Chapter 136: Xiao Hongchen: “what A Joke! Me, Avoiding His Edge?!”
“Strife God Position………”
For the Strife God Position candidate, Mademos is naturally the first choice.
The Strife God Position born from the [Dream] Authority, paired with Mademos born from the [Imagination] Authority, can be considered a perfect match.
In this way, the future Strife God should be considered a subordinate god of the Spirit Master, belonging to a branch of Huo Yuhao’s divine system.
However, Huo Yuhao will not directly hand the Strife God Position to Mademos, as that would make the divine position seem too cheap, and given his personality, he wouldn’t accept it either.
So instead, in the future, use the Magic Net for a soul master slaughter battle—whoever stands till the end inherits the divine position.
This also fits the symbolism of this divine position, and as for whether Mademos can actually stand till the end, Huo Yuhao doesn’t care.
He believes the other can do it—this is trust in his own creation!
He’s already given the other such a huge cheat; if he still can’t win, then it’s just his fate.
After finalizing the plan, Huo Yuhao speeds up the engraving of the alchemy inscriptions in his hand, striving to complete the underlying protocol of the game module a bit faster.
But soon, Huo Yuhao’s spiritual power senses an unexpected situation—the perceptual “black hole” representing Gu Yue Na is heading toward the Orphanage.
It seems Feng Jin and Xia Die are preparing to take Gu Yue Na to meet Bai E and the others.
After splitting off a bit of spiritual power to keep track of her position, Huo Yuhao continues focusing on the Magic Net.
Anyway, she hasn’t shown any malice yet, so let her do as she pleases—just don’t cause trouble for Huo Yuhao.
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On Xilu City’s main street, Feng Jin and Xia Die are leading Gu Yue Na forward in small steps along the roadside.
All three are carrying big bags and small bags, mostly some clothes and some snacks.
The scorching bright sunlight shines straight on their smiling faces, and even Xia Die, who usually has an indifferent expression, has her mouth corners slightly raised—it looks like the three have successfully become friends.
“Let me tell you, Yue Bao! The Orphanage has lots of interesting people!”
“Like Teacher Ti Bao who knows a lot of knowledge, the warm-hearted Doctor Roman, the helpful Bai E…………”
“I’ll take you to meet them. You don’t have a place to stay, right? The Orphanage’s Dormitory Building has plenty of empty rooms; I just need to talk to the Dean.”
“The Dean is a really nice person!”
A smile appears on Gu Yue Na’s cold face—in just half a day in Xilu City, she’s already changed her view of humanity quite a bit.
These humans aren’t all like Di Tian said, every one being a five-star good citizen of Luo Shengdu.
They’re mostly law-abiding good citizens, including particularly interesting humans like Feng Jin and Xia Die.
Of course, if she had come a year earlier, she could have seen the original flavor of Xilu City—that was really Little Gotham City, with heroes from all walks gathering together.
Seeing such a city, Gu Yue Na wants to join the enthusiasm even more—only by controlling the enthusiasm can she control the city in their hands.
Gu Yue Na really likes Xilu City; there’s so much delicious food here! Of course, food is secondary; mainly the location is great, and there’s a certain foundation of order.
And at this moment, something very brutal is happening at the Orphanage.
“Ah!!”
“Peng!!”
Screams mixed with the sounds of bodies slamming into the ground fill the entire Orphanage.
All the Orphanage’s children are standing by the Teaching Building’s windows, watching the beating on the open ground behind.
Excitement fills their faces one by one; they all have the potential to be bloodthirsty spectators.
Bai E, Ti Bao, and Meng Hongchen stand helplessly to one side of the open ground, watching Mademos skillfully swing Xiao Hongchen’s body to smash fiercely into the ground.
Hearing her own brother’s screams mixed with the earth’s wail forming a symphony, Meng Hongchen deftly opens the Magic Net to record her brother’s miserable state.
