Seeing the Red King fiercely bare its dog claws in a threatening manner, Yuwen Tuo thought, Didn't my power of destiny already unseal? Why, right after leaving Shrek, am I being intimidated by a dog like this?
Fine, your dog claws are tougher, I'll listen to you.
Yuwen Tuo didn't want to summon the Ice and Snow Dual Emperors to fight the Red King over such a small matter, so he could only say, "I can help make one meal, but you'll have to prepare the ingredients yourselves."
"Kid, wait!" The Red King's form flickered, and it vanished without a trace.
Although this fellow was massive, its speed wasn't slow at all.
This time, it wasn't thinking about protecting the safety of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion anymore. It seemed to have understood that if the Three-Eyed Golden Lion went all out, he really couldn't beat her currently, unless he summoned the Ice and Snow Dual Emperors.
Yesterday, the Red King was just flustered out of concern.
"Tuo, that sword, can you really not let me see it?" The Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked again.
She still wanted the Xuanyuan Sword. Whether it was the sacred power's ability to suppress destiny or the golden sacred sword's attraction to the Golden Dragon King's bloodline, it was simply too tempting for her.
Even at the risk of her destiny being connected to Yuwen Tuo's, she wanted to see it.
"You'd best think carefully. This will harm you for life. Isn't it good enough just being an Imperial Auspicious Beast? Don't get involved in human society," Yuwen Tuo warned again.
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion lowered her head upon hearing this, turned, and walked to a large tree, where she lay down, her three eyes staring blankly at Yuwen Tuo.
She was truly conflicted now. To hand over her power of destiny to another was something she would rather die than do, yet the temptation of the Xuanyuan Sword was so great.
Man and beast watched each other from a distance.
"Oh, by the way, Three-Eyed Golden Lion, why do you call me 'Tuo'? Didn't I introduce myself? My full name is Yuwen Tuo," Yuwen Tuo said.
"Convenient!" The Three-Eyed Golden Lion already had a hint of Wang Qiu'er's aloofness, responding simply.
So, she found Yuwen Tuo's name too long.
Isn't it just three characters? Huo Yuhao also has three characters. Does a compound surname sound longer than a single surname?
"Forget it, in this forest, you're the princess, so whatever you say goes," Yuwen Tuo no longer cared.
Xiao Xiao called him Tuo Tuo, so a more simplified version was fine too.
Soon, the Red King returned with dozens of fish.
Clearly, these weren't just for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to eat.
Yuwen Tuo curiously asked, "Senior Red King, you can't possibly eat all these fish. Are they for you too? But isn't your true form a dog?"
"What's wrong with being a dog? Can't a dog eat fish? Ever since that Ditian calculated it, this King has long since stopped being picky. Hurry up and make me some fish. If you can't satisfy the Imperial Auspicious Beast, this King will smack you to death with one paw," the Red King threatened.
It sounded like there was some grudge between it and Ditian.
"Hmph, mere Red King, daring to threaten my little brother. If it weren't for my little brother's spiritual sea not being strong enough right now, once he can revive me at will, I'd definitely..." The Ice Empress cursed fiercely. She was extremely protective of her own.
When Yuwen Tuo was still at Shrek, she had been recuperating in slumber. Later, when she learned what Shrek had done to him, she cursed for three days and three nights without repeating herself.
"Snow Empress, why aren't you speaking?"
"I'm thinking about what the Red King just said," the Snow Empress said, her face beaming with gossip. "I heard a rumor that one day, ten thousand years ago, Ditian suddenly got some kind of illness. He always liked to show off his affection with his wives, Bi Ji and Zi Ji, and would force the Red King to watch. If the Red King tried to sneak away, it would be beaten by him. According to Ditian, the Red King was originally a dog, and to put it nicely, only by eating more dog food could it ensure its physical and mental health."
"The Red King lived like that for ten thousand years, eating dog food for ten thousand years. No wonder it's completely unpicky now."
Yuwen Tuo's mouth twitched as he scaled the fish, listening to the Snow Empress in his spiritual sea. How could Ditian have such a peculiar habit? The original novel never mentioned this!
This Red King is too pitiful. How did it survive for ten thousand years?
Soon, Yuwen Tuo finished preparing all the fish. His exquisite knife skills were honed entirely from gutting fish.
Next, he used his Fire Elephant Power to grill them.
Upon seeing his fire, both the Red King and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion were startled.
"Human, is that... pure fire?" The Red King asked.
Yuwen Tuo nodded. "As expected of one of the Soul Beast kings, sharp-eyed indeed. But this pure fire isn't too formidable for you, is it?"
No matter how long the Red King had lived, its vision was always limited to the small Douluo Continent. In its eyes, it probably thought, like Mu En and Xuan Zi, that pure fire was a useless martial soul with no cultivation value.
"How is that possible? You already have four soul rings, two of which are ten-thousand-year soul rings, yet your fire is completely untainted, still so pure?" As expected, the Red King posed this question.
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion even trotted over to Yuwen Tuo's side, staring intently at the fire in his palm.
"You like my fire? Oh, right, I almost forgot, you have the ultimate fire attribute," Yuwen Tuo chuckled. "I can't give you the Xuanyuan Sword because that is my soul. Once it connects with you, we'll be inextricably linked forever. But this, you can have a taste!"
Yuwen Tuo unleashed a small pillar of fire with his Profound Sun Blazing Finger, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion opened her mouth and swallowed it whole.
A joyous expression immediately appeared on her adorable little face. As a fire-attribute being, she clearly loved this pure flame power.
"Um... Human, can you give me some too?" The Red King looked hopefully at Yuwen Tuo.
Pure fire, in the eyes of the living beings of this world, was indeed something with no cultivation value. But to other fire-attribute individuals or soul beasts, it was like a fire-attribute immortal herb.
Pure fire could purify flames, but purification was not refinement.
Take Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire, for example. If one only purified the evil attribute within her Evil Fire, it would solve her problem, but her flame's power would decrease rather than increase due to the loss of the evil fire, let alone evolve into ultimate fire.
But refinement was different. It removed all impurities from the flame. Not only could it remove the evil fire, but it could also make her original flame increasingly pure, constantly raising its power until it evolved into ultimate fire.
If swallowing Yuwen Tuo directly wasn't useless, the Red King would definitely have eaten Yuwen Tuo.
"Alright, Fourth Soul Skill, Crimson Earth!"
Given the Red King's enormous size, a single pillar of fire certainly wouldn't satisfy it. Therefore, Yuwen Tuo directly unleashed his newly acquired Fourth Soul Skill, Crimson Earth.
This move could make his own blood boil, increasing his strength by 100%, and raising his resistance to all other attributes by 50%. It could also gather all his flames to launch a powerful, extremely fast spherical single-target attack: Fiery Meteor.
Yuwen Tuo used the attack mode of this move, Fiery Meteor, a giant spherical fireball similar to a Gaia Energy Blast, which flew towards the Red King.
The Red King's three heads simultaneously opened their gaping jaws and sucked the entire giant fireball into their stomachs.
"Haha, delicious! As expected of the legendary pure fire, so satisfying!" The Red King roared excitedly, looking up at the sky.
Its appearance was like that of one who had finally found sweet rain after a long drought.
It seemed that for the past ten thousand years, it had indeed been tormented by Ditian's "dog food." Today, it finally tasted the long-desired delicacy, no wonder it was so agitated.
A while later, Yuwen Tuo's fish were all grilled, and he shared them with the two beasts.
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