Douluo Continent: The Spirit-Eyed Detective Huo Yuhao

After saying that, she left without looking back.

"No, Nan Nan, I won't give up. Love is about giving it your all!" Xu Sanshi got all fired up, temporarily ignoring the pain caused by the dragon beard needles.

"You went all out just so you could bully my junior brother? Come on, let's go to the Soul Battle Zone." Bei Bei dragged Xu Sanshi away.

"I paid... one gold soul coin!" Xu Sanshi tried to argue.

"Are you going?"

"It's just the Soul Arena, let's go!"

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Battle Soul Zone

"Xiao Yuhao, this is going to be interesting. By the way, can your mental detection sharing be connected to the Soul Battle Arena?" Tang Ya asked mysteriously.

"I see. If I share my mental detection with Senior Brother Bei Bei, I can definitely beat that guy. This invisible skill is practically a cheat code." Huo Yuhao immediately understood Tang Ya's meaning.

“…Xiao Yuhao, there’s no need to be so blunt… Of course, if you don’t want to, then forget it, it’s really not a good idea,” Tang Ya said awkwardly.

"Haha, it's alright. I don't care whether I cheated or not. I'm happy to teach that guy a lesson. But this kind of mental connection still carries the risk of being discovered. I have a better way," Huo Yuhao laughed.

"Here we go again, that sinister smile..." Wang Dong, standing beside Huo Yuhao, was speechless as he watched Huo Yuhao's smile.

"A better way?" Tang Ya asked, puzzled, not understanding what Huo Yuhao meant.

"Better, more discreet, and completely harmless."

"Teacher Xiaoya, if you give this grilled fish to Senior Brother Beibei, you'll have completed your cheating without anyone noticing." Huo Yuhao handed the remaining grilled fish to Tang Ya.

Unlike other grilled fish, the seasonings added to this dish are not a spiritual suggestion of "deliciousness".

Instead, it's "pain shielding," "excitement," and "mental concentration."

"Grilled fish? This has miraculous effects? But it's just ordinary grilled fish, although it tastes very good." Tang Ya and Wang Dong were both puzzled.

"That's why it's undetectable. Even a urine test would be perfectly normal, and besides, there's no such thing here," Huo Yuhao chuckled.

Chapter 8 Evil Soul Master, Ear-Scraping Knife

The battle between Beibei and Xu Sanshi ended quickly, with Xu Sanshi suffering a crushing defeat.

Huo Yuhao wasn't interested in their fight. Only when he saw Bei Bei unleash the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Martial Soul did he stare at the blue arc of electricity, trying to grasp that faint inspiration.

"Why are you acting like you've been injected with chicken blood? Ouch... that hurts so much." Xu Sanshi rubbed his back, which was sore from Bei Bei's dragon claw slap.

Beibei's fighting style was completely different from before. It was as if she had no sense of pain or fear, and only knew how to keep attacking, which made him completely unable to defend himself.

"Enough talk, give me the Mystic Water Pill." Bei Bei showed no mercy and reached out her hand.

After everything was over, Bei Bei gave the Xuan Shui Pill she had won to Huo Yuhao.

"Junior brother, take this Xuan Shui Pill back and eat it, it's a good thing," he said with a smile.

"Thank you, Senior Brother." Huo Yuhao did not refuse. He looked happily at the deep blue pill with white patterns. He was not thinking about eating it, but rather about thoroughly investigating it.

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After saying goodbye to Tang Ya and Bei Bei, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong prepared to pack up and head back.

Just as I was packing up, a girl who looked like a second-year student came to the door of the stall.

"Sorry, the grilled fish is sold out. Please come again tomorrow," Huo Yuhao said to her.

"No." The senior shook her head, then pointed to Huo Yuhao's sign and said, "Aren't you guys helping people find things? I'd like to ask you to help me find Cheng Zhantian. We just got separated."

"what?"

To his surprise, Huo Yuhao received a job looking for someone on the very first day.

"Okay, tell me first, what does this Cheng Zhan Tianren look like?" Huo Yuhao asked her.

"It's not a person, it's my cat that's gone missing," the senior student said, waving her hands repeatedly.

"Who would name their cat like that..." Wang Dong complained from the side.

"Looking for a cat."

Huo Yuhao had already activated his mental detection, instantly covering a radius of 100 meters around the school gate, taking in every corner of the shops and vendors gathered there.

There are many stray cats and dogs near Shrek Academy. They are ordinary animals that are not considered soul beasts. Since most of the residents here are students, they will throw some food to them from time to time, and they have gradually gathered here to form an ecosystem.

"There are plenty of cats and dogs around Shrek Academy, but once I know what they look like, finding this thing will be a piece of cake for me," Huo Yuhao said confidently.

"You actually took this kind of job?" Wang Dong looked at him strangely, not understanding why he would take this job when he could earn so much selling grilled fish.

"I really enjoy this kind of brain-teasing work; I need to think to survive. Wait a minute..." Huo Yuhao felt something was off, "Why are there so many fewer cats and dogs around here?"