Ti Bao at the side shakes her head; at first she tried to stop Mademos and Xiao Hongchen from fighting, but after it happened too many times, she stopped caring.
She still comes over with Bai E to watch, to prevent any accidents.
“Hey! This is the sixteenth time.”
After sensing Xiao Hongchen completely lose resistance once again, Mademos tosses his body onto the distant sand pile.
Intense pain comes from all over Xiao Hongchen’s body; he’s almost used to this feeling.
If he doesn’t feel this pain every night, he feels uncomfortable all over.
Over this past month, every other day he comes to challenge Mademos—one day fighting, one day healing.
Mademos has very precise control over his power, never causing irreversible injuries to Xiao Hongchen, combined with the pills he brings himself and the healing from Xilu City’s Healing Soul Masters.
Basically, after lying down for half a day, he’s back to being lively.
Xiao Hongchen wipes the soil off his face with his palm, lying in the sand pile with a trembling voice saying:
“I am not ‘hey’!”
“Only sixteen times!”
“What? Scared?! I’ve already gradually found a method to defeat you!”
Mademos pats the dust falling on his shoulder, snorts coldly and says:
“Scared?”
“The word ‘scared’ doesn’t exist in my dictionary!”
“So confident, then let’s continue the day after tomorrow.”
Xiao Hongchen keeps mouthing off:
“You’ll see!”
“Next time I’ll make you experience the feeling of failure!”
Mademos treats it as dog barking; every time Xiao Hongchen loses, he says the same thing.
He doesn’t care if Xiao Hongchen has actually found a method against him; he believes he will keep winning!
Mademos walks to the side of the sand pile, reaches out his hand to pull Xiao Hongchen up, and waves to Ti Bao in the distance.
Seeing this, Ti Bao waves her small hand, teleporting the Ice Cola nearby right into Mademos’s hand.
Mademos throws the Cola to Xiao Hongchen, who catches it deftly, pulls the tab, takes a fierce gulp and says:
“You drinking?”
Of course, he gets Mademos’s refusal.
“Drink it yourself.”
Xiao Hongchen tilts his head back, chugging the Cola fiercely into his mouth, letting the ice-cold sweet liquid soothe his restless organs.
Over this time, he’s gotten familiar with Mademos, Bai E, and the others—naturally, through the process of getting beaten.
But now they’re friends, and they’ve even added a chat group on the Magic Net.
Xiao Hongchen hasn’t challenged Bai E yet, because he hasn’t even defeated Mademos, let alone Bai E who has a record of beating Mademos.
Soon, Ti Bao, Bai E, and the others come to Mademos’s side.
The children in the surrounding Teaching Building also disperse, each going to continental common sense class.
The Orphanage has plenty of funding; Zuo Man’er uses it to hire many teachers and earth-attribute soul masters to build the Teaching Building.
Teaching these children some continental common sense and life guides.
“Little enemy, Little Laugh, you guys okay?”
Mademos and Xiao Hongchen both wave their hands to indicate they’re fine, but Xiao Hongchen is grimacing in pain, not looking fine at all.
Ti Bao sighs, just about to use the Hundred Realms Gate to send Xiao Hongchen to a nearby Medical Clinic for treatment, when she hears a familiar voice.
“Yo, you’re all here!”
Surprise shows in Bai E’s blue eyes as he turns to see that familiar orange-pink hair.
“Doctor Roman!”
“You’re finally back!”
“Great, everyone at the Orphanage has been missing you!”
Roman scratches his head, a bit embarrassed, saying:
“Is that so! Looks like I’m pretty popular.”
“How’s this kid injured so badly? All black and blue.”
“Hold on, let me heal you.”
Soon, Roman comes to Xiao Hongchen’s side, blue inscriptions light up on his arm, emerald green light gathers in his palm, then slowly merges into Xiao Hongchen’s body.
Xiao Hongchen feels his torn muscles quickly repaired by a gentle force.
The pain throughout his body fades, leaving a sense of relaxation, like wearing new underwear on the first day of New Year.
