Douluo Continent: Huo Yuhao obtains the Flame Emperor template

Chapter 42, Second Strange Fire Opportunity Quest

Xu Sheng put on the soul guide glasses made by Xuan Ziwen, observed for a while, and then saw Huo Yuhao occasionally putting a Soul Returning Pill into his mouth.

He nodded, slowly took off his glasses, and acknowledged Xuan Ziwen's words.

"Indeed, judging from the frequency with which that child takes pills, he has already grasped three-tenths of the essence of our Sun and Moon Sect."

Xuan Ziwen fell into deep thought, seemingly recalling his youth, and sighed softly.

"When I was his age, I used to take drugs to accelerate my cultivation as a Soul Master in order to research higher-level Soul Tools."

Xu Sheng frowned slightly, somewhat puzzled. This didn't seem to prove anything: "What can be learned from taking pills at this frequency?"

"It's clear that he might have considerable talent in the field of soul guidance."

Xuan Ziwen acted entirely on intuition, coupled with Huo Yuhao's spirit aura that allowed him to sense it. Based on this alone, the opponent's soul guidance talent was likely not bad.

"Xuan Ziwen, I trust you more than anyone else."

Xu Sheng returned the glasses to Xuan Ziwen, feeling that his judgment had a certain scientific basis. Geniuses' insights are incomprehensible to ordinary people and are always so different from others.

Xuan Ziwen took the glasses and put them on: "Mainly because our research on soul tools relies heavily on the quality and quantity of mental energy."

"If he truly possesses both a physical martial soul and a spiritual attribute, I think he would be highly valued by the teachers in any soul master academy on the continent."

A certain prestigious academy: What a coincidence, that's not the case here.

In the original story, Huo Qubing demonstrated the extraordinary support abilities of his Spirit Eye Martial Soul at Shrek Academy, but he received very little attention, far less than at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and the Body Sect.

Perhaps it's because Shrek Academy has so many talented disciples; after all, they were able to withstand Xuanzi's attack and emerge unscathed.

They are truly the elite of the elite, and will surely become powerful warriors in the Xuanzi Surveillance Group in the future.

……

Huo Yuhao and Dugu Luo looked at the map and groped their way forward. They could clearly feel that the air, which was originally quite fresh, gradually took on a pungent odor. A hazy mist spread out, and the forest seemed to be covered with a layer of gray-green gauze.

Although Dugu Luo felt somewhat familiar with these mists, the gloomy and dark environment made her shiver unexpectedly.

"Yuhao, from what you and Sister Lexuan talked about earlier... is establishing a sect your ideal?"

"Haha, half and half, I guess."

Huo Yuhao smiled but didn't say it outright. His greatest ideal, of course, was for the Buddha's Wrath Lotus to bring peace to the Buddha.

Dugu Luo smiled charmingly with her pair of green eyes: "Then I wish you all the best in achieving your goal."

Huo Yuhao walked ahead, looking at the map, and gave her an OK sign above her shoulder.

The deeper they went into the forest, the more dangerous it became, so Dugu Luo released her martial soul, the Azure Phosphorous Serpent, ahead of time.

As her martial soul was released, Dugu Luo's emerald green eyes subtly transformed into vertical pupils, adding a touch of softness to her pale yet pretty face, making her figure even more slender and graceful, and her waist as thin as a water snake.

"The toxins in the surrounding mist seem to be getting more and more concentrated."

"Hiss~ How eerie." Dugu Luo looked around at the quiet forest, shrugged and rubbed his hands together, twisted his waist and quickly stepped forward to get close to Huo Yuhao's arm.

"Yuhao, are you scared?" Dugu Luo glanced at Huo Yuhao's profile and saw no sign of nervousness except for his handsome appearance.

Huo Yuhao turned his head to look at Dugu Luo, whose chin was resting on his shoulder, and couldn't help but chuckle.

"Sister Dugu, didn't you always venture out on your own before? Why are you scared now?"

"Before, I was determined to succeed or die trying. Now that I have a chance to live, I am naturally much more cautious. Besides, this kind of place is indeed dangerous," Dugu Luo said.

Sensing the eerie atmosphere around her, Dugu Luo wrapped her slender arms around Huo Yuhao, forgetting the distance between them, and nervously moved closer and closer to him.

"Sister Dugu, you're too close... it's affecting my Buddha's Wrathful Lotus technique."

Huo Yuhao reminded him that while looking at the route on the map, he also had to mobilize the two flames to fuse the fire lotus, so he couldn't let his rhythm be disturbed.

Through the shared mental detection map, Dugu Luo could see the three-dimensional pattern of the lotus seat. "Can you use this trump card of yours anytime?"

"Of course not."

Huo Yuhao smiled and explained, "In principle, it should be used as a trump card, but as long as I prepare it in advance, I can throw it out first."

