"What exactly happened? How come the Soul Beast Embryo is gone?"
The members of the Body Sect, who had long since left Mingde Hall, gathered together and looked at their sect leader to ask.
The Soul Douluo who had been deceived by Huo Yuhao explained with a grim face, "Everything was going smoothly, and I even got the Soul Beast Embryo, but on the way, I encountered someone impersonating you
, Sect Leader. He tricked me out of the Soul Beast Embryo and then told me to go back to the base to inform everyone to retreat." "But when I was halfway there, I suddenly sensed your battle aura, Sect Leader, and realized I had been tricked. I rushed back, but it was too late; that person had already disappeared."
Hearing this, the more than one hundred members of the Body Sect looked at each other with strange expressions.
"Impersonating me?" Du Busi's expression turned colder, not towards this subordinate.
"Sect Leader, this whole thing is my fault, and I am willing to accept punishment." The Soul Douluo knelt down directly, without any intention of shirking responsibility.
"Get lost." Poison Undying released a wisp of soul power to lift him up, annoyed. "So what if we lost it? Our plan wasn't just to find the soul beast embryo; it also involved destroying Mingde Hall. Overall, this raid was quite fruitful."
"But the person impersonating me, I can guess. Heh, he's one of the scum I hate the most."
Instantly, everyone looked at Poison Undying with curiosity.
"Boss, who exactly is impersonating you?" A Title Douluo powerhouse stepped forward and asked.
Poison Undying was silent for a moment, then said, "When I was fighting Jing Hongchen, I discovered some strange black aura on some corpses. The aura was very cold and sinister, almost certainly the work of an evil soul master. In other words, there are evil soul masters in Mingde Hall, so the person impersonating me is most likely a bastard from the Holy Spirit Cult."
"The Holy Spirit Cult?" The members of the Body Sect looked surprised, but after realizing something, they quickly calmed down.
"It's not surprising that evil spirit masters appear in the Sun Moon Empire. They might even be secretly colluding with them.
Right now, Mingdu is hunting down evil spirit masters everywhere. Maybe the two sides have fallen out, and the evil spirit masters were planning to cause trouble at Mingde Hall, only to run into them.
" "It's a pity that the soul beast embryo fell into the hands of evil spirit masters." Poisonous Undying shook his head. He went to the window, looked in the direction of Mingde Hall, and said in a deep voice, "Prepare to evacuate Mingdu. Our focus now should be on the far north. Old Jin sent word that a miracle has occurred in the far north. This has probably already attracted the attention of various forces on the continent. We can't afford to lag too far behind them."
"Yes, sir!" everyone replied in unison.
...
Looking at the empty room, Jing Hongchen felt his heart bleeding. His face was ashen, and his anger was boiling over.
The soul beast embryos he'd stored away, intended for his future grandson, were gone…
"Damn the Body Sect, damn the Poison Undying!" Jing Hongchen gritted his teeth. The only saving grace was that the storage room for high-end soul tools hadn't been looted, and Experiment Subject No. 1 was still there; only the Starlight Sapphire storage soul tool was missing.
"Hall Master Hongchen, Mingde Hall has been attacked. Things are going to get complicated." Just as Jing Hongchen was about to return to the manufacturing base above, Gui Wujing slowly approached.
Gui Wujing glanced at the man-made tunnel, which was now completely blocked, clearly destroyed by the Body Sect when they left.
Hearing this, Jing Hongchen paused, saying without turning around, "This is the important grounds of my Mingde Hall. Isn't it inappropriate for you to come here without permission?"
"The Body Sect can come, why can't I?" Gui Wujing said bluntly.
Hearing this, Jing Hongchen's eyelids twitched involuntarily, his face darker than the bottom of a pot.
"Jing Hongchen, you are undeniably responsible for the attack on Mingde Hall. I have a good way to help you get through this, what do you think?" Gui Wujing asked.
"What way?" Jing Hongchen took a deep breath. He knew he was in deep trouble. It was only because the No. 1 experimental subject hadn't been lost that he was in such a predicament; otherwise, he would most likely have been stripped of his title by the enraged Emperor, or even imprisoned if it weren't for his considerable prestige within the Empire.
"Since His Highness the Crown Prince intends to win you over, why not completely align yourself with him? To be honest, following that brat Xu Tianming has no future," Gui Wujing said calmly.
