Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 474 A Difficult Choice (Daily 10,000 words)

Time passed second by second. Scarface had left, and the two men who had first handed over the trafficked children had emerged from the shadows with four little kids.

Huo Yuhao's mental sea began to fluctuate violently. What should he choose? What should he choose?

For the first time, Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea experienced such intense fluctuations not caused by external forces, so much so that Electrolux and the others were awakened by Huo Yuhao, but they all remained silent when they sensed the predicament Huo Yuhao was facing.

Even with their knowledge and experience, they couldn't seem to come up with a perfect answer that would satisfy both sides.

Only Qian Daoliu sighed silently. The Spirit Hall had seen too many problems like this before. The Spirit Hall's answer was simple: focus on the big picture and compensate the affected families.

"Yuhao, you're getting too attached to appearances."

Qian Daoliu's voice slowly spoke: "This problem is not of your own making. The root of the problem lies with the Holy Spirit Cult, not with you."

"There is only one way to avoid this problem: kill. Kill the Holy Spirit Cult until it ceases to exist, and this problem will naturally disappear."

Qian Daoliu's answer eased Huo Yuhao's confusion to some extent.

Yes, this predicament was not of his own making, but rather of the Holy Spirit Cult. No matter which option Huo Yuhao chose, the negative consequences were not, in essence, Huo Yuhao's sins.

Only by eradicating the Holy Spirit Cult from its very roots can this abnormal predicament be completely resolved.

In the Douluo Continent today, cannibalism has resurfaced once again, and evil spirit masters have once again taken over the high ground. This means that the blood shed by the Spirit Hall in its thousand-year struggle against evil spirit masters has been shed in vain.

Thinking of this, Huo Yuhao felt a strange sadness rise in his heart, and he couldn't help but think of the words he had heard from these people before.

[Bucktooth, do you know that everything we have now was given to us by the Sea God?]

[If it weren't for Lord Poseidon's supreme power to completely destroy the Fallen City, would we even be qualified to meet so many Holy Cult masters? Without so many Holy Cult masters, where would we be today? Where would you be living such a life of luxury, enjoying the good life and constantly indulging in women?]

Poseidon, Poseidon.

Huo Yuhao looked up at the dark sky, his gaze sharp as if trying to pierce the pitch-black night.

Having personally sent two bewildered children into the mansion, Huo Yuhao felt as if a heavy boulder was pressing on his heart. Huo Yuhao never minded bearing the pressure himself, and he was fearless no matter how great the hardships ahead were.

But Huo Yuhao has never made other innocent people the price of his decisions, to the point that he has difficulty breathing.

In a daze, Huo Yuhao delivered ninety-six abducted children, including Little Skull, to the hideouts of eight evil soul masters. Just as the other traffickers were excitedly planning to go back to Scarface to split the money, Huo Yuhao's patience finally reached its limit.

The long-accumulated mental impact had now transformed into an even more terrifying and turbulent mental explosion, with roaring mental power sweeping out at this moment.

Huo Yuhao's terrifying mental power, which was close to that of a titled expert, rushed into the minds of these human traffickers, instantly causing their heads to explode like watermelons, turning them into several headless corpses.

Huo Yuhao, filled with murderous intent, entered the mansion. The little skeleton that had been sent into the mansion had already been inscribed with the Gate of the Dead under Huo Yuhao's control. The pitch-black gate slowly opened, and all kinds of terrifying undead life forms poured out of the gate like a tide.

Thanks to the fact that most of these evil spirit masters chose to hide in the suburbs, Huo Yuhao's army of the undead also liked these secluded places where it was not easy for anyone to notice any movement.

From a distance of more than ten meters, Huo Yuhao launched another mental attack. The original group attack had now been condensed into a single point by Huo Yuhao, and it was aimed straight at the white-robed guards on the ground dozens of meters away.

Even a powerful Soul King with five rings couldn't escape the tragic fate of having his head explode like a watermelon under Huo Yuhao's mental attack.

Having forcibly killed a Soul King with his mental power, Huo Yuhao took a few breaths, took out a cigar from He Caitou, took a deep drag, and immediately felt his mind become clearer.

With a single thought, Huo Yuhao opened the door to the underground passage and commanded the undead to storm into the basement.

Because the guard's death came so quickly, the others in the basement didn't even receive any warning. Huo Yuhao's mental attack was like a heavy hammer blow, directly blasting the other person's head to pieces.

Six liches who had previously been on missions reappeared, one of them wearing a necklace of teeth around his neck.

That necklace was made from the teeth that the two Holy Spirits had broken off. He himself didn't know which unlucky people he had harmed in the undead demiplane, but he had stuffed his mouth full of beast teeth. They were sharp and pointed, and he looked like he ate at least two children a day.

In addition to these, the undead creatures deployed included several zombies and several undead knights. The zombies walked in front, acting as meat shields, while the lich followed behind.

The undead knights riding their undead warhorses blocked the back entrance of the tunnel, holding giant scythes in their hands, with ghostly blue undead fire flickering in their eye sockets, seemingly ready to strike any unlucky soul who dared to come out the back door with their scythes at any moment.

It's worth mentioning that the skeletal horses ridden by the undead knights all had horns on their heads at this time. Some had ram horns, some had cow horns, and those that couldn't find any were made by removing two ribs and inserting them into the head of the undead skeletal horse to serve as horns.

Upon seeing this scene, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but gasp.

It seems the advice I gave that undead knight has actually caused great harm to the other undead knights.

It makes sense, really. If one undead skeletal horse has a pair of beautiful ram horns on its head, the other undead skeletal horses are naturally not happy about it, so they all go and cause trouble for their own knights to find horns.

Huo Yuhao glanced at the undead skeletal horses that had replaced ram horns with ribs, and his eyes met the resentful gazes of the undead knights on those skeletal horses, which made him blush.

Feigning seriousness, Huo Yuhao charged into the passageway with the liches, activating his full mental detection to scan the building's structure.

The underground structure is not complicated; in fact, it is quite simple.

There are only three rooms in total.

However, there seemed to be an unusually large number of evil spirit masters in this den. There were several evil spirit masters at the Soul Emperor level in the first room, and even two evil spirit masters at the Soul Saint level in the second room.

As for the third room, it wasn't a Soul Douluo-level evil Soul Master inside, but rather a Soul Guidance Tool laboratory. A Soul Saint-level seventh-grade Soul Guidance Evil Soul Master was making something. Huo Yuhao took a closer look and immediately realized what was going on.

Isn't this the pirated Ten Thousand Souls Banner that the branch elder used before?!

(End of this chapter)