Douluo Continent II: The Peerless Tang Sect: I, Huo Yuhao, join the Sun Moon Sect

"Stop shouting. No one will come to save you even if you shout until you're hoarse. After all, I've already activated the soundproof barrier, which covers the entire house."

"Otherwise, with all that banging over there, why isn't anyone coming over to ask what's going on?" Huo Yuhao said, pointing to Zhang Tieshan, who was being beaten by Jing Hongchen not far away.

Although Zhang Tieshan was a Soul Douluo, the gap between an ordinary Soul Douluo and a Mingde Hall Master like Jing Hongchen was undoubtedly huge. Generally speaking, those who can fight people of higher levels are all exceptionally talented, and Zhang Tieshan was clearly not among those exceptionally talented.

Of course, to prevent the battle from having too much of an impact, Jing Hongchen also used a defensive soul guide shield. He didn't use this soul guide to defend himself or avoid being hurt.

He simply wanted to drag Zhang Tieshan into it as well, and then minimize the impact of the fight on the outside world as much as possible.

After all, killing someone is one thing, but getting caught is another. If the news gets out immediately, the powerful figures of Star Luo City will probably have to mobilize.

Jing Hongchen was not ready to fight the Star Luo Empire right now. In his opinion, the Sun Moon Empire's soul tools would need to be more advanced before they could take action against the Star Luo Empire.

The Duchess stared intently at Huo Yuhao, her heart heavy. She had realized the dire situation they were in, and instinctively asked, "Huo Yuhao, do you really want to kill me?"

"You're even answering questions first now. That's right, I really am going to kill you." Huo Yuhao didn't hide his thoughts; the Duchess was already a sitting duck.

The Duchess tried to save herself: "I come from the Star Luo royal family. You can't kill me, or the Star Luo royal family won't let you go. If you release me, I have a lot of materials that Soul Masters are interested in. You can have all of those materials."

As the daughter of the Star Luo Emperor and the Duchess of the White Tiger, she actually possessed a large number of storage soul tools. After all, even the declining Tang Sect could create a pirated version of "Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moon," so she could naturally obtain a large number of storage soul tools with ease.

Huo Yuhao shook his head: "Even after I kill you, those things will still be mine. Alright, let's get going."

Behind Huo Yuhao, the Gate of the Dead opened wide, and a cold, chilling aura immediately wafted out. Accompanied by a dragon's roar, a dragon soul, its entire body white and radiating a cold aura, emerged from the gate.

"Wait! You can't do this! I promise you, as long as you let me go, I will never lay a hand on you again." The Duchess was somewhat terrified; she sensed an extremely powerful aura emanating from the dragon soul.

Huo Yuhao can actually control the dragon soul, doesn't that mean the other party is an evil soul master? He's hiding it so well, an evil soul master and others actually won the Soul Battle Tournament.

Thinking of this, the Duchess felt a little scared. After all, evil spirit masters were notoriously cruel and liked to torture people. If she, as an "enemy," fell into Huo Yuhao's hands, how could she possibly have a good ending?

Of course, her pleas for mercy were only to save her life. She had already decided that if Huo Yuhao agreed to her request, she would definitely gather her strength and find a way to take revenge. Ideally, she would kill Huo Yuhao directly. After all, this was the first time she had been in such a dangerous situation in all her years of life.

This particularly displeased the Duchess.

Huo Yuhao had no time to listen to the Duchess's nonsense. He sensed that she was stalling for time, so he said directly, "Attack."

The next moment, the Water Dragon King's dragon soul surged and rushed directly towards the Duchess. The Duchess looked at the Water Dragon King's dragon soul with an extremely ugly expression. Her soul rings were fluctuating. She was preparing to take the attack head-on and then immediately deal with Huo Yuhao.

The Water Dragon King's soul let out a long roar, and water elemental power condensed beside him, turning into ice. A large number of ice swords attacked the Duchess. The Duchess only managed to cut some of the ice swords with her sword, but the subsequent onslaught of more ice swords pierced her instantly.

A large amount of blood flowed from the Duchess's body, and a strong smell of blood filled the air.

The Duchess's body fell to the ground with a thud, and even in death, her face remained etched with terror.

Huo Yuhao continued chanting the incantation, and some white flames flew from his fingertips and landed on the Duchess. He was dissolving the Duchess's remaining soul, and he did not want the Duchess to have any chance of being resurrected.

