Douluo Continent: The Spirit-Eyed Detective Huo Yuhao

"What are you doing here?" Huo Yuhao looked up at Jing Hongchen, who was standing at the door.

He thought it would be Ji Juechen who came to find him first, but unexpectedly it was this Master Mingde.

“Teacher Huo, I… I’ve come to turn myself in,” Jing Hongchen stated his purpose.

"Why would you want to turn yourself in?" Huo Yuhao asked with a smile.

"Teacher Huo is joking. I can still see that you are the one who calls the shots in the entire Douluo Federation now. I am, after all, the Master of Mingde Hall. Now, only you can judge me in this place." Jing Hongchen adopted a very humble posture.

"Confess to what?"

"I've seen everything that's happened these past few days. Anyone who's still stubbornly clinging to the Holy Spirit Cult, even if they're a Title Douluo, I've killed them outright."

I understand that those who collude with the Holy Spirit Cult will not have a good end, and I also admit to my past sins of being involved with the Holy Spirit Cult. I am willing to accept any punishment, but please spare my grandchildren. They have nothing to do with these things.” Jing Hongchen’s words were pleading at the end.

He had seen Kong Deming's current appearance. Although he looked much the same as usual, his behavior was very strange, as if he wasn't himself.

Even the strongest Soul Master was in such a state, how could Jing Hongchen possibly escape? He should just turn himself in and try to get a lighter punishment.

"Is it just a connection?" Huo Yuhao looked at him with amusement.

"It's just that since the Crown Prince is cooperating with them, I'm inevitably involved with them. I haven't done anything for them yet! At most, I just don't interfere with what they want to do... that's all..." Jing Hongchen broke out in a cold sweat, trying to defend herself.

"That's it? Hmph, you turn a blind eye to the Holy Spirit Cult, and the Holy Spirit Cult has caused people's families to be destroyed." Huo Yuhao threw out a stack of documents. "Among the students I'm currently teaching, there's one named Nana. In order to coerce her into becoming an evil soul master, the Holy Spirit Cult killed her family members and sealed their souls in a soul banner. How many other students have had the same experience? This is the result of you doing nothing, and now you're concerned about your own family."

“I…” Jing Hongchen could no longer defend himself.

“Xiao Hongchen and the others are indeed innocent, so of course I won’t do anything to them. But you…” Huo Yuhao took out a pill and handed it to Jing Hongchen.

"Your mind as a Soul Master still has some use, so I won't kill you. Eat this and dedicate your life to the cause of Soul Tools."

Jing Hongchen didn't ask what kind of pill it was, and swallowed it directly. Since she had already promised her family that everything was alright, and she could still live, she naturally had to seize the opportunity.

"what is this?"

"The Three Corpse Brain God Pill," Huo Yuhao said casually.

"?"

"It's just a little poison I made on the spur of the moment to keep you under control. If you ever have any thoughts of betrayal, I'll just poison you to death."

"No, no..." Jing Hongchen shook his head repeatedly.

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As soon as Jing Hongchen left, Huo Yuhao immediately got up from his chair and paced back and forth in the office.

"Damn it!" He rubbed his head, his brain buzzing.

"What should we do about Yuhao? The more we reject him, the more frequently he comes. We can't hold on much longer," Tianmeng Bingcan said anxiously.

"That's enough!"

Huo Yuhao had had enough. He was already annoyed by the flame in his sea of ​​consciousness and the constant noise from several people living there. Now, this divine realm connection was buzzing around him. How could anyone stand it?

If you can't hold on any longer, then stop.

After saying that, Huo Yuhao directly told Tian Mengyi to give up blocking the divine realm's perception. His soul was instantly drawn out of his body and pulled upwards by that perception.

He could sense that the god transmitting this feeling was not the previous sea god, which was why Huo Yuhao dared to accept it so readily, though there was also an element of gambling involved.

Upon receiving the connection, Huo Yuhao immediately sensed the immense power contained within this spiritual pull, imbued with benevolent intent. At this level of power, it could have easily broken through the barrier and directly seized his soul, but it hadn't done so, which was enough to demonstrate its goodwill.

"Little guy, you're too suspicious. If I forcibly drag you up here, you'll probably react and hit me." A gentle voice came through the guiding mental force.

"Little guy... that's such a disgusting way to address him..." Huo Yuhao said with a look of disgust.

