Holy Necromancer VS Evil Fire Phoenix-Would He Win?

"Brother Yuan, have some of this!"

"Brother Yuan, try this. It's delicious!"

The next day, Huo Yuhao had made quite a bit of money from his booming business the moment he set up his stall yesterday. Combined with the Gold Soul Coin generously sponsored by Xu Sanshi, he was feeling rather lavish today and wanted to treat everyone to breakfast.

Of course, it was breakfast from the Ordinary Window.

However, the young couple Tang Ya and Beibei had other plans, while Jiang Nannan needed to have breakfast at home with her mother. In the end, only Lu Yuan could make it.

Still, Lu Yuan was not the only one there for breakfast.

"Yuhao, eat up, eat up. Your Brother Yuan is full."

Feeling the resentful gaze behind him, Lu Yuan swallowed. The breakfast that had originally been sweet and delicious suddenly became rather tasteless.

Damn it, I thought Yuhao was treating me to breakfast alone. Where did this annoying guy come from?!

Wang Dong viciously stabbed a soup dumpling with her chopsticks, her pinkish-blue eyes staring gloomily at Lu Yuan.

I was here first!

Watching Huo Yuhao lavish attention on this guy, calling him "Brother Yuan" so affectionately and piling food onto his plate, Wang Dong felt extremely uncomfortable.

"Um... Yuhao," Lu Yuan said after eating his fill. He stood up, patted Huo Yuhao on the shoulder, and glanced meaningfully to the side. "I'm about done eating. You and your roommate take your time! Eat more—you're still growing, so eat plenty! I'll go take a walk and digest my food!"

With that, Lu Yuan picked up his tray and bid the two farewell.

Only then did Huo Yuhao realize that he seemed to have neglected his roommate. He turned around and secretly glanced at Wang Dong, only to see a pair of silent pinkish-blue eyes and a soup dumpling that had died with its eyes open. He hurriedly said, "Well, Wang Dong, let me explain—"

Go, Lu!

Having fled with his bucket in hand, Lu Yuan still left the task of dealing with Wang Dong one-on-one to Shrek's number one weightlifting champion, Huo Yuhao. After all, without Huo Yuhao bearing the burden, how could Lu Yuan develop in such a low-key manner?

Leisurely strolling beside Sea God's Lake, Lu Yuan quietly enjoyed the fresh air. After all, the industrialized cities of his previous life had never had air quality like this.

After passing through a grove, the shimmering Sea God's Lake appeared before Lu Yuan.

A gentle mist of water mixed with fresh air rushed toward him. Though Sea God's Lake was merely an artificial lake, its waters were exceptionally clear. The azure water was pure blue, deep blue, and soft and tranquil blue. Fine ripples rose and fell across the lake's satin-like surface, like the limpid autumn eyes of a young girl, reflecting the blue sky, white clouds, and the lush green trees lining the shore.

Then, upon the tranquil azure lake, an abrupt red dot appeared and rapidly enlarged within Lu Yuan's field of vision.

"Xiao Yuan, be careful!" Elder Yi was as reliable as ever. The moment the red dot appeared, he had already warned Lu Yuan.

"Don't worry, Elder Yi. I know what I'm doing!" Lu Yuan had naturally noticed the red figure as well. Familiar with the original plot, he knew that it was Ma Xiaotao, whose reason had been eroded by evil fire. Rather than panicking, he was thinking about how to use this opportunity to collect more fragments of the Soul-Eating Dagger.

As the two spoke, the red figure had already closed in at a terrifying speed. She was tall and slender, with red hair and red clothes. Even the eyes hidden beneath her red mask were an unnerving blood-red, revealing an aura of madness and evil.

"Chaos, evil?" Elder Yi's voice carried a note of confusion. "And an incomparably violent fire aura."

"Elder Yi, help me subdue her!"

Surging heat rushed toward him. Unlike Wu Feng's petty tricks, Ma Xiaotao's flames were truly close to Ultimate Fire. In her chaotic state of being eroded by Evil Fire, her flames could be said to have touched the threshold of Ultimate Fire for an instant.