His combat strategy is different from Xiao Yan's. The greatest advantage of being cultured is that you don't suffer from a lack of culture. Since his ultimate move is powerful enough, he must have prepared the Buddha's Fury Lotus in advance and used it first when he encountered the enemy.

Of course, it's also possible that Xiao Yan was worried about missing his ultimate attack, so he weakened the enemy first before throwing the Buddha's Fury Lotus to ensure a hit.

Huo Yuhao wasn't too worried about this, since he had the Spirit Eye Martial Soul, and with the assistance of mental detection and vision + auto-aiming, the probability of missing his ultimate attack was relatively small.

"Yuhao, I think your skills are both powerful and unique."

Dugu Luo thought about it seriously. Huo Yuhao had previously defeated the evil soul master with the invisible Buddha's Fury Lotus, which had amazed her at the time. She had never thought that he could fight like that.

"Especially that soul skill that allows us to become invisible, combined with your fighting style, it can completely overturn other soul masters' understanding."

Huo Yuhao clicked his tongue; he couldn't very well admit that he had a cheat code.

He modestly replied, "It was alright, just lucky."

As they spoke, the negative emotions they had felt due to the eerie surroundings dissipated considerably.

The simulation allowed the two to blend into their surroundings, which was quite reassuring. In addition, the act of rubbing the Buddha's raging lotus further enhanced their sense of security.

The forest was deep and quiet, with a hazy, veil-like poisonous fog constantly spreading. Looking into the fog, one could see strange, distorted, and blurry shadows of many spirit beasts caused by special refraction.

The shadows of these transformed soul beasts appeared extremely oppressive in the poisonous fog.

Without mental detection, an ordinary third or fourth ring Soul Master might find themselves face-to-face with a Soul Beast without even realizing it.

The two continued walking through the poisonous fog following the route on the map. Without warning, the figure of a strangely shaped spider quietly appeared on the detection map.

Huo Yuhao stopped. "A six-thousand-year-old cave spider. If we go any further, we'll enter its territory. There are several traps it uses for ambushes. Should we take a detour?"

The six-thousand-year-old Cave Demon Pearl wasn't particularly threatening to Huo Yuhao and Dugu Luo. After all, a Soul Master could defeat a Soul Beast that was several thousand years old, and the Cave Demon Spider's body was far less strong and savage than the Human-Faced Demon Spider.

The main problem is that fighting would easily attract other spirit beasts.

"Yuhao, has it spotted us yet?" Dugu Luo's eyes gleamed with a green light, and a snake tail appeared behind him, ready to fight at any moment.

"We used the detection map to avoid its trail in the peripheral device and haven't found it yet."

Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes slightly and added, "Although we are invisible, we have not disappeared."

"If we want to cross the territory of the Cave Spider later, it should be able to detect any unusual activity through the spider silk covering the ground."

After a brief discussion, the two decided not to take a detour and to continue their journey in stealth mode.

This cave spider is less than 10,000 years old. It's good that it hasn't been detected. If it has, the two of them can defeat it together and end the battle as quickly as possible.

Having made their decision, the two stepped into the poisonous fog filled with spiderwebs.

"Squeak...squeak..."

The cave spider instantly sensed the disturbance, but when it scanned the area, it found no trace of anything.

Hearing the rustling sounds around him, Huo Yuhao's Buddha's Fury Lotus was poised to unleash its power, while Dugu Luo was also ready to unleash his strongest third soul ring, the Thousand-Year Soul Skill.

The cave spider used a pre-set trap to lurk in the area where the disturbance had just occurred.

Regardless of whether it senses any presence, it first covers itself with a spiderweb cage.

If there is something foreign, it will naturally have the upper hand; if there is nothing, it will just be a waste of some spider silk.

"It's here. According to the detection map, it's nearby. We'll make a move together later."

Through the mental imagery, Huo Yuhao and Dugu Luo saw a 3D image of a huge, bizarre spider rapidly approaching their location.

The lurking movements of the cave spider underground were clearly displayed on the mental detection map.

Xuan Ziwen and Xu Sheng, who were following behind to provide protection, felt a little nervous upon seeing this scene, as they were unsure of Huo Yuhao and Dugu Luo's combat strength.

"Xuan Ziwen, what are you worried about? When they are about to be attacked, I will just kill the cave spider with a heavy blow."

Xuan Ziwen's glasses gleamed white in the poisonous fog.

"Judging from their reaction, they must have sensed something was wrong, yet they still chose to enter the territory of the Cave Spider, which means they must have some kind of confidence that they won't be killed."

Although he guessed that the two were likely to survive, he was still not entirely at ease. After all, one was a second-ring and the other a third-ring. Generally speaking, a Soul Master could handle a normal thousand-year-old Soul Beast, but a six-thousand-year-old one was clearly beyond what a Soul Master could withstand.

Xu Sheng and Xuan Ziwen looked into the poisonous fog, ready to intervene immediately if they sensed any potential problems.

