69novels Chapter 543 Eyes opened
Chapter 543 Eyes opened
"No..." A faint trembling sound escaped from Huo Yun'er's pale lips, and she almost subconsciously denied it.
Of course she knew! How could she not know?!
The legendary evil dragon, the existence that seemed mysterious, powerful, and ominous to her, the names of the natural treasures that she could not understand at all, the resources that required powerful soul masters to go deep into dangerous places where they would risk their lives to obtain... Although she was an ordinary person, a woman who had never really stepped into the threshold of a soul master, she was not completely ignorant.
To raise a child with only level one innate spirit power to the level of Ultimate Douluo in less than ten years? !
This thought alone was enough to make her dizzy, and she felt an incomprehensible fear and absurdity. How many resources would it take? How much investment would be needed that was beyond her imagination? She couldn't even imagine the specific number. It was a sky-high price that she could not reach even if she spent her entire life, no, even if Dai Hao spent all the financial and material resources of the entire White Tiger Duke's Mansion! In the world of soul masters, the White Tiger Duke, who was as powerful as a mountain in her eyes, was just a Titled Douluo whose "strength was not particularly outstanding." In her vague cognition, the gap between Titled Douluo and Ultimate Douluo was no less than the gap between mortals and gods.
She had always known that the dragon's investment was huge, so huge that she was terrified, so huge that her heart was filled with indescribable inferiority and a sense of humiliation of being given alms. She hated it even more! She hated the dragon so much! In her opinion, it was the dragon who used these cold and huge resources as bait and shackles to completely twist and transform her Yu Hao into the current person who was eager for revenge and cruel means. It was she who taught her child bad things! It was she who ignited the fire of revenge that burned everything!
Therefore, she has been deliberately ignoring these huge "education expenses". She doesn't want to think about it, and doesn't want to admit that her son's life is built on such a shaky and dangerous building piled up with hatred and sky-high resources. She just wants to grasp the last bit of instinct as a mother, to blame her son for his cruelty, to imagine that there may be a way back, and she can find the clear-eyed boy in her memory.
But now, Huo Yuhao used this naked reality to shatter all her self-deceiving fantasies.
She had to face it.
The resources that she dared not and did not want to think about were real and were the only pillars that supported Huo Yuhao to be "alive" and "safe" here. And what maintained this pillar was Huo Yuhao's determination to take revenge on the White Tiger Duke's Mansion without looking back.
A huge fear instantly overwhelmed her hatred for the dragon and her anger at her son's methods.
"No...don't..." She uttered a crying voice again. It was no longer an angry accusation, but a desperate plea.
She stretched out her hand, trying to grab the corner of Huo Yuhao's clothes, "Yuhao... I... I didn't mean that... I..."
A long-forgotten scene suddenly crashed into Huo Yun'er's confused mind. It was the scene of her lying on the sickbed, knowing that she didn't have much time left. The young Huo Yuhao was guarding the bed, his face full of stubbornness and fear beyond his age. She used up her last bit of strength, held his hand, and said to him...
Those words were the only way out that this weak and incompetent mother could think of for her son at the end of her life. It was the most humble but also the most "stable" way out.
Huo Yun'er seemed to have grasped the last straw, "Do you remember? Yuhao! Do you remember what mom said to you when she was dying?"
Huo Yuhao’s body stiffened. Of course he remembered that this was the belief that supported him in obtaining his second martial soul.
A glimmer of sick hope ignited in Huo Yun'er's eyes. She struggled, raised her head, and repeated it with all her might, as if it was a spell that could wake up her son and save everything:
"Mom said...if...if you can't become a spirit master in the future...then...learn a skill! Live peacefully...Live like a normal person!"
After she finished shouting this, her chest rose and fell violently, she gasped for air, and stared at Huo Yuhao, her eyes filled with humble pleading. The ordinary picture she described was not so much a way out for her son as it was a ray of respite for the man she loved deeply, a slim hope that could stop the hatred and end the torture.
"Yes! Learn a skill!" Her voice became anxious, full of unrealistic fantasies, "Leave here! Stay away! You can start over! Live like... like an ordinary person! Okay? Yuhao? We don't want this power! We don't want this hatred! Okay?"
