Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 786 The Ore Vein (6K)

Without purchasing a map of Sunrise City, no one knows what kind of traps the Sun Moon Empire has set up in the city, so we must proceed with extreme caution.

Based on his intuition and by observing the flow of people around him, Huo Yuhao roughly felt that he had entered a more central area of ​​Sunrise City.

Upon arriving here, he finally unleashed his full mental power, activating his mental detection and focusing it in one direction.

Wherever his mental power passed, everything he detected was presented in his mind as a three-dimensional image.

Because of the numerous buildings in the city, the exploration distance is certainly not as far as it is on the plains, but it is enough for Huo Yuhao.

The brain began to work at high speed, the sea of ​​consciousness fluctuated violently, and the body rotated slowly and imperceptibly, quickly completing a full circle of exploration.

The diameter of Sunrise City is only a dozen kilometers, and with Huo Yuhao's current mental strength, he can see almost the entire city at a glance.

However, he couldn't do that, as it would be too dangerous. Therefore, he held back during the exploration process, limiting the scope of the exploration to a radius of two kilometers, even though it was a one-way exploration.

That's how it was; after a sweep, they had thoroughly explored the entire core area of ​​Sunrise City.

Such powerful ability is something even a Title Douluo cannot achieve, and no detection soul tool can detect things so comprehensively as he can.

After Huo Yuhao finished spinning around, a glint of surprise flashed in his eyes, but he quickly returned to normal.

The Soul Palace group chose a medium-sized hotel as their lodging location. Before setting off, they had already prepared their disguised identities within the Sun Moon Empire.

Ji Juechen was sitting in the hotel lobby drinking cheap beer and waiting for Huo Yuhao. When he saw Huo Yuhao enter the hotel, he immediately waved to him.

Huo Yuhao sat down next to Ji Juechen and casually ordered a glass of ale.

"Why did it take so long? Are you alright?"

Huo Yuhao smiled slightly and said, "It's alright, everyone's settled in?"

Ji Juechen nodded. "Everything's fine here. Have you found anything?"

Huo Yuhao said, "I discovered something. I didn't find the place where the hostages were being held, but I did find that a large number of high-level soul tools were deployed in the center of this city."

"A large portion of them are fixed-installation soul tools."

During the exploration just now, Huo Yuhao discovered quite a few "good things".

In the heart of Sunrise City, his punch just now scanned the area and found that at least thirty houses had high-level soul tools installed.

These soul tools were at least level six or higher, with some even reaching level seven or eight. He had never seen several of them before, and it was entirely possible they were level nine.

Sunrise City is now completely enveloped in a vast network of surveillance.

Undoubtedly, a large number of detection soul tools cover the entire city from high above. Once they detect anything amiss, they can immediately transmit the detection signal to the ground, and the high-level soul tools hidden in the city can immediately pinpoint the target.

Assuming no casualties among civilians within the city, it would be virtually impossible for anyone discovered to escape unscathed. After all, there are still two Soul Master Corps outside the city!

Ji Juechen frowned: "Were the hostages moved, or hidden underground?"

Huo Yuhao stroked his chin: "It's most likely the latter. The two Soul Master legions outside the city aren't just sitting around doing nothing. Plus, there are a lot of evil Soul Masters stationed here. There's no reason for the Sun Moon Empire to choose this time to move their people away."

Huo Yuhao said, "My mental detection is greatly affected after entering the ground, and the detection range will be greatly reduced. So even without seeing it with my own eyes, I estimate that the hostages are most likely being held underground."

"After all, the Sun Moon Empire has always hidden its various soul tools in this way."

"By minimizing exits at a sufficient depth underground, defense is most effective. It's far safer than being on the surface. Given the Sun Moon Empire's penchant for constructing various underground buildings, this is the most likely scenario."

Ji Juechen nodded and said, "Should we rescue these hostages? Their identities are too sensitive. If we rescue them, even if we disguise ourselves, it will inevitably arouse suspicion from the Holy Spirit Cult and the Sun Moon Empire. This is too troublesome."

Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao nodded. The matter that Ji Juechen was considering was exactly the same issue that he had thought about before.

The Holy Spirit Cult suddenly changed the negotiation location to Sunrise City. If the hostages were rescued just as our group arrived, it would easily make the other side suspect the Soul Hall's stance.

This is why Huo Yuhao said from the beginning that he would act according to the circumstances. One move could affect the whole situation. If these hostages were rescued, it could very well disrupt the entire plan. Huo Yuhao didn't owe these hostages anything, and he certainly wouldn't let them interfere with his judgment.

Huo Yuhao tapped his index finger knuckle lightly on the table, lost in thought.

If things were really that simple, Huo Yuhao wouldn't have hesitated so much.

Based on today's reconnaissance, the deployment of soul tools and soul master legions is basically as he had predicted.

Going to rescue people is Huo Yuhao's right, but it is by no means his obligation. He went to the Sun Moon Empire to participate in the competition, but he had no political sense at all.

They stayed in Mingdu until they couldn't leave and were finally wiped out. Huo Yuhao has no obligation to clean up their mess.

Therefore, unless there were sufficient benefits, Huo Yuhao would never have considered rescuing these hostages.

Just as Huo Yuhao was heading to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion to settle his obsession, a small ore that the elders identified as possibly the Ten Thousand Year Cold Marrow was sent to Shrek Academy by people from the Earth Dragon Gate. According to them, the successive leaders of the Earth Dragon Gate controlled a vein of rare ice-attribute metal.

Only the successive leaders of the Earth Dragon Gate know its exact location.

The people of the Earth Dragon Sect made it very clear that their sect leader and young sect leader had both been captured by the Sun Moon Empire, and their intentions were quite obvious.

If the person is rescued, the mine will belong to Shrek Academy; if the person cannot be rescued, they will not know the exact location of the mine.

Huo Yuhao didn't know whether the ore was Frost Iron Essence or something like Ten-Thousand-Year Frost Jade Marrow, but whichever it was, its allure to Huo Yuhao was irresistible.

If it's the former, Huo Yuhao would have the core material for a level 10 fixed-position soul-guided cannon shell, which is probably much more than the Cold Heart Iron Essence from the Holy Spirit Cult.

If it's the latter, that would be even better. Huo Yuhao was just worried about how to quickly improve his strength.

(End of this chapter)