Huo Yuhao glimpsed Yu Mengdi's shining eyes from the corner of his eye and almost couldn't help but laugh.
This little girl was quite interesting, but for now, he didn't know much about Yu Mengdi and wasn't very interested.
"We have plenty of time. Wanna chat?" Huo Yuhao handed over a drink.
Yu Mengdi immediately nodded excitedly like a chick pecking at rice, "Sure! I really want to know how you walked this path and why the gap between us is so huge."
"Well..." Huo Yuhao scratched his head, "Regarding my identity, I think rumors should have spread all over the continent long ago. When I was just a servant, I never thought I would have today's achievements."
Huo Yuhao's life experience was no longer a secret. When his identity was dug out back then, even White Tiger Duke Dai Hao couldn't believe that his son was actually the rumored number one prodigy on the continent.
Huo Yuhao didn't want to reveal too many secrets about himself. He just briefly skipped over his experiences these years, from being forced to join the Holy Spirit Cult, to entering Shrek Academy to build his own team, participating in the competition in Star Luo, and counterattacking Shrek Academy...
There were several versions of stories about Huo Yuhao on the continent. Back then, the Sea God Pavilion used public opinion quite a lot to smear him in order to slander him.
Listening to Huo Yuhao narrating the real story at this moment, Yu Mengdi was sometimes amazed, sometimes angry, and sometimes excited.
Huo Yuhao disdained lying to his partners because there was no need. No one would dig deeper into things he didn't want to say.
When Yu Mengdi joined the team, it was exactly when Huo Yuhao returned strongly and caused a disturbance at the Sea God Fate. Although she participated in that thrilling chaotic battle, she didn't have many highlight moments of her own.
A Soul Emperor was almost not even cannon fodder in that fierce battle.
While chatting, noon arrived unknowingly.
"Creak—"
Just as Huo Yuhao was about to propose sending someone out to buy lunch, the tightly closed door suddenly opened.
No need to ask, just from the appearance, one could recognize that the person who opened the door and came in was exactly the Ghost Martial Soul possessor, Nana.
Neither Huo Yuhao nor Yu Mengdi had hidden their figures, so they were directly bumped into by her.
"Who are you?" Nana frowned slightly and asked. With a flash of light in her hand, an incomparably sharp dagger appeared in her hand.
Although she wasn't particularly beautiful, that heroic spirit rare in ordinary girls had a unique charm. Especially her extremely well-proportioned body perfectly presented the beauty of the female figure.
Neither of the opponents wore the uniform of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Moreover, this was the female dormitory area. A man appearing rashly in her room inevitably made her vigilant.
However, this boy seemed a bit handsome?
"Ghost Nana, right? Been waiting for you for a long time." Huo Yuhao smiled slightly, "It's not convenient here. Let's change a place to talk."
"You..."
Before Nana could react, the scene in front of her distorted abruptly. A strong dizziness followed. When she recovered, the three had already appeared in an obscure corner of the academy.
Looking at Huo Yuhao who was still smiling, Nana was instantly shocked. She had never heard of this ability to teleport with others. If the opponent intended to harm her...
"Who exactly are you?"
Nana herself didn't notice that her voice was trembling slightly at this moment. Being able to easily transfer her out of the academy meant the opponent had the ability to kill her easily.
"First time meeting, I am Huo Yuhao, Demon King Huo Yuhao."
Huo Yuhao stated his identity straightforwardly. He had nothing to hide. On the current Douluo Continent, there was no one left who could make him apprehensive.
"Huo Yuhao!" Nana couldn't help exclaiming. Then as if remembering something, her eyes instantly became sinister: "You are Demon King Huo Yuhao? The Holy Son of the Holy Spirit Cult, Huo Yuhao?"
Huo Yuhao spread his hands helplessly, "Although I don't really want to admit this identity, the fact is indeed so. I am indeed the former Holy Son of the Holy Spirit Cult."
"What do you want?" Nana gritted her silver teeth. She knew the strength gap between the two sides clearly. Even if Huo Yuhao stood there letting her attack, she couldn't hurt him a bit.
