Three days later, after a bumpy journey, Huo Yuhao and his party finally arrived in Nuoding City.
Huo Yuhao glanced at the children in the carriage behind him. They all sat quietly inside. Throughout the three-day journey, these children had neither cried nor fussed. They ate when given food and slept when told to, obedient to a fault.
Yet the more they behaved this way, the more desolate Huo Yuhao felt. At an age when they should have been lively and restless, they were so obedient and quiet. Huo Yuhao did not believe these children had been born this way. How many beatings and scoldings had it taken to train them into this state?
Huo Yuhao turned back and continued driving the carriage into Nuoding City.
This city near the Heaven Dou Empire's border did not have a particularly large population. There were few pedestrians on the streets, and as the carriage traveled through them, the surroundings felt somewhat deserted.
When the carriage passed Nuoding City's junior Soul Master Academy, Huo Yuhao glanced at the empty campus and only then remembered that the academy was currently on break. No wonder it was so deserted here. Without giving it further thought, Huo Yuhao continued toward the local Spirit Hall.
At last, the carriage stopped outside Nuoding City's Spirit Hall. Huo Yuhao climbed down, first told the children in the carriage not to go outside, then entered Spirit Hall.
Nuoding City was remote and had relatively few Soul Masters. The guards at the entrance recognized most of the city's Soul Masters, and even the children wore the Nuoding City academy uniform, making them identifiable at a glance. Seeing Huo Yuhao, an unfamiliar child who was not wearing a uniform, approach, they stopped him for routine questioning.
Huo Yuhao explained why he had