"Senior Xiaotao, hang in there. It'll be done soon."
"I can't. I really can't take much more."
"Just a little more and we're finished. Hold on a bit longer!"
"How are you still not finished? Can't you hurry up?"
Late at night, Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao were both drenched in sweat inside the silent, dim workshop. What exactly were the two of them doing?
Making battle armor, of course!
After Huo Yuhao arrived at the Sun Moon Royal Military Academy on Heaven-Questioning Peak, he unexpectedly met someone he knew: Ma Xiaotao, Shrek Academy's Lie Yan Madwoman.
Ma Xiaotao had arrived in the Sun Moon Empire recently, reportedly fighting her way straight through the White Tiger Legion's interception in the Mingdou Mountain Range. She had come to the Sun Moon Empire for one reason alone: to find Huo Yuhao.
Although the senior administrators of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy knew little about Ma Xiaotao, Ma Rulong, Xiao Hongchen, and the others who had fought her were there to explain. After learning that she possessed an ultimate martial soul and had once joined the Holy Spirit Cult, Xu Tianran sent her up to Heaven-Questioning Peak to await Huo Yuhao's return.
Some administrators had originally wanted to keep Ma Xiaotao at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to train her. But after seeing her dark fire phoenix martial soul and learning that she had once been the Holy Spirit Cult's Holy Maiden, they immediately abandoned that idea.
Quite apart from anything else, if those lunatics in the Holy Spirit Cult learned that Ma Xiaotao was at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Tool Hall, even Zhongli Wu would let out an explosive shriek and send the cult's senior members to attack the hall together.
Never mind that the Holy Spirit