Douluo: Huo Yuhao Returns from Devouring the Stars

The most shocked person was Vina, who had seen Huo Yuhao display his mighty power in the Star Dou Forest.

"He... he is a student of the Sun Moon Royal Academy?" Vina stared at Huo Yuhao sitting on the bench, stunned.

"Who?" Xu Jiujiu looked at her best friend Vina in confusion and asked curiously.

Kong Aotian, who had just looked away, also looked at Vina in confusion, wanting to know who the person Vina was talking about was.

"It's the boy on the bench over there." Vina frowned slightly and said in a low voice.

"Have you seen him?" Xu Jiujiu looked at Huo Yuhao with a strange expression.

Vina nodded and said, "I met him in the Star Dou Forest when I was hunting for my fourth spirit ring. At that time, he and his companions were hunting for spirit rings in the Star Dou Forest together..."

So, Vina briefly recounted how she met Huo Yuhao and the others in the Star Dou Forest and how they fought together against the Silver Moon Wolf Pack, and how Huo Yuhao killed the 40,000-year-old Silver Moon Wolf King in seconds and even absorbed the Silver Moon Wolf King's spirit ring without any pressure.

"At the time, he said they were from a Soul Master Academy in the Xingluo Empire. Later, the experts who secretly protected them had a fierce battle with Di Tian, ​​who ranked first on the continent's ferocious beast rankings, in the Star Dou Forest. In the end, they even engaged in a desperate battle with the experts from Shrek Academy. It is said that three Soul Douluos and one Super Douluo perished at Shrek!"

Vina continued in a low voice, "It was during those two great battles that we learned they were from the Sun-Moon Empire. We just didn't expect him to be a student at the Sun-Moon Royal Academy. We met him on the first day of arriving at the academy."

"this……!?"

Xu Jiujiu sucked in a breath of cold air and looked at Huo Yuhao on the bench in disbelief, his mind churning with thoughts.

According to Nana, Huo Yuhao has already acquired the fifth soul skill in the Star Dou Forest and become a soul master at the Soul King level?

How can this be! ?

A fourteen or fifteen year old Soul King? !

Or the twin spirit genius who suppressed the Shrek Academy Soul Emperor in the competition...

"Nana, could it be... that person is the Wang Lin you told me before, whose talent may be better than mine?" Long Aotian frowned and asked in a deep voice.

Jing Hongchen, who had listened to the conversation between the three of them, smiled. He stood there, watching Huo Yuhao stand up and walk towards him, and said at the right moment, "No, he is the most gifted genius in our Sun Moon Royal Academy in ten thousand years—Huo Yuhao."

"Huo...Huo Yuhao?!" Vina was stunned.

Since she was going to the Sun-Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy for exchange and study, she made a lot of strategies. In addition to the key points of the strategy such as the food, attractions, soul beast forest, etc. of the Sun-Moon Empire, she also knew about the talented soul masters and soul instructors of the Sun-Moon Empire.

Among them, Huo Yuhao, the number one prodigy of the younger generation who represented the Sun-Moon Royal Academy in the competition and suppressed countless geniuses, was the one she focused on.

But what she didn't expect was... this Wang Lin... was actually Huo Yuhao?!

Xu Jiujiu held his forehead and explained, "Yes, he is the Huo Yuhao we often mentioned. The Wang Lin you met in Xingdou Forest was probably a name he made up..."

Vina swallowed hard and said with a complicated expression, "So... he is Huo Yuhao..."

Jing Hongchen smiled faintly and said, "You're not mistaken. He is Huo Yuhao, and he will be the captain of your exchange program at the Imperial Academy for the next two years. You can ask him about any problems you have in life or study, and you can also seek help from the academy."

"Your Majesty Hongchen, you said that Huo Yuhao is the most talented genius in the Sun Moon Empire in ten thousand years. I wonder what makes him so talented?" Long Aotian asked indifferently.

Long Aotian, who has achieved the silver-level second awakening of his martial soul and is expected to achieve the gold-level second awakening in the future, is hailed as the strongest genius in the Body Sect in the past hundred years. He has his own pride.

Huo Yuhao was hailed as a peerless genius rarely seen in a thousand years, which made him, a fellow genius, very dissatisfied.

