Douluo Continent: The Spirit-Eyed Detective Huo Yuhao

"No way..." Xiao Hongchen was stunned. How could he still stand after taking such a direct hit?

"Unbelievable." Meng Hongchen had the same expression.

"Yuhao, you're this strong now? You're amazing..." Wang Dong was about to go over to Huo Yuhao to mock the enemy, but Huo Yuhao's appearance left her speechless.

As the smoke cleared, Huo Yuhao's red battle suit was tattered and torn. Although he was still standing, there was a large hole in the middle of his body, a huge penetrating wound. Wang Dong could even see through Huo Yuhao's body to the other side.

"Has this gone too far?!" Wang Dong exclaimed, clutching his head. "Is this really going to be the end?"

"Pfft... What do you mean 'went too far'? I'm the one who's pfft... I don't think I'll die from this kind of penetrating wound." Huo Yuhao turned around, blood still gushing from his mouth.

The injuries looked horrific, but he himself was as if nothing had happened. The wound that penetrated through him had begun to grow granulation tissue, repairing his body at a visible speed.

"The most accurate data about Martial Soul Fusion Techniques is to experience and test them firsthand. I just used almost all my defensive measures and my bare body to take the attack." By the time Huo Yuhao finished speaking, his body had almost fully recovered.

"Are you even human?" Wang Dong asked the question everyone wanted to ask.

Chapter 110 Soul Tool Creation Competition

"Its power is pretty good." Huo Yuhao praised the Hongchen siblings, who had collapsed from exhaustion.

"Of course, I didn't shed so much blood for nothing." Huo Yuhao took out a brush, dipped it in his blood, and began to draw strange runes on the arena. "To exorcise so many souls, I need to draw a large purification array. My blood is quite high-grade as a material."

"They really don't waste a single bit..." Wang Dong complained.

"Haha! Alright, let's make the opening ceremony more exciting and heat up the atmosphere of the Games." Huo Yuhao snapped his fingers, and instantly, every student who had been knocked unconscious on the ground woke up.

"Wait, why can't I control my body anymore?" Xiao Hongchen had just exhausted himself using his Martial Soul Fusion Technique and was clearly unable to move.

“He did it.” Meng Hongchen looked at Huo Yuhao.

Not only them, but everyone on the field was lined up in perfect unison under Huo Yuhao's mental control.

Then the drone that was filming from the air landed.

"Come on, everyone look at the camera and smile! The whole Douluo Continent is watching, and your friends and family might be watching too. Cheer up!" Huo Yuhao clapped his hands, and the contestants followed his applause, making various gestures.

"Alright, friends from all over the world, the opening ceremony has come to an end. Did you all enjoy it? Our Douyun Games will now officially begin." Huo Yuhao began to introduce the Douyun Games' procedures one by one.

"As you can see, our Martial Arts Games uses a flag composed of nine different colored rings as its symbol, which respectively represent Martial Spirit, Meridians, Spirit, Physical Body, Magic, Beast Taming, Science, and Love and Peace."

"The last two seem like they were just added to make up the numbers, they don't fit at all with the first two," Wang Dong muttered to himself.

"Love and peace are very important, and I definitely didn't put them in just to make up the number nine." Huo Yuhao almost wanted to freeze her mouth shut.

"After canceling the previous barbaric and life-defying spirit-fighting tournaments, our competitions will test the abilities of each participant, and the winners and losers will be determined by data and results."

For example, there are soul power tests, speed tests, strength tests, jumping ability tests, elemental concentration tests, reaction speed tests, flight tests, and soul tool creation competitions...

The detailed competition format allows every participant to have the opportunity to showcase themselves. Huo Yuhao explained the rules of the new competition like a host.

They also promoted more cultivation systems such as magic and beast taming, and of course, they didn't forget to add advertisements for their own technological products.

As Huo Yuhao introduced the scene, pure white fluorescent light gradually rose from the arena, and the purification magic circle on the ground began to work.

If someone has a strong spiritual ability, they will see thousands of the dead regain their former appearance and peacefully dissipate in the wind.

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In short, the competition proceeded smoothly...

"First place! First place! I'm the champion in the flying competition, haha!" Wang Dong kept showing off his medal in front of Huo Yuhao.

"As expected, the flight competition also considers the visual appeal as an important scoring factor, so I knew you were going to win." Huo Yuhao wasn't too surprised. Putting aside everything else, the Goddess of Light Butterfly is absolutely unparalleled in terms of beauty.