"Finally, I've completed my revenge against the Duchess." Huo Yuhao looked at the Duchess's remaining corpse, let out a long breath, and then strode forward to begin looting the Duchess's storage soul tool.

In fact, storage soul tools are very sturdy and difficult to damage, so Huo Yuhao was still able to acquire a batch of items.

"Hmm, it's mostly rare metals, gold soul coins, and gold soul coin cards, as well as some soul tools... and a bunch of clothes that aren't very valuable..." He took some time to take inventory, and a smile gradually appeared on his face.

Preliminary estimates suggest that the contents of these storage soul tools are worth at least two billion gold soul coins. As the Duchess, she can manage a portion of the Duchess's money, and since she is the daughter of the Star Luo Emperor, she can naturally also receive a sum of money from the royal family.

Jing Hongchen had already killed Zhang Tieshan. He walked over to Huo Yuhao and asked, "Yuhao, is your revenge over?"

As some memories of the original owner surfaced in Huo Yuhao's mind, he immediately said, "No. Some wicked servants also bullied me and my mother."

“Alright, then we will continue to avenge you,” Jing Hongchen said.

The two then left the house and began searching for the evil servants who had bullied Huo Yun'er and her son. They killed these servants one by one, while the servants who had not harmed Huo Yun'er and her son were left to live.

After the revenge was over, Huo Yuhao led everyone away.

Some of the surviving servants only saw some ghosts floating around these men in black robes, and then they quickly went to find Dai Hao and the Xingluo royal family to report that the Duchess had been killed.

.....

"What! The lady died in the Duke's mansion?" Dai Hao was somewhat taken aback, his expression immediately turning grim. He looked at a group of servants who had just arrived and asked, "Are you sure this news is true?"

Dai Hao found it hard to believe; the news seemed too fake.

After all, the defenses of the White Tiger Duke's Mansion were not weak. In the Star Luo Empire, the White Tiger Duke's lineage was considered a noble family second only to the Star Luo royal family, since the Dai family had once been a royal family.

Furthermore, he knew very well that his legitimate wife was the daughter of the Star Luo Emperor. In the Star Luo Empire, who would dare to have designs on the Star Luo Emperor's daughter?

“It’s absolutely true.” A young servant who had just arrived from the White Tiger Duke’s mansion knelt on the ground, his expression filled with grief: “Madam has really been killed! Those people who control ghosts are definitely evil spirit masters!”

Of course, although his face showed sadness, the young servants believed that the Duchess's death was a good thing, as she had always been unpopular.

Dai Hao's expression grew increasingly grim. His eyes reddened, and tears welled up. He instinctively called to his personal guards, "Come with me back to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion immediately. These evil soul masters seem to be getting a little too arrogant!"

Chapter 176 Xu Jiawei: I am irreconcilably opposed to evil spirit masters

Some time later, Dai Hao arrived near the Duke's mansion with his personal guards and several servants. At this time, the area outside the Duke's mansion was already full of royal guards, all of whom looked extremely serious.

Because this scene was so rare, many passersby craned their necks, trying to see what was happening in the Duke's mansion, but because of the guards' obstruction, they were unable to see the situation inside the mansion at all.

"His Excellency the Duke is returning to his residence, please make way!" His personal guards, riding tall horses, cleared a path for Duke White Tiger.

Upon hearing these words, passersby made way for the White Tiger Duke. The White Tiger Duke was once at the height of his prestige in the Star Luo Empire. Although he still enjoys a great reputation, Dai Hao now has some stains on his record because Huo Yuhao exposed Dai Hao's actions.

Of course, some of the stains were actually brought on by Huo Yuhao himself. After all, the image that Duke Dai Hao of the White Tiger had always cultivated was one of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, but his son actually became a Sun Moon person and was living quite well in Sun Moon.

This undoubtedly had some very bad effects on the Star Luo Empire, and some Star Luo people who were dissatisfied with the royal family even began to yearn for the Sun Moon Empire.

Dai Hao noticed the strange looks from passersby, but he didn't pay much attention to them. For him, getting to the Duke's mansion as soon as possible to check the situation was the most important thing.

Soon, Dai Hao arrived at the gate of the Duke's mansion with a group of personal guards. As soon as the royal guards saw Dai Hao, they all shouted "Your Excellency the Duke" and made way for him.

