Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 418 Undercover Agent Ma Xiaotao (Daily 10,000 words)

A year and a half later.

With the help of Huo Yuhao's land deed and the entanglement of Bei Bei, Tang Ya ultimately stayed, managing the Tang Sect in her spare time and teaching the newly joined Xiao Xiao and Cai Tou.

It's not surprising that Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan were all admitted to the Inner Academy through their unremitting efforts. What is worth mentioning is that Tang Ya, the Tang Clan leader who planned to focus on running the Tang Clan full-time, was also admitted to the Inner Academy.

The reason is simple: Tang Ya benefited from the inner academy's reforms. Now, for outer academy disciples to join the inner academy, mastering the use of soul tools is mandatory. Of course, if you think you're so strong that you can beat all the inner academy's assessments without a soul tool, then the academy won't stop you.

Regardless, by combining her Tang Sect skills with her soul tool, Tang Ya narrowly made her way into the inner courtyard. Now, Bei Bei and Tang Ya could have some more time to be affectionate.

Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi were the first to break through to the fifth ring, becoming Soul King level powerhouses.

He Caitou did not participate in the inner court assessment of the Soul Guidance Department because he was involved in the Extreme Individual Soldier Project.

As for the Soul Guidance Department, whether or not he takes the exam is not that important—does he understand the value of a pre-selected candidate?

More than a year passed in the process of the Shrek Seven Devils' comprehensive improvement.

He Caitou and Jiang Nannan's soul power levels are only a hair's breadth away from Soul King.

Wang Dong's cultivation speed was the most outrageous. In just one and a half years, he went all out again at level 42, jumping six levels in a row and reaching level 48. He was only one level away from He Caitou and Jiang Nannan in terms of soul power.

It can only be said that Wang Dong is the kind of person who can level up whenever he wants. At present, Wang Dong can easily hold his own against the Soul King Hammers of two academies, but he is still working tirelessly towards his goal of beating up Huo Yuhao.

On the contrary, Xiao Xiao has been somewhat depressed lately. Despite her best efforts, she has only just broken through the Soul Master level and obtained her fourth Soul Ring along with Huo Yuhao, who has been too lazy to go out and obtain Soul Rings. Her Soul Power level has barely reached level 41.

However, on the other hand, even without considering Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, who are constantly vying for dominance, Xiao Xiao's soul power level is already unmatched across all levels.

Even Wu Feng, Ning Tian, ​​and others are still stuck at level 37 or 38.

Unfortunately, due to accidentally entering a monster horde, no matter how hard Xiao Xiao tried, she was still overwhelmed by the terrifying feeling of suffocation. This was something that He Caitou and Jiang Nannan, who were about to be caught up by Wang Dong, deeply understood.

Xiao Xiao's cultivation speed is definitely not slow. When the two of them were thirteen years old, they had just broken through to the Soul Sect, and they might even have been a little slower than Xiao Xiao. The reason why Xiao Xiao was under so much pressure was because Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong were not human.

Aside from Xiao Xiao, the husky who accidentally wandered into a wolf pack, Huo Yuhao should be the one with the lowest soul power level among the Shrek Seven Devils. Even with Wang Dong, his good brother who helped him with his cultivation, Huo Yuhao's soul power level was only level 44 at this time.

Even so, it was only because Huo Yuhao obtained a 40,000-year soul ring as his fourth soul ring that the massive amount of soul power within the soul ring helped him advance.

There was nothing that could be done about it; Huo Yuhao had too many things on his plate. He was distracted by cultivating his soul tool making skills, tackling the challenges of the new precision-type soul tool with Ning Ge, and practicing all sorts of strange and unusual magic, which slowed down his cultivation progress.

If Xiao Xiao hadn't also broken through to the fourth ring, Huo Yuhao wouldn't have even bothered to acquire his own fourth soul ring.

For more than a year, the Douluo Continent suddenly became unusually quiet.

The Sun Moon Empire's initial restlessness vanished, and the Body Sect, which had once appeared at Shrek Academy, disappeared as quickly as it appeared, failing to stir up another wave of trouble on the continent.

Shrek's self-renewal plan is in full swing.

The only variable among the Seven Eccentrics of the Inner Court is Ma Xiaotao, who was lost by Elder Xuan when she went out to obtain her seventh spirit ring.

However, this is not Xuan Lao's fault. Ma Xiaotao disappeared too quickly. Xuan Lao hadn't drunk a drop of wine at the time. He was walking side by side with Ma Xiaotao when they reached the core area. Suddenly, everything went black and he couldn't see anything anymore.

In just five seconds, Ma Xiaotao's figure disappeared, leaving only Elder Xuan, who had activated his Martial Soul True Body, bewildered in the wind.

Fortunately, less than half a month later, Ma Xiaotao sent back a letter through her old acquaintance, the Wild Beast Mercenary Group.

The gist of the letter is simple: Ma Xiaotao believes that the organization that kidnapped her is most likely the Holy Spirit Cult.

Because she is now being called "Saintess" by everyone, and this kind of superstitious behavior is unique in the entire Douluo Continent except for the Holy Spirit Cult—not counting the Spirit Hall, which was buried ten thousand years ago.

Moreover, her martial soul was transformed back into the Black Phoenix martial soul by the people who kidnapped her using some unknown means, and they even gave her a 100,000-year soul ring to absorb, making her incredibly strong now.

The Holy Spirit Cult seems to have been trying to make her completely lose her mind and turn her into a war machine intoxicated by the power of the Black Phoenix. In order to do so, they have arrested many innocent people, just to make Ma Xiaotao go on a killing spree.

Fortunately, the Body Sect's ultimate technique brought by Long Aotian was really useful. Even though the Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul, which had been tormented by Ma Xiaotao several times and almost disintegrated, had become a Black Phoenix, it was still somewhat afraid of Ma Xiaotao and was still barely under her control.

The method of constantly training one's martial soul to obey is so abstract that only the Body Sect could come up with it, but it is indeed effective.

To prevent the Holy Spirit Cult from noticing anything amiss, Ma Xiaotao pretended to be enraged by evil fire and killed many unfortunate members of the Holy Spirit Cult. This served two purposes: firstly, to satisfy the ever-expanding bloodlust within her martial soul, and secondly, to lower the guard of the Holy Spirit Cult's higher-ups.

Although Ma Xiaotao's decision to kill only members of the Holy Spirit Cult and not ordinary people troubled the cult's leaders, they believed that Ma Xiaotao's complete depravity would not be long in coming, and therefore Ma Xiaotao's status in the Holy Spirit Cult remained very high.

In the years that followed, the college tried to find an opportunity to bring Ma Xiaotao back, but she refused.

According to Ma Xiaotao, she is currently located in the Demon Forest within the Sun Moon Empire, so she suspects that the Holy Spirit Cult may have an unclear and ambiguous relationship with the Sun Moon Empire.

Infiltrating the Holy Spirit Cult is a golden opportunity. Shrek Academy has never found a good way to eradicate the Holy Spirit Cult, and now that she has been captured by the Holy Spirit Cult, it may actually be a godsend.

She could now obtain all the priceless intelligence about the Holy Spirit Cult's organizational structure, strength, and hideouts if she wanted to. Faced with the opportunity to eradicate the evil spirit masters, Ma Xiaotao was unwilling to give up.

(End of this chapter)