Douluo: The True Eye

Huo Yuhao glossed over the inexplicable topic of why the Emperor Rui Beast would be thinking about participating in human soul master competitions so soon after arriving in the human world.

After pondering for a moment, Huo Yuhao said to the girl through his mental power: ‘Since you’re not planning to use force to bring me to the Star Dou Great Forest, there must be a reason.’

‘It can’t be because you’ve come to like the human world after these few days and don’t want to take me back, right?’

The girl shook her head; ‘Of course not because of that reason. Although the human world is indeed very prosperous, the Star Dou Great Forest is my only home.’

‘But during these days at the Emperor Ao Academy, I have also learned a lot about the situation in the human world through the students. Nowadays, the development of you humans... is really too terrifying for the current soul beasts.’

‘I never thought about these things before.’ As she said this, the girl's eyes stared straight at Huo Yuhao, and Huo Yuhao naturally understood what she meant.

If it weren't for the memories and ideas that he transmitted to the Emperor Rui Beast during the Guidance of Destiny, then as a soul beast, even if she transformed into a human form, she might never truly understand the human world in her lifetime.

The complexity of the human world and the consequences brought about by the unrestrained development of humans are not something that simple-minded soul beasts can understand or imagine. Moreover, soul beasts, lacking a social structure, naturally do not understand the lessons of history.

However, the current Emperor Rui Beast, in addition to her identity as the Emperor Rui Beast, also has a soul contract with Huo Yuhao, which allows her to break away from the limited perspective of soul beasts for the first time and successfully face the existence and conflict between the two races of humans and soul beasts.

For soul beasts, perhaps they were already on this inevitable path to extinction when the Dragon God fell because they are just the still-burning embers left behind when the Dragon God fell.

For the Silver Dragon King and for Di Tian, as those who reminisce about and inherit the former Dragon Clan, they regard the soul beast race as a part of the glorious past of the Dragon Clan, but it can’t be said that they would make any contributions to the soul beast race.

Because they are first and foremost members of the Dragon Clan, and only then are they the shared master of the soul beasts, the beast god of the soul beasts. Even if Di Tian has cultivated feelings with the soul beasts over so many years, it is still the same.

For Di Tian, his useful body is reserved for the Dragon Clan.

However, the Emperor Rui Beast is different. For her, her existence is for the sake of the soul beasts. Compared to the Silver Dragon King, who is nominally the shared master of the soul beasts, the Emperor Rui Beast is actually the true Emperor of the soul beasts.

Appearing with the emergence of the soul beast race, the Emperor Rui Beast was born in response to this, and her life is closely connected to the soul beast race.

As she gradually understands and controls the power of destiny, and coupled with the intellect that her soul contract with Huo Yuhao has given her, the Emperor Rui Beast seems to hear the elegy of the soul beast race gradually playing from the vast veins of destiny.

This also makes her mature quickly. For the Emperor Rui Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's current age of fifteen thousand years is not even considered adulthood. Only at one hundred thousand years old is the Emperor Rui Beast's peak, and that is when they truly bear responsibility.

‘I want to change all of this. I want to change the living conditions of the soul beast race. I want to change the conflict between humans and soul beasts.’ The girl looked at Huo Yuhao seriously, her eyes full of determination at this moment.

‘Destiny has guided me. If you want to achieve all of this, your existence is indispensable. Your destiny and the power of luck you possess are also the most powerful existence in the human world.’

Huo Yuhao nodded slightly, but he was looking at the girl in front of him with a new level of respect for the first time. Although her thinking was not mature enough.

However, compared to Wang Qiuer in the original book, who abandoned her race for the sake of so-called love under the influence of Tang San, this Emperor Rui Beast now has the capacity to be truly considered an Emperor of soul beasts.

‘My name is Huo Yuhao. What is your name?’

Huo Yuhao looked at the girl in front of him and asked. Regardless of whether he chooses to cooperate with the girl next, the girl's will is undoubtedly someone worthy of his serious attention.

The development of soul masters and the survival of soul beasts are difficult to reconcile contradictions. Although it is not impossible to solve, after all, for the current Huo Yuhao, soul masters are not the only way to become stronger.

Moreover, since artificial soul rings could appear in the original book, then the current Huo Yuhao certainly has the confidence to develop them in advance, but what benefits can this bring to himself?

‘Di Ruier, this is the name I gave myself after coming to the human world.’ The girl, Di Ruier, replied.

‘So how do you plan to do it, to change the soul beasts and soul masters, just with your words? Don't say I don't believe it, I'm afraid even Di Tian wouldn't agree.’

Seeing that the girl did not answer, Huo Yuhao continued with a smile: ‘I also know that Di Tian went to the Sun Moon Empire a few years ago.’

‘Because my teacher is one of the few Limit Douluo powerhouses in the human world today.’

‘You were right before, because my luck is strong enough, so I naturally have the power to protect me by my side.’

‘If you had tried to call Di Tian for help at the very beginning of our meeting, it would be hard to say whether my teacher or Di Tian would have arrived first.’

‘And this is my sincerity to you. If you want to cooperate, it is best to know each other well.’

This was not entirely true, but Huo Yuhao carefully conveyed his mental power based on his understanding of the soul contract.

After listening to Huo Yuhao's words, the girl pursed her lips and shook her head, and said after a moment: ‘Although I am eager to change the current situation of the soul beasts, even with the memories you gave me, I still haven't thought of a way.’

