Chapter 68: “gua, It’s A Strong Person, Retreat Quickly!”
He saw the newcomer wearing a black trench coat, with black messy hair floating without wind, and a purple top that exuded mystery and power! He wore black pants on the lower body, paired with black shoes.
Just from the outfit, it was clear he was top-tier among the strong!
Standing there, his aura alone could make a bunch of small fry directly shout:
“Gua, it’s a strong person, everyone retreat quick!”
Jiang Nannan was originally very excited to see the person she had been thinking about day and night come to find her, but upon seeing Huo Yuhao’s inexplicable outfit, her delicate pretty face immediately darkened.
She had quite the vibe of a magnetic black face.
At this moment, she was still wearing Shrek’s school uniform, so she stood up to tidy her skirt, ensuring her clothes remained neat in front of Huo Yuhao.
Then she took small steps to Huo Yuhao’s front, helped him adjust his trench coat and collar, and said:
“Brother Huo, your fashion sense is still so bad!”
“I remember back in Xuan Feng City, quite a few medical clinic customers complained that your clothes were particularly outdated.”
While complaining, Jiang Nannan meticulously smoothed out the wrinkles on Huo Yuhao’s clothes.
Although she kept complaining verbally, Huo Yuhao clearly saw excitement and joy on Jiang Nannan’s face.
After smoothing out the wrinkles caused by the wind from rushing on the road, Jiang Nannan gently hugged Huo Yuhao and rested her head on his chest.
Under this intimate physical contact, Huo Yuhao could directly smell the lavender scent on her body.
He gently stroked Jiang Nannan’s head with a soft expression; her golden hair was soft and smooth like a golden waterfall draping to her waist, clearly well-maintained by its owner.
Jiang Nannan blissfully felt the temperature of Huo Yuhao’s body, breathing in his scent.
This made Huo Yuhao feel a bit uneasy, like Tang San was crawling on him.
Fortunately, after hugging for just a moment, Jiang Nannan proactively let go.
She pulled Huo Yuhao to sit in the back room of the medical clinic; Jiang Nannan’s mother saw this, smiled fully, and walked out to watch the shop outside.
Before leaving, she gave Jiang Nannan a meaningful smile.
This made Jiang Nannan’s pretty face flush red; the quiet back room seemed to be giving her the ultimate insult.
To break the silence, she stood up to brew a cup of tea for Huo Yuhao, then said:
“Brother Huo, did you receive the letter I sent and that’s how you found this place?”
Huo Yuhao didn’t stand on ceremony with her—after all, she was at least his half disciple—and directly took a sip of tea, saying:
“Mm.”
“A while ago when I went to Xuan Feng City to buy things, I saw a letter at the medical clinic’s entrance.”
“Guessed it was from you.”
Jiang Nannan smoothed her skirt, smiled, and sat down; her brows and eyes seemed to ripple like water waves.
“Clinic Master Huo must have secretly left Xuan Feng City back then.”
Huo Yuhao nodded and said: “It was quite urgent back then; after you left Xuan Feng City, I set off pretty much right away too.”
Jiang Nannan bent down and pulled out a bunch of letters from a small bag below, her eyes smiling as she placed the letters on the table and pushed them to Huo Yuhao.
“These letters are all sent from people in Xuan Feng City.”
“They couldn’t find where you went and had no contact info.”
“So they could only send the letters to me.”
“They say they plan to post a bounty mission at the Adventurer’s Guild.”
“Saying Xuan Feng City’s best doctor ran away, and the whole city lost hope!”
“They want someone to capture you and bring you back to Xuan Feng City.”
Huo Yuhao directly went magnetic black face, struggling to keep a straight face as he looked at the letters before him.
He hadn’t expected his first bounty in life to be because he ran away!
If his wanted poster later said this reason, that would truly be the ultimate decline!
“These Douluo ruffians!”
“Looks like I need to crack down hard on them from now on!”
Jiang Nannan slowly gathered up the letters on the table, then propped her chin with both hands, looking at Huo Yuhao and saying:
“Clinic Master, how many days do you plan to stay at Shrek?”
