Transmigrating into Huo Yuhao, my abilities are refreshed every month.

As Huo Yuhao and Zhu Zhuqing left the hotel, they saw a stunningly beautiful young woman standing gracefully at the entrance. She had a gentle smile on her face, and she was very kind and friendly, just like the rising sun.

The girl's eyes lit up when she saw Huo Yuhao and his companion. She gracefully took small steps to stand in front of them and greeted them with a bright smile, "Hi, how are you? Can we get to know each other?"

"Who are you?" Huo Yuhao sized up the beautiful yet elegant girl in front of him, while subtly activating his mental detection to investigate her background.

"My name is Ning Rongrong. I've heard of both of your names before. If you're going to introduce yourselves, could you say something I haven't heard of?" Ning Rongrong blinked her beautiful big eyes, her bright eyes seeming to speak volumes as she eagerly awaited their introductions.

Last night, she had the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School investigate the two's backgrounds. They found out quite a bit about Zhu Zhuqing, but apart from her name, she knew nothing about Huo Yuhao. That's why she wanted to extract more detailed information about the two.

"Since you know us, there's no need for further introductions, is there?" Huo Yuhao said with a faint smile. "May I ask what business the little princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School has with us?"

In the original story, this character had a rather nasty personality when he first appeared, and he ran away from home just to have fun. Now, has he set his sights on them?

Upon hearing Huo Yuhao reveal her background, Ning Rongrong's feigned gentle and friendly smile vanished, and she said casually, "But I'm just very curious about you two. Can't you introduce us to each other?"

Huo Yuhao raised an eyebrow: "What do you want to know?"

Ning Rongrong stared intently at Huo Yuhao, her gaze burning, "What is your martial soul? And, what method did you use to severely injure Flander?"

"That's a secret!" Huo Yuhao said calmly. "Miss Ning Rongrong, if there's nothing else, we'll be leaving now."

After saying that, Huo Yuhao pulled Zhu Zhuqing away.

Huo Yuhao's approach to this little devil is to play hard to get. She's a princess showered with love and affection, and if you spoil her like everyone else, she'll just take it for granted and won't even look at you.

Besides, does he really need to spoil her? Who isn't a little princess at heart?

Ning Rongrong watched Huo Yuhao walk away, a smile appearing on her face. "A secret? But I'm more interested in secrets."

After saying that, she leisurely began to enjoy herself in Soto City. She wasn't in a hurry; given time to spend with the two of them, she believed she could learn the secret without having to give anything in return.

As evening approached, Ning Rongrong summoned the people from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and asked, "Where are those two now?"

"Reporting to Miss, they have left Soto City and are heading towards Tiandou City."

Ning Rongrong was stunned for a moment, then said angrily, "They left, why didn't you report it to me?"

"Forget it, I'd better hurry up and find a flying-type Soul Master to take me after them!"

The Shrek Academy students were all seriously injured, and the once interesting academy became boring. It would be better to follow those two.

While Huo Yuhao and Zhu Zhuqing were comfortably resting in the hotel, a wronged soul was enduring gusts of cold wind on the back of a female flying soul master, embarking on a path of utter destruction.

Two days later, Huo Yuhao finally set foot on the territory of the Heaven Dou Empire.

"This area is quite famous in the Heaven Dou Empire. It's known as the land of beauties. I've heard that most of the women here are very beautiful, which is why this place is famous," Ning Rongrong introduced the local customs and culture to the two of them.

It must be said that Ning Rongrong is indeed worthy of being a successor of a major sect. Even though she has a bad personality, she is quite knowledgeable and can explain many things clearly.

"Miss Ning Rongrong, you don't need to come with us. I won't tell you this secret," Huo Yuhao said helplessly.

Ning Rongrong smiled and said, "Every secret has its value, and as long as it has value, our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School can afford it. No matter how much your secret is worth, our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School will buy it."

"I'm sorry, this is a sect secret, its value is immeasurable. If you want to know, you must join my sect," Huo Yuhao said, shaking his head.

"Join your sect?" Ning Rongrong asked thoughtfully.

Just as the group was chatting, a woman suddenly exclaimed from ahead.

"Help! Someone please save me and my child!"

A gruff voice rang out, "Stop shouting, you can shout until your throat is hoarse, it won't do you any good. When you and your child arrive at the noble mansion, you'll thank us."

Huo Yuhao frowned and walked towards the direction from which the sound came.

A burly man was seen leaning lazily against a tree, holding a sleeping little girl in his arms. The girl looked about six or seven years old and was very cute.

A woman was tied to the left of the burly man. Her face resembled that of the girl. She was beautiful, with tears in her eyes and a look of despair on her face. She was delicate and moving.

Hearing the footsteps of Huo Yuhao and his companions, the burly man looked at them warily. When he saw that they were just three children of eleven or twelve years old, he breathed a sigh of relief and his face lit up with joy.

"I can't believe my luck is so good today, I've run into three amazing guys. Especially this man, the magistrate will definitely reward me handsomely!"

The burly man grinned maliciously as he threw the little girl to the ground, stood up, stretched, and his eyes revealed a look of certainty.

Are they human traffickers?

A chill ran through Huo Yuhao's eyes; he hated these kinds of scum and degenerates the most.

Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong also had frosty expressions. Zhu Zhuqing had already possessed her martial spirit and was preparing to save the mother and daughter in front of her.

"Wow, I didn't expect her to be a genius Soul Master. We've hit the jackpot!" The burly man became even more excited when he saw the two Soul Rings at Zhu Zhuqing's feet.

