Douluo Dalu: Huo Yuhao Knows the Plot

Tang Ya looked at Bei Bei with some curiosity and said, "I can't tell, you're quite cunning? You observe so meticulously."

Bei Bei slowly stood up and pretended to dust off non-existent dust from his clothes. "This is called cleverness, or you can say wisdom, I accept that too. A brain is a very important thing, my sect master. Let's go, we ate his grilled fish, whether or not we accept him into the sect, we should protect him for a while, in case he encounters soul beasts and runs into danger."

"Oh, Bei Bei, are you saying I have no brain?" Tang Ya understood the meaning in Bei Bei's words and exploded. A blue light flashed in her hand, and a blue, twisted vine appeared, which Tang Ya whipped towards Bei Bei like a whip.

Knowing that Bei Bei and Xiao Ya might follow, Huo Yuhao deliberately quickened his pace. Soon after, a wooden sign ahead indicated that he was not far from his destination.

Prompt: 50 miles ahead will enter the Star Dou Great Forest. Soul beasts are present, be careful.

Finally arrived at this legendary forbidden area for mortals, Huo Yuhao mustered all his spirits. He reached behind his waist and pulled out a sheathed short blade. The short blade was about a foot long, and the scabbard was dark green, made of tough leather. White Tiger Dagger, this was the only gift Dai Hao gave his mother, and it was always cherished by his mother. It wasn't until her death that she handed this short blade to Huo Yuhao like a family heirloom.

Taking a deep breath, he forcibly suppressed the unease in his heart. Huo Yuhao took firm steps towards the interior of the Star Dou Great Forest without hesitation.

Suddenly, that black shadow rushed towards Huo Yuhao directly from his right side. Although the black shadow was very fast, his martial soul was Spirit Eyes, and his observation was meticulous. The moment it pounced again, he saw its full appearance clearly.

It was a baboon about one meter tall, covered in brownish-yellow fur, with fierce eyes in its brown eyes, unusually long arms, sharp nails on its claws, and four long fangs protruding from its lips.

Facing the oncoming baboon, Huo Yuhao did not retreat. Instead, he took a step forward proactively. At the dangerous moment when the baboon opened its stinky mouth to bite him, his right foot suddenly exerted force, and his body moved to the left at an incredible speed, dodging the baboon's attack.

After avoiding the baboon's attack, Huo Yuhao did not stop. Instead, he turned his hand and slashed the White Tiger Dagger across the baboon's neck.

"Pfft."

Huo Yuhao's short blade was exceptionally sharp, easily cutting through the baboon's skin. In an instant, red-black blood spurted out from the baboon's neck, splashing on the surrounding ground.

Having expected this, Huo Yuhao was already ten meters away, without a speck of blood on his body. Unlike Dai Yuhao in the original work, who was tossed around in a mess, this baboon with only about ten years of cultivation did not bring much of a challenge to Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao has not absorbed a soul ring yet, which means he is not even a soul master yet. The reason why he has such combat power is also thanks to the Heavenly Demon Art. The Heavenly Demon Art has a body forging technique, which not only greatly improves Huo Yuhao's cultivation speed of soul power, but also subtly enhances his body strength. After all, the words 'body forging' are not just a gimmick. It can be said that every time Huo Yuhao's soul power flows in his body, it is tempering his body strength, so that his current body strength far exceeds his soul power level.

This is also the reason why his body reacts so quickly. Otherwise, based on his diet in the Duke's mansion, he would probably be crippled.

The body structure of primate soul beasts is similar to that of humans, so the neck is also the baboon's fatal weakness. Huo Yuhao's move can be said to be very tricky. With one move, the baboon no longer has the strength to fight. After struggling for a while, the baboon, having lost too much blood, fell to the ground and stopped moving.

Huo Yuhao's face was calm as he killed the baboon. He knew that Tang San was likely monitoring him, but he still did so. For no other reason, Huo Yuhao's current body strength is comparable to that of an ordinary three-ring soul master. If it took a lot of effort to kill a wind baboon with only ten years of cultivation, it would seem abnormal and easily arouse suspicion.

A faint white light appeared on the fallen baboon. These white lights slowly gathered above it to form a white halo.

Huo Yuhao looked at the white halo with novelty. Although he had heard it many times, this was the first time he had seen a soul ring. What is the principle behind this? Why does a soul ring appear after a soul beast dies?