In his opinion, if he had participated in this Continental Advanced Soul Master Competition, Huo Yuhao would have had no chance at all.

"It seems that the Sun-Moon Empire is really short of talent. Any talented soul master they find can be given the title of a genius rarely seen in ten thousand years." Long Aotian muttered to himself.

"Actually, I'm against being called the most brilliant genius of all time. After all, I'm only fourteen or fifteen years old now, and I just passed the Level Six Soul Master assessment yesterday. I'll probably need another ten days of training to become a Level Sixtieth Quasi-Soul Emperor. There are definitely soul masters and soul masters who are more talented than me in history. What the dean and his friends are saying about me being the greatest genius of all time is actually a bit exaggerated..."

Huo Yuhao paused, then smiled faintly, "But... I do have the confidence to be invincible among my peers and dominate the world for eternity."

"this……?"

Xu Jiujiu and the others were stunned, all shocked by Huo Yuhao's words.

A sixth-level soul engineer?

Quasi-Soul Emperor? !

Wasn’t he still the Soul Sect in the competition nine months ago?

In just nine months, he's already... promoted to Soul Emperor?!

this……? !

Wang Dong'er, Jiang Nannan and others were also stunned and stood there speechless.

The proud Long Aotian also opened his mouth and was shocked by Huo Yuhao's words.

"Yuhao, you... passed the sixth-level soul instructor assessment?" Jing Hongchen asked in surprise.

"Dean, you know, I have a decent talent in soul guides. I just passed the sixth-level soul guide assessment yesterday." Huo Yuhao said seriously.

Jing Hongchen naturally knew that Huo Yuhao's words were meant for Long Aotian and even the exchange students behind him, so he actively cooperated and said:

"Very good, very good. A level six soul engineer has already stepped into the threshold of a high-level soul engineer. Although your talent is only moderate, at your speed, you will definitely have no problem becoming a level seven soul engineer in the next continent-wide high-level competition. I am really looking forward to it..."

Long Aotian and the others were completely dumbfounded. It only took nine months to become a sixth-level soul engineer from a fourth-level soul engineer, but it would take nearly four years to become a seventh-level soul engineer from a sixth-level soul engineer?

Why does this sound a bit weird?

Xu Jiujiu and others, who were given the opportunity by Huo Yuhao to show off their cultivation data, could only sigh inwardly, thinking that it was really frustrating to compare yourself with others.

"I didn't expect that in just nine months, he has already become a sixth-level soul master, and his soul power cultivation is about to break through to the sixtieth level. This...?"

Xu Jiujiu sighed inwardly, and the understanding he had built up since childhood about soul masters and soul mentors suddenly collapsed at this moment.

There are so few level five soul masters in the Xingluo Empire, and yet Huo Yuhao has already become a level six soul master...

Wang Dong'er and the others sighed inwardly. They hadn't expected that Huo Yuhao, who was the same age as them, was already miles ahead of them...

Chapter 157 Exchange Student Team Leader

"The cultivation data is indeed astonishing, but to say that he is invincible among his peers and has dominated the ages is probably another matter."

Long Aotian paused, then looked at Huo Yuhao and continued, "After all, taking drugs and cultivating your body is quite common in your Sun-Moon Empire. Who knows if you got high from drugs?"

Huo Yuhao looked at the expressionless Long Aotian and said with a faint smile, "Isn't it enough to have hands to cultivate? And...what kind of medicine can make one become a Soul King or even a Soul Emperor so quickly?"

"To be honest, when I first wandered to Mingdu, I was only a level twelve or thirteen Spirit Master. I did take some drugs after entering the academy, but if you think that taking drugs could allow a twelve-year-old Spirit Master to become a Spirit King, who is only one step away from a Spirit Emperor, in just two or three years, then you are completely wrong."

Wang Dong'er, who had broken with the Haotian Sect and now aspired to become a powerful being, slowly stepped forward and asked curiously, "Then how did you manage to increase your soul power by dozens of levels in just two or three years?"

Huo Yuhao smiled and said, "If someone else from Douluo asked me this question, I would probably just brush it off or even dismiss it."

"But as the leader of your exchange study group at this academy for the next two years, I'm happy to answer your questions."

