Douluo Continent: Reborn as Yuhao, they all have ulterior motives.

Chapter 9 Reaching the World's Highest City

On the wide official road, an inconspicuous freight wagon was parked by the roadside, with the outline of the huge city wall clearly visible in front of it.

It was rather strange that the carriage stopped here when we were still quite close to our destination.

"Gentlemen, we've arrived."

The old man sitting in front looked into the cargo compartment behind him and saw a somewhat thin-looking young man and a gentle-looking woman slowly emerging from the cargo compartment.

"Sir, this is for your travel expenses, please accept it."

As soon as the boy jumped off the carriage, he came to the front of the carriage and stretched out his hand, which was holding a few silver soul coins, to the old man.

The old man quickly waved his hand with a smile, "Young man, you've been cooking all this way. It's my pleasure to give you a ride; I wouldn't possibly charge you for the journey."

"Thank you, sir."

Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao didn't say anything more, but smiled and thanked her before returning to his mother's side.

The old man couldn't help but look at Huo Yun'er and sigh with a smile, "So sensible at such a young age, it's truly enviable. By the way, do you really not need this old man to take you to the city?"

Hearing the other person praising Huo Yuhao, Huo Yun'er felt a sense of shame. She gently rubbed Huo Yuhao's hair and smiled and nodded at the old man.

"We have other things to do, so we're not in a hurry to go into the city. Let's part ways here. Thank you for taking care of us along the way."

"When you're out and about, if you see someone in trouble, lend a hand if you can. It's nothing. Goodbye then, little one."

The old man waved his hand, smiled and said goodbye to Huo Yuhao, then drove the carriage away into the distance.

"Mom, let's go to the city too."

Only after the carriage disappeared from sight did Huo Yuhao look at Huo Yun'er beside him and speak.

The two of them naturally didn't have anything else to do as Huo Yun'er had said; they were simply trying to avoid being seen by the people in the city ahead who were with the old man, thus avoiding being implicated.

Although the Duchess might not be able to find this out with her methods, it's always better to be cautious.

Upon hearing Huo Yuhao's words, Huo Yun'er belatedly came to her senses. A self-deprecating expression appeared on her face before she took Huo Yuhao's hand and slowly walked towards the city ahead.

She never imagined that Huo Yuhao's words about protecting her mother, spoken when she decided to leave the Duke's mansion, would come true so quickly.

As Dai Hao's personal maid, Huo Yun'er knew very little about the outside world. A month ago, when she and her son left the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, the confusion and panic in her heart at that moment can be imagined.

At this time, Huo Yuhao, who was only six years old, arranged everything in a very thorough manner. She hardly did anything. After Huo Yuhao negotiated and changed carriages several times, the two of them traveled all the way from the Star Luo Empire to the Heavenly Soul Empire.

And today they finally arrived at the capital of the Heavenly Soul Empire, Heavenly Dou City.

The whole process felt unreal, like a dream.

As for why he came to Tiandou City, it was due to Huo Yuhao's considerations. If we were to say which cities had the best public security, it would be the capitals of several countries and Shrek City. Xingluo City had the influence of the Duchess, so it was definitely not a place to stay. Douling Empire was too weak, so it was also ruled out by Huo Yuhao.

As for Mingdu, there's no need to even think about it. After eliminating it, only Shrek City and Tiandou City remain. In terms of safety, Shrek is definitely better, but Huo Yuhao needs to make money, so he ultimately chose Tiandou.

Zhu Lu didn't bring much money with her when she came to the Duke's mansion that day, so the storage bracelet she gave him only contained nearly two hundred gold soul coins. For an ordinary person, this would be a huge sum of money. If they stayed in a small town and lived frugally, it would be enough to support them for a considerable period of time.

However, his mother has been working hard at the Duke's mansion for the past few years, and her body has accumulated many hidden ailments. She needs to buy some medicine to regulate her body. Moreover, his current physical condition is too poor. After being transformed by Pride of the Original Sin, he also needs more nutrition as he is in his developmental stage. More than a hundred gold soul coins seem like a lot, but if he really spends them, they will probably be gone in no time.

