Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao, the villain from a parallel world

Tang Wutong's heart sank, and her voice involuntarily became a little hurried: "Is there really no one else? Have you... not taken on any disciples recently?"

Tang Ya shook her head: "No."

Tang Wutong's heart clenched. She didn't care about asking questions gradually or whether she would be suspected. She blurted out, "When you were hunting for spirit rings in the Star Dou Great Forest, did you ever encounter a boy who could grill fish?"

Upon hearing this, Bei Bei, who had been standing silently beside Tang Ya without saying a word, suddenly changed her expression.

The image flashed into his mind almost instantly: a boy squatting in front of a fire, turning over a grilled fish by a clear stream.

Those cold, emotionless blue eyes, and that chilling "Get lost."

The boy's eyes left such a deep impression on him that he still remembers them vividly to this day.

Tang Wutong, with her keen eyesight, noticed Bei Bei's change in expression and her eyes lit up with hope. She quickly asked, "You met him, didn't you? His name is Huo Yuhao! What exactly happened?"

Bei Bei didn't answer immediately. He stared at Tang Wutong for a long while, his gaze filled with scrutiny and a hint of wariness, and asked in a deep voice, "What is your relationship with him?"

"We're a couple!" Tang Wutong blurted out without the slightest hesitation.

Her voice was hurried and anxious, with a hint of pent-up grievance, and her eyes were slightly red.

"Later, we got separated because of some things... Senior Brother, I'm begging you, please tell me what exactly happened back then."

Seeing that she was on the verge of tears, Beibei's tense shoulders relaxed slightly.

He exchanged a glance with Tang Ya, pondered for a moment, and finally recounted in detail what had happened in the Star Dou Great Forest that day.

From the moment they smelled the aroma of grilled fish by the stream, to when they approached to talk, to the blue-eyed boy coldly uttering a "get lost," and finally to the two of them having no choice but to leave.

He didn't miss a single detail.

After hearing this, Tang Wutong felt as if all her strength had been drained away. She stood there blankly, her lips trembling slightly.

A voice screamed wildly in her mind: This is not right, this shouldn't be!

"Impossible..." she murmured unconsciously, her fingers clenching the hem of her clothes. "Yuhao is definitely not that kind of person, and things should never have turned out this way..."

Seeing her distraught appearance, Beibei and Tangya were at a loss for words.

Tang Wutong didn't ask any more questions. She suddenly turned around and stumbled downstairs.

No matter what happened, she was determined to stay at Shrek Academy and continue investigating.

Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

Huo Yuhao slowly opened his eyes in the dormitory and exhaled a deep breath.

After a night of circulation and consolidation, the soul power within his body has gradually become calm and restrained, transforming from the surging and turbulent state it was at the time of his breakthrough.

His cultivation level of level 15 had been completely stabilized, and he was only one step away from level 16.

"This pill is indeed very effective," he muttered to himself, getting up from the bed.

After washing up and getting ready, he pushed open the door and walked towards the laboratory.

Chapter 50 The Source of Chaos (Please continue reading!)

Two days passed in the blink of an eye. As agreed, on the morning of the third day, Xuan Ziwen brought all the metals that Huo Yuhao needed.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye, and as agreed, Xuan Ziwen appeared at the laboratory door on time on the morning of the third day.

He placed a heavy metal box on the lab table, opened the lid, and inside were all the rare metals listed on Huo Yuhao's inventory list.

Each piece is carefully selected and of extremely high purity, gleaming with its own unique luster under the laboratory lights.

"Thank you, teacher." Huo Yuhao took the metal box and solemnly thanked Xuan Ziwen.

Xuan Ziwen waved his hand, but did not stay to begin today's lesson as usual.

He glanced at the clock on the wall and spoke a few decibels faster than usual: "The development of the remote monitoring soul tool I have is in its final stage, and I will be coming to the lab less often during this period."

"Although this soul tool is only level eight, its effect can reach level nine. Mingde Hall is pressing us very hard for it."

He paused, his gaze falling on Huo Yuhao, and added, "You'll have to figure out how to make soul tools on your own first."

"Ask me any questions when I get back."

After saying that, he turned around and left the laboratory in a hurry.

The heavy metal door closed behind Xuan Ziwen, leaving only three people in the laboratory: Huo Yuhao, and Ju Zi and Ke Ke sitting on the other side of the lab table.

Keke's gaze lingered on the box filled with rare metals in Huo Yuhao's hand for a few moments before she finally couldn't resist jumping off the chair.

Although she had been stopped by Ju Zi once before, she was ultimately the kind of person who couldn't keep things to herself.

Seeing Huo Yuhao take out pieces of metal from the box one by one and arrange them neatly on the table, it was clear that he was about to start making a soul tool immediately.

Curiosity gnawed at her heart like a cat's claws. She bit her lip and took a few steps closer to Huo Yuhao.

"Junior, are you making a soul tool?" Keke blinked her almond-shaped eyes, trying to make her tone casual. "Could we watch from the sidelines?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Ju Zi tugged at her sleeve from behind, the force not too light, not too heavy, her eyes showing a hint of disapproval.

