Douluo Continent: I, Huo Yuhao, am the Master of Spirit

Chapter 43 Amaterasu Brings Warmth (Please continue reading)
Lu Xinjin stared blankly at his aide, who was so anxious he couldn't even speak clearly.

"Hiss, a Marquis's mansion? This thing can actually stand up?"

"Don't panic. I've been the city lord for decades. What haven't I seen?"

"As my advisor, you panic over the smallest things!"

"I'm starting to question whether it was the right decision to let you join the City Lord's Mansion!"

Lu Xinjin casually picked up a coat from the side, put it on, and walked to the lookout tower without even putting on shoes to see what was going on.

He initially thought it was some kind of Soul Master causing trouble, but the scene before him completely shocked him.

One of the statues represents a marquis's residence, and blue flames, presumably eyes, burn within the two doors.

The body is made of jade, specifically white spirit jade, which is extremely expensive and has excellent soul power transmission properties. Many soul masters like to use this material to carve core magic arrays.

Furthermore, because this type of jade has a warm and smooth feel when held in the hand, and its pure white color gives it an elegant feel, it has been sought after by many nobles.

Lu Xinjin opened his mouth wide and looked up at the giant in front of him. He recognized at a glance that this was indeed the Marquis's mansion.

After all, the Marquis's mansion was so magnificent that no one in the entire city of Xilu could match it.

The giant in front of them did not exude any aura of a soul beast, nor even any aura of life; it was just a pile of moving stones.

"I've lived all these years, and this is the first time I've ever seen anything like it."

As far as Lu Xinjin could see, there were already quite a few Soul Masters surrounding and attacking this strange giant.

The strongest one is a Soul King, with two yellow and three purple soul rings, which is considered top-tier for a self-taught Soul Master.

Seeing that this Soul King could contend with the giant before him, Lu Xinjin roughly grasped the level of strength.

"His strength and defense have reached the level of a Soul Emperor, but his speed is too slow."

"It's just for show!"

"Watch me break through with my full force!"

"Possessed by a martial spirit!"

Lu Xinjin threw off his coat, activated his martial spirit, his muscles bulged, and he grew to 2.5 meters tall, his body covered in brown hair.

The optimal configuration of two yellow, two purple, and three black spirit rings surrounds the body.

His martial spirit is the Mighty Vajra Bear, the same martial spirit as Zhao Wuji from ten thousand years ago.

Then the fifth spirit ring began to shine, and the strange giant was immediately bound to the spot and unable to move.

The white jade began to emit a sickening cracking sound.

This is his fifth soul skill, Gravity Compression.

Then his sixth spirit ring suddenly shone, he began to gather strength in his legs, and then leaped into the sky. The powerful impact directly destroyed the entire watchtower.

Countless dust particles drifted towards the city with the westerly wind, while Lu Xinjin transformed into a brownish-yellow meteorite hundreds of meters in the air and crashed down on the eerie giant.

This is his signature soul skill, Meteor Fall.

No Soul Master of the same level would dare to take this attack head-on!

The bright yellow meteorite passed directly through the head of the bizarre giant, sending countless precious pieces of wood and rare jade from the Marquis's mansion flying throughout the city.

Now even the marquis's body was gone.

The meteorite struck the ground, creating a crater hundreds of meters wide and ten meters deep. The entire core urban area of ​​Xilu City was reduced to ruins, as if it had experienced an 8-magnitude earthquake.

Lu Xinjin shook the dust off his shoulders in the pit without even turning his head. He was certain that he had destroyed the head and most of the body of the strange giant.

If this thing could still move, he would have eaten all the jade on the ground on the spot.

However, he was unaware of one thing: the strange giant was a pseudo-living being created by Huo Yuhao using his spiritual power to imbue his soul skills.

It's not the brain that drives it, but the mental energy within the body.

So even though its head and most of its body were destroyed, the bizarre giant still did not stop moving.

It used its remaining large hand to slam down hard on Lu Xinjin.

Lu Xinjin's mental energy triggered a frantic warning, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

He hurriedly activated his first soul skill, Immovable King Body.

His body shone with golden light, and his two palms faced the sky as he desperately resisted the giant's massive hand.

