Douluo Continent: Reborn Yuhao, their eyes are strange

Chapter 242 The Sleeping Mermaid Princess Needs a True Love's Kiss

Chapter 242 The Sleeping Mermaid Princess Needs a True Love's Kiss to Awaken

With her sharp eyes, Tianmeng spotted the ice plaque stuck in front of the pool and softly read aloud the words on it: "The Little Mermaid has fallen into a deep sleep; only a kiss of true love can awaken her."

In an instant, several black lines appeared on Tianmeng's forehead.

She raised her little fist, laughing out loud in exasperation: "You're kidding me! Do you think I'm a spirit beast who's never read human fairy tales? What era are we living in? Still playing these games?"

As soon as the words were spoken, everyone present clearly saw that the beautiful golden fish tail on the ice bed moved almost imperceptibly.

But Liya kept her eyes tightly closed, remaining in the position of lying on the ice bed, trying her best to play the role of a sleeping mermaid.

Huo Yuhao sighed softly, a helpless yet gentle smile appearing on his face.

He strode toward the ice bed in the center of the pool.

One ice crystal after another automatically condensed and took shape beneath his feet, paving a path for him to reach the center of the pool.

Finally, he sat calmly on the edge of the ice bed, looking at the face before him that had remained unchanged for millennia, still delicate and charming, and spoke softly:

"So, may I ask this sleeping mermaid princess, would you like to be awakened by a kiss on the forehead or on the lips?"

Liya's pretty face flushed a beautiful blush in an instant, and her long eyelashes began to tremble uncontrollably.

Before she could even offer a shy response, the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass's cool, slightly mocking voice rang out from the other side.

"A kiss on the forehead will suffice. If I kiss her on the lips, I'm afraid she won't just be woken up, she'll actually faint."

Tianmeng, who hadn't walked towards the ice bed with Huo Yuhao earlier, instead huffed and puffed her way to the side of the Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass.

She had circled the roots of the fairy herb twice, staring intently at its leaves and drooling.

It should be noted that her vital essence is now severely depleted, making it difficult for her to even maintain the most basic human form.

But if she could take a few bites of this eight-cornered ice grass, she might immediately become energetic and even get rid of her former petite appearance and become a bit plumper.

But now, hearing that the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass could speak, clearly indicating that it still possessed sentience, Tianmeng's overwhelming disappointment almost materialized into a tangible resentment.

Looking at Tianmeng, who exuded a resentful aura, the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass subconsciously pulled its branches and leaves inward, creating a safe distance, before asking in a cold voice:

"Tianmeng, do you have other sources of your essence scattered outside? And how did you become female?"

These words seemed to ignite a powder keg, and Tianmeng immediately gave Bajiao a demonstration of what a cruel Ice Silkworm Fist looks like.

She waved her little fists and punched wildly at the roots of the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass, but apart from not hitting a single one and being exhausted, she was fine.

She stood with her hands on her hips, panting heavily, and said, "What do you mean by 'different origin'? He and I aren't even the same soul beast, okay!"

"Not a soul beast?"

The Eight-Pointed Ice Grass was somewhat stunned. The large white flower, shaped like eight points, swayed slightly, and for a moment, it couldn't quite process what was happening.

Immediately afterwards, Tianmeng proudly explained the concept of "parallel worlds" to Bajiao Xuanbingcao, using the half-baked knowledge she had heard from Elder Yi, leaving the other party completely bewildered.

Meanwhile, after receiving the "reminder" from the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass, Huo Yuhao lowered his head slowly with a gentle smile.

As that familiar and reassuring aura drew closer, Liya clenched her small fists nervously, her eyes barely opening a crack as she secretly observed him.

But when she vaguely heard Tianmeng's words about "another timeline" and "different fate," she suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of urgency.

The next moment, she stretched out her arms and wrapped them around Huo Yuhao's neck, pressing her soft body tightly against him and tilting her head back to meet his lips.

A slightly cool scent with a hint of sweet fragrance unique to young girls instantly fills every corner of the mouth, leaving a lingering aftertaste.

