Necromancy Appears, Electrolux Awakens!

In the White World, inside the main hall of the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters.

The bodies of more than a dozen Evil Soul Masters lay sprawled across the floor.

These Evil Soul Masters had all once been Soul Saint- or Soul Douluo-level experts, and Nightmare Douluo had even been a Titled Douluo.

But now, they had all fallen beneath Huo Yuhao's Asura Demon Sword.

And with each kill, the killing intent and Soul Power fluctuations around Huo Yuhao grew stronger in tandem.

But this was, after all, the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters. Countless Evil Soul Masters surged toward Huo Yuhao like a tide.

And even after more than a dozen Evil Soul Masters had been slain, the others showed no fear whatsoever. Instead, their faces shone with fervor.

To these lunatics, the stronger Huo Yuhao proved to be, the more valuable his flesh and soul would be.

"Huo Yuhao, if you're willing to surrender and swear on your Martial Soul to join the Holy Cult, I can still let you leave today!"

A cold smile appeared on Ye Xishui's face as she spoke to Huo Yuhao.

Yet to her surprise, Huo Yuhao, despite being surrounded, showed no fear at all.

Not only that, but when he looked at Ye Xishui, his gaze remained as cold as ice.

"Ye Xishui, you still don't understand."

"Now, as far as I'm concerned, you're the challengers."

"Even if divine punishment has reduced all living beings to zero, putting you and me at the same starting line,"

"the Soul Master path isn't the only cultivation system I have."

The next instant, blood-red light blazed from Huo Yuhao's Eyes of Asura.

A long string of unfathomably complex incantations spilled from Huo Yuhao's mouth, like sleep-talking in a language no one could make out.

Immediately afterward, the blood Qi and evil Qi that had accumulated in the hall seemed to find an outlet.

Guided by the incantation, they poured into the bodies of the dozen or so Evil Soul Masters Huo Yuhao had slain.

The dozen or so Evil Soul Master corpses that had lain motionless on the floor suddenly began to move, their joints making a piercing crack, crack.

With their bellies facing upward and their spines bent backward, the corpses rose to their feet in a way that completely defied the physics of the human body.

Even Nightmare Douluo, whose head had been shattered across the floor, stood up and stretched his cold hands forward.

"Although they're only basic walking corpses, they're enough to play with you for a while!"

"Everyone, please enjoy this feast of Necromancy!"

Black World, Shrek Academy.

The instant Huo Yuhao in the sky screen recited that long incantation, a gray orb of light suddenly shattered in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness.

Immediately afterward, a white-haired elder in a plain gray robe appeared at the very center of the Sea of Consciousness.

The elder's eyes were filled with the marks of time, as though he had weathered countless storms.

"Grasping the sun and moon, plucking the stars, there is none like me in all the world..."

The instant the white-haired elder appeared, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm exploded.

"There he is, the guy trying to steal Brother's turf!"

"Hey, are you leaving on your own, or do you want Brother to throw you out?"

The elder chuckled softly and spoke to the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in a mild voice.

"A big fat worm dares to shout at me?"

"If I'd met you when I was alive, I could have turned you into a roast worm with a wave of my hand!"

"Even now, your paltry spiritual power can't do a thing to me, because what I use is Divine Sense!"

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm flew into a rage at those words and was about to draw on the power sealed inside Huo Yuhao.

But Huo Yuhao spoke up then.

"Senior... why have you appeared in my Sea of Consciousness?"

With Huo Yuhao, the elder's tongue was not as venomous as it had been with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

He smiled gently and said to Huo Yuhao,

"I didn't originally belong to this world, but after I fell, a fragment of my Divine Sense was drawn here by a powerful energy. It crossed time and space and merged with you."

"Until now, I've been quietly observing you while recovering my own condition."

"But to my surprise, the you on the sky screen recited a Necromancy spell. That's why I appeared."

"Before I came to your world, my name was Electrolux, the Holy Necromancer and Scourge of the Undead."