‘My understanding of humans is limited to your memories and these few days of contact. Although humans will also appear in the Star Dou Great Forest, I rarely come into contact with them, and Di Tian has not given me the opportunity to contact them.’

Hearing this, Huo Yuhao nodded, but was thinking about the information the other party had just conveyed. Di Tian didn't give her a chance to contact humans?

Logically speaking, the Emperor Rui Beast should be under the supervision of fierce beasts around her, but that shouldn't be the way it's said.

Combining this with what Du Bu Si had previously seen in Mingdu—the friction between Di Tian and the Sun Moon Empire—could there be other hidden facts behind this?

Yuhao temporarily suppressed these doubts in his heart and continued listening to the girl.

'According to the guidance of the power of fate, I foresaw that a significant event would occur in the human world during the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition in two years.'

After listening to the girl, Huo Yuhao shook his head slightly. To be honest, he questioned whether there would even be a Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition in two years.

Because since winning the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition five years ago and severely damaging the reputation that Shrek Academy had painstakingly built up, the Sun Moon Empire had remained silent.

Although in the original story, the Sun Moon Empire announced a change in the competition system, including sects from the original Douluo Continent's three countries besides the various academies, the news was only released three months before the competition.

However, this result was decided after negotiations between the Sun Moon Empire and the original Douluo Continent's three countries. Now, with only two years left until the next competition, the four empires have not released any information, which is very suspicious.

If the Sun Moon Empire sent envoys to discuss the matter, then the Tianhun Empire's royal family, upon learning of the news, would at least come to inquire about the opinion of the Body Sect, the Tianhun Empire's protector sect.

However, neither Huo Yuhao nor Du Bu Si knew anything about this, so in Huo Yuhao's view, the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition was likely to have major problems.

It was likely that it would not follow the original story's trajectory. Although he couldn't be sure if this was just a delayed reaction caused by his own butterfly effect, or if the Sun Moon Empire had other plans.

However, no matter the outcome, although the possible changes in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition were indeed significant, even if it developed according to the original story, it was indeed a key node in the trajectory of fate.

But it was definitely not as Di Ruier thought—a good opportunity for her; rather, it seemed like a giant pit.

So at this moment, Huo Yuhao didn't continue the topic but instead raised his own question: 'I want to know what happened in Star Dou Great Forest after Di Tian went to the Sun Moon Empire. What's the deal with the humans you mentioned?'

Hearing this, the girl froze in place, a hint of annoyance flashing in her eyes, realizing that she might have revealed some unfavorable information about Di Tian, but since it had already happened, she quickly regained her composure.

'I can tell you, but in exchange—an information exchange!'

Huo Yuhao nodded. Just as he was about to say something, the girl breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing Huo Yuhao's nod.

So, without waiting for Huo Yuhao to haggle over the value of their respective information, she revealed what she knew.

'After Di Tian returned, he seemed to have brought back a Fire Dragon Clan egg, and also brought many black-clothed human soul masters and some human soul engineers with a very cold aura.'

'Di Tian asked us not to provoke these humans. In addition, he also brought us many novel things from those humans.'

'As for the rest, I don't know. Uncle Xiong Jun has a big opinion about this, but Di Tian forcibly suppressed him. That's all I know.'

Then, the girl looked at Huo Yuhao with expectant eyes, hoping to get the information he had mentioned.

After listening to the detailed characteristics of the soul masters and soul engineers described by the girl,

Huo Yuhao naturally guessed that Di Tian had reached some degree of cooperation with the Holy Spirit Cult's evil soul masters and the Sun Moon Empire's soul engineers.

But looking at the expectant girl in front of him, Huo Yuhao suddenly felt a faint pang in his nonexistent conscience. Was what he was doing equivalent to deceiving an innocent girl?

Shaking his head to clear these messy thoughts, Huo Yuhao said, 'The root of the conflict between soul masters and soul beasts lies in the soul rings.'

'Without soul beast soul rings, soul masters cannot break through, and the price of producing a soul ring must be the death of a soul beast, and the higher the level of the soul master, the higher the level of the soul beast required.'

'Although there are many other factors, such as the nourishment of soul beast flesh for soul masters, the natural treasures growing in soul beast territories, or the treasures of the soul master world, soul bones, and so on,'

'But in the final analysis, the biggest point of conflict between soul masters and soul beasts is the soul ring, and the prerequisite for resolving the conflict between the two races is to allow soul masters to increase their strength normally while getting rid of their dependence on soul rings.'

Looking at the girl, who could be described as pure, Huo Yuhao sighed and then said the next sentence, which he originally didn't want to say: 'But in the final analysis, there is no room for two tigers on one mountain between races.'

'This is the same even among you soul beasts. Tigers and leopards do not travel with cattle and sheep unless the two groups complement each other and cooperation benefits both parties, and at the same level.'

'If you soul beasts were really given a chance to exterminate humans and become the masters of this world, wouldn't you soul beasts really have no thoughts?'

'Now, soul masters have even restrained their killing of soul beasts to a certain extent in order to obtain soul rings.'

'So, if the biggest conflict between soul masters and soul beasts is really resolved, will soul masters continue to allow soul beasts to exist at that time?'

After listening to Huo Yuhao's words, the girl fell into contemplation and confusion. Although she wanted to change the current situation of soul beasts, she had never thought of what Huo Yuhao said.

As a soul beast, fifteen thousand years was still too young. Even with the wisdom gained from the soul contract with Huo Yuhao, even with great ambitions, the girl was now lost.