"Couldn't you have acted a little more surprised..." Wang Dong scoffed. "This is so boring."

"Senior Brother Bei Bei and the others should each get at least one gold medal, so we shouldn't have to worry about our number of gold medals." Huo Yuhao released his mental probe, constantly collecting various martial soul data on the field. "The Sun Moon Empire is also good, they got the gold medal for jumping ability. The jumping ability of the Toad Martial Soul is indeed very strong."

"Hmph, if it weren't for Senior Sister Nan Nan going to the gymnastics competition area, they wouldn't have gotten the jumping championship," Wang Dong said.

"I have a Soul Tool Competition later, then I'll be free. Let's go to Xingluo's auction tonight."

"Fine," Wang Dong drawled, "Is there any need to compete? When it comes to soul tools, who can beat you?"

"I'm not competing; I'm going to be the judge." Huo Yuhao straightened his suit and transformed into Mr. Huo. Since this soul tool was specially funded by the Huo Group, it was quite reasonable for him to serve as a judge.

"He's actually a referee..." Wang Dong's mouth twitched, realizing he had underestimated this guy.

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Soul Tool Competition

"First, never act impulsively!"

"Secondly, we must never let any wrongdoing go unpunished!"

Third, the referee must be absolutely fair and impartial!

Mr. Huo jumped onto the ring and announced his refereeing guidelines.

"It is an honor to serve as a judge and referee for this Soul Guidance Device Competition at the Battle Games. I hope to see outstanding young Soul Guidance Masters create works that will benefit the future of humanity..."

"The theme of the competition is convenient soul power storage and replenishment equipment."

The competition proceeded quickly because there were very few Soul Masters participating to begin with, and very few in Douluo Three Kingdoms. Those with real strength were even fewer. In fact, out of all the participants, only three were worth watching.

Xiao Hongchen and Ma Rulong from the Sun Moon Empire, and He Caitou from Shrek Academy.

Meng Hongchen was capable of competing, but she chose to participate in the jumping ability competition.

Each participant had their own workbench with plenty of materials. After completing their work, participants would hand it over to Huo Yuhao for judging.

"I'm done." Xiao Hongchen brought up the soul tool he had made.

It was a spherical soul tool, which looked no different from an ordinary milk bottle used to replenish soul power.

"Hmph, of course what I made couldn't be an ordinary baby bottle." Xiao Hongchen's tone was still arrogant. Although he lost at the opening ceremony, he believed that he only lost in terms of Soul Masters. His skills as a Soul Master had not been lost.

His soul power milk bottle was indeed not an ordinary soul power storage device, but a sealed milk bottle with the latest breakthrough technology of the Sun Moon Empire!

"Speaking of which, the invention of this sealed baby bottle is largely thanks to you, Mr. Huo," Xiao Hongchen said with a smile.

"Oh? Is there something about me?" Huo Yuhao chuckled. He had already noticed that the sealed baby bottle incorporated some of his technology.

After the Sun Moon Empire and Shrek Academy established a technological exchange, the elite soul masters of Mingde Hall worked day and night to study Huo Yuhao's electric soul guidance technology.

The rapid exchange of knowledge propelled the development of soul power storage technology. A soul master named Xuan Ziwen successfully combined the two technologies to create this new type of sealed milk bottle.

As the grandson of Jing Hongchen, the head of Mingde Hall, Xiao Hongchen was naturally among the first to come into contact with this technological secret.

"Not only that, I also improved part of its structure myself." Xiao Hongchen took out more than a dozen weapons from his storage soul tool and installed the milk bottle on them. "In addition to absorbing and replenishing its soul power, it can also be used with almost all commonly used soul tools without any obstacles."

"Not bad." Huo Yuhao nodded and put the sealed baby bottle aside.

"Just a 'good' evaluation..." Xiao Hongchen snorted inwardly, but did not react. He knew that this Mr. Huo was a master-level soul master who pioneered the electric soul guidance technology, and he also highly respected Mr. Huo.

“I…I’ve finished too…” The dark-skinned He Caitou scratched his head and chuckled as he brought up his work.

It was a stake with a strange windmill shape at the top, and several interfaces on it that connected to another square soul tool.

"It's quite a coincidence, what I'm making is also... sealed baby bottles."

"How is that possible?!" Xiao Hongchen exclaimed. The technology for sealing baby bottles was a secret at Mingdetang; how could anyone else know it?

