Douluo Continent: Huo Yuhao obtains the Flame Emperor template

Chapter 37 Where is Elder Xuan?! Where did Elder Xuan go?!

In a secluded cave in the central part of Sunset Forest.

A man dressed in a black robe with a ferocious face exuded a chilling aura, clearly a person deeply rooted in evil.

"Hehehe, after I finish this job in Sunset Forest, I'll refine a few more corpse slaves."

The black-robed man's voice was hoarse, "He should spend some time in seclusion to improve his control over the Corpse Explosion Technique, and then begin preparing to break through to the Soul King level."

His current cultivation level has reached the peak of Soul Sect. He has a feeling that he will be very lucky this year, as if he will encounter some great fortune, and breaking through to Soul King is a sure thing.

The man in black robes looked around and at the dozens of potentially explosive corpses not far away, a smirk playing on his lips. These were the spoils of the past few days, meant for attacks or to cover his escape.

"In about a year, the Star Luo Empire will be holding its next Soul Master Competition."

The black-robed man's eyes were gloomy, and he couldn't help but sneer a few times: "By then, I will have successfully broken through to the Soul King level and will go to the area near Xingluo in the Mingdou Mountains to pull off a big operation."

He always felt that although he was an evil spirit master, his luck was extraordinary, as if there was an earth-shattering thing waiting for him to do.

"Anyone who dares to come looking for trouble will be met with a massive corpse explosion gift. This envoy will ensure they never leave alive!"

As for his prized Corpse Explosion technique...

It was a strange scroll that he had obtained long ago when he was searching for a target to refine corpse slaves in the Mingdou Mountains. He was surrounded and attacked by a large number of soldiers sent by the Xingluo military. Fortunately, he was tough enough to survive the fall from the cliff after being seriously injured.

It was the Corpse Explosion Technique.

In the eyes of the Grim Reaper, as long as there are enough corpses that were strong enough in life, this technique is comparable to a divine skill and has boundless power.

Don't underestimate him just because he's only at the peak of the Soul Sect. If he prepares enough corpses beforehand for him to detonate, he'll be fine.

Even if several Soul Kings came, they would be nothing more than a swarm of insects in his eyes.

As the Grim Reaper was contemplating his plans for the coming year, he suddenly sensed something, and a sinister smile crept across his face.

He sensed a team approaching from the left side of the mixed zone by observing the corpses lying in ambush nearby.

At the same time, on the right side of the mixed zone, he sensed a blue-eyed woman wearing a veil.

"She actually possesses the highly venomous Martial Soul, the Azure Phosphorous Serpent. If I were to refine her into a Corpse Slave, she would surely become one of my greatest weapons."

The Grim Reaper had some understanding of this once-renowned top-tier poisonous martial spirit.

Although it may not have much of an advantage when fighting alone.

However, when it comes to large-scale destructive power, such as poisoning an entire town or village, it is incredibly terrifying, and can even leave corpses strewn across the land in an instant.

This was exactly the effect the Grim Reaper wanted, and combined with the Corpse Explosion Technique, he felt he was about to rise to power.

The messenger of death slowly walked out of the cave, his eyes beneath his black robe revealing a dark glint as he gazed somberly at the distant woods to his left.

"Shrek Inspection Team? Once I've refined that Azure Phosphorous Serpent Soul Master into a corpse slave, I'll make you taste the pain of a corpse explosion, heh heh!"

The messenger of death turned into a wisp of gray smoke and flew towards the blue-eyed girl on the right.

At this moment, Dugu Luo, who was holding the ancestral map of "Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes" in her hand, had a hint of sadness in her emerald eyes, as well as a bit of resentment.

Dugu Luo's eyes stung, and tears welled up in them. "If the toxins in my body weren't getting worse, who would want your Xuanming Sect? Waaah!"

After learning about the Xuanming Sect's ritual, she chose to refuse.

They pinned their last hope on the ancestral map.

