novelhk Chapter 248 Nighttime Infiltration of the Imperial Palace
Chapter 248 Nighttime Infiltration of the Imperial Palace
Chapter 248 Nighttime Infiltration of the Imperial Palace
The college is really something; they haven't even communicated such important news to Teacher Fan yet.
After complaining about the inefficiency of the academy's cultural affairs department, Huo Yuhao continued to browse the news from Douluo Continent.
Unsurprisingly, the next large chunk of intelligence concerned the exchange of interests between mainland forces and those Mingdetang materials.
Although the data was systematic, it was not something that any single force could digest in a short period of time. As a result, not only the Star Luo Empire royal family, which bought the data, but also the soul guidance departments of Shrek Academy, Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, and Heavenly Soul Empire got involved.
As for the Douling Empire? They're probably still playing some kind of political infighting game right now.
This is going to be interesting. With the resources of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School and the assistance of Shrek Academy's Soul Guidance System, the Star Luo Empire shouldn't be as powerless as it was in the original story.
That being said, Huo Yuhao was still not very optimistic about the Star Luo Empire's border defenses.
Even if the database stores a lot of information on the Soul Guidance System, it will not include the most important and advanced batch, which includes information on the linked defense Soul Guidance Devices used by the Legion, as well as the Soul Guidance Satellites, which are ultra-long-range detection Soul Guidance Devices.
Without these two powerful weapons, the Star Luo Empire can at best barely catch up with the Sun Moon Empire in terms of offensive power, but its reconnaissance and defensive capabilities will be suppressed.
Well, overall the plot hasn't changed much, which makes sense, since I haven't done much myself.
I have to wait a little longer. My cultivation level is too low, and I can only leverage too little power. There are many things I can only think about.
Unless...we take advantage of the situation?
Huo Yuhao tapped the table lightly, pondering what powers he could utilize.
Hey~
Gently putting down the documents in her hand, Ye Guyi sighed helplessly.
"What, giving up?"
Huo Yuhao stopped thinking and looked at Ye Guyi's frustrated expression with amusement.
Ye Guyi stretched and said, "Forget it, I'm not cut out for this. I'd rather find a reliable force to be my henchman."
Let alone gathering intelligence, even with readily available intelligence right in front of her, Ye Guyi couldn't figure anything out.
Huo Yuhao didn't say much about this. In fact, Huo Yuhao wasn't that sensitive to intelligence in the past, but as his cultivation level increased and his mental power became more active, Huo Yuhao thought more and more, and his ability to connect details was also greatly improved.
But what Ye Guyi said after that...
They practically had "I want Huo Yuhao to talk about the benefits" written all over their faces.
However, Huo Yuhao was no longer in a hurry. After all, he knew his own situation well. At present, the help that Huo Yuhao could provide to Ye Guyi was really very limited, and he could only offer empty promises.
To be honest, although Huo Yuhao has eaten his fair share of pie-in-the-sky promises, this is the first time he's been asked to draw one, and he might even make things worse.
In that case, why not take Ye Guyi on a tour of the company's (not really) business and let her decide for herself whether or not to join?
"I need to go out to run some errands after dinner. Do you want to stay here and rest, or come out and have some fun with me?"
Ye Guyi asked疑惑地问道, "Where to?"
"Sun and Moon Palace".
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"You brought me here just to see this?!"
Ye Guyi roared in Huo Yuhao's mind through mental sharing.
"Unexpected! Unexpected!"
Huo Yuhao quickly waved his hand, signaling Ye Guyi to be quieter.
At this moment, Huo Yuhao and Ye Guyi secretly slipped into the Sun Moon Palace, or more precisely, the residence of Prince Xu Tianming, under the guise of a simulation.
Unfortunately, they ran into Xu Tianming and his imperial concubine...
Ye Guyi blushed and turned her head away, asking, "What are you doing here so late at night?"
"Do you see that shadow over there?"
Huo Yuhao didn't explain, but instead marked a point in the mental detection.
Only then did Ye Guyi notice the unusual appearance in that spot.
"That aura...? A demonic spirit master? Hiding right here in the palace?!"
"That's right."
Huo Yuhao nodded and said, "According to intelligence, the Sun Moon Royal Family is very close to the Evil Soul Masters, especially Xu Tianran's lineage."
"Based on intelligence, it is reasonable to speculate that Xu Tianran often used evil soul masters to eliminate his rivals. All the princes who competed with Xu Tianran for the throne died mysteriously at home. The period after Xu Tianran was accidentally disabled was the most serious. In the short month that followed, several princes had accidents one after another."