Jing Hongchen gave Gui Wujing a deep look. He wasn't stupid. If he followed the Crown Prince, he would likely become more entangled with evil spirit masters, and the leverage they had over him would become increasingly heavy, eventually leading to his complete suppression.
Nowadays, evil spirit masters were too special in Mingdu; they were practically universally hated.
"I know what you're hesitating about." Gui Wujing saw through Jing Hongchen's worries at a glance. He chuckled, "Isn't it just that you're worried about being associated with my Holy Spirit Sect? After all, in Mingdu, evil spirit masters are like rats on the street, everyone wants to kill them."
"But have you considered that my Holy Spirit Sect might be able to clear its name?"
Hearing this, Jing Hongchen was surprised.
Gui Wujing glanced around and said, "Isn't the way to clear your name right in front of you?"
"You want to pin everything that happened in Mingdu on the Body Sect?" Jing Hongchen instantly understood.
"That's a point," Gui Wujing shook his head. "How can you call it abandoning something we didn't do? Think about it, the Body Sect is our Holy Spirit Sect's enemy. Now that they've destroyed Mingde Hall, they're your enemy too. Since they're our common enemy, why not cooperate?"
"Besides, the Body Sect has always hated the Empire. Establishing a stronghold in Mingdu to assassinate civilians is understandable, isn't it?"
Jing Hongchen's eyes flickered. Gui Wujing's words had indeed tempted him. Now that His Highness the Crown Prince held his weakness, he couldn't get close to the Second Prince anymore. He had no choice but to go all the way. After a moment of silence, he said in a deep voice, "I will personally visit His Highness the Crown Prince."
Gui Wujing smiled with satisfaction.
Just then, a woman with a cold expression walked over. It was the Demon Emperor. She obviously hadn't found the person she was looking for.
Gui Wujing understood. "Hall Master Hongchen, we'll take our leave first."
Under Jing Hongchen's gaze, the two quickly left through the hole.
"Buzz."
Suddenly, a shaking occurred. Jing Hongchen's expression changed. He had been so engrossed in chatting that he had forgotten that the geological structure of Mingde Hall had been altered by the Body Sect's digging and bombing, coupled with the shockwaves from their battle. The entire building was teetering on the brink of collapse.
Thinking this, Jing Hongchen quickly left the area and headed outside, returning to the manufacturing base. Suddenly, everything went black.
The vast manufacturing base was a scene of utter devastation. Scrap stones and metal fragments mixed with crimson blood were scattered everywhere. Almost two-thirds of the expensive experimental tables were damaged; rebuilding them would require an astonishing amount of manpower and resources.
The walls were riddled with cracks, and the instability posed a risk of the entire Mingde Hall collapsing, which explained the tremor he had just felt.
"Hall Master."
Upon seeing Jing Hongchen return, many of Mingde Hall's senior researchers and elders approached, their expressions grim.
Some of them had lost their disciples or grand-disciples in the attack.
Jing Hongchen faced the crowd, his voice heavy, and said, "The responsibility for this attack rests entirely with me. Half of those who are uninjured must immediately reinforce the base. The subsequent base reconstruction plan will be discussed later. The other half, Elder Wang, will take them to retrieve the high-end soul tools from the storage room."
"Yes." The crowd nodded silently and then went to their respective tasks.
"Hall Master." As soon as the others left, Lin Jiayi approached.
"How are the personnel losses?" Grief welled in Jing Hongchen's eyes. While the damage to the base and experimental tables was severe, they were inanimate objects that could be rebuilt in the future. Financial losses were never the most important thing, but the casualties were a different matter entirely.
Mingde Hall became the strongest soul tool research base on the continent because of the inheritance of generations of young people. Many of them might change the landscape of the soul tool world in the future. But now, a sudden attack has wiped everything out.
Lin Jiayi said in a sorrowful voice, "A total of 231 people died, of whom 123 were completely destroyed. Among these dead, 140 were juniors who had been in the hall for less than three years."
Hearing this, Jing Hongchen's legs went unsteady and he almost fell. A sweet taste filled his throat, and he almost spat out blood.
"Two hundred and thirty-one, two hundred and thirty-one." Jing Hongchen seemed to have lost his mind, muttering the number. He suppressed his grief and asked with bloodshot eyes, "How are the injured?"
