Chapter 106: “i’ve Got Su Tong—truly A Heaven-sent Hero!”
After a long silence in the entire living room, Su Tong’s fingers habitually wanted to flip through the archive, only to find that the entire archive came to an abrupt end.
It was pretty much as Huo Yuhao had said; this archive consisted entirely of interviews with surrounding residents.
The information was fragmented, the clues disorganized, and it was obvious that the investigators hadn’t put any effort into it—they were just going through the motions.
But this was normal; it came as no surprise to Huo Yuhao. The five missing people were all commoners, without power or influence.
The City Lord’s Mansion had only issued the relevant investigation task at the Adventurer’s Association due to public opinion pressure from the populace and coercion from Heaven Dragon Gate, even offering a high reward of ten Ice Spirit Fruits.
The reason Heaven Dragon Gate cared so much about this case was that the incident location was not far from their jurisdiction. As the top sect in Dragon City, they naturally had to make a show of it.
It was enough to let the residents in their territory see that they were indeed in charge.
Huo Yuhao tossed the emptied milk tea cup into the trash bin, then spoke up:
“How is it?”
Su Tong shook her head, her ice-blue eyes filled with doubt; she couldn’t find any leads.
“Nothing. There’s no information at all.”
Huo Yuhao smiled. In this fantasy world, wanting to find information through an archive—probably only a natural airhead like Su Tong would think of that.
The most valuable part of this archive was the description on the first page of the range where the culprit appeared.
Everything else was nonsense, just to fool the public and the higher-ups during future inspections.
In Xilu City, this kind of petty trick—Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had processed so many documents and already told Huo Yuhao about similar situations.
As long as a case didn’t involve nobles, soul masters, or major merchants, those so-called archives were about as useful as toilet paper.
“You’re still too naive.”
“Alright, the methods soul masters use to solve problems ultimately come down to soul power and soul skills.”
“Tomorrow morning, you come with me to the population missing area. I’ll take you to investigate.”
Su Tong closed the archive and pushed it back to Huo Yuhao, nodding at him.
“What about tonight then?”
Huo Yuhao put the archive back into his storage soul tool and smiled at her:
“Tonight, we’ll go somewhere to pick up some things.”
“I figure those heavenly materials and earthly treasures are unwanted anyway.”
“Do you have any extra thick black stockings here? I need to wear them over my head.”
Su Tong looked at him warily, as if he were a pervert.
“Haha, just kidding.”
“I have a mask.”
“We’re companions at least, so tonight I’ll take you along to give you a sense of participation.”
Su Tong wasn’t stupid. Hearing Huo Yuhao’s words, she guessed he probably planned to go rob some place tonight.
Seeing her resistant expression, Huo Yuhao tapped the table and said:
“Those heavenly materials and earthly treasures are currently unclaimed; the other side can’t take them or use them anyway.”
“Besides, those heavenly materials and earthly treasures would be very beneficial for your Extreme Ice.”
“Without heavenly materials and earthly treasures, the cultivation speed of an Extreme Martial Soul is very slow.”
Su Tong couldn’t help but widen her eyes, leaning her body back, her cold voice carrying a hint of panic.
“You know my martial soul?”
Huo Yuhao looked at her and said:
“I know a few juniors with Extreme Martial Souls, so I’m familiar with this type of martial soul.”
“What puzzles me is that your Extreme Ice hasn’t been discovered by anyone yet.”
“The difference between Extreme attributes and normal attributes is still very large.”
“I’m starting to suspect that the people in Dragon City are all blind.”
Su Tong caught the key point in Huo Yuhao’s words, her pupils contracting slightly as she said to him:
“You know other Extreme Martial Souls?”
“Then do you know how Extreme Martial Souls should be cultivated?”
There was anxiety in her cold voice; it seemed the slow cultivation speed of Extreme Martial Souls had troubled her for a long time.
For this girl, Huo Yuhao quite admired her. First off, her appearance gave a perfect first impression.
Just because she promised the victims’ families, she dared to get involved in a case suspected to involve evil soul masters—her character suited Huo Yuhao’s taste.
Most importantly, she had excellent talent in spiritual power cultivation: a level fifty-five Soul King with spiritual power at the high stage of Spirit Sea Realm.