However, as a reborn person, Huo Yuhao naturally had no shortage of ways to make money. After some thought, he decided to do two things at the same time: sell grilled fish and make and sell soul tools.

Although selling grilled fish is definitely more than ten times less profitable than selling soul tools, selling soul tools is not that simple. After all, those rare metals are not cheap. Not to mention whether there are any channels to buy them, he also needs to have enough funds first.

Two hundred gold soul coins wouldn't even buy a pound of good rare metals, so before that, the only option was to rely on grilled fish, which had a lower cost. The main benefit was that selling grilled fish not only made money but also accelerated the unlocking of the Gluttony Sin.

On the way to Tiandou City, his mother Huo Yun'er and the coachman provided him with a lot of energy for binge eating. The trigger was very simple: he only needed to have a craving for food in his heart. This was also the reason why he insisted on cooking.

Thanks to his increasingly refined culinary skills honed through exchanges with his master Rong Nianbing in the God Realm in his previous life, Huo Yuhao's cooking is now so delicious that people can't help but drool just from the smell.

After a month, a small portion of one of the gray orbs in the mental space has been successfully turned into a dark yellow color.

He also summarized some situations regarding unlocking the origin of original sin.

The energy of the same kind of original sin can only be provided once every three days by each living being, but the energy of different kinds of original sin is unlimited.

For example, if someone smells the aroma of Huo Yuhao's food, it will generate the energy to unlock the original sin of gluttony. However, the next time they want to generate the energy for the original sin of gluttony, they will have to wait three days. But if the other person suddenly shows an arrogant attitude, it will provide Huo Yuhao with the energy to unlock the original sin of arrogance. The next time they want to generate the energy for the original sin of arrogance, they will also have to wait three days.

As for how this thing was discovered, it was during one of their roadside breaks when a passerby was attracted by the aroma of food. Upon seeing his mother, Huo Yun'er, he harbored wicked thoughts and began to speak arrogantly. In the end, he was scared away by Huo Yuhao and then became angry and ashamed.

Gluttony, lust, pride, and rage.

The fact that someone could provide Huo Yuhao with four types of original sin energy in a short period of time was truly astonishing.

In order to repay the other party, Huo Yuhao kindly gave this guy who spoke rudely to his mother a fate-judgment. As for what price the man would pay for this misfortune, that was up to fate.

In addition, Huo Yuhao also discovered that the higher a person's cultivation level, the more original sin energy they would provide at once. Compared to when he was in the Duke's mansion, where so many soul masters displayed arrogance that helped him unlock the source of arrogance in a short period of time, Huo Yun'er, who was an ordinary person, provided far less original sin energy.

Even so, the process was still too slow. After some comparison, Huo Yuhao discovered that after successfully unlocking the source of arrogance, unlocking the other sources of original sin would become even more difficult.

If this is the pattern, then once he unlocks the Gluttony Source, the unlocking speed of the remaining five Original Sin Sources may further decrease.

At first glance, this seems to be encouraging the unlocking of the seven original sins to proceed at the same pace. However, because the people around him are also generating original sins, it is difficult for him to finely control the process. In addition, Huo Yuhao has a premonition that unlocking the origin of the original sins in a short period of time will have a great impact on his mental state. If he were a god, he would naturally not be afraid, but for him after his rebirth, it would probably be difficult to bear.

It must be said that the effects of Pride are very powerful. If one's willpower is not strong enough, one may try to unlock other sources of original sin, and eventually be devoured by one's own expanding desires. It is like a trap full of temptations.

The reduced unlocking speed actually gave him enough time to adapt to the original sin effects of each new unlock.

So, to be on the safe side, he decided to unlock them one by one and let things take their natural course.

Although he couldn't unlock it, based on his understanding of the abilities of the Seven Deadly Sins, Huo Yuhao could roughly guess the power of these original sins. For example, the effect of the Gluttony source should be related to devouring...

As he pondered, Huo Yuhao's attention fell upon the dark red orb in his mental space, which was mostly gray but had a faint, eerie quality.

That is the original sin of lust.

Recalling the behavior of the God of Lust in his previous life, his expression became somewhat complicated, and he felt a sudden urge to click his teeth.

It shouldn't be that exaggerated, right?

(End of this chapter)