"The reason I came here is naturally to try to find some evidence that an evil spirit master killed the prince."
"You mean Xu Tianran will send an evil spirit master to assassinate Xu Tianming? Why?"
"Naturally, it's because Xu Tianming is restless," Huo Yuhao said, pushing up his non-existent glasses. "Originally, Xu Tianming was just kept around by Xu Tianran to maintain appearances, but now that Xu Tianming is starting to cause trouble, Xu Tianran naturally won't keep him around anymore in order to eliminate potential threats."
Ye Guyi nodded, then asked, "How can you be sure it's today?"
"Ugh."
Huo Yuhao sighed.
Indeed, I shouldn't have bothered to teach Ye Guyi the logic behind this.
It's completely meaningless.
In the future, when communicating with Ye Guyi, let's only talk about what needs to be done, and not discuss anything else.
After all, that's how it is in Douluo Continent. The strong only need to devote themselves to cultivation, improve their cultivation level, and refine their soul skills, while the weak have many things to consider.
Seeing that the commotion inside the mansion had subsided, Huo Yuhao sneaked into the palace and left a spiritual mark on Xu Tianming.
"Mission accomplished, time to go."
Patting Ye Guyi on the shoulder, Huo Yuhao gestured for her to leave together.
"Wait!" Ye Guyi pointed to the shadows not far away and said, "Aren't you going to kill that evil spirit master?"
Huo Yuhao asked, puzzled, "Why deal with him?"
Ye Guyi looked into Huo Yuhao's eyes and said seriously, "Didn't you say you were going to eliminate all evil soul masters?"
Huo Yuhao was speechless for a moment: "I really can't understand how you, with your divine attribute, have managed to survive so long within the Holy Spirit Cult's sphere of influence."
Seeing the clear foolishness flash in Ye Guyi's eyes, Huo Yuhao patiently explained:
"Leaving aside their cultivation level, can we even defeat them?"
"You have to understand, we're in the Sun and Moon Imperial Palace right now. There might be Title Douluo-level evil soul masters inside. If we cause any trouble and get targeted by those powerful evil soul masters, we're both finished!"
"Even if you weren't targeted by an evil spirit master, infiltrating the palace is a major taboo, and getting caught would be very troublesome."
Ye Guyi was speechless for a moment.
"But……"
Ye Guyi said unwillingly, "That's an evil soul master. If we don't deal with him this time, who knows how many more lives will be lost next time we see him."
"There's no other way but to make the common people suffer."
Huo Yuhao sighed and said, "If we die, then there really won't be many people with the power to eliminate the evil soul masters. This short-term sacrifice is so that more people can be saved."
"Did you know that the current Sea God Pavilion Master of Shrek Academy is a level 99 Limit Douluo with the Light Sacred Dragon Martial Soul? He fell ill due to a battle with the Sect Master of the Body Sect in his early years and has not appeared in the world for more than a hundred years now?"
"In the past hundred years, if the level 99 Limit Douluo of the Holy Dragon Martial Soul had been able to go all out to fight against the evil soul masters, wouldn't the evil soul masters have been driven to the brink of despair long ago? At the very least, they would have been forced to hide and not dare to act so recklessly as they do now."
Ye Guyi looked utterly dejected: "How could this be?"
Huo Yuhao glanced at Ye Guyi and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his persuasion had worked.
If Ye Guyi is still as reckless as when she first appeared in the original story, Huo Yuhao would have to consider throwing Ye Guyi into the undead demiplane for a few years and then releasing her after she is promoted to a title.
"You seem to have broken through to level 50. Do you need me to go soul hunting with you?"
While dodging the patrolling guards, Huo Yuhao chatted casually with Ye Guyi.
"No need for you to trouble yourself."
Ye Guyi explained, "During the last soul hunt, I noticed a suitable soul beast, but it was too old, reaching the ten-thousand-year level, so I settled for an eight-thousand-year-old one."
"With my current strength, I can handle that ten-thousand-year-old soul beast all by myself."
"Okay," Huo Yuhao nodded in satisfaction, seeing that he didn't have to make another trip.
"By the way, that token contains one of my mental imprints. If needed, you can contact me through the mental imprint. I can remotely release mental detection and simulation assistance for you, but the range of effect is not as good as when I act personally."
"A spiritual imprint?"
Ye Guyi was taken aback. "So you also placed a mental imprint on that Prince Xu something-or-other? And you can observe the surrounding scene through the mental imprint?"
"right."
"I see."
Ye Guyi nodded, and at the same time made up her mind that she would definitely put the token Huo Yuhao gave her into the storage soul tool in the future...
It should also be placed in a separate storage soul tool.