Mental Shock!

Unlike Huo Yuhao's Mental Shock, Elder Yi possessed genuine god-level divine consciousness. Lu Yuan's eyes suddenly lit up, a crystalline gray filling his pupils. Then, the gray light flickered slightly, like a gray steel needle stabbing into Ma Xiaotao's Spirit Sea.

Thud! Ma Xiaotao, who had fallen into a sweet, baby-like sleep, immediately collapsed to the ground unconscious. The Evil Fire on her body slowly dissipated along with its host's loss of consciousness.

Then, without the slightest thought of being gentle with a beauty, Lu Yuan flipped the curvaceous Ma Xiaotao over from her faceplant position and began feeling around her body—

Found it!

Don't misunderstand. Lu Yuan was not taking advantage of Ma Xiaotao. He was searching through his spoils of war.

A belt-shaped Storage Soul Tool appeared in Lu Yuan's hand. After rummaging through it and taking some cultivation-assisting pills, resources, and Gold Soul Coins, Lu Yuan tossed the Storage Soul Tool—now containing only her intimate clothing—back onto Ma Xiaotao.

As the old saying went, a man could not grow rich without windfalls, and a horse could not grow fat without night grazing. Murder and arson truly did bring golden belts.

After knocking Ma Xiaotao out and looting her, Lu Yuan had gained quite a lot. As an inner court student and Yan Shaozhe's disciple, Ma Xiaotao clearly possessed quite a few good things.

It almost made Lu Yuan want to knock her out a few more times!

While Lu Yuan was looting her, Elder Yi was also examining Ma Xiaotao's body with his divine consciousness.

"Strange, extremely strange." Electrolux, who had been an eighth-rank peak light-element professional before becoming a demigod-level necromancer, clearly had a strong spirit of inquiry. "The world truly is vast and full of wonders. With such a degree of evil aura, this little girl could be considered innately evil. In my homeland, she would have been tied to a stake and burned by the Church."

"However," Elder Yi paused before continuing, "the fire within her Martial Soul was able to contend against this evil during the early stages of cultivation. Yet as her cultivation deepens, this evil aura will grow alongside her Martial Soul. One day, she will fall onto the evil path because of it. The path of Martial Souls truly differs greatly from the cultivation system of my previous life!"

"Then, Elder Yi, with your methods, is there a way to help me control the evil aura within her Martial Soul? It would be best if you could create a seal that I can control." Seeing Elder Yi's research interest had been piqued, Lu Yuan quickly made his request. "With the insight and methods of a Holy Necromancer like you, Elder Yi, it should be easy, right?"

Lu Yuan did not have much to say about Ma Xiaotao herself. He could only say that it was Chang Gong Wei's fault. The entire continent, including Shrek, had been afflicted with the Nine-Turn Ten-Thousand-Year Glory Gu. However, she would later become the Holy Spirit Cult's Saintess, and that identity was extremely important.

After all, it did not matter who Ma Xiaotao was. What mattered was who became the Holy Spirit Cult's Saintess.

Even with the help of memories from the original work, Lu Yuan still hoped to plant a nail among the madmen of the Holy Spirit Cult and grasp their movements. After all, cultists might do anything on a whim, and at times like that, Ma Xiaotao's identity as the Saintess would prove very useful.

"Haha, Xiao Yuan, you are right. This old man can indeed do it!" Lu Yuan's flattery had hit Elder Yi right where it itched. "If you asked me to remove this evil aura, then this old man truly could not do it. This evil aura is inseparable from her origin. Unless I were to reside within her Spirit Sea, it would be difficult to accomplish."

"But if it is merely sealing it," Elder Yi changed the subject and said calmly, "then this level of evil aura is at least somewhat interesting to this old man!"

As he spoke, he took control of Lu Yuan's body and began a series of high-level operations. After all, for a novice mage like Lu Yuan who had only just started learning, such operations were still far too difficult.