Douluo Continent: The Spirit-Eyed Detective Huo Yuhao

"Hey! Really? I didn't expect to run into a Title Douluo-level evil spirit master, let alone so many at once!" Ye Guyi was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth. She couldn't tell the level of any of these evil spirit masters who suddenly appeared, she only knew that they were terrifyingly strong.

She only wanted to take advantage of the evil soul masters' illness and weakness to kill a few squad leaders, but she didn't expect Huo Yuhao to lead her directly into the den of titled Douluo.

Huo Yuhao ignored her and was very excited.

"One, two, three... Nether Thunder, Blood Soul Puppet seems to be a bit mutated, Evil Phoenix, and Heavenly Centipede, Myriad Soul Banner... Hahahaha, the variety is really diverse, most of them should be here." Huo Yuhao counted the number of titled evil soul masters opposite him and burst into laughter.

"Mr. Snowman, you can have a good meal now."

"Roar!!!" The snowman zombie leaped forward to engage in battle.

"Damn it, if only I hadn't contracted this strange disease!" Ming Lei Douluo cursed inwardly, his hands trembling slightly. He clearly felt a lack of strength. "It wasn't affecting me this much just now..."

He wasn't a Super Douluo, so he couldn't be immune to that strange disease. And for some reason, his illness seemed to worsen whenever he got close to that intruder wearing the comical headgear.

"Again!" Nether Thunder Douluo didn't want to embarrass himself in front of his colleagues. He first charged up his power. In addition to the lightning attribute, his Nether Thunder also had a trace of sinister energy, which could only be absorbed in a pile of dead bodies.

In other words, the more dead people there are in a place, the stronger he, the Thunder God, becomes!

In this stronghold of evil soul masters, corpses were naturally plentiful. Nether Thunder Douluo immediately unleashed his Martial Soul True Body, gathering yin and evil energy from the surroundings.

While he was collecting information, he unexpectedly discovered a place with an unusually high level of malevolent energy, something he had never seen before in his life.

"This...this...this level can only be achieved with mountains of corpses and seas of blood!" Nether Thunder Douluo was overjoyed. If he could absorb so much Yin and evil energy, the enemy in front of him would be no match for him at all.

Then, when he looked up, he saw that the overwhelming evil aura was coming from his opponent, the comical snowman!

"How is this possible?! How can so much evil energy exist on a person at the same time! Even a dead person couldn't do that!" Nether Thunder Douluo was immediately terrified, his fighting spirit vanished, and he immediately retreated, wanting to escape.

The living dead wouldn't give him a chance. It roared and pounced, moving so fast that even Ming Lei Douluo couldn't see it clearly. He only felt a giant beast rushing straight at his face, its blood-red maw biting down on him.

"Master... save... me..." After uttering these words of plea for help, Ming Lei Douluo only saw the terrified expression on his master's face.

"Why is he making that face?" Ming Lei Douluo wondered. Then he looked down and realized that his body had melted away completely, with only his head remaining on the snowman zombie's shoulder. It was not yet fully fused, but it was gradually sinking into the living dead's body, just like sinking into a swamp.

"So that's how it is... I've already... become a part of him..."

This was the last thought of the Nether Thunder Douluo.

"Retreat!" Zhongli Wu shouted. Before he finished speaking, he and Vice Sect Leader Feng Ling had already retreated to the rear. The way Ming Lei died made him break out in a cold sweat. Even though he had a cultivation level of ninety-eight and even though they had the upper hand, he did not want to face such a monster.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! Where did that thing come from?! Does such a creature even exist in this world?!" The Second Elder, Nangong Wan, was also running fast. Being a spineless person, he would have fled long ago if he hadn't been worried about the sect leader being there.

The living dead did not continue its attack, but stopped in place to digest the cultivation of the Nether Thunder Douluo, allowing him to enter a new evolution.

Its bloated body swelled up again, covered in gray-black lightning that perfectly matched its bluish-gray zombie skin.

"Having absorbed a portion of the original owner's martial soul ability, there are more and more surprises." Huo Yuhao carefully observed the changes in the living dead's body and recorded all the important experimental data.

"Who exactly are you people? Judging from your methods, you are also evil soul masters. Why do you specifically oppose my Holy Spirit Cult?" Zhongli Wu planned to persuade Huo Yuhao to stop by saying that all evil soul masters under heaven are one family.

"Us?" Huo Yuhao smiled and slowly flew to the side of the living dead. A bluish-gray beast taming contract appeared, echoing the necromancer holy magic soul ring on his back. "I am your Holy Emperor."

"Holy Emperor..." Zhongli Wu's face twisted in rage as he sensed Huo Yuhao's godlike aura of death. "How could such a thing exist!"

"Hahaha, just kidding." Huo Yuhao burst into laughter. "My experimental subjects."

As soon as he finished speaking, all the Title Douluos infected with the zombie virus suddenly became bloated and showed symptoms of zombie-like transformation.

