Chapter 42: “what Do You Mean The Marquis’s Mansion Has Risen?”
Gotham City is known as Little Xilu City.
This damn place truly has talented people and abundant martial virtue.
Huo Yuhao finally found a relatively calm inn nearby. As soon as he walked in the door, he saw the boss of this inn wiping the bloodstains off his great saber.
With Huo Yuhao’s research on soul tools during this time, that saber was definitely a level three soul tool.
The boss of this inn was a Soul Sect in Huo Yuhao’s perception.
Looking at the boss with a face full of fierce flesh, a tall body, and developed muscles like he ran out from the set of Water Margin, he finally understood why this street was so quiet.
Turns out it was because everyone who caused trouble around was hacked to death by the boss.
Seeing Huo Yuhao stunned in place, the boss quickly put the saber in his hand under the counter, squeezed out a smile on his rugged face, and said:
“Yo, guest, here to stay?”
Then he got up to greet Huo Yuhao. Hearing that Huo Yuhao wanted the best guest room, the smile on his face became even brighter.
“Guest, good eye. My inn is absolutely the safest in these streets!”
“Even if you go out and run into something, just report my name. My great saber King Axe reputation still carries some weight in these streets.”
Huo Yuhao, with black lines all over his head, entered the guest room accompanied by the boss.
After closing the door, he had just sat cross-legged on the bed for a bit when he saw from the guest room window the boss carrying his saber walking north—that stance suggested he was off to hack someone.
Xilu City is too far from Heaven and too close to Shrek.
Because it’s close to Shrek, there are also an extremely high number of soul masters here.
The kind where you could randomly throw a brick out from the inn and hit a few with soul power.
Chaos, bloodiness, and violence are the main melody of this city.
This place is merely a hundred miles from Shrek City, yet the difference is as great as two worlds.
From some customers from Xuan Feng City, he learned that Shrek City is orderly, with enforcement teams patrolling the streets every day, and anyone wanting to cause trouble has to weigh their own strength.
Yet a small city a hundred miles outside Shrek City has a completely different style, turning directly into Gotham City.
Huo Yuhao shook his head, pulled the curtains closed, sealed the room with spiritual power, walked to the bathroom, sat in the bathtub, and prepared to take the medicine.
“Come on, let me see your strength.”
“Profound Water Pill, Soul Ascension Pill, Black Tortoise Divine Pill!”
Huo Yuhao directly swallowed a Profound Water Pill, immediately feeling that familiar cool airflow once again flowing through his five viscera and six bowels.
Every cell in his body was rejoicing, actively expelling impurities.
In a short while, a sparse layer of black substance appeared on Huo Yuhao’s body, much less than the first time he took a Profound Water Pill.
Probably after taking the third Profound Water Pill, it wouldn’t have much effect anymore.
For the next month, Huo Yuhao’s daily routine was taking medicine, meditating to digest the medicinal power, then taking more medicine.
Of course, he also did some insignificant little things in between.
For example, while strolling outside, he suddenly encountered a ragged middle-aged woman who abruptly threw a little girl next to him.
Under Huo Yuhao’s bewildered gaze, she turned and slipped away.
Looking at the skinny girl beside him, Huo Yuhao took her to eat a meal and inquired about the situation.
Watching the girl wolfing down the food, Huo Yuhao was a bit scared—people who have been starving long-term can’t suddenly gorge themselves.
Just as Huo Yuhao planned to take the food back, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm in his sea of consciousness spoke up.
It said this little girl had Taotie Bloodline.
Huo Yuhao was immediately shocked. He only knew Xuan Zi had this thing, but there was actually someone else here who possessed it.
So Huo Yuhao scanned with spiritual power, and the illustrated record showed the relevant information.
“Taotie Spirit Sheep: An extinct soul beast that once existed on July Fire Plain, with Taotie Bloodline in its body, a super soul beast.”
“Due to chronic hunger, it liked to hunt and kill all moving creatures, and in extreme cases would even eat itself, ultimately exterminated by a collective siege from soul beasts on July Fire Plain.”
After seeing the illustrated record information, Huo Yuhao gently held the girl’s hand and sensed her soul power.
Innate Level Six Soul Power, extremely malnourished, body skinny and weak to the point she couldn’t even open her martial soul—similar to Huo Yuhao at the start.
But since she had Taotie Bloodline, there was no worry about her eating herself to death.
Only after the girl finished eating did he learn the full situation.