Of course, Huo Yuhao has no intention of absorbing this soul ring. Although the soul ring is a necessity for soul masters to advance, not all soul rings are suitable for soul masters to absorb. Only soul rings that have a certain degree of compatibility with their own martial soul can be better absorbed by soul masters. For example, a soul master with a fire attribute martial soul cannot absorb an ice attribute soul ring.

Although Huo Yuhao cannot see what attribute this baboon's soul beast is, he can at least be sure that it is not a mental type, so it is not suitable for him. Besides, even if it is suitable, Huo Yuhao would not absorb it, because this soul ring is too weak.

Good soul rings produce more powerful soul skills, and the strength of the soul ring is generally distinguished according to the number of years the soul beast has cultivated.

Of course, the simplest method is to look at the color of the soul ring. The white soul ring produced by the baboon Huo Yuhao killed is a ten-year soul ring, proving that the baboon's cultivation is between ten and one hundred years. After a short observation, he prepared to move on.

Just then, a voice suddenly sounded in Huo Yuhao's mind.

"I finally met a human with mental attributes. It's a pity that I can't cry, otherwise I would definitely be in tears!"

"It's finally here." Huo Yuhao thought to himself, pretending to be frightened on the surface.

Just after that voice fell, the ground beneath Huo Yuhao's feet trembled without warning. Cracks appeared on the ground two meters ahead, and the cracks gradually widened, expanding into a half-meter-wide fissure. A golden-white light projected from the fissure.

Huo Yuhao's body trembled, holding the short blade tightly in his hand, with a look of horror on his face, as if he was too frightened and forgot to run away.

A trace of icy chill emanated from the cracks in the ground, and the surrounding temperature began to drop rapidly. The cracks continued to expand until they stretched to five meters, and the platinum-gold light finally revealed its true appearance.

It was a round head, all white jade, looking fleshy, more than a meter in diameter. It wriggled its bloated body and slowly crawled out. Every section of its body below its head had a surrounding golden pattern, a total of ten.

Huo Yuhao was speechless. If it were another soul beast, it would be fine, but a silkworm this big is a bit exaggerated. I wonder what the quilt made from the silk it produces would be like. Such a strange thought suddenly appeared in Huo Yuhao's mind.

I don't know if the Ice Silkworm would faint on the spot if it knew what Huo Yuhao was thinking at this time. Someone actually wanted it, a dignified million-year soul beast, to be made into a quilt.

Accompanying the appearance of the giant silkworm, mist began to form in Huo Yuhao's breath, and the chilling cold made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

Looking at this enormous silkworm, Huo Yuhao's face turned ashen, his despair unmasked, and he stood there foolishly, unmoving.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, your brother won't hurt you." The previous voice echoed in Huo Yuhao's mind again, and the giant silkworm nodded at him, its huge head lowered, stopping a meter away from Huo Yuhao, its pair of golden, glittering eyes showing no hostility.

Huo Yuhao said in surprise, "Are you talking to me?"

The giant silkworm nodded at him, the voice still echoing in Huo Yuhao's mind, "Of course it's your brother, aren't you captivated by my beautiful body?"

Hearing the other party say this, and also not feeling any malice from the other party, the look of fear on Huo Yuhao's face eased up a bit.

However, he still didn't relax his vigilance, but looked at the silkworm warily and asked, "What do you want to do?"

The silkworm said, "First, let me introduce myself. I am the embodiment of heroism and chivalry, the king of soul beasts who possesses both wisdom and beauty, an unparalleled powerhouse, cultivated for a million years, creating the highest lifespan record in the history of Douluo Continent, the Ice Silkworm of the Heavenly Dream. Uh, you can call me Brother Tianmeng."

Huo Yuhao's eyes instantly became dull, his voice trembling, "A million-year soul beast? Shouldn't the most powerful soul beast in this world be a hundred thousand years old?"

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm said smugly, "Isn't it very surprising? Aren't you very excited? You are the first human to be able to see this great one's true form."

Huo Yuhao just nodded blankly, "Then what do you want to do?"

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's voice suddenly became solemn: "Brother is going to become your soul ring, the first intelligent soul ring in the history of Douluo Continent."

"Ah." Huo Yuhao stared blankly at the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm in front of him, as if suspecting that he had misheard.

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's huge head looked warily in the direction of the Star Dou Great Forest, and then looked back at Huo Yuhao and said: "I'm going to start, okay? Don't worry, I'll be gentle, it won't hurt you too much."

