Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 401 Camping (Daily Written)

With the aid of mental detection, the two moved at great speed, heading deep into the Star Dou Forest. Huo Yuhao held a map marked with locations in his hand and first approached the boundary between the mixed zone and the core zone of the Star Dou Forest.

According to the scrap of paper that Yan Shaozhe had compiled, it mentioned that the Weeping Lake in the Star Dou Great Forest was located in the northwest of the Star Dou Forest. Someone had obtained a 90,000-year-old Tongming Lingzhi there. Huo Yuhao planned to go and take a look around there to see if he would be lucky enough to find some good treasures.

Elder Xuan followed silently behind the two from a distance, remaining puzzled by their route.

They were clearly heading straight in the shortest path, but why didn't they encounter a single spirit beast other than the lazy plant-type spirit beasts?

That's really strange.

It would be a miracle if a soul beast could run into you while you have full map vision. After several enhancements to his mental power, Huo Yuhao's mental detection range has more than doubled from a mere kilometer in a straight line at the beginning.

With such a large warning distance, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong could easily avoid a lot of trouble.

And so the two continued walking forward, for most of the day.

Except for the occasional stop Huo Yuhao needed to collect some usable natural spices, the two of them traversed the twenty-kilometer-long outer area with almost no delay.

The Star Dou Great Forest is vast, and within a 10-kilometer radius of its perimeter, most of the creatures gathered are soul beasts with ten or a hundred years of cultivation, so there is really no need to linger there.

"Let's set up camp here."

Arrive at a nice spot and unload the camping gear you've prepared beforehand.

With mental detectors on guard outside, they are not afraid to spend the night in the Starry Sky Forest.

He and Wang Dong now need to absorb ten-thousand-year spirit rings, which are not easy to find even in the mixed zone, let alone the outer zone.

Wang Dong looked up at the setting sun and tilted his head: "Isn't it a bit too early to rest now? The sun hasn't set yet."

"It will be late once the sun sets. We still need to tidy up the camp and set up the early warning facilities. Once the sun sets, it will get dark very quickly. There are many nocturnal soul beasts in this Star Dou Great Forest, so we need to prepare early."

Huo Yuhao handed over the task of setting up the tent to Wang Dong. There was no other way; Wang Dong was a germaphobe and couldn't do things like scattering soul beast droppings powder around the camp, so Huo Yuhao had to do it himself.

The excrement of high-age soul beasts can serve a protective function when setting up camp, but only if it can be determined that the owner of the soul beast's excrement is much older than the soul beasts in the area; otherwise, it is easily seen as a provocation.

The powder of soul beast excrement that Huo Yuhao scattered was excreted by a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast. The dried excrement did not have a strong smell, and Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong could not even smell it.

But this applies to human Soul Masters.

The smell of excrement wafted in the wind, and many ten-year and hundred-year-old soul beasts were so frightened by the smell that they almost defecated. They didn't care about territory anymore and started running away as fast as they could, afraid that this old man with ten thousand years of cultivation would see them and make a meal of them.

This was exactly the effect Huo Yuhao wanted. After spreading the fecal powder, Huo Yuhao pulled out several different thin threads and wrapped them densely around the large trees around the camp. Each thread was tied with a bell of a different size.

In this way, even if Huo Yuhao can't keep his mental detection ability active all night, once the bell rings, he can determine the approximate location of the enemy and how far away they are from the camp based on the source of the sound and the sound and color of the bell.

In just over ten minutes, a temporary campsite was set up.

About 500 meters away from them, Elder Xuan was sitting on a thick tree branch, leisurely munching on a chicken leg, his eyes never leaving the two of them.

This is the Star Dou Great Forest, one of the most dangerous places on the Douluo Continent.

To protect his two precious children, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, Elder Xuan dared not relax for a moment this time.

The previous tragedy has become his greatest warning, causing him to always keep his power below the two of them, protecting them in a secret way.

However, when Elder Xuan saw Wang Dong take out that familiar simple stove and Huo Yuhao was using the Holy Flame to start a fire, he couldn't help but appear in front of the two of them.

Elder Xuan deliberately put on a stern face: "You two little rascals are simply audacious, daring to start a fire in this perilous Star Capital Forest?"

"Huh? How are we supposed to cook without a fire?"

Wang Dong held a pot in one hand and a ladle in the other, tilting his head and looking at Elder Xuan with a puzzled expression.

"With you here, do we really need to worry about attracting spirit beasts by starting a fire?"

"Didn't I say I wouldn't intervene?"

Huo Yuhao remained silent and slowly took out various ingredients from his storage soul tool, which made Elder Xuan's mouth water.

"This is a one-time exception; there will be no next time!"

Elder Xuan wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth, and without saying a word, threw out a bunch of top-grade ingredients to expand Huo Yuhao's food supply. He didn't mention a word about how he wouldn't take action.

After a simple and delicious dinner, Elder Xuan disappeared again with the leftovers.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong went straight into the tent to begin their cultivation.

"Wang Dong, when are you going to wear women's clothes again? I was too embarrassed to watch last time."

Huo Yuhao's barely audible voice rang out softly inside the tent.

"If you die, Huo Yuhao, you'll never see him again in your life!"

Wang Dong's slightly annoyed voice rang out, then quickly fell silent again.

"Fine, if you don't want me to see it, then you don't want me to see it."

The next morning.

After a peaceful night of cultivation, the two emerged from their tent, where Elder Xuan was already waiting with ingredients.

After a quick breakfast, the journey to find the soul beasts began again.

However, what puzzled Elder Xuan and Wang Dong was that Huo Yuhao did not choose to go deeper, but instead took the lead and moved laterally not far from the mixed zone.

"Yuhao, what are you doing?"

Wang Dong couldn't quite understand Huo Yuhao's actions.

"We're going to Weeping Lake in the northwest. Someone once obtained a rare and precious herb that was 90,000 years old there. I want to try my luck. However, Weeping Lake is located between the core area and the mixed area. If we just walk blindly, we might accidentally end up in the core area."

"So, we'd better take a detour. That way, we won't have to worry too much about accidentally stepping into the core area of ​​the Star Dou Forest."

Huo Yuhao's mental detection was activated again, diligently scanning the surrounding area.

(End of this chapter)