Kidnapping Huo Yuhao to Visit His Mother's Grave

Ten-Year Veteran's attitude thoroughly enraged Jiang Peng, who swung his Heaven-Shaking Axe again and attacked him.

Ten-Year Veteran had no desire to actually be sent back to the Respawn Point to respawn. His Flame-Treading Black Steed swiftly retreated.

"Don't run!"

Blinded by rage, Jiang Peng completely forgot that the real threat was the four charging Super-Concentrated Soul Guidance Cannons.

I Am an Angel: "First soul skill: Light Slash!"

I Am an Angel attacked Jiang Peng from the air, and Ten-Year Veteran took the opportunity to switch opponents with her.

Being attacked by I Am an Angel only stoked Jiang Peng's fury, but I Am an Angel kept her distance from him throughout.

Anyone who had played games should know just how frustrating it felt to be kited like this.

"Argh...! I'm furious!"

"Captain, watch out!"

The Diao Academy Team members shouted a warning to Jiang Peng, because the players' four Super-Concentrated Soul Guidance Cannons had finished charging.

Yet Jiang Peng showed no fear whatsoever when he saw the four soul guidance beams hurtling toward him.

"Bring it on! You're just soul engineers relying on external power. What's there to fear? Dark Demon-Shaking Heaven!"

Jiang Peng unleashed his sixth soul skill and smashed straight into the four oncoming soul guidance beams.

The result was naturally disastrous. He had overestimated himself far too much.

He might barely have been able to block the soul guidance beams fired by one or two Super-Concentrated Soul Guidance Cannons, but trying to block beams from four cannons at once was nothing but a fool's dream.

Sure enough, besides Jiang Peng himself, several teammates near him were also blasted off the platform by the shock wave from the four soul guidance beams' detonation.

Once Jiang Peng fell, the Diao Academy Team could no longer hold out in the team battle and had no choice but to concede.

Jiang Peng was badly injured, but still refused to accept defeat.

"Damn it! I'll make them pay in tomorrow's individual matches."

None of the players paid him any attention. Jiang Peng's sixth soul skill, Dark Demon-Shaking Heaven, was indeed powerful, but however powerful a move was, it still had to hit someone. A skill that couldn't hit anyone was useless no matter how powerful it was.

When players fought a boss, unless it killed them on their first encounter, once they figured out its attack patterns, all its moves would become a backdrop for them to show off their skills.

Jiang Peng was no exception. By revealing his sixth soul skill early, he had doomed himself to suffer another setback in tomorrow's individual matches.

The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy team also began paying closer attention to the players' New Tang Sect Academy Team.

"Diao Academy might not be on our level, but they're no weak team. Yet they lost so decisively. This unheard-of New Tang Sect Academy Team is no ordinary team!"

Hearing their captain Ma Rulong's words, Xiao Hongchen said casually, "There's no need to worry about them at all. When it comes to using soul tools, we're the real experts. A few Super-Concentrated Soul Guidance Cannons hardly count as a threat."

"We can't be careless. How do you know they don't have better soul tools?"

Meng Hongchen said coldly, "We won't give them any opportunities. Besides, whether they can even win tomorrow's individual matches is still up in the air."

Even now, the siblings Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen still did not see the players as a threat.

In their eyes, there was only one opponent: Shrek Academy.

They had come to shatter Shrek Academy's invincible golden body in the Soul Master Tournament.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Tang Yi turned his attention back to Huo Yuhao.

As the players changed the plot, he had already reclaimed quite a bit of the fortune flowing toward Huo Yuhao.

Without the support of that fortune, it was hard to say whether Electrolux could even awaken. It was also because Electrolux had not awakened that Huo Yuhao missed out on the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife.

The Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife ultimately went unsold. It probably wouldn't be put up for auction again anytime soon; after all, no normal person would buy something that devoured its owner.

"Now, what can I do to reclaim more fortune from Huo Yuhao, or make him stray from the path Tang San arranged for him?"

Tang Yi pondered. Expose Wang Dong's identity? Without evidence, Huo Yuhao wouldn't believe it either...

After thinking for quite a while, Tang Yi suddenly hit upon an idea.

"Isn't Huo Yun'er's grave near Star Luo City? Heh, Huo Yuhao, oh, Huo Yuhao, what a filial son you are. You're so focused on your Shrek matches that you've even forgotten your own mother. It never occurred to you to spare some time to tend her grave."

Tang Yi decided to issue the players a quest to take Huo Yuhao to tend Huo Yun'er's grave, hoping it would awaken the hatred in his heart.

Although he didn't know whether it would work, there was no harm in trying.

Immediately afterward, the players received a quest issued by the game system.

[Story quest: Take Huo Yuhao to tend his mother's grave. Any method allowed. Reward: One thousand-year soul bone.]

Wang Zhongwang: "Huh, another quest popped up? Take Huo Yuhao to tend his mother's grave? Why is there such a strange quest?"

Primordial One: "Huh, isn't Huo Yun'er's grave near Star Luo City? In the original plot, Huo Yuhao didn't visit her grave for the first time until many years later."

Agile Dog in the Mountains: "Then this Huo Yuhao really is a filial son. He's so close, yet it never occurred to him to visit his mother's grave."

Invincible Tyrannosaurus Warrior: "Aren't all the characters in Soul Land like that? All their love and hatred is just talk. If you look closely at what they've actually done, you'll find they're all giants in words and dwarfs in deeds."

I Am an Angel: "I agree. Isn't Bei Bei exactly like that? He talks about loving someone so much he'd die for her, but ask what he's actually done, and the answer is two words: absolutely nothing."

Ten-Year Veteran: "So what do we do about this quest? Do we just remind him to visit her grave? Or do we tie him up and take him straight to Huo Yun'er's grave?"

Spirit Hall Eternal: "Obviously, the latter is more interesting. I actually really want to ask that guy Huo Yuhao whether he's kept his mother's unavenged wrongs in his heart."

Wang Zhongwang: "The truth is, he definitely hasn't. You can tell from his attitude toward Dai Yueheng. If it were me, I certainly wouldn't show Dai Yueheng a friendly face."

Qian Xixi: "That's a normal reaction. If you hate Dai Hao, you'd definitely hate everything connected to the White Tiger Duke too. But Huo Yuhao gives the impression that he forgot Huo Yun'er as soon as he entered Shrek."

I Am an Angel: "That's a problem with a certain author. It also makes Huo Yuhao feel particularly disjointed as a protagonist."

Ten-Year Veteran: "We're off topic again. Whatever Huo Yuhao is like, whether he loves his mother or not, it doesn't have much to do with us. We just need to finish the quest."

Qian Xixi: "The quest map shows Huo Yuhao's current location. Once he leaves Shrek Academy's lodgings, we'll make our move. We have Concealment Cloaks, so his Spiritual Detection won't help no matter how powerful it is."

No one objected. That evening, Huo Yuhao went shopping with Wang Dong.

Then, in the blink of an eye, Wang Dong discovered that Huo Yuhao was gone.

"Huh? Where's Yuhao? Did he run back to sleep by himself because he didn't want to keep me company? Damn him!"