Lin Jiayi quickly replied, "All the injured have been sent to the infirmary. Except for a few seriously injured, the others will recover soon."
"What about the group of exchange students from Shrek Academy?" Hearing that the injured were doing well, Jing Hongchen's tense heart relaxed a little.
"No one from Shrek Academy was injured or killed. They even participated in the rescue operation after the attackers fled. They should be back in their dormitories by now," Lin Jiayi said, then hesitated before asking, "Hall Master, do you think it could be a conspiracy between Shrek Academy and the Body Sect?"
"The weak points of our base, even the locations where supplies are stored, are extremely confidential. There must be a mole who informed the Body Sect."
"Are you stupid?" Jing Hongchen snapped, "The people from Shrek Academy have never even entered the classified lower-level base. How could they possibly know these things? Besides, Huo Yuhao came to Mingde Hall today. Do you think Shrek Academy would let Huo Yuhao risk his life to come here and die?"
"I..." Lin Jiayi understood, his face slightly embarrassed.
"By the way," Jing Hongchen suddenly remembered something, "What's the situation with the secret vault next to the academy?"
Mentioning the secret vault, Lin Jiayi seemed a bit lost, "This subordinate doesn't know, nothing's been reported from there."
Hearing this, Jing Hongchen breathed a sigh of relief. He feared that the Body Sect's attack on Mingde Hall wasn't enough, they had also used an insider to attack the secret vault.
That place stored countless incredibly powerful fixed-position soul-guided shells and other high-end soul-guided devices, making it a national-level military storage warehouse.
"Alright, you come with me to work, I'll go to the palace to apologize later." Jing Hongchen said one last thing, and hurried off to help reinforce the base.
In this life, Huo Yuhao was no longer stealing the first experimental subject, so Jing Hongchen didn't feel the same panic as in the original story.
But this had little to do with Huo Yuhao.
...
Inside the dormitory, Huo Yuhao, having finished helping to move the injured students to the infirmary, stood there. But soon, a strange scene unfolded: a gray six-pointed star magic circle suddenly lit up beneath his feet.
The next moment, he vanished in the gray light.
When his gaze shifted, the world before Huo Yuhao's eyes had changed. He looked up and saw a dimly lit world.
In the sky hung a strange sun.
The sun was entirely black, with its edges emitting a mysterious dark purple light.
The ground beneath his feet was as black as ink, stretching as far as the eye could see, and gusts of deep, bone-chilling wind drifted from who-knows-where.
This was the undead demiplane controlled by Electrolux.
Huo Yuhao's gaze shifted and landed on a group of skeletons huddled together. Within that black earth, hundreds of skeletons had gathered, their eye sockets flickering with dark soul fire.
The undead skeletons were clearly examining an item when Huo Yuhao approached. "Make way, don't push!"
Hearing the shout, all the skeletons turned to look at Huo Yuhao, their bodies clicking and creaking as they stiffly made way.
As a disciple of Electrolux, Huo Yuhao already held a dominant position in the undead demiplane. Although the undead were not very intelligent, they knew this human was their ruler.
Due to the excessive crowding, some skeletons' bones were too long and got stuck on other skeletons, causing them to fall apart.
In an instant, the ground was littered with pale white bones, making Huo Yuhao's expression complex. Skeletons only moved nimbly when they saw living flesh; otherwise, they moved like frail old people. The
broken skeletons hurriedly reassembled themselves and frantically moved aside.
Some even mixed up the bodies while assembling, then removed each other's heads and helped each other put them back on, creating a rather comical scene.
"Teacher, please seal the cultivation of the soul beast within this Conferred God Platform. I plan to release her for a chat, lest this thing hurt someone."
Huo Yuhao shook his head, gazing at the Conferred God Platform quietly placed on the ground directly in front of him, and spoke to the void without turning his head.
"Whoosh." Suddenly, a terrifying power gathered from all directions, and this world gained an astonishing binding force.
Seeing this, Huo Yuhao stepped forward and injected his soul power into the Conferred God Platform. When he released the seal, the white protective shield immediately dissipated. Almost instantly, the azure bead imprisoned within suddenly shone with a dazzling light, and a terrifying, murderous aura spread out. "Human, you shouldn't have released me."
The azure bead began to etherealize, and in the azure light, a pure white arm reached out, trying to grab Huo Yuhao's neck.
