In Douluo Continent, I am the mastermind behind the scenes.

Chapter 38. Aying's Perverse Pleasures

Huo Yuhao gently squeezed, and the bead in his right palm turned into a pile of powder. The next moment, a pale purple halo appeared and began to expand around him.

Suddenly, the halo contracted sharply and struck Huo Yuhao heavily.

For a moment, Huo Yuhao almost lost his composure. He really hadn't expected that artificial spirit rings would be so powerful, and that absorbing a spirit ring was even more difficult than absorbing a wild one.

Huo Yuhao quickly calmed his mind, stopped thinking about other things, and focused on absorbing the soul ring.

Two hours later.

Sweating profusely, Huo Yuhao got up from the ground, looked at the two soul rings at his feet, and exhaled a breath of stale air as if he had been granted a pardon.

"Only level 25? It must be because he hasn't absorbed any soul bones yet. He's one level lower than when he absorbed them in his previous life. But... it's not a big deal. If he continues to cultivate at this speed, he should be able to reach level 30 before the first Soul Master Competition. Beating up a simple-minded, muscle-bound Xiao Hongchen won't be a piece of cake then."

Huo Yuhao was in a good mood. He took the small jade shovel and dug out all the medicinal herbs around the snow lotus, storing them in a jade box he had prepared beforehand.

Just because he can't use it doesn't mean Xiao Fengxian can't. Tang Sect disciples should help each other and not worry about personal gains or losses. They should work together for the great cause of the Tang Sect's revival.

After doing all this, Huo Yuhao used the two daggers of his second martial soul—the Blood Demon Dagger—as support points and climbed back to the land.

"First Soul Skill - Shadow of the Blood Demon!"

As the purplish-red soul ring beneath Huo Yuhao's feet lit up, a scarlet light enveloped his body. The next moment, he left a trail of afterimages and arrived at the location thirty meters away in just about three breaths.

"A charge-type soul skill?"

Huo Yuhao was clearly not satisfied. His second spirit's first spirit ring only had two spirit skills, "Blood Demon Shadow" and "Blood Demon Guardian," neither of which were attack-type spirit skills.

"Forget it, when I get back to Shrek City, I'll ask a few students with dagger-wielding spirits for advice on how to use daggers. With more practice, weapon spirits don't need specific attack spirit skills; a casual strike can achieve the effect of a spirit skill."

Thus, having gained a great deal, Huo Yuhao left the far north without alerting any high-level soul beasts or groups of soul beasts.

Oh right, Huo Yuhao didn't touch the snow lotus soul beast or pick its seeds. At this rate of cultivation, it won't be long before he has the ability to independently absorb a 100,000-year soul ring. It won't be too late to hunt for soul rings then.

After a long journey, Huo Yuhao finally returned to Shrek City. Seeing that it was past lunchtime and he had no classes in the afternoon, he immediately returned to his dormitory.

Huo Yuhao was still not home, his eleven muscular roommates. He was used to this, so he quickly washed his face in the bathroom, returned to his bed, sat cross-legged, and began to cultivate, circulating his Xuan Tian Gong.

As time passed, the heat he had grown accustomed to surged back into his heart, this time even more intense than in the past few days, and even his little brother showed signs of emerging.

"Ah, Senior Aying, what's wrong with me? Did I run into some kind of trouble in my cultivation?"

Seeing his desire growing stronger, Huo Yuhao finally couldn't hold back any longer and hurriedly asked A Ying for help.

Aying said somewhat impatiently, "This is how the Blood Demon clan is. We generate inner fire when cultivating. You'll get used to it."

"But...but I'm about to explode!" Huo Yuhao cried. "Senior A-Ying, is there any way to make me feel better?"

"Go find a woman." Ah Ying's cold voice rang in Huo Yuhao's mind once again. "I've seen no less than three brothels in this Skle City along the way. You're not the kind of person who's short of money."

"It's Shrek Academy!" Even with the situation urgent, Huo Yuhao didn't forget to correct A-Ying, "But... Senior A-Ying, I have a girl I like, and I can't do anything to betray her."

"Just go find her. Since you like her, she must like you too. Boyfriends and girlfriends should help each other satisfy their most basic desires, right?" A-Ying's voice, like a devil's whisper, kept echoing in Huo Yuhao's mind.

Ah this...

Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao subconsciously scratched his head and said awkwardly, "Senior Aying, I'm still trying to pursue her, and we haven't officially started dating yet."

"So you're just a simp then," A-Ying said sarcastically. "What do you mean by 'trying hard'? It's obvious she doesn't like you, but you still don't want to give up, so you follow her around like a lapdog."

Huo Yuhao: "..."

This conversation is going nowhere!

"Huo Yuhao, you'd better hurry. In a little while, the Heart Fire will completely take over your consciousness, and you won't be able to control your actions at all. At that time, you'll be capable of doing anything that transcends gender, race, or even biological boundaries. I learned this the hard way when I was young. The table in my room... never has a single intact corner."

"Women, when they get angry, still have some sense of propriety; at least they can maintain some restraint and are less likely to hurt themselves. Men are different. Once they get angry, what your little brother will look like tomorrow is beyond your control."

A-Ying didn't pretend to be innocent and drove recklessly right in front of Huo Yuhao.

This made Huo Yuhao very uncomfortable. Originally, he wanted to use the power of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm to suppress the desires within him. However... it wasn't very effective. He would have a reaction, which was entirely due to his bloodline stimulating the desires within him. This kind of pure desire was not like Ma Xiaotao's evil fire, so it would be strange if the extreme ice had any effect.

Does A-Ying really have no other way to help Huo Yuhao suppress his desires? Yes! Definitely! Since it's a desire arising from bloodline, simply channeling the bloodline power within Huo Yuhao's body would solve the problem. It's just that... A-Ying doesn't want to do that. She's been through the rain, and she'd tear everyone else's umbrellas off too!

More than two hundred years ago, in her world, she fell in love with a martial arts leader named Qin Yi and, disregarding her identity as an assassin, took the initiative to pursue him.

As a result... Qin Yi rejected her outright, citing her penchant for having affairs.

From that moment on, she grew to loathe the hypocritical nature of human men and began traveling the world in search of innocent young boys, leading them step by step into depravity.

Huo Yuhao is her vessel, but also her toy. Human nature is inherently evil, and she doesn't want her vessel to become a hypocritical guy like Qin Yi. It's just desire; is it wrong for her to want to vent it anytime, anywhere?

(End of this chapter)