"What Do You Mean the Marquis Mansion Stood Up?" (Please Keep Reading)

Gotham City was known as Little Xilu City.

This damn place truly produced exceptional people, and its martial spirit was overflowing.

After much difficulty, Huo Yuhao found a relatively quiet inn in the area. The moment he stepped inside, he saw the innkeeper wiping blood from his big blade.

Based on Huo Yuhao's research into Soul Tools over this period, that blade was definitely a Level 3 Soul Tool.

In Huo Yuhao's perception, the innkeeper was a Soul Ancestor.

Looking at the tall, heavily muscled owner with a face full of flesh, who looked like he had run straight out of a Water Margin film set, Huo Yuhao finally understood why this street was so quiet.

Apparently, everyone who caused trouble nearby had been hacked to death by the owner.

When the owner saw Huo Yuhao standing there in a daze, he hurriedly placed the blade beneath the counter and squeezed a smile onto his rugged face. "Yo, guest, looking for a room?"

Then he got up and came over to welcome Huo Yuhao. When he heard that Huo Yuhao wanted the best room, the smile on his face grew even brighter.

"Guest, you've got a good eye. My inn is definitely the safest on these streets!"

"Even if something happens after you leave, just give them my name. Big Blade Wang Fu still carries some weight around here."

With a head full of black lines, Huo Yuhao followed the owner into the room.

After closing the door, he had barely sat cross-legged on the bed for a while when he saw through the window that the owner had picked up his blade and headed north. Judging by that posture, he was probably off to chop someone up.

Xilu City was too far from heaven and too close to Shrek.

Because it was close to Shrek, there were also an enormous number of Soul Masters here.

You could toss a brick out of any inn and hit several people with Soul Power.

Chaos, bloodshed, and violence were the main themes of this city.

It was less than a hundred li from Shrek City, yet the difference between them was like that of two entirely separate worlds.

From some customers in Xuanfeng City, Huo Yuhao had learned that Shrek City was orderly and well-regulated. Law enforcement patrols walked the streets every day, and anyone who wanted to cause trouble had to weigh their own strength first.

Yet a small city only a hundred li away from Shrek City had abruptly turned into Gotham City.

Huo Yuhao shook his head, drew the curtains, sealed the room with Spiritual Power, then walked into the bathroom and sat in the bathtub, ready to pop some pills.

"Come on, let me see what you can do."

"Mysterious Water Pill, Soul Ascension Pill, Mysterious Turtle Divine Pill!"

Huo Yuhao directly swallowed a Mysterious Water Pill and immediately felt that familiar cool current flow through his internal organs once more.

Every cell in his body rejoiced, actively expelling impurities.

Before long, a thin layer of black substance appeared on Huo Yuhao's body, much less than when he had taken the Mysterious Water Pill for the first time.

After taking the third Mysterious Water Pill, it would probably no longer have much effect.

For the next month, Huo Yuhao's daily routine consisted of taking pills, meditating to digest their medicinal effects, and then taking more pills.

Of course, he also did a few insignificant things along the way.

For example, while he was strolling outside one day, a ragged Middle-aged Woman suddenly tossed a little girl beside her toward Huo Yuhao.

Then, under Huo Yuhao's bewildered gaze, she turned and ran.

Looking at the skinny girl beside him, Huo Yuhao took her to eat and asked what had happened.

Seeing the girl wolf down the food, Huo Yuhao became a little worried. Someone who had been starving for a long time could not suddenly gorge themselves.

Just as Huo Yuhao was about to take the food away, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm spoke from within the Sea of Consciousness.

He said that the little girl had Taotie bloodline.

Huo Yuhao was immediately shocked. He only knew that Xuan Zi possessed that bloodline, yet someone else had it here as well.

So Huo Yuhao swept her with his Spiritual Power, and the Illustrated Record produced the relevant information.

"Taotie Spirit Sheep: An extinct Soul Beast that once existed on the July Fire Plain. It possessed Taotie bloodline and was a super Soul Beast.

"Due to its perpetual hunger, it enjoyed hunting and killing every living creature that moved. In extreme cases, it would even eat itself. Eventually, it was exterminated by the collective hunting of the Soul Beasts of the July Fire Plain."

After reading the information in the Illustrated Record, Huo Yuhao gently took the girl's hand and sensed her Soul Power.

Innate Rank 6 Soul Power. Her body was severely malnourished and so frail that she could not even awaken her Martial Soul. Her situation was similar to Huo Yuhao's at the beginning.

But since she had Taotie bloodline, there was no need to worry that she would eat herself to death.