"Is it strange that there are fewer stray animals?" Wang Dong scratched his head.

"Let's find the target first. It's orange with black stripes, and its last known location is the second alley in the commercial street..." He started searching according to what the senior student had said.

He slowly led Wang Dong and his senior forward along the commercial street near the school gate.

“Found it, but… take a look for yourself.” Huo Yuhao dragged the cat out from the corner of the alley.

The cat was still alive, but its head was covered in blood and flesh, and both of its ears were missing.

"Fight the Heavens!"

The senior student sadly accepted the earless cat, her healing power gently stroking its head.

It seems this senior has a healing-type martial soul.

"Thank you."

She paid and left with the cat, her voice trembling with tears.

"Huo Yuhao, let's hurry back." Wang Dong pulled Huo Yuhao back, though she didn't show it, the dimly lit, deep alley made her uneasy.

"Wang Dong, if a truth that is readily available is presented to you, what would you choose?" Huo Yuhao's eyes were somewhat eager.

What are you talking about?

"You go back to your dorm first, I'll stay here for a while." With that, Huo Yuhao brushed past Wang Dong and went into the alley.

What he hadn't told the two of them was that there were dozens of earless cat corpses in the alley, not just cats, but also other animals that often roamed around the academy, buried deep in the alley.

"Hey, don't..." Wang Dong tried to stop him, but when he turned around, Huo Yuhao had already disappeared.

"Damn it!" Wang Dong dodged and followed, venturing deeper into the dark and shabby alley.

"Doesn't this guy know what fear is..." Wang Dong looked around in the alley, but couldn't find Huo Yuhao anywhere.

"It stinks! What's that smell?"

Wang Dong seemed to have stepped on something. Looking down, she saw a rotting cat head without ears rolling at her feet.

"what!!!"

Wang Dong screamed, startling even the usually soft-spoken female voice.

The Goddess of Light Butterfly martial spirit was released, and beautiful butterfly wings stretched out from her back, scattering purple-blue light and illuminating the entire alley with light-attribute energy.

Because of this, Wang Dong could see the horrifying scene at his feet more clearly: dozens of earless, mangled, and rotting animal carcasses were haphazardly buried there.

"What's going on?!"

Suppressing her nausea, Wang Dong flew into the air, but a small knife hidden in the shadows slashed down from behind her ear.

The dagger was strangely curved, exuding a chilling, bloody aura, with two yellow and one purple soul rings flashing beside it.

"An evil spirit master? When did they get behind me?!"

It’s over.

At this moment, Wang Dong had only one thought left. Having grown up under someone's protection, she had never encountered such a dangerous situation before and was completely unable to react.

"Ah ah ah..."

The evil spirit master screamed and fell to the ground, blood seeping from his eyes, ears, nose and mouth.

"I told you not to come over."

At this moment, Huo Yuhao's spiritual eyes turned into heterochromatic eyes, one gold and one blue, and his voice seemed to be uttered in two overlapping sounds.

His gaze, which had been sometimes resolute and sometimes indifferent, had become somewhat gentle, as had the spiritual energy emanating from him—gentle yet vast, giving one the feeling of a vast ocean encompassing all things.

"Thanks, Brother Tianmeng."

"There's no need to thank me, we're one now," the big white worm said, wriggling in the sea of ​​consciousness.

After saying that, Huo Yuhao's right half of his golden eye disappeared, returning to its original form. Then, stepping on the evil soul master's body, he pulled out the dagger stuck in his waist.

Wang Dong was completely stunned, unaware of what had just happened, but it seemed he had survived safely.

"A butterfly spirit...it's beautiful." Huo Yuhao looked like he wanted to examine it closely, pinching the butterfly wings formed by soul power on Wang Dong's back. "How exactly does this thing appear through clothes?"

"Huo Yuhao..." She felt a sense of joy, as if she had survived a disaster.

Huo Yuhao tried to use mental suggestion to make her faint for a while, but it was neutralized by an unknown force within her body.

He frowned, feeling something was off, and could only sigh before physically knocking her unconscious.

"A bag of soul coins, a pen, and a map of Shrek City."

Huo Yuhao only found these things on the evil soul master.

“This map… was drawn by himself. Douluo Continent… no, it should be said that even the original Douluo Three Kingdoms and Shrek Academy did not have such a detailed map, nor such a drawing method that is so precise that almost every inch is drawn.”

"This evil spirit master has quite a background..."

Huo Yuhao rubbed his chin and thought, "With such weak strength, he probably deliberately chose someone with low cultivation and little evil energy to sneak into Shrek City. He just couldn't resist secretly killing some stray animals that wouldn't usually attract attention."

Infiltrating Shrek City...to draw a map? What is his purpose?

Huo Yuhao put the map away himself.

"Haha, next, let me examine this evil soul master's body carefully before handing him over to the city guards." Huo Yuhao couldn't wait to focus his mental detection on the evil soul master.

This is a rare opportunity to explore the mysteries of the human body without any reservations!

Chapter 9 Uncontrolled Fire