Xiao Hongchen says to Roman:
“Thanks.”
He didn’t notice that Roman used an unknown power, just thinking he’s a Healing Soul Master; Bai E and the others think the same, believing Roman’s Martial Soul is healing-type.
In fact, besides Huo Yuhao, no one knows what Roman’s Martial Soul is.
Roman hardly needs to use his own Martial Soul; if he does, it’s big trouble.
He pats Xiao Hongchen’s shoulder and says:
“Be more careful next time.”
“If anywhere feels uncomfortable, come find me; I’m the doctor at this Orphanage.”
Finished, Roman looks at Bai E and the others, saying:
“Alright, everyone, since I’m back, it’s time to restart cultivation! Ready?”
Hearing Roman’s words, Bai E immediately thinks of that Jeep, his body shuddering a few times involuntarily, but soon he says seriously:
“Yeah! Ready!”
Then Roman leads Bai E, Ti Bao, and the others to the Orphanage’s basement, drives out the Jeep, and heads to the training ground.
Mademos just wants to follow, but seems to think of something, turns back to Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen saying:
“You guys come too.”
Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen exchange a glance, deciding to follow; they’re very curious how this group of monsters trains!
The people here are stronger than the last! They must have some unique cultivation method; learning it could be spread back at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
Soon, the group of six arrives at the basement; Roman pulls off the dust cover on the Jeep, leaning affectionately on the hood.
“Missed you so much! My love car!”
Then Roman takes out the key to unlock the door, sits in the driver’s seat, and says to them:
“Come on, all get in!”
“Taking you to the training ground.”
Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen follow Bai E and the others onto the car with faces full of astonishment.
“Is this some soul tool?”
“Can’t tell the grade.”
Bai E smiles at the two:
“This is called a Jeep; we don’t know what level soul tool it is either.”
“It’s also our training tool.”
Roman honks the horn, saying to them:
“All sit tight! Ready to go!”
Accompanied by the engine’s roar, soul power turns into motive force driving this steel beast full of alchemy and ruthless craftsmanship.
Xiao Hongchen immediately feels an extreme push-back sensation, then a fierce gale hits head-on, blowing his white hair back.
Then he sees the surrounding scenery blurring into a streak flashing rapidly backward.
Xiao Hongchen, as a soul engineer genius of the Sun Moon Empire, immediately realizes this Jeep soul tool has extremely high strategic value.
This is a brand-new mode of transport! It can completely replace carriages on the roads! Making connections between cities much faster!
While Xiao Hongchen is brainstorming, the Jeep arrives at their usual training spot.
Xiao Hongchen stands dazedly with Bai E on the surrounding open ground, not quite understanding why the others look like they’re facing a great enemy.
Seeing his puzzled look, Bai E points to the surroundings—the meaning is self-evident.
Xiao Hongchen looks at the shattered rocks everywhere and seems to realize something, muttering to himself.
“No way?!”
As if confirming Xiao Hongchen’s guess, Roman doesn’t get out but drives the Jeep in front of them, saying:
“Training starts!”
Then the Jeep lets out a dragon roar-like engine bellow, charging at them with the momentum to crush everything.
Bai E, Mademos, and Ti Bao nimbly run backward; Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen instinctively follow and run!
“What is this?!”
“This is how you train?!”
Xiao Hongchen feels the momentum behind him, face full of shock.
Bai E says to him:
“This is considered easy; sometimes there’s wilderness survival.”
Mademos adjusts his running rhythm, saying:
“Instead of that, talk less and save stamina.”
“First wave has the strongest power, biggest impact—dodge the edge first!”
Xiao Hongchen says confidently to Mademos beside him:
“That’s it?”
“You’re kidding; with this momentum, dodge its edge?!”
Xiao Hongchen feels the rear momentum is strong but not unstoppable, thinking Mademos is tricking him.