"To be precise, sealing the baby bottle is just one of the techniques in my work," said He Caitou.

"I call it the Wind Turbine Generator, Soul Guide Battery, Soul Charging Pile, and Portable Soul Charging Power Bank Combination System."

"What the hell?" Xiao Hongchen was dumbfounded.

"Haha, the name is way too long." Huo Yuhao shook his head and chuckled, but of course he knew what He Caitou was talking about, because that thing was something they had developed together.

They also made a breakthrough in the technology of sealing baby bottles after exchanging ideas with the Sun and Moon Empire.

"This was developed by my friend Huo Yuhao and me. It's a technology that allows soul tools to exist completely independently of soul masters," He Caitou said earnestly.

"To allow soul tools to exist completely independent of soul masters?!" Xiao Hongchen was even more incomprehensible and retorted, "Without soul masters, there is no soul power. How can soul tools exist independently of soul masters?"

Chapter 111 The Future of Science, Auction, Soul Bone

Only Soul Masters and Soul Beasts can generate Soul Power; this is common knowledge in the Douluo Continent.

Those who have no soul power or extremely low soul power cannot become soul masters even if they have a martial soul; they can only be considered ordinary people.

This is also the key to dividing Soul Masters and ordinary people into two groups, and it has been the unchanging foundation of Douluo Continent for tens of thousands of years.

Even with the sealed baby bottle technology, although it's said to allow ordinary people to use soul tools without soul power, the soul power in the sealed baby bottle isn't generated out of thin air; ultimately, it still relies on the soul master to replenish the soul power.

"Without Soul Masters, where does Soul Power come from?" Xiao Hongchen couldn't understand.

"Of course it's electricity! Soul power must be generated by Soul Masters, but electricity doesn't. Moreover, we already have the technology to convert electricity into soul power. As long as we can generate electricity, we can convert it into soul power that Soul Masters can absorb, and it can also be used to drive soul tools." He Caitou's face was full of admiration for electricity. "Although the use of electricity has not been specifically promoted in other places except Shrek City, I believe that this new energy source discovered by my friend will play a vital role in the future of the entire Douluo Continent."

"Wait! You said you'd use electricity to power the baby bottle and convert it into soul power for soul masters. What's the purity level? Soul power with too many impurities can cause problems if absorbed," Xiao Hongchen asked.

This is a very reasonable question. Soul power has attributes because a Soul Master's soul power comes from the cultivation of their Martial Soul. Therefore, the soul power generated inevitably carries the attributes of ice, fire, lightning, darkness, etc., that the original Martial Soul possesses.

However, if these properties are to be added to a baby bottle, they will become "impurities".

It's fine if it's just used to power a soul tool, but if someone absorbs it to replenish their soul power, it's easy for something to go wrong.

Affecting cultivation is a minor issue; if a soul force with a strong conflicting attribute enters the body, such as ice and fire, or light and darkness, it could cause instant death.

There are many precedents for this. For example, there are historical records that when the soul tool, the milk bottle, was first invented, soul masters had not yet discovered the problem of impurity attributes. There were even cases where several different attributes of soul master soul power were replenished in one milk bottle at the same time.

The unlucky Soul Master who later used that baby bottle was blown to pieces and died from the explosion.

Since then, the replenishment and use of Soul Power Bottles have been subject to strict and detailed regulations, stipulating that Soul Masters engaged in the business of Soul Power charging must learn to suppress their own attributes and reduce the attribute content of Soul Power to a level that will not affect the user.

"The purity of the soul power converted from electricity..." He Caitou paused, then said proudly, "It's zero!"

"Nothing?" Not only Xiao Hongchen, but all the viewers at the scene and those watching the live broadcast on television were stunned for a moment.

“It’s attribute-less, pure attribute-less soul power!” He Caitou said.

"What nonsense are you talking about?!" Xiao Hongchen broke out in a cold sweat.

In the general sense, attribute-free soul power does not mean that it is completely devoid of any attributes, but rather that the content of impurity attributes is less than 0.05%.

However, this kind of soul power is only theoretical and cannot actually exist, because a soul master's soul power must have attributes, and it must be at least 1% or more.

“What he said is true.” Huo Yuhao put down the soul-guiding charging station that He Caitou had just made and said, “The soul power generated through this conversion technology is attribute-free soul power with impurities of less than 0.05%. Shrek City is already using it.”

After hearing this, Xiao Hongchen was speechless.