Douluo Continent: The Spirit-Eyed Detective Huo Yuhao

"He's here for a friendly sparring session, isn't he?" Huo Yuhao recalled telling Ji Juechen to come over after class.

"Yes." Ji Juechen was always a man of few words. He only replied with two words before drawing his extraterrestrial meteorite iron sword.

"Wait, how long have you been waiting?" Huo Yuhao asked.

“It’s been a day,” Ji Juechen said.

Due to the time difference between the divine realm and the mortal realm, Huo Yuhao felt that not much time had passed, but a whole day had already gone by in the mortal realm.

"So you waited outside the door all day..." Huo Yuhao was also impressed by the sword fanatic's persistence.

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setting sun.

Lakeside.

The wind whipped up the yellow leaves, making them swirl in the air.

Two people.

Two swords.

One was a meteorite iron sword from outer space, its blade jet black and sharp, as heavy as a mountain, seemingly keeping everything at bay, leaving only the solitude of one person. It was Ji Juechen's sword.

One was the Frostbite Extreme Ice Sword, its blade a deep, transparent blue, as thin as a cicada's wing, seemingly looking down upon all things in the world with an arrogant, invincible defiance. It was Huo Yuhao's sword.

Ji Juechen's sword was forged by him by infusing his own sword spirit into meteorite iron, and then undergoing countless trials and tribulations over ten years.

Huo Yuhao's sword was just sculpted by him using the ultimate ice.

"Teacher, can you also wield a sword?" Ji Juechen asked, even more excited. His sharp sword intent made the blade tremble slightly.

"I know a little bit," Huo Yuhao said with a smile, gesturing for Ji Juechen to make the first move.

Chapter 151 Sword Master, West Mountain

They had been standing there for the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea.

That's how sword fighting is; the moving parts are certainly thrilling, but the still parts are even more deadly.

A withered leaf twirled in the air and landed between the two.

In an instant, the sword was drawn.

Ji Juechen's six spirit rings flashed, all of them being enhanced spirit skills that strengthened himself and his sword. With the support of the six spirit rings, his speed and strength reached their peak, and his sharp sword intent bloomed and then subsided like a flash of light.

The next instant, Ji Juechen appeared behind Huo Yuhao.

Ji Juechen's arm trembled slightly, his tiger's mouth cracked, and he could barely hold the sword. He had just unleashed eight sword strikes in an instant, but Huo Yuhao had easily blocked them all. Instead, he was injured by Huo Yuhao's chilling sword intent.

Huo Yuhao remained standing in the same spot, without moving an inch.

"Is this your limit?" Huo Yuhao asked.

Ji Juechen remained silent, gripped his iron sword again, and charged towards Huo Yuhao.

Sword after sword, without pause, even as the blood on his hands stained the sword red.

"Teacher, you said before that I was just a decent sword, and I've thought about what that meant for a long time." Ji Juechen said this to Huo Yuhao while brandishing his longsword. "I think I understand a little now."

"It is the sword, not the person. The sword is merely a tool, with its limits. I should be the one who wields the sword; only what is in my hand is the sword. I am..."

"Sword Master."

After uttering the words "Sword Master," Ji Juechen entered a profound state of enlightenment. Even as he was enlightened, he continued to attack Huo Yuhao, and his sharp sword intent began to merge with his soul power.

"Hahaha, you actually comprehended the realm of fusion of spiritual power and soul power on your own? What amazing swordsmanship talent!" Huo Yuhao was somewhat surprised. He thought he would need to give Ji Juechen more pointers, but Ji Juechen comprehended it after thinking about it for a day.

This fusion of spiritual power and soul power is similar to Dragon God Douluo Mu En's "Reigning Supreme," which is a very advanced artistic conception.

Ji Juechen's sword moves kept changing, and his sudden enlightenment made his swordsmanship more flexible. In the clash with Huo Yuhao's sword intent, his swordsmanship became sharper and sharper.

As Ji Juechen swung his sword for the ninety-ninth time, a soaring sword aura slashed out, cleaving the ice sword in two.

"It can even cut through my ice sword made of ultimate ice. The soul power in your body has begun to transform into sword energy." Huo Yuhao showed his approval. Although it was just an ice sword he made casually, it still had the hardness of ordinary ultimate ice, so it was quite difficult to cut through it.

Sword energy surged, and Ji Juechen's cultivation as a sixth-ring Soul Emperor advanced towards Soul Saint, causing a change in his entire aura.

"If one can convert all their soul power into sword energy, then they shouldn't be called a Soul Emperor, but a Sword Emperor," Huo Yuhao laughed.

The first Sword Emperor in the history of Douluo Continent.

"And then break through to become a Sword Saint? Hahaha, I'll lend you a hand." Huo Yuhao flicked his broken sword, and it returned to its complete form as an ice sword.

Ji Juechen also stopped at this moment, as he could sense the change in Huo Yuhao's aura.

