A Man's Gas Station, a Woman's Beauty Parlor

"Brother Hao, where are we going next?"

After leaving the Star Dou Great Forest, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm asked Huo Yuhao curiously about their next destination.

"Wherever there's plenty of Fortune, of course," Huo Yuhao said as if it were only natural.

"A place with plenty of Fortune? Those human nations? Or some other soul beast forest?"

"Neither. Shrek City!" Huo Yuhao pointed at the map.

"Shrek City?!" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said in surprise. "I think I heard other Ferocious Beasts mention it before. Shrek City has a lot of powerful experts!"

"That's right. It isn't only human nations and soul beast gathering places that can gather vast Fortune. Strictly speaking, as long as something is a faction, it can gather some Fortune, but most of it is concentrated within the strongest factions on the continent."

"The strongest factions? Which ones are they?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm asked curiously.

He had slept away most of his life in the Far North Land, and after taking only a couple of strolls outside, he had been captured by the Ferocious Beasts and brought into the Star Dou Great Forest, where he had stayed until now. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm truly did not know much about the distribution of power on the continent, and he was very curious.

After being locked up for so long, he naturally yearned for freedom and the outside world.

Huo Yuhao smiled faintly and began giving Sky Dream Ice Silkworm a lesson.

"On the current Douluo Continent, the places where large amounts of Fortune gather should be divided into the Four Great Empires, the Five Great Forbidden Zones, plus One City, One Cult, Two Sects."

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's interest was piqued. "Brother Hao, do tell!"

"The Four Great Empires are human gathering places. They are the Star Luo Empire, Heaven Dou Empire, Dou Ling Empire, and Sun Moon Empire."

"The Five Great Forbidden Zones are soul beast gathering places. They are the Star Dou Forest, Sunset Forest, Far North Land, Fiend Forest, and Jingyang Mountain Range."

"One City, One Cult, Two Sects refers to the soul master Holy Land, Shrek City; the Evil Soul Master Holy Land, the Holy Spirit Cult; the Body martial soul soul master Holy Land, the Body Sect; and the ancient sect, the Clear Sky Sect."

"As for other sect forces, like the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School, which was passed down from the same era as the Clear Sky Sect, and Sky Dragon Gate, founded by the descendants of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, they simply can't compare to these four forces."

"Because among these four forces, not only are there large numbers of powerful experts, but aside from the Body Sect, the other three forces even have Level Ninety-Nine Limit Douluo presiding over them! The Body Sect also has a Level Ninety-Eight Super Douluo. That makes the status of these factions faintly surpass the Four Great Empires."

"What? Limit Douluo!" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was greatly shocked, but his first reaction was worry. "A Limit Douluo won't discover our situation, right?"

"You think everyone has the ability to see through Fortune?" Huo Yuhao rolled his eyes, then spoke in a more serious tone. "But that possibility can't be ruled out either, so we have to act in secret. No firing guns."

"Mm-hmm." Sky Dream Ice Silkworm nodded repeatedly, then sighed. "Humans really are blessed by the heavens. In the same era, they can actually have so many powerful experts."

The soul beast world might have the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, but that was the result of accumulation over hundreds of thousands of years.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had his eyes opened wide, and after satisfying his curiosity, he began flattering Huo Yuhao.

"As expected of Brother Hao. You really know a lot. You even know what experts those factions have."

Huo Yuhao chuckled. "Can't be helped. I loved reading ever since I was little. I saw these things in books too."

"Oh? What book?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm grew even more curious. He had not seen any related books in Pudu Cihang's memories.

In the Spiritual Sea, Huo Yuhao transmitted the contents of a book to Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

"This one!"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm received it curiously and took a look, only to see several large words on the cover—"Douluo Continent II: Unrivaled Tang Sect"!

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm: "???"

"Brother Sky Dream, take your time reading."

The corner of Huo Yuhao's mouth curled up.

Feel the shock of becoming a character in a book!

Huo Yuhao's memories were divided into three parts.

The first was Little Huo's memories, the second was Huo Yuhao's memories, and the third was Pudu Cihang's memories.

It was truly because Pudu Cihang's thousand years of memories were too shocking. Previously, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's main attention had been on Pudu Cihang's memories. As for Huo Yuhao's memories, he had only skimmed them, and the same went for Little Huo's memories.

So, in truth, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had missed the most important part of the memories.

Now that Huo Yuhao placed this part in front of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm only felt his head buzzing.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm: Crap, I became a character in a story!

Ignoring Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who was reading the novel while being utterly shocked, Huo Yuhao hurried along while keeping Mental Detection active.

Then he seemed to discover something.

Huo Yuhao suddenly jumped into the grass by the roadside and pulled two Giant Centipedes out from under a piece of dead wood in the thicket.