The psychic tentacles instantly shot out, entangling all the titled evil soul masters and slightly restraining their movements. Then, the living dead rode on lightning straight toward his fusion material.

For a short while, only Zhongli Wu and Feng Ling, two Super Douluo who were not infected with the zombie virus, remained locked in combat.

"Damn it! Mother, save me!" Seeing his men dying one by one, Zhongli Wu cried out desperately to the Supreme Elder Ye Xishui for help.

He had actually sent out a distress signal a long time ago, but Ye Xishui did not respond for a long time, and he did not know what had happened.

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In another place,

The auras of the Limit Douluos clashed fiercely.

"Xi Shui, I want to heal you." Long Xiaoyao stopped Ye Xi Shui.

"Nonsense!" Ye Xishui retorted angrily.

Chapter 142 Blood Soul Evil Dragon

"Long Xiaoyao, what nonsense are you spouting! Born with an evil martial soul, you're destined to be an evil soul master for life. There's no way you can be cured! Don't stop me, there's been a change in the Holy Spirit Cult, I need to go back." Death God Douluo Ye Xishui summoned her martial soul, the Blood Soul Demon Puppet, and a terrifying bloody aura filled the air, trying to drive Long Xiaoyao away.

"Oh! It's coming! Will Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui fight?" Huo Yuhao asked expectantly as he fought Zhongli Wufengling alongside the living dead, listening to the conversation between Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao being relayed through the living dead.

Because Long Xiaoyao carries chunks of the living dead's flesh with him, their conversations can be relayed through the connection between the living dead and his own flesh, just like a human eavesdropping device.

Ye Xishui was furious. These past few days, the Holy Spirit Cult members had been inexplicably falling ill on a large scale, which had already made her irritable. And now Long Xiaoyao had suddenly called her out to talk nonsense.

"Yes, yes, I've already verified it with hundreds of evil soul masters. Xi Shui, I'll stay with you, even if I lose my martial soul or my cultivation, as long as I can be cured..." Long Xiaoyao said, unleashing his power to the limit, revealing the true form of the Dark Holy Dragon Martial Soul, and rushing straight towards Ye Xi Shui.

"Hundreds of evil spirit masters... Could it be that you're responsible for the recent mysterious disappearances of those cult members?!"

"Yes, that's me."

"You're courting death! Blood Soul Technique!" Seeing Long Xiaoyao charging at her with all her might, Ye Xishui also launched an attack to block him. But today, Long Xiaoyao seemed completely different from before, ignoring her attacks and appearing fearless.

Only after enduring the attacks and getting close to Ye Xishui did Long Xiaoyao manipulate his strongest dark power to create a pitch-black space, dyeing the entire sky like eternal night, and firmly controlling Ye Xishui's movements.

"Stop struggling, Xishui. You won't escape my strongest control technique, which I've been preparing for days, until you take out the Death Tower immediately."

"I've thought about it for a long time. Without your consent, it's impossible for me to perform the surgery on you directly." After controlling Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao seemed to be in no hurry. "Fortunately, I discovered the secret of this piece of flesh."

Long Xiaoyao took out the bluish-gray flesh chunk that Huo Yuhao had given him. "This flesh chunk has the property of devouring and infecting. The highest-level experimental subject I captured before was a Soul Douluo. After the surgery was successful, he could only infect evil soul masters of the same level at first. Later, probably because the number of infected people increased, the virus mutated and can now infect titled Douluo level people."

Unfortunately, you're still far from being able to infect a Super Douluo. A Super Douluo has far greater control over their body than an ordinary Title Douluo, let alone a Limit Douluo like yourself.

"Surgery? Infection? You caused all these strange illnesses! Long Xiaoyao! Didn't you claim to love me? How dare you!" Ye Xishui was hysterical, but Long Xiaoyao's full control prevented her from escaping for a while.

"It is precisely because I love you that I am doing this! Your current mind and behavior are the result of being corrupted by evil. Once I heal you, you will definitely be able to understand me!"

"How melodramatic... This kind of cheesy love talk... They're clearly just two evil spirit masters who have killed countless people just for their love, why make such a big deal out of it?" Huo Yuhao felt uncomfortable listening to it and couldn't help but complain.

"A good opportunity!" Seeing that Huo Yuhao's attention was distracted, Zhongli Wu used the Death Needle Soul Skill to strike Huo Yuhao.

"What opportunity do you have?" Huo Yuhao looked at Zhongli Wu indifferently. The Death Needle disappeared into the flood of spiritual power without causing a ripple. "If it weren't for waiting for you to become nourishment to turn into a Yeti Zombie, I would have killed you all long ago."

On the other side, the evil phoenix Fengling has already had most of its feathers plucked by the snowman zombie.

"Wait for them to get infected? But isn't the zombie virus supposed to be immune to those above the super level?" Tianmeng Ice Silkworm wondered in her mind.