The girl had no surname, only called Sui, from Star Luo Empire, family lived in Fala Village, but no one knew exactly where.
The village was massacred by a gang of bandits, and all the children were packaged and sold off.
A group of human traffickers took over, awakened their martial souls for them, then priced them.
She had no martial soul, but six levels of soul power.
Those human traffickers didn’t care; they planned to sell her at a high price to a noble in Xilu City.
Huo Yuhao was puzzled: why did that woman throw her to him?
Before she could even answer, Huo Yuhao understood the truth.
His spiritual power suddenly sensed that the middle-aged woman was leading a group of people frantically searching for someone on the street.
They would stop anyone they encountered, then have the middle-aged woman identify the facial features.
Damn it, these human traffickers mistook this humanoid without family for their contact person.
Being regarded as one of their own by these things even worse than beasts was simply the greatest humiliation to his personal dignity.
Huo Yuhao was truly furious, and even breathing the same air as these inhuman creatures made him feel uncomfortable all over.
So, Huo Yuhao lured this group into an empty alley, unleashed a massive illusion technique investigation, and extracted all their secrets.
Following the memories of this group, he eradicated all four human trafficker dens in Xilu City.
Then, based on the den information, he found their backers—two marquises of the Heaven Soul Empire.
One of the marquises, while out traveling, was controlled by Huo Yuhao’s illusion technique, then made to strip naked, cut off his own manhood and hold it in his mouth, and finally hang himself from the city gate.
The other marquis saw his companion dead and realized something was wrong, staying in his mansion all day.
Surrounded by five Soul Sects, two Soul Kings, and one Soul Emperor guarding it.
And extremely close to the City Lord’s Mansion.
Xilu City’s City Lord was a Soul Saint, with three other Soul Saints in his mansion, making it the safest place in all of Xilu City.
Huo Yuhao temporarily did not deal with him, but instead directly unified Xilu City’s underground forces through illusion techniques.
Anyone who wanted to resist was mostly unable to distinguish big from small, and after being burned by Amaterasu, there were no more dissenting voices.
From then on, Huo Yuhao conquered all of Xilu City’s underground forces in just one week.
He established a brand-new organization—Enthusiasm.
Then issued a series of orders.
“Prohibit selling prostitution.
Prohibit selling addictive medicine.
Prohibit human trafficking.
Prohibit robbery
Open orphanages to take in children.
Establish schools to strengthen education.
Prohibit infighting within the organization.
Provide protection for merchants willing to pay three gold soul coins per season as protection fee, but merchants must not violate the other rules.
…………”
Then Huo Yuhao placed spiritual imprints on all high-level Enthusiasm members; if they violated the orders, the imprint would directly erase their personality.
He left Sui and the other trafficked children in the organization’s orphanage, then trained them as Enthusiasm reserve members.
Huo Yuhao consumed the Black Tortoise Divine Pill at Enthusiasm Headquarters, reaching level twenty soul power in one go.
Then, using Kamui, he arrived alone at the location of the last marquis.
Looking at the resplendent golden mansion before him, his spiritual power probed that the other was fast asleep inside.
Huo Yuhao placed his hand on the jade wall, and the million years golden soul ring shone.
The Spiritual Endowment soul skill activated, and he said coldly:
“This is a parting gift.”
The giant mansion before him immediately came alive, with beams shaking, jade pillars twisting, and the entire ground rising.
Until a bizarre giant with a head formed from the mansion and a body from jade stood in the midst of Xilu City.
Enthusiasm members had already received Huo Yuhao’s news and began soothing the frightened civilians and evacuating the crowds.
The mansion on the bizarre giant’s head began to change, and the marquis sleeping inside was pierced into a hedgehog by countless stone pillars, dying instantly.
His powerful guards had never seen such a scene and had long fled.
While the weak ones accompanied him in death.
Meanwhile, in the adjacent City Lord’s Mansion, City Lord Lu Xinjin was also asleep, and upon hearing the commotion from the earthquake, he was just about to get up to check the situation.
He saw an advisor stumbling in with a panicked expression and saying:
“This is bad, City Lord!!”
Lu Xinjin felt a chill in his heart and hurriedly said: “Has a beast tide erupted?!”
The advisor quickly shook his head and said: “No, it’s not that—it’s the neighboring marquis mansion; it, it stood up!!!”
Lu Xinjin: “?”
“Are you sober?”
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