Huo Yuhao's First Soul Skill: Psychic Control!

In the northwest of the Star Luo Empire lay the Ming Dou Mountains.

The range stretched between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Sun Moon Empire, its towering peaks and dense forests forming treacherous terrain.

Neither empire cared to govern this lawless borderland, so it became a paradise for bandits.

And the Death's Hand Bandit Group was the most notorious gang in that paradise.

At that moment, a young man sat high above the hall deep within the bandits' stronghold.

His face was pale as paper, and his black hair hung loose.

Dark red bloodstains still covered much of his chest. He looked so weak that a gust of wind might knock him over.

Yet as he sat there, not one of the dozens of Evil Soul Masters kneeling below dared raise their head.

"I was careless..."

The young man spoke slowly, his voice cold.

"If I hadn't been careless and focused all my attention on Electrolux, how could that weak little brat have caught me off guard?"

"One strike from my Five-Finger Heart Sword would have killed him on the spot!"

His five fingers slowly curled into a fist, a sharp sword intent gathering around them.

Five-Finger Heart Sword: five fingers closed, and the sword struck without retreat!

But when he thought of his current condition, his expression darkened again.

"Not only did Electrolux slip through my fingers, but that palm strike also damaged my internal organs."

"If I hadn't had the Fixed Immortal Travel Martial Soul, I might have had to start over with my Spring and Autumn Cicada Martial Soul!"

"It'll take at least half a year to recover completely..."

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became.

He possessed two Immortal Gu Martial Souls, yet he had failed to seize that advantage and had taken a sneak attack to the back instead!

He swore he would have his revenge!

His gaze swept over the kneeling Evil Soul Masters, and he spoke coldly.

"Death God Envoy?"

A figure in black robes, with a gaunt face like a skull, scrambled out of the crowd and prostrated himself.

"Your Holiness!"

"Haven't you found the people I told you to find?"

"Your Holiness, we're doing everything we can!"

The Death God Envoy pressed his head almost to the floor, his voice close to tears.

"But most of the Fang family have already been... you've already used nearly all of them."

"It will take more time to find others of the Fang bloodline..."

"Useless!"

The young man gave a cold snort.

He turned his palm over, and a crystal skull appeared out of thin air.

The skull was only half the size of his palm and clear as glass.

But inside the crystal, countless blood-red lines writhed slowly like earthworms.

Blood Skull Gu!

Fed with the blood of one's own kin, it rewarded the sacrifice of more clansmen and a closer bloodline with an ever more terrifying improvement in cultivation talent!

"A pack of fools. You can't even handle a simple task."

The young man stroked the crystal skull, a flash of madness crossing his eyes.

"My Blood Skull Gu needs just a little more of my kin's blood to transform my cultivation talent completely."

"When that happens, I'll have the greatest cultivation talent on the entire Douluo Continent!"

"And as for the brat who stole Electrolux..."

"If he heads for Shrek Academy, he'll have to pass through the Ming Dou Mountains sooner or later."

"I'll make sure the Ming Dou Mountains are where his journey ends!"

At the edge of the Star Dou Forest.

A bright yellow soul ring slowly settled around Huo Yuhao.

Not far away, a white fox nearly a meter long lay limp on the ground, long since dead.

Yet even in death, its eyes retained a hint of their bewitching allure.

The Heart-Charming Fox was an exceptionally rare spirit-type soul beast.

Born with formidable mental power, it could control other soul beasts, turning them into puppets to fight for it or keeping them as food.

But its weakness was just as obvious: it was fragile.

How fragile?

This eight-hundred-year-old Heart-Charming Fox was physically weaker than some ordinary soul beasts only a few decades old. Any wild boar could have rammed it half to death.

Just now, Tang Chuan had lifted the illusions affecting Tang Ya and Huo Yuhao.

Of course, Huo Yuhao had only been pretending.

When he "woke up," he had even asked, looking bewildered, what had happened.

His acting was so natural and flawless that Tang Chuan never suspected a thing.

Then Huo Yuhao followed Tang Chuan and Tang Ya to find this Heart-Charming Fox.

At first, Tang Chuan was somewhat surprised that Huo Yuhao could absorb a soul ring beyond his level.

But once he heard that Ye Beixuan, the transmigrator who had met Huo Yuhao earlier, had fed him Whale Rubber, he promptly lost interest.

Whale Rubber strengthened the body. Absorbing a soul ring beyond one's level was only natural after taking it.

That Ye Beixuan must have read too many stories about fawning over the protagonist. He wanted to raise Huo Yuhao and ride the Child of the Plane's luck.

Tang Chuan scoffed inwardly.

Child of the Plane? As a transmigrator, I'm the real Child of the Plane!

To Tang Chuan, Huo Yuhao was nothing more than an NPC who triggered the plot.

So when Huo Yuhao finished absorbing the soul ring and his Soul Power "reasonably" rose to level fifteen, Tang Chuan could not even be bothered to lift an eyelid.

A level-fifteen native of the Douluo Continent was still a native.

Before a three-ring Soul Elder who was also the Jinchuriki of a million-year soul beast, he could not make the slightest splash.

Huo Yuhao opened his eyes. Feeling the Soul Power surging through him, he smiled.

His first soul ring had fully inherited the Heart-Charming Fox's innate ability.

The first soul skill of his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul: Psychic Control!

As long as Huo Yuhao's mental power overwhelmed a creature's, he could turn it into a puppet under his direct control!

The only limit was that, with his current mental power, he could control no more than two puppets at once, and they could be no farther than fifteen meters away.

Otherwise, his mental power would drain away like water through an open floodgate.

Even so, this soul skill was terrifying!

With this first soul skill, his chances of hunting down transmigrators in the future would rise dramatically!

"Yuhao, we've helped you hunt down your first soul ring. What are your plans now?"

Tang Chuan spoke evenly.

His tone was noticeably colder than before.

Now that he had the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, the Child of the Plane's usefulness had plummeted.

"I still have some things to take care of, so let's part ways here."

"Brother Tang, Sister Tang Ya, thank you both."

Huo Yuhao looked at them with gratitude.

Tang Chuan nodded and turned to leave.

But Tang Ya suddenly skipped forward, her almond-shaped eyes curving into crescents.

"Wait, little brother!"

"You're talented, and you have a spirit-type Martial Soul. Why not join our Tang Sect?"

"Our Tang Sect was founded by our ancestor Tang San ten thousand years ago. We may have fallen on hard times, but our sect's secret arts are amazing!"

Tang Ya was brimming with confidence.

Surely the boy would leap at the chance as soon as he heard the Tang Sect's name?

Her younger brother had become a Soul Elder before turning twelve, so he had no need for the Tang Sect's guaranteed admission to Shrek Academy.

In that case, perhaps she could use the spot to bring Huo Yuhao into the Tang Sect.

But Huo Yuhao shook his head without a moment's hesitation.

"Thank you for the offer, Sister Tang Ya, but I still have things to do. I won't be joining the Tang Sect."

What a joke!

What kind of place is the Tang Sect?

It's the hook Tang God-King left in the mortal world, a leash made especially for "Huo Yuhao," the son of destiny!

In the original story, Huo Yuhao had joined the Tang Sect and spent the rest of his life bound tightly to the Tang family.

In this life, Huo Yuhao would have to be insane to jump into that trap!