Douluo Continent: The Spirit-Eyed Detective Huo Yuhao

"We should have thought of this earlier. To meet the needs of the evil spirit master organization, evil spirits are definitely the top priority."

Fortunately, these children haven't started practicing martial arts yet, otherwise, if they lost control of their emotions, it wouldn't be as simple as biting people.

"Waaaaah... I'm sorry, I... I didn't mean to..."

The child, who was probably only eight years old, was crying and screaming, saying that he had just lost control and bit someone.

"Don't cry."

Huo Yuhao used his gentle spiritual power to soothe the noisy children, "Your martial souls are just sick, Grandpa Huodou will cure you."

"Get ill?"

"Yes, it's just an illness. As long as you take your medicine on time as Grandpa Huodou says, there won't be any problems."

"Aren't you going to kick me out?"

"Will not."

………………

in the afternoon,

"Bai Zhen, take these medicines." Huo Yuhao tossed out several medicine bottles. "Sedatives. Have the people taking care of those children keep an eye on them and give them one every morning."

"Yes." Bai Zhen took the medicine and left.

“Sedatives only treat the symptoms, not the root cause. To solve the problem of evil martial souls, we need to find a way to truly remove the evil energy from their bodies.” Electrolux emerged from Huo Yuhao’s body.

“That’s right. If our research on martial souls and bloodline genes can be further advanced, combined with the exorcising effect of holy light magic, I might be able to perform surgery on those children.” Huo Yuhao pondered, stroking his chin. “It would be great if we had a high-level evil soul master to do the research.”

"Okay, let's do it this way."

After thinking for a while, Huo Yuhao seemed to have made a decision.

He patted the storage soul tool and pulled out a human-shaped object.

It turned out to be a zombie.

Upon closer inspection, the zombie was none other than Yuan Cheng, the sect leader of the Ice Ape Clan.

Then, Huo Yuhao closed his eyes, and his transparent soul flew out of his body and attached itself to the zombie.

After possessing the body, he applied some makeup and used mental simulation to make the zombie body look more like a living person.

"Going directly with your own body is too dangerous. It's safer to possess a zombie." Huo Yuhao raised his hand and straightened the zombie's head, which had tilted to the side.

He was to take the place of the deceased Yuan Cheng to complete the "delivery".

He couldn't go empty-handed, and he had already prepared the "goods" to replace those children.

He opened his storage soul tool, and several more zombies jumped out.

These zombies were specially selected for their smaller size; some of their legs were sawed off and then sewn back together, so at first glance they looked no different from children.

"Possessing a zombie is a first for me," Electrox said, examining his new body.

"Compared to possessing Yuhao, this body is too stiff, is it because it's a dead person's body..." Tianmeng Ice Silkworm tried to loosen its arms, but almost tore them off.

"This is disgusting. Let's get this over with quickly." Hyotei was disgusted by the zombie body.

"If we succeed this time, we won't have to worry about not having enough experimental materials for the time being," Huo Yuhao said with a smile. If he could capture all the evil soul masters here and those who worked for them, it would be enough for him to conduct hundreds or even thousands of experiments.

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Border town of the Heavenly Soul Empire

An underground hall, this is the branch altar of the Holy Spirit Church in this area.

"My Lord, the deliverymen are about to arrive. Would you like to come and take a look?" The branch master of this place, a Soul Emperor with six rings, reported to Wuyun Douluo, his voice carrying a hint of flattery.

"No need, I'll leave everything to you. I have other important matters to attend to." Wu Yun was still thinking about how to persuade Scorpion Tiger to join the Holy Spirit Cult.

"Yes."

The words had barely left his lips when the dark clouds melted into the darkness and left the branch altar.

The branch altar master knew what Wu Yun was up to, and it was he who relayed the news of Scorpion Tiger Douluo's presence in this area back to the main altar.

His martial soul is the Snow Demon, which requires him to eat the flesh and blood of ice-attribute soul beasts to promote his cultivation. Therefore, he sometimes goes to the outskirts of the far north to hunt.

He never expected that he would happen to see Scorpion Tiger Douluo, who was also sucking the blood of soul beasts.

The Scorpion Tiger Douluo's martial soul, which was being cultivated and fed, was released, displaying its ferocious power, which made him recognize it at a glance.

………………

In the underground hall,

The followers who do the dirty work for the Holy Spirit Church have gathered here with their "goods".

"Alright, thank you all for your hard work this time. May the Holy Emperor live a long and prosperous life, and may the Holy Maiden's beauty last forever."

While taking inventory of the "goods," the branch leader exchanged pleasantries with the believers who had come from all over.

In fact, he never regarded them as followers, but merely a group of dogs who helped him with his business. On the contrary, the qualified children who were lured by them became true followers after being trained by the Holy Church.

Nearly a hundred "goods" trembled under the scrutiny of the branch leader, who seemed to enjoy the feeling.

