"Baby, I'm back."
Huo Yuhao opened the door of his villa, carrying two cups of milk tea, his cheerful voice drifting into the house.
Su Tong was already used to Huo Yuhao's way of addressing her.
After spending so much time together, she knew her teacher was unreliable.
This teacher of hers liked to do everything except for serious matters.
"Meow~"
A black gas cylinder shot straight out of the kitchen, slamming against the chairs in the living room, the chair legs screeching on the ground.
The Shadow Cat leaped into the air; it was hard to imagine how this thing overcame gravity and jumped so high. One could only say that soul power was incredibly useful.
"Ugh!"
Huo Yuhao grabbed the Shadow Cat by the scruff of its neck, rubbed its large head a few times, then weighed it in his hand and said,
"Good heavens."
"A year ago it was a slender, beautiful cat, how come its appearance has suddenly changed into a black pig?"
"I remember you don't have orange cat blood, right?"
"Haki Cat, you need to lose weight."
As a thousand-year-old soul beast, the Shadow Cat could vaguely understand human speech.
Hearing that Huo Yuhao wanted it to lose weight, it immediately struggled, jumped off Huo Yuhao's hand, ran behind Su Tong, and poked its large head out to look at Huo Yuhao.
Su Tong, wearing a white nightgown and barefoot on the wooden floor, looked helplessly at the Shadow Cat behind her and said,
"Teacher, the Shadow Cat eats rare spirit fruits and silver-striped fish every day."
"Occasionally, enthusiastic members give it extra food, making it too nutritious, which is why it's so fat."
"But the effect is still quite good; it's already a five-thousand-year-old soul beast."
Huo Yuhao walked to Su Tong's side, squatted down, grabbed the Shadow Cat, and scratched its chin a few times, saying,
"Although it's a five-thousand-year-old soul beast, I feel it might be easily killed by a two-thousand-year-old spotted cat."
"Sigh, whatever, it doesn't need to participate in any battles.
Just stay home and guard the house, and don't let the mice in."
"But I still think you fat cat need to lose weight! If you get any fatter, your belly will be able to rub against the ground. I'll send you to Medmos later."
"Let him supervise your running."
The Shadow Cat immediately rolled over, revealing its soft belly, trying to use its charm to bewitch Huo Yuhao.
Unfortunately, Huo Yuhao wasn't buying it at all. If this guy didn't lose weight, he'd become a 100,000-year-old soul beast in the future.
People who knew him would call him the Shadow Cat King, but those who didn't would think he was the Dark Pig King.
After casually dismissing the Shadow Cat, Huo Yuhao looked at Su Tong standing to the side.
Her long, black hair, reaching her waist, fell freely, and her icy blue eyes revealed a hint of weariness.
"Su Tong, judging from your soul power fluctuations, you should have broken through level sixty, right?"
"Tomorrow, come with me to Sunset Forest to take care of some things.
Afterwards, I'll take you to the far north to find a suitable 100,000-year-old soul beast to be your soul spirit."
"Extend your hand, let me sense your spiritual power."
Su Tong obediently extended her flawless white arm.
Huo Yuhao grasped her wrist, his spiritual power probing into her spiritual sea along her meridians.
To outsiders, this was an extremely dangerous act.
The spiritual sea is related to consciousness; once severely damaged, consciousness will also be affected.
However, Su Tong didn't care at all.
Although Huo Yuhao was unreliable, he had done his best for her.
What teacher casually gives away 100,000-year-old soul bones and lets you choose any rare treasures?
"Judging from her mental strength, fusing with a 100,000-year-old soul spirit on her own is still a bit of a stretch."
"But it's alright, I can help. With our combined efforts, a mere 100,000-year-old soul spirit is nothing."
He roughly estimated Su Tong's mental strength to be around 4,800 points, which is not far from the Spirit Abyss Realm.
With Huo Yuhao assisting her, fusing with a 100,000-year-old soul spirit is not a problem.
Su Tong blinked her icy blue eyes and said,
"So there's still a distance to go before reaching the Spirit Abyss Realm?"
Huo Yuhao nodded, stroking her soft hair, and said,
"It's pretty good, you're already approaching the Soul Douluo level."
"Your cultivation speed for ultimate soul power should have increased a bit, right?"
Su Tong nodded her little head and said,
"Yes."
"Forcibly controlling the flow of soul power through mental strength can indeed effectively increase the cultivation speed."
"However, it's still a bit slower than normal cultivation speed."
"I'm already very satisfied with this speed."
Huo Yuhao stretched and casually tossed his black trench coat onto the sofa, saying,
"Well, you'll be fine once you reach level 70."
"Once you reach level 70, you won't have to worry about the side effects of the ultimate martial soul."
"And a 100,000-year-old beast king soul spirit can probably raise your level by four to five."
"Greatly accelerating your cultivation process."
"Alright, it's late enough, go back and rest."
"We need to leave early tomorrow, be careful not to stay up too late and damage your skin."
Su Tong watched Huo Yuhao return to his room upstairs, gently picked up the trench coat from the sofa, went to the balcony, smoothed out the wrinkles with her soul power, hung it on the hanger, and placed one of Huo Yuhao's favorite scented candles underneath.