"You actually find it disgusting? Considering the age difference, you really are a little guy," the voice said.

"And just because I refused to receive it, you're harassing me like you're spamming my chat?" Huo Yuhao said. "You're bound to be disliked by your chat partners."

"I already have several wives. Besides, isn't it even worse that you keep reading my messages without replying?" the God of Emotions said righteously.

The world spun around me, and it felt like only a moment had passed, yet also like an eternity. Suddenly, everything around me became clear.

This is a valley, an unremarkable valley, where hundreds of flowers bloom and towering trees block out the sunlight. Occasionally, a few clouds drift across the valley, each one a dazzling seven-colored spectacle, exceptionally beautiful.

A strange energy flowed in the air, far more concentrated than the Yuan Qi of the world in Douluo Continent. However, Huo Yuhao was currently in a soul form and could not directly absorb this energy.

"Immortal spiritual energy? Is this the realm of gods?" Huo Yuhao's eyes lit up.

Unlike the imitations he produced and the impure immortal energy extracted from the blood of people like the Silver Dragon King who had absorbed immortal energy, this was the purest immortal energy.

Ignoring the god who had dragged him over, Huo Yuhao stood still and began to observe.

"Hey kid, come over here! Why are you squatting there playing by yourself..." Deep in the valley, Rong Nianbing, the God of Emotions, and his teacher Cha Ji awkwardly held up chess pieces.

They originally intended to play a game of chess and, incidentally, put on a mysterious and unfathomable image in front of Huo Yuhao. However, the game was almost over, and Huo Yuhao was still squatting at the entrance of the valley, refusing to come over.

Moreover, Rong Nianbing discovered that she was unable to read Huo Yuhao's thoughts, even though they should have been able to do so given the difference in their mental strength.

It's not that you can't hear anything at all, it's just chaotic.

Too messy.

Huo Yuhao's mind was constantly filled with a cacophony of thoughts and voices, making it impossible for him to read his mind.

“You’re just a soul right now, so you can’t absorb anything just by looking. But with your talent, you’ll be able to get here on your own sooner or later.” Rong Nianbing wondered what the kid was doing.

"Does my body have to come here...? Thank you so much. I don't know which god you are, but whatever your purpose is, I'm already very grateful to have brought me here." Huo Yuhao's tone was very sincere as he stood up, his face full of smiles.

"Huh?" Rong Nianbing didn't know what Huo Yuhao was talking about. He just wanted to bring Huo Yuhao up to get to know him, teach him a few moves, give him a divine kitchen knife, and then let him inherit his divine position in the future.

Before he could even give him anything, Huo Yuhao was already thanking him.

Huo Yuhao tried to use the Beast Taming Contract to summon, but unfortunately he couldn't connect to Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and the others, and the summoning failed.

“The distance between the divine realm and the mortal realm is very far. Although your summoning spell is very ingenious, you cannot connect to your mortal body here,” Rong Nianbing explained. Huo Yuhao’s idea was good, but without reaching the level of a god, one cannot ultimately ascend to the divine realm.

If magic of this level could overcome the limitations of the divine realm, then gods would have already used this method to arbitrarily bring their families up there.

"There's another way." Huo Yuhao changed his approach, picking an unrecognizable spiritual herb from the roadside in the valley, smearing its leaves on the ground, and inscribing a complex necromancy magic circle. He then used the little energy he had left in his soul to resonate with the magic circle.

"Come forth, Gate of the Dead."

A sacred yet dark and deathly gate emerged and unfolded from the magic circle.

Meanwhile, on the Douluo Continent, Electrolux also opened the Gate of the Dead.

"Hahaha, it really can be opened!" Huo Yuhao laughed uncontrollably.

"Wow, is this the realm of gods? Holy crap, has my dream come true ahead of schedule? I'm so moved!"

As the gate opened, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm and other tamed beasts, carrying Huo Yuhao's physical body, used the Necromancer's Plane as a transit point to arrive in the God Realm.

“Uh…” Rong Nianbing was speechless for a moment; he seemed to have messed things up.

Chapter 147 Storage, Metamorphosis

Upon seeing the Gate of the Dead open, Rong Nianbing raised an eyebrow, and the divine power belonging to the God of Emotions formed an invisible barrier in the valley.