“You can stay directly here with me.”
“It’s pretty spacious here.”
Joking, with her saying that, how could Huo Yuhao dare stay here—he might end up drinking knockout red tea.
So he shook his head and said:
“No, I mainly came here just to check on you.”
“I plan to go take a look at the Disaster Mountain Range.”
“There’s a soul beast there I’m very interested in.”
“Disaster Mountain Range?”
Jiang Nannan tilted her head and said: “Is that over by Star Luo Empire?”
“I remember that mountain range isn’t very popular because the soul beast varieties are limited; usually only the Star Luo Imperial Family goes there to hunt for soul rings.”
“Even in the recent hundred years, the Star Luo Imperial Family hasn’t gone there much.”
“Star Dou Great Forest has better cost-performance.”
“But since Brother Huo wants to go, I won’t say more—just be sure to be careful not to enter the core area there!”
“Disasters frequently occur in the core area! More dangerous than the soul beasts!”
Huo Yuhao rubbed her head and said:
“Don’t worry, I have my own plans.”
After saying that, Huo Yuhao glanced at Jiang Nannan’s pristine white arm and sensed that the reverse cursed technique he had inscribed back then hadn’t been used even once, saying:
“Looks like you haven’t encountered any danger recently—that’s good.”
“Has anything happened at Shrek Academy recently?”
Hearing Huo Yuhao’s question, Jiang Nannan softly said:
“The new student assessment just ended recently.”
“Many outstanding first-year students were rated as core disciples.”
“Xiao Xiao, whom Brother Huo asked me to look after back then, is also a core disciple.”
“She’s a twin martial soul too, so she’s gotten quite a bit of attention.”
“I heard she joined Teacher Wang Yan’s class.”
“Oh, right, I heard that a while ago a new student went missing around Sea God Lake!”
“But it seems to have been suppressed; eyewitnesses claimed red light appeared on Sea God Lake that day.”
“Now it’s become one of the outer court’s top ten ghost stories!”
“Many people say this matter can’t be publicized; if some teachers hear it, they’ll directly expel you!”
“It’s become a taboo topic.”
Huo Yuhao wasn’t surprised by this news; without him blocking in front this time, no one stopped the rampaging Ma Xiaotao.
Were the people up in Sea God Pavilion all off eating chicken drumsticks with Xuan Zi? Not a single one timely stopped a soul emperor, Yan Shaozhe’s beloved disciple, even when she went berserk.
That unlucky new student probably already met Tang Buddha; after all, that was temperatures approaching extreme fire.
Huo Yuhao raised his brows and said:
“Shrek isn’t safe either!”
Jiang Nannan didn’t know what to say and gave an awkward smile.
“Right, Brother Huo, want to go watch a soul fighting competition together?”
“Outer court twin stars Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi are dueling at the fighting arena.”
“Quite a few people are planning to go watch.”
Huo Yuhao asked doubtfully: “Shrek’s internal fighting arena isn’t open to outsiders, right?”
Jiang Nannan shook her head and said:
“It’s not open to outsiders, but as long as a core disciple vouches, outsiders can enter after inspection.”
“I’m a core disciple, don’t worry.”
After saying that, Jiang Nannan pulled Huo Yuhao to head to Shrek Academy’s fighting arena.
Her mother saw this, smiled, then closed the shop and put up a sign saying closed for the day.
At Shrek’s main gate, after inspection, Huo Yuhao’s soul power level and aura were confirmed, allowing him to stay inside Shrek Academy for one hour.
The two successfully entered Shrek Academy’s interior.
Along the way, Shrek outer court students kept turning their heads to look at Huo Yuhao beside Jiang Nannan.
“Who is that guy?”
“His fashion sense is so bad! And he’s next to the outer court’s number one beauty?”
Then he got thumped by his companion who said:
“Bullshit!”
“That guy’s clothes are so cool!”
“It’s exactly the kind of clothes only a strong person would wear!”
“If not a strong person, he’d have been beaten to death for dressing like that!”
“Eh? So that’s how it is?!”
