Huo Yuhao followed behind Gu Yue with an indescribable mix of emotions, eventually arriving at her door.
Gu Yue pushed the door open and entered; after a slight hesitation, Huo Yuhao followed her inside.
Passing through the simple foyer, the view of the living room came into sight.
Almost instantly, Huo Yuhao's gaze fell upon the figure on the sofa.
It was an exceptionally tall middle-aged man with a resolute face and cold, sharp features. A majestic aura of authority without anger emanated from between his brows, making him look like an extremely serious, humorless father figure.
As Huo Yuhao observed Di Tian, Di Tian's gaze naturally fell upon him as well.
At first, Di Tian only gave him a casual glance.
However, after his gaze lingered for two more seconds, the indifference on his face vanished, replaced by an incredibly solemn expression.
Although the youth before him was still green, the contours of his face and that calm temperament... were slowly overlapping with the indelible figure deep in his memories!
What shook Di Tian's heart even more was the faint aura emanating from Huo Yuhao. Not a fluctuation of spirit power, but a feeling that was more Origin, closer to the levels of spirit and destiny... the more he sensed it, the more familiar it felt, and a throbbing from the depths of his Soul began to surge uncontrollably.
In the next second, Di Tian suddenly stood up from the sofa!
The movement was so abrupt that the sofa beneath him let out a strained, muffled groan.
His eyes were like lightning, locking onto Huo Yuhao. Those eyes, which had hidden their golden light, now seemed to have stormy waves rolling within them.
His fists were clenched at his sides, his knuckles turning white. The majestic aura that had been almost perfectly restrained now burst forth like a flood breaking through a dam, becoming uncontrollable!
"Buzzing!!!"
The invisible pressure was like a physical mountain, instantly filling the entire room. The air seemed to freeze and distort.
Huo Yuhao felt his breath hitch. His Spirit Sea Realm mental force appeared so thin and powerless before this pressure!
He felt as if he were suddenly placed in the center of a raging ocean, a small boat in a storm that could capsize at any moment, and even his thoughts became sluggish.
"Cough."
Just as this suffocating pressure reached its peak, a light cough rang out clearly from Gu Yue's mouth.
The sound wasn't loud, but it was like a stream of clear spring water, instantly extinguishing the volcano that was about to lose control.
Di Tian's clenched fists suddenly relaxed, and the violent aura surging around him receded rapidly like a tide, being completely restrained as if the heart-pounding scene from a moment ago had never happened.
Only on his forehead had a layer of fine cold sweat broken out.
Only now did he truly understand the deeper meaning behind his Lord's previous words, "Don't lose your composure too much."
He hadn't just lost his composure... he had completely lost his cool!
Di Tian slowly turned his head, glancing at the calm Gu Yue beside him with a hint of undisguised "resentment."
Lord, oh Lord... you should have at least given me a heads-up!
This person you brought... this youth, is he just "similar"?
This is clearly the appearance of that Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao when he was young!
Although the aura on Di Tian's body only showed for a moment, it stirred up huge waves in Huo Yuhao's heart.
This also completely confirmed his previous guess: Gu Yue's father was definitely an expert at least at the Super Douluo level!
However, regarding that terrifying aura just now, Huo Yuhao didn't have much concern for his own safety.
Because he seemed to have heard that when a father-in-law meets his future son-in-law for the first time, he always gives him a "show of strength."
Clearly, in Huo Yuhao's mind, that burst of aura just now was for this reason!
Huo Yuhao thought to himself, and the more he thought about it, the more it made sense.
After all, he hadn't done anything just now.
Thinking of this, the tension in his heart dissipated a bit, and he even felt a strange sense of "as expected" calm.
Once the other's aura was completely retracted, he immediately took a step forward and gave a proper salute: "Hello, Uncle Gu."
"Mm." Di Tian let out a low response from his nose. He raised his finger to point at the sofa opposite him and said, "Come and sit."
"Thank you, Uncle Gu."