Dai Hao and his personal guards immediately entered the Duke's mansion.

Soon, Dai Hao spotted Xu Jiawei.

He quickly called out, "Your Majesty."

Xu Jiawei turned around and looked at Dai Hao. At this moment, Xu Jiawei's eyes were also a little red: "Dai Hao, you should know what happened here. According to these servants, my daughter died at the hands of those damned evil spirit masters."

I never imagined that an evil spirit master would be so audacious, daring to directly enter the Duke's mansion and kill someone. If I had arranged for her to have a Title Douluo as her protector, perhaps she wouldn't be dead today. I swear I will never forgive an evil spirit master.

Cheng Gang, the Guardian Douluo standing to the side, said, "Your Majesty, please accept our condolences. No one expected that someone would dare to kill the princess. They are simply audacious."

Dai Hao's eyes were also red at this moment. He reached out and grabbed Xu Jiawei's arms, his voice choked with emotion: "Your Majesty, it is my incompetence that I failed to properly deploy the defenses of the Duke's mansion. I bear some responsibility for the evil spirit masters entering the White Tiger Duke's mansion to kill people."

One day, I will drive the evil spirit masters off this continent to avenge my wife.

Although he disliked the Duchess's treatment of Huo Yun'er, he and the Duchess had two children and had known each other for many years, so it was impossible for him to have no feelings for her.

Xu Jiawei nodded at this moment: "Evil Soul Masters are undoubtedly a group of scourges. Dai Hao, I have something to tell you. In fact, evil soul masters are organized. This organization is called the Holy Spirit Cult. I suspect that this attack on the White Tiger Duke's Mansion is actually related to the Holy Spirit Cult. After all, according to the surviving servants, there were too many evil soul masters who came here to kill people. They must have come prepared."

Dai Hao was somewhat bewildered: "Holy Spirit Cult? They're an organization of evil soul masters?"

He didn't quite understand Xu Jiawei's words. Weren't evil spirit masters a group of extremely bloodthirsty, evil guys who often acted alone and rarely together? Did these guys also have an organization?

“That’s right, the Holy Spirit Cult is indeed an organization of evil soul masters.” Xu Jiawei nodded, a helpless look on his face.

Of course he knew about the Holy Spirit Cult, since he was able to obtain a 100,000-year-old soul beast embryo from a level nine soul master of the Sun and Moon Sect, so it's not surprising that he knew about the Holy Spirit Cult.

Of course, his expectations for the Holy Spirit Cult were simple: that the Holy Spirit Cult and the Sun Moon Empire would clash, and the Star Luo Empire would definitely benefit from such a conflict.

Dai Hao clenched his fists instinctively: "Your Majesty, where is the headquarters of the Holy Spirit Cult? I need to lead my troops to deal with them immediately."

Xu Jiawei shook his head: "Dai Hao, I don't know where the headquarters of the Holy Spirit Cult is, but I can tell you with certainty that the Holy Spirit Cult has a great deal of power in the Sun Moon Empire. It will definitely not be an easy thing to eradicate the Holy Spirit Cult."

Although the Duchess's death deeply saddened him, as an emperor, he had to remain calm when it came to a powerful force like the Holy Spirit Church. He absolutely could not act rashly and immediately send people to fight the Holy Spirit Church.

"Could it be that the Emperor of the Sun Moon Empire is supporting this behind the scenes?" Dai Hao asked.

He asked himself honestly, if he were the Sun Moon Emperor, he would definitely be restless and unable to eat or sleep if he learned that there was an evil soul master organization in the empire, because the evil soul masters' methods were too cruel, and these guys were extremely bloodthirsty, which would definitely have a negative impact on the Sun Moon Empire.

Unless the Holy Spirit Cult is under the control of the Sun and Moon Emperor, the Sun and Moon Emperor can not feel at ease with the Holy Spirit Cult.

Xu Jiawei immediately rejected Dai Hao's idea: "Dai Hao, the Sun Moon Emperor is probably not behind this. Although I do not like the Sun Moon Empire with its wolfish ambitions, I must admit that their attack on the Duke's Mansion is not of great strategic significance. On the contrary, it will arouse our hatred and may even accelerate the arrival of war."

