The participating members of the Tang Sect were naturally Huo Yuhao's masterpiece. Those geniuses of the Holy Spirit Cult who were killed one by one by Tang Sect members in the original timeline now all claimed to be from the Tang Sect.
The only thing that surprised Huo Yuhao was that Tang San didn't find any clues about the Tang Sect participants from his daughter's perspective. presumably, that old boy, with new injuries added to old ones, had to stay in his bedchamber to recuperate.
At this moment, Huo Yuhao was standing on the top floor of the Mingyue Hotel with his group, observing the movements of the Tang Sect group with Spiritual Insight.
Lu Genggeng, Yan Feng, and other prodigies of the Holy Spirit Cult had been controlled by Huo Yuhao using King's Power since he was rescued. Except for Tang Ya, whom Beibei contacted directly, the other Evil Soul Masters had hidden their aura very well.
With Tang Wutong and Xu Sanshi's perception, they couldn't detect the Evil Soul Master aura shielded by his spiritual brand.
Of course, Huo Yuhao wouldn't let these people take action so early, as that would lose the dramatic effect.
After a full half an hour, hotel service staff finally came over to guide the Tang Sect people to report and register.
The registration place was in the center of the hotel lobby. A row of long tables was arranged horizontally, facing the direction of the gate. There were a total of ten people responsible for reporting and registering.
There was also a row of empty tables beside them. Under the guidance of the service staff, everyone had to fill out forms first. There were many things to fill in—detailed information of every regular member and reserve member had to be filled in, including name, age, affiliated sect, etc.
Huo Yuhao had to carefully fabricate information based on the abilities of these Evil Soul Masters and manipulated them to fill it out personally.
After filling out the forms, everyone had to take a photo.
The camera was a special auxiliary soul tool that could record a person's appearance. After taking the photo, the portrait would be directly printed on the form, fully demonstrating the Sun Moon Empire's leading position in technology.
After taking photos, there was a physical examination and physical test. This was to confirm that the participating students were under twenty years old.
The physical test for ordinary people was calm. After all, this was only a physical test to confirm age. In order to keep the strength of each participating team confidential, there was no test like soul power cultivation, which was completely different from the physical test when Ning Tian and the others entered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
There was nothing for Huo Yuhao to do later. He had done what he should do.
"Done?" Zhang Lexuan's voice was a bit anxious. After all, the ability of Evil Soul Masters was not easy to fool.
"Don't worry. With this King taking action, what mistakes can occur?" Huo Yuhao replied lazily.
After bringing the two mermaid princesses with him, their group had arrived in Mingdu for a day or two. If not for Beibei insisting on waiting for Xu Sanshi and the other to arrive, the Tang Sect would have completed the registration long ago.
Among the Seven Devils, Jiang Nannan and Xiao Xiao were still missing. Because of Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong, Jiang Nannan would likely not return to the Tang Sect team. As for Xiao Xiao, she was completely out of contact.
"What about us? How do we participate?" Xiao Hongchen pointed at himself. He had long successfully broken through the bottleneck and was a solid Soul Sage, worrying about having strength but nowhere to use it.
Originally, Huo Yuhao planned to include the Hongchen siblings, the Lan sisters, and Autumn in the initial participating members of the Tang Sect, and then pull out the Evil Soul Masters as regular members in the finals.
When he arrived in Mingdu and learned about the agreement between Beibei and Xu Sanshi, he immediately changed his strategy.
Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong were too familiar with the Hongchen siblings and might associate them with him. Moreover, Tang San could take action through his daughter at any time. He didn't want his partners to be in danger at any time.
"Mingdu doesn't only have this one competition." Huo Yuhao rolled his eyes at him. He came to Mingdu this time, and another more important thing was to find Ye Guyi.
"Brother, we can no longer participate as members of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy." Meng Hongchen's beautiful eyes were downcast. She patted Xiao Hongchen's shoulder and comforted him.
Yes, since the moment they were arranged by Jing Hongchen to support Huo Yuhao's group a year ago, they were listed on the blacklist of the Sun Moon Empire.
Hearing this, Xiao Hongchen's eyes also dimmed. In Jing Hongchen's view, following Huo Yuhao was far more promising than staying in the Sun Moon Empire.
The condition was to abandon everything they had in the Sun Moon Empire.
"Huo Yuhao, we want to go see Grandpa." Meng Hongchen begged Huo Yuhao.
