Douluo Continent: The Spirit-Eyed Detective Huo Yuhao

A whale, a nearly 1,000-meter-long, blue-black behemoth, its body covered in layers of menacing, demonic patterns.

"Not enough, we need more blood food..." the deep-sea demon whale roared. For some unknown reason, she sensed a surge in energy in the Douluo plane, which even awakened her from her slumber as she was accumulating power.

"No matter what, this is an opportunity. Devour...devour everything...help me become a god!" The Demon Emperor thought to himself, his heart burning with vengeance, and his overwhelming demonic energy dyed the surrounding seawater a purplish-black.

The relaxation of dimensional restrictions allowed her to make further breakthroughs in her cultivation. She was no longer satisfied with devouring the life forms in this small area of ​​the sea, but instead set her sights on the sea spirit beasts in other sea areas, and even... the land.

"If I could devour all living beings in this world, would that allow me to condense a divine position and become a true god?" The Demon Queen herself didn't know, but she was willing to try. Revenge had become her obsession, driving her mad, and she didn't want to think too much anymore.

She deliberately instigated those confused sea spirit beasts to fight each other, also in order to take the opportunity to absorb their blood and spirits.

"Wait, who was I supposed to take revenge on again?"

The deep-sea demon whale was suddenly stunned, only then realizing that she had even forgotten who her enemy was.

This is Huo Yuhao's fault. He had completely erased the sea spirit beasts' impressions of the sea god, assuming they were all just believers of the sea god. He never expected there to be such a vengeful person who hated the sea god to the bone.

"I don't care anymore, everyone, all the gods, must die!!!" The Demon Emperor went even crazier.

“Mom…” A smaller whale looked at the Demon Emperor with worry from a distance. Even Lan Fuzi, the daughter, felt that her mother was somewhat frightening.

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On the deck of the Mech God ship,

"Haha, even while studying and cultivating on the ship, you can't slack off. Your teacher will give you a lesson right now," Huo Yuhao laughed.

In front of him were students from the Sun Moon First Academy, led by Ji Juechen. They had not yet finished their courses and had also joined Huo Yuhao on this journey.

"Today's lesson is combat. You've all been waiting for this, haven't you?" Huo Yuhao pointed to himself. "You will kill your master. Of course, you don't have to actually kill him, because you definitely can't do it. So, let's see who comes into contact with me first. As a reward, not only will their homework be halved next time, but they will also get one wish. Anything that your master can do."

Upon hearing that they could fight Huo Yuhao, Ji Juechen, Ye Guyi, and other students couldn't help but get excited.

"Most importantly, I will only use these silk threads to fight, and I am forbidden from using my most proficient telekinesis, extreme ice, and other abilities. If you can force me to use any power other than silk threads, then you win." Silk threads shot out from Huo Yuhao's ten fingers. "How about that? Hahaha, even with such a big restriction, you still have no chance of winning."

"This guy really looks down on people," Keke said.

"Because he is really strong. What should I wish for...?" Orange asked expectantly, seemingly very confident in her own strength.

After all, under Huo Yuhao's tutelage, they had made great progress in both their knowledge and strength.

"Not only the students in the class, but everyone else can participate too. The reward is to grant one wish." Huo Yuhao looked at Wang Dong, the Seven Devils, Huo Qiu'er, the Mermaid Princess, and others on the other side.

"What a strange human being." Gu Yue leaned against the wall, looking at Huo Yuhao's behavior with puzzlement.

The destination of this trip was Dragon Valley, so she naturally boarded the ship as well.

“But he is indeed a very good teacher.” Na’er stood next to Gu Yue, holding a large handful of snacks.

"Ha, because he taught you how to exist independently of me?"

"Hahaha! Independent of you? Don't get it wrong, whoever is stronger is the true entity!"

"You think you can compete with me for the Dragon God Core?"

Chapter 172 Combat Tutorial: Undercurrents

"The lesson begins!" Huo Yuhao gave the order, and everyone on the ship's deck immediately sprang into action.

Perhaps it's for that one wish, or perhaps it's simply for the sake of fighting.

From the very beginning, a cloud of purple smoke enveloped the deck, obscuring even mental energy and blocking everyone's vision.

However, everyone present was an expert, and they were still able to determine the location even with their vision blocked.

"So you're trying to interfere with my vision with a smokescreen because I said I wouldn't use mental detection?" Huo Yuhao laughed. "Jing Ziyan, your idea is good, but haven't you underestimated my spiritual eyes?"

