Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 470 Fooling Xuan Ziwen (Daily 10,000 words)

"This is a bit troublesome."

After Huo Yuhao asked Qian Duoduo to send the letter, he couldn't help but frown slightly; things were getting complicated.

Huo Yuhao obtained some information from the memories of that branch elder, but he had no clue about Ma Xiaotao's exact location or her situation.

The only thing the elder knew was that some time after Ma Xiaotao disappeared, the branch elder had memories of rumors about the Holy Maiden's descent. Apart from that, the branch elder knew nothing else.

In addition, Huo Yuhao also learned some other information. In this vast Mingdu alone, the Holy Spirit Cult's branches can be said to be everywhere. Each branch, or rather, each hideout, has at least one elder of Soul Saint level or above in charge.

These dens were not for Nana and her so-called holy servants to improve themselves, but rather for the branch elders, the Great Holy Spirit, and the Second Holy Spirit—the real evil soul masters—to collect blood offerings. Nana and the others were just like worker ants, constantly contributing nourishment to those above them.

What troubled Huo Yuhao even more was that the branch elders in these hideouts, unless they were grouped together from the beginning, rarely contacted each other. They always maintained a single-line connection with the Holy Spirit Cult, and if anything happened, they would be dispatched directly by the temporary headquarters, which was not far from Mingdu.

These hideouts were simply the training grounds of these evil spirit masters, not any real organization. Naturally, they were extremely secretive, to the point that even this branch elder couldn't possibly know where the evil spirit masters' hideouts were. He only knew that there were thirty or forty similar hideouts scattered throughout Mingdu.

This organizational structure is indeed very suitable for the development of evil spirit masters.

They develop their own downlines, with a one-way communication between superiors and subordinates, giving other evil spirit masters a great deal of autonomy in their cultivation and development. They usually only rely on the power of the Sun and Moon government to clean up their messes, and can cut ties with any accidents at lightning speed. They can also use these evil spirit masters to win over other evil spirit master talents.

Once they are needed, even if these evil soul masters try to escape, they will be firmly controlled by the Supreme Elder in the branch elder's memory. It seems that the Supreme Elder's martial soul is a powerful existence called Blood Soul Demon Puppet.

Even when Huo Yuhao asked Qian Daoliu, he had never heard of such a martial soul. However, according to the memories of the branch elders, the martial soul called Blood Soul Puppet seemed to have the ability to control people's souls.

As a result, unless Huo Yuhao loses his mind and tries to forcefully attack the evil soul master headquarters not far from Mingdu, he will have no chance to get more information about Ma Xiaotao.

"The intelligence network needs to be established as soon as possible."

Huo Yuhao frowned slightly and muttered to himself. However, even if he couldn't get detailed information about the other evil soul master's hideouts from the branch elders, Huo Yuhao still had a way to find the specific addresses of these hideouts.

Whether it's to collect the corpses and souls of these branch elders as materials for the Abomination Giant, to test his new soul tool, or to make the Soul Hall famous, Huo Yuhao has to find a way to visit more of these so-called branch altars.

The Holy Spirit Cult members like to harm ordinary people in order to elevate themselves, and Huo Yuhao likes to harm the Holy Spirit Cult members in order to elevate himself. From this perspective, the two sides really have a lot in common.

I'll endure the hardships of the Holy Spirit Church and bear the infamy myself!

Therefore, Huo Yuhao casually went to ask Teacher Xuan for leave.

"Yuhao, you're here!"

Xuan Ziwen saw Huo Yuhao shuffling into the office in slippers and immediately stood up to greet him.

"Yuhao, would you be interested in telling me more about the idea of ​​'core array inscribed with a sub-dense stacked structure' that you mentioned last time? I think your idea has tremendous potential. Besides that, the 'remote soul-guiding array with a mental network' that you told me about last time is also very interesting."

Upon seeing that Huo Yuhao, this formidable figure, had actually arrived at his class on time, Xuan Ziwen hurriedly grabbed Huo Yuhao's hand and made him sit in his seat, while he himself found another stool to sit down.

"Um, Professor Xuan, I'm here to ask for leave today. Researching soul tools is so boring, I'd like to go fishing. Do you know any good spots near the academy where it's easy to catch fish?"

Huo Yuhao's first words almost broke Xuan Ziwen's defenses. Did Huo Yuhao know how valuable and promising the topic he wanted to have a long talk with was?

But Xuan Ziwen immediately realized that the two topics he wanted to discuss were just ideas that Huo Yuhao had casually mentioned when he was bored. Without any reflection or research, he had simply guessed and found two rather valuable topics.

This was simply something Huo Yuhao asked me casually because he felt that researching soul tools was too boring, so he wanted to use his brain to think about it and pass the time.

Huo Yuhao figured out these two theoretical questions in just one morning and lost interest. Instead, he couldn't do any more of his research for the whole day, his mind was filled with the two questions Huo Yuhao had raised.

Previously, Xuan Ziwen was too embarrassed to ask Huo Yuhao, believing that he could definitely find a feasible optimal solution through his own thinking. However, after a whole night, Xuan Ziwen almost burned his brain.

Xuan Ziwen had a slight clue about the second problem, but the first problem really kept Xuan Ziwen up all night.

This question was actually raised by Huo Yuhao specifically to seduce Xuan Ziwen, so it wasn't that simple.

Although the solution to this problem can indeed be applied to the production of soul tools, maximizing the use of the sculptable area of ​​the core array within a limited space, it is essentially a mathematical problem. It was a homework assignment that Huo Yuhao had just solved recently and submitted to Electrolux.

After half a year of study, Huo Yuhao also realized that Xuan Ziwen was actually a very pure academic talent. The most common thing he said to Huo Yuhao was that "Soul Masters are only responsible for making, developing and optimizing Soul Tools. As for where these Soul Tools will be used, that is not something Soul Masters should care about."

This was not just Xuan Ziwen's perfunctory remark; the other party genuinely felt that way. Such a young level eight soul master, yet he didn't even have a single close female friend, which showed the purity of Xuan Ziwen's pursuit of soul tools.

Otherwise, Xuan Ziwen wouldn't have thought it was a big deal when Ju Zi dropped out of school and Wang Shaojie and Ke Ke were expelled. He only intended to criticize the two of them, but they really put all their talent into soul tools and knew nothing about anything else.

However, for Huo Yuhao, this was a good thing; he could try to figure out how to get Xuan Ziwen to work for him.

(End of this chapter)