Huo Yuhao and Dugu Luo focused intently on the location of the Cave Demon Spider on the exploration map.

Before long, an unusually large spider emerged from the crater in the ground. Its abdomen was swollen and bulging, from which a huge amount of spider silk was sprayed out.

It vaguely formed the shape of a cage, ready to cover the area where Huo Yuhao and Dugu Luo were located.

"Buddha's Wrathful Lotus!"

"Third Soul Skill, Azure Serpent Venom Spear!"

Huo Yuhao and Dugu Luo simultaneously unleashed their ultimate moves.

Upon seeing that there were indeed people, the eight small, eerie blue eyes on the underside of the cave spider's abdomen revealed a bloodthirsty glint.

I'm really lucky today, I can change things up.

Then, in the next second, it suffered the most devastating and fatal blow in thousands of years.

Huo Yuhao threw the Buddha's Fury Lotus, which he had been rubbing for a long time, at the face of the Cave Demon Spider.

The venom of the Azure Phosphorus Serpent surged within Dugu Luo's body, and a deep emerald green light began to emanate from her. All the venom of the Azure Phosphorus Serpent gathered towards the top of her head, quickly twisting into a sharp spear shape.

As the venom of the Azure Phosphorus Serpent continued to be injected, the spear-shaped phantom quickly solidified, its surface gleaming with a faint emerald green luster.

next moment.

A white and purple lotus seat, and a jade-green spear, appeared one after the other on the body of the cave spider.

With a deafening roar, the cave spider was blasted to pieces, its body spewing out strange liquids in all directions, before being pierced through by a long, emerald-green spear.

The cave spider was pinned to the ground by a spear, its entire body broken, turning into a puddle of mud on the ground.

"First Soul Skill, Serpent Spirit Strangulation!"

Dugu Luo finished off the Cave Spider, and dense emerald green poison gradually gathered and condensed into a emerald serpent spirit. Under her control, it quickly drifted towards the Cave Spider.

The Azure Phosphorous Serpent Spirit strangled the Cave Demon Spider, releasing venom as it powerfully strangled it, and soon the Cave Demon Spider died completely.

"Yuhao, we're really amazing." Dugu Luo couldn't help but look delighted.

Huo Yuhao smiled and said, "Your soul skill is indeed quite strong. It is filled with the venom of the Azure Phosphorous Serpent and also possesses considerable attack power."

To prevent the soul beasts from the neighboring territory from coming over, he used a simulation soul skill to create a similar cave spider, its shadow stretching out as it moved back and forth within the poisonous mist territory.

Having dealt with the cave spiders blocking their path, Huo Yuhao and Dugu Luo continued on their way.

However, Xu Sheng, who was behind him, was stunned. "Xuan Ziwen, is there a difference between Soul Masters who take drugs?"

"Why is he so strong after taking drugs? He doesn't seem to have any weak foundation at all."

Xuan Ziwen adjusted his glasses. "It's probably because the pills they took were different; the underlying techniques are different."

"He must have been taking explosive pills all the way here, so that he could unleash several times his own strength in the heat of battle. This sudden burst of power caught the cave spider off guard and killed it."

Xuan Ziwen shook his head: "It doesn't seem like it. His aura didn't surge."

When Xu Sheng saw the Buddha's Fury Lotus that Huo Yuhao had just unleashed, he felt that such a powerful move, released by a second-ring Soul Master, was truly terrifying.

Huo Yuhao and Dugu Luo, who were in the poisonous fog, took the Soul Returning Pill to fully restore their soul power. After walking for a while, they successfully arrived at the crossroads.

Looking ahead into the hazy distance, the color of the poisonous fog became incredibly deep, containing a vibrant rainbow of hues.

"Is this the poison array of the Seven Deadly Flowers of Azure Phosphorus?" Huo Yuhao asked subconsciously.

Dugu Luo compared the map in his hand with the map. "This is the poisonous barrier outside. Even after choosing a path to enter, the internal terrain is still very complicated."

The detection map reveals three paths, partially obscured by dense jungle, that extend deep into the toxic fog, shimmering with iridescent colors.

Huo Yuhao looked into the poisonous barrier, and three options popped up before him.

Option 1: Choose any path to pass through and successfully enter the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. Entering at this point carries the risk of Tang San detecting your destiny aura again. Reward: One Soul Hall cultivation technique (obtained from a Soul Hall enemy's storage ring during the mid-stage of the Flame Emperor's reign)

Option Two: Enter the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well only after you have become strong enough. Reward for completion: Myriad Beast Cauldron (obtained by Emperor Yan from Han Feng in his early stages)

Option 3: After breaking through the third ring, summon the Ice Emperor to intimidate and the Snow Emperor's spirit to provide support, then enter the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and have a friendly exchange with the various immortal herbs. Completion Reward: Depends on the opportunities obtained in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Huo Yuhao was overjoyed; there was finally hope for the second strange fire seed.

(End of this chapter)