Huo Yuhao's Scheme

Led by the two middle-aged men whom Huo Yuhao referred to as the Great Holy Spirit and the Second Holy Spirit, they entered the church. The church was simply furnished, looking like an ordinary home, without any particularly ornate decorations.

However, the Holy Spirit raised his hand and pressed down on the table, exerting force. Instantly, the four table legs slowly embedded themselves into the ground. Accompanied by the creaking sound of the mechanism, an opening of about one square meter appeared on the side of the table.

The group walked down the straight passageway. After going down about five meters, they arrived at a spacious hall, much larger than the one above, about three hundred square meters in size. However, it felt somewhat eerie and empty.

Through a small side door in the hall, they arrived at the most important facility of this branch, which was the altar of this location.

This place not only preserves all the wronged souls since the branch's founding, but it is also the place where this branch conducts Holy Spirit Ritual for its believers.

The so-called Holy Spirit Ritual is, in essence, brainwashing. It erases the saints' past and turns them into fighting puppets who are only loyal to the Holy Spirit Cult.

Huo Yuhao, who came from the Shrek Academy, had undergone a similar ritual. After all, although the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger bloodline in Huo Yuhao had fully awakened, making him an Evil Soul Master, the ritual failed due to the Rakshasa Helmet.

This forced the Holy Spirit Cult's higher-ups to find another way to control him. That method involved using their specially made poison to further stimulate Huo Yuhao's Evil Attribute, causing him to lose his mind and submit to the power of Evil Attribute, making him easier for them to manipulate.

However, what the higher-ups of the Holy Spirit Cult didn't know was that this method was also ineffective against Huo Yuhao. Even though he awakened the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger bloodline, his Second Martial Soul did not become the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. Instead, it was Martial Soul born from the fusion of his original Ice Fang White Tiger Martial Soul and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger bloodline.

Huo Yuhao named this Martial Soul Dark Demon Ice Evil Tiger. Although the name wasn't particularly appealing, the strength of this fused Martial Soul was much greater than that of the normal Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger originally possessed six attributes: Evil, darkness, wind, thunder, space, and time. However, after this fusion, the original wind attribute was washed away and replaced by the Ultimate Ice attribute possessed by the Ice Fang White Tiger Martial Soul.

It is precisely because of the stimulation of this Ultimate Attribute that the darkness and Lightning Attribute among the other attributes of the fused Martial Soul have also been elevated to the extreme level.

It's just that because there's a lot of evil energy in his Martial Soul, and there's a conflict between the Ultimate Attribute, none of Huo Yuhao's three Ultimate Attribute are particularly pure.

But it is precisely because of these three Ultimate Attribute that he is completely immune to all poisons, so the poison administered by the Holy Spirit Cult has no effect on him.

Huo Yuhao only pretended to be obedient to the Holy Spirit Cult in order to avoid being killed. Moreover, he also vaguely sensed that the Holy Spirit Cult wanted something from him, but he couldn't take it away at the moment, which is why he has been able to survive until now.

Therefore, since the high-ranking members of the Holy Spirit Cult have never been kind to him, he has no reason to feel guilty about using them.

At this stage, he and the Holy Spirit Cult share the same goal: to form an alliance with the Sun Moon Empire to attack the other three kingdoms and destroy the Spirit Contract Pagoda to seize their unique technology.

So it's fine to stay with them during this phase, but he also needs to prepare for a future break.

Before him appeared a giant petri dish in the very center of the altar, containing a girl who opened her eyes the instant she sensed Huo Yuhao.

The girl had thick, black hair that shone with a deep sheen, like feathers in the darkness. This black hair swayed gently with her movements, like a black waterfall dancing in the air.

Her pupils were a bright silver, containing a mysterious power that seemed to see through everything. When she gazed at you, what flashed in her silver eyes was not only wisdom, but also a ruthless indifference.

She seemed unmoved by anything, as if her soul was frozen in ice. This unique gaze made her appear to possess supernatural powers, while also carrying a strange allure.

The girl's features were elegant and delicate, her lips a deep, dark color, like rose petals in the dark night. Her graceful and slender figure was clad in a white robe, and with the jet-black wings on her back, she resembled a messenger returned from hell.

This person was none other than Yu Mengdi, the Angel Martial Soul holder whom he had used as a sacrifice for awakening, who had once shone brightly in the Soul Master Tournament and made Huo Yuhao feel humiliated.

However, she is no longer an angel full of holiness and light, but Fallen Angel representing Evil and darkness. The culprit behind this phenomenon is Huo Yuhao.

After Yu Mengdi became his sacrifice, her Martial Soul mutated and became the Evil Martial Soul of the Fallen Angel, which is full of malevolence.

After that, Yu Mengdi lost all self-awareness. She became like a puppet that could only be controlled by Huo Yuhao, obeying all of Huo Yuhao's orders.

After discovering this fact, the Holy Spirit Cult wanted to try to replicate this phenomenon and forcibly compile a large number of Soul Master into Evil Martial Soul, so as to increase the number of members in their Holy Spirit Cult.

Therefore, Huo Yuhao's main job in this branch, besides managing the branch, also included studying Yu Mengdi's phenomenon with other members of the Holy Spirit Cult and trying to replicate it using a similar drug.

However, Huo Yuhao's goal was not simply to develop a potion that could corrupt any Martial Soul into Evil Martial Soul, but to become a puppet like Yu Mengdi who would forever obey her.

That's why he entered Mingde Hall with a false identity, because the students there all use rare and precious herbs and elixirs for cultivation, so there shouldn't be many people on the continent who understand the use and refining of medicinal materials better than them.

The Tang Sect of the past might have been able to, but that knowledge has long been lost to the river of time.

This is why Huo Yuhao constantly demonstrates his value in the Mingde Hall, so that he can learn more about pharmacology. Learning about Soul Tool also serves another purpose.

Huo Yuhao believed that administering medicine one by one would take too much time, so he wanted to create a Soul Tool to solve this problem.

This was the surprise he had prepared for the Holy Spirit Cult, and even the entire Douluo Continent —a surprise that would terrify countless people.