After finishing everything, Su Tong secretly leaned against the black trench coat in the night, imagining herself wearing it, along with a purple top and black trousers, and her face fell like a cat's pout
. "So ugly."
"Why does Teacher like this kind of outfit?"
"I heard that this style of dressing has started to become popular in some places around the Tiandou Plain."
Su Tong felt terrible at the thought of seeing a bunch of people dressed like this every time she went out.
Moreover, the source of this trend was her teacher, and she really couldn't stop it.
She could only hope that a fashion mogul would appear in the future and be able to cut off this unbearable fashion trend.
...
The next day, Sunset Forest.
"Shirou, are the soul tools all set up?"
At this moment, the southwest of Sunset Forest was bustling with activity.
The enthusiastic members of the Root Third Group were working feverishly, setting up numerous soul-guided cannons on the forest's outskirts.
Emiya Shirou was guiding the members as they loaded a large number of fixed-position soul-guided cannon shells into the new cannons.
Thanks to the advent of soul-guided machine tools, these soul-guided devices adopted a mechanized design, unlike the old-fashioned devices that relied solely on rare metals and core magic array power.
Previously, mechanical engineering design was virtually nonexistent in the Douluo Continent; the pinnacle of mechanical design here was the Tang Sect's Zhuge Repeating Crossbow and the Hidden Sand Shot.
A simple mechanical design based on mechanisms had never appeared on a soul-guided device!
The mechanized soul-guided cannons were more refined, had a longer range, and consumed less soul power.
Because of Dream Coins, ordinary people could also use these weapons.
Shirou Emiya glanced at the loading status of the fixed-load soul-guided cannon shells and said,
"Almost there."
"We can fire a salvo at any time." "
We brought fifty sets of fixed-load soul-guided cannon shells, that's enough for Kiritsugu."
Kiritsugu Emiya stood on high ground, lowered his binoculars, and said,
"Fifty sets?"
"Three hundred rounds..."
"Enough for a medium-sized war."
"Ten salvos are enough to clear the poisonous miasma in the southwest for two and a half hours."
"Shirou, have them all ready."
"Ready to fire at any time!"
Shirou Emiya immediately called for all the enthusiastic members to get ready.
The camp, which had been bustling and noisy, was now eerily quiet, the cold muzzles of the cannons gleaming in the sunlight.
The entire area was filled with a chilling atmosphere.
With a gust of wind, Kiritsugu Emiya's black eyes narrowed, and he shouted to the rear:
"Prepare for the first salvo!"
"Calibrate the distance with the detection soul-guided devices!"
The sound of mechanical turning came from the camp, and everyone moved in unison, quickly completing the distance calibration.
The detection soul-guided devices in Douluo Continent were extremely convenient.
"Fire!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Countless deafening sounds echoed from the camp, the ground billowing high in dust from the immense aftershocks.
The first volley of Level 5 fixed-position soul-guided shells hurtled towards the poisonous miasma to the southwest at incredible speed.
The shells, accompanied by a piercing buzz, sliced through the thin layer of miasma like swords, leaving barely perceptible trails.
Upon impact, the shells exploded violently!
The first volley of thirty Level 5 fixed-position soul-guided shells were all fire-attribute, designed to counter a specific element.
Together, the thirty shells released intense light and heat, eroding the poisonous miasma of Sunset Forest.
Huge, fiery red flames rose into the distance, a visually stunning sight.
If Huo Yuhao had witnessed this, he would have exclaimed, "That's just what I wanted!"
Kiritsugu Emiya looked ahead and nodded, saying,
"It should have been done a long time ago!"
"Since the poisonous miasma is afraid of fire, we should have just used soul-guided cannons to bombard it."
"I was limited by my soul master mindset before."
"This thing is much more effective than soul skills."
"Shirou, level five is only so-so, upgrade to level six."
Shirou Emiya gave Kiritsugu a signal and immediately directed the loading of level six fixed-position soul-guided cannons.
After loading, the second salvo began again, this time at least ten times stronger than the last!
The shockwave from the explosion caused the trees in the Sunset Forest to groan under the strain, and the airflow made Kiritsugu Emiya's clothes rustle.
"Keep upgrading to level six!"
"Fire the third salvo!"
...
The violent explosion
at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well
awakened the 100,000-year-old plant-type soul beasts inside.
A large pink plant trembled a few times, its leaves quivering in alarm as it looked towards the direction of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
"What's happening outside?!" it cried.
"What's going on?"
"How can there be such a terrifying surge of soul power all of a sudden?!"
"Oh no! Oh no!"
"Jiaojiao, wake up!"
"The humans outside seem to have broken in!"
A fiery red plant, resembling a cabbage, trembled slightly, its clear female voice speaking to Youyou:
"What's the panic?"
"The Azure Phosphorus Poison Array isn't so easily broken through!"
"Unless they use extreme fire, how could it possibly burn everything away?"
"And where did they get so much soul power?" "Even
level ninety-nine wouldn't be enough."
"Don't worry, it'll calm down on its own in a while."
Youyou still felt uneasy.
"Really?"
"Won't something unexpected happen?"
(End of Chapter)
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