Shrek’s fighting arena was very large, at least ten times the size of the one in Xuan Feng City that Huo Yuhao had seen.
Jiang Nannan brought Huo Yuhao to sit on a high platform.
Quite a few people had already arrived at the fighting arena; Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi’s outer court twin stars reputation was still very big.
Some people had already set up bets, and many began wagering on whether Bei Bei or Xu Sanshi would win.
Huo Yuhao looked at the two who had finished warming up in the fighting arena and used spiritual power to sense both sides’ auras.
Two high-level soul elders, about to break through to soul sect soon—small-time players.
One wave of Spirit Abyss Realm spiritual intimidation, and they’d be done for life.
“Nannan, who do you think will win?”
Hearing Huo Yuhao’s words, Jiang Nannan said:
“Bei Bei, probably.”
“Xu Sanshi is a bit weaker than Bei Bei in raw strength.”
But when mentioning Xu Sanshi’s name, Huo Yuhao noticed no ripples in Jiang Nannan’s eyes.
Looks like there’s no connection between the two this time.
But Huo Yuhao was a bit puzzled; he sensed Xu Sanshi’s martial soul hadn’t evolved—did the ritual not happen?
No point thinking about it; a guy whose future spot was basically taken by Mademos probably couldn’t put on any exciting show for Huo Yuhao anyway.
Soon, the fight started below, with blue thunderbolts mixed with dragon roar clashing against black tortoise shell.
Both sides were evenly matched, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon had stats, Mysterious Nether Turtle had mechanics.
Without Huo Yuhao helping to cheat, neither could do anything to the other for the moment.
“Thunder’s Wrath!”
Bei Bei was the first to activate his third soul skill; under the amplification soul skill’s effect, the blue thunderbolts immediately became frenzied.
Then, coordinating with his first soul skill Thunder Dragon Claw, he launched a fierce assault on Xu Sanshi.
Xu Sanshi’s face turned ferocious as he refused to back down, activating his third soul skill Profound Nether Power.
Gentle water elements collided with frenzied thunder elements.
Xu Sanshi was clearly suppressed and starting to show signs of defeat.
Huo Yuhao shook his head; the duel below between the two was indeed very flashy.
But it was just flashy; Bei Bei’s thunder power had no control at all, wasting a ton of soul power on aura.
Xu Sanshi was about the same; his control over water elements was only a bit better than Bei Bei’s, since water elements are relatively gentle.
This soul fighting competition was fine for killing time, but the combat details couldn’t withstand scrutiny.
Bei Bei’s movement technique was interesting though—probably Tang Sect’s Ghost Shadow Perplexing Steps.
Huo Yuhao casually glanced and memorized it in his mind; he could study it when he had time.
Watching the interweaving thunderbolts and water flows before them, Jiang Nannan at some point rested her head on Huo Yuhao’s shoulder.
His thoughts wandered a bit.
“Wonder how Doctor Roman’s foundation is doing?”
“Achoo!”
Far away at the orphanage, Roman suddenly sneezed.
“Feels like someone is thinking about me.”
“It couldn’t be Meili Jiang, could it!”
Nearby, Feng Jin interrupted Roman’s fantasy and said:
“Doctor Roman, there are some parts in the book you gave me last time that I don’t quite understand.”
“Like this, Humanity’s Burning Incineration.”
“What is this?”
“I’ve studied it for a long time and can’t quite understand it, but it feels a bit off.”
“Is this also knowledge for healing and saving people?”
“Doesn’t feel like it?”
Roman was dumbfounded and said:
“Huh?”
“Humanity’s Burning Incineration?!”
Roman hurriedly took the book, flipped through it, and realized he must have given the wrong one that day—this was the uncensored version.
“Ah~ haha.”
“No big deal, don’t mind it.”
“Don’t continue studying this thing.”
“I’ll give you another book right away; this one is prohibited for minors!”
This chapter was coded on the road, about six thousand words today. Family member’s health had an issue, probably need to go check in Nanjing; couldn’t figure it out here in Hefei.
Seeking monthly tickets and follow-up reading OzR
