Dai Huabin's Death

After finishing the slaughter, Huo Yuhao did not immediately dismiss the Ghost Eye. Instead, he opened the Eye of Plunder.

He was not trying to plunder these people's abilities. In fact, Huo Yuhao had already sensed it during the battle—none of the assassins before him possessed any particularly remarkable abilities worth plundering.

The reason he opened the Eye of Plunder was because Huo Yuhao intended to use their bodies as nourishment. After all, he had just plundered Tang Ya's Devouring ability.

Now that such a batch of people had conveniently delivered themselves to him—people he could devour without the slightest psychological burden—they were naturally the perfect experimental materials.

As the Eye of Plunder opened, Huo Yuhao immediately felt that he had mastered a new ability. He stretched out his hand, and dozens of black Blue Silver Grass vines shot forth from his palm.

Like agile spirit snakes, the Blue Silver Grass vines swiftly wrapped around the corpses strewn across the ground. Immediately afterward, those corpses rapidly withered away.

Huo Yuhao did not stop absorbing them. He let the corpses first shrivel, then contract, and finally vanish within the Ghost Domain.

He left behind only one Soul Elder-level corpse, to serve as evidence for the explanation he had prepared.

Throughout the entire process, Huo Yuhao secretly kept watch over the situation in his Sea of Consciousness.

Apparently, when using the eyes granted by the system, Huo Yuhao's vision and memories were not fed back into the Sea of Consciousness.

Neither Electrolux's soul fragment nor Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Titan Snow Demon King knew what Huo Yuhao was experiencing at that moment. They could only sense that some of the body's Soul Power had first been expended, then began replenishing itself at a rapid pace.

Huo Yuhao said to Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, "Tian Meng, I've absorbed some very high-grade Soul Power supplements. Help me store this Soul Power. I don't want this energy to help me break through my level right now."

Huo Yuhao was no fool. If he broke through now, there was an eighty percent chance it would attract Shrek Academy's attention again. For him, the disadvantages would far outweigh the benefits.

Besides, the power stored by the Eye of Plunder would remain in his Sea of Consciousness and could be called upon whenever he wished. Huo Yuhao was not in any rush to advance his level.

After leaving the Ghost Domain, Huo Yuhao looked at the ground before him. The assassins' storage Soul Tools were scattered everywhere.

Huo Yuhao naturally took them all. Then he tore open his clothes and scratched several bloody wounds across his body with his fingers, making himself look badly injured before heading toward Shrek Academy.

He had taken fewer than forty steps toward Shrek Academy when he saw Du Weilun rushing anxiously in his direction.

Seeing Huo Yuhao in such a miserable state, Du Weilun immediately stopped and frowned. "Yuhao, are you all right? How did you escape?"

Huo Yuhao deliberately answered Du Weilun in a weak voice, "Director Du, I led them farther away to chase me. One Soul Elder-level person stayed behind to guard the road to the academy, and I killed him in return. This is his storage Soul Tool."

Upon hearing that, Du Weilun accepted the Soul Tool from Huo Yuhao. "You remained calm in a crisis. You truly are impressive. Don't worry, the academy will definitely give you an explanation for this matter."

After saying that, Du Weilun motioned for several white-robed teachers behind him to escort Huo Yuhao back to Shrek Academy, while he himself pursued the direction Huo Yuhao had pointed out.

Unfortunately, aside from the fact that the storage Soul Tools had indeed been stripped from the assassins, not a word Huo Yuhao said was true. Du Weilun naturally returned empty-handed.

Later, during a Shrek meeting, Xuan Zi opened that storage Soul Tool in front of the gathered elders and found the details of the commission within.

Although such guilds kept their clients confidential, they still marked the source of each client for the sake of distinction.

The source marking for Shrek was unmistakably clear, and the expressions of the Sea God Pavilion elders darkened considerably.

Mu En's expression remained calm, but the chill in his voice, colder than usual, made his anger clear.

"Old Ye, go have a proper word with that guild about this matter today."

Upon hearing this, one of the elders stood up and respectfully nodded to Mu En. Then, in an equally calm tone, he said, "Understood."

Naturally, Huo Yuhao knew nothing of the Sea God Pavilion's subsequent reaction. After examining the Soul King's storage Soul Tool, he found even more crucial information and had essentially confirmed that Dai Huabin was the culprit.

There is a road to heaven, yet you refuse to take it. Hell has no gate, yet you insist on walking in.

Dai Huabin, I had no desire to lower myself to your level. Since things have come to this, you were the one who showed no mercy first.

Huo Yuhao raised his hand, lightly pressing his thumb and middle finger together. A trace of icy blue Soul Power radiance began to coil around his fingers.

At the same time, in Dai Huabin's dormitory on another floor, Dai Huabin had been sitting cross-legged in cultivation when he suddenly felt his blood and qi surge in reverse. He violently spat out a mouthful of black blood and fell headfirst from his bed.

Dai Huabin died just like that. Like his mother, he died without clarity or reason, utterly inexplicably.

There was naturally no need to mention the result of Shrek's forceful negotiations with that guild. The guild met the same fate as the Tang Sect had once faced, uprooted entirely by a newly risen power.

After these matters came to an end, Huo Yuhao received a reward sent by the Sea God Pavilion: a black Continental Universal Bank card and a red Shangbao Association identity card.

According to Du Weilun, all expenses Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong had incurred at the Shangbao Association would be fully refunded, while the items themselves would remain theirs.

As for Huo Yuhao, he was additionally granted the highest level of treatment from the Shangbao Association. Every year, he could take one item from the Shangbao Association without paying for it.

Huo Yuhao only accepted the red card after guiding Du Weilun into making it clear that this compensation did not count as part of the academy's cultivation resources. As for the Continental Universal Bank card, at Wang Dong's insistence, they split the money equally.

This was actually a huge bargain for Huo Yuhao. After all, even all the things he had bought combined were not worth a fraction of Wang Dong's soul bone.

"All right, stop thinking about it. If you hadn't thrown me toward the academy when those assassins caught up to us, who knows what I might have run into." Wang Dong patted Huo Yuhao on the shoulder, then said to him with a grin.

Huo Yuhao neither agreed nor disagreed. Then his gaze fell upon several unusual fruits in the corner.

Wang Dong's gaze followed his. "Come to think of it, these past few days we've either been attending class or getting called in for questioning. We haven't had the chance to see what's actually inside these things. Isn't it time to open the mystery boxes..."