Douluo Continent: The Spirit-Eyed Detective Huo Yuhao

"You lot, take me to your sect."

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Ice Ape Sect

A small sect whose martial spirit is mostly ice ape is not surprising in the Heavenly Soul Empire, which has a large number of sects. Its strength is not strong, but it has occupied a small hill and established its own sect.

"Seventeen four-ring Soul Masters are indeed a behemoth for Warm Stove Village now."

Huo Yuhao withdrew his mental probe and swaggered into the gate of the Ice Ape Sect.

Whether they were guards at the gate or disciples passing by, they all prostrated themselves on the ground, not daring to look him in the eye.

"We won't ask for much more. You can still live there, but we'll have to provide you with half of our minerals, crops, and furs every month. How about that?" said the arrogant young master of the Ice Ape Sect, a third-ring cultivator.

"Keep dreaming! Get your people out of our snow mountain!" Bai Zhen slammed her hand on the table and roared. These people were nothing short of robbers.

"Don't get so agitated. I admit your village is not weak. You have a lot of Soul Masters and you've tamed so many Soul Beasts," the young sect leader threatened. "But have you thought this through? Our Ice Ape Sect has a total of seventeen Soul Masters. No matter how fierce your tamed Soul Beasts are, they're only a thousand years old. How can you possibly stop them? You'd better just obediently work for our sect."

Even so, he couldn't help but glance at the group of birds and beasts behind Bai Zhen, a look of fear flashing in his eyes.

"Good my ass!" Enraged, Bai Zhen raised her hand and threw a fist-sized ice crystal at the young sect leader's head. With a thud, it smashed his head open, causing it to bleed profusely. Several Soul Sect members around him rushed over to help him up.

She had never learned any negotiation skills; the old people of the snowfields always fought if they disagreed.

They didn't come here today with any intention of negotiating.

"Barbaric...barbaric! How utterly barbaric!" The young sect leader seemed to enjoy speaking in a cultured manner, but after being hit, his true colors were revealed. "You dare hit me! Even my father never hit me! My father is a Soul King! In that case, then we'll..."

"So what?"

"I'll kowtow to you respectfully!" With that, the young sect leader pounded his head on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly to Bai Zhen, completely ignoring the blood still oozing from his head.

"?"

Bai Zhen was startled, thinking he had gone mad.

Then she sensed a familiar presence and turned her head with delight.

"Master!"

Huo Yuhao, dressed in a black robe, walked slowly over, and the people of Nuanlu Village and their contracted beasts all stepped aside.

"You did a great job. You stood firm in the face of a strong threat and showed a fighting spirit," Huo Yuhao praised.

Bai Zhen, who was being praised, stood aside and chuckled.

"who?"

Those Soul Master level elders sensed the danger and summoned their Martial Souls, which were all white-haired apes with thick, long arms.

Only the young sect leader was still being forced to kneel on the ground by Huo Yuhao.

"You're that Ice Demon?" The leading elder was surprised and uncertain. He had thought it was just a fabrication by Warm Stove Village to bluff, but he didn't expect that there was such a person. "Hmph, what a resounding name. I wonder what his strength is."

Ignoring these people, Huo Yuhao began to observe his own abilities.

"I am currently at level 28, and I can perfectly mentally control people who are one realm higher than me. As for those two realms higher..." Huo Yuhao's spiritual eyes looked around at the Soul Sect members.

The powerful spiritual force pressed down on them like a tsunami, and the Soul Masters felt an overwhelming pressure that made it hard for them to breathe.

"No, without prior preparation, we can only use mental suggestions on them, which is not a perfect way to control them." Huo Yuhao withdrew the mental suppression.

If it were a Soul King at full strength, it would probably only slightly affect his emotions.

"Go together!"

Provoked by Huo Yuhao, more than a dozen Soul Masters swarmed and attacked him.

"Next, let's test our attack power." Huo Yuhao put his hands on the emerald green ice crystal gauntlets.

In a blink of an eye,

Dozens of white apes howled in agony, and a chilling aura seeped into their veins and flesh from their wounds.

"Too weak, the opponents at the fourth ring level are too weak." Huo Yuhao frowned. With his physical body, mental strength, and soul power all at the current level, which he had cultivated to the extreme, these guys couldn't test his limits at all.

Of course, it's also because wild Soul Masters outside of Shrek Academy are inherently weak.

Well, combat power wasn't what he was after anyway; his strength would naturally increase as he sought knowledge.

"How do you feel?" Huo Yuhao asked Bai Zhen again, as his use of ice attributes was also a demonstration for her.

"Huh? I... I feel..."

Bai Zhen was taken aback by the question.

"Very handsome?"

"..."

