Peerless: After traveling through time, who would still want to be Tang San's son-in-law?

Chapter 223: Gossip Afterwards
In Xingluo City, in a dark room of an underground organization, two groups of people met here.

"Did you get the stuff?"

The questioner wore a black veiled hat, and a circle of veil hanging from the brim of the hat obscured his figure. There were even faint patterns of magic circles flowing around the edges, making it difficult to see clearly.

Although his face was covered, from a God's perspective, one could naturally know that this person was Xu Jiujiu who came to take over from the forces that unveiled the list.

"Of course, our reputation has always been very good."

As he spoke, the burly man in black threw out a stack of papers, "Hey, here are all the information we found about the so-called secret medicine."

After taking the information and looking through it, Xu Jiujiu, who was wearing a veil, nodded with satisfaction and threw a platinum savings card of Jiubao Chamber of Commerce to the other party: "The key is the last five digits of the card number plus a zero. This transaction ends here. Goodbye."

After a brief greeting, he walked out without looking back for a long time.

Xu Jiujiu naturally didn't dare to have too much contact with the force that was able to rob Mingdetang.

"and many more!"

Before Xu Jiujiu had taken a few steps, the burly man in black stopped him and said, "Don't leave in such a hurry. In addition to the information about this secret medicine, I also have some other information about Mingde Hall's latest soul guides. Are you interested?"

A guy like this who is so generous is naturally the best target for further transactions. The sect leader has already instructed that it would be best to sell other information to the other party as well.

Xu Jiujiu turned around and asked in surprise: "You also took the opportunity to steal other information?"

“It’s all in one place, it’s a convenient thing!”

The burly man in black said carelessly, "I see you are interested in the things that these soul masters are researching. How about taking them all together? As long as you pay twice the price, these things will be yours."

"All in one place?"

Xu Jiujiu's heart moved. If something as important as the secret medicine formula could be placed in the same place, it must be some important information. However, his brother had just approved a batch of funds to equip the army with soul guides, and he might not be able to come up with many gold soul coins in a short period of time...

Xu Jiujiu coughed lightly and said in a deep voice: "I need to inspect the goods first."

"Na."

Seeing the generosity of his employer, the sturdy man threw a ring on his hand to Xu Jiujiu without thinking.

Of course, the other side of the coin is that the sturdy man is confident that no one can snatch the information from him and escape unharmed.

"Uh……"

After probing his mental power into the storage ring, Xu Jiujiu was stunned: "Could it be that you have robbed the Mingde Hall's data room?"

Xu Jiujiu was shocked by the space inside this storage ring. The space of dozens of cubic meters was among the top 100 among all the storage rings in the world. The most important thing was that it was filled with papers.

After just a casual glance, Xu Jiujiu believed that the information here was true.

Because she couldn't find any problems with the drawings for a while.

Although Xu Jiujiu didn't think he could tell at a glance whether these things were real, he guaranteed that the soul guides in these manuscripts could work.

That's enough. No one would design hundreds or thousands of soul guides just to make some money.

"if not?"

The sturdy man looked at him like an idiot for a long time. If the information on the secret medicine was not in the data room, where else could it be?
Although this employer is rich, why does he look so stupid?

Xu Jiujiu murmured in disbelief: "They really robbed the Mingde Hall's data room..."

Where is the information room of Mingde Hall?
As the core area of ​​the second largest academy on the continent, the database of Mingde Hall, the largest research institute in the Sun-Moon Empire, is perhaps the only one on the continent that is comparable to it, the library of Poseidon Pavilion?

Just like the library is known to have the most complete knowledge on soul masters, the information room of Mingde Hall definitely covers most of the information on soul guides in the Sun-Moon Empire.

However, in the opinion of Xu Jiujiu and even Xu Jiawei, there must be a more reliable way to store secret medicines, which involve the future strategic direction of the empire.

For example, a separate laboratory was opened for the humanoid soul guide device No. 1, the experimental subject.

Unexpectedly, it was just mixed up with other soul guide information and finally wiped out by the Body Sect.

Seeing that there was no response for a long time, the strong man said impatiently: "Now that you have inspected the goods, make a decision quickly."

Xu Jiujiu was stunned for a moment. Yes, these materials will soon become our Xingluo Empire's.

"We'll take care of all the information, and the price is what you said. But it will take us some time to raise the money..."

The sturdy man tapped the table. "Well, I'll give you a week."

He put down the storage ring reluctantly for a long time and ran outside quickly.

