Chapter 88: Prelude
His thoughts returned to reality, and Huo Yuhao shouted out the window:
“Good morning, Night… Xilu City!”
After a night’s rest, the pupil power of the Spiritual Eye had recovered quite a bit. Although it still faintly ached, it did not hinder its use.
This time, Huo Yuhao did not use Kamui Teleportation to go directly to the Enthusiasm Headquarters office and chose to walk instead.
It was mainly because the prolonged Kamui Teleportation yesterday had nearly made him vomit. The scenes before his eyes were like frame drops, making him very uncomfortable.
Walking and calming his mood would be good too.
All along, he had been a hands-off boss. Xilu City’s development had basically appeared in Huo Yuhao’s mind in textual form.
Perhaps the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm knew more clearly how fast Xilu City was developing than he did, since it was handling the administrative documents.
Now walking on the streets, he was truly witnessing Xilu City’s rapid development with his own eyes.
It was completely different from the curse of those nobles who had been boiled alive back then.
Xilu City, not in Enthusiasm’s hands, had no prostitutes, street violence, bloody gladiatorial combats, addictive medicine, or casinos—things Huo Yuhao utterly abhorred.
Instead, it had attracted a group of merchant associations truly wanting to do business and a large number of commoners.
Even quite a few Soul Masters had come here to live, most of them injured and wanting to find a place to spend their remaining years.
What shocked Huo Yuhao was that these Soul Masters were extremely young! Their Martial Souls were at least mid-level Martial Souls!
At a breakfast shop, Huo Yuhao went to a Soul Master’s side and shouted to the boss:
“Boss, double the food for this table. I’ll pay.”
That young Soul Master was probably a novice, encountering a social terrorist like Huo Yuhao for the first time.
He stammered:
“Th-that… no need, thank you.”
Seeing him like this, Huo Yuhao smiled and said:
“No problem, bro. Eat your fill. Big bro here is meeting you for the first time on this side.”
“You look like a student fresh out of school. Interested in telling big bro your story?”
The young Soul Master looked at Huo Yuhao with a face full of doubt and said:
“You know my story?”
Huo Yuhao sincerely shook his head and said:
“No.”
“But your face is full of stories.”
In the end, the young Soul Master poured out his experiences to Huo Yuhao.
This child was named Zhou You, with Martial Soul Fixed Distance Ruler and innate Soul Power at level seven!
He was an undoubted genius, treated like a treasure and nurtured no matter which academy he went to.
Unfortunately, he went to Shrek Academy and then met a teacher named Zhou Yi.
Hearing this familiar name, Huo Yuhao immediately leaned back tactically! To show respect.
In this child’s words, he had been required to run one hundred laps right at the start of school.
His background was ordinary. He had finally gotten a recommendation letter from the City Lord, had no money on him, and could not keep up with the nutrition for such high-intensity training.
Moreover, he was a support type weapon Martial Soul Soul Master, whose Martial Soul provided almost no boost to physical fitness.
Relying on his talent, he had stubbornly endured until the fourth year, but later dark injuries appeared in his body, causing his cultivation speed to plummet. In the end, Zhou Yi expelled him expressionlessly.
Earning a Shrek four-year tour.
The Soul Masters who came with him were in similar situations, with dark injuries in their bodies preventing further progress.
After struggling fruitlessly, they chose to come to Xilu City to spend their remaining years.
Huo Yuhao sighed and said to Zhou You: “You should have heard of Enthusiasm since coming here.”
“Go there. They have people who can heal these dark injuries for you.”
This Shrek was simply a talent output center, discarding so many good seedlings without a second thought!
No wonder the Holy Spirit Cult liked going to Shrek Academy for stock.
After pointing the young Soul Master to a bright path, Huo Yuhao left the breakfast shop and continued to Enthusiasm Headquarters.
“Yu Hao, I know all the members of Enthusiasm. It seems no one can treat dark injuries.”
The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm was a bit doubtful in the Sea of Consciousness. As the silkworm behind Enthusiasm, every member had an archive record in its brain.
It was certain that no one in Enthusiasm had the ability to heal dark injuries.
Hearing this, Huo Yuhao had black lines all over his head and said to the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm:
“What about me?”
“Don’t I have this ability?”
The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm suddenly realized and said embarrassedly:
“Oh oh, bro forgot about you!”
The Golden Tortoise looked at the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm’s half-asleep appearance and could not help laughing out loud.
“Haha… cough!”
Tian Meng immediately widened its eyes and stared at the Golden Tortoise, this big turtle, saying:
“What are you laughing at?”
“Have you finished five years of alchemy and three years of simulation?!”
“Finished? Here are another hundred test papers. Write them quickly!”
“I’ll personally check them in a bit. If not done, say goodbye to your tortoise shell!”
The Golden Tortoise immediately wilted, its two heads listlessly lying on the ground saying:
“Tian Meng Ge, it’ll really kill the turtle.”
“This is too hard.”
“Let me sleep a bit.”
Tian Meng went over and knocked on its tortoise shell, saying sternly:
“Sleep, all you know is sleep.”
“How can you sleep at your age?!”
“Two hundred thousand years old is the prime age to strive!”
“Study hard!”
The Golden Tortoise quietly lifted its head and said:
“Tian Meng Ge, I’m only fifty thousand years old.”
“I cultivate one year and can use it for four.”
The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm’s face turned red and green alternately. It felt this turtle was indirectly calling its talent poor.
It had solidly cultivated for a million years! Of course, most of the time was spent on Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
At this moment, Huo Yuhao had already entered the Enthusiasm Headquarters office, listening to the silkworm and turtle bickering there.
Sitting on the chair, he spoke up and interrupted their conversation.
“Tian Meng Ge, can you still sense the spiritual imprint in the Extreme North now?”
Tian Meng sat on the Golden Tortoise’s tortoise shell, closed its eyes, immediately sensed the spiritual imprint, and said:
“No problem, it’s still there. It looks like there’s no life existence over there.”
“Bro’s spiritual imprint isn’t deliberately hidden. Any normal person would investigate the spiritual imprint.”
“As soon as someone touches it, bro will know immediately!”
Huo Yuhao lightly knocked on the desk, the purple sandalwood making a crisp sound. He searched the original work for information about the Extreme North, trying to find related records.
“Extreme North…”
“Tian Meng Ge, tell me, if you had burst out with spiritual power to attack that unknown area next to the Lake of Death in the Extreme North yesterday, could you have forcibly broken the barrier there?”
Tian Meng’s mouth corners slightly raised as it sat cross-legged on the Golden Tortoise, raised three fingers to Huo Yuhao, and said:
“Of course!”
“No need to burst spiritual power. With just the level of spiritual power from yesterday, bro could pry open that tortoise shell in three minutes!”
“That barrier is mainly impressive in shielding. Bro’s million years of spiritual power didn’t notice it at first!”
“Its defensive ability is just average. Three minutes to overload the barrier.”
Huo Yuhao smiled and said:
“Then it’s impossible to be related to the Ice God.”
“Only one possibility left.”