What should I do? Even the worst storage soul tool costs at least a thousand gold soul coins. I don't have that much money to buy another soul tool.
Ye Guyi said somewhat awkwardly, "Um... could you lend me some gold soul coins...?"
Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao tossed Huo Yuhao a gold card without hesitation: "There are 300,000 gold soul coins in it. Let me know when you've used them up."
Ye Guyi hurriedly caught the gold card: "This... so much? I only need a thousand."
Huo Yuhao casually replied, "It's alright, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School's money can be spent however you like."
Speaking of which, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, as a supporting sect, has accumulated a very deep foundation in commerce over the past ten thousand years.
Putting aside everything else, the catering industry alone has a market value of hundreds of billions of gold coins. Jiubao Restaurant has occupied both the high-end and low-end markets by virtue of its advantages in ingredients and prices, leaving other catering businesses to fight in the mid-range market.
Not to mention the Jiubao Chamber of Commerce, which encompasses all kinds of businesses, large and small.
The only thing that puzzled Huo Yuhao was that, according to his tests, the gold content of the Gold Soul Coins was quite high. Did the Douluo Continent have so much gold to supply the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School with for printing Gold Soul Coins?
Who cares? As long as it doesn't affect Huo Yuhao's spending of money.
After saying goodbye to Ye Guyi, Huo Yuhao spent a few days playing alone in Mingdu before leisurely returning to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
"Teacher Fanyu, I'm back."
The first thing I did upon returning was, of course, to let acquaintances know I was safe.
"It's good that you're back."
Upon seeing Huo Yuhao, Fan Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
Although Huo Yuhao's words often went astray, it was impossible for Fan Yu not to be nervous.
"Soul Master level? Are you satisfied with your fourth soul skill?"
Fan Yu was aware that something was off about Huo Yuhao, but she didn't ask any further questions. However, she was quite curious about the spirit ring that Huo Yuhao had waited a year to hunt for.
"Functional soul skills don't significantly improve combat power, but they have many potential applications."
Huo Yuhao gave a vague description of the effects of the fourth soul skill and then said nothing more.
After greeting the academy staff, Huo Yuhao headed to Xuan Ziwen's residence.
"Teacher Xuan, I'm back."
It was evening, and Xuan Ziwen was returning to his dormitory to rest.
"You actually know how to come back?!"
Upon seeing Huo Yuhao, Xuan Ziwen rushed forward and grabbed Huo Yuhao's shoulder.
"Do you know that as an exchange student, your itinerary must be reported to your superiors? Do you know how much trouble it almost caused when Keke came back without you? If I hadn't used the excuse of an experiment to cover it up, the Master of the Red Dust Hall would have had to go to the Jingyang Mountains to find you in person."
Huo Yuhao then remembered that he seemed to be an exchange student, and his travel was restricted.
That's not right. In the original story, Huo didn't say anything when he went out.
Indeed, the original work can only be used as a reference; some details must be observed by oneself.
Huo Yuhao coughed lightly and said, "Ahem, Teacher Xuan, thank you for your help these past few days."
Xuan Ziwen chuckled lightly: "If you know you're wrong, then give me a copy of the core magic array of that saw you used in the previous competition."
"You mean a chainsaw? That's easy."
Huo Yuhao readily tossed the core magic array design blueprints of the chainsaw to Xuan Ziwen.
Xuan Ziwen excitedly took the blueprints and examined them carefully.
However, the next second, Xuan Ziwen's expression turned ugly: "Are you serious?"
As he spoke, Xuan Ziwen slammed the blueprints on the table. "This is clearly just a variant of a lightning-attribute core magic array. If you don't want to give it to me, then don't. There's no need to try to fool me with this."
"Teacher Xuan, please don't get agitated."
Huo Yuhao calmly replied, "Teacher, what you and I wanted was the core magic array of the chainsaw, so there's no problem with the blueprints. As for the rest of the structure, how about I just give you a chainsaw so you can study it?"
After saying that, Huo Yuhao took out a chainsaw and handed it to Xuan Ziwen.
"This is?"
As soon as he took it, Xuan Ziwen noticed that something was wrong with the feel of it.
With Xuan Ziwen's skill level, he had long since explored most of the world's rare metals, yet he still couldn't recall what this material was.
However, more than what material the outer shell was made of, Xuan Ziwen was more concerned about how Huo Yuhao managed to achieve the rotation effect using a lightning-attribute core magic array.
Ever since Huo Yuhao revealed this chainsaw in the last competition, the researchers in Mingde Hall have racked their brains trying to figure out how he did it, but they still can't figure out how he did it.
(End of this chapter)