Lu Xinjin is now truly enraged, and his second and fourth spirit rings have lit up in succession.

Both of these are amplification soul skills. With extremely high self-amplification, Lu Xinjin directly tore apart the giant's hand.

Then he watched helplessly as the grotesque giant hopped and crashed into the city lord's mansion on its remaining leg. Seeing his mansion, which he had painstakingly built up over most of his life, reduced to ruins in an instant, Lu Xinjin felt that he was no different from being dead.

Some people die at sixty, but are not buried until they are one hundred and twenty.

"what!!!"

"My herbs, my treasures!!!"

Lu Xinjin knelt on the ground and roared to the sky. His city lord's mansion contained the wealth he had accumulated over the years through repeated cultivation of Xilu City.

Many of them are rare medicinal herbs from living organisms, as well as rare and precious treasures such as whale glue.

Those stored in the soul storage device should be okay, but those that can't be put in are probably all gone.

At this moment, Lu Xinjin felt that he had wasted most of his life. He didn't know how long it would take to recover these losses from the common people of Xilu City.

The spiritual energy within the eerie giant had been exhausted, and it had turned back into a pile of lifeless matter.

Huo Yuhao watched all of this indifferently from a distant high-rise building.

Then, activating divine power, he arrived behind Lu Xinjin.

Lu Xinjin sensed someone approaching from behind and turned around, shouting angrily:

"Damn it, can't you see I'm in a fit of rage?!"

Huo Yuhao was too lazy to talk or listen to him.

"Tsukuyomi!"

"Amaterasu!"

Start with zero frames of Tsukuyomi, and then finely chop him into minced meat in the spiritual world.

In the real world, Amaterasu ignites his body.

Lu Xinjin's body was engulfed in extremely hot black flames, his soul power was rapidly dissipating, and his martial spirit slowly emerged from behind him before letting out a mournful cry.

He is now suffering from both mental and physical torment.

Huo Yuhao deliberately used the Kagutsuchi life force to control Amaterasu to burn his soul power instead of his physical body, in order to prevent him from dying too quickly.

Lu Xinjin felt like he was in hell, no, hell was heaven compared to this place.

He didn't know what kind of pain caused him to scream.

It could be mental or physical.

Soon, he could no longer make a sound, because his soul power had been exhausted and he was powerless to resist Amaterasu's burning. Amaterasu began to scorch his body.

The extremely high temperature instantly burned his vocal cords, which then slowly turned into a lump of charcoal.

Huo Yuhao used Kagutsuchi to extinguish Amaterasu, preserving his remains as a deterrent.

Huo Yuhao wanted to kill him because this humanoid creature did all sorts of human-like things.

After the organization was established, many vendors came to seek its protection and paid a large sum of money.

Even some ordinary people paid money to have their loved ones protected.

Passion wouldn't charge ordinary people too much; they would only charge five silver soul coins per quarter, and then have them handle some miscellaneous tasks for Passion each month, with Passion even paying them wages.

Through these merchants and ordinary people, Huo Yuhao learned that the taxes in Xilu City were so high that even the U.S. Internal Revenue Service had to send people to study them.

Even a hundred years from now, there will still be a bunch of outrageous taxes levied here.

Examples include rainwater tax, walking tax, sleeping tax, and public toilet tax.

They are finding all sorts of ways to sustainably exploit ordinary people and merchants.

As for resistance, it's not that no one has tried, but the result is that Lu Xinjin's gravitational compression is extremely cruel.

So whether it's for the sake of passion to thrive here, or for my own bottom line, this beast cannot be allowed to live.

As for the other three Soul Saints, Huo Yuhao planned to visit them one by one to offer his assistance.

If he knows what's good for him, Huo Yuhao can make him the city lord. In Xilu City, the city lord is whoever has the strongest fist; the Heavenly Soul Empire is just a tool for issuing certificates.

Shrek only cares whether the new city lord will continue to pay tribute; if he wants to, they won't bother.

Lu Xinjin became the city lord by killing his predecessor and being willing to pay tribute to Shrek Academy.

If you don't know your place, that day can indeed be very warm.

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