"The Soul Master World and the world of Evil Soul Masters are two sides of the same coin. Does leaving the Soul Master-dominated Douluo Three Kingdoms really make you safe?"
Huo Yuhao grinned. "Could it be that, as a single whole, the Soul Masters above the table face the gods, while the Evil Soul Masters beneath it face the masses-and that this is the truth of the post-Spirit Hall era?"
"What are you talking about?" Ye Guyi asked with a frown, startled by Huo Yuhao's words.
Huo Yuhao looked at the forthright girl and said, "Miss Ye, whether you believe it or not, Evil Soul Masters gather like clouds in the Sun Moon Empire. You need to be careful."
After Huo Yuhao said that, Ye Guyi merely replied softly, "Mm, I understand. Thank you for the warning." Then she fell silent and began cleaning the room.
After watching her finish her work and leave, Huo Yuhao lay back down on the bed and began talking with Electrolux and Tian Meng.
"Elder Yi, do you think I should use the Necromancy you taught me to infiltrate the Holy Spirit Cult and investigate, or first learn the craft of making weapons here in the Sun Moon Empire?"
Having already reached great heights in his previous life, Huo Yuhao naturally knew that Soul Tools offered humanity on the Douluo Plane the most suitable path to transformation and advancement.
But in making his choice now, he had to consider more than increasing his strength and advancing his technology. He also had to account for the current situation.
If he wanted to establish himself in the Sun Moon Empire and wait for an opportunity to approach the Holy Spirit Cult, he had to display extraordinary talent for making Soul Tools. Yet if he wanted to reach [Tang Bingqing]'s greatest secret on the Douluo Continent-the Holy Spirit Cult-he had to be a blank slate who could be discarded at any moment, but who also possessed some attainments in the path of the soul.
In other words, that [dear father-in-law of his, Tang San] would never let anyone with a way out learn the secret of the Holy Spirit Cult's Holy Emperor and live.
"Since you're here, settle in. Learn a craft first-or, rather, show the Sun Moon Empire what you can do!" Electrolux advised.
Electrolux's voice was cold. After hearing Huo Yuhao recount his experiences from his previous life, he had keenly realized that the threat his disciple faced was, in essence, an ultimate Fulo.
"If you go straight to the Sun Moon Empire and display the Necromancy I taught you, you'll essentially be gambling on whether Tang Hao's consciousness-or even your father-in-law's consciousness-will communicate with you because of your performance."
"They've worn their masks so long that they can never take them off. Faced with you as you are now, someone who knows their future plans, their desire to kill will be unmatched."
"That way, you'll be strangled in the cradle as a potential threat. I can tell you don't want to waste this second life."
Listening to Electrolux's analysis, Huo Yuhao promptly made up his mind.
"All right, I know what to do!"
Several days later, Huo Yuhao arrived at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to register, looking this way and that as he took in the place where he had met Ju Zi all those years ago.
Back then, he had come here as a defender of Shrek's orthodoxy, filled with a sense of superiority over the people of Sun Moon when it came to Soul Master cultivation. Now, as Huo Yuhao swept his divine sense over the students around him-people who would have had little chance of becoming Soul Masters in the Douluo Three Kingdoms, yet had gained the possibility of cultivating through technology-he felt deep admiration.
"Heaven never cuts off every road. Life always finds a way!" What moved Huo Yuhao was humanity's wisdom and the tenacity of life.
"So you're the boy who made a Level 4 Soul Tool in half an hour at only twelve years old?" At the Sun Moon Royal Academy's new student registration office, Huo Yuhao suddenly heard a voice beside his ear.
Looking toward its source, Huo Yuhao saw an elderly man whose body was almost entirely covered in soul-powered machinery.
The moment the old man appeared, the instructors handling enrollment and registration for the new students bowed in greeting. "Greetings, Senior Jing Hongchen..."
"That's me! My name is Huo Yuhao." Looking at this man, who had been a stepping stone during his rise from the mortal world in his previous life, Huo Yuhao was filled with a thousand emotions.
"Let's get straight to the point. I suspect there was something fishy about the Level 4 Soul Tool you produced that day," Jing Hongchen said calmly. "Could an instructor have made the finished components, leaving you to perform only the most superficial assembly?"
"I want verification."
"Then please set me a task, Senior..." Huo Yuhao was not angered by Jing Hongchen's doubts.
Next, Huo Yuhao watched Jing Hongchen take a bundle out of his Storage Soul Tool. Inside were a jumble of alloy pieces and a carving knife.
"Assemble a Level 4 Flame Sword Soul Tool within half an hour. Otherwise, you can leave, boy."
The moment Jing Hongchen finished speaking, Huo Yuhao began working.
Humans were creatures of imitation. After seeing Jing Hongchen question Huo Yuhao, people in the surrounding crowd naturally began whispering, some with mockery, others waiting to see him make a fool of himself.
"He's so young, and apparently he whipped out a Level 4 Soul Tool during the new student entrance test. His family really went all out!"
"Ah! If Senior hadn't appeared at such an inconvenient moment, we'd probably have another genius junior admitted through special recruitment!"
In the Sun Moon Empire, where everything depended on talent-mental talent, distinct from the inherited bloodline talent that amounted to winning the lottery of birth-people harbored an instinctive hostility toward family privileges passed down through ties of blood.
Unfortunately, in the field of Soul Tool manufacture, these people were destined to be the green leaves setting off Huo Yuhao's brilliant red blossom.
When a pillar of flame shot into the sky and Huo Yuhao handed Jing Hongchen the exquisitely crafted Flame Sword Soul Tool he had finished assembling, cries of astonishment rose from the crowd.
"Heavens, how is that possible?"
"Could he be the legendary child of destiny, who releases his mighty turtle aura and makes the masses fall to their knees?"
No one would believe a new student could buy off Jing Hongchen, unless that student was Crown Prince Xu Tianran.
But would Xu Tianran, who really had a throne waiting for him to inherit, bother playing this game with them?
As Jing Hongchen swept his spiritual sense over the Soul Tool Huo Yuhao handed him, he, too, was stunned.
He had never imagined he would witness something that could only be called a miracle.
"Boy, you... who taught you this Soul Tool manufacturing technique?" Jing Hongchen asked, his words growing somewhat incoherent.
"Who taught me? I read lots and lots of books. I learned it from them!" Huo Yuhao scratched his head, then rattled off a list of titles, including Mathematical Principles of Soul Power and Principles of Soul Power Control.
Learned it from books? More like a gift from heaven! Jing Hongchen was inwardly speechless.
As the most powerful Soul Engineer of the age, he understood many things. When studying to become a Soul Engineer, most people, with their level of comprehension, would be left utterly lost if they relied on books alone.
"Senior, does that mean I passed your test?" Facing Jing Hongchen in this life, Huo Yuhao adopted a very humble attitude.
"Passed? Of course you passed!" Jing Hongchen said hastily. With such a young, gifted Soul Engineer standing before him, he did not want to miss this opportunity.
"Settle in at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy first. When there's a chance, I'll take you to the laboratories at Mingde Hall."
And with that, his first day of enrollment was complete. Huo Yuhao, however, did not choose to board at the academy, instead returning to stay at the Mingyue Hotel.
"Little Yuhao, I sense that you chose to enter the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy for more than merely establishing yourself in the Sun Moon Empire. You must have something else in mind, don't you?"
Hearing Electrolux's voice ring out within his Sea of Consciousness, Huo Yuhao paused, then said, "You truly know me, Teacher. My plan is to forge a divine artifact."
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