"That virus is a breeding ground for ordinary evil soul masters. What we are waiting for now is a super virus that can infect even Limit Douluo after mutation."

Given the current situation, there are two ways this virus could be born. The first is through our Mr. Snowman. Having absorbed so many titled evil soul masters, he's still undergoing transformation. Once he completes his evolution, he should be able to generate that virus. But this will take a long time; we'll have to contend with those two Super Douluo for a long time before he finishes evolving.”

"What about the second method?" Tianmeng asked.

"The second method is to directly use the body of a Limit Douluo evil soul master as a seedbed to give birth to Limit Douluo zombie cells, which will then be able to infect Super Douluo without any problem."

"Is this... possible?" Tianmeng Ice Silkworm didn't believe it. Where could a Limit Douluo-level evil soul master be used as a zombie cell seedbed?

"Hahaha, who knows, maybe there is?"

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"Xi Shui, if I use my body as a breeding ground to cultivate this flesh, the resulting virus should be enough to infect you at the same level, right?" Long Xiaoyao released the power of the Dark Holy Dragon again, this time without concealing it. Ye Xi Shui clearly felt an extremely powerful evil aura from it.

"You...you've become an evil spirit master? You..." Ye Xishui didn't know what to say; she only felt sorrow.

"The Holy Spirit Cult has always had a secret method to completely guide normal martial souls that are close to evil martial souls to mutate into evil martial souls. I have seen it countless times over the years. This can be considered my retribution for turning a blind eye to this behavior!"

"The virus in this piece of meat can only infect martial souls with evil energy. In that case, why don't I just use a secret technique to mutate into an evil soul master? Dark power is relatively easy to mutate into evil energy." The Dark Holy Dragon said with a wry smile.

No, it should be the Dark Evil Dragon now.

The bluish-gray flesh, upon encountering the evil energy, seemed to have found some great tonic, and along with the evil energy, it grew directly into the palm of Long Xiaoyao's hand that was holding it.

Instead of stopping the infection, Long Xiaoyao pressed it hard against his chest, allowing the zombie cell to completely fuse with him.

"Xi Shui! This is the surgery I performed for you!"

"He's gone mad...he's gone mad..." Ye Xishui panicked when she saw Long Xiaoyao, whose body was half-zombie-like.

"It's done!" Huo Yuhao was overjoyed at the success of the experiment.

"Isn't this all for you?" Long Xiaoyao approached Ye Xishui. "It's too late. We're so close, you've already been infected. Now we just have to wait, wait for this chunk of flesh to devour our martial souls, and everything... will be alright..."

The bluish-gray zombie cells continued to grow, spreading from the Dark Evil Dragon to the Blood Soul Puppet, connecting the two Limit Douluo Evil Soul Masters together.

The two Limit Douluos merged into one during the devouring process, and the combination of darkness and blood soul gave birth to and erupted a powerful evil aura that surpassed all evil soul masters in the history of Douluo Continent.

"Roar!!!!"

A strange dragon roar reverberated through the heavens.

The Corpse King Blood Soul Evil Dragon was born.

"It's here!" Huo Yuhao laughed. "Mr. Snowman, hurry and swallow it!"

Chapter 143 Corpse Demon

An evil aura permeates the air!

It was a decaying dragon-man zombie, with a half-rotten, evil dragon skull and dark red flames burning in the eye sockets. Its hunched humanoid torso was covered with broken scales and bluish-gray rotting flesh, and it had a pair of broken fleshy wings and a bone-spiky dragon tail on its back, exuding a dangerous aura.

Did Huo Yuhao deceive Long Xiaoyao?

Yes and no.

The zombie virus will indeed devour their martial spirit along with their evil energy. After it has devoured them, removing the zombie cells will turn them into normal people without their martial spirit.

However, Huo Yuhao did not provide him with a method to peel off the zombie cells, nor would he help them peel them off. On the contrary, he wanted to cause the zombie cells to completely erode them and then turn them into fusion material for Mr. Snowman.

"Go and devour it! Mr. Snowman!" Huo Yuhao looked excitedly at the Corpse King, which was formed by the fusion of two Limit Douluos.

"Hmm..." The snowman zombie rarely shrank its head, took two steps back to Huo Yuhao's back, and shook its head vigorously.

"Damn it, what are you chickening out for? Isn't that just your own clone? Don't worry, my calculations are never wrong. You can handle it now." Huo Yuhao cheered on the snowman zombie and pushed him forward.

It's truly shameful that the original being is afraid of being devoured by its own clone.

"What exactly is that thing!" Ye Guyi trembled uncontrollably. Her Holy Angel Martial Soul made her more sensitive to evil energy. Just sensing its aura almost made her faint, even with Huo Yuhao's mental power protecting her.

She tapped on the Douluo Encyclopedia she had bought earlier on her wrist, turned on the Soul Power Detector function, and the level numbers on the screen changed rapidly.

"Level 98... Level 99... and still rising!"