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Auspicious Emperor, Three-Eyed Golden Lion
🕑 Added 2023-10-23 14:41:44 +0000 UTC--- Chapter 225 ---
Huo Yuhao arrived at the Star Dou Forest.
The instantaneous teleportation he used literally ripped the space and time fabric.
"Well, let's search for a yellow cat." Huo Yuhao smiled and glanced at the far horizon. His clone is currently traveling to the border of the Star Luo Empire, ensuring the princess's safety.
He walked into the deeper part of the forest.
After several usages of future sight, Huo Yuhao arrived at the small lake surrounded by a beautiful flower field. He stepped into the area casually and announced his presence.
ROAR!
A massive creature stood before Huo Yuhao. It was over five meters long and 'extremely' burly, with black and red fur all over its body. It has three identical heads over a meter in diameter and a scarlet-golden mane growing on them.
Each head of this figure resembled a lion's, but they were even more ferocious. Its terrifying teeth release a scarlet-gold glow.
"Human..."
"Leave this once, or you will regret it."
"Regret, Die, Die!"
"Oh?" Huo Yuhao was amused.
The system interface appeared.
[Name: Scarlet King]
[Species: Three-Headed Scarlet Devil Mastiff]
[Cultivation Age: 280.000 years old]
[Battle Power: Level 95, Hyper Douluo]
[Description: Scarlet King 8th of the Ten Great Beasts. The Three-Headed Scarlet Devil Mastiff possesses the legendary bloodline of 'Cerberus' and 'Tyrant Mastiff' and is 'widely' duped as the king of Canine-Type spirit beast!]
"I was searching for a yellow cat but found a red puppy instead." Huo Yuhao chuckled while shaking his head.
"Well, it's just a matter of time."
ROAR!
The canine roared again, "You don't cherish your life, human!"
"Then, DIE!"
The spirit beast pounced on Huo Yuhao, and the middle head opened its mouth.
"Scarlet King, huh? I have to say your title is not very suitable."
BAM!
Scarlet King's eyes widened in shock as the blue-haired man didn't budge from the spot.
Dusts flew everywhere.
When the ground was clear again, Huo Yuhao casually stepped on the Scarlet King's lower jaw with his shoe and had his finger stopping the upper teeth.
"Y-You're a Title Douluo!"
"Human, you're shameless!"
"Hehe, off the mark." Huo Yuhao chuckled lightly. "Still, I'd give you 20 points out of 100 for it."
"Anyway, give me the location of your Auspicious Emperor."
"The Three-Eyed Golden Lion, was it?"
The Scarlet King suddenly becomes quiet.
He stared at Huo Yuhao vigilantly, and its middle head asked, "What do you want with the Auspicious Emperor?"
His left head snarled, "I would never tell you about her..."
"Yes, yes. I'd rather die!"
"Must be hard thinking with three heads." Huo Yuhao commented and snapped his finger.
BOOM!
ROOOOOOOOOAR!!
The left and right heads exploded into red mist.
The middle head roared in pain.
"Y-You..."
"You what? I'm helping you for free." Huo Yuhao returned indifferently. His clothes are still spotless, even when the blood mist appears.
"Now, answer my question properly."
"Where is the Star Dou Forest's Auspicious Monarch?"
"This is the last time you could cooperate with me."
Scarlet King whimpered as he just experienced death twice. Losing two of his heads made the cultivation base he tiredly accumulated decline rapidly.
He's currently weaker than your average 100,000-year-old spirit beast.
Scarlet King must store enough energy to regenerate his lost head, which would take 10,000 years or more if hard luck struck him.
This human is a devil!
Scarlet King felt anger from the depths of his soul.
"You still have five seconds..."
"Four..."
"Three."
"Second."
"One."
"I don't know!" Scarlet King answered in panic. "I don't know where the Auspicious Emperor was!"
"You didn't know?" Huo Yuhao tilted his head.
"I thought this place was the Auspicious Emperor's home."
"It is..." The spirit beast answered. "However, she left yesterday for some reason."
"Yesterday." Huo Yuhao frowned slightly. His clone entered the Star Dou Forest yesterday and left just a few minutes ago.
[There is one possible answer to this situation.] Evo reported monotonously.