“Learn a craft?” Huo Yuhao tilted his head slightly. His voice was very soft, with a strange rising tone. He repeated these four words clearly, as if he was savoring something extremely ridiculous. “Live peacefully…like an ordinary person?”
"Do you know what kind of life I lived after leaving the Duke's Mansion?" The corners of his mouth curled up with a trace of almost cruel superiority, "Sumptuous clothes and delicious food? Oh, that's too shallow. It's better to say that my stable life started after I left the Duke's Mansion."
He took a step forward, and the invisible feeling of oppression almost suffocated Huo Yun'er.
As for the cultivation resources, Huo Yuhao sneered, his eyes revealing extreme contempt for the past.
Soul bones? Soul rings? Those were just the basics of the basics. How could his mother know what the sacrifice of fierce beasts was? Those terrifying existences that had lasted for hundreds of thousands of years, enough to make the top masters of the entire continent chase them madly and stir up bloody storms, they were willing to sacrifice their lives, souls, and the most fundamental power... all to him, and become his soul rings, just because of his teacher's casual words, and he could get them at his fingertips.
Mu Xing, who had thought that he would just watch from the sidelines, was happy. "I really think that people who talk to themselves, have their own set of values, don't care what the world is like or what they think the world should be like, and don't care about other people's lives are particularly interesting."
Would a cat that was adopted, carefully fed, and pampered want to go back to the streets to compete with stray dogs for food? He would rather die than go back to a life of uncertainty and no dignity! So Mu Xing never worried that Huo Yuhao would give up everything he had now. The extravagant power had long been integrated into his bones and blood, becoming the foundation of his existence and the dignity that could not be deprived.
In his eyes, Huo Yun'er's imagined "stability" based on poverty and weakness was more unbearable than hell. She didn't understand how wrong she was. She not only underestimated the power of hatred, but also completely underestimated the appeal of power, status, and a good life to a person. Her son was no longer the child who starved and was bullied in the Duke's Mansion. He was a beast fed by the dragon's power.
But Huo Yun'er was indeed very good at annoying others. First it was the Duchess, then the dragon that took good care of Huo Yuhao, and finally it was Huo Yuhao himself's turn.
Fu Rui couldn't help but feel sad for her closest ally. As a being with the same destiny, Huo Yuhao had lived a miserable first half of his life compared to her, and now one of the culprits who caused all this was still chasing him.
"..." Alex didn't make any comment on the surface, but he was already thinking in his heart that if the world was full of people like this, then his guilt for destroying the world might be alleviated.
“I really cannot understand this. To be honest, if any of my children gets hurt because of me, my eight wives will have to line up and teach me a lesson in turn…” Rong Nianbing looked a little embarrassed. He did do a background check on Huo Yuhao, but the child’s biological mother was indeed a little outrageous.
"Actually, you don't have to emphasize that you have eight..." Mu Xing couldn't help but interrupt him.
Di Tian said that he, the great Beast God, had lived for hundreds of thousands of years and had seen all kinds of scenes, but he was sorry that he had never seen this scene before!
Huo Yuhao sighed. There was no anger on his face. Instead, there was a helplessness filled with exhaustion.
"Are you really telling me this for my sake?"
Huo Yun'er's heart shrank when she saw his calm gaze. She was instantly seized by a panic of being completely seen through. She opened her mouth, wanting to explain, wanting to deny, but her throat seemed to be strangled and she couldn't make any sound.
Huo Yuhao did not wait for her answer, nor did he need her to answer. His voice was still calm, with a kind of exhaustion that seemed to see through everything: "You just can't accept that he has become what he is now, and you can't accept that the man you love the most has fallen into this situation. You used the last words you left me to paint a false picture of a stable future. Your fundamental purpose was to make me stop and let him go, right?"
Huo Yun'er's body trembled violently, and her face turned pale. Huo Yuhao's calm words, like the sharpest scalpel, accurately cut through all her self-deceiving disguises, and exposed her most unbearable, most twisted, and morbid love for Dai Hao. She couldn't refute it, because he was right.