Upon witnessing this scene, the icy mist surrounding the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass became disordered, and its branches and leaves shook violently.

Clearly, they couldn't believe that Liya, who had always seemed somewhat shy and reserved, would take the initiative to this extent.

Tianmeng turned her head slightly and glanced at her. For a moment, she felt a little envious of Liya, whose true form was half-human and half-fish, which obviously made it much easier for her to do certain things.

However, she quickly turned her head and waved her little fist at Octagon again.

"What, you've never seen a kiss before? Let me tell you, there will be plenty of these kinds of scenes in the future! Or rather, do you also want to do those unspeakable things to my little Yuhao after you transform into human form?"

I'm warning you, with Sister Tianmeng here protecting Xiaoyuhao, don't even think about it!

As she continued, Tianmeng mysteriously moved closer to the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass, rubbing her hands together like a fly, and chuckled:

"Unless you let me take a few bites, then I can secretly tell you where Yuhao's weaknesses are. These are all valuable practical experiences, you know."

The Eight-Cornered Ice Grass was indeed lost in thought because of Tianmeng's words. Even after becoming a 100,000-year-old soul beast and even a soul spirit, it had always maintained its original form and had never really considered the matter of transforming into human form.

She leaned slightly down from the branch and spoke in a cool voice to Tianmeng, who was still rubbing her hands:

"Giving you a few bites is out of the question. However, I can share some of the icy rain I've reconstituted over the past two thousand years with you..."

While the blade of grass and the silkworm were making their wicked deal, the two, who had been kissing for a long time, slowly separated.

Liya, breathing heavily with a flushed face, leaned softly against Huo Yuhao, still somewhat unable to believe that she had actually kissed him.

Although during the war in the God Realm, because everyone made the decision to share life and death, she and Xue Di mustered up their courage and no longer hid their true feelings, and successively expressed their feelings to Huo Yuhao.

Even so, they still haven't progressed to the point of kissing mouth to mouth like they do now.

In an instant, a large blush appeared not only on Liya's pretty face, but also quickly spread to her neck, shoulders, and even the entire exposed white skin of her upper body, which was covered with an alluring pink.

An astonishing heat emanated from her body, and the icy jade bed beneath her was steaming with a thick layer of vapor under this temperature, turning Liya into a "steam princess".

Her already large, watery eyes were filled with even more swirling circles, and her body went limp as she collapsed unconscious into Huo Yuhao's arms.

Upon seeing this scene, the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass, which had made an evil deal with Tianmeng, rang out again with a cold voice tinged with helplessness.

"That's why I said you could just kiss her on the forehead. Liya isn't in a very good condition right now. I'm afraid it might be years before she wakes up again after she faints."

Fortunately, things weren't as serious as the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass had described.

Not much time had passed. Liya, who had been held in Huo Yuhao's arms with her head resting on his shoulder, fluttered her eyelids a few times and then slowly opened her eyes.

The first thing that catches the eye is the exceptionally handsome face of the white-haired boy.

The resonance originating from the deepest part of her soul caused Liya's heart to race uncontrollably, as if a little deer was running rampant inside her chest.

No longer suppressing her surging emotions, she stretched out her arms again and tightly hugged Huo Yuhao's neck.

Her large, azure eyes instantly filled with tears, which shone with a soft, gentle light. Before they even touched the ground, they transformed into perfectly round, pure white pearls in mid-air.

With a heavy sob in her voice, she spoke somewhat incoherently:

"Yuhao, it's so good to see you again... I thought... I thought I'd never see you again..."

Huo Yuhao felt a pang of pain in his heart and quickly reached out to gently pat Liya's back, using his gentlest movements and voice to soothe her somewhat out-of-control emotions.

The eight-cornered ice grass standing to the side looked at them and said with some surprise, "But Yuhao, you look really different now than before."

"If Liya hadn't said she sensed the mermaid blessing she left behind on you, I would have mistaken you for the enemies who invaded our demiplane last time."