"First of all, I'm not against taking drugs, but I don't advocate excessive drug use either. I only believe in taking them in moderation, allowing the elixirs and cultivation to complement each other and allow you to grow rapidly. I'm sure some of you have taken elixirs like the Mysterious Water Pill and the Soul-Rising Pill."

"Of course, some of you may not have tried it. I can recommend Hanyue Auction House, the premier auction house in the Sun and Moon Empire, located in a prime location in Mingdu, not far from the academy. If you need it, you can go there and have a look."

Huo Yuhao, who used this as a small advertisement for Hanyue Auction House, continued:

"Drug use is indeed prevalent in our Sun-Moon Empire, but that's simply the decision of untalented soul masters and soul mentors who refuse to accept their fate. As for geniuses, they've always used cultivation as a supplement to elixirs. Among these, physical training to eliminate the negative effects of elixirs is particularly important. This allows you to take more elixirs and increase your soul power faster!"

"Besides that, the most important thing is to practice diligently. Although I have good talent and my cultivation level far exceeds that of my peers, I usually practice soul power all night long and won't get complacent or slack off just because I've achieved a little success. Only by constantly demanding of myself can I make continuous progress!"

It was perfectly fine for Wang Dong'er and the others to want to know why his cultivation had grown so quickly, but...

Can you just tell others about obtaining and refining the magical grass from the Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire?

Will he tell me the secret of using mental power to capture the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to assist in cultivation?

So after saying so much, his cultivation method is nothing more than the two cultivation methods that Wang Donger and the others are aware of: taking drugs rationally and working hard to improve their soul power.

Huo Yuhao changed the subject and said, "Learning soul guidance knowledge also requires diligent 'cultivation'. If you think that learning soul guidance devices is easy or even that soul guidance devices are useless, then congratulations! The following exchange and learning will only waste two years of your time..."

Xiao Xiao, who had been taught for two years at Shrek Academy that soul guides were useless devices, and now transferred to the United Soul Master Academy, asked curiously, "Isn't using soul guides a sign of not trusting our own strength and relying on external things? As long as we improve our soul master cultivation, which is the foundation of soul guides, we shouldn't need soul guides, right?"

"Classmate Xiao Xiao, if I remember correctly, you were a student at Shrek Academy before, right?" Huo Yuhao asked irrationally.

Xiao Xiao nodded and said, "Yes, Wang Dong'er, Jiang Nannan, Ling Luochen and I were all students at Shrek Academy before. We dropped out for various reasons and then went to the United Soul Master Academy."

Huo Yuhao smiled and said, "Shrek Academy is home to talented soul masters from the three Douluo Kingdoms. With such high-quality students, they naturally have the confidence to tell you that soul guides are useless and that soul cultivation is the most important thing. Because as long as those soul masters from the three Douluo Kingdoms practice diligently, they can gain far greater benefits than studying soul guides. Moreover... nowadays, soul guides are based on the soul master's cultivation."

"However, for the common people, and for those soul masters whose spiritual talents are not that high, the achievements they can achieve through taking drugs and studying soul guides are much higher than those achieved through just practicing soul training."

"Even a genius with exceptional talent can go further and possess even greater combat power with the aid of a spirit guide. For example, His Majesty Jing Hongchen, the academy's dean and head of Mingde Hall, should currently have a spirit power cultivation level between ninety-three and ninety-four. In the eyes of you, the Douluo Three Kingdoms, such a Titled Douluo is just an ordinary Titled Douluo, and there are dozens of such Titled Douluos in the Douluo Three Kingdoms."

"However, the dean is not just an ordinary Titled Douluo. He is also a rare ninth-level soul master in the Sun-Moon Empire. With the help of soul guides, he can completely crush those ordinary Titled Douluos you are talking about. He can even be on par with Shrek Academy's Super Douluo Xuanzi. Of course, I am talking about combat power, not other aspects."

There is no doubt about Xuan Zi's combat capability, but when it comes to leadership ability or other aspects, it is really not commendable. He is simply a genius soul master who was undercover as the Holy Spirit Church's Supreme Elder and Shrek Huohuo.

Xiao Xiao and others who had deeply felt the "terrifying strength" of Xuanzi when he led the team to carry out the mission also nodded silently. Xuanzi's "strength" was indeed not to be praised.