Huo Yuhao turned and walked deeper into the Ice Ape Sect: "It's nothing, come with me, let's take a look at the secrets of this bandit den disguised as a sect."

Then, to the astonishment of Bai Zhen and the others, he pushed open the door of a warehouse.

Inside were a group of children, the oldest no more than ten and the youngest only five or six, all with their hands and feet bound and dressed in thin clothes.

"Trafficking, no wonder they set up their sect in this remote snowy plain."

Chapter 39 A Hundred Martial Arts Skills, This is...

Huo Yuhao and Bai Zhen brought the children back to Nuanlu Village.

They were dressed in ice silk garments, a specialty of Nuanlu Village, and placed in small houses equipped with electric soul-conducting heaters.

As they ate the warming stew of snow pork and cheese, the younger children were already beaming with joy, while the older ones were still a little hesitant and incredulous, but they were soon lured by the aroma of the food and began to eat heartily.

After settling in,

The two returned to the Ice Ape Sect.

"Master, can those children still be sent home?" Bai Zhen asked.

“It’s difficult. Most of them have been resold several times, and they are so young that they have no idea where they came from. Some were even sold by their ‘family’ themselves.” Huo Yuhao shook his head.

Bai Zhen remained silent for a moment, then said, "Then let's leave them in Nuanlu Village. From now on, they will be the people of Nuanlu Village."

"Sure, you're the village chief, so you call the shots," Huo Yuhao said calmly.

"By the way, Master, what are we doing here at the Ice Ape Sect again?"

"Wait someone."

"Waiting for whom?"

"That Soul King-level sect leader who isn't in the sect."

"Whoa!!!" Bai Zhen's eyes lit up, looking forward to how her master would teach that ignorant Ice Ape Sect Master a lesson.

"What about those Ice Ape Clan members?" Bai Zhen remembered that after they were defeated, Huo Yuhao didn't say whether he killed them or took them away.

"I strung them together like a human chain and hung them at their door."

"Human chain?"

On the gate of the Ice Ape Sect, the young sect leader and seventeen elders were strung together by a long ice silkworm thread, with thin threads passing through their mouths one after another, hanging on the gate like a giant necklace.

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"Because of Shrek Academy, the Heavenly Soul Sect has been cracking down on evil soul masters lately. Be careful what you do, understand?" The oppressive aura of the Title Douluo Wuyun silenced the soul masters below.

He is Wuyun, Wuyun Douluo, whose martial soul is the Dark Crow, and he is a worshipper of the Holy Spirit Cult.

"I just broke through to level 94, and they've already assigned me this troublesome job. Ugh!"

Wu Yun sighed. But troublesome as it may be, he had been wholeheartedly devoted to the Holy Spirit Cult. After all, he was misunderstood and hunted down wherever he went, and only the Holy Spirit Cult accepted him.

Disciplining these followers was just a side task; his main mission this time was to invite another Title Douluo. According to intelligence, that Title Douluo was also a pitiful fellow who had to hide because he was being hunted down because of his evil martial soul. He was here to invite him to join the Holy Spirit Cult.

"Those desperate guys are easy to persuade to come. The Holy Spirit Cult is the final destination for all evil soul masters," Wu Yun chuckled. He knew this situation better than anyone.

"Zhang Peng, the Scorpion Tiger Douluo, I wonder what kind of person he is."

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, this person will become his future colleague.

Then look at the group of believers standing below.

They weren't all evil martial spirits; most of them worked for the Holy Spirit Cult, doing dirty work of swindling and deception.

The Ice Ape Sect's leader, Yuan Cheng, was among them.

After the speech,

The Ice Ape Sect Master hurried back under the cover of night.

"Honestly, give me a lecture, why are you dragging this out for so long?" he complained. Working for these evil spirit masters was really dangerous, but they paid well too. Once he came to his senses, he couldn't stop himself.

"We've arrived! We can see the mountain gate now. I'll be able to see my good son soon."

He doted on his son and even considered giving up his life of crime for him.

"Father...it hurts..."

A painful cry startled Sarutoshi, turning his face pale.

What did he see?!

His sons and elders were strung together and hung on the gate, their hands and feet weakly climbing up.

What a disgusting hellish sight!

"Who did this?!"

A furious howl echoed across the snowfield, and Yuan Cheng transformed into a tall, white-haired ice ape with bulging muscles, resembling a Titan.

Could it be those evil spirit masters? This method is very similar to theirs. Have they realized that they want to quit?

"I did it."

Huo Yuhao walked out directly.

He turned to Bai Zhen and said, "Watch carefully this time. I was wrong in what I taught you before. I should have taught you a fighting style that is more suitable for you."

"It's Master."

As soon as he finished speaking, Huo Yuhao conjured a fist-sized block of ice and shot it at the ice ape in the distance.