allendalepharm Chapter 7 Encounter
Chapter 7 Encounter
Even with martial arts manuals, Huo Yuhao did not believe he could grow up independently of any powerful force.
Putting everything else aside, just in terms of the efficiency of acquiring resources, an individual can never compete with a powerful force.
"Brother Hao."
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm struck up a conversation with Huo Yuhao: "Since the Body Sect is a reclusive sect, how do we find them?"
Huo Yuhao rolled the soul beast meat, sprinkled it with a handful of barbecue seasoning he had bought from Shrek City, and instantly golden oil droplets dripped into the fire, sizzling and rising into wisps of white smoke, filling the air with a fragrant aroma.
He tore large chunks of grilled meat and mumbled a reply, "It's not as hard as you think."
"The Body Sect is the guardian sect of the Heavenly Soul Empire. As long as you go to the Imperial Academy and tell their people, you won't have trouble finding them."
"Emperor Academy?" Tianmeng Ice Silkworm asked in confusion, "What is their relationship with the Body Sect?"
Huo Yuhao cut another piece of flesh from the Wind Tiger's corpse: "The Imperial Academy is commonly known as the Heavenly Soul Royal Academy. The Heavenly Soul Emperor is its honorary dean. What do you think its relationship is with the Body Sect?"
"Oh, I see. I understand."
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm went to great lengths to create this opportunity to flatter him.
It swam around, its tone obsequious, "Truly worthy of being a successor of the gods, you even know such news. Compared to you, Brother Hao, my million years have been a complete waste."
Huo Yuhao rolled his eyes at the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm in his spiritual sea.
Such low-level and deliberate flattery is really hard to accept.
He began to examine the map, analyzing how much longer it would take him to reach the far north.
Throughout the journey, Huo Yuhao continued to cultivate, even using the cultivation methods from the Martial Scripture to replace sleep when he rested at night.
At this moment, he had transformed all his soul power into the soul power cultivated from the Martial Scripture, and even his mental power had made significant progress.
At the same time, Huo Yuhao's physique was further improved, his foundation became more and more stable, and even one of his eight extraordinary meridians was opened, allowing him to reach level fifteen naturally.
This is all the result of his previous cultivation, a kind of slow and steady progress. It will be difficult for him to improve so quickly again.
Huo Yuhao, however, was not disappointed.
Even though his cultivation speed has slowed down, he still holds a significant advantage compared to the so-called geniuses on the Douluo Continent.
According to his own estimation, based on his current cultivation progress, obtaining a thousand-year soul ring at level twenty would be a piece of cake.
Spiritual herbs and precious medicines are scarce on the Douluo Continent, but soul beasts contain considerable energy.
In the past few days, Huo Yuhao has been replacing the effects of herbs during body tempering by eating the flesh of soul beasts.
"We just replenished our supplies in Shrek City today."
Huo Yuhao pointed his finger northward on the map: "It's more than 8,000 li from here to the northern border of Tianhun. After deducting the necessary time for replenishing supplies and resting, it will take about seven days to get there."
"At the current pace, it will take another two months to reach level 20. Let's take it slow and just consider it as experiencing the local customs and culture of the Heavenly Soul Empire."
Huo Yuhao packed his bags and was about to leave when he suddenly heard a slightly surprised female voice.
"It smells so good! Little brother, were you grilling meat just now? Can I buy a piece?"
Huo Yuhao looked in the direction the sound came from and saw a couple walking out of the bushes not far away.
"Oh, if you're hungry, just eat whatever meat you want."
"I'm already full, and it's a waste to leave the meat there, so I'll give it to you."
Although he is short of money now, he is not so destitute that he needs to sell barbecue to make a living.
Huo Yuhao sold all the spoils from hunting spirit beasts over the past few days at a shop in Shrek City, and he still has some gold spirit coins in his pocket.
"Thank you so much, little brother. I'm actually quite hungry."
Tang Ya skipped over to the Wind Tiger's corpse and exclaimed in surprise, "A hundred-year-old Wind Tiger? Did you hunt it yourself, little brother? That's amazing!"
Tiger-type soul beasts are already extremely powerful among soul beasts, and the Wind Tiger is the best of them all. Its speed is even faster than that of the king of tigers, the Evil-Eyed White Tiger, and ordinary soul masters are far from being its match.
Bei Bei stared at Huo Yuhao's departing figure, frowning as she pondered, "I know everyone in the academy who has the ability to hunt down the Wind Tiger alone, but he's a complete stranger."
"It's also possible that people from other academies are hunting souls nearby." Tang Ya relit the fire: "Beibei, come help me roast the meat."
Beibei took out a dagger from the Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moonlit Night and walked over to Feng Hu's corpse, looking back every few steps.
"Something's not right," Beibei noticed the anomaly, then quickly picked up the ferocious tiger head of Fenghu, "This isn't a head that was cut off after death, but rather one that was decapitated by a sharp weapon during battle."
He began to examine Feng Hu's corpse closely.
Even though Huo Yuhao had damaged the tiger skin to a great extent, Bei Bei was still able to discover, thanks to her outstanding knowledge, that all the cuts on the tiger skin were caused by the dagger that cut the tiger after it died.
Beibei couldn't help but gasp: "To be able to kill Feng Hu so decisively with a single blow, which academy or sect does he belong to? And why is he the only one here to hunt souls? Where are his teachers?"
"No, no, he's too young. Even if he looks strong, he can't be more than twelve years old."
"Twelve years old, hunting souls alone... Xiaoya! We'll talk about the wind tiger meat later! You come with me to chase after that little brother!"
"Huh?" Tang Ya pouted, dissatisfied. "But I'm so hungry."
Beibei grabbed Tang Ya's arm, ignoring Tang Ya's exclamation, and quickly ran with her in the direction Huo Yuhao had left.
"Beibei! You're hurting me! Let go! I can run by myself!" Tang Ya cried out in pain.
"He was most likely rejected by the admissions office because he didn't have a letter of recommendation!" Bebe said.
Tang Ya's eyes widened in disbelief: "How is this possible?! How could someone so young who could kill Feng Hu single-handedly not have a letter of introduction?"
"There will always be mutated martial souls that are overlooked." Bei Bei poured her soul power into her legs: "He has no master to protect his hunting soul, which means he is very likely a poor person, or even an orphan."
"Then he left in the direction of Shrek City. I suspect he wanted to join Shrek Academy, but perhaps because the admissions office staff were lazy and didn't even ask about his martial soul and soul power level, they just kicked him out on the grounds that he didn't have a letter of recommendation!"
Tang Ya realized what was happening: "You want him to join the Tang Clan?"
"If my suspicions are true, he would absolutely be the greatest hope for the revival of the Tang Sect!"
Beibei ran faster and faster: "Anyway, I don't have the ability to kill Feng Hu in one strike at his age. This means his martial soul is very likely a super martial soul! Or even a super martial soul comparable to the Holy Dragon of Light!"
Upon hearing this, Tang Ya immediately channeled her soul power into her legs and followed Bei Bei as they quickly chased after Huo Yuhao.
However, Huo Yuhao's speed was too fast when he used the Taiqing Sky-Walking Step. Even though Bei Bei and Tang Ya had already used Ghost Shadow Perception, they could only see his back from afar.
"Young man! Please wait a moment!"