"No problem." Huo Yuhao agreed readily. "Wait until I find a sect to sneak Autumn and the others in, then we'll go see Jing Hongchen."
At this time, Huo Yuhao suddenly felt something in his heart. His gaze quickly shifted down and found a group of people walking slowly towards the Mingyue Hotel.
Huo Yuhao couldn't be more familiar with the graceful woman leading them, even knowing her inside out.
The Earth Dragon Gate actually came too.
A smile curled at the corner of Huo Yuhao's mouth, and then a trace of spatial fluctuation appeared in his left eye.
The group from the Earth Dragon Gate was preparing to enter the Mingyue Hotel to register for the competition. While walking, the world in front of them suddenly spun. When they came back to their senses, they found themselves in a wilderness.
"Mom, what happened?" Nan Qiuqiu instantly turned pale, hurriedly retreating to Nan Shuishui's side and screaming.
Nan Shuishui's face didn't look good either. She didn't expect that they would encounter an unknown attack on the way to the competition.
"Who exactly is Your Excellency? Why make things difficult for my Earth Dragon Gate people?" Nan Shuishui asked loudly towards the front.
Huo Yuhao didn't intend to scare them either. He appeared in front of them directly with his partners.
"Senior Nan, how have you been?" Huo Yuhao smiled slightly at the Earth Dragon Gate group. Only Nan Shuishui read the hidden ambiguity from his eyes, and her pretty face blushed immediately.
"Huo Yuhao?" Nan Qiuqiu shouted in surprise. Back then, she was taken to the New Shrek Academy. Taking advantage of Huo Yuhao and others appearing to disrupt the situation, she quickly left that place of trouble with the chaotic crowd.
"You... how come you are here?" Nan Shuishui's face was somewhat unnatural. Over the past year, whenever she recalled the madness of that night, she couldn't help feeling ashamed.
Seeing her expression, Zhongli Yu's slightly dangerous gaze pierced towards Huo Yuhao like a sharp sword.
"Cough cough!" Huo Yuhao coughed lightly, "It's like this. I want to arrange for a few partners to join your sect's reserve members to help you get an ideal ranking."
"Really? Can you help us win the championship?" Nan Qiuqiu almost jumped for joy upon hearing this. Even if Huo Yuhao didn't play himself, just his few partners could easily sweep all the battle teams, right?
After the Earth Dragon Gate encountered great changes, the sect's strength was greatly reduced. Coming to Mingdu this time, they almost couldn't even gather enough qualified regular members.
Now with Huo Yuhao's help, wouldn't winning the championship be a sure thing?
"Qiuqiu!" Nan Shuishui hurriedly stopped her daughter, then looked at Huo Yuhao: "Can you tell me why?"
"Winning the championship probably won't work." Huo Yuhao chuckled, "I hope you can qualify together with a certain team at that time, and help them sweep away all obstacles along the way."
"Tsk..." Nan Qiuqiu curled her lips. Isn't this planning to use them as pawns?
"If you intend to help that team, why don't you arrange your people there?" Nan Shuishui keenly raised a doubt.
"Very simple, because I hope that when they are praised to the highest point, they will fall fiercely..." Huo Yuhao explained mysteriously.
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According to the arrangement of the Sun Moon Empire Competition Organizing Committee, the sects and academies coming to participate were also divided into different grades. Like the defending champion Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy representative team, they must be ranked in the first grade, living in the best rooms and receiving the best treatment.
It was the same among sects. The more famous the sect, the better the treatment received.
Earth Dragon Gate? Those responsible for registration records didn't know that there were Huo Yuhao's partners among the participants of the Earth Dragon Gate. They only knew that the Earth Dragon Gate was declining year by year. For the sake of Nan Shuishui's beauty, the Earth Dragon Gate was arranged in a room barely ranking in the middle grade.
Only the Lan sisters and Die Qiu were arranged to represent the Earth Dragon Gate. The team leader changed from Nan Shuishui to Zhongli Yu. The Hongchen siblings had considerable attainments in soul engineers, so they were arranged by Huo Yuhao to participate in the competition underground in Mingdu.
As for Yu Mengdi, no matter how unwilling she was, her age no longer allowed her to participate in the competition.
The lower the floor of Mingyue Hotel, the more ordinary the room; the higher, the better. The first floor had a lobby, a wellness center, several restaurants, etc.
The Earth Dragon Gate was arranged on the fourth floor.