Although these two Giant Centipedes were not soul beasts, they were still fierce, a full two fingers wide and half a meter long.

However, such ferocious centipedes were as obedient as pets in Huo Yuhao's hands.

Huo Yuhao locked the two centipedes inside the grass cage hanging at his waist.

At this moment, compared to before he had left the Star Dou Great Forest, Huo Yuhao had an extra grass cage woven from blades of grass at his waist.

When the lid of the grass cage was opened, dense rustling sounds came from within, as if countless insects were crawling around, enough to make one's hair stand on end.

Huo Yuhao frowned slightly and pointed a ray of Buddha light into the grass cage.

"Behave."

The sounds inside the grass cage vanished instantly. Only then did Huo Yuhao toss the two Giant Centipedes into the grass cage in satisfaction.

That's right. This grass cage was filled entirely with poisonous insects Huo Yuhao had caught.

They included centipedes, scorpions, spiders... and so on.

Huo Yuhao naturally was not doing it to raise gu.

Raising gu could not possibly be this casual either.

As for the reason he had caught these poisonous insects...

Two days later.

At night.

A roadside barbecue stall appeared in Shrek City.

"Don't miss it if you're passing by! Xiao Huo BBQ is hot and ready! A man's gas station, a woman's beauty parlor!"

Huo Yuhao shouted loudly as he grilled.

The grill had been obtained by Huo Yuhao using the two Silver Soul Coins that Bei Bei had paid for the fish.

Huo Yuhao was heading north, so he had to earn some travel expenses somehow.

A passerby was drawn over by Huo Yuhao's hawking and came forward curiously, looking at the things grilling on the rack. Then he was greatly shocked.

"B-Bugs!" The passerby's eyes went wide, and he backed away again and again, clearly frightened. He pointed at Huo Yuhao and shouted, "What you're grilling are poisonous insects! What are you playing at? Where's the defense team? Someone come deal with this!"

Huo Yuhao's eyes lit up. He was not afraid of being scolded, only afraid no one would come.

The passerby's cry just now had already attracted the attention of even more people on the street.

Facing the passerby's accusation, Huo Yuhao smiled disdainfully. "What do you know?! This is Medicinal Insect BBQ! These poisonous insects of mine all grew up eating tonics!"

"They're still poisonous insects!" the passerby frowned and said coldly.

Seeing that the passerby was a man, Huo Yuhao simply spat out three words calmly. "Boosts virility!"

The passerby's eyes went wide. "!!!"

"Limited supply, first come, first served. One Gold Soul Coin per skewer, no bargaining!"

Once that whole pitch went out, it immediately attracted even more people.

The men all looked over one after another, most of the women blushed, and some people were even eager to try.

The passerby who had first questioned Huo Yuhao hesitated, then sidled up to Huo Yuhao and asked in a low voice, "Little brother, these Medicinal Insect Skewers of yours, can they really, really... do that?"

Sure enough, men could not resist anything to do with boosting virility.

"What did you say? I can't hear you!" Huo Yuhao asked in an extremely loud voice.

The passerby looked around in panic, and seeing that no one was watching him, he hurriedly lowered his head again and spoke with Huo Yuhao. "Little brother, keep your voice down, keep it down. I just wanted to ask..."

"What do you want to ask? It's too noisy, I can't hear you! (extremely loud)"

"I, I..."

"Say it out loud! Are you asking if you want this virility-boosting... (extremely loud)"

"Stop! Don't say it anymore. Give me ten skewers!"

"Ten Gold Soul Coins. Thank you for your patronage." Huo Yuhao readily packed ten skewers of Giant Centipedes for the passerby, and his voice returned to normal.

But the passerby frowned. "Isn't ten Gold Soul Coins a bit much? Little brother, look, I'm your first customer. Could you maybe..."

Huo Yuhao immediately put on a shocked expression and once again shouted in an extremely loud voice, "Ten skewers aren't enough?! Sir, aren't you a little too..."

"Shut up! Why are you shouting so freaking loudly?!"

Wouldn't that let the whole city know he couldn't get it up?!

This place was not safe to linger!

The passerby snatched the ten Giant Centipede skewers, threw down ten Gold Soul Coins, covered his face, and ran off.

Huo Yuhao smiled as he put away the ten Gold Soul Coins.

"Brother Hao, you're too wicked." Sky Dream Ice Silkworm burst into laughter in Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sea.

"I didn't force him. He was the one who wanted to buy them, you know," Huo Yuhao said unhurriedly.

"Brother Hao, if you sell them like this, won't you get rich really soon?"

"Not really. I won't set up the stall tomorrow."

"Why?"

"Because these medicinal insects are fake. Besides, these poisonous insects... I didn't remove the poison."

"???"