Douluo Continent: The Spirit-Eyed Detective Huo Yuhao

"Brother Tianmeng, you have enemies too, right? That group from Star Dou Forest," Huo Yuhao suddenly said.

"Ah, yes, a bunch of despicable guys." Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was taken aback, not expecting Huo Yuhao to bring this up.

"They're a bunch of damned bastards... We'll wipe them all out together, and leave no one alive who has ever hurt you!" Huo Yuhao laughed, his face full of confidence, as if he was certain he could do it.

"Okay." Tianmeng smiled too. For some reason, he felt that this child could definitely do it.

"Elder Yi, do you think I'm being too murderous?" Huo Yuhao asked, remembering that the old man was quite kind.

After a long silence, Electrox said, "I... have nothing to say, child. I can't find anything wrong with what you did. I have never felt there was anything wrong with revenge. In fact, I support reasonable revenge. All I ask is that revenge should not involve the innocent. You did very well in that regard. In the end, you also remembered to call that little girl out of the danger zone. You were not blinded by hatred."

"Haha, yes, I also got my revenge on the whole incident. Zhu Lu lost her mentally challenged boyfriend with whom she didn't have much interaction at a young age, so she can focus more on her studies. The redhead got promoted as he wished, and Shrek Academy also learned a lesson."

There's nothing wrong with that; we all have a bright future. Huo Yuhao felt he had done a good job.

Upon arriving at the dormitory,

"Where have you been? Why are you back so late?" Wang Dong asked, hands on his hips.

"I'm conducting experiments in the Soul Guidance Department," Huo Yuhao replied with a smile.

Wang Dong stared in disbelief.

What's making this guy laugh so happily?

It turns out he also has moments when his smile isn't so bad.

He's quite handsome...

………………

the next day,

A momentous event has occurred at Shrek Academy.

Only two days into the semester, a student died, and it was none other than Dai Huabin.

The renowned Star Luo top nobleman, the second son of the White Tiger Duke, and the young three-ring Soul Master Dai Huabin.

This matter cannot be suppressed no matter what.

The atmosphere throughout the college was extremely oppressive.

But there's no need for an investigation or to find the murderer.

Apart from the lower-grade students, everyone in the academy's upper echelons knew that Dai Huabin had died from Ma Xiaotao's out-of-control rage.

“I told you not to cultivate, but you insisted on cultivating! Why did you have to be in such a hurry to cultivate your evil fire! I told you to find an ice attribute to suppress it first, and then cultivate it, but you said, ‘Oh, I won’t listen, I want to cultivate, I want to cultivate!’ You cultivate, my ass! Now look what’s happened, you’ve killed a student, and it was the White Tiger Duke’s child. This is a huge mess, the academy is going to be ruined by you.”

The old man in white, Yan Shaozhe, was so anxious that he scratched his head and muttered curses in front of Ma Xiaotao before finally sighing.

"From this moment forward, you are forbidden from cultivating any further, nor are you allowed to step out of the inner courtyard. If you are caught, I will personally lock you up in jail!"

"Teacher, I..." Ma Xiaotao cried, filled with remorse.

"Shut up!" Yan Shaozhe waved his hand, using his Title Douluo-level strength to wrap Ma Xiaotao up and seal her into the room.

He sighed again. He could curse as he pleased, but Ma Xiaotao was a disciple he had taken in and raised, just like his own daughter. What could he do? Should he really throw her in jail?

Thinking about the negotiations he still had to make with the people from the White Tiger Duke's Mansion and the Star Luo Empire, as well as the enormous amount of compensation, he sighed repeatedly, instantly appearing as if he had aged more than ten years.

Sighing as it may be, this matter is merely troublesome for the academy, far from being a catastrophe.

Duke White Tiger? An eight-ring Soul Douluo? Let's talk about him after he gets back from the battlefield.

As for the Duchess, despite her hatred, what kind of trouble could she possibly stir up?

Although the Star Luo Empire made a high-profile entrance, it was nothing more than losing money. If it lost more money, it would settle the matter peacefully.

What else? Go to war with Shrek Academy? For a mere Soul Master from the White Tiger Clan who is already dead?

On the Douluo Continent, no one has ever truly dared to oppose the Shrek Academy, which is at its zenith. They neither dare nor can they.

Because of the Starry Sky Forest, because of the Sun and Moon Empire.

………………

All of this is no longer relevant to Huo Yuhao.

He is now peacefully engaged in his research at the Soul Guidance Department.

By the way, he's already level 19, just one level away from level 20, which is required to add a soul ring.

There's nothing special about it except for a pleasant mood and clear thinking.

He felt that as long as he could figure out the machine his subordinate was building, he could reach level 20 directly.

"Just a little bit more, just a little bit more, that glimmer of inspiration, what was missing?"

Huo Yuhao's brain was working at lightning speed.

Chapter 12 Electricity

"Hey, big brother, hammer."

He Caitou handed the hammer to Huo Yuhao, who was standing in front of the iron-smelting furnace.

"Knife."

He Caitou quickly found another small knife.

"wood."

"Soul-guided drill bit".

"screw."

He Caitou hurriedly handed Huo Yuhao what he wanted.

Huo Yuhao's voice seemed to possess an irresistible magic, making people listen to him involuntarily.