"Nana, born in a noble family. Father was a hereditary baron of the Sun Moon Empire, and mother was a soul master with the Ghost Martial Soul. After awakening your martial soul at six, you were discovered by the Holy Spirit Cult. Parents died successively at the hands of the Holy Spirit Cult, and their souls were imprisoned. You were also forced to join the Holy Spirit Cult..."
Huo Yuhao recounted Nana's life story with a smile as if enumerating his family valuables. With every extra word he said, Nana's face turned paler. By the end, her face was already covered in tears.
Yu Mengdi on the side was also full of surprise. She didn't expect the person Huo Yuhao was looking for was a girl with such a miserable life experience. Her face couldn't help showing sympathy immediately.
"You are the Holy Son of the Holy Spirit Cult, so naturally you know everything. As long as you are willing to release my parents, I will do anything."
Nana looked resigned to her fate. The dagger in her hand also fell to the ground with a clang.
Huo Yuhao exchanged a look with Yu Mengdi and couldn't help smiling bitterly, "Back then, I was also taken back by the Holy Spirit Cult inexplicably and cultivated as the Holy Son. My achievements today are inseparable from the cultivation of the Holy Spirit Cult."
"I came to find you naturally planning to help rescue your parents. From now on, the Holy Spirit Cult will have nothing to do with you anymore. But I hope you can work for me." Huo Yuhao was outspoken about his purpose. He was not a saint and not kind enough to stand up for all suffering people in the world.
So he still has his eyes on my ability...
Nana's face became even paler. It was rumored that Demon King Huo Yuhao was guilty of terrible crimes and harmed all directions. Following him wouldn't be much better than joining the Holy Spirit Cult.
However, her parents were still in the hands of the Holy Spirit Cult. It seemed she had no choice.
Nana gritted her silver teeth. Two lines of clear tears flowed down her cheeks. Her body swayed gently, and her whole person seemed somewhat illusory. In the next moment, her outfit actually slipped down quietly...
Huo Yuhao was stunned instantly. He never expected this ridiculous plot to happen again. This guy was really a full strip enthusiast!
"You..." Huo Yuhao looked at her in surprise. Undoubtedly, Nana had unique advantages in terms of figure. Not a trace of excess fat could be seen on her. Her skin was moist like congealed fat. Although not white, it was full of healthy and sunny beauty.
Nana looked at Huo Yuhao with teary eyes and said: "I know you are the Demon King famous on the continent. I have no precious things to exchange with you for my parents' souls and my own freedom. I can only choose this way..."
Huo Yuhao instantly didn't know whether to laugh or cry. How many people wanted to follow him but couldn't, yet this little girl was so eager to return to freedom...
"Alright. If you really don't want to follow me, after you help me do one thing in Mingdu, I'll return your freedom." Huo Yuhao didn't force her to follow him. To be honest, he didn't have much time left on the Douluo Continent. For subsequent matters, with Nana's talent, she might not really be able to help him.
Even in the original timeline, she was just a minor character in the later stages. Her talent was limited, incomparable to partners with god-level martial souls like Xie Huanyue.
Currently, Nana was only a Soul Emperor, barely enough for use in the current Mingdu.
How could Nana know she was disdained by Huo Yuhao? She wiped her eyes and gritted her teeth to agree: "Okay, as long as you are willing to release my parents, in the next period of time, Nana is at your disposal!"
Huo Yuhao remembered that Nana had only been in contact with a garbage branch of the Holy Spirit Cult. Just in this Mingdu, there were about twenty people. Only three or four were true core members, and the rest were mostly peripheral members. But even these peripheral members had at least Soul Ancestor level cultivation.
In this branch, this seven-ring Soul Sage was called Elder. Usually, he wore a black hood on his face, with only his eyes exposed, giving people profound dark fantasies.
Besides him, other core members were called Holy Spirit Disciples, and peripheral members were called Holy Servants. Nana was now also considered a Holy Servant.
Every time Nana went to the branch, she had to cover her appearance first. That small fry elder told her that as long as Nana's cultivation could reach six rings, he would apply to the main altar to make her a Holy Spirit Disciple and ascend her spirit.
Simply put, it was a ritual to evilize the martial soul.
