Instant Kill

Huo Yuhao followed her gaze and saw two men appear before them.

One man had a scar on his left cheek, and his expression was leering.

The other had lost his right eye and wore a single-eye patch. A sinister air surrounded him.

In front of the two men stood a hound, its icy fangs bared.

The hound stared at Huo Yuhao, excitement and mockery shining in its eyes. It could hardly wait to charge at him and, as it had so often done before, scare him half to death before sinking its teeth into him.

Huo Yuhao's gaze turned cold the moment he saw the hound.

He knew this dog. It was a hunting hound from the Duke's Mansion.

Back when Huo Yuhao lived at the Duke's Mansion, the hound had often bullied him when he was little.

The hound had a keen nose. It was a Ten-Year Soul Beast and could easily pick up his scent.

At that moment, the scar-faced man looked at Huo Yuhao and eagerly pulled out a portrait. After comparing it carefully, he curled his lips into a vicious grin. "Big brother, this is the kid who killed our third brother. Let's kill him!"

The one-eyed man smiled cruelly. Looking at Xiao Wu, his Adam's apple bobbed as he licked his lips greedily.

"Sure. You go kill that little brat, and I'll take the girl beside him. Then we can have some fun together. These past few days have been damn exhausting. It's time to relax."

The two spoke as though victory were already theirs.

Just then, Huo Yuhao called out, "Hey, you're from the Duke's Mansion, right? When you said your third brother, you meant that wicked servant, didn't you?"

Huo Yuhao spoke calmly.

At the same time, he knew the Duchess had to be involved in this.

The scar-faced man sneered. "You're clever, kid, but you're dead today!"

The one-eyed man sneered in agreement. "That's right. Since you know what's coming, we'll break all four of your limbs first, then slowly torture you to death!"

With cruel smiles on their faces, the two men charged at Huo Yuhao and instantly activated their Martial Souls...

The scar-faced man and the one-eyed man both had hoe Martial Souls.

After all, they were brothers. Unless their mother had been fooling around with another man, or their Martial Souls had undergone some rare mutation, their Martial Souls would basically be the same.

As their uniquely shaped hoes appeared, their Soul Rings materialized with a rumble.

First, a white Soul Ring rose beneath the scar-faced man's feet. It was the mark of a ten-year Soul Ring, but its age had reached eighty years. It was still white, yet it was among the best of the white Soul Rings.

The other Soul Ring was yellow, and its age had only just passed one hundred years. In comparison, it was somewhat inferior.

Even so, in the Soul Ring system, color was an important indicator of strength. A yellow Soul Ring was far stronger than a white First Soul Ring.

The one-eyed Soul Master had a similar Soul Ring Configuration, though his Soul Rings were slightly older: ninety and one hundred twenty years, likewise white and yellow.

Then the two men curled their lips into sneers, gripped their hoes with both hands, and swung them viciously at Huo Yuhao like hungry tigers pouncing on their prey.

But just as they leapt high into the air, their hoes cutting through the wind as they tried to kill Huo Yuhao with a single blow, his body suddenly moved.

In an instant, a white Soul Ring slowly rose beneath Huo Yuhao's feet.

The two men froze when they saw it, then burst into unrestrained laughter, as though mocking how weak the white Soul Ring was.

But soon, their pupils shrank.

"First Soul Skill, Spirit Interference!"

As Huo Yuhao's voice rang out, the two men's minds swam.

By the time they came to their senses, Huo Yuhao had already appeared beside one of them.

"Eight-Level Collapse!"

Before Huo Yuhao had even finished speaking, his right fist, wrapped in immense force, slammed into the man's side.

A domineering force surged into him, shattering his kidney. Then his lumbar vertebrae snapped, setting off a chain reaction that broke his spine vertebra by vertebra.

His whole body went limp and crumpled to the ground, as though his backbone had been pulled out.

After that, Huo Yuhao didn't hesitate for a moment. He stamped down hard.

"Explosive Step!"

Boom!

With a thunderous crash, Huo Yuhao appeared beside the other man in an instant, moving so fast that his opponent had no time to react.

Then—

Huo Yuhao spun with the momentum and kicked the one-eyed Soul Master in the lower abdomen.

The one-eyed Soul Master's lower belly cramped. An intense urge to shit surged through him.

Then the end of his large intestine burst, and his sphincter lost control.

With a thump, shit and piss burst out together.

"First Soul Skill, Waist Bow!"

Thump!

Xiao Wu struck in an instant, kicking him in the abdomen. The man flew backward like a kite with its string cut and crashed heavily into a nearby tree.

Huo Yuhao didn't hesitate. He rushed after him and, just as the man struck the tree and fainted, drew the White Tiger Dagger and severed the artery in his neck.

In an instant, both men were dead.

At the same time—

The hunting hound tucked its tail between its legs and fled for its life.

But it had barely run a few dozen steps when Xiao Wu darted up to it like a ghost and kicked it in the side, her foot trailing a gust of wind.

Thump!

The hound slammed into a nearby tree. Its spine snapped, and it soon died, a gleaming white Soul Ring drifting out of it.

Afterward, Huo Yuhao began to search the battlefield. He rummaged through the two men's pockets and found three Silver Soul Coins and twenty or thirty Copper Soul Coins.

That was a decent haul.

"Yuhao, should we go to the nearby town and rest for a while?"

Xiao Wu asked Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao heard her and looked at what he and Xiao Wu were wearing. They had been here for several days, and they'd been wearing these same clothes the whole time. They were a little dirty and smelled a bit, so they really did need changing.

"Sure, no problem."

Then Huo Yuhao beckoned to Xiao Wu, intending to take her away from there.

But just then, a voice suddenly came from not far away.

"Yuhao, little brother, what happened? Were you ambushed?"

It was Tang Ya. She ran over in utter surprise, with Beibei beside her.

Huo Yuhao looked at Tang Ya and smiled. "Yeah. These guys were asking to die, so I killed them instead."

Tang Ya's eyes lit up at the sight. "What level were they? Two rings or one?"

Huo Yuhao replied, "Two rings. Soul Grandmasters."

Tang Ya's eyes lit up again at that. Huo Yuhao's combat strength had surprised her.

"Yuhao, you're so strong. Why not join the Tang Sect? We'll make sure you have a great life. And the Tang Sect's Purple Demon Eye is really suited to you. What do you say? There are plenty of benefits."

Tang Ya eagerly started listing the Tang Sect's many advantages to Huo Yuhao again.

Huo Yuhao felt a little helpless and instinctively asked the system how he should respond.

After all, this was a major decision, and the system would surely give him an appropriate reward for choosing.

But just then, the system's voice rang out...