Chapter 208: Kiritsugu: “just Blow It Up For Me!”
“Babe, I’m back.”
Huo Yuhao held two cups of milk tea in his hands as he opened the door to his villa, his pleasant-toned voice carrying into the house.
Su Tong had long grown accustomed to Huo Yuhao’s form of address. After spending so much time together, she already knew that her teacher was quite unreliable.
Her teacher at home liked to do anything except serious matters.
“Meow~”
A black gas canister charged straight out from the kitchen, crashing into the living room chair with a loud bang, the chair legs scraping harshly against the floor.
The Shadow Cat leaped straight up. It was hard to imagine how this thing overcame gravity to jump so high—one could only say that soul power was truly too useful.
“Urgh!”
Huo Yuhao grabbed the Shadow Cat by the scruff of its neck, rubbed its big cat head angrily a few times, then weighed it in his hand and said:
“Good grief.”
“A year ago, it was still a slender beauty cat, but now the art style has suddenly changed to a black pig?”
“I remember you don’t have any orange cat bloodline, right?”
“Fat cat, you need to lose weight.”
The Shadow Cat, as a Thousand-Year Soul Beast, could already vaguely understand human speech.
Hearing Huo Yuhao say he wanted it to lose weight, it immediately struggled, jumped down from Huo Yuhao’s hand, ran behind Su Tong, and poked out its big cat head to look at Huo Yuhao.
Su Tong was wearing a white nightgown, her bare feet stepping on the wooden floor, looking helplessly at the Shadow Cat behind her and saying:
“Teacher, the Shadow Cat eats rare spirit fruits and Silver Pattern Fish every day.”
“Occasionally, Enthusiasm Members give it extra meals too. The nutrition is overly rich, which is why it’s so fat.”
“But the effect is still very good. Now it’s already a Five Thousand Year Soul Beast.”
Huo Yuhao walked to Su Tong’s side, squatted down, grabbed the Shadow Cat, and scratched its chin a few times, saying:
“Even though it’s a Five Thousand Year Soul Beast, I feel like it might get single-killed by a two-thousand-year Flower-Spotted Cat.”
“Sigh, whatever. It doesn’t need to participate in any battles anyway. Just stay home obediently and guard the house, don’t let mice in.”
“But I still think you, fat cat, need to lose weight! If you get any fatter, your belly will scrape the ground. Next time, I’ll send you to Mademos.”
“Let him supervise you running.”
The Shadow Cat immediately flipped over, exposing its soft belly, trying to activate its coquetry skill to beguile Huo Yuhao.
Unfortunately, Huo Yuhao didn’t buy it. If this guy didn’t lose weight, in the future when it became a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast, those in the know would call it the Shadow Cat Emperor, but those not in the know would think it was the Dark Pig Emperor.
After casually shooing away the Shadow Cat, Huo Yuhao looked at Su Tong standing to the side. Her black hair fell to her waist without any restraint, and her ice-blue eyes revealed a hint of mental exhaustion.
“Su Tong, judging by your soul power fluctuation, you should have broken through level sixty, right?”
“Tomorrow, come with me to Sunset Forest first to handle some matters. After that, I’ll take you to the Extreme North to find a suitable Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast to be your Soul Spirit.”
“Stretch out your hand. Let me feel your spiritual power.”
Su Tong obediently extended her flawless white arm. Huo Yuhao held her wrist, and his spiritual power probed into her Sea of Consciousness along her meridians.
For outsiders, this was an extremely dangerous act. The Sea of Consciousness concerned consciousness, and if severely damaged, the consciousness would also be affected.
But Su Tong didn’t mind at all. Although Huo Yuhao was quite unreliable, he had already done the best for her.
Which teacher’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone was given away casually, and heavenly materials and earthly treasures were picked at will?
“Judging by the spiritual power situation, fusing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Spirit alone is still a bit difficult.”
“But no problem. I can help. With you and me, master and disciple together, a mere Hundred Thousand Year Soul Spirit is nothing.”
He roughly estimated Su Tong’s spiritual power to be around 4800 points, not far from the Spirit Abyss Realm. With Huo Yuhao assisting at the side, fusing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Spirit was no issue.
Su Tong blinked her ice-blue eyes and said:
“So I’m still some distance from the Spirit Abyss Realm?”
Huo Yuhao nodded, stroked her soft hair, and said:
“Very good already. You’re approaching Soul Douluo level.”
“The cultivation speed of Extreme Soul Power should have increased a bit, right?”
Su Tong nodded her little head and said:
“Yeah.”
“Forcibly directing soul power flow with spiritual power can indeed effectively improve soul power cultivation speed.”
“But it’s still a bit slower than normal cultivation speed.”
“I’m already very satisfied with this speed.”
Huo Yuhao stretched lazily, casually tossed his black trench coat onto the sofa nearby, and said:
“Mm, once you reach level seventy, it’ll be fine.”
“At level seventy, you won’t need to worry about the side effects of the Extreme Martial Soul anymore.”
“Plus, one Hundred Thousand Year Beast King Soul Spirit can probably raise you four to five levels.”
“It’ll greatly accelerate your cultivation progress.”
“Alright, it’s late enough. Go rest.”
“We need to set off a bit early tomorrow. Be careful not to stay up late and damage your skin.”
