from the Snow Empress made the soul beasts from the Far North suppress this impulse.
During her hundreds of thousands of years of rule in the Far North, the Snow Empress, with her immense power and wisdom, had earned the awe and respect of the Far North soul beasts. Even other fierce beasts revered her and followed her commands.
As for the disobedient fierce beasts... they had already been buried in the icy wilderness.
Gu Yuena wasn't envious of this scene.
After all, the hundred-thousand-year soul beasts of the Star Dou Forest also stopped their actions upon seeing her warning gaze.
Today, she was still full of majesty.
Huo Yuhao approached the Snow Empress. "Bored of being inside?"
"It was just a period of quiet cultivation. The scenery of the Far North was also monotonous, not much better than the Necromancer's Half-Plane. Let's begin now."
The Snow Empress smiled slightly, looking around at the lush forest, and began using spatial power to touch the spatial barriers here.
Seeing this, Huo Yuhao said no more and joined her in searching for the weak points in space.
While they were doing this, the hundred-thousand-year soul beasts observed Huo Yuhao, especially the soul beasts from the Far North, their eyes filled with reminiscence.
"Spirit Ice Douluo has really returned. I still remember the scenes of him being chased and trained in the past. It feels like it was just yesterday."
The one who spoke was a hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion.
The soul beasts assigned here were all trusted by the Snow Empress, and some of them had seen Huo Yuhao ten thousand years ago, so they knew of his existence.
"Yes, who could have predicted this future when the Snow Empress first decided to help him ten thousand years ago?"
A Polar Bear sighed. "The Snow Empress is truly wise and mighty. If it were us, we wouldn't have been able to seize such an opportunity."
At this point, its tone shifted, and it whispered gossip, "Since Spirit Ice Douluo returned, the Snow Empress has been smiling more. What do you think their relationship is now?"
In the past, Huo Yuhao was seen as the Snow Empress's younger brother. In the Far North, he was even called the Ice Snow Man. (This title had been abolished due to Huo Yuhao's strong opposition, but the original rumor-monger was still at large.)
Now, the interaction between Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress had an additional atmosphere in the eyes of these soul beasts... They were high-intelligence soul beasts who had mingled in human society for ten thousand years. They could see it clearly.
Is there something going on?
The Ice Jade Scorpion coughed lightly and transmitted a message, "Are you trying to get yourself killed? Discuss these things privately. Don't talk about it in this setting. The people from the Star Dou Forest are here, and the Beast Lord is also watching."
Snow Empress, Spirit Ice Douluo, Silver Dragon King... Are these matters they could discuss?
If you want to die, don't drag me down, you silly bear.
Thinking this, the Ice Jade Scorpion's gaze couldn't help but fall on Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena, and the Snow Empress, its mind filled with countless thoughts.
If the relationship between these three big shots fell into the eyes of gossip-loving humans, it would surely give rise to many exaggerated rumors.
For example, Spirit Ice Douluo, in order to cooperate with the two major soul beast gathering grounds of the Far North and the Star Dou Forest, entered the game himself, maneuvering between the two beast lords, offering himself to gain the support of the two major soul beast gathering grounds...
It feels like rare material for a storybook. I wonder if anyone would dare to write it.
The Ice Jade Scorpion had even thought of some potential titles for such storybooks—
"The Tyrant Beast Falls in Love with Me," "I Became a Son-in-Law in the Far North," "Is It Wrong to Try to Romance the Silver Dragon King and the Snow Empress at the Same Time?"
What can I say? After integrating into human society, this is just a hobby.
Late-night movies, various gossip storybooks, these are its favorites.
A very normal hobby, isn't it? At least it's more interesting than chasing Ice Silkworms...
In the spiritual sea, the Ice Empress frowned, feeling as if someone was talking about her behind her back.
"The location of the spatial barrier has been determined. Let's attack together!"
At Huo Yuhao's command, the heaven and earth's spiritual energy suddenly became violent. The Snow Empress raised her jade hand, and a sky-piercing ice-blue light column shot into the sky; Gu Yuena's silver hair fluttered, and the seven-colored elements burned spider web-like spatial cracks in the void; Huo Yuhao's eyes shimmered with gold and blue, his Spirit Eye fully activated, precisely locking onto the spatial nodes; along with Bear Lord, the other soul beasts also displayed their unique abilities.
The moment the dozens of forces converged, the sky shattered like a mirror. A secret realm entrance exuding dragon majesty faintly appeared in the crack, with piles of dragon bones visible inside.
Looking at the spatial passage before him, Huo Yuhao's eyes flickered, and he took the lead to step into the spatial passage.
"Let's go."
The group followed him in a grand procession into the Dragon Valley secret realm.
...
Deep within the Dragon Valley, a sudden anomaly shattered the original tranquility.
Accompanied by a low hum, the previously calm air suddenly fluctuated violently, and the dragon clouds churned incessantly. In an instant, an area of tens of thousands of square meters fell into intense resonance.
In the sky, clouds of various colors were forcibly dispersed by an invisible force, and a deep black crack quietly appeared.
This crack seemed as if it would tear the entire sky apart, slowly extending and growing, bringing a suffocating sense of oppression.
From within the crack, figures descended from the sky, landing on the ground.
"Is this... the Dragon Valley, the Dragon Graveyard?"
Huo Yuhao looked at the secret realm before him, and a strange sensation suddenly arose in his spiritual sea.
It was the Water and Fire Dragon King spirit.
Their location seemed like a rolling hill, with sparse vegetation around, not very lush. The most eye-catching things were the clouds of various colors in the sky and the dragon souls and dragon bones on the ground.
Clearly, these were the things that had triggered the Water and Fire Dragon Kings' reaction.