Hmm, not bad, that's enough quantity. Wait, why aren't those three kids scared?

The three of them stood out like cranes among chickens in a group of huddled, trembling children.

"It seems to be goods brought by the Ice Ape Sect..." The branch leader looked at the three children curiously. He saw them put their hands on their stomachs and then pull hard, tearing open their bellies and pulling out a metal tube from each of them.

The bizarre scene made even this evil spirit master's heart pound with fear.

These were his final feelings.

With a bang, his head exploded.

The one who made the move was Yuan Cheng, the Ice Ape Sect Master, who was standing behind him. He was holding the same metal tube in his hand, and the dark opening of the tube was pointing at the head of the branch sect master, which was already gone.

"Saru Makoto, what are you doing!"

"Why did you kill the branch leader?!"

The people around him scattered in fear, moving away from Yuan Cheng, or rather, Huo Yuhao.

But it was no use. Huo Yuhao, along with the zombies disguised as cargo, began indiscriminately firing.

The continuous bangs of gunfire, mixed with screams, filled the entire underground hall.

Until only the kidnapped goods and zombies remained standing in the hall.

"Finished killing?" Tianmeng Bingcan put down his musket, still feeling unsatisfied.

"Luckily, the strongest one doesn't seem to be here, so we don't need to rush into the demiplane." Electrox stuffed the musket back into his stomach.

"Awesome," Hyotei said succinctly.

Huo Yuhao kicked the mangled corpse on the ground with a dark expression.

"What's the point of studying it if I smash everything to pieces? Although I had my fun smashing it myself..."

We made a mistake. We can only pick up those that aren't completely dead, and we can also collect some parts that are still intact.

Chapter 43 False Memories

"What should we do now?" Tianmeng asked, looking around at the blood-soaked surroundings. It was rather boring to have killed everyone so quickly.

"First, throw the usable materials and these children into the demiplane." Huo Yuhao said, using mental suggestion to make the terrified and crying children fall asleep, and then threw them into the door opened by Electrolux.

“We were quite lucky. Our original plan was to release all the undead creatures as soon as we got here, create an ‘undead tide,’ and then run away in the chaos. But since that titled Douluo isn’t here, we don’t need to go through that trouble.”

………………

"Where did this guy come from?!"

The Snow Demon's soul floated on his corpse, filled with immense rage. Fortunately, his Snow Demon Martial Soul was unique enough to possess the characteristics of a "ghost," allowing him to transform into a ghost upon physical death.

In this state, he becomes invisible to the naked eye, like a ghost.

"He is definitely not Makoto Saruto!"

Although the guy in front of him looked exactly like Yuan Cheng, he was sure it was an imposter. But where did this powerful figure come from, disguised as someone to attack his Holy Spirit Cult branch?

Those things around him seem to be zombies? His methods are so bizarre and brutal, is he also an evil spirit master?!

Why would an evil spirit master attack my Holy Spirit Cult?

Could it be... a heretic?

"How terrifying! I'd better not show myself. Who knows if he has the means to see souls... Hmph! When the Venerable One returns, I'll make sure you're reduced to ashes!" The Snow Demon cursed inwardly, a part of its spirit peeking out from the corpse to spy.

"Wait, what's he doing here? Why is he dragging me?!"

"what?"

Huo Yuhao stared in astonishment at the snow ghost's corpse. "A complete soul? It hasn't dissipated?"

It was discovered!

"Now that we've been discovered, we have no choice but to go out and fight. His strength is definitely not at the level of a titled leader, but I might be able to put up a fight."

Thinking of this, the Snow Demon's chilling aura gathered, poised to strike. Layers of frost formed on its headless body, ready to burst forth and kill Huo Yuhao.

"Oh? To be able to retain one's own soul, one must be quite accomplished in the art of the soul?" Tianmeng emerged from the little zombie and stretched out her insect body, which was imbued with immense spiritual power.

"What is this?!"

The snow ghost, who was about to emerge, was too frightened to move. In his eyes, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm was simply a sun made of spiritual energy, and its light was so dazzling that he couldn't even look directly at it.

"Idiot, this is clearly due to the special nature of his martial soul. His soul exudes an unpleasant, chilling aura, which must be some kind of evil magic." The Ice Emperor also emerged, and the ferocious power of the Ice Emperor lowered the temperature of the entire underground hall considerably.

"Another one!"

"Hahaha, the martial spirits of this world are truly diverse. This person himself doesn't seem to understand the soul, yet he can possess such a powerful soul through his martial spirit," Electrox commented.

He came out too; it seems they were really suffocating being huddled inside the zombie's body.

Three incredibly powerful souls surrounded the Snow Demon, watching him with great interest.

"This...this...this..."

Terrified, he buried himself in the headless body, trying to convince himself it was a dream.