"Yuhao, Why Is Your Head So Pointy?"

"A forty-eight-cubic-meter Storage Ring! This really opened my eyes."

The moment Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Power entered it, he was stunned by the vast space inside.

He had thought Yu Hongzhi's thirty-six cubic meters were already unrivaled under heaven. Who knew there was someone even better!

Filled with eager anticipation, Huo Yuhao began taking stock of Chen Wen's inheritance.

"Ten thousand Gold Soul Coins in cash."

"Blood Ginseng, Hundred-Year Purple Ganoderma, Crystal Flower, Dragon Blood Grass, and a huge chunk of Thousand-Year Whale Rubber!"

"Five Mysterious Water Pills, one Mysterious Turtle Divine Pill, and one Soul Ascension Pill."

"And several pills for restoring Soul Power, replenishing vitality and blood, and healing injuries."

"Fucking awesome!"

A hundred Yu Hongzhis put together weren't worth as much as one Chen Wen.

Huo Yuhao was truly dazzled by the glittering array of treasures in the ring.

He had painstakingly searched for Mysterious Water Pills all this time, yet there were five of them here, along with the Soul Ascension Pill, which had a similar effect.

Not to mention the even more valuable Mysterious Turtle Divine Pill. At a recorded Auction, a single Mysterious Turtle Divine Pill had sold for the astronomical price of five million Gold Soul Coins.

That amount could buy three Level Eight Soul Tools or a Soul Bone around forty thousand years old.

The reason the Mysterious Turtle Divine Pill could sell for so much was because it worked on Soul Douluo.

Even a Soul Douluo could use it to cleanse their tendons and marrow, improve their potential, and increase their chances of reaching Titled Douluo.

Mysterious Water Pills were meant for those below level thirty. The Soul Ascension Pill had no such restriction, but most Soul Masters would take it after reaching level thirty in order to maximize its effects.

"One haul, and I'm rich."

"No wonder those streamers in Golden Age game videos from my previous life who loved search-and-extract games were so fond of going on the offensive."

Huo Yuhao was beaming with joy now.

His primary purpose for coming to the Heaven Dou Empire had been fulfilled just like that. He could finally improve his body's innate talent.

During this time, worried that he might not find Mysterious Water Pills, he had deliberately bought a great number of medical texts on the human body. He planned to combine them with the Mysterious Heaven Skill to deduce a map of the body's meridians.

Then, using that meridian map and the Realm of Origins, he would forcibly widen his meridians. He could not stand this damned cultivation speed any longer.

Of course, he would continue researching the meridian map.

Several of his ideas depended on it.

Huo Yuhao checked every drawer in the room again, making sure he had taken everything valuable.

Only then did he nod in satisfaction and prepare to leave.

Just as his leg stepped over Chen Wen's headless corpse, he felt that something was off.

Huo Yuhao propped Chen Wen's body upright, then found his head on the floor and slowly placed it back where it belonged.

To keep it from falling off, he casually took out a spool of golden thread from his Storage Soul Tool.

Using the skills he had developed through practicing medicine, he quickly stitched the neck and head back together.

He even thoughtfully tied a bow on it.

After finishing everything, Huo Yuhao stood before him and gave him a bow.

"Sorry, sir. So you were my angel investor all along."

"I wronged you. When I have time, I'll definitely burn paper offerings for you!"

Afterward, Huo Yuhao walked out through the front entrance openly and without restraint. Not a single singing girl, old madam, or guard in the brothel tried to stop him.

In their eyes, Huo Yuhao was a regular patron of the brothel. The bloodstains on the top floor were merely wine Chen Wen had casually splashed around during his revelry.

It was only about half an hour after Huo Yuhao left that screams erupted from the Ruyi Brothel, echoing throughout the entire East District.

They had finally discovered that their master had died on the top floor of his own establishment. His death was utterly gruesome, and the murderer's methods were exceptionally vicious.

None of that had anything to do with Huo Yuhao anymore. Even if the City Lord's Mansion found a Soul Master with a time attribute and reversed time at the scene,

they would only see that a One-Eyed Masked Man had killed Chen Wen.

Right now, Huo Yuhao only wanted to return to the Medical Hall and take a Mysterious Water Pill to improve his innate talent.

"Creak—"

The bedroom door on the second floor of the Medical Hall made its familiar sound. After a busy day, Master Huo had finally returned to his warm haven.

He did not get into bed. Instead, he sat cross-legged on the floor beside it.

He took out a deep-blue pill from the Storage Ring. White patterns decorated its surface.

The moment it appeared, he could feel the air in the room become damp.

A peculiar medicinal fragrance filled the entire room. Every pore on Huo Yuhao's body opened, thirsting for that scent.

After swallowing, he tossed the Mysterious Water Pill into his mouth and gently bit through its outer shell, allowing the cool liquid inside to flow into his stomach.

He swallowed the pill shell as well.

Very quickly, a cool current began flowing through his body along his blood vessels.

It traveled through his veins to every part of his body, then continued spreading until it seeped into every cell.

Every cell sent out jubilant signals, making Huo Yuhao feel as though he were immersed in a cool pool, each splash caressing his exhausted body.

Before long, black, viscous matter began seeping out of Huo Yuhao's body.

These substances were metabolic waste that had accumulated in his body, as well as all kinds of impurities clogging his meridians.

"Chirp, chirp."

The birds arrived with the first ray of morning sunlight as promised, singing loudly from the Medical Hall's roof beams.

Their song awakened the misty land, and the growing crowds brought life back to the streets once more.

When Huo Yuhao heard the birdsong, his eyelashes trembled and he slowly opened his eyes. The foul stench of bodily filth reached him even faster than the light.

Looking at the unknown black clumps covering his body, Huo Yuhao found it rather astonishing.

"So this is the legendary shit spraying from your pores!"

"I finally got to experience this staple of fantasy stories."

Jokes aside, Huo Yuhao opened the window, then entered the bathroom to wash himself.

In the bathroom, Huo Yuhao could clearly see that his skin had grown even fairer, while all the excess fat on his body had vanished.

Muscles bulged from his arms as though he had been injected with Conviron, a steroid that increased muscle mass.

"Now this is truly Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin."

"Bad news is about to spread through the Soul Master community."

Huo Yuhao laughed at himself a few times. He knew full well that pills of this caliber had no side effects. Otherwise, how could they be so highly sought after across Douluo Continent?

The Sun Moon Empire, on the other hand, had a serious pill-popping problem. They basically took any medicine they could get their hands on, so long as it could increase their Soul Power.

Had one not seen how Xiao Hongchen, a peerless genius of his generation in the original story, suffered an ominous fate in his later years from taking too many pills, his head becoming pointy until he was reduced to a mere background character?

That was the real bad news spreading through the Soul Master community.

Huo Yuhao sensed the Soul Power within his body. It had already reached a bottleneck, and he only needed one Soul Ring to break through.

More importantly, his meridians had widened considerably, and many of their disordered areas had been properly regulated.

He secretly estimated that taking two more Mysterious Water Pills should solve his body's innate talent problem.

Huo Yuhao walked to the window and looked in the direction of the Star Dou Great Forest. The corners of his lips could not help but curve upward, because his two greatest cheats were about to come online.

After closing the window again, he casually grabbed a white coat from the nearby rack, draped it over himself, and began business for the day.