"If I were the Emperor of the Sun and Moon, I would definitely accumulate strength and prepare for war first, rather than provoking the royal families of other empires. This should be a spontaneous action by the Holy Spirit Cult."

Dai Hao frowned slightly. After all, he was the White Tiger Duke who had been leading troops in the field. His impulsive emotions, which had been fueled by his wife's murder by the evil soul master, had subsided somewhat. So, after a moment's thought, he realized that Xu Jiawei's words made sense.

"Your Majesty, how should we retaliate against the Holy Spirit Cult?" Dai Hao kept in mind that he was currently just a subject and had to ask Emperor Xu Jiawei for his opinion. Although Xu Jiawei usually treated him like a brother, Dai Hao knew that some rules could not be broken.

Otherwise, even if Xu Jiawei himself doesn't care, the royal elders will inevitably be dissatisfied if they find out about this.

Xu Jiawei immediately said, "The simplest way to take revenge on the Holy Spirit Cult is to expose their location. Shrek Academy suffered heavy losses in the last Soul Battle Tournament because of the evil soul masters."

Naturally, they harbor resentment towards evil spirit masters. Moreover, Shrek Academy has been cracking down on evil spirit masters for some time now. If we can inform Shrek Academy of this, I believe they will definitely set their sights on the Holy Spirit Cult within the Sun Moon Empire.

"You must know, the next Soul Battle Tournament will be held in the Sun Moon Empire. Shrek Academy won't let this opportunity to take revenge on the Holy Spirit Cult slip by. Our Star Luo Empire can also further cooperate with Shrek Academy and discuss a revenge plan together."

As he spoke, Xu Jiawei looked at Dai Hao and said, "Of course, I'd also like to hear your thoughts."

Dai Hao nodded: "Your Majesty is right. My idea is very simple: to increase investment in soul tools as much as possible. After all, it is too difficult to cultivate a Title Douluo."

"Once the Star Luo army is equipped with sufficiently powerful soul tools, I believe we can use fewer people to restrain Title Douluos. Then, if we encounter the Holy Spirit Cult, we will have a much stronger ability to respond."

Chapter 177 He Caitou, you don't want Xu He's identity to be known either, do you?

Even titled Douluo are human; they cannot be invincible.

Moreover, there are differences among Title Douluos. Ordinary Title Douluos are the majority, while level nine Soul Masters like Ye Yulin are ultimately a minority.

Xu Jiawei nodded: "Okay, I will allocate as much funding as possible for the research and development of soul tools."

The development of soul tools is indeed quite difficult, but soul tools are an inevitable trend, so it is justifiable to invest more funds in soul tools. Of course, Xu Jiawei was also thinking that if his daughter had a stronger defensive soul tool at the time, she might not have been killed by that damned evil soul master.

.......

Near the Mingdou Mountains.

Sun and Moon Garrison Area.

The sky was just beginning to lighten, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky.

Huo Yuhao sat in his tent, at a table, writing a letter. Although the operation to kill the Duchess was successful, he still wanted to further influence the Star Luo Empire and Shrek Academy.

After all, the Sun Moon Empire, the Star Luo Empire, and Shrek Academy will eventually clash.

In fact, as long as Tang San doesn't have a mechanical deus ex machina, the Sun Moon Empire has no reason to lose. Although Huo Gua came to the rescue in the original work and asked the Sun Moon Empire to withdraw its troops, as soon as Huo Gua and Tang Wutong ascend to the God Realm, Ju Zi will definitely lead a large army to attack again. Given the level of warfare between Douluo Three Kingdoms and Shrek Academy in the original work, they will definitely be crushed by the Sun Moon Empire again.

Of course, once Tang San is deified, everything changes. Not only does the Sun Moon Empire return all the occupied land, but it also wants to change its name to the Heaven Dou Empire, which is truly outrageous.

The war in Douluo Continent was ultimately just a toy for Tang Shenwang. As long as Tang San, the referee, stepped in, even if the Sun Moon Empire gained a huge advantage in the early stages, it would still be powerless to turn the tide. After all, Tang San was a God King, and in terms of strength, he was much stronger than the people of Sun Moon.

"Therefore, we not only need to accumulate strength, but also try our best to prevent Tang San from going down to the mortal realm to turn the tide. According to Tang San's personality, the other party will definitely use Wang Dong to go down to the mortal realm to stop the Sun and Moon from winning."