In the profession of Soul Master, observing others make Soul Tools is a very sensitive matter.

Any Soul Master with some skill will not blindly copy the standard formation, but will optimize and improve it based on their own understanding and experience.

These unique skills are the foundation upon which a Soul Master makes a living; who would want others to see them for nothing?

Coco's question was somewhat presumptuous.

Huo Yuhao turned his head and glanced at the two of them.

His gaze lingered for less than a moment on the hand that was holding Keke's sleeve, then he looked away and said indifferently, "Whatever."

Because he didn't care that Ju Zi and Ke Ke's Soul Master levels were only around level three or four, while his level was far higher.

Even disregarding his peak attainments as a level 10 Soul Master from a previous era, his God-King level spiritual power and comprehension of the laws alone meant that every array he inscribed contained an understanding far beyond that of this era.

Even if they watched the whole thing without blinking, they still wouldn't be able to figure out anything.

Huo Yuhao took the last piece of metal out of the box and laid it out in a row on the table.

What he wanted to create was the source of chaos, his natal soul tool that had been with him the longest in his previous life.

In his previous life, he relied on this soul tool to overcome the strong and escape death in countless battles.

He picked up a carving knife, and the moment the blade touched the first piece of metal, his wrist became an almost invisible afterimage.

The blade tip moved across the metal, each line as precise as if measured with a ruler and compass. The depth of the cut, the curvature of the turns, and the spacing between the patterns were all controlled within an unbiased range.

Orange and Coco stood to the side, initially trying hard to keep up with his movements.

They could recognize that Huo Yuhao was inscribing a core guiding array. They had seen the structure of this array in their textbooks; it was the foundation for creating offensive soul tools.

But soon they realized something was wrong; Huo Yuhao had added several auxiliary circuits they had never seen before to the edge of the magic circle.

The paths of those circuits completely deviated from the standard structure in the textbook, yet they were cleverly integrated with the core magic array, as if they were born to be there.

Keke opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but found that she had no idea how to evaluate it.

Why do those circuits make those turns? What is the purpose of those turns?

She didn't understand and could only watch blankly as Huo Yuhao's fingers and carving knife flew across the metal surface.

Orange looked at it more carefully than Coco.

She tried to analyze the direction of each circuit, attempting to understand the working principle of this magic array, but after only a moment, her brows furrowed tightly.

Huo Yuhao's technique was too complex and his pace too fast; often, her thoughts had barely caught up with the direction of a single array pattern.

Huo Yuhao had already added three or four auxiliary lines around the array pattern, connecting them into a structure she had never seen before.

The more she looked, the more alarmed and confused she became. Eventually, she gave up on analyzing the situation and simply stood quietly to the side, her gaze never leaving Huo Yuhao's hands.

Huo Yuhao ignored their reactions.

After he finished carving the core magic array on the first piece of metal, he picked up the second piece of metal and began to carve the energy storage circuit.

This soul tool requires a sufficiently powerful energy storage core to support it.

The energy storage array he chose was the one he had improved upon in his previous life.

Compared to the version depicted in the previous assessment, this formation is more refined in structure and its energy storage efficiency has increased by at least 50%.

After the second piece of metal was engraved, the third and fourth pieces were engraved.

Huo Yuhao's hand speed remained at the same pace, neither speeding up nor slowing down, and the depiction of each formation was as smooth as flowing water.

He finished making all the metal parts one by one, and then began to assemble them on the lab table.

In his hands, a dozen or so metal parts of varying sizes fit together perfectly, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

The array at each interface is precisely connected, and the soul power circuit is automatically connected the moment the assembly is completed.

The whole process lasted for nearly an hour.

When Huo Yuhao snapped the last piece of the outer shell onto his palm, a miniature tower-shaped soul tool, about the size of a palm, appeared in his hand.

The tower-shaped device had a restrained dark silver color. The tower was only about three inches tall and was divided into three layers, each of which was engraved with dense array patterns.

At the very top of the tower is a tiny, jet-black gemstone, within which a faint halo of light flows, as if a miniature night sky is sealed within it.

The entire device is extremely simple in appearance, without any superfluous decorations. When placed on a table, it looks like an ordinary paperweight, completely unremarkable.

Chapter 51 Three Core Competencies (Please continue reading!)

Huo Yuhao flipped the source of chaos over and gently pressed his fingertip on a hidden groove at the bottom of the tower.

The tower trembled slightly, and the three layers of the tower lit up with a dark silver light in turn before falling silent.

All circuits are operating normally, and the energy storage core has begun to automatically absorb the free soul energy in the surrounding air.

A slight smile appeared on his lips.

This is the first soul tool he made by hand after his rebirth, and it was also his most capable partner in his previous life.

Now that it has returned to its own hands, it is as if some broken cause and effect has been reconnected.

He hung the Source of Chaos around his waist, covering it with the hem of his clothes, and then nodded to Ju Zi and Ke Ke: "I'm going to test the soul tool, I'm leaving now."

After saying that, he turned around, pushed open the laboratory door, and walked out without looking back.

The metal door slowly closed behind him, and the laboratory fell silent.