Douluo Continent: Angel Saint Huo Yuhao

Chapter 182 Divine Sense Aura, Undead

The place where the White Tiger Duke confronted the Sun and Moon Empire is also the widest part of the Mingdou Mountains, where layers of mountains grow together, roughly arranged in rows of folds.

A beam of light traveled through the crevices between these folds, occasionally leaping over gaps in the mountain ridges to the next level. Before long, the number of interconnected mines in the Mingdou Mountains began to increase.

"The area beneath these mountains has probably been hollowed out... Whether it was directly excavated by the Sun and Moon faction or mined by the Star Luo Empire and then sold to the Sun and Moon, the ultimate destination of those precious minerals is probably the Mingde Hall."

Huo Yuhao released his spiritual power to scan the cave passages, and in some places he could even detect traces of remaining life: "Are there still people active in these long-abandoned caves?"

The further they explored, the more and more mines appeared to show signs of human habitation, but they seemed more like deliberately staged illusions than actual dwellings.

"this…"

Huo Yuhao was completely baffled.

Why bother with all this stuff deep in the Mingdou Mountains? For both the Sun Moon Empire and the Star Luo Empire, these smokescreens caught in the middle of the battle will only be completely swallowed up by the roar of war.

Those who do this can only be bandits hiding in the mountains.

"To be able to complete such a large amount of work... this group of bandits must all be Soul Masters. However, judging from the dilapidated state of these mines, they must not have been maintained for a long time."

Huo Yuhao stretched his mental energy into a beam of light, scanning it continuously like the hands of a clock, and finally discovered a large area of ​​badly damaged mountains within a 15-mile radius.

As if some enormous thing had ripped them open one by one, a wide valley filled with rubble was pushed out of the messy mountains, directly cutting through many folded mountain ridges.

"and many more!"

The moment the mental radar swept across this area, Tianmeng suddenly became alert, and Xue Di turned her gaze towards it as well.

"Well?"

Even Elder Yi, suspended high in the sky, couldn't help but peer out in surprise: "That seems to be... the aura of divine consciousness?"

Divine consciousness!

These two words struck Huo Yuhao like a thunderclap, instantly putting him on edge: "Is that thing friend or foe?"

Those who can access divine consciousness are all god-level beings without exception. And the only divine consciousness he has ever truly come into contact with, besides Elder Yi, is the mysterious power in Wang Dong's mind.

Currently... apart from knowing that the thing is a divine consciousness, Huo Yuhao has no other relevant information.

"It should be called an old friend. That aura is completely consistent with the divine consciousness within that child's sea of ​​spirit."

Elder Yi marked the location in Huo Yuhao's mental detection: "However, besides the aura it once emitted, there is something else remaining here."

'Wang Dong's consciousness?'

Huo Yuhao looked up in shock, surveying the vast ruins whose terrain had been altered: "Is this where Shrek Academy encountered the evil soul master?"

"Maybe."

Old Yi answered somewhat uncertainly.

In his view, this ruin was less a site left by some earth-shattering battle and more the result of a powerful figure's impotent rage.

……

What are we doing stopping here?

As soon as they landed, Ye Guyi, who was following behind Huo Yuhao, instinctively frowned, as if there was something in the air that she found repulsive.

"Although it has become very faint, it is indeed the aura of an evil spirit master."

Yu Mengdi released her longsword and swept it through the air, but she did not receive the feedback that purified evil:

"His remaining power has almost completely dissipated, making it impossible to determine his level... Perhaps His Holiness the Holy Son can sense it—Holy Son?"

Yu Mengdi looked at Huo Yuhao, who was standing still, with surprise in her eyes.

This being, who usually radiated a warm, sun-like energy, suddenly transformed into pure, deathly silence. An aura as cold and indifferent as death itself quietly emerged, gradually turning his hair and eyes gray.

"Who are you!"

While Yu Mengdi was still in shock and hesitation, Ye Guyi's holy sword was already positioned in front of Huo Yuhao, her eyes full of vigilance.

Although her Holy Angel Martial Soul seemed to have malfunctioned, offering no warning or sense of purification of the evil soul master, the necromantic aura emanating from the opponent forced her to take it seriously.

This force.

It was even more pure than what those three evil soul masters had shown!

'I knew it…'

Huo Yuhao sighed deeply. Long before Elder Yi used his power to possess him, he had anticipated that the alarms of these two evil soul masters would react.

Infusing his spiritual power into his divine spark, briefly activating that bright and sacred power, Huo Yuhao looked at Ye Guyi with one gold and one gray eye:
"Now you should have no more doubts, right?"

"this…"

Looking at Huo Yuhao, whose two auras coexisted as one, Ye Guyi slowly widened her eyes: "How is this possible!"

The power of the undead should melt away like ice and snow when it encounters the divine, and should be unable to resist purification. However, these two coexisting energies are now peacefully coexisting.

There's even a tendency towards communication.

"Everything is possible."

Huo Yuhao smiled at Ye Guyi for a moment, brushed past her, and a mysterious staff with three colors appeared in his hand. He raised it above his head and then slammed it to the ground.

A strange whisper echoed around, seemingly affecting the very soul, allowing all living beings nearby to understand its meaning:
"High-level undead control."

As the whisper fell, a thin mist suddenly rose within a radius of tens of meters, gradually outlining thirteen illusory figures.

Although their bodies, souls, and even their power had been completely destroyed, Old Man Yi still managed to recreate their appearance in life using his remaining energy:
"Something close to a lich. And a group of quasi-undead under his control."

hum~
It's unclear whether the reappearing afterimage triggered something, but a wisp of blue aura suddenly rose from an open space ahead, rushing towards the afterimage, only to be blocked by Elder Yi's staff.

"Does it consume the divine power derived from divine consciousness?"

Looking at the last wisp of energy, Elder Yi couldn't help but frown: "That deity clearly resides in the upper realm, so why would he resort to such a self-destructive method?"

Why not just use divine sense as a location to project divine power? Why waste the backup plan you left behind?

'Could it be that the so-called realm of gods has other restrictions?'

Old Yi leaned on his staff, glanced at the sky, and then turned his gaze to the beginning of the valley.

It seems that many dead people are buried there.

Besides the numerous malevolent creatures, three pure souls also reside here.

"That senior student...and several other Shrek Academy regulars..."

Huo Yuhao's eyes flickered as he shared Yi Lao's sentiment, recalling Xi Xi's friendly sharing before the Soul Master Competition: "It seems they died here?"

Would you like to see them?

Old Yi suddenly spoke.

"Meet...meet?" Huo Yuhao's thoughts paused for a moment: "Weren't they dead? Even their bodies were brought back to Shrek!"

"The soul's resting place is not only the corpse, but also the obsession that sustains it. Once the cultivation level reaches the fifth level, it can rely on external objects to continue its existence."

Old Yi chuckled and paused with his staff: "Moreover, even if their souls are attached to corpses, I can still summon them here by their aura."

(End of this chapter)