"For him, you can ignore all the humiliation I have endured, ignore the days when mother and I were walking on thin ice in the Duke's Mansion, and even ignore that behind your pleading with me to 'give up my power and live a stable life', I may be facing a desperate situation ten thousand times more miserable than before."
Whether it was fine clothes and delicious food, or the sacrifice of fierce beasts, or the kindness of his teacher in giving him a new life... these were already established facts, the foundation of his existence. Giving up everything, what was the difference between that and suicide? Anyone with a sound mind would know what to choose, right? He was not a fool who was blindly filial!
Besides, he is living a stable life now, why should he make things difficult for himself?
As a result, the worst thing at the moment was actually caused by his own mother. Unlike the straightforward mortal feud between Wang Dong and her personified father, Huo Yun'er's harm to him was more like a slow torture with a blunt knife. He could ignore her pain, despise her choice, and even hate her for ignoring her own son for Dai Hao... But he couldn't ignore her, just because... She was his mother, the one who gave him life. She was the woman who tried to shield him from the wind and rain with her frail body during the darkest days of the Duke's Mansion. This responsibility and obligation derived from blood, even if he was now heartbroken, even if he saw through all the unbearable and selfishness of his mother, could not be completely cut off.
It wasn't him who made Dai Hao's life worse than death. Huo Yuhao thought about it and realized that he had only slapped Dai Hao from beginning to end, then dug out his eyes, and oh, by the way, he also crippled Dai Huabin. If we really want to talk about who was more ruthless, could he be better than Ju Zi?
The one who dragged Dai Hao into hell, tortured him, and made him want to live but not die was Ju Zi! Huo Yuhao looked at Huo Yun'er in confusion. Since his mother loved that man so much, why didn't she hate Ju Zi?
Because she didn't dare. Juzi was now the marshal of the Sun Moon Empire, holding a large army and great power. She had been a coward all her life, and even the servants of the Duke's Mansion could bully her. How could she dare to hate such an existence?
But she dared to hate the legendary dragon? She hated the dragon for corrupting her son and using huge resources to shape Huo Yuhao into a sharp blade of revenge. In her eyes, Mu Xing was the evil dragon that distorted her son and the source of her resentment, because she felt that the dragon was the instigator of the humiliation Dai Hao suffered. She could only understand and vent her anger on the existence that seemed hateful but did not directly exert pressure on her.
How could a dragon be easy to bully? Everyone knows that dragons are not good people, right?
"Ahem! This child is indeed very passionate and values friendship and loyalty. The purity and tenacity in his heart are the most crucial qualities for inheriting the throne of the God of Emotions. You see, his perception of the power of emotions has become increasingly acute, whether it is anger, pain or compassion, it can trigger resonance in his spiritual sea. This innate talent, coupled with the character tempered after his hardships, allows him to truly understand the essence of emotions. At this rate of growth, perhaps it won't be long before he can fully comprehend the true meaning of the throne of the God of Emotions!" Seeing that his own heir was stuck in a stalemate, Rong Nianbing cleared his throat to justify everything he had done before.
It was definitely not because there were two dragons ready to gang up on him.
"Do you think I'm easy to fool?" Mu Xing didn't believe Rong Nianbing's lies at all. After all, he had a history of cheating her.
“Haha, look at what this has caused!” Seeing that Long’s eyes were becoming increasingly hostile, Rong Nianbing immediately said seriously, “The foundation of my divine position has never been brute force or the depth of my cultivation. Its core is the tempering of the deepest part of my soul! Do you think the word ‘emotion’ is just a joke? It is the original pulse of the existence of living beings, the invisible fire that drives all things. To control it, you need to be able to maintain the will of the lighthouse of your heart amidst the turbulent waves of the seven emotions and six desires of all living beings!”
“Are you going to say next, ‘Only when you go through the seventh level of solitude can you become a truly strong person, and our world will be born from this’?” Mu Xing’s expression was indescribable.
"Yes, yes, that's what I mean!" Rong Nianbing subconsciously leaned back tactically and avoided the oncoming Dragon God Claw.
? ? I'm too lazy to think of two titles, so let's just read them together