Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 66 The Learned Old Man (45 words per day)

"You little rascal, have you come up with some kind of mischievous idea?"

Ning Ge chuckled and tapped Huo Yuhao's head. He still remembered how Huo Yuhao looked when he first came to his shop. Although Huo Yuhao had generously stepped forward and introduced himself, he seemed like a naive and energetic young man.

However, Ning Ge already knew from Huo Yuhao's subsequent performance that those performances were just a disguise for Huo Yuhao, a disguise that could help him stay in the store to study better.

Huo Yuhao always completed the tasks assigned to him by Ning Ge with meticulous care. If asked to read a book, he could read it for eight hours straight with a serious expression. If he made a mistake in the soul guide core formation he was asked to draw, he would never make the same mistake again after being criticized.

At that time, Huo Yuhao didn't even seem like a living human being. Instead, he seemed like a soul-guided machine that reacted to commands. During the first two months of learning at the store, Ning Ge never saw a second expression on Huo Yuhao's face.

His expression seemed frozen in place. Whether it was the excitement one should have when creating a soul tool, the confusion when stumped by a soul tool, or the frustration after being stuck on a problem for a long time, none of those expressions that belong to ordinary people were present on Huo Yuhao's face.

On several occasions, when Ning Ge spoke to Huo Yuhao, Huo Yuhao would open his mouth and tear the thin membrane on his lips. This could only mean one thing: before Ning Ge spoke to Huo Yuhao, Huo Yuhao always maintained the same expression, to the point that his upper and lower lips would even stick together.

This situation continued until Huo Yuhao left the shop to make barbecue, at which point it was relieved. Ning Ge knew very well that this was not because Huo Yuhao preferred making food to using soul tools; it was simply because the woman next to Huo Yuhao at the stall who was in charge of the cash register was his mother.

Fortunately, starting from the third month, Huo Yuhao's "facial paralysis" symptoms improved. Although no one knew exactly what had happened, from then on, Huo Yuhao would occasionally carry various fragrances.

This fragrance isn't from food, but rather the scent of perfume commonly used by female students at school.

Although Huo Yuhao always looked flustered and lost whenever he came to the Soul Guidance Repair Shop with various fragrances on him, Ning Ge was already quite satisfied with Huo Yuhao's condition.

After all, no matter how awkward the expression, it's better than being completely expressionless. As for why Huo Yuhao's facial paralysis symptoms were relieved in the third month after he arrived in Shrek City...

Ning Ge strongly suspected that Huo Yuhao had taken the advice of his senior classmates and rented a shop to sell barbecue.

After all, once the shop was rented, Huo Yuhao could only stay obediently in the kitchen, while Huo Yun'er could only work at the front desk handling cashier duties. Without Huo Yun'er's protection, Huo Yuhao was like a fledgling bird separated from its full wings, and it seemed very possible that he would be ambushed by his senior classmates at any time.

"Go ahead and do whatever good ideas you have. As a Soul Master with the mental attribute, you should go further than me. I've been wondering if this arm will never be able to show its true power before I'm buried. That kid, Jiechu, you have a good eye for making friends."

As they talked, Ning Ge changed the subject, and seeing this, Huo Yuhao didn't say anything more.

After all, sometimes he really wasn't sure whether he could still be considered a proper spirit-type soul master.

Leaving Ning Ge's soul guide repair shop, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but feel a bit doubtful as he focused his attention on his spiritual sea.

"Elder Qian, my next spirit ring."

Huo Yuhao's tone was unusually hesitant and uncertain; he really couldn't grasp his own position this time.

"Silly boy."

Qian Daoliu looked at Huo Yuhao's confused expression and smiled kindly.

"Tell me, what type of Soul Master is Xu Sanshi?"

Huo Yuhao was taken aback by Qian Daoliu's question. After thinking for a moment, he replied, "It should be a defensive type Soul Master among the offensive Soul Masters, right?"

"That's right," Qian Daoliu's eyes showed a hint of approval: "Then what's your basis for judging Xu Sanshi as a 'defensive type Soul Master among offensive Soul Masters'? Is it based on his Martial Soul or his Soul Skills?"

"Of course, it's the Martial Soul."

Huo Yuhao paused mid-sentence and began to mutter to himself.

"No, perhaps it should be a soul skill? But that's not right either."

Huo Yuhao kept muttering to himself, unable to find an answer to the question for a moment.

Qian Daoliu simply smiled in response.

"Yuhao, let's look at this from a different angle. You and Xu Sanshi are both level ten Soul Warriors now, and you've both absorbed a Wind Baboon's Soul Ring. Now tell me, between the two of you in a Soul Battle, whose defense is stronger?"

"Of course it's Brother Xu, his Xuanming Shield."

Halfway through his sentence, Huo Yuhao's eyes lit up, as if he had understood something.

"The so-called defensive soul master is essentially a soul master whose own defense is stronger than that of other types of soul masters, even without absorbing the soul rings produced by defensive soul beasts. Only in this way can they be called defensive soul masters."

Qian Daoliu said earnestly, "If that's the case, even if you, as a spirit-type soul master, absorbed a soul ring I produced, would you then doubt that you are not a spirit-type soul master?"

"And you must understand," Qian Daoliu said with a smile for some reason, "mental power is much easier to improve than defensive power. If a defensive soul master wants to improve their defense, they either have to find a way to improve their physical fitness or they can only rely on absorbing suitable soul skills, but it's not like that for the mental type."

"Whether it's training your mental power through constant use, absorbing high-quality mental-type head bones, mental-type external head bones, or consuming mental-type immortal items, or undergoing a second awakening of your martial soul, all of these can enhance your mental power strength. In short, there is definitely more than one way than absorbing mental-type soul beasts."

As he spoke, Qian Daoliu suddenly slapped his forehead, as if he had remembered something: "That's right, I remember now, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's Distraction Control Method, if you want to quickly improve your mental strength through training, this method is definitely a treasure that can help you become even more powerful, but our Spirit Hall doesn't have it."

"Back then, when that woman was carrying out the Soul Hunting Operation, she did manage to retrieve the Dragon Transformation Secret of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but she really didn't have the Distraction Control Method of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan."

Listening to Qian Daoliu's long and detailed explanation of a series of solutions, Huo Yuhao felt inexplicably at ease.

Although Shrek's library doesn't have many records of methods to improve mental strength, he still has a very knowledgeable old man in his head!

(End of this chapter)