Brother! Oh my god! The soul guide blueprints accumulated by the Sun-Moon Empire for thousands of years are on sale!
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"I've already said that this matter cannot possibly have anything to do with me. Let me make it clear in advance that everything that happens next will be recorded by the Soul Guidance Device."

Huo Yuhao turned on the soul guide on his shoulder and raised his hands helplessly to face the body search by the inspection teacher.

After hearing what Huo Yuhao said, the search teacher, who had been prepared for this, nodded and said, “Even so, you accidentally entered the underground passage built by the intruders through the earth-drilling soul guide, and you also had close contact with them. You are the most suspicious.”

"I have to save my life too. The fight between the Red Dust Hall Master and the intruder is so fierce. If I don't find another way, I will be accidentally injured by the aftermath. It will be troublesome for Shrek to hold you accountable when the time comes."

The teacher looked at him seriously for a few times, nodded slowly, took out a metal rod from the storage soul guide on his wrist, and said: "I want to give you a thorough inspection. Please put all the soul guides on you into the storage soul guide, and then hand the storage soul guide to me. Don't leave anything out."

Huo Yuhao's face darkened and he said, "I'm sorry, teacher. This is my personal belongings, I can't let you check it. I'm an exchange student at Shrek Academy. Even if I'm not an exchange student, I'm just a student here. You are not qualified to check my personal belongings."

The search teacher sneered and said, "If you are not qualified, don't forget the name of our academy. The Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy is directly under the jurisdiction of the royal family. Any student who enters the academy is equivalent to swearing allegiance to the royal family. It implements semi-militarized management. This time, His Majesty personally ordered that anyone who refuses to be inspected will be treated as treason. I don't care where you are from. Since you were in the academy and in Mingde Hall when the incident happened, you must be subject to the most rigorous inspection. Not directly searching you while you are recovering from your injuries is already giving you dignity."

Although he had a soul-guiding device that could keep his image, and could not resort to brute force, everyone could use his background and rules to his advantage.

Huo Yuhao said in a cold tone: “Let me check. Please tell Master Jing Hongchen that I will report this matter to Shrek Academy truthfully. Please pray that the exchange students from your academy will not receive the same treatment in our academy.”

Although the tone was still threatening, the search teacher heaved a sigh of relief when he saw Huo Yuhao's attitude soften.

Huo Yuhao was the only one involved in this incident among the Shrek group. The others were conducting experiments outside Mingde Hall. However, Lin Jiayi chose to send him to handle this matter because he did not want to get involved in this troublesome matter. "Young man, don't be angry. This can't be helped. Not to mention you, even if the prince was in the academy, he would be subject to the same investigation."

As he spoke, the search teacher carefully swept the metal rod in his hand over Huo Yuhao's body, and then even checked the bed that Huo Yuhao had slept on before. After confirming that Huo Yuhao did not have any soul guides on him, he took the several storage soul guides in his hand and carefully checked them.

Checking a storage soul guide is very easy. You only need to inject your own mental power into it. Of course, high-level storage soul guides can be bound with the owner's mental power, which is another matter.

"Um?!"

As if he had discovered something, the search teacher suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked up at Huo Yuhao in disbelief.

“Ten thousand…ten thousand year soul bone?!”

The next moment, Huo Yuhao's eyes flashed with golden light as he stared at the search teacher.

"Have you finished the investigation? If you have, go back and report."

Even though he had already reached the level of Soul Saint, the search teacher couldn't help but tremble when facing Huo Yuhao's eyes.

How is this possible?! He is a Soul Saint! The boy in front of him is only at the third ring!

The search teacher's hand trembled, and the storage ring in his hand fell to the ground.

Huo Yuhao bent down to pick up his soul guide, and when he looked up, he saw the search teacher leaving without even looking back, his steps were even chaotic, and he looked like he was fleeing in a panic.

“That shouldn’t be the case. Even if I fuse the Gold of Life and refine the Eye of Destiny, my mental power won’t be able to suppress a Soul Saint.”

Huo Yuhao looked at the search teacher's back with some surprise.

After all, he still had three soul rings, and being able to suppress a normal Soul Emperor (referring to the best soul ring ratio) was already an extraordinary performance. However, in fact, Huo Yuhao could not even suppress Shrek's Soul King stably. (Referring to mental pressure, not soul shock)

"It's like forcing something to grow... In order to train students who are talented in making soul guides, the academy does use some special methods to help them improve their cultivation, but very few of them actually use natural materials and treasures to improve their cultivation. It is a method with side effects that will greatly affect future development. Don't ask about this, it's a secret here."

