Huo Yuhao held Cui Yajie's small hand, and a stream of pure soul power flowed along the meridians of her wrist and into her dantian.
"You're almost a Soul Douluo. Not bad." Huo Yuhao praised with a click of his tongue.
"Hmph—" Cui Yajie couldn't help but puff out her cheeks and look at him with feigned anger. If it were praise from someone else, she might have enjoyed it, but if it came from Huo Yuhao's mouth...
Seeing her make this cute expression, Huo Yuhao was immediately amused. In terms of true talent, she and Xie Huanyue could be considered heaven-defying. A Soul Sage and a Soul Douluo under the age of twenty was an achievement that only the protagonist group from the Ultimate Douluo era, after the planar evolution, could reach.
Cui Yajie and Xie Huanyue were in the same freshman class as him at Shrek, it was just that everyone was a year older than Huo Yuhao. Huo Yuhao was not yet sixteen, so the others were not yet seventeen.
Such an achievement could be said to be quite explosive in the Unrivaled Tang Sect era.
Even the Sea God's daughter, who had the best talent and was a little younger than Huo Yuhao, was only at the Soul Emperor cultivation level when she participated in the tournament a year later.
Seeing Huo Yuhao and the other being so lovey-dovey, Ye Xishui's face immediately turned grim.
"Holy Son, do you really think that in this metal world of Illustrious Virtue Hall, your ever-victorious Ultimate Wood martial soul can display its full strength?"
Hearing her words, Huo Yuhao just smiled faintly. This place was indeed not suitable for his Immortal Spirit Wood martial soul to be used. Otherwise, the one who had intercepted Ye Xishui's killing blow just now would not have been that Soul-Slaying Blade. However, that also depended on who the opponent was.
For an emotionally unstable madwoman like Ye Xishui, there was no need to deliberately choose a battlefield suitable for the wood attribute. Using his Evil Eye martial soul to deal with her was enough.
"Yuhao, be careful! That old hag is an Ultimate Douluo!"
"Oh." Huo Yuhao turned his head with a blank expression. Chains of Transmigration, Soul Strip, and Spiritual Shock, the three skills in one, were launched without any warning.
Ye Xishui was hit hard and her entire person fell backward directly.
"..."
Uh, Cui Yajie admitted that she had overestimated her.
It's good to be old. You fall over and sleep!
"Let me give her the final blow." Huo Yuhao tightened his grip on the Soul-Slaying Blade in his hand and was about to deliver the finishing blow to this Supreme Hierophant of the Holy Spirit Cult.
However, in the next moment, golden flames suddenly erupted from Ye Xishui's body, and a monstrously violent energy burst forth with her at the center!
"Scree—"
A clear phoenix cry resounded throughout Illustrious Virtue Hall. Huo Yuhao's expression changed. He had almost forgotten that this Ye Xishui had another martial soul, the Light Phoenix!
This was Ye Xishui's greatest trump card! Who would have thought that an evil soul master with a terrifying martial soul like the Blood Soul Demon Puppet would also have a second martial soul? Even that old ghost Zhongli didn't know about this martial soul.
Ye Xishui had hidden it very deeply. Because once this martial soul of hers was known by the people of the Holy Spirit Cult, she would be plunged into a state of eternal damnation.
Therefore, she had hidden this second martial soul for a full two hundred years. She had not expected it to finally be of use today, saving her life with the power of Phoenix Nirvana.
Huo Yuhao didn't dare to recklessly face the self-detonating-style move of an Ultimate Douluo. He immediately pulled Cui Yajie and escaped into the otherworldly space.
To put it bluntly, you can be as strong as you want, I'll just hide. What can you do to me? You don't have the ability to freely travel through space like the Silver Dragon King. Come and blow me up if you have the guts.
Looking at the flame storm that was enough to tear everything apart, Cui Yajie couldn't help but swallow. This was so much more destructive than the move she had used earlier.
"Tsk tsk, so fierce!" Huo Yuhao praised sincerely. Although he had thousands of ways to deal with enemies, his defense had always been his shortcoming. If the two of them were directly exposed to this terrifying flame storm, they would be vaporized in a short moment.
"Hao, are you alright?"
At this moment, Die Qiu, who had been protected in the otherworldly space by Huo Yuhao from the beginning, walked out. She knew a thing or two about what had happened outside. If she were to rashly go out now, she would only drag Huo Yuhao down.
"She is..." It was the first time Cui Yajie had seen the transformed Auspicious Beast. Her pretty face immediately became a bit unnatural. So Huo Yuhao had been hiding a beauty in a golden house here.
"Uh... ahem!" Huo Yuhao still didn't know how to handle the relationships with these beauties of his and had to quickly change the subject. "By the way, where are Ju Zi and Ning Tian?"
"Oh no!" Only then did Cui Yajie remember Ju Zi and the other girls who had escaped through the secret passage. She immediately explained the arrangements that Ju Zi had made before.
Hearing that Ju Zi had left numerous backup plans, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but smile. No matter which life, she was always so intelligent.
Of course, Cui Yajie's encounter with Ye Xishui was purely unexpected. At a time when the opponent's top combat power was gathered at Rising Sun City, for Xu Tianran to be able to send a Ye Xishui here to capture his beauties meant that the arrangement at the Sea God's Fate Blind Date Convention was very likely completely beyond his expectations.
Fortunately, he had also divided his forces into two. The main force had gone with Xie Huanyue to Rising Sun City, while he had come alone to support Ju Zi and the other girls.
Fortunately, he had arrived in time.
"Alright, you go to Rising Sun City first and secretly assist Fatty and the others. I will go underground to rescue Ju Zi and the others." Huo Yuhao pondered for a moment and made a decision.
Cui Yajie's soul power had also recovered by seventy to eighty percent. With her current strength, as long as she didn't encounter a Super Douluo, she could still retreat unscathed. She was no flower vase.
"Alright, then you be careful. I feel that Ye Xishui probably won't die so easily." Cui Yajie couldn't help but remind him.
"Yes." Of course Huo Yuhao knew that an Ultimate Douluo wouldn't die so easily. But he had never seen Yan Shaozhe use the skill Phoenix Nirvana before. In this terrifying flame storm, who knew where Ye Xishui's true body had gone.
After speaking, Cui Yajie couldn't help but wrap her arms around Huo Yuhao's neck and lightly peck him on the lips.
"Be careful with everything."
Huo Yuhao stared blankly at the bewitching girl before him. Three years had passed. She had grown up, shedding the innocence of a young girl. The innate demonic charm of the nine-tailed fox was beginning to appear. In a few more years, she might truly be called a heart-stealing fox spirit.
Being stared at like this by the young man she had been thinking about for three years, Cui Yajie's pretty face turned red for no reason. Little did she know that this made her even more enchanting.
Huo Yuhao was about to kiss that spot of crimson red, but was stopped by Cui Yajie's raised finger.
"When we are all reunited again, I will reward you then..." Cui Yajie lowered her head in embarrassment, her voice as soft as a mosquito's buzz.
"Hehe, alright, alright." Huo Yuhao scratched his head. Now was indeed not the time for them to be lovey-dovey. He had a lot of things to do tonight.
After sending Cui Yajie off, Huo Yuhao returned to the floor where the battle in Illustrious Virtue Hall had broken out. After the battle, this place and the floor below had been destroyed beyond recognition.
His gaze turned to the entrance of the secret passage blocked by rubble. Ju Zi and Ning Tian were down there.
Die Qiu pouted her small lips and continued to stay in the otherworldly space. She took out her small notebook and wrote down Cui Yajie's method of seducing Huo Yuhao...