Chapter 36: Shadow of Death
After resting for a night, Huo Yuhao and his group began searching for traces of evil Spirit Masters.
After Wang Yan discovered the abnormality of the Warm Orchid Tree, Huo Yuhao had a specific direction for his mental detection.
Currently, Huo Yuhao's divine force can directly detect and completely cover the entire Mingdou Mountain Range.
However, if the opponent truly possessed divine force first, it would be akin to alerting the enemy.
Huo Yuhao's mental force was already extremely powerful, but the Spirit Ability of mental detection was somewhat unable to keep up.
Using mental detection with Spirit Domain Realm peak mental force, Huo Yuhao quickly discovered the cave where the Death God Messenger was located.
"Everyone, put on your defensive spirit tools. The abilities of evil Spirit Masters are chaotic and complex. Pay attention to the corpses inside the cave."
Huo Yuhao warned, leading the group into the cave.
However, when his mental detection truly covered the cave, Huo Yuhao's brows furrowed, and his emotions became somewhat unstable.
Inside the cave was a scene of hell.
Five infant corpses were strung on a stone spike at the entrance of the cave, their faces still showing bewilderment.
Two bandits sat nearby, chatting and occasionally kicking a head on the ground, the owner of which hung shattered above the cave.
Further inside, there were only scattered limbs and broken arms: a middle-aged person missing half their body, a couple strung together, and an old man bent into a U-shape.
Watching the bandits inside still drinking and eating meat, even occasionally tugging at the organs that were everywhere.
Huo Yuhao was already enraged beyond measure. The intense emotions caused a layer of substantial mental storm to swirl around Yuhao.
"Yuhao, you must learn to control your emotions; do not be swayed by them."
Electrolux's voice came, echoing in Huo Yuhao's Spirit Sea like a tranquilizer.
"Thank you, Elder Electrolux. My mental force has grown a bit too fast recently, and I can't fully control some of the divine force."
After Huo Yuhao's divine force became clear, the storm around him also subsided, as if nothing had happened.
Outside, Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe had already protected the other students. Feeling the powerful mental force fluctuations, everyone looked at Huo Yuhao with shock.
Seeing Huo Yuhao calm down, Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe also breathed a sigh of relief, fearing that an unstable emotion from Huo Yuhao might first harm his teammates.
Before this trip, Huo Yuhao had done many psychological preparations for himself, believing he would be disgusted by it. Yet, upon seeing the nearly ten thousand tragic corpses, his first reaction was uncontrollable rage.
Huo Yuhao had only killed a few dozen enemies, including Dai Huabin, since his transmigration. How could he bear to see such a cruel scene?
In this World where the strong prey on the weak, Huo Yuhao naturally understood the principle of nipping evil in the bud, but what was the purpose of such reckless and widespread slaughter?
Could one abandon humanity and slaughter nearly ten thousand people without enmity, merely for some improvement in cultivation?
As Huo Yuhao got closer to the cave, with the enhancement of divine force and necromancy, Huo Yuhao heard the painful wails of the spirits.
At the same time, the Eye of Life on Huo Yuhao's brow slowly opened, and points of light converged, which were the memories and wishes of the spirits from their lives.
Huo Yuhao watched the brief lives of each spirit as if on fast-forward.
He saw their joys and sorrows, their fortunes and misfortunes, their weariness and diligence, and their daily moments of happiness.
He saw their desperate gazes, their powerlessness in the face of their loved ones' tragic fates, how they were cruelly killed, and their unwilling resentment and roars.
When the last wish of the last spirit converged, Huo Yuhao's Eye of Life shone a white light of purification onto those spirits.
Under the illumination of the purification light, those spirits gradually transformed from the black of resentment to the white of expectation.
A grey-gold spirit ring also slowly appeared behind Huo Yuhao.
However, this spirit ring did not float like other spirit rings but hung behind Huo Yuhao like a divine ring.
As Huo Yuhao's will to avenge them was transmitted, spirits emitting white light gathered into the grey-gold spirit ring behind Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao slowly floated up, standing in mid-air, without the aid of his Two-Word Battle Armor.
Golden light once again illuminated his eyes, but it was different from when his destiny awakened.
It was no longer the slightly noble rose gold but a bright gold shimmering with a sense of light.
The grey-gold spirit ring behind him also gained a layer of colorful halo after gathering the power of the spirits.
Huo Yuhao looked at the Shrek group, who were stunned in place, and spoke without a trace of emotion:
"Everyone, wait for me here. If necessary, move away from this place yourselves. The upcoming battle is not something you can participate in."
Everyone looked at Huo Yuhao, who was like a god, and unconsciously believed Huo Yuhao's words, as if they were conversing with a god at that moment.
Even Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe unconsciously nodded, turning to lead the students slowly backward.
Watching Xuan Zi and the others leave, Huo Yuhao entered the cave at an extremely fast speed. All the bandits along the way were turned to ash by the colorful light swirling around Huo Yuhao.
Streams of colorful light from the Eye of Life shone upon the broken corpses, and graves slowly rose.
By the time the Death God Messenger noticed the anomaly, Huo Yuhao had already appeared before him.
Seeing Huo Yuhao, who was emitting strange fluctuations, the Death God Messenger showed fear for the first time. He didn't even have time to use his Corpse Explosion and turned to flee.
However, Huo Yuhao merely glanced at him, and his entire body ignited with white-gold flames, instantly falling to the ground.
"This flame contains the wrath of all those you cruelly murdered. Let you have a good chat with them."
As Huo Yuhao's calm voice fell, the Death God Messenger immediately let out a painful wail. His expression became distorted, and his body suddenly twisted.
"What, God from another World, are you not planning to come out and meet me? I am about to kill your Messenger."
Huo Yuhao continued to ask, colorful light gathering in his Eye of Life, pointing directly at the divine force within the Death God Messenger.
Seeing that Huo Yuhao was not feigning, the divine force within finally could not sit still. A black phantom emerged from the Death God Messenger's body, radiating a powerful pressure.
For a moment, the entire Mingdou Mountain Range was enveloped by this pressure, and all Spirit Masters within its range were pressed down, unable to stand.
Dai Hao, far away in the military camp, knelt on one knee in shock, looking at the huge phantom that appeared on the distant mountain range.
The phantom of the Death God appeared, letting out a very eerie laugh.
Just this eerie laugh was enough to cause Spirit Masters below Spirit Emperor to have splitting headaches, and the Death God Messenger's head instantly exploded.
"Just a piece of trash, dead is dead. However, I am somewhat interested in you, merely a temporary third-rank God, yet you dare to challenge me."
Huo Yuhao's expression remained unchanged upon hearing this, and he calmly replied.
"You speak as if you are the main body. You are merely a first-rank God clone who snuck over, a piece of trash who doesn't even dare to use his fundamental laws. Why should I fear you?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a huge phantom also appeared behind Huo Yuhao. The phantom wore a white-gold robe and held a silver-white staff.
Holding the silver-white staff formed from the Tianmeng Iceworm in his hand, Huo Yuhao murmured softly, and a white light adorned with seven colors fell upon the Death God's phantom.
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