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A soul ring appeared, and golden light flowed through his azure eyes once more.

Spiritual Detection + Spiritual Sharing

These two highly practical soul skills could substitute for each other most of the time.

Just like now.

Soul Power fluctuated. Meng Hongchen had still been somewhat puzzled, but in the next moment, her eyes widened uncontrollably in shock.

From Meng Hongchen's perspective, time seemed to slow down. Everything around her became incomparably clear. Countless pieces of information naturally surfaced wherever her gaze reached, then entered her mind.

She subconsciously looked at the boy beside her.

The boy's face was as fair as jade, his azure eyes incomparably bright as he looked at her with gentleness and a smile. Everything was clearly displayed in her mind, without the slightest blur.

Meng Hongchen froze slightly, but a gentle smile appeared on the boy's lips. His clear voice pulled her back to reality.

"This is my first soul skill, Spiritual Detection Sharing. It can bring everything around us into our minds, and it can also see through the essence of things."

"What do you think? Pretty amazing, right?"

The boy spoke softly, like a child showing off.

Meng Hongchen opened her mouth, not knowing what to say for a moment. After a brief silence, the girl suddenly moved closer, her icy blue eyes fixed on him as she asked suspiciously,

"Yuhao, you're not going to use this soul skill to peek at me, are you?"

Huo Yuhao: ???

Master Xiao, who had been busy all day, suddenly opened his eyes. A sharp glint burst from them!

He had succeeded!

Through his unremitting effort, coupled with his outstanding talent, Xiao Hongchen had gotten the hang of it in only a few hours.

Previously, whenever he used Soul Power to activate his Martial Soul's Metal Control ability, there was always consumption.

But now, after Huo Yuhao's guidance and instruction, he could clearly feel that the Soul Power he consumed while using Metal Control was decreasing. No, it should be said that the efficiency of his Soul Power had improved!

He had succeeded!

As long as he continued cultivating step by step like this, wouldn't surpassing Huo Yuhao be easy? Effortless?!!

"Ha ha ha ha! I did it! I did it! You surnamed Huo, you—"

Xiao Hongchen held his forehead and laughed like one of the Four Maniacal Laughers of the Red-Eye Clan. He was about to mock Huo Yuhao as usual when he looked over and saw Huo Yuhao sitting with his eyes closed, intangible and invisible Soul Power in his hand wrapping around countless metal fragments as they danced through the air, forming one shape after another.

Of course, none of that was important. What was important was this—little sister! Could you have a little restraint?!

Meng Hongchen had Huo Yuhao's other hand hugged against her chest, gazing at him longingly as though she could not bear to let go.

Hearing Xiao Hongchen's voice, both of them stiffened. Huo Yuhao slowly opened his eyes, while Meng Hongchen looked at her brother in displeasure.

Brother, why did you interrupt me?! Could you stop disturbing me while I'm trying to win over this handsome boy?!

"You surnamed Huo, I'm warning you, don't touch my sister! Do you hear me?!"

Huo Yuhao blinked, somewhat confused, then stretched out a hand and pointed at himself.

"Uh, me?"

Seriously?

Why don't you take a look at who had improper intentions first?! Your sister was the one who made the first move! I'm innocent!

Huo Yuhao sighed. A deep sigh.

Several days later.

After several days of initial interaction, Huo Yuhao had successfully established a preliminary relationship with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.

His age gave him an advantage, allowing them to accept him quickly. At the same time, although Xiao Hongchen occasionally got furious with Huo Yuhao over his sister, he was fairly normal most of the time.

When it came to cultivation and Soul Tools, the two would exchange ideas. Although Huo Yuhao only pretended not to understand when asking questions, Xiao Hongchen would answer every one of them in meticulous detail.

Sometimes, when Xiao Hongchen did not know the answer himself, he would look up the relevant material or directly ask Jing Hongchen. In any case, he always made sure to answer Huo Yuhao's questions, holding nothing back.

It was just that after answering every question, Xiao Hongchen would arrogantly add, "Hmph, I learned such simple things a long time ago!" It was rather amusing.

Overall, Xiao Hongchen was a decent person, though his thought process was rather bizarre. At the same time, he seemed to have developed a strange obsession with Huo Yuhao.

As for the other Miss Meng...

Huo Yuhao rubbed his forehead, his feelings complicated.

With the Seed of Emotion, Huo Yuhao could clearly sense Meng Hongchen's feelings toward him.

She did like him, but it was the sort of liking a child had upon encountering a favorite toy, a Soul Engineer had upon seeing rare metal, or a Soul Master had upon finding an exceptional soul ring or soul bone.

Simply put, Miss Meng seemed to regard him as a life-sized doll she could raise.

But that was fine too.

There were already so many of them. If another one came along, he might truly be unable to bear it. As long as he did not do too many unnecessary things, nothing should go wrong, right?

Back to the main point.

Aside from spending time with Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen, Huo Yuhao also went to the library. Using the authority Jing Hongchen had given him, he directly borrowed books for first- through fourth-level Soul Engineers and began reading through them one by one.

His first purpose in doing so was to create the impression for Jing Hongchen that he was studying, while also allowing him to display more knowledge and techniques beyond his current level.

His second purpose was to understand how far the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Guide Technology had developed, and see just how great the gap was between the Sun Moon Empire and the original three empires of Douluo Continent.

This was in preparation for some of the upcoming actions of the "Master Tianmeng" persona on the other side.

In addition, Huo Yuhao spent a little time visiting the headquarters of the Sunset Water Alliance, one of Mingdu's three major underground factions, to investigate the Holy Spirit Cult's current development in Mingdu.

However, by sheer coincidence, he encountered the Sunset Water Alliance's leader, Nangong Wan.

Faced with this spineless fellow who had left a deep impression on him, Huo Yuhao considered it briefly before deciding there was no need to let him go. He directly joined forces with Tian Meng, who had been slacking off and sleeping, to make their move.

Although Tian Meng, whose Spiritual Power cultivation was nearly equal to—or perhaps even surpassed—that of a Rank 99 Limit Douluo, was not skilled in battle, silently dealing with a spineless Rank 93 Evil Soul Master was simplicity itself.

After taking control of his mind, Elder Yi stepped in and branded him with a Servant Contract.

Once the restrictions were lifted, Huo Yuhao gave Nangong Wan a little time to react. After roughly explaining his situation, Huo Yuhao upheld the spirit of practice and directly used the Servant Contract to reward Nangong Wan with mental death by a thousand cuts.

After enjoying this reward for an hour, Nangong Wan wept bitterly and swore his loyalty. He then offered up all kinds of intelligence regarding the Holy Spirit Cult and the Holy Spirit Cult's personnel arrangements in Mingdu with both hands, and very willingly became Huo Yuhao's informant within the Holy Spirit Cult, providing him with all manner of information.

After that, Huo Yuhao also visited the Sunset Water Alliance's treasury, took some things that caught his eye, then kidnapped more than a dozen Evil Soul Masters to serve as experimental material for "Purification" experiments.

The entire trip to the Sunset Water Alliance had been exceptionally fruitful.

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