"Zhu Qing, be careful, this guy is a Soul Master." Huo Yuhao used his shared mental detection ability to transmit his voice to Zhu Zhu Qing.

"I'll make him dizzy in a moment, and you can take the opportunity to save the mother and daughter next to him."

"Ah."

"Attack!" Huo Yuhao instantly unleashed a mental attack on the burly man, who was immediately stunned. At the same time, Zhu Zhuqing swiftly appeared beside the mother and daughter, rescuing them to a safe distance.

To prevent the burly man from waking up, Huo Yuhao hit him again.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 122 Encounter with Members of a Slave Hunting Group

Huo Yuhao looked at the beautiful woman, who had already been untied by Zhu Zhuqing.

The beautiful woman knelt down gracefully, tears streaming down her face, and said, "This humble woman, Zhang Youwei, greets our three benefactors. Thank you for saving my daughter and me from this dire situation."

Huo Yuhao quickly helped the beautiful woman up, saying, "You're too kind, sister. Everyone should kill scum like human traffickers."

The beautiful woman said gratefully, "If it weren't for you, I don't know what kind of dark and hopeless life my child and I would have lived for the rest of our lives. I could simply end it all myself, but my child, he's still so young, what will become of him—"

As she spoke, the beautiful woman burst into tears again, tightly embracing her child, speechless with emotion.

Huo Yuhao also fell silent. On the Douluo Continent, beautiful and charming women like her and her child, if captured, would most likely become playthings of nobles.

He waited patiently for the beautiful woman to calm down before asking gently, "Where are you from, sister? Who else is in your family? What are your plans for the future?"

Zhang Youwei said hesitantly, "My home is in a small village nearby. My husband was killed while protecting my daughter and me. I don't know where to go now. I can't go back to the village."

Ning Rongrong asked in confusion, "Why can't we go back?"

Zhang Youwei said, “My benefactor, you don’t know this, but this slave-hunting group has been ravaging our area for several years. No woman who is targeted can escape. If my child and I go back, we will be walking into their trap.”

Ning Rongrong frowned and said, "As far as I know, the Heavenly Dou Empire seems to have explicitly prohibited the slave trade, right? Why don't you go to the City Lord's Mansion to report it?"

“We reported them, and the city lord organized several arrests of slave traders, but each time they came up empty-handed.”

"Didn't the city lord report this to the capital? He should have sent even more capable people to arrest him!" Ning Rongrong asked doubtfully.

"I don't know about that," Zhang Youwei said, shaking her head slightly.

Huo Yuhao frowned. Several attempts to capture them had failed, and the slave traders were still so rampant. It was clear that the city lord was not at fault. He then twisted off the head of that burly man and used it as a football.

Huo Yuhao asked, "Didn't you ask the Spirit Hall for help?"

Zhang Youwei hesitated for a moment before saying, "My benefactor, you may not know this, but the people from the Spirit Hall are in cahoots with these human traffickers. Every time the deacons of the Spirit Hall help the children awaken their spirits, those human traffickers will come to their door to capture the children who are good-looking."

"Therefore, everyone suspects that it was the Spirit Hall that gave the information about good-looking children to those human traffickers."

Huo Yuhao frowned. It seemed that the city lord and the Spirit Hall people in this place had colluded together.

Ordinary people don't have the resources to pull this off; there must be a powerful figure behind it, and it must be a high-ranking official of the Heavenly Dou Empire.

Huo Yuhao asked Zhang Youwei a few more questions, but didn't get any useful information. So, Huo Yuhao turned his attention to the burly man.

Using his mental power to awaken him, the burly man saw Huo Yuhao and his group and shouted, "You'd better let me go! You can't afford to mess with our background! Don't go looking for trouble!"

"Oh, us? Looks like it's a gang operation. What's your background?" Huo Yuhao stared coldly at the burly man.

"Little brat, this is not something you can ask. Just let me go, and maybe the big shot behind me will spare your lives?" the burly man said arrogantly.

Ning Rongrong was furious. She grabbed a stone from somewhere and slapped it across the burly man's face. "Who do you think you are? You dare to compare your background with mine? Do you even recognize this token?"

Ning Rongrong took out a blue jade token and waved it in front of the burly man. The token was decorated with a seven-jeweled glazed pagoda.

"The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School!" the burly man exclaimed.

"Can you answer our questions now?" Ning Rongrong asked.

The burly man closed his eyes and remained silent, gritting his teeth and refusing to utter a word no matter how much Ning Rongrong hit him.

Huo Yuhao said coldly, "You think we can't get anything out of you if you don't say anything?"

The burly man remained unmoved. Ning Rongrong asked, "What's your plan?"

Huo Yuhao said calmly, "Just wait a moment."

As he spoke, Huo Yuhao used mental interference to begin modifying the strong man's consciousness.

"I ask, you answer."

"First, give me a detailed introduction to your gang."

The burly man said in a daze, "Our slave-hunting group has over a hundred members. It was established ten years ago, and the leader is a Soul Saint. Over the years, we have been operating in several surrounding cities. Every year, we capture over a hundred attractive children and girls from villages in these surrounding cities, train them, and then send them to the adults behind us."

Huo Yuhao's expression turned solemn upon hearing this, suppressing his anger. Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing's eyes were even colder, like those of ancient ice.

"Who is the person behind you?"

"I do not know."

Huo Yuhao frowned and asked again, "Are the city lords of the surrounding cities in league with you?"