Mingyue Hotel was also a top hotel in the Sun Moon Empire. Even the most ordinary rooms were not bad, just a bit small in area.
Each hotel room was only about twenty square meters, but also had an independent bathroom. The interior layout was simple and generous. Each room was furnished with two single beds.
After arranging everyone's accommodation, Huo Yuhao came to the room of Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiuqiu mother and daughter alone.
Seeing it was him, Nan Shuishui's eyes showed a little reproach, but she still invited him to sit on her bed.
Nan Qiuqiu didn't know about the things between Huo Yuhao and her "mother" Nan Shuishui. She held Huo Yuhao's hand and giggled, "Demon King Brother, our Earth Dragon Gate relies on you for this competition!"
"Cough cough!" Under Nan Shuishui's gaze, Huo Yuhao withdrew his hand without a trace, "Due to some reasons, I can't help you get the championship, but top four or runner-up shouldn't be difficult."
"That's enough." Nan Qiuqiu also knew that her sect didn't have the strength to get the championship. The ranking obtained by relying on them was ultimately hollow. Huo Yuhao promising to help them get top four was already enough.
She remembered clearly that among Huo Yuhao's partners, some could already solo kill Ultimate Douluo Mu En.
Huo Yuhao thought for a moment, raised his right hand, and light flashed on the storage soul guide ring. A set of crystal clear armor appeared in mid-air.
This set of armor was deep blue. Different from the deep blue of the ocean, its deep blue was not only full of life aura but also had a sense of vicissitudes of eternity. As soon as it appeared, the temperature in the air began to drop sharply.
"What is this?" Seeing this exquisite armor, Nan Qiuqiu exclaimed immediately.
Huo Yuhao raised his left hand and pressed lightly on the armor. Immediately, that deep blue armor scattered. Before Nan Qiuqiu could react, it turned into more than ten streams of light and merged towards her body.
This was a full-body armor. Every piece of armor was carefully carved, like pieces of deep blue ice crystals, perfectly fitting Nan Qiuqiu's body.
After Nan Qiuqiu put it on, her whole person became slightly larger. Every piece of armor had ice prism lines refracting external light. From a distance, the current Nan Qiuqiu was like a humanoid blue gem, emitting a soft blue halo.
Huo Yuhao used the spiritual link to control Nan Qiuqiu's body to put on the final helmet. The latter immediately emitted extremely strong cold air all over her body. Even Nan Shuishui beside her had to urge soul power to resist.
After putting on this armor, the aura emitted from Nan Qiuqiu's body soared straight up, constantly improving. It surpassed the Soul King realm at once, came to the Soul Emperor level, and approached the Soul Sage powerhouse.
"This is made using a rare metal mined underground in your sect. I call it the Ice Extreme War God Armor."
Yes, this set of armor was the super humanoid soul tool painstakingly researched by Huo Yuhao asking Kong Deming over the past year, called unreplicable by Kong Deming, the Ice Extreme War God Armor!
Which is the prototype of the Battle Armor in the Legend of the Dragon King.
The entire set of armor was cast using the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal brought back by Huo Yuhao. A total of two sets of this Ice Extreme War God Armor were made, and one set was this one on Nan Qiuqiu.
Without the gratuitous contribution of the Earth Dragon Gate, it would have taken Huo Yuhao some effort to get so many Ice Extreme Divine Crystals.
"This is too precious!" Nan Shuishui showed a shocked look. With this set of armor, plus the characteristics of Nan Qiuqiu's martial soul, she believed that in a one-on-one situation, absolutely no one in the entire competition could easily defeat Nan Qiuqiu.
Unlike in the original timeline, the Ice Extreme Divine Crystals used in Nan Qiuqiu's set also had Ice Spirits. That is to say, this set of armor also possessed life aura and could evolve continuously.
All core arrays inside the armor were also carved using Ice Extreme Divine Crystals. Completed by Huo Yuhao personally under Kong Deming's guidance. During the process, the Life Guardian Blade was used, and even the Rakshasa Scythe was used, otherwise some cutting operations could not be completed at all.
"Wow, thank you Demon King Brother!" Feeling the all-round amplification effect of the armor, Nan Qiuqiu was overjoyed. She suddenly hugged Huo Yuhao's neck and kissed him on the cheek.
Noticing Nan Shuishui's gaze like eating people, Huo Yuhao hurriedly pushed this overly excited little girl away again.