Thinking of what Xuan Ziwen said when he first met him, Huo Yuhao suddenly understood the look in Xuan Ziwen's eyes at that time.

The rapid rise of Mingdetang was accumulated on the flesh and blood of countless ordinary soul masters whose potential had been exploited.

Xuan Ziwen's eyes were the disappointment of his most revered subject, stained with the blood of countless soul mentors.

"Whether it's the Sun-Moon Empire or Shrek, they're all similar. But at least Shrek still maintains a positive image on the surface. Plus, it's a bit extreme. I don't even want to act in the Sun-Moon Empire..."

After putting on the storage soul guide again, Huo Yuhao closed the dormitory door and lay down on the bed.

"But it's true. The world in my previous life was also different. There were all kinds of problems, and the invisible places were also shrouded in shadows."

"But... that world is still the most comfortable."

Closing his eyes, Huo Yuhao gradually relaxed his mind and fell into his first sleep since arriving in the Sun Moon Empire.

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"How's the search going?"

Seeing the teacher in charge of the search coming back, Lin Jiayi asked casually.

“No trace of soul guide number one was found. The only thing worth noting is that Huo Yuhao’s storage soul guides contain some soul guides with strange designs, as well as a ten-thousand-year soul bone.”

"Ten thousand year soul bone?"

Lin Jiayi suddenly became interested: "Which part?"

As far as he knew, Huo Yuhao still had a trunk bone in his body.

"head."

Lin Jiayi stroked his chin and thought, “The head… It’s most likely of spiritual nature. Since Huo Yuhao hasn’t absorbed it yet, either there is a problem with the strength of this soul bone and Huo Yuhao can’t absorb it now, or Huo Yuhao wants to wait until he encounters a bottleneck before absorbing it so that he can use it to break through the bottleneck.”

"Okay, keep this to yourself and don't tell anyone. If anyone else finds out, I'll hold you accountable!"

The teacher in charge of searching Huo Yuhao said quickly, “Yes!”

"Okay, step back."

After sending the person away, Lin Jiayi turned and went to Jing Hongchen's temporary office and informed Jing Hongchen of the news.

After all, Huo Yuhao is likely to be a regular member of the Shrek team in the next Soul Master Competition, and will be the opponent of Meng and Xiao. The Master of Hongchen Hall is more interested in Huo Yuhao's information.

"what--"

While all the soul masters of Mingde Hall were working hard to rebuild Mingde Hall, Huo Yuhao, who had a rare moment of free time, had a good and comfortable sleep.

"Come to think of it, in the original novel, after Mingde Hall was attacked, a friendly competition was arranged for Huo Gua, right? Huo Gua also took the opportunity to extort a bunch of rare metals back..."

Huo Yuhao then shook his head again: “What are you thinking? I haven’t exposed my Ice Jade Scorpion spirit. I am only a three-ring assistant now. Jing Hongchen must have lost his mind to let me practice combat skills with that group of spirit masters.”

It just so happens that Mingde Hall is gone now, and Huo Yuhao has nothing to do, so he plans to take this opportunity to look for some famous supporting characters in the original novel.

After leaving the dormitory, Huo Yuhao came to a place with an overhead view of the campus.

"Let me see, which way is the actual control department going?"

The actual control soul guide system was proposed by the Sun-Moon Empire. Some soul masters use soul guides to enhance their own strength. They are special combat soul masters. They cannot make soul guides, but they can skillfully use various soul guides to enhance their combat effectiveness and survival ability.

Currently, the Soul Guidance Department and the Martial Soul Department of Shrek Academy have borrowed this idea and are discussing training in this area together.

The Soul Guidance Department provides soul guides and guidance, and the soul masters of the Martial Soul Department use them. In Wang Yan's words, this is the direction of future soul master development.

The actual control of the soul guide system means that the opponent's combat power is not limited to the soul guide device, and the martial soul must also have its own characteristics. Although the Sun Moon Empire has fewer powerful martial souls, it does not mean that there are none.

For example, the ghost Nana who is related to the evil soul master is a natural assassin. Equipped with a melee soul guide, her assassination ability is definitely strong in the same level. Especially when paired with a soul guide that can block the fluctuation of soul power, she can truly kill people invisibly. By the time you react, you have been hit in the vitals.

(End of this chapter)