[The Auspicious Emperor sensed the immense luck of your clone and countered your future sights earlier.]
[Although the Auspicious Emperor isn't strong, its spiritual attribute makes any other spiritual sense useless.]
[It includes Divine Sense and EX grade Observation Haki]
'What a strong fellow.' Huo Yuhao commented at the top of his head.
[It is]
[The Auspicious Emperor is no less than the Auspicious Monarch(Huang Yuna) in this regard!]
[Beasts who possess any affinity toward luck and destiny are always ridiculous!]
"Yuna." Huo Yuhao muttered while patting the pendant near his neck.
The pendant enhanced five fundamental elements and granted its wearer with more luck. After all, it was 'naturally' made with the Auspicious Monarch's body part.
'Do you have a way to find her, Evo?'
[There is, but it would cost you 1 Platinum Upgrading Ticket. Do you want to proceed?]
[Not to mention, the Auspicious Emperor is 'essentially' related to the Sea God in the Divine Realm. The protection around her is not low.]
'Geez, 1 Platinum Upgrading Ticket off the bat? I felt robbed.' Huo Yuhao agreed anyway.
[Processing...]
[Ding! You have upgraded Observation Haki, and it now could break Ultimate Spiritual Resistance]
Huo Yuhao blinked a few times and smiled. He picked something from his inventory and threw it to the whimpering spirit beast.
"Eat that, and you'll recover."
"..." Scarlet King looked at the ground and saw an ordinary-looking green bean.
He huffed, "That human must be joking..."
Even then, Scarlet King still scraped the ground and ate the bean.
"T-This is..."
"Such a miraculous thing exists?!" He searched for the blue-haired devil's presence, but Huo Yuhao was long gone.
...
Huo Yuhao landed on a grassland. It was an open area with nothing but golden grass of summer.
He walked a few steps to the south and saw a spirit beast on the sunny part of the grassland.
Three-Eyed Golden Lion has a body translucent like crystal, its form similar to that of a lion but with flaming draconic claws and a longer snout.
Fine golden scales peek out from beneath its fur. Most peculiar is a vertical slit on its forehead wherein its third eye rested.
Its two ordinary eyes were gold, but its third eye glared with a charming red glow.
[Name: Auspicios Monarch(Tempered)]
[Species: Three-Eyed Golden Lion(Tempered)]
[Cultivation Age: 15,000 years]
[Battle Power: Level 56, Spirit King]
[Description: The Auspicious Monarch of the Star Dou Forest, who makes fortune smiles to every spirit beast around it. It has the bloodline of Golden Dragon]
[However, she seemingly developed her own consciousness after having her essence and mind tempered by a Divine Being's intervention.]
"So, you're here." Huo Yuhao commented while sitting beside the lion.
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion was startled. She opened her eyes and saw a blue-haired human sitting beside her.
She yelped and used her mental attack on Huo Yuhao, 'Die!'
Huo Yuhao facepalmed and felt someone softly brush something against his head.
"Argh-! Is that what you want to see?" Huo Yuhao flashed a grin toward the spirit beast.
Realizing her attack was ineffective, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion tried to run away but smacked herself against Rune Barrier.
'Ugh...' The Auspicious Monarch scrunched her nose and dropped to the ground with a painful look.
Huo Yuhao laughed, "For a spirit beast that could oversee destiny, you're sure an airhead."
"But don't worry. I'm here not to harm you."
'A-Are you telling the truth?' A soft female voice brushed Huo Yuhao's ears. 'I can't sense your luck. I don't know if you are a good or bad guy...'
Huo Yuhao released 1% of his Divinity, shocking the Three-Eyed Golden Lion as she had never experienced such overwhelming luck before.
"Do you trust me now?"
'Yes...' The Three-Eyed Golden Lion gazed at Huo Yuhao with her third eye.
'I thought humans aren't trustworthy, but you're bizarre.'
"Yeah. People do describe me bizarrely, and it was understandable." Huo Yuhao shrugged because of his achievements.
"Well, let's stop with the chit-chat."
"I'm going to make an offer you can't refuse."
"Are you ready?"
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion gulped nervously, 'O-Okay...'
