Death Phantom

After resting for a night, Huo Yuhao and his group began searching for traces of the evil soul masters.

After Wang Yan discovered the anomalies with the Wenlan Tree, Huo Yuhao had a specific direction for his Spirit Detection.

Nowadays, Huo Yuhao's use of his divine sense for direct detection was more than enough to cover the entire Mingdou Mountain Range.

However, if the opponent truly possessed divine sense, that would be equivalent to alerting the enemy.

Huo Yuhao's spiritual power was already extremely formidable; if anything, the soul skill Spirit Detection was starting to lag behind.

Using Spirit Detection with spiritual power at the peak of the Spirit Domain Realm, Huo Yuhao quickly discovered the cave where the Death Messenger was located.

"Everyone, equip your defensive Soul Guidance Devices. The abilities of evil soul masters are chaotic and mixed; watch out for the corpses inside the cave."

Huo Yuhao gave the warning and led the group toward the cave.

But once his Spirit Detection truly covered the cave, Huo Yuhao's brows furrowed, and his entire emotional state became unstable.

Inside the cave, it was a scene of hell.

On a stone spike at the entrance, five infant corpses were skewered, their faces still frozen in expressions of confusion.

Two bandits sat to the side, chatting while kicking a severed head on the ground; the head's owner was hanging above the cave, their body torn to pieces.

Deepening further inside, there were nothing but severed limbs and broken arms: a middle-aged man missing half his body, a couple sewn together, and an elderly person bent into a U-shape.

Seeing the bandits inside still drinking and eating meat, even occasionally tugging at the entrails scattered everywhere, Huo Yuhao was overcome with rage. The intense emotions caused a layer of near-tangible spiritual storms to swirl around him.

"Yuhao, learn to control your emotions. Do not be swayed by them."

Electrolux's voice arrived, echoing in Huo Yuhao's Spirit Sea like a sedative.

"Thank you, Elder Yi. My spiritual power has been growing too quickly lately, and I cannot yet fully master a portion of the divine sense's power."

Once Huo Yuhao's divine sense cleared, the storm around him subsided as if nothing had happened.

Outside, Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe had already protected the other students. Feeling the powerful fluctuations of spiritual power, everyone looked at Huo Yuhao in shock.

Seeing Huo Yuhao calm down, Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe breathed a sigh of relief, fearing that Huo Yuhao might accidentally injure his teammates in an unstable emotional state.

Before this trip, Huo Yuhao had undergone much psychological preparation. He had expected to feel disgusted, but upon seeing those nearly ten thousand miserable corpses, his first reaction was uncontrollable rage.

Since crossing over, Huo Yuhao had only killed a few dozen enemies, including Dai Huabin; how could he bear to witness such a cruel scene?

In this world where the strong prey on the weak, Huo Yuhao naturally understood the principle of cutting weeds and pulling up roots, but what was the purpose of such wanton, unbridled slaughter?

Could one really discard their humanity and slaughter nearly ten thousand people without any grievance, simply for the sake of increasing their cultivation?

As Huo Yuhao drew closer to the cave, bolstered by his divine sense and Necromancy, he heard the painful wails of those individual wandering souls.

At the same time, the Eye of Life at the center of Huo Yuhao's brow slowly opened. Points of light converged; they were the memories and wishes of the spirits before they died.

Huo Yuhao watched their brief lives as if playing them at high speed.

He saw their joys and sorrows, their luck and misfortune, their exhaustion and diligence, and the small bits of happiness they experienced every day.

He saw their desperate gazes, their helplessness regarding the tragic state of their loved ones, how they were cruelly murdered, and their lingering resentment and roars of indignation.

When the final wish of the last spirit converged, Huo Yuhao's Eye of Life shone a white light of purification onto those spirits.

Under the illumination of the purification light, the spirits gradually transformed from the black of resentment to the white of hope.

A gray-gold soul ring slowly emerged behind Huo Yuhao.

Yet, this soul ring did not float like other soul rings; instead, it hung behind Huo Yuhao like a divine halo.

As Huo Yuhao's intent to avenge them was transmitted, the spirits radiating white light gathered into the gray-gold soul ring behind him.

Without relying on his Two-Word Battle Armor, Huo Yuhao slowly rose, standing in mid-air.

Golden light shone in his eyes once more, though it was different from when his Fate Awakening occurred.

It was no longer the slightly noble rose-gold, but a bright gold flickering with a sense of holiness.

The gray-gold soul ring behind him also gained a layer of seven-colored light after gathering the power of the spirits.

Huo Yuhao looked at the stunned Shrek group and spoke without a trace of emotion:

"Wait for me here. If necessary, retreat on your own. The coming battle is not something you can participate in."

Looking at Huo Yuhao, who appeared like a god, the group unconsciously believed his words, as if they were speaking to a deity at that very moment.

Even Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe nodded involuntarily, turning to lead the students in a slow retreat.

Watching Xuan Zi and the others leave, Huo Yuhao entered the cave at high speed. All the bandits along the way were turned to ash by the seven-colored light swirling around him.

Seven-colored rays from the Eye of Life shone onto the broken corpses, and graves slowly rose from the ground.

By the time the Death Messenger noticed the anomaly, Huo Yuhao had already appeared before him.

Seeing Huo Yuhao, who radiated strange fluctuations, the Death Messenger showed fear for the first time. Before he could even trigger a corpse explosion, he turned to flee.

But Huo Yuhao merely glanced at him, and white-gold flames ignited all over his body, causing him to collapse to the ground instantly.

"This flame contains the wrath of everyone you cruelly murdered. Let them have a good chat with you."

As Huo Yuhao's flat voice fell, the Death Messenger let out a painful wail. His expression turned hideous, and his body suddenly began to twist.

"What, otherworldly god, do you not intend to come out and meet me? I am about to kill your messenger, after all."

Huo Yuhao continued, the seven-colored light gathering in his Eye of Life, pointing directly at the divine sense within the Death Messenger's body.

Seeing that Huo Yuhao was not bluffing, the divine sense within finally could not sit still. A black phantom emerged from the Death Messenger's body, radiating powerful pressure.

For a moment, the entire Mingdou Mountain Range was shrouded in this pressure, and all soul masters within its range were unable to stand.

Far away in the military camp, Dai Hao knelt on one knee in shock, looking at the massive phantom appearing on the distant mountain range.

The Death Phantom emerged, emitting a very eerie laugh.

This eerie laughter alone was enough to make soul masters below the rank of Soul Emperor suffer splitting headaches, and the Death Messenger's head exploded instantly.

"Just a piece of trash; dying is no great loss. However, I am somewhat interested in you. A temporary third-class god, yet you dare to provoke me."

Huo Yuhao's expression remained unchanged at these words, and he replied flatly.

"You speak as if you are the original entity. You are merely a first-class god's avatar that snuck over, a piece of trash who doesn't even dare to use the origin laws. Why should I fear you?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a massive phantom also emerged behind Huo Yuhao. The phantom wore white-gold robes and held a silver-white staff in its hand.

Grasping the silver-white staff transformed from the Sky Dream Iceworm, Huo Yuhao whispered softly, and a white light embellished with seven colors fell upon the Death Phantom.