Douluo Continent: Angel Saint Huo Yuhao

Chapter 143 Dragon True Arrives
Logically speaking, after dealing with all these messy matters, Huo Yuhao's academy life should return to normalcy and tranquility.

But actually——

"Nana...you don't need to follow me so closely, do you? Don't you need to eat and rest regularly?"

Huo Yuhao stood in front of the dormitory door and sighed deeply, looking down at the shadows at his feet.

A moment later, Nana's head rose up from it.

This is her only ten-thousand-year soul skill—Ghost Shadow.

Able to blend into a person's shadow almost silently, moving with their actions—a natural assassination skill.

Of course, this incredibly effective thing is now being used by someone as a follower skill.

“Master, don’t worry~ The interior of the Shadow is a separate little space, so the soul power consumption is not high. I can handle anything inside.”

Nana glanced at the half-open dormitory door, her gaze darting around, and said, "Ahem... Master, do you need me—"

"unnecessary!"

Huo Yuhao decisively cut her off, saying, "I'm very safe at the academy and I don't lack anything. You don't need to follow me around all the time and neglect your cultivation."

"Yes!"

It was just a word of advice, but Nana seemed to have received a clear instruction and breathed a sigh of relief: "I will definitely work hard in my cultivation!"

"Also... there's this."

Before leaving, Nana took out a storage soul tool and presented it to Huo Yuhao: "Master, this is a tribute that we thirteen people have put together! We hope you will accept it."

"I don't want this kind of thing."

Huo Yuhao looked helpless, he really couldn't do anything with them: "Just take it as my order, redistribute the things in here."

"no way."

Nana adopted a deadbeat-like demeanor: "The biometric verification is complete, and we can't open this thing anymore."

"...Bioverification? When did that happen?"

Huo Yuhao was somewhat bewildered, and even began to doubt whether there was something wrong with his memory.

“You were unconscious for several hours, and I took the opportunity to pluck two hairs from your head.”

"Sigh~"

Huo Yuhao gasped instantly.

It seems he misunderstood before; this person is much more difficult to deal with than Yu Mengdi: "From now on, you are not allowed to touch my body without my permission! Nor are you allowed to enter my room!"

"Oh~"

Nana responded listlessly, emerging from the shadows under Huo Yuhao's smug gaze, and turned to leave.

"Wow! You're pretty good, junior!"

Ye Xiaosheng, who had just stepped out of the door, leaned against the door and winked at Huo Yuhao: "I didn't expect to hook up with someone in just a few days... sigh?"

Just as he started joking, Ye Xiaosheng's expression changed, and he became serious: "Junior! Be careful, this might be a conspiracy by Sun Moon Academy! Don't get too caught up in the romance!"

"Don't worry, I won't."

Huo Yuhao's lips twitched. He was about to enter when Ye Xiaosheng stopped him with a hand: "Hey... we're supposed to be visiting and interning at Mingde Hall today! Are you just going to skip it?"

"practice?"

Huo Yuhao was greatly surprised.

"Just today!"

Ye Xiaosheng nodded emphatically, then looked somewhat surprised: "You don't know? What does your supervising teacher do? How could he forget to tell you something like this?"

"..."

Huo Yuhao was speechless for a moment.

Xuan Ziwen has made it clear that he's going to let him grow up freely, and Jing Hongchen has also said that he can continue his Soul Master training as he pleases. So, it would be strange if they suddenly notified him to intern at Mingde Hall. "Let's go... let's just treat it as a visit!"

Compared to Fan Yu and He Caitou, who were always frowning, Ye Xiaosheng, who had long since accepted reality, was much more cheerful. He had temporarily given up his plan to challenge Mingde Hall, waiting to improve his soul guidance fundamentals before considering anything else.

With this thought in mind, everything became clear. Although his soul guidance technique hadn't improved much during this period, his soul power cultivation had broken through one level in a carefree and exhilarating way.

"Ok."

Faced with such enthusiasm, Huo Yuhao couldn't refuse.

Of course, he also planned to take this opportunity to witness the splendor of the Soul Guidance Holy Land and broaden his horizons. And...

"Senior, do you sell Mingdetang's products to outsiders?"

"That's for sure!"

Ye Xiaosheng glanced at him with some curiosity: "Mingdetang products are frequently seen on the market, and they are one of the main sources of income for researchers and Mingdetang."

Is that so?
Huo Yuhao secretly opened the soul tool he had offered as tribute and glanced at it, then could never put it back.

"many…"

Leaving aside the two or three hundred soul tools ranging from level two to five, and the stacks of cards of unknown denomination, the pure gold soul coins alone would amount to more than a dozen...

ton.

Millions!
The dazzling golden light was so intense it was almost blinding, leaving Huo Yuhao stunned for a long time before Ye Xiaosheng woke him up.

Are all Soul Masters this rich?

This thought lingered in Huo Yuhao's mind for a long time.

……

Welcome everyone!

Lin Jiayi walked out of a low building, but the first thing she saw when she saw everyone was Huo Yuhao. A hint of surprise flashed in her eyes. She pulled the person next to her and whispered a few words of instruction before continuing with her opening remarks.

Clearly, neither he nor Jing Hongchen expected Huo Yuhao to appear here.

"Everyone, come with me."

Lin Jiayi nodded emphatically to Huo Yuhao, and led the group through several checkpoints into the elevator.

However, the moment the light barrier closed, Huo Yuhao keenly sensed several faint fluctuations that swept across his body, causing a slight tremor in his soul power.

'Originating from outside the elevator…'

As the platform slowly descended, Huo Yuhao also focused his mental detection into a beam, which penetrated the metal partition and swept across the soil, instantly locking onto several metal prisms that had been buried there recently.

Judging from its shape and style, although it differs from the soul tools he and Orange set up before, and the materials and patterns on it are more affluent, it undoubtedly belongs to the same category.

A soul guide used to detect soul power!

Moreover, compared to the separate devices in the forest, the current soul guide device seems to be better at detection accuracy, but its range is relatively smaller.

"Huh? There's more down there?"

As Huo Yuhao's gaze grew increasingly surprised, the elevator's path was covered by a dense array of detectors. His astonishment reached its peak, especially when a vast metal dome gradually appeared directly below.

On a metal layer that covers at least half the area of ​​the academy, a detector about half the height of a person is placed every hundred meters or so.

"Judging from the surrounding rock and soil layers, it's all newly installed equipment... Why does it feel like it was done in a hurry? Could it be because they were afraid someone would suddenly break into Mingde Hall?"

Huo Yuhao stepped out of the elevator with a thoughtful look in his eyes, ignoring the silent gasps of surprise from those around him, as well as Lin Jiayi's intentional or unintentional approach.

"They're still installing it there..."

After walking a few feet, Huo Yuhao turned his probe downwards and saw several Soul Masters drilling holes in the rock strata to install equipment at the corner.

—And the hunched old man standing by, looking around?

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(End of this chapter)