"Ah!" Jing Ziyan tripped over a silkworm thread.

"Damn it, I'm stuck!" Keke wanted to flank and launch a sneak attack, but she already had sharp threads pressed against her neck, and her gun was taken from her hand.

"The two students cooperated well, but their concealment was not very good. Even when they were hidden in the smoke, their unstable breathing still made them noticeable. Keke's soul-guided gun was well done, but her accuracy calculation was wrong when she fired. Was it affected by her teammates' smoke?" Huo Yuhao, who was dodging the attack, did not forget to give guidance.

The smoke did not obstruct Huo Yuhao's vision at all. With a slight movement of his fingers, hundreds of silk threads as strong as steel wires spread flexibly all around, binding the hands and feet of anyone who tried to get close to him in the smoke.

But some things won't be easily blocked.

Ji Juechen broke through the smoke, cut the silk threads blocking his way, and rushed straight to Huo Yuhao. He was always the most eager to challenge Huo Yuhao.

The meteorite iron sword radiated a dazzling light, and the energy circulating within it was not soul power but sword energy, which had formed a domain filled with the intent of annihilation.

"A sword flashes like a silver river, the heavens and earth are silent as the ocean splits open."

With a single sword strike, the most solid silk threads protecting Huo Yuhao in front of him snapped instantly, forcing him to use his movement technique to quickly dodge.

With this dodge, the sharp sword light cleaved the sea, splitting the entire ocean in two.

"Wow, you're really strong. But you're still a long way from hurting me." Huo Yuhao wrapped silk around Ji Juechen's waist and flung him away. "It was definitely the right decision to have Ji Juechen attend a Chinese class. A swordsman has to recite poetry after unleashing his sword moves to be considered cool. Even if it's just a few lines of doggerel, as long as the power is strong enough, it can still be very cool."

Looking back...

"Hmm?" Huo Yuhao was slightly surprised. Ji Juechen, who had been thrown away, returned in mid-air, with six soul rings stacked on top of each other at the tip of the sword.

That's right. After Ji Juechen converted all his soul power into sword energy, he didn't add any more soul rings, but his cultivation level had undoubtedly reached above the title level.

His breakthrough no longer requires the use of spirit rings and spirit beasts.

With a single thrust of his sword, he shattered all his own spirit rings, yet the power of his sword energy increased rather than decreased.

"Past events are not in vain; I will wield my sword and shatter the heavens."

"The Sword of Affection... you've actually mastered it. Well done," Huo Yuhao praised, holding the sword still embedded in his abdomen.

If Ji Juechen once cultivated himself into the ruthless sword, now he has become the true wielder of the sword, the undisputed master of the sword.

"It's a pity I still lost." Ji Juechen shook his head and drew his sword. Huo Yuhao in front of him turned into a pile of silkworm silk and fell to the ground.

"Hahaha, who's next? Nobody's even touched me yet." Huo Yuhao's true form appeared from the other side of the smoke, which was originally meant to hinder him but instead became an aid to his concealment.

Without a sound, a fist covered in golden scales slammed into the door. Huo Yuhao leaned back to avoid the punch, but Huo Qiu'er immediately followed up with a stomp, about to crush Huo Yuhao to the ground.

Huo Yuhao rolled over repeatedly, managing to dodge her feet in time.

"That was close." Huo Yuhao wiped away imaginary sweat. When it comes to concealing one's aura, the auspicious beast Huo Qiu'er is the best at it here.

A wild and violent right straight punch was aimed at Huo Yuhao's jaw, but it was entangled and pulled away by several silkworm threads. With a beastly roar, Huo Qiu'er changed her fist into a claw, and with her claws and teeth, she tore at Huo Yuhao.

Behind them, another whip kick swept down to their waist. It was Jiang Nannan. She and Huo Qiu'er were both experts in close combat.

Huo Qiu'er fought with powerful, sweeping movements, relying solely on brute force, while Jiang Nannan used extreme speed to deliver kicks targeting the joints.

At this moment, the two of them were positioned one in front and one behind, one above and one below, leaving Huo Yuhao nowhere to hide.

"Got it!" Huo Qiu'er smiled triumphantly, already thinking about what to wish for.

"You're too happy too soon." Huo Yuhao's silk threads stuck to the sides of the ship, and his whole body turned sideways, squeezing out from the gap between Huo Qiu'er and Jiang Nannan's attacks, and standing in mid-air on the silk threads.

