Douluo Dalu: Huo Yuhao Knows the Plot

"Mmm." Ye Lingling responded softly, then said in a low voice, "How about… how about you don't leave, Big Brother? Just stay in Lingling's room." As she spoke, the little girl lowered her head deeply, her tone full of shyness.

Immediately afterward, she seemed to remember something and quickly added, "I… I don't mean anything else. I just want to hug Big Brother more."

Uh!

Huo Yuhao's hand, which was stroking Ye Lingling's head, froze in mid-air.

The room fell into a brief silence. Ye Lingling's ears were now red with embarrassment, and she didn't dare to look at Huo Yuhao at all.

Huo Yuhao awkwardly withdrew his hand, then thought for a moment, organized his thoughts, and said with a solemn expression, "Lingling, you're still young. There are some things you don't understand yet. I don't know how to explain it to you. You can rely on me, and I'm willing to see you as my little sister, but brotherly and sisterly affection is different from love. Are you really clear about your feelings?"

Ye Lingling softly hummed in agreement, released Huo Yuhao, and said in a low voice, "Then, Big Brother, we've made a deal. I will grow up."

After saying these words, Ye Lingling was so ashamed that she fled to the bathroom.

Uh! Is that what I meant?

Huo Yuhao scratched his head. Hey, you know, it really is a bit easy to be misunderstood.

Forget it, we'll talk about it later. Huo Yuhao stopped thinking about it and turned to leave Ye Lingling's room. Of course, it was impossible for him to stay overnight. He could look but couldn't touch, wouldn't that be torturous? Besides, how old was he anyway!

Okay, deep down he probably did have some thoughts about Ye Lingling, perhaps it was lust at first sight. But, as the saying goes, Ye Lingling was too young.

*Click!*

The bathroom door opened, and Ye Lingling poked her little head out. After discovering that Huo Yuhao wasn't in the room, she breathed a slight sigh of relief. Just thinking about what she had just said made her cheeks burn, and she felt like she couldn't face anyone.

On the third day of the elimination round, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy made its appearance. Six of the seven team members were Soul Kings, and the captain, Ma Rulong, was even a six-ringed Soul Emperor.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's opponent was the Tianhong Soul Master Academy from the Tianhun Empire. The captain of the Tianhong Academy team surrendered very straightforwardly after seeing the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team reveal their soul rings, because the disparity was too great. The Tianhong Academy only had all members barely reaching the Soul Grandmaster level, so there was absolutely no hope.

This also greatly disappointed Huo Yuhao, who had wanted to see soul tools in action.

Huo Yuhao hadn't had much contact with soul tools, but he knew the general idea. Soul tools were divided into nine levels from low to high, with each level corresponding to a soul master of the same level.

But that wasn't absolute. Fixed soul tools were an exception. The power of some level-seven fixed soul tools could reach the level of a Titled Douluo, and level-eight fixed soul tools were definitely at the combat power of a Titled Douluo.

However, it was still very difficult to kill a Titled Douluo with a fixed soul tool. They wouldn't stand there stupidly and let you set up your big cannon and blast them.

However, because of the diversity of soul tools, soul engineers of the same level were mostly stronger than soul masters of the same level.

Of course, this was in the case of low-level soul masters. Above the Soul Saint level, it was not necessarily the case, because the Martial Soul Avatar greatly increased the combat power of soul masters.

The seventh soul ring was the most important ring for a soul master, even more important than the ninth soul ring, and it had the role of connecting the past and the future.

Soul masters who activated their Martial Soul Avatar experienced a complete leap in combat power.

By noon on the third day of the elimination round, sixty-one matches had been completed, and the remaining six matches were estimated to be finished in the afternoon.

After a short rest at noon, Huo Yuhao came to the stands again as he had done for the previous two days, but he discovered a person from the depths of his memory that he could never forget.

It was a middle-aged man standing in front of a group of Star Luo Empire generals. He looked to be in his thirties, wearing golden armor, and his angular features revealed fortitude. His eyes had double pupils, and his years of military life gave him an aura of iron and blood and killing.

This person was the White Tiger Duke, Dai Hao. Huo Yuhao's cheap father.

Since Huo Yuhao stepped onto the platform, Dai Hao's gaze had been fixed on Huo Yuhao, his expression faintly showing a trace of excitement. However, Dai Hao saw that Huo Yuhao's gaze only paused on him for a moment before moving away, as if he were looking at a stranger.

In fact, in Huo Yuhao's heart, Dai Hao was indeed a stranger. Huo Yuhao had expected today's meeting before setting off for the Star Luo Empire.

After seeing Dai Hao again, Huo Yuhao's heart was completely calm. Perhaps it was because Dai Hao had been stationed on the border of the Star Luo Empire for many years and was rarely at home. They had met very little when he was a child, and since Huo Yuhao awakened his martial soul and was judged to be useless, the White Tiger Duke hadn't even looked at him directly. Since then, Huo Yuhao had never seen this cheap father again.

Therefore, Dai Hao gave Huo Yuhao the feeling of being no different from a stranger. No, to be precise, he was half an enemy.

Because Huo Yuhao's mother, Huo Yun'er, was Dai Hao's personal maid. Later, Dai Hao forced himself on Huo Yun'er after getting drunk, and then Dai Hao took Huo Yun'er as a concubine.

After Huo Yun'er gave birth to Huo Yuhao, just as everyone envied Huo Yun'er for turning from a sparrow into a phoenix, a nightmare descended. Huo Yuhao awakened his martial soul, and his innate soul power was only level one, becoming a veritable waste in everyone's eyes.

Since then, Dai Hao had never come to see Huo Yun'er and Huo Yuhao again, and the status of the mother and son plummeted.

As the saying goes, once you enter a wealthy family, it's as deep as the sea. Huo Yun'er was banished to the cold palace by Dai Hao, and coupled with the constant suppression and targeting by the first wife, Huo Yun'er's life was worse than when she was a maid.

Later, she was seriously injured by the纨绔 young master Dai Huabin and his lackeys, and coupled with overwork and illness, she eventually died.

Speaking of which, Dai Hao had an unshirkable responsibility for Huo Yun'er's tragic experience. If he hadn't touched Huo Yun'er in the first place, then Huo Yun'er would still be that head maid, and at least she could have lived peacefully and would not have ended up in such a situation.

Thinking of this, Huo Yuhao felt a sense of disgust towards Dai Hao. In the past six years, no one would believe that Dai Hao was unaware of Huo Yun'er's situation.

Just like now, Dai Hao's performance proved that he already knew Huo Yuhao's identity, which was enough to show that he had been paying attention to the Duke's mansion all along, but he still ignored Huo Yun'er, wasn't that just abandoning her after using her?

In Blue Star, people like Dai Hao were complete scumbags, the kind who would be criticized by thousands of female compatriots. It was a pity that Huo Yun'er still missed him even in death.

Walking unhurriedly to the front and sitting on the wide seat, Huo Yuhao didn't turn his head, but he could feel that Dai Hao was still looking at him.

Honestly, this feeling was pretty good. He was sitting in front with a group of big shots, while Dai Hao was obediently standing behind like a little brother. This sense of superiority was really nice.

Dai Hao was a duke and had great influence in the military, and his status was not inferior to that of a prince, but everyone sitting here represented a super power, and he really wasn't qualified to sit with the others.