The forest was dense, and a gentle breeze was blowing. Dugu Luo rubbed her eyes and regained her confidence. In order to survive, she had to find the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well through the ancestral map and obtain the herbs that could suppress the toxins in her body.

……

On a forest path on the outskirts of Sunset Forest.

After Huo Yuhao finished eating a few grilled fish to fill his stomach, he was about to head towards Tiandou City with his explosive speed when three options popped up in front of him.

Option 1: Proceed 3,000 meters to the right and forward. You will encounter a Death Messenger at the peak of the Soul Master realm. Evil Soul Masters are wreaking havoc on the surrounding villages, committing heinous crimes. Please strike them down severely. Reward: Flying Combat Skill - Purple Cloud Wings (Advanced Profound Rank)

Option 2: Ignore it and leave Sunset Forest. Completion Reward: A small amount of Battle Qi.

Option 3: Join the Grim Reaper and build a great empire together. Completion reward: One Soul Palace Battle Technique (obtained from an enemy's storage ring during the mid-stage of Emperor Yan)

Huo Yuhao was somewhat surprised. He hadn't expected the Grim Reaper to be in Sunset Forest at this time. Could it be that he was preparing to collude with some unnamed elder from the inside?

As for the three task options, Huo Youhao chose option one without hesitation.

Any Soul Master with sound values ​​and principles should, within their power, punish evil Soul Masters who commit wrongdoing, whether out of humanitarian concern or for the stability and long-term peace of society.

Huo Yuhao told Tianmeng Bingcan, "Brother Tianmeng, I am about to meet an evil soul master with the title of the strongest soul king, named Death Messenger."

"However, his current cultivation level is at the peak of the Soul Sect. Brother Tianmeng, what are your thoughts?"

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm immediately said excitedly, "Yuhao, let me teach you a trick."

"Oh? What kind of moves?" Huo Yuhao had only casually mentioned the Death Messenger to Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, but he didn't expect it to actually have moves.

"Yuhao, you started rubbing that Buddha's Wrath Lotus on the way there."

"Once we get there, we'll seize the opportunity and throw it right in the evil spirit master's face."

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm manifested itself in Huo Yuhao's body through spiritual mimicry, winking and making a few sounds, eagerly anticipating how much damage Huo Yuhao, at the two-ring stage, could inflict on a peak Soul Master using the Buddha's Fury Lotus.

Huo Yuhao glanced at Tianmeng Ice Silkworm again, "Not bad, Brother Tianmeng, we think alike."

"Of course not, do you really think my hundreds of thousands of years of experience were all just sleeping?" Tianmeng Ice Silkworm felt that his awareness had improved.

So Huo Yuhao started rubbing the Buddha's Fury Lotus while walking towards the right front.

At the same time, he released his Spirit Eye Martial Soul and used his Spirit Detection ability, with two shimmering white spirit rings surrounding his body.

He used a simulated soul skill to change his second ring to yellow. His purpose was to punish evil soul masters. The white and yellow soul rings would make it easier for the opponent to lower their guard, making it easier for him to find an opportunity to throw the Buddha's Fury Lotus.

Of course, if you enter the academy later, you can simulate your first two spirit rings as yellow-purple or even purple-purple.

After all, we live in this day and age. There's no need to play dumb at school. Instead, we should directly demonstrate our outstanding talents to gain preferential treatment from the academy and shorten our growth cycle.

As Huo Yuhao ventured deeper into the Sunset Forest, the white and purple flame lotus seat in his hand was already complete.

"Let's use simulation to hide the Buddha's raging lotus."

After shaping the Buddha's Fury Lotus by hand, Huo Yuhao used a simulated soul skill to make it transparent.

Simulation Soul Skills can not only simulate the external appearance of an object, but also its internal aura. The originally intensely hot aura of the Buddha's Wrath Lotus dissipated.

The next instant, the Buddha's Wrath Lotus disappeared into the surrounding space, and to outsiders, Huo Yuhao's palm appeared completely empty.