"Is this a human being?" Huo Qiu'er exclaimed angrily. "Is that something a human could do?"

"Haha, I didn't use any other abilities, I only used these threads from beginning to end. Your movements and tactics were impeccable, and you timed your coordinated attack on me very well, but you couldn't react to unexpected situations more quickly..." Huo Yuhao was explaining when two electromagnetic cannons were fired at him.

Easily dodged it, Huo Yuhao said with dissatisfaction, "Don't attack while I'm still explaining... huh?"

My attention had just been diverted when my perspective suddenly shifted to a different angle.

"So that's how it is, the Xuanming substitution. So my current location is..." Almost touching his own back, Huo Yuhao could already hear the crackling of lightning.

"Thunderbolt of Gods, at this distance I can still dodge... but not dodge?" Huo Yuhao looked up and saw Xiao Xiao holding a giant cauldron on his head. The powerful gravity pressed down, and the melodious sound of the flute slowed his movements slightly. Xu Sanshi's black water pool under his feet controlled his legs.

"Excellent teamwork." Huo Yuhao gripped the silk in his hand, the threads forming a large net that enveloped Xiao Xiao in mid-air, and then pulled her down forcefully.

"No way, I finally got a chance to perform..." Xiao Xiao cried out. Wrapped in the silk net, Xiao Xiao and the giant cauldron crashed down, trapping Bei Bei below. The extremely powerful Divine Thunderbolt exploded inside the cauldron.

Because he exerted too much force, half of Huo Yuhao's body sank into the black pool, but he pulled himself back into the air by a silk thread.

"Xiao Xiao, your presence is still so strong, I didn't even notice it at first. Senior Brother Bei Bei's Divine Thunderclap is very strong, but he pursues power too much, so his mobility is poor. And Xu Sanshi..." Huo Yuhao looked down and saw Xu Sanshi, who had already fainted, emerge from the shrunken black pool.

"That was underhanded. If we had faced each other head-on, we would have had a better chance of succeeding."

He had just been hiding underwater, trying to ambush someone, when Huo Yuhao used silk threads to bind his mouth, nose, hands, and feet.

Two figures rushed up from the smoke, and Huo Yuhao dodged them, only to find that they were actually two zombies.

"So you're saying that bumping into a zombie counts as bumping into one?" Huo Yuhao drew a thread, and the two zombies were cut to pieces.

"Hehe, even if our souls meet, it counts as a meeting." Ghost Nana's ghost suddenly jumped out from one of the cracks in the zombie and was about to grab Huo Yuhao's left leg.

"A wish! Hehehe, a wish that Teacher Huo will grant any wish! It's mine... Ahhh!!! Where did this holy light come from?!"

"Sorry." Ye Guyi used light magic in one hand and the angelic holy sword in the other, attacking Huo Yuhao simultaneously.

"Nana, I told you not to release your soul lightly before you've mastered necromancy, or it will easily be scattered." Huo Yuhao wrapped a thread around Nana's ghost and quickly pulled it back into his body. Nana was already dizzy.

"And, Ye Guyi's sword is too soft." With a casual flick of the string, Ye Guyi's Angel Sword flew out of her hand. "Compared to Ji Juechen, it's not held tightly enough."

Another burst of noise, strange sound effects that Huo Yuhao found very familiar.

"Transform!"

"Martial Soul Ultimate Drive!"

"cigar!"

He Caitou revealed the Ultimate Martial Soul Driver at his waist. A cigar was inserted into the center of his belt and lit, instantly transforming into a metal monster shrouded in smoke. His body was covered in a set of brown-black armor, with only his head emitting a flame-like red light.

"Smoke billowing, lung warning! Danger! Danger!"

A deadly aura of danger was hidden beneath the brown-black armor.

The same applies to Orange. When the orange belt is switched on, an orange-shaped piece of armor falls onto her body like a fruit.

"Martial Soul Ultimate Drive!"

"tangerine!"

"The fruits have fallen to the ground, and the fragrance of oranges fills the air."

The green leaves transformed into fluttering scarves, and the sweet and sour aroma of ripe fruit wafted out, both sweet and tantalizing.

"Isn't this super cool?!" Huo Yuhao was overjoyed. Although he had participated in the manufacturing of their armor and given some suggestions, he was still very surprised to see the finished product.

"And there's us too." Turning around, they saw Xiao Hongchen and his sister, both wearing the Ultimate Martial Soul Driver on their waists.

"There are more experts?" Huo Yuhao was surprised. These two were created by themselves, weren't they?