However, they were really shocked that Jing Hongchen could be on par with top-level masters like Xuanzi with his level 93 cultivation. After all, in their opinion, ordinary Titled Douluo was still too weak in front of Super Douluo, but Jing Hongchen was able to use soul guides to defeat the strong and be on par with Super Douluo of level 98!

Huo Yuhao continued, "The above are all examples of soul masters as the foundation and soul guides as the auxiliary. But have you ever thought about whether soul guides will no longer require soul masters in the future, and even ordinary people will be able to operate soul guides like soul masters?"

"The soul guide is separated from the soul master?" Xu Jiujiu's pupils shrank slightly, and he said in great shock.

Long Aotian, who also had a prejudice against spirit guides, looked at Huo Yuhao in surprise and said in a deep voice, "Can spirit guides really be used independently of spirit masters?"

The others also looked at Huo Yuhao in shock, wanting to know whether it would be true that soul guides could be used independently of soul masters in the future.

Jing Hongchen, who had been silent the entire time, led the exchange students to the Academic Affairs Office and explained, "What Yuhao said about a soul guide being separated from a soul master and controlled by an ordinary person is entirely possible. It's just that current soul guide technology isn't yet capable of this. However, I believe it will be possible in the near future. Perhaps your generation will witness this grand spectacle."

If it was just Huo Yuhao talking, Long Aotian and others would have every reason to believe that Huo Yuhao was intentionally elevating the status of soul guides in their hearts.

But since Jing Hongchen, the head of Mingde Hall, said so, it is most likely true. After all, with Jing Hongchen's identity and status, there is no need to do this. The reason why he said this was simply to answer this question or because he was very confident in the development of soul guides of the Sun and Moon Empire.

The more Xu Jiujiu and the others thought about it, the more they felt a chill down their spines, because when the Douluo Three Kingdoms were still complacent about having enough powerful soul masters and thought that soul guides were just auxiliary items, the soul guides of the Sun-Moon Empire were almost developed to the point where they could be used independently of soul masters!

Moreover, the power of soul guides is indeed far beyond imagination, and is not as terrible as those blindly arrogant and pedantic soul masters who look down on soul guides say.

Huo Yuhao clasped his hands behind his head and took over Jing Hongchen's words, "The future world will surely be one ruled by soul guides. You can imagine flying through the sky on soul guide aircraft, breaking free from the constraints of planetary gravity and entering the vast starry sky above us. You can also imagine riding underwater soul guides into the depths of the vast ocean..."

"In short, soul guidance technology has infinite possibilities. The protagonist of the future world will definitely be soul guidance technology. This is absolutely beyond doubt."

"Of course, if you still think soul guides are useless, then forget what I said. I'm just the leader of your exchange and study team for the past two years. I'm simply explaining the importance of soul guides to you. I'm not responsible for your success. What you learn is up to you."

At this point, Huo Yuhao suddenly smiled and said to Xiao Xiao and the others, "Of course, our Sun-Moon Empire is open-minded and welcomes all ambitious people from the Sun-Moon Empire. If any of you want to stay in the Sun-Moon Empire and join our Sun-Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy to create a great and prosperous era with us, we would also welcome you. After all, he who knows the times is a hero."

"This...?" Xu Jiujiu and the others looked at each other, all stunned by Huo Yuhao's sudden "talent recruitment advertisement".

They had just stepped into the Sun-Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy, and this guy who repeatedly advertised for the Sun-Moon Empire at the competition was actually back to his old ways and advertising again!

So straightforward...

The one who reacted the most was Long Aotian, who came with the sect's mission to persuade Huo Yuhao to return to the Body Sect. His expression froze, and he thought to himself, I haven't even persuaded you to return to the Body Sect, and you actually persuaded me to stay?

Jing Hongchen, who was leading the way in front, also had a serious expression. He did not expect that Huo Yuhao would suddenly give these exchange students a "talent recruitment advertisement" with the motto "He who knows the times is a hero."

Jing Hongchen, who was well aware of the qualifications of these seven exchange students, naturally agreed with Huo Yuhao's "talent recruitment advertisement". If one or two exchange students could really be retained, it would definitely be a huge profit!