……

Huo Yuhao continued forward with explosive strides. Before long, two rather abrupt figures appeared within the detection map, along with some corpses that were likely brought by the Grim Reaper himself.

The two had already started fighting.

"This man in black robes must be the messenger of death."

Using the mental map, Huo Yuhao confirmed the identity of the Death Messenger and, carrying the transparent Buddha Fury Lotus that was invisible to outsiders, headed towards the place where the two were fighting.

At that moment, the Grim Reaper made a grasping motion from a distance, detonating a corpse.

Bang!

A not-too-loud explosion rang out, and a figure dressed in a green dress was blasted away by the power of the corpse explosion and crashed to the ground.

The low, hoarse laugh of the Grim Reaper could be heard.

"Hehehe, if it weren't for my intention to refine you into a perfect corpse slave, you would have been blown to pieces long ago. Stop resisting and obediently become my corpse slave."

Dugu Luo struggled to look up and noticed Huo Yuhao, who had rushed into the battlefield. However, when she saw that he only had two spirit rings, she quickly endured the pain and shouted loudly.

"Run, little brother! He's an evil spirit master!"

Huo Yuhao strode forward, helped her up, and handed her a pill.

A trickle of bright red blood seeped from the corner of the girl's mouth. She had naturally blue eyes, and her beautiful face appeared unusually pale, with a few specks of dust on it.

She hurriedly swallowed the pill, and before she could speak, she grabbed Huo Yuhao and tried to escape.

A wisp of gray smoke flashed not far in front of them, and the Grim Reaper appeared a hundred meters in front of them, the corpses he carried scattered in the surrounding area.

Of course, most of the corpses they carried were Soul Masters with one or two rings in life, so the detonation was not particularly powerful.

"A second-ring Soul Master with spiritual attributes is a decent sample for creating corpse slaves."

The Grim Reaper was quite pleased with his luck today.

Huo Yuhao is looking for an opportunity to use the Buddha's Wrath Lotus.

Dugu Luo gritted his teeth and glared at the Grim Reaper, but he was powerless to do anything. Knowing that the evil soul master was ruthless, he smiled bitterly: "Little brother, it seems that neither of us will survive today."

But when she looked at Huo Yuhao, she found that this handsome little brother did not show any fear on his face.

Of course, this is not Huo Yuhao's fault.

It's easy to act cool, but hard to act cowardly.

Facing the Grim Reaper, Huo Yuhao really couldn't back down even a little.

Putting aside the fact that he was holding the Buddha's Wrath Lotus, even if he were like Huo Qubing in the original story, and didn't have the ability to contend with the Death Messenger when he was at the second level, he could still kill the Death Messenger in a matter of minutes if he were possessed by Yi Lao.

With a thought, Huo Yuhao quietly pulled Dugu Luo into the shared mental detection system.

Although Dugu Luo was surprised by the changes in her mind, she did not show it.

Through the 3D visualization in her mind, she saw a lotus pedestal pattern floating on Huo Yuhao's palm.

Dugu Luo spoke up to distract the Grim Reaper.

"Didn't you want to make me a conscious soul contract with you instead of turning me into a mindless corpse slave? Release this little brother, and we can talk things over."

The Grim Reaper chuckled eerily, "Since you two have both been captured by me, why can't I refine you both together?"

While the other person was speaking, Huo Yuhao seized the opportunity and directly offered him the Buddha's Wrath Lotus.

An invisible arc of heat streaks across the sky.

When the Buddha's Wrathful Lotus flew out of the simulated range, it revealed its true form: a lotus seat of white and purple flames.

The Grim Reaper's expression changed drastically in an instant, becoming extremely horrified. He didn't have time to think about why a two-ring Soul Master could unleash such a terrifying move, and he hurriedly chanted a spell.

"Arise, my corpse slaves..."

Several puppet-like bodies rose from the ground out of nowhere and blocked the path of the Grim Reaper.

