Kong Deming smiled bitterly. Looking into Huo Yuhao's eyes, he asked without shying away, "I'm afraid this pill of the Demon King's is not so easy to take, right?"
Seeing his appearance, Huo Yuhao laughed.
"Elder Kong, as the number one person in the soul tool world today, there are many forces and countries that desire you. I, Huo Yuhao, am naturally no exception."
"But I think that it would be a bit too fanciful to exchange for all the value of the Father of Soul Tools with just this one pill."
"So, this pill is indeed a thank-you gift from this junior for Elder Kong's guidance. Elder Kong, please don't worry too much."
At the status of Huo Yuhao and Kong Deming, there was no need to hide anything in their conversation. Kong Deming knew what he wanted, and he also knew what Kong Deming needed.
Kong Deming silently took the jade bottle and suddenly asked, "Why didn't you use that will-twisting soul skill directly on me like you did with Du Busi?"
Hearing this, Huo Yuhao just shook his head slightly, and then said, "If I need to use that ability to subdue everyone, then how many people on this continent will be willing to stand wholeheartedly on my side in the future?"
"Future generations will only say that I, Huo Yuhao, manipulated an era with my abilities, rather than gaining everyone's approval."
Kong Deming was silent. With Huo Yuhao's currently unattainable spiritual realm, he could indeed make the entire Douluo Continent submit after going out, but he just didn't plan to do so.
"It is impossible to conquer a world by force," Huo Yuhao said. "Only faith can make the whole world sincerely bless oneself."
Faith!
Kong Deming's face changed drastically. "You, you mean... you want to become a god?"
Yes, soul masters spent their whole lives cultivating to transcend the mortal body and become a deity.
In any era, any soul master would take that legend from ten thousand years ago as their goal and cultivate hard.
And not long ago, he saw that legend with his own eyes, only to make a fool of himself in front of everyone.
"Become a god?" Huo Yuhao muttered these two words, a hint of disdain in his smile. "Do you think becoming a god and obtaining a long life is the ultimate pursuit of a soul master's cultivation?"
Kong Deming was stumped by his question. If not, what were they cultivating soul power for?
"Deities are just pitiful creatures imprisoned in a space to escape the will of the universe."
Huo Yuhao couldn't help but think of the Kingdom of Eden from six million years ago that he saw not long ago.
"One day in the Divine Realm is a year in the mortal world. Put bluntly, it is a prison with infinitely slow time flow, binding powerful figures who have transcended planar laws."
"Being trapped in such a dark place and burdened with the responsibility of governing multiple lower planes, unable to obtain true freedom without giving up the god position, what is the meaning of becoming a god?"
"This..." Kong Deming was speechless for a moment. An existence like that silver-haired woman must know the various secrets of becoming a god. It was the first time he had heard such a statement.
Of course, these things were completely out of reach for him. At Kong Deming's current age, he couldn't even reach Super Douluo in his lifetime.
But Huo Yuhao was different. With his talent, becoming a god would be a piece of cake. Not only Kong Deming, but the entire continent thought so.
Those who disliked and hated Huo Yuhao's notoriety all hoped that Huo Yuhao would become a god as soon as possible and stop plaguing this continent.
"I don't want to become a god. It's lonely at the top. Rather than giving up the joys of the mortal world and losing freedom in exchange for endless life, it's better to create history with the people around me and leave a thick mark of my existence in the mortal world." Huo Yuhao looked into the distance and said from the bottom of his heart.
"Let me tell you a story." Huo Yuhao began to tell the story on his own. "Once upon a time, there was a bullied boy who left the place where he and his mother were persecuted..."
Huo Yuhao omitted the details and told the original story of Huo Gua in its entirety, recounting that seemingly stirring but puppet-like manipulated life.
Kong Deming quickly realized something, but surprisingly did not interrupt him, listening carefully instead.
When he heard that the expansion war of the Sun Moon Empire was forcefully stopped by a deity and the country's name was forcibly changed, an extreme sense of humiliation instantly filled this old man's heart.