"Last time?"

Huo Yuhao paused slightly as he comforted Liya, while Tianmeng, standing on the branches of the octagonal ice grass, revealed a strong sense of curiosity in her small eyes.

The Undead Demiplane has always been hidden in the void outside the Douluo plane. It can be said that without precise spatial coordinates, there is absolutely no possibility of it being found.

Seeing that they were talking about serious matters, Liya gradually calmed down and straightened up a little from Huo Yuhao's arms.

With a flick of her wrist, a seed shimmering with an eerie pale purple luster floated in mid-air.

From that seed, one could faintly hear a series of low, seductive, and decadent sounds, seemingly guiding the listener's mind and tempting them to fall into depravity.

"These are the seeds we intercepted after Octagon and I defeated those demons last time."

Liya's voice was still a little hoarse. "Although the plane from which those demons came was much more perfect in terms of the laws than our undead demiplane, the strongest beings in that plane were only at the level of Limit Douluo, and there were no god-level beings."

After I became a plane lord-like being in the undead demiplane, relying on the power of the demiplane's rules, dealing with them wasn't too difficult..."

"Demon Seed, Dimensional Lord?"

The more casually Liya recounted the story, the more Huo Yuhao frowned.

He almost instinctively began to examine Liya's body.

Although the undead demiplane uses light as its core power, which gives rise to death and darkness, those dark elements are still pure, unadulterated negative energy.

Those Soul Masters with Light or Lightning attributes would feel extremely uncomfortable if they stayed here for a long time.

As a pure spirit-attribute soul beast, the price that Liya has to pay to become the ruler of the undead demiplane is probably not as easy as she makes it sound.

A warm palm gently stroked Liya's wrist, and a gentle soul force slowly flowed into her body, carefully examining her internal condition.

The tingling sensation made Liya's body go limp again, and the blush on her pretty face reappeared.

Those big eyes started to swirl with mosquito coils again, and she uncontrollably blew out one crystal-clear bubble after another from her mouth.

After Huo Yuhao finished his examination, apart from discovering that Liya's essence was indeed somewhat weak, he did not find any abnormal negative energy erosion.

The mermaid princess in his arms had completely slumped into his embrace, as soft and boneless as a fish that had lost its moisture after coming ashore, turning into a cute "dried fish".

The ice condensed from the eight-cornered ice grass evaporated into a cloud of mist the moment it touched Liya's forehead.

In an instant, the mist swirled, making the surroundings hazy, which only made Liya's azure eyes stand out even more, shining incredibly brightly.

She leaned softly against Huo Yuhao's chest, her sweet, nasal voice almost whispering in his ear.

"Yuhao, I... I really don't have anything too serious, except that I sometimes need to fall into a long coma to recover because of insufficient energy."

After all, back in the realm of gods, I bore the 'evil' aspect of the emotional divine position, so the nature of this undead demiplane isn't really a burden for me.

Liya adjusted her posture, pressing herself closer, and her voice gradually calmed down:

"It's more accurate to say that this undead demiplane chose me, making me its plane master. And it is precisely because I became the plane master that I have sufficient authority to mobilize energy and help Octagon grow rapidly..."

As a plant-type soul beast, the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass could revive itself even when only a portion of its essence remained attached to the God of Emotions's divine spark.

However, to quickly grow back to the previous level of power, a massive amount of energy is still required.

According to Liya, even after the last invasion of the demon plane and the acquisition of a large amount of external energy as a supplement, the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass has only barely recovered to the level of a 200,000-year-old soul beast.

As the souls who ascended to the realm of gods with him, although they did not attain the true divine position like him, they undoubtedly all reached the level of divine beasts.

Because they each assume part of the position of the God of Emotions, their strength is even a level higher than that of ordinary divine beasts.

If the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress were to join forces, their strength could even rival that of a true second-level deity.

As for the Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass, which was relatively weaker among Huo Yuhao's souls, its strength reached the level of a top-tier divine official after ascending to the God Realm.

(End of this chapter)