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

It was incredibly difficult to get Ye Guyi, this proud Holy Angel Martial Soul Master, to utter the words "Master."

Unable to speak, Ye Guyi's face flushed red, feeling somewhat embarrassed.

Just when she didn't know what to do, Huo Yuhao's words relieved her.

"If you can't call out, then don't bother." Huo Yuhao raised his hand to interrupt her.

"My name is Huo Yuhao, you can call me whatever you like."

Huo Yuhao didn't care whether Ye Guyi called him master or not, since he didn't have any particular fetishes.

After he reads it, as long as he is obedient and can get things done, that's fine.

Ye Guyi was stunned for a moment, then breathed a sigh of relief.

Then she thought for a moment and said in a low voice, "Then I'll call you... Young Master."

As long as you don't use that word, you can call her whatever you want.

Huo Yuhao nodded slightly, then turned to look at Nana: "You too, it's fine to change how you address me."

“I don’t need to change.” Nana shook her head almost immediately, her tone resolute.

She raised the back of her hand to wipe away the still-damp water from the corners of her eyes, but a smile had already appeared on her face: "I'm going to call you master."

Seeing this, Huo Yuhao didn't say much; he let Nana call him that if she wanted to.

After resolving Ye Guyi's matter, Huo Yuhao looked at Nana again and asked, "So what were you planning to do just now?"

Nana quickly explained, "It's like this, Bone Robe and I came here to look for you, but you haven't come. We thought you hadn't returned yet, so we decided to go to the city together to hunt down evil spirit masters."

"I see." Huo Yuhao nodded.

Then I looked up at the sky and realized that this was indeed the time when evil spirit masters were most active.

In the far north, his strength has greatly improved this month, and he can now stretch his muscles and bones.

However, Huo Yuhao was not in a hurry to set off.

He looked at Nana and Ye Guyi and asked, "Tell me, what did you do in Mingdu while I was away?"

Nana immediately reported on what they had been doing these past few days.

Ever since Huo Yuhao left the academy to acquire a spirit ring, Nana has come here every day to wait for his return.

But after waiting for a month and a half, Huo Yuhao still had no news. Just when he didn't know what to do, Ye Guyi came to his door.

With nothing to do, Nana also teamed up with Ye Guyi to start hunting down evil soul masters in Mingdu City.

"Sister Bone Robe's Holy Angel Martial Soul is particularly sensitive to the aura of evil soul masters; she can sense it even from several streets away."

As Nana spoke, her tone was filled with genuine admiration. With Ye Guyi's help, hunting down evil soul masters had indeed become much easier.

"After Sister Bone Robe arrived, finding the strongholds of those evil soul masters was much faster than before when I had to search them one by one."

"In just a few days, we have destroyed three small strongholds, which were filled with Saints at the Soul Venerable and Soul Sect levels."

"Sister Gu Yi's martial spirit is just the right counter to them, and the two of us easily wiped them out."

"However, the evil spirit masters in those strongholds are very cunning."

Chapter 109 Ambush, Playing Tricks on the Evil Soul Master

"Every time we enter the stronghold, before we've even killed a few people, they start running away." Nana said, sounding somewhat frustrated.

"Moreover, almost every stronghold has many escape routes hidden beneath it. Even if Sister Bone Robe can sense the aura of the evil soul masters, it is very difficult for her to find their location."

"Tonight we plan to go back to those outposts, find any remaining fugitives, and wipe them all out."

"They found three strongholds so easily, and there are still some who escaped?" Huo Yuhao's eyes flashed slightly after hearing this, and he felt that something was amiss.

However, he did not speak immediately, but lowered his head and pondered for a while.

After a moment, he asked again, "After I destroyed that evil spirit master's distribution point, what did the Holy Spirit Cult do?"

Nana shook her head and said in a serious tone, "I don't know either."

"After we left that day, I was afraid that the elder who wasn't in the branch would track me down, so I stayed in the academy for a long time afterward and hardly ever went out."

"No one came to see me during that time."

"When I went out again, I was with Sister Gu Yi. I really don't know what happened in between."

"I see." Huo Yuhao nodded slightly and did not ask any further questions.

Nana's caution was understandable; the disappearance of the evil spirit master elder who was in charge of the branch was indeed a ticking time bomb.

With him away from Mingdu, Nana had no chance of dealing with that evil spirit master, so hiding in the academy was a wise choice.

He certainly wouldn't be able to find out what changes had occurred in Mingdu's underworld during his absence.

Huo Yuhao suppressed his thoughts for the moment and then said directly, "In that case, let's go together."

Given the suspicious circumstances, it would be unreasonable to send Ye Guyi and Nana alone.