"When do we set off? Do we need to prepare anything?"
Nana was obviously a bit impatient. Although she hadn't trusted Huo Yuhao yet, at present, Huo Yuhao was her parents' last life-saving straw.
"Then you go prepare." Huo Yuhao nodded. With this Ghost Martial Soul soul master, he could effortlessly obtain a lot of intelligence after the timeline change.
"We leave in a while."
"So fast?" This time it was Nana's turn to be incredulous. was this Demon King Huo Yuhao always so efficient?
Huo Yuhao had visited this branch with Zhongli Yu beforehand. If not for the evil soul masters here being too trashy, he even planned to keep them for his own use.
Not long after, a slender figure slowly walked out of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Dark red long hair was tied into a neat ponytail. A black劲 outfit covered her very well-proportioned delicate body in this evening time.
When passing the academy gate, the guard on duty just glanced at her and let her out with a smile. After all, who didn't know the current popular person in the academy, Nana of the Practical Control Soul Tool Department?
She was going to represent the academy in this Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament with her own strength. Nowadays, she was infinitely glorious in the academy.
Out of the academy, Nana's steps obviously quickened a bit. After turning a few corners, she looked around, then walked quickly towards that Holy Spirit Cult branch.
As the capital of the Sun Moon Empire, Mingdu indeed had a very vast area. This huge city without walls was just at the moment when lights were first lit.
Nana walked forward quickly with familiarity. Her height of over 1.8 meters gave her a pair of exceptionally long legs. Although just walking, her light steps still gave a feeling of lightning speed.
But even at her speed, this walk took a full half an hour. When she looked at an inconspicuous building in the distance, she muttered to herself: "Arrived! It's three hundred meters ahead, that one with a black roof in the yard!"
Huo Yuhao's lazy voice sounded, "It's okay. Since we're here, just go in."
In Mingdu, there were many tall buildings unseen in other countries. Thanks to the wide application of soul tools, the Sun Moon Empire was also ahead of other empires in architecture.
Nana walked to the corner of a street again. This time, she first put on a white hood, then a bamboo hat with a veil hanging down, before walking quickly towards the place she mentioned earlier.
"Steps are really cumbersome." Huo Yuhao, who was invisible, complained to Yu Mengdi beside him.
Hearing this, Nana's body stiffened, but she still raised her hand and knocked lightly on the door according to the rhythm, knocking a total of five times, three long and two short.
The gate quietly opened a crack. Nana flashed and squeezed in through the crack.
The one who came to open the door was a young man dressed entirely in black, also wearing a bamboo hat on his head.
There was a different world inside the yard. The whole yard could be said to have winding paths leading to secluded spots, planted with various plants. The interior of the yard looked much larger than from the outside.
High trellises were covered with various plants, also blocking the view from the sky. However, this was a very common arrangement in Mingdu. After all, there were too many tall buildings, and no one wanted to expose their privacy, so they planted these plants to block the sight of soul tool detectors.
The person wearing the bamboo hat nodded slightly to Nana, then flashed aside. Nana also nodded to him, then walked quickly along a small path towards the building with a black dome in the center of the yard.
This building looked like it occupied just over a hundred square meters, not very vast. The door was open, and Nana stepped in.
There were two white-clothed people in the room. They didn't wear bamboo hats but each wore a hood of the same color as their clothes on their heads. Seeing Nana walk in, one of them raised his hand to stop her and made a gesture to her.
Nana raised her hand, took out a circular token, and handed it over. It was a completely pitch-black token with carvings of two skulls faintly visible on it.
She deliberately lowered her voice and said deeply: "Holy Emperor longevity boundless, Holy Maiden celestial beauty eternal."
Huo Yuhao was instantly amused. Your Holy Emperor has been transcended by the Buddha, and still longevity boundless?
The two white-clothed people hurriedly bowed at the same time, both lowering their voices and repeating her words: "Holy Emperor longevity boundless, Holy Maiden celestial beauty eternal."
A white-clothed person said: "Lord Quasi-Spirit, the Great Holy Spirit and Second Holy Spirit are both present. Are you going down now?"