His rebellious spirit as a Sun Moon Empire genius flares up; he directly does a cool Indian 3A blockbuster-style turn-back.
Activates his Three-legged Golden Toad Martial Soul and prepares a head-on collision with the Jeep!
Bai E’s blue eyes contract; he didn’t expect Xiao Hongchen to be so bold!
Mademos’s lion-like pupils show helplessness as he says:
“Idiot!”
Xiao Hongchen soon collides head-on with the Jeep, then senses something wrong!
“Not right!”
“This familiar feeling!”
“This power is equal to five Mademoses!”
This Jeep has been magically modified by both Huo Yuhao and Roman, with all kinds of incantations piled on without regard for cost, making its power extremely outrageous!
Roman didn’t expect there to really be a tough nut choosing to collide at the Jeep’s peak power.
Even Mademos only chooses head-on at the third wave.
Then Xiao Hongchen flies up, feels extreme weightlessness, crashes heavily to the ground, and passes out.
Meng Hongchen slaps her forehead at the side, really wanting to disown her brother.
She really wants to grab Xiao Hongchen’s ear and grit her teeth:
“Can’t you use your brain?! My dear brother!”
Meng Hongchen feels her heart is so tired!
While Xiao Hongchen is lying there, at this moment in the Orphanage.
Feng Jin and Xia Die bring Gu Yue Na to the Orphanage, search for a long time but can’t find Bai E and the others.
Finally, Xia Die asks Zuo Man’er and learns they’ve been taken by Roman for training.
Apology shows in Xia Die’s gemstone-like purple eyes as she says to Gu Yue Na:
“They went out.”
Feng Jin shakes her pink twin tails:
“No problem, Die Bao and Yue Bao! I have a way! We can contact through Teacher Ti Bao’s Hundred Realms Gate.”
“Just don’t know if Teacher Ti Bao can open a gate that far.”
“I’ll ask.”
Ti Bao is currently with Bai E and the others watching Meng Hongchen poke Xiao Hongchen’s face with a stick; Roman is helping with treatment.
Suddenly sensing a Magic Net message, she opens it to see Feng Jin’s info.
“It’s Little Feng Jin!”
“They brought a new friend who wants to come over!”
“Too far! My soul power isn’t enough; Little White and Little Enemy, help me.”
Bai E nods and says:
“Yeah! Leave it to me and Mademos!”
Then Bai E and Mademos stand behind Ti Bao; Mademos passes soul power to Bai E, who filters it with his Martial Soul, then transmits pure soul power to Ti Bao.
Abundant soul power flows through Ti Bao’s meridians; she channels the soul power to fully open the Hundred Realms Gate.
A triangular doorway glowing with golden light appears in the air.
Space Elements rejoice, then gather around Ti Bao.
Meng Hongchen drops the stick in her hand, staring in shock at the doorway; she long knew this cute little girl’s Martial Soul is the rare space attribute.
But seeing Ti Bao fully open the Hundred Realms Gate for the first time still shocks her immensely.
Ti Bao is like the king of space elements, with thousands of doorways faintly appearing around, connecting myriad paths.
“Absolute super Martial Soul!”
This thought appears in Meng Hongchen’s mind; only a super Martial Soul could have such momentum, making her own Martial Soul feel faint suppression.
Note that her cultivation is two rings higher than Ti Bao’s!
“Birds of a feather flock together!”
And the three far away at Xilu City Orphanage see a golden doorway slowly open in front of them.
The big and small bags in Gu Yue Na’s hands drop; her purple eyes are full of disbelief.
She senses the bloodline aura of the Space Dragon King!
She can’t mistake that aura! That high-level dragon clan bloodline power perfectly matches the Space Dragon King among the Nine Sons of the Dragon God in her memory!
“Impossible.”
“Humans can have this kind of bloodline?!”
Fortunately, the airflow from the space gate covers Gu Yue Na’s voice; Feng Jin and Xia Die don’t hear.
“Yue Bao, come on quick!”
