Huo Yuhao's attacks were carefully planned and rhythmic. Under his assault, the White Tiger King's aura gradually weakened, and the ground turned crimson with the blood its body shed, dried by the lightning.
After a prolonged, bitter battle, one grew stronger as the other weakened. Finally, the White Tiger King could bear no more, and Huo Yuhao wore it down until it collapsed.
At that moment, Electrolux, who had been watching the show in his spiritual sea of consciousness, could not help clapping in admiration.
"Brilliant, Yuhao, absolutely brilliant! Though your battle armor deserves much of the credit, your combat skills have undoubtedly improved enormously. In our world, your skill would be considered to have crossed the threshold and entered the inner hall."
Electrolux marveled at Huo Yuhao's performance. To possess such resolve and strength at his age-even his own younger self, genius though he had been, would have fallen far short of Huo Yuhao.
"Hah-hah-hah."
Panting heavily, Huo Yuhao walked straight up to the White Tiger King, which had passed out from exhaustion, and viciously thrust his battle blade into the still-bleeding wound in its neck.
The blade struck the tiger's hard bones with a piercing metallic clang. Huo Yuhao heaved with all his strength and severed its enormous head. Before long, a blood-red soul ring slowly condensed above its corpse.
"Elder Yi, I still have a long way to go!"
Only after the dust had settled did Huo Yuhao sit cross-legged to recover, answering Electrolux as he did.
But Huo Yuhao had barely finished speaking when Electrolux suddenly appeared before him, his expression grave as he warned him.
"Yuhao, several powerful auras are heading this way. They're several thousand miles away and will probably arrive in a few minutes.
"There are two soul beasts whose auras far surpass this White Tiger's, and one human. His aura is even stronger than those two soul beasts combined."
"An aura stronger than several hundred-thousand-year soul beasts combined? Then he must be at least a Super Douluo."
Muttering to himself, Huo Yuhao tossed the enormous tiger head into his Storage Soul Tool. Then he gripped the White Tiger's long tail tightly in one hand and walked toward Zhang Lexuan, step by step.
Huo Yuhao had now recognized the woman before him. She was none other than Shrek Academy's senior sister, Zhang Lexuan, who had become a Soul Douluo in her twenties and whose eighth soul ring was a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
He had not initially thought along those lines, but after seeing the twelve figures and the hundred-thousand-year soul beast they had encountered, Huo Yuhao finally realized what this was: Shrek Academy's infamous cautionary tale, where Xuan Zi led a team that suffered eight deaths and four injuries.
The timing matched perfectly, too. In the original story, when Xuan Zi wanted to resign to take responsibility, he had said he only abandoned the idea because that girl Zhang Lexuan remained kneeling before him. So Zhang Lexuan must have participated. Moreover, her eighth soul ring happened to be a hundred-thousand-year one, and one of the survivors had obtained a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone. Without a doubt, that person was Zhang Lexuan.
Of the beings Electrolux had sensed, the human was most likely Xuan Zi. As for the soul beasts, he did not care. Given that Zhang Lexuan saw him as an Evil Soul Master, once Xuan Zi arrived, Huo Yuhao probably would not be able to leave in his current condition unless he called someone in to fight for him. If he did not leave now, what was he waiting for?
But he could not leave his spoils behind.
Naturally, Huo Yuhao meant the eight well-preserved Soul Master corpses. They were perfect for his Undead Experiment. Having saved Zhang Lexuan and the other three, he was entitled to some compensation. These would settle the debt nicely.
"You're blocking my spoils."
Huo Yuhao mercilessly pushed the pale, powerless Zhang Lexuan aside. Then, right before her eyes, he placed the eight corpses into his Storage Soul Tool one by one.
Storage Soul Tools were fascinating things. They could not store living creatures, but they could hold corpses.
Zhang Lexuan, who had wanted to thank Huo Yuhao only to be shoved aside, froze at first. But when she saw what he was doing, her eyes widened, and the last trace of color drained from her already pale face.
Huo Yuhao had just risked his life to save her, and she had almost forgotten that he was an Evil Soul Master. She did not even need to think to know what he intended to do with her dead teammates' bodies.
No!
Absolutely not!
It was her misguided leadership that had caused their deaths. If their bodies were desecrated afterward as well, her sins would truly be unforgivable.
But she had no soul power left-not even any strength. What could she do? Watching Huo Yuhao's figure recede, Zhang Lexuan steeled her heart, clenched her teeth, and suddenly rushed toward him, wrapping both arms tightly around him from behind.
"I won't let you leave! You can't take their bodies!"
Zhang Lexuan's stubborn voice reached Huo Yuhao's ears, and her actions startled him immensely. He could feel just how much strength the woman behind him was using to hold on to him.
He had never imagined that he would drive such a proud character from the original story to this point. He could practically feel her anguish radiating from her.
But what the hell did that have to do with him?
"Let go."
"No."
Not only did Zhang Lexuan refuse to let go, she hugged him even tighter.
