Ma Xiao Tao could only shake her head helplessly. Though she did not want to see her junior brother wearing a constant frown, aside from gathering more intelligence on the Holy Spirit Cult, there was truly little else she could do to help Huo Yuhao.
Though her cultivation had now surpassed Rank Eighty and she had obtained the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, giving her combat strength close to that of a Super Douluo, she was of basically no help with Huo Yuhao's current troubles.
All she could do now was keep Huo Yuhao from dwelling too much on those troubling matters.
"I read the letters Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiuqiu sent. It seems the Earth Dragon Gate intends to seek your protection."
Ma Xiao Tao circled through the air and slowed down.
"Nan Shuishui? Nan Qiuqiu? Who are they?"
Huo Yuhao was rather puzzled. The two names were completely unfamiliar to him.
Ma Xiao Tao immediately felt helpless. They had practically handed over their entire family fortune to him, yet he did not even know their names?
"The sect master and young sect master of the Earth Dragon Gate, a mother and daughter. They were two of the people you rescued from Rising Sun City."
"There was originally an Evil Soul Master who was an old acquaintance of the mother and daughter. He wanted to take them away and exact his revenge, but I happened to run into him."
The corner of Huo Yuhao's mouth twitched. An Evil Soul Master caught by Ma Xiao Tao could not possibly have come to a good end. He had probably been casually roasted into jerky and fed to her Evil Fire.
"Why me?"
Huo Yuhao was confused.
"Yuhao, do you think the Earth Dragon Gate lost out or profited when they asked the academy