Huo Yuhao didn't forget to specifically instruct Nan Qiuqiu. The power of this Ice Extreme War God Armor itself was still too great, so when controlling it, she absolutely couldn't control it completely. After all, her cultivation was still lacking.
Nan Qiuqiu nodded excitedly repeatedly, then ran out of the room quickly. She wanted to find the sect members who came with her to test the power of this armor now.
"You are too good to her." Nan Shuishui looked at her daughter's excited back and couldn't help blaming him.
Huo Yuhao just chuckled, then gently grabbed her left hand.
"What are you doing?"
Before Nan Shuishui could struggle, Huo Yuhao put an ice-blue ring on the ring finger of her left hand.
"Inside here, there is another set of Ice Extreme War God Armor, very fitting for your figure."
A teasing look appeared at the corner of Huo Yuhao's mouth. How could Nan Shuishui not know the hidden meaning in his words? Her body had long been touched all over by this guy!
"You gave them all to us. What do you use yourself?" Nan Shuishui wanted to refuse as she spoke. She could naturally feel that the value of these two sets of Ice Extreme War God Armor given by Huo Yuhao was no less than the sum of Grade 9 soul tools deployed by an army.
"This is not quite suitable for the current me..." Huo Yuhao scratched his head. Since entering the Dragon Realm and successively signing soul spirit contracts with Fire Dragon King Jia Lin and Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena, the attributes on his body began to become mixed. Especially the Ultimate Fire granted to him by Jia Lin, which would conflict with the attributes of the Ice Extreme War God Armor to a certain extent.
It was also like this during the Legend of the Dragon King period. When the master's cultivation was too powerful, the Battle Armor could not support the master's power instead.
However, Huo Yuhao still kept a part of the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal. Maybe it could come in handy when creating a Battle Armor truly belonging to himself in the future.
At this time, Nan Shuishui's pretty face was already completely red. How could she not know what the position where Huo Yuhao put the storage ring on her hand meant?
Looking at her panicked expression, Huo Yuhao slowly reached out to touch her pretty face, lowered his head, and kissed that cherry red spot.
Facing Huo Yuhao's gentleness, Nan Shuishui gradually sank. She was surprised to find that her body didn't resist much.
Just as Huo Yuhao pushed her onto the bed, Nan Shuishui suddenly broke free from his kiss, breathing rapidly: "No, what if Qiuqiu comes back later?"
"She won't. I used spiritual power to let her enjoy experiencing that battle armor to the fullest. Probably she can only come back later." Huo Yuhao laughed strangely.
While speaking, Huo Yuhao continued his unfinished business. Nan Shuishui, having met nectar after a long drought, couldn't withstand his teasing and soon had no power to resist.
Huo Yuhao directly used God King level spiritual power to seal this room. Even if Zhongli Yu or Zhang Lexuan and others looked for him for something, they absolutely couldn't break into this room.
"Huo Yuhao..." Nan Shuishui's eyes were blurred, hugging his neck tightly.
"Hmm?" Huo Yuhao looked up slightly from her neck.
"I love you—"
Nan Shuishui finally abandoned all reserve and quickly fought with him...
In the next room, Autumn, who vaguely sensed spiritual fluctuations, pouted, looking unenthusiastic.
She signed soul spirit contracts with two mermaid princesses successively, and her cultivation rose like a rocket. Now she was already a Soul Douluo level powerhouse.
Fortunately, after she completely became a human, the soul skills granted to Huo Yuhao didn't disappear because of this. Only she would no longer be the Emperor Auspicious Beast of Star Dou. The fortune of the entire Star Dou Great Forest had all transferred to Huo Yuhao.
"Autumn, what's wrong?" Meng Hongchen, who lived in the same room with her, didn't understand. She liked this naturally distinct girl Die Qiu very much and proposed to live with her.
Men all like big sisters with rich charm! Autumn rubbed her body angrily. She must eat more papaya next!
In an adjacent room, Zhongli Yu and Zhang Lexuan lived together.
"Why doesn't Huo Yuhao live with you?" Zhang Lexuan looked at the bored Zhongli Yu on the bed and couldn't help asking.
As Huo Yuhao's first woman on the Douluo Continent, Zhongli Yu and he were like an old married couple. When she saw Huo Yuhao making eyes at that woman from the Earth Dragon Gate, she immediately realized things were not simple.
"Hmph!" Thinking that Zhang Lexuan also once made a blood oath and aspired to become Huo Yuhao's woman, Zhongli Yu turned her head away angrily.
So angry!