Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 787 The Evil Empress's Usurpation of Power (6K)

After returning to his room, Huo Yuhao immediately opened the Gate of the Dead and summoned a robust zombie, Zhao Yang, with whom he had a life-or-death bond.

"My lord."

As soon as Zhao Yang stepped out of the Gate of the Dead, he saw Huo Yuhao and immediately knelt down on one knee.

"No need for such formalities."

Huo Yuhao waved his hand and said seriously, "The opportunity for revenge has arrived. It all depends on whether you can seize it."

"Please give your orders, my lord; I will go through fire and water without hesitation!"

The soul fire behind Zhao Yang's eyeballs flickered almost imperceptibly. He was a secret weapon in Huo Yuhao's hands, and now he had finally come in handy.

"I need you to break away and rise up, adding fuel to the fire in the current sensitive situation of the Sun Moon Empire. I'll give you a fully equipped undead legion. Can you take over your homeland within half a month?"

"Yang, I am willing to sign a military pledge! Within half a month, I will lead a large army to advance, contact the elders in my territory, and send a small team of undead construction workers. With this inside and outside cooperation, we will surely be able to reclaim my father's fiefdom."

Zhao Yang's voice was firm and resolute; he had waited far too long for this day.

Don't rush.

Huo Yuhao's voice was very calm: "This battle should not be fought too quickly. At the same time, we should keep the Sun Moon Empire from figuring out your strengths and weaknesses, so that the Sunrise City, which is the most convenient place to provide support, will have to send troops to help."

"Conquering fiefdoms is not the goal; the goal is to leave Sunrise City undefended. After that, Nana will help you expand your influence in multiple areas, making it easier for me to muddy the waters of the entire war. At that time, people from the three great empires will inevitably contact you, wanting you to work for them. Don't pay any attention to these people."

"What you need to do is raise the banner of rebellion, wait for the local lords to rise up, and rely on the natural barriers of your fiefdom to hold your ground. Since Xu Tianran still wants to accumulate strength, and Xingluo and Tianhun dare not send troops rashly, let us give Xu Tianran some trouble."

"Although you were already a Soul Saint before you died, unlike the undead who started from scratch and absorbed soul cores, and now you are an eight-ring Soul Douluo, don't let your guard down."

"I know you harbor resentment, resentment that Xu Tianran colluded with evil spirit masters and used tricks to bewitch your father's mind. He didn't even have a single title under his command, yet he rushed to rebel and become king, becoming a typical example of Xu Tianran's suppression of rebellion."

"However, killing Xu Tianran cannot be rushed. You should know better than me what the war potential of your Sun Moon Empire is."

Zhao Yang nodded silently, and after a long while, he said, "What you say is absolutely right, my lord. I was too impatient."

"It's good that you understand."

A smile appeared on Huo Yuhao's face.

"My lord, what should we choose as the banner for this uprising?"

Just as Huo Yuhao got up to leave, Zhao Yang's voice came from behind.

"The wicked empress usurps power, her poison infuses the emperor's heart, and evil forces become his teachers; the emperor's inner circle must be cleansed."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Yang was immediately shocked. What a sophisticated manifesto! If he sent out this slogan, Xu Tianran would probably be disgusted.

Ju Zi is Xu Tianran's right-hand man, while Zhongli Wu, the national advisor, is like a steel knife in Xu Tianran's hand. This is pretty much what it means to strike a snake at its seven-inch mark.

This was exactly Huo Yuhao's intention: rebels were rising up everywhere, and the three kingdoms were in a state of chaos.

If they can make Xu Tianran and the Holy Spirit Cult appear to be at odds, Huo Yuhao and the others will have a chance to not only negotiate a cooperation with the Holy Spirit Cult without using the academy's power, but also rescue the hostages.

Nothing happened that night, and the next morning, the members of the Soul Palace began their work. They left the tavern and went to Sunrise City to gather information and intelligence.

Among them, Huo Yuhao's task was naturally the most arduous. He spent a whole day using his mental detection to thoroughly explore the entire Sunrise City.

Just as he expected, no hostages were found in the city. What did the lack of hostages mean? It meant that their direction would be downward.

The layout of the city was also largely detected by Huo Yuhao's mental detection.

High-level soul tools were deployed not only in the city center, but also in the four corners of Sunrise City, yet he did not find any evil soul masters.

However, Huo Yuhao was certain that there were at least one or two level-nine soul masters in Sunrise City at this moment.

Because through further investigation, he has confirmed that among the high-level soul tools in the city center, one must be a level nine artifact.

A level nine soul tool can only be activated by a level nine soul master or a titled Douluo-level soul master. Since it's been set up, someone will naturally use it.

Since he wanted to stir up trouble, Huo Yuhao naturally needed to figure out the layout of Sunrise City.

Moreover, the place where hostages are held must be heavily guarded. Since there is no such defense in the city, it is very likely that the problem lies in the city walls on all sides.

After circling the city wall, Huo Yuhao quietly activated his mental detection.

Under his control, the mental probe pierced the ground like a sharp cone, probing downwards.

The defenses on the south side of the city wall are much stronger than in other areas.

Huo Yuhao had previously scanned upwards and discovered that the number of thermal detectors and soul power detectors among the soul guide detectors here was much greater than that at the north gate of the city where they entered.

Moreover, some quite powerful attack soul tools are hidden within the city walls. The outer defenses are extremely tight.

His mental energy probed diagonally downwards. The foundation of the city wall was finite; once it reached a depth of over ten meters, Huo Yuhao's mental energy had already penetrated through it.

Exploring deep underground consumes a great deal of mental energy. Only someone with Huo Yuhao's level of mental cultivation could possess such strong mental energy and control.

After burrowing nearly thirty meters into the ground, Huo Yuhao suddenly felt his mental energy lighten, and he finally emerged from the soil and entered the water.

The moat, this must be the moat.

Overjoyed, he continued to probe downwards with his spiritual power and began to probe horizontally.

The water in the moat of Sunrise City was somewhat murky, but the perception of spiritual energy was external to the body; it was not like sight.

Soon, Huo Yuhao's mental energy swept across a stretch of murky river water about fifty meters long, but he found nothing.

The riverbed was just silt. With his mental strength, after traversing the ground and the river, he could only penetrate the silt about ten meters further before he started to feel dizzy.

Raising his head, Huo Yuhao closed his eyes slightly, took a deep breath, and calmed down the intense mental energy he had just mobilized.

Huo Yuhao's mental energy stopped advancing when he was still thirty meters from the city wall, where people were already shouting and urging him to leave. Patrol soldiers below the city wall had also noticed this.

Huo Yuhao quickly lowered his head and walked around the city wall, but did not retreat, only trying to get out of the soldiers' sight.

(End of this chapter)