Huo Yuhao followed the instruction and sat down on the side sofa with Gu Yue.
His sitting posture was very "standard," only occupying the front half of the sofa, with his back straight and his hands placed properly on his knees, looking like a serious and well-behaved child.
The way Di Tian looked at Huo Yuhao now was a mix of indescribable and complex emotions.
The root of this complexity lay in the fact that his "feelings" toward Huo Yuhao were truly too special and contradictory.
His first encounter with Huo Yuhao began with the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
Di Tian truly cared for and raised the Auspicious Beast like a daughter, but after the Auspicious Beast transformed into a human, her heart became tied to Huo Yuhao.
Based on this connection alone, if Huo Yuhao were to call Di Tian "father-in-law," it wouldn't be entirely unreasonable.
But later, when the Auspicious Beast chose to sacrifice herself for Huo Yuhao, Di Tian hated Huo Yuhao to the extreme.
He even went as far as to launch a beast tide against Shrek Academy for this, nearly causing the destruction of the continent's number one academy.
Later, the spirit soul system researched by Huo Yuhao was born.
For the sake of the Spirit Beast race finding a chance to breathe and continue under human oppression, Di Tian chose to compromise and even began to assist in promoting spirit souls.
At that time, he probably felt a bit of appreciation and complex expectation toward Huo Yuhao.
Further on, after Huo Yuhao became a Titled Douluo, his personality suddenly changed for some reason, going from warm and humble to unpredictable and even overbearing.
Di Tian was severely wounded by "Little Huo's Flying Dagger," and for the first time, he felt a hint of fear from that human he once regarded as a Junior!
It was these complex emotions spanning Ten Thousand Years Ago, intertwined with the pain of family, the hatred of the race, the schemes of cooperation, and the fear of power, that made him lose his composure so much.
That's why today, seeing this youth who looked almost like he was carved from the same mold as the young Spirit Ice Douluo, even this Co-lord of Spirit Beasts who had experienced countless storms couldn't help but... lose his composure.
Di Tian's eyes flickered slightly, as if he were weighing his words.
After a moment, he finally spoke again: "I heard... Yue'er mention you. Who else is in your family?"
Huo Yuhao secretly thought, "As expected."
This process was exactly the same as the "meeting the parents" scenario he had heard about; the questioning of family background was starting.
His expression remained unchanged, and his tone was frank with a perfectly measured hint of loneliness as he replied, "I am an orphan. I haven't known who my parents were since childhood. My teachers raised me..."
He wasn't entirely lying with this sentence.
In this World after Ten Thousand Years Ago, he indeed had no blood relatives left. His two teachers, Leng Yaozhu and Han Tianyi, were his closest elders.
For the next half hour, the atmosphere in the living room maintained a subtle "question and answer" mode.
Di Tian's questions weren't tricky, but they covered many aspects such as his upbringing, his teacher's lineage, and his future plans, asking in a detailed and thorough manner.
Huo Yuhao answered every question, his attitude respectful and his words sincere, though he naturally and skillfully omitted the secret of his Transmigration.
When this conversation, which could be called an "interrogation," finally came to an end, Huo Yuhao appeared calm on the surface, but his back was already quietly soaked with a layer of cold sweat.
Finally, Gu Yue stood up and escorted Huo Yuhao to the door.
Watching Huo Yuhao's relieved yet slightly lingering fear-filled expression as he turned to leave, a nearly mischievous smile flickered imperceptibly in her eyes.
Huo Yuhao had always been a calm and collected figure in Class Zero, and Gu Yue hadn't expected him to have a time like this when he was so nervous.
The moment Huo Yuhao stepped out of the door and into the hallway, he truly breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that it was more mentally exhausting than fighting several consecutive matches in the Hall of Heroes.
He raised his hand to wipe the non-existent cold sweat from his brow, with only one thought left in his mind.
Meeting the parents... is truly terrifying!
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A/N:
5 Power Stones = 1 Extra Chapter
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