I am the son of the Dragon God in Douluo Continent.

Led by the two middle-aged men whom Huo Yuhao referred to as the Great Holy Spirit and the Second Holy Spirit, they entered the church. The church was simply furnished, looking like an ordinary home, without any particularly ornate decorations.

However, the Holy Spirit raised his hand and pressed down on the table, exerting force. Instantly, the four table legs slowly embedded themselves into the ground. Accompanied by the creaking sound of a mechanism, an opening of about one square meter appeared on the side of the table.

The group walked down the straight passageway. After descending about five meters, they arrived at a spacious hall, much larger than the one above, approximately three hundred square meters. However, it felt somewhat eerie and empty.

Through a small side door in the hall, they arrived at the most important facility of this branch, which was the altar of this location.

This place not only preserves all the wronged souls since the branch's founding, but it is also the place where this branch conducts Holy Spirit rituals for its believers.

The so-called Holy Spirit ritual is, in essence, brainwashing. It erases the saints' past and turns them into fighting puppets who are only loyal to the Holy Spirit Cult.

Huo Yuhao, who came from Shrek Academy, had undergone a similar ritual. After all, although the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger bloodline in Huo Yuhao had fully awakened, making him an evil soul master, the ritual failed due to the Rakshasa Helmet.

This forced the Holy Spirit Cult's higher-ups to find another way to control him. That method was to use their specially made poison to further stimulate Huo Yuhao's evil attributes, causing him to lose his mind and submit to the power of evil attributes, so that he could be controlled by them.

However, what the higher-ups of the Holy Spirit Cult did not know was that this method was also ineffective against Huo Yuhao. Even though he awakened the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger bloodline, his second martial soul did not become the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. Instead, it was a martial soul born from the fusion of his original Ice Fang White Tiger martial soul and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger bloodline.

Huo Yuhao named this martial soul Dark Demon Ice Evil Tiger. Although the name wasn't particularly appealing, the strength of this fused martial soul was much greater than that of the normal Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

The Dark Demon God Tiger originally possessed six attributes: evil, darkness, wind, thunder, space, and time. However, after this fusion, the original wind attribute was washed away and replaced by the ultimate ice attribute possessed by the Ice Fang White Tiger Martial Soul.

It was precisely because of the stimulation of this extreme attribute that the darkness and lightning attributes among the other attributes of the fused martial soul were also elevated to the extreme level.

It's just that because there's a lot of evil energy in his martial soul, and there's a conflict between the extreme attributes, none of Huo Yuhao's three extreme attributes are particularly pure.

But it is precisely because of these three extreme attributes that he is completely immune to all poisons, so the poison administered by the Holy Spirit Cult has no effect on him.

Huo Yuhao only pretended to be obedient to the Holy Spirit Cult in order to avoid being killed. Moreover, he also vaguely sensed that the Holy Spirit Cult wanted something from him, but he couldn't take it away at the moment, which is why he has been able to survive until now.

Therefore, since the high-ranking members of the Holy Spirit Cult have never been kind to him, he has no reason to feel guilty about using them.

At this stage, he and the Holy Spirit Cult share the same goal: to form an alliance with the Sun and Moon Empire to attack the other three kingdoms and destroy the Qiling Tower to seize their unique technology.

So it's fine to stay with them during this phase, but he also needs to prepare for a future break.

Before him appeared a giant petri dish in the very center of the altar, containing a girl who opened her eyes the instant she sensed Huo Yuhao.

The girl had thick, black hair that shone with a deep sheen, like feathers in the darkness. This strand of hair swayed gently with her movements, like a black waterfall dancing in the air.

Her pupils were a bright silver, containing a mysterious power that seemed to see through everything. When she gazed at you, what flashed in her silver eyes was not only wisdom, but also a ruthless indifference.

She seemed unmoved by anything, as if her soul was frozen solid. This unique gaze made her appear to possess supernatural powers, while also carrying a strange allure.

The girl's features were elegant and refined, her lips a deep, dark color, like rose petals in the dark night. Her graceful and slender figure was clad in a white robe, and with the jet-black wings on her back, she resembled a messenger returned from hell.

This person was none other than Yu Mengdi, the Angelic Martial Soul holder whom he had used as a sacrifice for awakening, who had once shone brightly in the Soul Master Competition and made Huo Yuhao feel humiliated.

However, she is no longer an angel full of holiness and light, but a fallen angel representing evil and darkness. The culprit behind this phenomenon is Huo Yuhao.

After Yu Mengdi became his sacrifice, her martial soul mutated and became the evil martial soul of the Fallen Angel, which is full of evil energy.

After that, Yu Mengdi lost all self-awareness. She became like a puppet that could only be controlled by Huo Yuhao, obeying all of Huo Yuhao's orders.

After discovering this fact, the Holy Spirit Cult wanted to try to replicate this phenomenon and forcibly compile a large number of Soul Masters into Evil Martial Souls, so as to increase the number of members in their Holy Spirit Cult.

Therefore, Huo Yuhao's main job in this branch, besides managing the branch, also included studying Yu Mengdi's phenomenon with other members of the Holy Spirit Cult and trying to replicate it using a similar drug.

However, Huo Yuhao's goal was not simply to develop a potion that could corrupt any martial soul into an evil martial soul, but to become a puppet like Yu Mengdi who would forever obey her.

That's why he entered Mingde Hall with a false identity, because the students there all used rare and precious herbs and elixirs for cultivation, so there shouldn't be many people on the continent who understand the use and refining of medicinal materials better than them.

The Tang Clan of the past might have been able to, but that part of their knowledge has long been lost in the river of time.

This is why Huo Yuhao constantly demonstrates his value in Mingde Hall, so that he can learn more about pharmacology. Learning about soul tools also serves another purpose.

Huo Yuhao believed that administering medicine one by one would take too much time, so he wanted to create a soul tool to solve this problem.

This was the surprise he had prepared for the Holy Spirit Cult, and even the entire Douluo Continent—a surprise that would terrify countless people.