Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 451 The Collapse of Jing Hongchen (Daily 10,000 words)

Huo Yuhao was speechless. What was wrong with the Sun Moon Empire that allowed it to just dump all sorts of strategic reserves underground?

Huo Yuhao instinctively wanted to use the Starlight Sapphire Storage Soul Tool to collect all these treasures, but he immediately discovered that the energy fluctuations of this thing were too huge. It was simply unrealistic for Huo Yuhao to use the storage soul tool to collect all the cannonballs here.

This is also why the Sun Moon Empire chose to bury so many shells underground. Firstly, there are very few high-level storage soul tools in the Sun Moon Empire that can hold the same amount as the Starlight Sapphire Giant Storage Soul Tool.

Moreover, even if you do use it, storing and retrieving it is very troublesome.

But Huo Yuhao still had a way.

He quickly destroyed all the detectors in the room, ensuring that the room would remain a blind spot for surveillance even after power was restored. Immediately, a huge, pitch-black door appeared in front of Huo Yuhao.

Groups of skeleton soldiers filed out, along with some death knights and liches.

"Move out! Move everything out!"

Huo Yuhao, his eyes blazing with anger, issued orders to the undead army before him.

Soon, these undead creatures all found their targets. Several skeletons carried a cannonball box, moving boxes of level 8 fixed-position soul-guided cannonballs into the Gate of the Dead.

The Death Knights were no longer inseparable from their undead warhorses. Each level-nine fixed-position soul-guided cannonball was carried on the undead horse's back, while the Death Knights carefully supported the level-nine fixed-position soul-guided cannonballs on the undead warhorse's back, and ran into the Gate of the Dead in a flash.

The liches work more elegantly, with only their skin and bones holding up their index and middle fingers. With a gentle wave of their hands, a box of cannonballs flies into the air and floats into the gates of the dead behind them.

Seeing that there was nothing left in the base in front of him, Huo Yuhao raised his hand towards the Gate of the Dead, and several bones flew out. These bones had been soaked in the soil of death for thousands of years, and the aura of death was extremely strong, but there was not a trace of light power on them.

Huo Yuhao casually scattered the bones into the armory, then put away the Gate of the Dead and began to inscribe the warp points again.

According to the intelligence provided by Ma Xiaotao, the Sun Moon Empire seems to be colluding with the Holy Spirit Cult, but she hasn't found any concrete evidence. However, it doesn't matter; Huo Yuhao doesn't need concrete evidence either. It's enough to plant a seed of suspicion in the hearts of both sides.

With a flash of silver light, Huo Yuhao had already disappeared from the secret chamber. Inside the chamber, the densely packed fixed soul-guided cannons had all vanished, leaving only a few skeletons of the dead that had been soaked in the soil of death for thousands of years.

"Sect Master, we didn't find the item. The tracking signal was lost. I was too late. It wasn't in this guy's storage soul tool either."

On the front lines, "Right Hand" had a gloomy face and was covered in blood. Holding Lin Jiayi's severed hand, he whispered the details of the "Poison Undying" mission.

"The signal is down?"

Poison Undying looked surprised. That 100,000-year-old soul beast embryo couldn't be put into a storage soul tool, so how could the signal suddenly be lost? You're really stubborn, you even had to tear off someone's arm to see if it was really not in their storage soul tool.

But this was not the time to analyze the situation: "Let's retreat!"

Du Busi unleashed a punch that sent Jing Hongchen flying, smashing a level nine defensive soul tool on the other's body.

Du Busi glanced at Jing Hongchen with some resentment. At that moment, Jing Hongchen suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, whether from the shock of the punch or from anger, it was unclear.

The two powerful figures locked eyes. A hint of mockery flashed in Du Busi's eyes. He extended his right hand, thumb down, and shook it before disappearing.

"Chase!" Jing Hongchen roared, transforming into a streak of light and chasing after the tunnel. The other Mingde Hall experts also sprang into action.

Underneath a laboratory table in Mingde Hall, Huo Yuhao had dug a small hole. Instead of using the Earth Ant King Slash to compact the soil, he had used the Ice Emperor's Claw to carve it out. A lot of soil was piled up on the laboratory table above.

Huo Yuhao curled up inside, the corners of his mouth unable to stop turning upwards.

He hadn't expected that by digging blindly today, he would unearth three secret chambers, each containing more valuable items than the last.

Sixteen level-nine fixed-position soul-guided cannon shells! These alone are probably worth more than 1.6 billion gold soul coins. Add to that the level-eight fixed-position cannon shells and the loot from the two previous secret chambers.

If Huo Yuhao hadn't received professional training, he definitely wouldn't have laughed; he probably wouldn't have been able to hold it in by now.

Mentioning the Ice Emperor's Claw, Huo Yuhao slapped his chest. Caught off guard, Huo Yuhao coughed up blood from his own blow and hurriedly stopped the life force automatically emanating from the Life Gold—refusing treatment.

Inside the Mingde Hall's underground base, everything was in a mess. Apart from the Mingde Hall's powerful members who had chased after them, the weaker members stayed behind and began to heal the wounded and injured.

Huo Yuhao was naturally among those who received life-saving treatment. He was quickly dug out of the ground by the people of Mingde Hall. After confirming that he was still alive, he was carried to a safer area.

Huo Yuhao didn't delay. He got up unsteadily, found a healing-type Soul Master to treat his internal injuries, and left after making a name for himself in front of many people.

The scene before him reminded Huo Yuhao of some unpleasant memories. Listening to the patients' low, painful cries, he simply couldn't bear to stay any longer.

After the pursuit ended and they returned to the underground base, Jing Hongchen nearly ground his teeth to powder. What he saw before him could only be described as shocking.

The entire underground base was like land that had just been turned over before planting, a complete mess everywhere. Less than a third of the expensive experimental tables remained intact; the rest were utterly destroyed.

Various rare metals are everywhere, and the underground base is completely riddled with holes.

So far, there are three things that have made Jing Hongchen so angry that he almost vomits blood.

The first thing is that the intense fighting damaged many ventilation ducts and power supply lines, and now the air here is somewhat murky and stuffy.

Rebuilding it would require an unimaginable amount of manpower, resources, time, and money.

The second issue is the loss of personnel, materials, and data.

Destruction is always easier than creation.

Those Soul Masters died, along with the knowledge and experience in their minds that had not yet been compiled into a book. It is unknown how much of the Soul Guidance Device experimental data stored in the experimental hall has been damaged.

(End of this chapter)