The Stalkers

Huo Yuhao only had a chance to look around the private room after he sat down. The room was decorated very luxuriously, and the window facing the room looked directly at the Shrek Academy in the distance. The scene in the distance was completely visible at a glance.

Huo Yuhao looked around the private room for a long time but couldn't find Wu Feng, who was usually inseparable from Ning Tian, and couldn't help but feel strange.

"Ning Tian, didn't Wu Feng come with you tonight?"

"Oh! Feng Mei! She has something to do and can't come over tonight."

Huo Yuhao nodded and turned his attention to the exquisite dishes on the table.

"Yuhao, come and try our Nine Treasures Restaurant's signature dish: Stewed Ten Thousand Year Vegetables with Chicken."

Sitting opposite Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian eagerly introduced the signature dishes on his table to Huo Yuhao.

Sensing the aroma wafting from the table, Huo Yuhao put a fragrant piece of chicken, brimming with Soul Power, into his mouth.

The moment the chicken entered his mouth, Huo Yuhao's eyes lit up.

"It smells so good!"

In a small building not far from the Nine Treasures Restaurant, Di Qiu'er couldn't help but wipe the drool from the corner of her mouth as she smelled the aroma wafting down from the ninth floor.

She had never smelled this before. Back in the Star Dou Great Forest, she had always eaten the original, unprocessed brains of Soul Beast. Even though Huo Yuhao had cooked some of his signature dishes for her, the Star Dou Great Forest and Huo Yuhao were not as good as the Nine Treasures Restaurant, a grand restaurant that had been dedicated to culinary arts for thousands of years.

"Alright, Qiu'er, you don't have time to crave this food anymore. I'll treat you another day. The most important thing right now is to find out what Yuhao is up to by coming here in secret."

Beside Di Qiu'er was Ma Xiaotao, who was also squatting by the window of the small building, observing the situation on the ninth floor.

At this moment, Ma Xiaotao also wiped the corner of her mouth. Although she had been to Nine Treasures Restaurant quite often before, she hadn't left the Inner Court much since her problem with her Evil Fire had gradually worsened in the past two years.

Back in the afternoon, Ma Xiaotao searched all over Freshman Class One but couldn't find Huo Yuhao. Finally, she learned from Zhang Lexuan that Huo Yuhao had been invited by Ning Tian of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect School to visit the Nine Treasures Restaurant.

Just then, Di Qiu'er also learned from Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao that Huo Yuhao was going to a banquet.

The two eventually met at the academy gate. After exchanging their purpose, they decided to go to Nine Treasures Restaurant together.

However, since the two had not made an appointment, they could only temporarily rest in a small, deserted building not far from the ninth floor.

"Xiaotao Tao, you said it yourself!"

Upon hearing Ma Xiaotao's words, Di Qiu'er's eyes lit up even more.

"I mean what I say! But there's one condition! How about you fight me every single day for the next month?"

Since cultivating with Huo Yuhao and fighting with Di Qiu'er yesterday, Ma Xiaotao felt that her Evil Fire was being suppressed, and the purity of her flames had also increased significantly. Even though her flames hadn't yet reached the level of Ultimate Fire, they weren't far off.

"Alright! Let's see what Yuhao is doing!"

As she spoke, Di Qiu'er stared wide-eyed at the direction of the ninth-floor window.

What are you doing? You should be looking at this!

Seeing Di Qiu'er's expression, Ma Xiaotao chuckled and took out two cylindrical objects from her pocket.

"This is?"

"Soul-guided telescope, used to see things from afar!"

Originally, Ma Xiaotao was very dismissive of these Soul Tool, but after spending the past few months with Huo Yuhao, she was influenced by Huo Yuhao and had encountered a lot of trouble from Soul Tool in her battles with Huo Yuhao.

This led Ma Xiaotao to the conclusion that it wasn't the Soul Tool that were ineffective, but rather the Soul Tool Department at the Shrek Academy. This conclusion nearly earned Ma Xiaotao a severe beating from Xian Lin'er. She just kept spouting the absolute truth.

Although Shrek's Soul Tool Department is already the best in Douluo, it is still inferior to some of the high-level Soul Engineer Academies of the Sun Moon Empire.

Di Qiu'er took the binoculars from Ma Xiaotao with some skepticism, and looked in Huo Yuhao's direction before exclaiming in surprise.

Wow! It's real! It looks so clear!

I knew it!

As she spoke, Ma Xiaotao picked up her Soul Tool and looked in Huo Yuhao's direction.

"Yuhao, is the food here not to your liking?"

Seeing Huo Yuhao suddenly freeze while picking up food, Ning Tian couldn't help but ask.

"Oh! It's nothing, I just suddenly remembered something."

Feeling the two probing gazes constantly coming from behind him, Huo Yuhao said with a hint of helplessness.

"My two older sisters are so worried about me! I'm not a little kid anymore."

Huo Yuhao finished the meal under the watchful eyes of the two men.

After a hearty meal, Huo Yuhao adopted a serious expression.

"Ning Tian, your invitation to me tonight is probably more than just a meal! Are you here to fulfill a promise you made two weeks ago?"

Upon hearing this, Ning Tian's expression also turned serious. She took out a thick file from her Storage Soul Tool and asked Huo Yuhao:

"I wonder how much Yuhao knows about the White Tiger Family and the Netherworld Family."

Huo Yuhao simply shook his head.

"I don't know much. I only know that Dai Hao is currently the highest-ranking general of the Mingdou Defense Line, and he holds military power over the entire western part of the empire. Also, the patriarch of the Netherworld Family is the current Grand Duke."

Seemingly to prevent Huo Yuhao from doing anything foolish, Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu did not reveal much information about the two families to Huo Yuhao.

Upon hearing this, Ning Tian pushed the thick file in front of Huo Yuhao.

"These are the detailed information about the two major families?"

"How is that possible!"

Ning Tian couldn't help but chuckle twice upon hearing Huo Yuhao's words.

"That only contains the most important information about the two major families; this is all the information our Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect has about them."

As he spoke, Ning Tian took out another blue ring and handed it to Huo Yuhao.

"Holy crap, this little girl actually raided our house."

When Ma Xiaotao saw the ring-shaped Soul Tool that Ning Tian took out, her face immediately turned ugly.

His face fell immediately after he saw Huo Yuhao accept the ring.

"I was here first!"

"The one over there is clearly the blond guy! That's not how it's written in the 'Sun Moon Chronicles'!"

"Xiaotao Tao, is there a problem?"

Di Qiu'er looked at Ma Xiaotao, who was about to become a loser, with some confusion.

She couldn't understand why Ma Xiaotao became so distraught just by seeing that ring.

Having just entered human society, Di Qiu'er didn't understand the meaning of the ring. Nor did she understand why humans would assign such a flashy but impractical little object a strange meaning.

She still remembered what Uncle Xiong Jun had told her the night before she left the Star Dou Great Forest:

"Qiu'er! If you really fall in love with Huo Yuhao in the future, remember that we Soul Beast believe in might makes right. If you meet someone you like, just snatch them away and train them."