Huo Yuhao did not stop at the original ending of Peerless Tang Sect, but continued to tell the story until the Douluo plane lost the Divine Realm and was invaded by foreign planes. The entire continent fell into panic and achieved victory at the cost of countless deaths and injuries. And all of this was actually a ten-thousand-year plan laid out by a God King known for his unparalleled wisdom!
For the first time, Kong Deming felt how ridiculous the so-called deities were.
At the same time, the way he looked at Huo Yuhao changed fundamentally.
"You experienced everything and lived again."
This was the conclusion Kong Deming reached.
Huo Yuhao did not refute. In a sense, possessing the god's-eye view was equivalent to living a life again as Huo Gua.
Coming to this world, the god's-eye view could only give him foresight, but could not bring much help to him when he was weak.
If one were to organize the story of Huo Yuhao in this life, perhaps "Starting a Douluo Continent Adventure from Scratch" would be more appropriate.
Huo Yuhao stopped here. There was no need for him to say more about the subsequent return of the Great God Circle. Kong Deming could already guess the result.
In the final analysis, the history of the Douluo Continent for tens of thousands of years was just dictated by a group of weaklings who were no match for the universal consciousness. They treated human lives like grass and cultivated the development of the lower plane on their own. Even in the Douluo Federation era, it was just a slave society ruled by higher-level theocracy.
"Whether the development process of each plane leads to prosperity or destruction should be led by the people growing on this plane."
"Elder Kong, do you know that there was once a great kingdom on the Douluo plane?" Huo Yuhao couldn't help but think of the Kingdom of Eden six million years ago. Even though all the citizens sacrificed themselves to fight against the will of the universe, that glorious history was preserved.
Listening to Huo Yuhao's account, only then did Kong Deming understand why the civilization of the Sun Moon Continent was countless years ahead of the Douluo Continent.
The place where the God of Love Aphrodite was buried was exactly the capital of the former Kingdom of Eden. Therefore, the Sun Moon Continent initially preserved many ruins of prehistoric civilization. New humans developed on this basis, using tools left by the kingdom without knowing it.
Kong Deming only felt that his lifelong beliefs completely collapsed in this short day. It turned out there were so many inside stories. Weren't the rare metals abundant in the Sun Moon Continent evolved from the broken halberds sinking in the sand of the former Kingdom of Eden?
Their Sun Moon Empire had expanded and developed to this day, but stopped because of a word from a deity interfering in the lower realm, like a clown with no dignity.
He could tell that Huo Yuhao was not lying to him about these things, because when Huo Yuhao talked about the Kingdom of Eden, the overflowing sadness had completely infected him.
"If so, what do you plan to do?"
Kong Deming took a deep breath. His mentality had undergone a fundamental change unknowingly. Only a true understanding of history and the future could make a person change completely.
Huo Yuhao could clearly feel Kong Deming's change. He just took out a list of medicinal materials.
"I have a prescription that can eradicate the drawbacks of soul engineers raising their cultivation through drugs. I need you to reach Ultimate Douluo as soon as possible."
"Hiss... okay." Kong Deming sucked in a cold breath, but this time his attitude was much humbler.
He decided. He wanted to get on Huo Yuhao's boat—
In the following half year, while immersing himself in the learning of alchemy, Huo Yuhao began to learn soul tool knowledge from Kong Deming. Among Huo Yuhao's companions, there were many interested in soul tool research, who also followed along to study seriously.
At the same time, Huo Yuhao also began to fuse Dragon King soul bones in this half year. Dragon King soul bones were not so easy to fuse. Gu Yuena had to be there to guide the completion.
Even the huge project of burying dragons was nearly a quarter completed during this period. After all, after the previous great war, many giant dragon skeletons were shattered by the Golden Dragon King. Plus the weight of dragon bones was not small. Dozens of people spent a whole year barely completing this much.
Facts proved that although life in the Dragon Realm was boring, it truly benefited them greatly.
Now, the lowest soul power cultivation in the team had reached level sixty-nine. Just needing an opportunity, all members could reach Soul Sage or above.
Moreover, the Dragon Realm never lacked dragon souls retaining high consciousness. After gaining the approval of these dragon souls, many companions let giant dragons become their soul spirits.
One had to know that these giant dragons were no inferior to hundred-thousand-year soul beasts when they were alive.