Huo Yuhao also wanted to find out who was behind this and wanted to target them.

Nana and Ye Guyi nodded at the same time.

With Huo Yuhao involved, the operation has undoubtedly become much safer.

Neither of them said much, and each checked their soul tools and weapons.

"From now on, you will follow my orders in all actions. You cannot make any rash moves, understand?" Huo Yuhao said in a deep voice.

"Understood." Ye Guyi and Nana nodded in unison.

After finishing their business, the three of them said no more and headed west towards Mingdu.

Dinghou Street in Mingdu is located in a low-rise working-class area in the western suburbs.

Although the name includes the word "main street," it is actually just a narrow path that can barely accommodate two horse-drawn carriages side by side.

The road surface was full of potholes and stagnant with sewage from several days ago.

The streets are lined with densely packed low-rise houses with peeling and crumbling walls, and most of the windows are hastily covered with rags or wooden boards.

Looking westward, one sees rows of bare, rocky mountains, stretching endlessly, resembling a silent black wall in the night.

This is the most chaotic and mixed place in the entire Ming capital.

Spies from various factions, enemy spies, wanted fugitives, and black market merchants—all sorts of people mingle in this dilapidated and crowded neighborhood.

After gathering intelligence in the city, various factions would mostly use this route to transmit the information, which would then be passed on by spies lurking in the western suburbs who would use the Sun and Moon Mountains to leave the empire's borders.

In this already chaotic region, the most serious threat is actually the evil spirit masters.

Ordinary people are the least valuable resource in the Douluo Continent today.

Ten thousand years ago, ordinary people could also awaken their martial spirits. With a martial spirit, they could engage in corresponding work and possess their own value.

However, awakening a martial soul is becoming increasingly difficult. The vast majority of ordinary people are unable to awaken their martial soul in their entire lives, and their physical qualities and various functions are far inferior to those of a soul master.

Civilians who have no power to resist are the most ideal targets in the eyes of evil spirit masters.

Every month, ordinary people disappear silently into the deep alleys of the western suburbs.

The disappearance of these civilians will not cause any ripples.

Unless it's a large-scale massacre, the officials of the Sun Moon Empire simply don't care.

Ye Guyi and Nana recently destroyed the strongholds of three evil soul masters here.

Huo Yuhao and his two companions quickly arrived at the area, and under his guidance, they entered a two-story abandoned bungalow.

Looking down upon this enormous slum, Huo Yuhao's eyes flickered.

In a place teeming with evil spirit masters, a Soul Master and a Soul Venerable were able to successfully wipe out three evil spirit master strongholds without being discovered by other evil spirit masters.

"Hehe, looks like someone's fishing." Huo Yuhao also figured out what was going on.

As night deepened, there were no dimly lit streetlights here.

As for the common people, they were even less willing to light lamps at night; generally, they would go to sleep as soon as it got dark.

This way, I can get enough rest and continue working tomorrow.

"Let's keep going." Taking this opportunity, Huo Yuhao said in a low voice to Ye Guyi and Nana.

The two nodded immediately and followed closely behind Huo Yuhao.

Under the cover of darkness, the three men silently lurked among a cluster of low-rise houses.

Huo Yuhao's gaze remained fixed on a dilapidated hut in front of him.

The hut looked no different from the surrounding houses; in fact, it was quite unremarkable.

Huo Yuhao, through his spiritual power, had already sensed the powerful aura of the evil soul master hidden inside the small house.

Meanwhile, nearly twenty evil spirit masters were also discovered in this area.

Although those auras were deliberately suppressed, they could not escape his perception.

"Just as I thought, a trap has been set up here, just waiting for someone to take the bait."

Huo Yuhao withdrew his mental energy, a cold smile appearing on his face.

The evil spirit masters wanted to ambush him, but now that he knew in advance, he could naturally turn the tables and play tricks on them.

"Stay here, I'll take care of the rest," Huo Yuhao said to Nana and Ye Guyi standing behind him.

Both of them obediently nodded.

Not far from them, there was a small house with two men in black standing inside, one fat and one thin.

The fat one had a fierce appearance, with a face full of fat piled on rough skin, and two small eyes that looked very fierce. He looked exactly like a typical evil spirit master.

At that moment, he was pacing anxiously around the room.

In stark contrast to him was the thin man standing beside him.

The man was tall, with neatly combed white hair and a flowing white beard. He had a kind and gentle smile on his face, making him very easy to like upon first meeting.

Looking at his appearance alone, no one would associate him with the words "evil spirit master".

This person is Nangong Wan, the leader of the Xishui Alliance and the controller of the Holy Spirit Cult in the Mingdu underworld.