Only after the girl finished eating did Huo Yuhao learn what had happened.

The girl had no surname and was only called Sui. She was from the Star Luo Empire and lived in Fala Village, though no one knew where exactly it was.

Her village had been slaughtered by a group of bandits, and all the children had been bundled up and sold.

After a group of Human Traffickers took them in, they awakened their Martial Souls and set prices for them.

She had no Martial Soul, but she possessed Rank 6 Soul Power.

That group of Human Traffickers did not care about that. They planned to sell her at a high price to a noble in Xilu City.

Huo Yuhao was puzzled. Why had that woman thrown her to him?

Before Sui could answer, Huo Yuhao understood the truth.

His Spiritual Power suddenly sensed that the Middle-aged Woman was leading a group of people through the streets, frantically searching for someone.

They stopped everyone they encountered and had the woman identify their facial features.

Damn it, those Human Traffickers had mistaken this humanoid creature with no family for their contact.

Being mistaken for one of their own by things worse than beasts was an immense insult to his dignity.

Huo Yuhao was truly furious. Even breathing the same air as those inhuman creatures made him feel sick all over.

Thus, Huo Yuhao led them into an empty alley and used a large-scale illusion interrogation to extract all their secrets.

Following the memories of that group, he uprooted all four Human Trafficker dens in Xilu City.

Then, based on the information from those dens, he found their backers—two marquises of the Heaven Dou Empire.

While one of the marquises was out enjoying himself, Huo Yuhao controlled him with an illusion, made him strip naked, cut off his manhood and hold it in his mouth, then hang himself from the city gate.

After the other marquis saw his companion dead, he realized something was wrong and stayed in his residence all day.

Five Soul Ancestors, two Soul Kings, and one Soul Emperor guarded the area around him.

Furthermore, it was extremely close to the City Lord's Mansion.

Xilu City's City Lord was a Soul Saint, and there were three other Soul Saints within his mansion. It was the safest place in all of Xilu City.

Huo Yuhao did not deal with him for the time being. Instead, he directly unified Xilu City's underworld factions through illusions.

Most of those who wanted to resist could not tell the Big King from the Little King. After being burned once by Amaterasu, no one had any objections left.

Thus, Huo Yuhao conquered all of Xilu City's underground forces in only one week.

He established an entirely new organization—Passion Sect.

Then he issued a series of orders.

"Prostitution is forbidden.

The sale of addictive drugs is forbidden.

Human trafficking is forbidden.

Robbery is forbidden.

Open orphanages to take in children.

Establish schools to strengthen education.

Infighting within the organization is forbidden.

Merchants willing to provide three Gold Soul Coins in protection fees each season will receive protection, but they must not violate the other rules.

..."

Then Huo Yuhao placed Spiritual Imprints on all Passion Sect higher-ups. If they violated his orders, the imprints would directly erase their personalities.

He left Sui and the other trafficked children in the organization's Orphanage, then trained them as reserve members of Passion Sect.

At Passione Headquarters, Huo Yuhao swallowed the Mysterious Turtle Divine Pill and reached Rank 20 Soul Power in one stroke.

Then he used Kamui to travel alone to the location of the last marquis.

Looking at the magnificent mansion before him, his Spiritual Power detected that its owner was fast asleep.

Huo Yuhao placed his hand on the jade wall, and the Million-Year Golden Soul Ring flashed.

The Spiritual Endowment Soul Skill activated, and he said coldly, "This is a parting gift."

The enormous mansion before him immediately began to come alive. Its beams trembled, its jade pillars twisted, and the entire ground rose upward.

Until a bizarre giant with a head made of the mansion and a body made of jade stood within Xilu City.

Passion Sect members had long since received Huo Yuhao's message. They began calming the frightened civilians and evacuating the crowd.

The mansion atop that bizarre giant's head began to change. The sleeping marquis inside was pierced into a hedgehog by countless stone pillars and died on the spot.

His powerful guards had never seen anything like this and had long since fled.

The weaker ones were buried with him directly.

Meanwhile, in the neighboring City Lord's Mansion, City Lord Lu Xinjin had also been asleep. Hearing the rumble of the earthquake, he was just about to get up and see what was happening.

Then he saw an Advisor stumble over, his face filled with panic, and say, "Disaster, City Lord!!"

Lu Xinjin's heart sank, and he hurriedly asked, "Has a beast tide broken out?!"

The Advisor quickly shook his head. "N-No, it's the neighboring Marquis Mansion. It... it stood up!!!"

Lu Xinjin: "?"

"Are you sober?"

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