"And Necromancy is one of the powerful forms of magic I have mastered."

"By all rights, magic shouldn't exist in your world."

"But perhaps the magic your parallel-world self has mastered was taught to you by me?"

Hearing Electrolux's words, Huo Yuhao's eyes widened in surprise.

Had his parallel-world self actually learned such miraculous magic?

But Electrolux's next words poured a bucket of cold water over him.

"However, in your world, Necromancy can very easily be mistaken for the power of a so-called Evil Soul Master."

"If Shrek Academy decides you're an Evil Soul Master, I'm afraid it will cause you quite a bit of trouble."

Sure enough, just as Electrolux had said,

the Sea God Pavilion had already erupted into an uproar.

"An Evil Soul Master brat! I was right all along!"

Xuan Zi strained, snapping the bandages around his body, and sat up in bed.

"This Huo Yuhao is definitely an Evil Soul Master brat through and through!"

At that moment, Elder Zhuang, Elder Song, Cai Mei'er, Xian Lin'er, and the other female Soul Masters beside him all turned their heads away.

A peanut hidden in seaweed-damn, it burned the eyes!

Xuan Zi also remembered that he was naked beneath the bandages. His old face turned red, and he hurriedly wrapped himself in the quilt.

Yan Shaozhe frowned deeply and looked toward Mu En.

"Teacher, should we investigate Huo Yuhao again and ask him to explain that Evil Soul Master power?"

Mu En fell silent for a while before finally shaking his head.

Seeing this, Xuan Zi immediately objected, shouting loudly.

"Little Martial Uncle, you can't let your heart soften for a moment and let that Evil Soul Master brat get away!"

"If he's allowed to grow up, he'll surely become a grave threat to our Shrek Academy."

Hearing Xuan Zi's words, Mu En spoke softly.

"Xuan Zi, since you insist on dealing with Huo Yuhao, why don't you answer a question first?"

"Why does an Evil Soul Master become an Evil Soul Master?"

Xuan Zi answered without hesitation.

"Of course it's because they're naturally evil Evil Soul Master brats who grow up to become Evil Soul Masters."

Mu En shook his head and said,

"No one is swallowed by darkness so easily. Naturally born Evil Soul Masters like the ones you describe do exist, but that doesn't apply to Huo Yuhao's situation."

"According to the results of your earlier lie-detection test, Huo Yuhao has only one Martial Soul, his Spirit Eyes—or at least, that's all he has at present."

"Does a Body Martial Soul like the Spirit Eyes have anything to do with an Evil Martial Soul?"

"If we want to keep Huo Yuhao from becoming an Evil Soul Master in the future, we should fill his memories of Shrek Academy with more warmth than hatred."

"And if we do as you suggest, that would raise the possibility of Huo Yuhao becoming an Evil Soul Master to its highest!"

Mu En then turned his gaze back toward the sky screen.

"Besides, from the look of things, the parallel-world Huo Yuhao's hostility toward Evil Soul Masters seems no less than his hostility toward Shrek."

And just as Mu En had said, on the sky screen, the walking corpses made from the bodies of Evil Soul Masters that Huo Yuhao had summoned had thrown the Holy Spirit Cult's formation into complete disarray.

Compared to those Evil Soul Master lunatics, the walking corpses were even more fearless in the face of death.

Any living creature that came under attack would feel pain or fear, or reveal an opening.

But walking corpses felt no such things.

Even with all four limbs chopped off, they would use their teeth to bite viciously into the bodies of the Evil Soul Masters before them.

But facing attacks from hundreds of Evil Soul Masters, the dozen or so walking corpses could not hold out for long before they were torn into broken limbs.

Just then, Huo Yuhao, who was with Ye Xishui, Zhongli Wu, and the other Holy Spirit Cult leaders, suddenly retreated rapidly.

Then he uttered a single word that made every Evil Soul Master around him tremble with terror.

"Explode!"