Douluo Dalu: Huo Yuhao Knows the Plot

Wang Yan continued, "The academy's secret archives record that the Body Sect actually re-emerged once, and even people would travel the continent every so often, but they didn't cause too much of a stir. Do you know what event the Body Sect almost brought disaster to? Once I tell you, you'll understand how strong they are."

"That time, a total of nearly forty members of the Body Sect infiltrated the Star Dou Great Forest and hunted down seven hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, which triggered a beast tide in the Star Dou Great Forest. They rushed out of the forest and launched a beast tide offensive against us, nearly causing widespread devastation. That time, the four great ferocious beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest joined forces to attack Shrek City. The reason why we didn't have a life-or-death struggle with the Body Sect later was that the Body Sect also participated in the defense against the beast tide. It was also at that time that we discovered that, in terms of overall strength, the Body Sect was still above our academy. That beast tide lasted a full year until our Shrek Summoning Order recalled a large number of the academy's powerhouses to solve the problem. At least dozens of villages were slaughtered as a result. In the end, we reached an agreement with the Body Sect, and their then-sect master swore an oath to never enter the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt hundred-thousand-year soul beasts. Only then did that great disaster end. However, after that time, the soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest were enraged. In the following five hundred years, the chances of us human soul masters encountering powerful soul beasts in the outer areas of the forest greatly increased."

"The Body Sect's mix of righteousness and evil is really a headache, but the reason we didn't want to eliminate them back then wasn't that we didn't want to. One reason was that the Body Sect tried hard to remedy their mistakes and weren't too evil. Another, and the most important reason, was that if we had a life-or-death struggle with the Body Sect, the end result would definitely be mutual destruction. At that time, the Sun Moon Continent had just bordered our Douluo Continent for a thousand years and still occasionally showed signs of counterattack. Therefore, the Sea God Pavilion meeting ultimately decided to resolve the dispute with the Body Sect through an agreement."

Jiang Nannan said somewhat indignantly, "Then did those commoners die in vain?"

Wang Yan glanced at her and said, "I'm sorry, I can't answer that question. I can only say that our academy has done its best. We stopped the beast tide in the Star Dou Great Forest, at least saving thousands upon thousands of commoners. Not having a life-or-death struggle with the Body Sect was also to better preserve our strength to protect the continent. As for the specific situation at the time, I'm not clear either."

Jiang Nannan was silent, but from her indignant eyes, one could see that she didn't like that compromise. She was also born a commoner, so after hearing about the Body Sect's actions, she hated this force immensely, and at the same time, she drew a clear line in her heart with Huo Yuhao, who had joined the Body Sect.

The atmosphere in the room was a bit heavy, and this was exactly the result Wang Yan wanted to see.

Glancing at Xiao Xiao and Jiang Nannan, whose faces were unsightly, Wang Yan's lips curled into an almost imperceptible arc. He secretly gloated in his heart, 'Let you, Huo Yuhao, try to poach people in front of me.'

"Alright, that's all I'll say. Everyone doesn't need to be too hostile towards the Body Sect. Just keep your distance from them. That's it. Okay, everyone, go back and cultivate."

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Wang Yan dismissed everyone, not forgetting to play the good guy at the end.

Inside Huo Yuhao's bedroom, the purification of the Soul Devouring Knife was also in its final step. When the last wisp of black aura on the knife was absorbed by the Domain of Severed Magic, the Soul Devouring Knife also revealed its original color.

At this moment, the Soul Devouring Knife had completely shed its previous pitch-black color. The whole body was as transparent as crystal, and a gentle and pure cyan light lingered on it, as clear as water and as gentle as jade.

Ran Hongyue was amazed. She could feel that the original fierce and evil aura on the Soul Devouring Knife had vanished. The current Soul Devouring Knife actually gave her a vibrant feeling. Taking a deep breath of the aura emanating from the Soul Devouring Knife, she immediately felt refreshed.

She understood that Huo Yuhao had definitely picked up a bargain. Actually, it couldn't be said that way. Not everyone could solve the drawbacks of this Soul Devouring Knife. The soul power was fine, after all, there were still many people whose spiritual power exceeded Huo Yuhao's, but the fierce and evil aura on the Soul Devouring Knife was not that simple. Didn't you see how many people were miserably affected by it?

Putting the Soul Devouring Knife back into his storage soul tool, Huo Yuhao leaned back, resting on the soft sofa. Just now, in order to strangle the soul of that evil soul master, he had used soul shock multiple times, which had greatly depleted his spiritual power. At this moment, his face was full of fatigue.

"Yuhao, how are you?" Ran Hongyue asked with concern.

Facing Ran Hongyue's concern, Huo Yuhao smiled nonchalantly, explaining that it was because of excessive consumption of spiritual power, and then dismissed Ran Hongyue.

Afterwards, Huo Yuhao began to circulate the Heavenly Demon Art to restore his depleted spiritual power. After his state was restored to its peak, Yilai克斯 appeared, controlling the Soul Devouring Knife to fuse with Huo Yuhao, or rather, the Soul Creation Knife was more appropriate.

The benefits that Huo Yuhao obtained were not less at all. First of all, the expanded spiritual sea increased his spiritual power a little. Secondly, after the life energy of the Soul Creation Knife cleansed his body, Huo Yuhao could see traces of impurities overflowing from the pores on the surface of his skin, and his meridians seemed to have been combed through, becoming more smooth.

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In the following days, the competition continued tepidly. Shrek, which had received the most attention, had its overall strength slightly improved after equipping the soul tools purchased from the auction house. Although its performance was still not satisfactory, it was fortunate that it had not yet lost a match.

"I announce that the Body Academy has won."

As the referee's voice sounded, the audience in the competition stage cheered and shouted, all shouting for the Body Academy.

Today was the sixteenth day of the cycle competition, and also the last day. There were only four teams left in the arena, and the semi-finals would be held tomorrow.

These days, the Body Team had won repeatedly, and all ended in crushing victories, thus winning the support and worship of many viewers.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Guide Academy and the Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy were in the same situation as the Body Academy.

These three academies had been advancing triumphantly all the way, unstoppable. The other academies' teams could not be said to have no power to fight back in front of them, but the gap was still obvious.

Some people assessed that the overall strength of the Body Advanced Soul Master Academy was the first, followed by the Sun Moon Royal Advanced Soul Guide Academy, and the last was the Star Luo Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy.

The Body Academy, as the biggest dark horse of this session, had three Soul Emperors. Ma Rulong, the captain of the Sun Moon Royal Royal Advanced Soul Guide Academy, was the only Soul Emperor in their team, while the remaining Star Luo Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy had no Soul Emperors, all Soul Kings, which was also the origin of the ranking.

Of course, many people did not recognize this ranking, because most of the audience in the arena were people from the Star Luo Empire, and this was their home field, so they were unwilling for their country to lose the competition.

The Di'ao Academy from the Heaven Dou Empire also had a Soul Emperor, but unfortunately, they met the Sun Moon Royal Advanced Soul Guide Academy and were tragically eliminated.

The above are all the teams with Soul Emperors that are currently seen. On the surface, the Body Academy is the undisputed first.

Compared with these three, Shrek, the perennial champion academy, felt a bit forgotten. It was really because Shrek's performance had been a bit lackluster these days. Although they had not lost so far, their every match was a battle with all their strength. This was a bit inferior compared with the other three academies.

It also made the masses have an idea that Shrek was nothing more than that.