Su Tong watched Huo Yuhao return to the room upstairs, then gently picked up the trench coat from the sofa, walked to the balcony, smoothed out the wrinkles with soul power, hung it on the hanger, and placed a scent diffuser that Huo Yuhao particularly liked below it.
After doing everything, Su Tong secretly leaned against the black trench coat in the night, imagining herself wearing it along with a purple top and black pants, her face forming a kitten grimace.
“So ugly.”
“Why does Teacher like this outfit?”
“I heard that places on the Heaven Dou Plain have already started popularizing this style of dress.”
Su Tong thought about seeing a bunch of people in this outfit every time she went out in the future, and she felt unwell all over.
Moreover, the source of this trend was her own teacher, so she really had no way to stop it.
She only hoped that in the future, some big shot in the fashion world could cut off this cringe-inducing outfit trend.
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The next day, Sunset Forest.
“Shirou, are all the soul tools set up?”
At this moment, the southwest direction of Sunset Forest was bustling with voices. Enthusiasm Members led by Root Third Squad were fervently setting up a large number of soul tool cannons on the forest outskirts.
Emiya Shirou was currently directing Enthusiasm Members to load a large number of soul guiding cannonballs into the new-style soul tool cannons.
Because of the emergence of soul tool machine tools, this soul tool adopted a mechanized design, unlike old-style soul tools that purely relied on rare metals and core formation arrays for brute force.
Before this, mechanical engineering design basically didn’t exist on the Douluo Continent. The pinnacle of mechanical design here was Tang Sect’s Zhuge Crossbow and Hidden Sand Shadow Projectile.
A simple mechanical trigger design surprisingly hadn’t appeared on soul tools even now!
The mechanized soul tool cannon was more refined, had a longer range, and consumed less soul power. Because of dream coins, even ordinary people could use this weapon.
Emiya Shirou glanced at the loading situation of the soul guiding cannonballs and said:
“Almost done.”
“Ready for salvo at any time.”
“We brought fifty groups of soul guiding cannonballs. That’s enough, Kiritsugu.”
Emiya Kiritsugu stood on high ground, put down the telescope, and said:
“Fifty groups?”
“Three hundred rounds…”
“Enough for a medium-scale war.”
“Ten rounds of cannon fire salvo will be enough to make the poisonous fog in the southwest direction disappear for two and a half hours.”
“Shirou, have them all get ready.”
“Prepare to fire at any time!”
Emiya Shirou immediately called out to all Enthusiasm Members to get ready. The camp, which had been bustling and full of clamor, was now eerily quiet. The icy cannon barrels gleamed coldly under the sunlight.
The entire site was filled with a murderous aura.
Accompanied by a gust of wind, Emiya Kiritsugu’s black eyes narrowed, and he shouted to the rear:
“First round cannon fire salvo, prepare!”
“Use detection soul tools to calibrate the distance!”
Mechanical turning sounds came from the camp. Everyone moved in unison, quickly completing distance calibration. Douluo Continent’s detection soul tools were extremely convenient.
“Fire!”
“Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!”
Countless earth-shaking sounds erupted from the camp. The ground kicked up tall dust clouds from the massive recoil.
The first round of level five soul guiding cannonballs shot toward the poisonous fog in the southwest direction at extreme speed.
The shells carried piercing buzzing sounds, slicing through the thin poisonous fog like swords, leaving faint traces.
The shells landed on the ground and immediately caused violent explosions! The first round of thirty level five soul guiding cannonballs were all fire attribute, focusing on countering.
The thirty level five soul guiding cannonballs jointly released intense light and heat, eroding Sunset Forest’s poisonous fog.
Massive crimson flame clusters rose in the distance, extremely visually shocking. If Huo Yuhao saw this scene, he would definitely shout that it was perfect!
Emiya Kiritsugu looked ahead, nodded, and said:
“Should’ve done this long ago!”
“Since the poisonous fog fears fire, we should directly bombard it with soul tool shells.”
“We were still restricted by soul master thinking before.”
“This thing is way more effective than soul skills.”
“Shirou, level five effect is average. Go to level six.”
Emiya Shirou gave Kiritsugu a received gesture and immediately directed the position to load level six soul guiding cannonballs.
After loading was complete, the second round salvo began again. This time, it was at least ten times stronger than the last!
The shockwave from the explosions made the trees in Sunset Forest’s southwest direction emit overburdened creaking sounds. The airflow made Emiya Kiritsugu’s clothes flap loudly.
“Keep loading level six!”
“Third round, fire!”
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Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well
The intense vibrations from the explosions awakened the Hundred Thousand Year plant-type soul beast inside.
A pink flower shook its leaves a few times and looked terrified toward one direction of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, saying:
“What’s happening outside?!”
“What’s the situation?”
“How did such a terrifying soul power fluctuation suddenly appear!”
“Bad, bad!”
“Jiao Jiao, wake up quick!”
“Humans from outside seem to have attacked in!”
A fiery red plant resembling cabbage shook slightly, and a clear female voice said to You You:
“What’s there to panic about?”
“How could the Jade Phosphor Poison Array be broken so easily?”
“Unless they use Extreme Fire, how could it possibly burn away?”
“And where would they get so much soul power?”
“Not even level ninety-nine is enough.”
“Don’t worry. It’ll die down on its own in a bit.”
You You still felt very uneasy.
“Really?”
“No accidents will happen, right?”
