Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 795 Prison Break (6K)

"I know some of you desperately need these powerful souls and might even want to accidentally kill a few, but not now, understand?"

"Yes, Elder." One of the evil spirit masters immediately lowered his head and added, "Then I'll go and arrange for them to have something to eat."

Watching them leave, a cold glint flashed in the Fourth Elder's eyes, and he said in a deep voice, "These kids are getting more and more outrageous."

Huo Yuhao's mental detection never left; he had sensed Zhang Peng's presence long ago, so he was extremely cautious about using his mental detection.

But what exactly is that Soul-Destroying Powder? The water in this water prison is connected to the moat outside. Aren't they afraid that the medicine's effects will be lost?

Huo Yuhao stroked his chin. At least his senior sister seemed quite reliable now, and even helped to push things along, tilting the scales in the hearts of the Third Elder and the Fourth Elder toward his proposal.

Having obtained the crucial clue of the water prison, Huo Yuhao regrouped his men and carefully examined its structure using mental detection. He was immediately taken aback.

The design of this water prison is truly excessive. Not only is it only 1.5 meters high, making it impossible to stand or sit, but the water level is also exactly 1 meter high. Each Soul Master has a short iron chain tied to their feet, so even if someone wanted to float on the water, they couldn't.

Under such circumstances, even Soul Masters would be exhausted. In Huo Yuhao's mental detection, these people were barely breathing.

The water dungeon is located in a low-lying area, while the moat outside is likely filled with flowing water. This means that if the water level in the dungeon is low, it will be replenished, but there will be virtually no outflow of water to replace it. Only a certain amount of Soul-Destroying Powder needs to be added each day.

After a full day of analysis, Huo Yuhao finally came to a conclusion.

This so-called Soul-Destroying Powder is likely a plant toxin, made by combining the juices of about three poisonous plants. It is used to paralyze a person's hands, feet, and bones, causing their soul power to stagnate. Over time, the person may even lose all their soul power.

Since that's the case, let's go buy some herbs now to prepare the antidote.

The moment that thought crossed Huo Yuhao's mind, he immediately extinguished it.

No, buying medicine will inevitably leave a trace, and I will have to send the antidote to the water dungeon later.

If someone is determined to investigate, this kind of thing cannot be covered up at all. Therefore, I must not buy the raw medicinal materials from the city to make the antidote, at least not from Sunrise City.

However, time is running out. Without preparing an antidote to neutralize the Soul-Destroying Powder, what should he do to rescue the hostages?

The hostages inside the water dungeon were all poisoned and unable to gather their soul power. Furthermore, the area was heavily fortified by numerous evil soul masters from the Holy Spirit Cult.

There are Soul Master Corps members both inside and outside the city. Even if Shrek Academy mobilized its entire force, it would be impossible to rescue several hundred elderly, weak, sick, and disabled people under these circumstances.

This place is not far from Mingdu, and Mingdu can send strong reinforcements at any time.

Even if Huo Yuhao could use some methods to solve the troubles outside the city, keeping them busy with their own problems, and at the same time use a feint attack inside the city to divert some of the evil soul masters guarding the hostages' strength, it still wouldn't work.

Although the borders of the Sun Moon Empire are not peaceful right now, Mingdu has already dispatched some powerful individuals to the border. However, manpower must remain to guard the capital. The limited number of personnel available is insufficient, as the movement speed of ordinary people is nowhere near that of Soul Masters.

What should I do?

Two days later.

"Your Highness, would you like to go and rest? The servants can look after things here."

Inside the dungeon, a malevolent spirit master smiled obsequiously and spoke respectfully to Ma Xiaotao.

They dared not show any dissatisfaction in front of this ruthless saintess, for they had personally witnessed her terrifying methods.

However, the temperature of the dark flames emanating from this holy maiden's body during her cultivation was terrifyingly high, and even they found it difficult to withstand.

"Has all the Soul-Destroying Powder been scattered today?"

The flames on Ma Xiaotao's body gradually subsided, and she opened her scarlet eyes.

"They scattered it. I watched them scatter it. There were two large bags of Soul-Extinguishing Powder, which the Third Elder personally brought over."

"Besides, we've fed them all. Hehe, Your Majesty, look at these people, they practically want to devour us alive. They're so hungry, they're eating like starving ghosts reincarnated!"

Hearing this, Ma Xiaotao nodded in satisfaction: "Not bad, not bad. These past two days, the Lone Wolf Soul Instructor Legion has been out of town suppressing the rebellion, leaving the city's defenses weak. That's why I spent two days in the water dungeon. Since there are no problems, I'll leave this place to you, so you won't have to hide away while I cultivate."

"I will certainly live up to the Holy Maiden's arrangements."

The other evil spirit masters quickly bowed. Whenever Ma Xiaotao cultivated, they felt like they were in a steamer, or being steamed or roasted, which was extremely uncomfortable.

With a flick of her wrist, a small ball emitting a pink glow disappeared along with the flames on her body. However, the glow was so inconspicuous that no one noticed that there was actually such a small pink bead hidden under the rolling black flames on Ma Xiaotao's body during her cultivation.

Seeing Ma Xiaotao leave, the evil spirit masters present finally breathed a sigh of relief. They glanced around at the prisoners in the water dungeon and found that the prisoners, who had eaten their fill, were glaring at them with even fiercer eyes, as if they wanted to skin them alive.

"What, you've just finished eating and you want to die?"

Seeing the demonic, predatory gazes in the eyes of these other soul masters, one of them felt a surge of anger and took out a long whip.

"Looks like you haven't received enough discipline from your grandpa!"

The evil spirit master flicked his long whip, which immediately made a cracking sound as it cut through the air. But then, a series of deep rumbling sounds carrying strong air currents entered the water prison through the drain.

"What happened? What happened?"

The evil spirit master also felt the earth shaking and quickly looked at his colleagues.

High above Sunrise City, clusters of fireballs exploded in the air; these were all level-four fixed-position soul-guided cannon shells, with terrifying power.

However, Sunrise City's air defense system was not to be underestimated. Nearly a hundred streaks of light rose into the air in the next instant, all shooting towards the sky and intercepting all the soul-guided cannons flying horizontally.

Numerous soul-guided rays and soul-guided cannon lights illuminated the scene, with each fixed-mount soul-guided cannon shell employing more than two different types of light to intercept the attacks, managing to block all of the more than one hundred anti-aircraft shells.

"Oh no! People from the three great empires have come to storm the execution ground!"

One of the evil spirit masters immediately understood the reason and shouted loudly.

(End of this chapter)