In this era where the spiritual power cultivation system was not yet perfected, she could be called a prodigy.
For such a hidden gem, Huo Yuhao was naturally willing to lend her a hand.
“Haven’t you already found the path?”
“Your spiritual power.”
Hearing Huo Yuhao’s words, Su Tong was a bit dazed.
“Spiritual power?”
Huo Yuhao spoke clearly, revealing the true cultivation method for Extreme Martial Souls.
“Spiritual power is the key to cultivating Extreme Martial Souls.”
“Powerful spiritual power can suppress the overbearing Extreme Soul Power in the body, allowing it to improve at the same speed as normal soul power.”
“Currently, spiritual power is divided into three stages: formless and intangible, formful but intangible, formful and tangible.”
“You’re still at the formless and intangible stage of spiritual power.”
“Theoretically, to make Extreme Soul Power cultivate quickly, you need formful and tangible.”
“That’s almost impossible; the formful but intangible realm is enough for you to use.”
This wasn’t something Huo Yuhao made up. In the original work, Huo Yuhao had too much of an advantage with Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress as two power banks; he never experienced the excruciatingly slow cultivation speed of Extreme Martial Souls.
Ma Xiaotao exploited a bug; she skipped the most difficult level seventy for Extreme Martial Souls.
In the original work, from start to finish, the only one who went through the most difficult period of Extreme Martial Souls was this unlucky child Su Tong.
But the original work stated that once spiritual power advances to the formful and tangible realm, the drawbacks of Extreme Martial Souls would disappear.
From this, it seemed spiritual power was indeed the key to cultivating Extreme Martial Souls!
Su Tong was silent for a long time, a flash of determination in her ice-blue eyes.
She stood up, straightened her skirt hem, bowed to Huo Yuhao, her black silky long hair falling to the ground and picking up some dust.
“I want to ask you to take me as your disciple.”
Huo Yuhao’s expression stiffened. After being in this world for so long, he really hadn’t considered taking a disciple.
Jiang Nannan could be considered half, but that was only in terms of medical skills.
His brain CPU was running wildly; Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, Golden Tortoise, and even Ilex stayed silent, quietly waiting for Huo Yuhao’s response.
When Huo Yuhao opened his eyes again, his martial soul was already released.
The pupils of his Spiritual Eye were like a burning cyan-white star.
“I’ll ask you just one thing: why do you want to become strong?”
Su Tong was oppressed by an aura as deep as an abyss and as heavy as a mountain, her breathing tight, her body feeling crushed by a mountain.
Only now did she clearly realize just how strong Huo Yuhao truly was!
She struggled to spit out the words.
“I don’t want to disappear silently into the ice and snow like my parents. Now no one remembers that Dragon City once had two renowned Soul Douluos, so I want to leave something in this world!”
“Anything will do—I want this world to remember me!”
“Yu Hao, she’s not lying.”
“Big Bug is right; my spiritual power didn’t detect any signs of lying either.”
Huo Yuhao closed his martial soul, and the abyss-like, mountain-heavy aura vanished from the surroundings, as if nothing had happened.
Just as Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm and Ilex said, this girl wasn’t lying. Huo Yuhao stood up and came before her.
A large hand appeared in Su Tong’s view; Huo Yuhao pulled her up, a smile on his face.
“I don’t like kneeling rituals here.”
“Since you’re willing to learn from me, I can teach you.”
“But remember, the thing I hate most in my life is those self-righteous hypocrites and those lowly, disgusting evil soul masters.”
“Like me, kill one whenever you see one.”
“If one day you join them, I’ll personally make you experience the most extreme pain in the world!”
Su Tong nodded vigorously and said to Huo Yuhao:
“Yes! Teacher! I will remember these words.”
Huo Yuhao said to her: “Alright then, tonight come with me to Earth Dragon Gate to pick up some things.”
Su Tong tilted her head, her ice-blue eyes seriously looking at Huo Yuhao as she said:
“Teacher, do we need to prepare black stockings?”
Quite a few people ran from the factory—the security guards bolted, the warehouse manager slipped away. Probably all went to school. During the meeting, the supervisor’s face turned pig-liver colored with anger, cursing out HR—it was kinda hard to keep a straight face.