"So many people have come all at once. I must not let the God of Destruction and the others notice, or they will definitely cause me trouble..." Rong Nianbing carefully checked his barrier to prevent other gods from passing by and seeing it.

"I never expected that this little guy could actually open a passage. This door should not be a product of his world."

"Thank you very much, senior." Huo Yuhao cupped his hands towards the depths of the valley. His gratitude was sincere. If Rong Nianbing had even the slightest intention to stop him, he would not have been able to open the Gate of the Dead.

"It's alright." Rong Nianbing was quite forthright. He also wanted to see what Huo Yuhao could do, so he didn't stop him and even helped him hide. "However, I must remind you that it's best not to rush to absorb the immortal spiritual energy now. If you break through to become a true god here, you won't be able to easily return to the mortal realm. I won't be able to protect you then."

He could tell that Huo Yu's group was just one step away from becoming true gods, and once they absorbed the immortal spiritual energy, they would immediately become gods.

"Don't worry, I won't make things difficult for you, senior." Huo Yuhao nodded.

"I can only look at it but not absorb or cultivate it. It's like putting the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow in front of me and telling me not to eat it..." Tianmeng Ice Silkworm cried out, but still held back.

Huo Yuhao's soul returned to his physical body. He stretched his limbs slightly and then took out a bunch of huge gas storage tanks.

"I just want to collect some of this immortal energy to take back and study. Besides, as long as I absorb it in the lower realm, the rules of the divine realm won't apply to me, right?" Huo Yuhao patted the jars, which all had spatial attributes and were quite large in capacity.

After speaking, Huo Yuhao concentrated his mind and guided the immortal spiritual energy through his physical body to transform into a liquid form, which slowly flowed into the energy tank and was stored in his dantian.

While guiding him, the immortal energy passing through Huo Yuhao's body also nourished his soul, body, and cultivation.

Unlike Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and the others, Huo Yuhao himself is still some distance from the limit of becoming a god, and the total amount of immortal spiritual energy required for his breakthrough is extremely large, so absorbing this small amount has no impact.

Stimulated by the immortal spiritual energy, the three round soul cores within Huo Yuhao's body began to rotate in unison.

………………

A few minutes ago,

Within the undead demiplane,

"Look up at the sky! A door has opened!" With a shout, the first to react was a neatly dressed young girl.

She moved nimbly, leaping onto a withered tree in two or three steps, and looked up at the gate to the dead that had opened in the air.

It was none other than Xu Tianzhen, the former princess of the Sun Moon Empire, who had been thrown into the undead plane by Huo Yuhao and then forgotten to be released.

Along with her, a group of former noble ministers of the Sun Moon Empire, whose cultivation levels varied, were also looking up.

"That wicked scoundrel who impersonated my elder brother, I will make sure he doesn't get away with this once I get out of here!"

Xu Tianzhen's innocent face was filled with anger at being deceived, as well as hope rising as she saw the gate in the sky open.

They had been trapped in this godforsaken place for who knows how long—four days? Or five? Xu Tianzhen didn't know. In this dark and gloomy place, even time seemed to stand still. Although they had found a warehouse containing water and food, they didn't know how long it could sustain so many of them.

"How dare he imprison me... How despicable... How despicable..." Xu Tianzhen thought Huo Yuhao must have some evil purpose, and her mind wandered.

When water and food are nearly exhausted, chaos will inevitably ensue, followed by scrambling and killing. Among them are several individuals whose cultivation levels surpass hers. Although they currently respect her as a princess, Xu Tianzhen dares not even imagine what they might do when all hope is lost.

"This must be the twisted sense of humor of that perverted and evil person!"

Actually, Huo Yuhao was just too busy and forgot; he had too many things to do these past few days.

In the past few days, they had considered actively searching for a way out, but in this gloomy space, apart from the area they were in, terrifying undead creatures were scattered everywhere.

Zombies, headless horsemen, liches... the deeper you go, the more dangerous it becomes, and sometimes you can even see bone dragons circling in the deepest part.

Even with Xu Tianzhen's Sun Martial Soul, which is extremely effective against evil spirits, they could only defeat some small zombies in the outer areas, so they had to stay in this safe zone.

"Look, someone's coming out!" Xu Tianzhen and the others saw Tian Mengyi and her group emerging from the Gate of the Dead.

"Hey, let us out!"

"Please, please save us!"