"Try taking this sword strike." Huo Yuhao soared into the air, fusing his sword intent with his soul power, and condensed the chilling sword energy at the tip of his sword.

"This is..." Ji Juechen's eyes were filled with fanaticism. If he took this sword head-on, he might die.

but,

As you hear the news, you can die in the evening.

In an instant, a cold light flashed, and all that could be seen was that sword descending from the sky.

"A single point of cold light shines with boundless brilliance."

Faced with this terrifying sword strike that seemed capable of slaughtering the entire world, Ji Juechen neither dodged nor evaded, but instead raised his sword to meet it.

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"What a sword fanatic." Huo Yuhao infused Ji Juechen, whose body was almost severed, with a bit of the energy of the Life Gold to restore him. He had now entered a state of deep enlightenment.

"What are you doing here again?" Huo Yuhao turned to look at Ye Guyi, who had popped out from the side.

"I want to learn swordsmanship too, teach me too." Ye Guyi's eyes shone with excitement. She had watched the whole thing, and the two people wielded their swords so skillfully.

"Oh, you use a sword too." Huo Yuhao remembered that when he first saw this girl, she was also using a sword to kill evil spirit masters.

"Let's have a match." Ye Guyi drew her sword.

"Hmm..." Huo Yuhao rummaged in his storage device and took out a small carving knife that he used to use to carve magic arrays. "Sorry, I can't find one smaller than this."

"What the hell do you mean?!"

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Shrek City

The tree blossoms fall like rain, and at this time of year, the hearts of young men and women sway gently with the branches.

"I like you... Please... Please go out with me!" The shy girl said these words with all her might. Meng Hongchen never expected that she would be so brave to make such a decision.

"???"

Wang Dong blankly licked the ice cream off his lips. "Huh?"

Then, Wang Dong ran away.

"Damn it, he actually got away!" Meng Hongchen stomped her foot in anger, then fondly touched her flushed cheeks with both hands. "But even the way he fled was so handsome. Next time... next time I won't let you escape again..."

"I won't allow it!" Xiao Hongchen suddenly jumped out. "As the elder brother, I won't allow it!"

"Shrek's educational lessons also said that this kind of thing is too early for you."

"Brother, you're too much of a textbook student. You weren't like this before," Meng Hongchen complained. He'd only been here for a few days, and Xiao Hongchen's thinking had already been transformed like this.

"I'll learn anything as long as I can become stronger. Besides, I think these educational lessons really make a lot of sense," Xiao Hongchen said earnestly. "The Sun Moon Empire has already been transformed into the Douluo Federation, so there's nothing that can't be changed."

Nothing is immutable. This is a famous quote that Mr. Huo published in a weekly magazine, and Xiao Hongchen wholeheartedly agrees.

"Then you should help me even more. Think about it, if I get together with Wang Dong, and he has a good relationship with Huo Yuhao, he must also be very familiar with that soul tool master, Mr. Huo. If you ask him for help, you can go and learn from Mr. Huo." Meng Hongchen coaxed.

“Alright, I allow it.” Xiao Hongchen changed his mind.

"What a flexible bottom line..." Meng Hongchen was speechless at his brother's behavior.

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Several days later,

"Huff, huff, huff..." Wang Dong leaned against the dormitory door, panting heavily. "It was terrifying."

She barely managed to escape from Meng Hongchen's clutches.

These past few days, whenever she goes out, she "bumps into" Meng Hongchen every half hour. She also feels like there's a pair of eyes watching her when she's shopping or eating.

Then Xiao Hongchen will appear and strike up a conversation with her, saying things like, "Hey, have you seen my sister Meng Hongchen? Oh, you like this too, just like Xiao Meng. I feel like you two would get along really well..." and other inexplicably awkward things that make you want to die.

Soon, there was a knock on the door.

"Senior Wang Dong, don't be so aloof. I brought you your favorite grilled fish," Meng Hongchen said from outside the door.

"I am not your senior."

"In terms of cultivation, you're the senior." Meng Hongchen said indifferently.

"Seriously..." Wang Dong couldn't stand it anymore and ran to Huo Yuhao's bed in the dormitory to search for things.

Finally, they found a long and narrow box.

Wang Dong opened the dusty box, and inside was Huo Yuhao's magic gun, but it was a spare version.

"Haha, it's Yuhao's spare magic gun." Wang Dong picked up the magic gun, which Huo Yuhao had told her to use in case of an emergency.

"Ah... how do you use this? Oh, it's here."

The spare magic gun contains an automatic teleportation magic circle; firing it will automatically open a portal.

Wang Dong wanted to escape as quickly as possible, so he hurriedly shot out a portal and jumped in.

"Heave-ho, where am I?" Wang Dong landed happily, knowing that Meng Hongchen would definitely not be able to find her now.

"Senior Wang Dong?"

"Huh?" Wang Dong broke out in a cold sweat and looked up to see Hongchen and his sister standing by the dormitory door.

"Why did it only teleport me to the entrance?!"

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