Sensing a significant threat to his life, the cautious Death Messenger turned into a wisp of gray smoke and fled backward like a fugitive.

boom--

A tremendous explosion resounded, and in mid-air, the two-colored lotus-shaped shockwave swayed faintly.

One can clearly see that the gray smoke that the Grim Reaper had transformed into is spurting blood in mid-air, and a cloud of blood mist appears due to its severe injuries.

Huo Yuhao used a simulated soul skill to create a Buddha's Fury Lotus in his palm.

"Hey girl, go after her!"

"Huh?" Dugu Luo was stunned for a moment. Chase?

She had a feeling of reversing the natural order.

The simulated Buddha's wrathful lotus floated in his palm, and Huo Yuhao, stepping on his explosive footsteps, chased after it without hesitation.

When the Grim Reaper saw the lotus seat in Huo Yuhao's palm, he was almost scared out of his wits and immediately detonated the corpses that had been scattered on the ground.

Boom boom boom!

Loud explosions were heard all around.

Huo Yuhao had been paying attention to these corpses from the very beginning, reacting in advance by releasing his strange fire to protect himself based on the detection map.

Dugu Luo had the ability to share mental detection, so without Huo Yuhao's reminder, the second spirit ring of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul shone brightly, and he quickly darted backward to the position least affected by the explosion.

After this clash with the Grim Reaper, Huo Yuhao could sense that the Buddha's Fury Lotus posed a significant threat to the Soul Sect, though it was also possible that the Grim Reaper's own defenses were relatively weak.

The only pity is that they only severely damaged the Grim Reaper, but didn't kill him instantly.

[Optional quest completed. Reward: Flight Combat Skill - Purple Cloud Wings (Advanced Mystic Rank)]

Outside a cave several kilometers away, the Grim Reaper, his body covered in blood and gore, leaned against the wall and spat out several more mouthfuls of blood.

"That two-ring Soul Master is so strange. Could he be a personal disciple of some reclusive master? It seems I need to make more thorough preparations for the Soul Master Competition after breaking through to Soul King, and make the corpse explosion even more intense..."

……

"My name is Dugu Luo, Yuhao, you can just call me Sister Dugu." Huo Yuhao and Dugu Luo introduced themselves to each other.

Looking at the deep crater created by the Buddha's Wrath Lotus, Dugu Luo asked incredulously, "Yuhao, was that lotus flower really released by you?"

"Consider it my trump card; I won't use it unless absolutely necessary," Huo Yuhao chuckled.

"Sister Dugu, why did you come here alone?"

"I already told you about my martial soul problem. I want to use the ancestral map to find herbs that can suppress the toxins in my body."

"A map?" Huo Yuhao thought of a possibility.

"Hmm, a map of the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire." Dugu Luo tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, her emerald green eyes filled with anticipation.

Huo Yuhao immediately became interested and chatted with Dugu Luo as they followed each other into the depths of Sunset Forest.

The two chatted with great interest, and before they knew how far they had gone, they suddenly heard a woman's clear, loud voice shouting.

"Everyone be careful! Everyone do everything in their power to protect yourselves!"

"A mantis-type soul beast, the Three-Soul Ghost Mantis! Its cultivation is close to 100,000 years! It can split into three souls to control three soul beasts under 10,000 years old."

Huo Yuhao was taken aback. What Tang? (Based on the detection map)

Oh, it's a praying mantis.

Some disciples were terrified. "Senior Sister, how could such a powerful soul beast appear in Sunset Forest?!"

As soon as the Three-Souled Mantis appeared, it raised its scythe-like serrated forelimbs, creating a piercing sonic boom, and lashed it hard into the waist of a man in the group.

The man was sent flying like a cannonball, crashing through several thick trees. His body was almost severed in half, blood gushing out, and he was on the verge of losing all his life.

"Wang Chen! You can't die in vain!!"

A voice screamed like it was crying blood: "Senior Sister, where is Elder Xuan? Where did Elder Xuan go? Why hasn't he come out yet?!"

(End of this chapter)