After saying that, without waiting for Huo Yuhao to agree, its huge head pressed against Huo Yuhao's forehead, and at the same time, the ten golden lines on its body pulsated as if they had come to life.

"Ah." Huo Yuhao only felt a huge mental force衝擊ing his mind, and the intense pain made him unable to help but shout out, and the next moment he actually fainted on the spot.

"Not bad, although it's still very weak compared to brother, but it's much better than brother expected. Wahaha, it's time for brother to turn over."

An invisible mental wave spread outward from Tianmeng Ice Silkworm when it poured itself into Huo Yuhao's body. The terrifying mental power almost instantly covered every corner within a hundred miles in diameter.

Bei Bei and Tang Ya, who were speeding up to catch up with Huo Yuhao, were affected by the spreading mental power, and suddenly fell into a brief stagnation. Because the distance was too far, and there was no deliberate control, the two who were affected by the mental power did not suffer any harm.

At this moment, the sky, which had been clear just a moment ago, suddenly darkened, and a thunderous roar rang out in the high sky. In that instant, the sun's light was completely blocked by darkness, and a huge pressure that made people unable to breathe descended from the sky.

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's huge body trembled, and its two golden little eyes looked towards the high sky, its eyes instantly filled with horror. Obviously, the phenomenon in the sky was not caused by it.

A gray stream of air, as if encountering a huge suction force, descended from the sky, and in just an instant, it landed on the back of Huo Yuhao's head and quietly drilled in.

"What dares to snatch brother's person?" Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was furious, and its huge spirit instantly surged, trying to drive the gray stream of air out of Huo Yuhao's body.

A very vague figure appeared behind Huo Yuhao, and an old voice with an indescribable majesty sounded, "Holding the sun and moon and picking stars, there is no one like me in the world. I never thought that a wisp of my remnant soul could still be preserved."

Faced with the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's huge mental impact, this vague, illusory figure seemed to be unaffected at all. With a "swoosh", it drilled into Huo Yuhao's brain and disappeared.

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm didn't dare to increase its mental impact anymore, because blood had already seeped out of Huo Yuhao's seven orifices. It discovered that after the ball of gray air entered Huo Yuhao's brain, it immediately turned into a ball of air the size of a football, and then it fell silent. It neither conflicted with its power, nor would it be affected by its power.

"Isn't this too unlucky? I finally found a human with mental attributes, but there's still a bastard trying to snatch him from me. Heaven is jealous of talent!" Although it was complaining, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's movements were not slow at all. The thick white light gradually became more and more solid, slowly pouring into Huo Yuhao's body, while its body gradually became transparent in this process, and at the same time, its volume was rapidly shrinking. The moment it began to inject its power into Huo Yuhao's body, there was no turning back.

Huo Yuhao's body had completely turned jade-white, just like the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm before.

"Wahaha, brother is finally free. Those bastards who treated brother as food, you have no chance! Wahahaha." Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's triumphant voice gradually became smaller, and the huge mental power that had covered a diameter of a hundred miles also shrank back at an alarming rate, gradually disappearing.

Deep in the Star Dou Great Forest, several terrifying auras simultaneously fluctuated violently, as if sensing something, but they were destined to return without success.

Just as Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's voice completely disappeared, a halo silently emerged from under Huo Yuhao's body. A soul ring, white with a hint of yellow, circled his body three times in a row, before fading again, merging into his body and disappearing.

The lustrous jade color gradually faded, and a faint ice-blue color began to emerge from under Huo Yuhao's skin, lasting for about ten seconds before gradually fading, restoring his skin to its original color. His body also tilted and fell under the big tree he had been leaning against.

A thin white membrane with a light golden color silently flew up from the ground, quickly shrinking and condensing into a ball before drilling into Huo Yuhao's arms and disappearing. Tianmeng Ice Silkworm no longer had any aura remaining.

The big pit in the road had already closed up at some point. Besides the fallen Huo Yuhao, there was only the corpse of the baboon he had killed not far away. Everything seemed to have returned to normal.

Not long after, two figures rushed towards this place at an extremely fast speed.

"Ah!" With a cry of surprise, one figure instantly accelerated, quickly arriving next to Huo Yuhao and stopping.

"We're late, Little Brother Yuhao seems to have been attacked. These soul beasts are really getting more and more arrogant, they've already come out of the Star Dou Great Forest!" Tang Ya carefully helped Huo Yuhao up from the ground, her face full of depression and worry.