It was a woman with a cold expression and a beauty that was both aloof and alluring, like a rose with thorns. Her azure eyes held a deep hatred. It was none other than Lan Fuzi.
The surrounding skeletons seemed to sense their leader was in danger and hurriedly tried to gather to protect her, but Huo Yuhao stopped them.
Watching Lan Fuzi's fury, Huo Yuhao remained unmoved. As the woman appeared, a terrifying binding force suddenly gathered, instantly enveloping her.
"What's going on?"
Just as she was about to seize the human before her, Lan Fuzi suddenly felt her strength completely sealed, weakening her as if she had just recovered from a serious illness. Her steps faltered, and a strange panic gripped her heart. She collapsed heavily to the ground in front of Huo Yuhao.
"Is this how you treat your savior?" Huo Yuhao looked at her mockingly.
Lan Fuzi raised her head, her face smeared with a large amount of undead soil, as if covered with a mask.
Huo Yuhao's lips twitched slightly as he used his soul power to dispel the fertile soil of the dead, revealing his face, which could be considered that of a top-tier beauty.
"Lan Fuzi, how about we talk?"
Hearing her name
spoken by the human before her, Lan Fuzi's pupils contracted sharply, and she subconsciously cried out, "Why do you know me?" "Why I know you is not important. What's important is what I'm about to tell you." Huo Yuhao glanced at her. "Your true form is the Deep Sea Demon Whale, right?"
Having her secret revealed by Huo Yuhao again, Lan Fuzi was completely bewildered.
"Oh, your father was the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, the former king of ocean soul beasts who was killed by Tang San."
"Who exactly are you?" Lan Fuzi suppressed her weakness, her heart filled with panic. Only a handful of humans should know her name and origins, and she knew all those people; they were definitely not the person before her.
"I am the one who can help you avenge your father." Huo Yuhao said solemnly.
"Avenge my father..." Lan Fuzi was stunned.
"Didn't your mother always want revenge for her husband? Coincidentally, I also have a grudge against Tang San, we're enemies. That's why I rescued you from those people, and now I'm standing here talking to you about this." Huo Yuhao went straight to the point.
Lan Fuzi glanced around, as if she understood something, and sneered, "No wonder you know so many of my secrets. These skeletons, you must be an evil spirit master too, right? My mother cooperating with evil spirit masters doesn't mean I agree with them."
"Evil spirit master?" Huo Yuhao smiled faintly, flicked his finger, and a dense solar light rose, its radiance reflecting on Lan Fuzi's face. "Have you ever seen an evil spirit master with the power of the sun?"
A fiery, holy, and luminous aura flowed out, and Lan Fuzi was completely stunned. Her cultivation was sealed, and she had no senses, but she could see that the aura of this light was genuine.
"You're not a member of the Holy Spirit Cult?" Lan Fuzi's expression changed slightly.
"Huh?"
Just then, something unexpected happened. When the sunlight shone on the skeletons, the soul fire in their eye sockets visibly intensified, and the strength of their bones also increased.
Huo Yuhao instantly captured this scene, his face showing surprise. Simply releasing the power of the sun, without using the Sun God Pillar's skills, could amplify the undead?
Remembering this sudden turn of events, Huo Yuhao refocused on Lan Fuzi. "Of course I'm not a member of the Holy Spirit Cult. If you trust me, I'll find a suitable time to let you leave, but don't forget what we discussed today." With
a thought, relying on the power of Electrolux, Huo Yuhao directly used the power of confinement to form a ring of gray light, enveloping Lan Fuzi.
She tried to resist, but it was futile.
Gazing at the light, Huo Yuhao pondered.
Since he needed to deal with Tang San and his lackeys, peak combat power was essential. The Demon Emperor was a good choice; he was a natural partner. The Demon Emperor from the Douluo Continent II: The Peerless Tang Sect era was clearly not as mad and monstrous as he was in the Legend of the Dragon King era. He should be able to try communicating with him.
"I wonder where the Demon Emperor is. When we meet, I'd better bring my grandmaster along, lest the Demon Emperor kill me." Thinking this, a portal lit up behind Huo Yuhao. He entered it and quickly left the Netherworld.
However, Huo Yuhao didn't notice that although he and Lan Fuzi hadn't actually made contact, Lan Fuzi's aura had lingered on him.
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