"Release them, and I'll let go. I'm begging you." Zhang Lexuan pleaded humbly, persisting stubbornly. How desperately she hoped Huo Yuhao would accommodate her just this once.
Unfortunately, her hopes were doomed to come to nothing. Huo Yuhao was far more ruthless than she could imagine.
"Sorry, but your request has no value whatsoever in my eyes." After being delayed by Zhang Lexuan for a full minute, Huo Yuhao was already growing impatient.
He immediately shook Zhang Lexuan off with a light jolt. With his Spirit Eyes activated, he dragged away the corpse with its Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring hovering above it and swiftly vanished, leaving only Zhang Lexuan sitting helplessly on the ground, weeping in despair. That night!
Luoyun Village, on the Star Luo Empire's border.
The moon shone bright among sparse stars, and the villagers of Luoyun Village were all asleep. After all, no matter how hardworking they were, they would not go out to work in the small hours of the morning.
The village was pitch-black and silent. Suddenly, several large yellow dogs began howling, barking in terror as they tried to wake their owners. But soon, they lay in pools of blood.
A Soul Master radiating a powerful aura appeared before them. Since it was the dead of night, he wore no mask, leaving the deep scar on his face visible. Several more figures appeared behind him, each at least a Soul King.
"The Young Lord has already entered Shrek Academy and successfully escaped the Star Luo Empire's control. Luoyun Village no longer has any reason to exist."
"Grand Commander, do we really have to go this far?" asked a long-haired woman dressed in black.
"I'm doing this for her own good. Only by eliminating every one of the Young Lord's weaknesses can she become truly invincible. She is a peerless genius, someone who will surely become a Limit Douluo."
Madness filled the eyes of this Titled Douluo. These remnants of factions persecuted by the Sun Moon Emperor had formed a powerful force over the past few years. They needed a strong, ruthless ruler.
Even if that person was his own niece.
He was the younger brother of Xu Xingling's Mother and had been traveling the continent all this time. By the time he learned the news, his family had already been wiped out for an entire month.
When he found Xu Zheng, he discovered that his brother-in-law was already dead, while Xu Xingling was under the Star Luo Empire's surveillance. Rather than stirring the grass and startling the snake, he simply let Xu Xingling remain in Luoyun Village while he secretly amassed strength and prepared for revenge. After all, the Former Crown Prince Xu He was dead, making the Young Lord the sole legitimate heir.
He knew very well that his niece had twin martial souls. Yet he discovered that, after entering Shrek Academy, Xu Xingling had actually awakened an ice martial soul as well!
Triple martial souls!
A prodigy without equal!
After learning this, he had become utterly obsessed. He would not allow such a perfect future sovereign to possess any weaknesses.
"Kill them all. As for that boy who came to settle in Luoyun Village, make sure you find him too. Kill him on sight."
"Yes, sir."
With one simple order, the scar-faced man cruelly ended the lives of villagers who were still asleep.
Moments later, this peaceful, harmonious village of simple, honest folk had been transformed into a realm of ghosts.
The figures in black acted without the slightest hesitation. After slaughtering the village, they withdrew at lightning speed.
Half an hour later, several more powerful figures appeared in the village that had already become a realm of ghosts. Their leader held a booklet in his hand, a disdainful smile on his face.
"What a pack of rats. They can't even silence witnesses properly. Luoyun Village has three hundred and eighteen registered households, yet there are only two hundred and eighty bodies here. Find the rest and kill them. Intercept and kill any villagers who went out and haven't returned, too."
What he held was actually Luoyun Village's resident registry.
"Yes, sir."
The moment their powerful leader finished speaking, the figures behind him sprang into action.
Ignoring the screams, the old man clasped his hands behind his back and tilted his head slightly skyward, gazing toward Dai Hao's distant position on the Western Frontier. A murderous gleam appeared in his eyes.
"Your Majesty, oh, Your Majesty. You focus only on external threats and schemes against the Sun Moon Empire, but internal troubles cannot be underestimated either! Once our princess with the Zhu family bloodline married, she became water poured out of the family's door. Her husband doesn't even know she wants to make him emperor!"
The plans of the White Tiger Duchess and her sons stuck like a bone in the throat of this member of the Empire's Hidden Blade. Unfortunately, His Majesty had instructed them not to act rashly.
"What exactly is His Majesty weighing in his heart?"
The original author never resolved the plot thread about the Duchess's plans that Dai Yueheng and Dai Huabin mentioned, so Tutu borrowed it.
Hehe, Tutu doesn't know how to write romance. I finally managed to finish Zhang Lexuan's early storyline, and the initial impression has been established. She probably won't appear in the writing again for quite a while, since hers is a long-term storyline.
Thank you all for your monthly tickets, investments, recommendation votes, and bookmarks. Thank you so much! I changed the synopsis a little and added the female leads. Supporting female characters can be included among the female leads, depending on what everyone wants, since it won't affect the outline.
A new author with a new book, asking for every kind of support.
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