allendalepharm Chapter 2: Collect some interest before leaving.
Chapter 2: Collect some interest before leaving.
Chapter 2: Collect some interest before leaving.
Huo Yuhao returned to the woodshed where he and his mother lived, retrieved a set of clean clothes, and thoroughly washed himself in the river.
For some reason, his meridians became incredibly wide, and his soul power flowed freely within them—a feeling he had never experienced before.
This incredibly pleasant feeling made him extremely excited, and even the hunger he should have felt disappeared completely.
He discovered that his soul power was flowing naturally along a path he had never seen before, and that his soul power had somehow reached a bottleneck.
What was particularly strange was that just as he began to have doubts, a string of words suddenly appeared in his mind—"Star-Guiding Technique".
This is a technique that draws the power of the stars into the body, simultaneously cultivating the physical body, soul, and spirit power.
This was one of the gains he made from yesterday's serendipitous encounter.
After getting dressed, Huo Yuhao looked at the Duke's mansion in the distance and vaguely began to make plans, his current abilities giving him some confidence.
A ruthless glint flashed in his eyes. He clenched his fist and muttered to himself, "Collect some interest before you leave!"
The White Tiger Duke's Mansion is divided into the Inner Mansion and the Outer Mansion.
The inner residence was where the duke and his family lived, while the outer residence was for servants and the palace guards. The woodshed where Huo Yuhao and his mother lived was located in the outermost corner of the outer residence. This treatment couldn't be worse.
Under the Duchess's instructions, the steward of the North Courtyard of the Outer Mansion and his servants would often cause trouble here. The clothes that should have been washed by other maids were made to be washed by his mother. The treatment that should have been given to the mother and son by the Duke's Mansion was intercepted and deducted by these people. With no one to protect them, the mother and son were often beaten by these servants.
As long as I don't die, who cares?
Oh, his mother is dead. Is anyone coming to visit?
These blustering but cowardly lackeys love nothing more than bullying others, especially those who are of higher status than them. The thrill of bringing down a god is something these scumbags enjoy immensely. They come every day and rarely miss a day.
After all, the Duchess gave the instructions herself, so they would certainly do their best, since currying favor with their masters would bring them greater benefits.
The rudimentary application of the power of the stars granted Huo Yuhao an ability, which he named "Starlight Camouflage".
By initially fusing his spiritual power and soul power, Huo Yuhao drew upon the power of the stars to distort the space within a one-meter radius around him, and silently arrived at the innermost courtyard of the North Courtyard, where the North Courtyard steward lived.
The Duke's mansion has a total of six stewards, including the inner and outer mansions. The steward of the inner mansion is a member of the White Tiger clan and has the strength of a Soul King. He is in charge of all servants and slaves in both the inner and outer mansions.
Among the five stewards of the outer mansion, there is a chief steward with the cultivation level of a Soul Master. Under him, there is a branch steward for each of the four major courtyards in the east, west, south, and north, whose cultivation levels are all between Great Soul Master and Soul Venerable.
And the person in the North Academy who had a grudge against Huo Yuhao happened to be a Soul Master.
When Huo Yuhao arrived, he didn't intend to assassinate this Soul Master openly and directly. He had calculated that it was 10 p.m. now, and the steward would have to get up at 5 a.m. tomorrow to prepare for the day's work. At this time, even if the steward didn't sleep, he would still have to cultivate, which meant that he had a chance to launch a sneak attack.
He only has one chance to come and go quietly.
Besides the Starlight Camouflage, he currently possesses another ability to utilize the power of stars in his Star-Drawing Technique—Starry Purple Flame.
This flame originates from the burning power of the stars. It has the property of burning anything. Once something sticks to it, the flame will spread rapidly until it burns everything to ashes.
Of course, Huo Yuhao only has a tiny, extremely weak flame at the moment, but even so, it's more than enough to kill a Soul Master.
Huo Yuhao turned sideways and pressed his ear against the window. He could vaguely hear the sound of even breathing coming from inside the room, and he was certain that only the butler was in the room.
Huo Yuhao observed carefully and found no alarm bells or anything like that in front of the gatehouse. He quietly opened a crack in the door and slipped inside.
The room wasn't very big; it was a standard square hall with a tea table and two chairs. Further inside was an inner room separated by a curtain, which was where the steward rested.
Huo Yuhao carefully observed the surroundings and only entered the inner room after confirming that there were no problems.
A short, thin, middle-aged man was sitting cross-legged on the bed, meditating.
Yes, this is the steward, the one Huo Yuhao is determined to kill today.
Huo Yuhao's heart was pounding wildly. Tension, anger, and murderous intent surged up all at once, but reason suppressed these impulses and forced Huo Yuhao to make the right choice.
He held the White Tiger Dagger in one hand and a woodcutter's knife in the other, slowly approaching his target. Then, he activated his soul power, and a wisp of deep purple flame swirled around the White Tiger Dagger, stabbing it fiercely into the middle-aged man's dantian. At the same instant, he used the woodcutter's knife to slash at the man's throat!
The middle-aged man opened his eyes in agony. His dantian was shattered, all his cultivation was ruined, and his slit throat could not make a sound. Only blood was gushing out from the two holes in his body.
He stared incredulously at the young figure before him, then suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood. Unwilling to fall like this, he swayed as he tried to stand up, wanting to grab Huo Yuhao by the neck and take him with him to die.
Covered in blood, Huo Yuhao looked at the dying steward and revealed a ferocious smile. His deep blue eyes were bloodshot, like a vengeful ghost crawling out of hell.
The middle-aged man flailed his hands in fear, no longer daring to have the same thought. He tried to move away from Huo Yuhao in fear, but unsurprisingly, his idea was dispelled.
Huo Yuhao stomped hard on his groin, climbed onto the bed, and with another slash and stab, severed a large head, which rolled to the ground.
Huo Yuhao viciously hacked at the mutilated corpse a few more times before stopping. He sat on the bed expressionlessly for a while, then lightly tapped the spoils of war: a two-cubic-meter storage soul guide bracelet containing over a hundred gold soul coins and more than fifty silver soul coins, but no copper soul coins.
He quickly searched the room again and put anything of value into his soul tool.
Before leaving, he kicked the ball back onto the bed to keep the other half company, and then swaggered away.
Time was of the essence. After leaving the steward's place, Huo Yuhao rushed to the small courtyard where the servants lived. Under the cover of starlight camouflage, he easily entered the house. He quickly finished off the servants who were sleeping like dead pigs on the communal bed, and then counted his spoils again: two gold soul coins, twenty silver soul coins, and more than a hundred bronze soul coins.
After collecting the interest, Huo Yuhao returned to the woodshed where he and his mother had once lived, put his clothes into his soul tool, and then headed north without looking back—his destination: the Star Dou Great Forest!
(End of this chapter)