“How is this possible?
Senior Chen’s cultivation level is a Soul Emperor—how could he lose to a four-ring Soul Ancestor?”
“She must have cheated!”
“Yes, we must report her—she definitely cheated!”
In the stands, a group of Shrek Academy’s male and female students flushed red with indignation.
“Snow Lady, ignore them.
We’re leaving this place.”
After looking at Snow Lady’s heaving chest and hearing the surrounding noise, Huo Yuhao compressed his voice into a thread and said to her.
“Alright, I’ll do as you say.
It’s enough that we got to teach that bully a lesson this time out.
What a pity—I couldn’t take down those Dai family bastards for you the other day,” Snow Lady said proudly, her hands on her hips.
“Let’s not talk about that.
Let’s go.” After Snow Lady had successfully defeated the strongest publicly known member of Shrek, Huo Yuhao felt a sense of relief from the stands.
Though, after all these days of maneuvering, the Sun Moon Empire was temporarily safe for him, Huo Yuhao knew it was only temporary.
In this life, unlike his previous one, Huo Yuhao knew that this Douluo Continent was almost entirely Tang San’s domain.
Within the other’s domain, even if the other was bound by many restrictions, they were always walking on a tightrope over a cliff if they refused to submit to the Tang family.
On the way back to the Mingyue Hotel, Huo Yuhao had a bad feeling.
Sure enough, upon returning to his lodgings, he saw from afar that the hotel—operated by the Pingfan Alliance for many years—had been reduced to rubble.
“In just half a day, everything’s turned upside down?
Things really do move fast.” Gazing at the Mingdu garrison forces locked in battle with evil soul masters, Snow Lady murmured to herself.
“Truly ruthless, and truly fast!” Huo Yuhao looked coldly at the sky, thinking this.
“Yuhao, where are we going to stay tonight?” Snow Lady looked at the rubble before her, then at Huo Yuhao.
Having lived for hundreds of thousands of years, she found that in times of trouble, this young boy was often the pillar they leaned on.
Where to stay?
They certainly couldn’t go to the Qing Se Hotel run by the Xi Shui Alliance.
Even without the “Spectator” authority, his previous life’s memories told Huo Yuhao that the Qing Se Hotel and the Xi Shui Alliance were shells for the Holy Spirit Church.
In his previous life, when that “pure and innocent” good father-in-law had reincarnated to search for his wife, Huo Yuhao had studied the woman Ye Xishui of his era in considerable detail after the supreme gods of the Great Divine Realm had recreated his era through the game “Douluo World.”
In the structure of Mingdu during his era, if a soul master’s martial soul was not neutral or positive-attribute, then the Pingfan Alliance was the only way out.
And Shangguan Wei’er’s Pingfan Alliance was as ordinary as its name suggested—it had no rich resources.
Thus, in Mingdu, positive-attribute soul masters—such as those with light attributes—would either inadvertently enter the Xi Shui Alliance and be killed, or enter the Pingfan Alliance and sell themselves.
“If only I had thought deeper back then, the incident during the Twin Divine Star Plan wouldn’t have happened.
What a pity—I was still that dog Dai Yuhao at the time.
When reflecting on my own era, I even dismissed this structure of Mingdu as merely fate’s trial for Ye Guyi.”
“Come stay with me at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
We should receive decent treatment there.” Huo Yuhao said to Snow Lady as he took her hand and walked toward the academy.
That day, Huo Yuhao also happened to need to deliver a batch of soul tool armor to Xuan Ziwen.
In Laboratory No.
3 of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
When Xuan Ziwen saw Huo Yuhao retrieve from his storage soul tool a pile of Rank 6 to Rank 7 lightweight defensive armor, his eyes lit up.
He knew what this meant.
While the four Douluo nations still treated a Soul Emperor as something significant, six-ring Soul King-level combat power was gradually becoming the standard unit of combat power in the Sun Moon Empire.
In this era, the importance of such a matter went without saying.
As a commoner who had moved from the Heavenly Soul Empire to the Sun Moon Empire, Xuan Ziwen felt that the spatial and temporal leaps in his life had almost synchronized: the Sun Moon Empire and the various Douluo nations were like two different planes.
“Teacher, do you know about evil soul masters?” Huo Yuhao asked probingly.
In his previous life, after Tang Wutong had devoured Wang Qiuer, he, as Dai Yuhao, had been too busy practicing the Three Absolutes of Haodong to care about many things.
In this life, he was determined to settle the score.
“You mean evil soul masters?
Ever since I came to the Sun Moon Empire, their activity among the common folk has dropped significantly.
But among soul masters and nobles, they’re even more active here.
After all, this is their headquarters,” Xuan Ziwen said bluntly.
“Teacher, do you hold an open attitude toward evil soul masters?”
“Open?
How could I be open?
I only moved here after the village where I grew up was massacred by evil soul masters.”
After a conversation with Xuan Ziwen about evil soul masters, Huo Yuhao realized that this teacher was remarkably sensitive to the situation.
No wonder Ju Zi, the Crown Princess, just happened to be his student.
Of course, after this chat, Huo Yuhao could tell that commoners like Xuan Ziwen on the Douluo Continent had essentially suffered under the Tang family for a long time.
After all, these people weren’t fools—they could compare what had happened on the Douluo Continent since the Slaughter City disappeared.
It was just that, under the immense disparity in absolute force, this resentment could only be expressed in twisted ways.
“Sister Guyi, thank you for trusting me so much.” After finding a dormitory arranged by Xuan Ziwen and closing the door, Huo Yuhao immediately opened the necromantic demiplane to check on Ye Guyi’s condition.
After confirming that Ye Guyi had only sustained some superficial injuries, he gave her some life crystals to use.
Even knowing that what had happened at the Mingyue Hotel was specifically targeting Ye Guyi, Huo Yuhao still comforted her not to worry.
As for why Ye Guyi had incurred such a murderous calamity, perhaps it was because she had said things to him that she shouldn’t have.
“Little Yuhao, it’s I who should thank you.
Without the teleportation array you secretly left behind, I wouldn’t be seeing you now.”
“Sister Guyi, can you tell me what happened?” Huo Yuhao asked.
“After you both left for the matches this morning…”
Listening to Ye Guyi’s account, Huo Yuhao learned that a Rank 9 Titled Douluo-level evil soul master had sensed the sacred aura at the Mingyue Hotel.
Of course, this was only what Ye Guyi assumed.
Now more cautious and meticulous, Huo Yuhao naturally didn’t believe that an evil soul master had simply detected a faint sacred aura.
Through his guidance and his divine sense’s real-time perception, Huo Yuhao could confirm that Ye Guyi had never revealed any flaw since the day he met her in the Sun Moon Empire that would attract a Rank 9 Titled Douluo-level evil soul master.
Therefore, the leader of the evil soul masters who had suddenly stormed the Mingyue Hotel that day—a Rank 9 Titled Douluo—had clearly acted out of some “flash of inspiration.”
Having known in his previous life how the gods of the divine realm could toy with people when they were not bound by rules, Huo Yuhao naturally knew who was behind this.
“Sister Guyi, you said that person claimed to have received a revelation from the Holy Emperor?” Huo Yuhao caught the key information from Ye Guyi’s words.
“Has your Angel family ever heard of this so-called Holy Emperor legend?”