"Mmm." Nana nodded.
The white-clothed person then returned the token to her and made a gesture of invitation.
Nana walked into the inner room. The room was simply furnished, looking like an ordinary household without particularly gorgeous decorations.
Nana walked to a desk, raised her hand, pressed on the table, and exerted force downwards. Immediately, the four table legs slowly embedded into the ground. Accompanied by the "quack" sound of the mechanism, an entrance of about one square meter opened on the side of the desk, with a trace of light ring out from inside.
Going down along that straight tunnel, they came to an open hall. Compared to the above, this place was much larger, about three hundred square meters. The atmosphere was obviously somewhat gloomy and empty.
Two people sat on both sides of the innermost desk. They were also dressed in white and wore hoods, only there were some silver decorative patterns on their white clothes respectively.
Seeing someone come down, they immediately stood up, putting on a guarded posture.
Seeing this scene, Huo Yuhao felt something in his heart. Compared to the rampant Holy Spirit Cult in the original timeline, without the support of Crown Prince Xu Tianran in this life, they were obviously much more vigilant.
Nana stepped forward a few steps and said respectfully: "Holy Servant No. 6 pays respects to the Great Holy Spirit and Second Holy Spirit."
That white-clothed person called the Second Holy Spirit seemed to sense something and suddenly said: "Wait, I seem to smell the perfume of a stranger."
Huo Yuhao, who was hidden, immediately looked at Yu Mengdi beside him with a strange look, making the latter's face somewhat unnatural.
"Forget it. Since we successfully sneaked in, there's no need to hide." Huo Yuhao chuckled and removed the spiritual simulation on his body.
"You are..." Alarm bells rang sharply in those two people's hearts. After many years, these peripheral small fries completely couldn't recognize their Holy Son anymore.
"Actually don't recognize this Holy Son. But there's not much meaning in keeping you trash either." Huo Yuhao sneered. Seven soul rings of different colors slowly rose from under his feet.
"Enemy attack!" The Second Holy Spirit's face changed drastically. Six soul rings quickly rose on his body. The six soul rings instantly presented a burning posture, turning into black flames surrounding his body.
In this black flame, the Second Holy Spirit's body struggled violently. The clothes on his body shattered instantly, and he himself suddenly grew to over three meters tall. The skin and flesh on his body disappeared completely, turning into a huge black skeleton appearance.
The white-clothed person called the Great Holy Spirit on the other side had also bounced up, shouted loudly, and stomped his right foot fiercely on the ground. The wall on one side of the hall actually cracked just like that.
The first two soul rings on his body emitted the same burning appearance as the Second Holy Spirit. Six hideous skeletons rushed out from the cracked wall, cooperating with the Second Holy Spirit to pounce quickly towards the three including Huo Yuhao.
"At least use your dog lives to entertain this King."
A rose-gold vertical eye cracked open on Huo Yuhao's forehead. For these trash evil soul masters who were of little use, Huo Yuhao had no intention of holding back at all.
In that rose-gold vertical eye, a moist light flashed abruptly. The head of the Second Holy Spirit at the very front had already exploded, dead as a doornail.
"Leave the other one for you to play with." Huo Yuhao left a sentence for Yu Mengdi, then followed Nana quickly towards another passage.
Yu Mengdi was now an Angel Soul Sage of over level 70. If she could still fail against an evil soul master of the same level, she would naturally lose the value of cultivation in Huo Yuhao's heart.
So Yu Mengdi used her full strength as soon as she came up, activating the Martial Soul Avatar to confront the enemy.
Nana had long been dumbfounded behind Huo Yuhao. Although she always thought Huo Yuhao was very strong, that was just rumors after all.
She clearly remembered that seven soul rings also rose under Huo Yuhao's feet, meaning he was just a Soul Sage too. How could an evil soul master, also with seven rings, be instantly killed by just a look from him?
Moreover, the colors of his soul rings seemed a bit unconventional, right? How could there be a seven-colored soul ring?
What shocked her even more was that Huo Yuhao's female companion was actually an Angel! An Angel symbolizing the sun and light!
How could an Angel hang out with the Holy Son of the Holy Spirit Cult?