This young man, Huo, is usually quite kind, but I never expected him to be like this when he's focused on making soul tools.

This situation reminded He Caitou of when he first became an apprentice under his teacher Fan Yu, and he was just as flustered back then.

If it were just about making ordinary soul tools, He Caitou wouldn't be in such a rush; those things are all too familiar to him.

The fact is that what Huo Yuhao is doing now is completely different from the soul tools he has ever seen.

“Brother Huo, you’ve been making these parts and mechanisms these past few days, but you haven’t inscribed any magic arrays. They’re useless. How can the soul guide device be activated without magic arrays?” He Caitou asked.

"What I'm making isn't a soul tool," Huo Yuhao replied, his eyes still fixed on the pile of mechanical parts.

"Then what is this...?"

Just as He Caitou was about to ask a question, Huo Yuhao suddenly shouted.

"Brother He, quick, call Senior Brother Bei Bei here, the one with the Martial Soul!"

He spoke very quickly, as if it were extremely urgent and there was no time to lose.

"Okay...okay...I'll go right away!"

He Caitou was startled to see his new junior brother in such a hurry, and immediately turned around and ran to call for help.

It wasn't until he ran out of the Soul Guidance System area that he realized, "Beibei...who is that?"

He doesn't know Beibei at all, so why should he address her?

However, there was no need to worry. When he arrived at the Spirit System area, he found that this Bei Bei was quite famous. As soon as he called his name, a student helped him find the person.

Apart from Beibei and Tangya being startled by the burly, dark-skinned man repeatedly shouting "Senior Brother Beibei... Senior Brother Beibei..." in the street, nothing unexpected happened.

"Junior brother called me? I'll go right now."

Upon hearing that it was Huo Yuhao calling him, Bei Bei and the other two hurried towards the Soul Guidance Department.

………………

Soul Guidance System Test Area

Huo Yuhao's private laboratory.

It is clear that Fan Yu attaches great importance to Huo Yuhao, and has set up a separate small laboratory for him. Although it is small, it is fully equipped with all the necessary tools.

Actually, this was because when Huo Yuhao first arrived, his eyes were shining and he wanted to take everything apart to see what was there. He almost tore down the automatic sensor door panel. That's why Fan Yu specially gave him a small laboratory that he could build himself.

"Yuhao, did you call me? Is there anything I can help you with, Senior Brother?" Beibei asked, looking at Huo Yuhao who was still fiddling with the parts.

"Senior Brother, can I see your Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex Martial Soul?" Huo Yuhao asked directly.

“It’s possible, but why are you looking at this…” Bei Bei summoned his martial soul, and a dazzling blue light shone from between his eyebrows and then descended into his whole body. Streaks of blue-purple electricity burst out like small snakes, his entire right arm became thick and covered with blue-purple scales, and his hand turned into a claw, also covered with scales.

Seeing the streaks of electricity, Huo Yuhao was overjoyed. He used his mental detection to scan Bei Bei, and at the same time, his Extreme Thinking Soul Skill was fully activated.

"Please don't move, senior brother. I need to take a good look."

"Fine……"

Although she felt a little uncomfortable being stared at, Bei Bei had no choice but to reluctantly agree since it was her junior brother's request.

Tang Ya, who came along, was drawn to a large pile of things displayed elsewhere.

"Xiao Yuhao, these are... Tang Clan hidden weapons? Did you make them?!"

Tang Ya exclaimed in surprise. She remembered that she had never given Huo Yuhao the hidden weapons she had made, and many of them were ones that she herself could not make even if she wanted to.

In other words, it could only have been created by Huo Yuhao himself!

"The King of Hell's Decree, the Deadly Courage, the Peacock Feather, the Rain of Pear Blossom Needles... and the Buddha's Wrath Tang Lotus! This is the Buddha's Wrath Tang Lotus! How did you make it?!"

Although many of the hidden weapons had been drastically altered, Tang Ya still easily named them.

After all, she had studied the blueprints for the "Hundred Solutions to Hidden Weapons" hundreds of times over the heavy responsibility of reviving the Tang Clan.

"These are indeed Tang Clan hidden weapons. I made them a couple of days ago while researching mechanisms. Teacher Xiaoya, feel free to take them if you like them," Huo Yuhao said as he examined Bei Bei's meridians and the principles behind the blue lightning after her transformation.

"This...this..." Tang Ya stammered, "Can these really be used?"

"It's usable. Although we found that many of the necessary poisons and gunpowder were missing during the manufacturing process, I made some substitutes by consulting the library's books. I also found the method for making black powder."

"I discovered that many of these hidden weapons are deliberately designed to be incredibly intricate, making them very difficult to manufacture. Take the Buddha's Wrath Lotus, for example. I modified it into a simplified version; its power might be a level lower than the original, but it's about the same in use," Huo Yuhao said.

"By the way, the shape can also be changed. You can make all sorts of things like Buddha's Wrath Chrysanthemum, Buddha's Wrath Peach Blossom, Buddha's Wrath Apple, Pear, Banana... The main thing is that the gunpowder I make is really powerful, so it doesn't matter what shape it is."

Tang Ya, her hands trembling, picked up a Buddha's Wrath Lotus and choked out, "Thank you, Xiao Yuhao."