Chapter 222: Huo Yuhao's Calculations
Suddenly, Huo Yuhao heard a faint female voice calling for help: "Help! There's an evil soul master hunting soul beasts! Help!"
He paused for a moment, realizing the voice was coming from afar, barely audible. If it weren't for his excellent physical condition and sharp hearing, he might not have heard it at all. He immediately stood up from his chair, wondering if the speaker was a soul beast being pursued by an evil soul master.
Truth be told, soul beasts that could speak human language were rare most couldn't. Typically, those who could were either extremely powerful or had unique bloodlines. Even soul beasts as rare as the three Thousand Jin Ant Emperors that Tang San killed, or the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, had never been shown in the story to possess the ability to speak human language.
Logically speaking, a soul beast with the extraordinary bloodline of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger should be able to, especially considering that after Tang San killed it, its life origin pearl managed to tear through the space of the Douluo Continent and travel to the world of Heavenly Jewel Change, becoming a small external cheat for Destruction God Zhou Weiqing a rather absurd phenomenon.
Huo Yuhao's mind churned with thoughts. Perhaps this was a good opportunity to hunt both a soul beast and an evil soul master.
In the next moment, golden light shone in his eyes, and a pure golden vertical eye appeared on his forehead while golden silhouettes flickered behind him.
"Spiritual Detection Sharing!"
A wave of spiritual energy spread out from Huo Yuhao like a ripple, expanding in all directions. In an instant, he encompassed the entire ship and the surrounding sea within his detection range. Countless detailed images flooded his mind, and he began carefully analyzing them.
Ever since his Golden Tier Second Awakening, his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul had undergone a qualitative transformation. Every soul skill he possessed had been significantly enhanced due to the awakening.
It didn't take long for him to spot a severely wounded Demon Soul Great White Shark being chased by a black robed figure, trailed by an army of soul beast corpse slaves and vengeful spirits.
Judging by their relative speeds, it wouldn't be long before the evil soul master killed the shark.
What's more, the shark kept muttering, "I can't believe I, Bai Xiuxiu, went out just to have fun and am now about to die here. Mom was right the outside world is far too dangerous…"
Huh?
Bai Xiuxiu? Wasn't she Tang San's granddaughter in law? She and Lan Xuanyu got married in Soul Land IV.
In Soul Land III, Bai Xiuxiu was a 90,000 year old soul beast, meaning that in this timeline, she should be around 80,000 years old. Too bad she wasn't at 100,000 years, or she'd drop a guaranteed soul bone.
Based on lore, Bai Xiuxiu was supposedly the daughter of Xiao Bai, the former Sea God's mount, which made sense for her to be the princess of the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan.
In Soul Land III, her species was massacred by the Demon Queen, and she was the only survivor. The Demon Queen, being the wife of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, dared to commit genocide mainly because the God Realm had disappeared, meaning Tang San could no longer return. Without their patron deity, the Demon Soul Great White Sharks were left defenseless.
"Should I kill Bai Xiuxiu for a soul bone? Maybe let someone from the Spirit Pagoda absorb her soul ring? She's not a 100,000 year old beast, so the soul bone drop isn't guaranteed… but at 80,000 years, the probability is pretty high."
Huo Yuhao pondered for a moment but ultimately abandoned the idea.
After all, Bai Xiuxiu was more valuable alive than dead.
From what he knew of Soul Land III, Bai Xiuxiu had a childlike personality some intelligence but not fully mature. She was easily influenced.
And what was the best way to undermine Tang San's influence on the lower realm? Destroying Shrek Academy? Annihilating the Clear Sky Clan?
No, absolutely not.
Neither of those factions could help Tang San in the God Realm.
Especially Shrek Academy, which existed mainly to groom strong individuals who would die and become spirits, merging into the Golden Tree to nourish Ah Yin.
Now that Ah Yin had been captured by the God of Destruction, Shrek Academy's value had plummeted.
In front of the God of Destruction, the academy's so called "elites" were nothing but ants easily erased with a flick of the wrist.
The best way to undermine Tang San's lower realm foundation was to erode the faith of those who worshipped him.
The people on Sea God Island weren't many, but they were deeply devout, making it difficult to sway them. After all, they had directly benefited from Tang San.
But what about sea soul beasts?
Most of them worshipped Tang San as the Sea God not out of gratitude but out of fear and tradition.
Very few sea soul beasts had actually received direct benefits from Tang San, meaning their loyalty was weak.
In the original story, even after ascending to the God Realm, Tang San's cultivation speed remained absurdly fast.
Why?
It was undoubtedly because he held the God Realm Hub and relentlessly harvested faith energy from the lower realm.
Otherwise, what, was he still relying on Xuan Tian Gong to get stronger? That one technique had been used from Soul Land I all the way to Soul Land V, making it the most overpowered cultivation method in history.
Even so, when the so called "Your Tang San, reborn for you" God King reincarnated, he merely mentioned it as a foundational technique nothing more.
"Hm… Let's deal with the evil soul master first. While it's true that evil soul masters can't control their origins, in Soul Land II, almost all of them have committed atrocious crimes."
The distance between Bai Xiuxiu and Huo Yuhao was far, but that wasn't a problem.
With the Dimensional Consciousness, he could tear open space and instantly teleport.
As for the evil soul master's power level, it was irrelevant.
The corpse slaves and vengeful spirits were completely useless against Huo Yuhao, the successor of Electrolux.
In fact, with just a single move, he could turn the undead against their master.
If he killed this evil soul master, he could commandeer an army of undead sea beasts and store them in his Necromantic Subdimension, further strengthening it.
After all, they were just soul beasts Huo Yuhao, being human, had no moral qualms about using their corpses to bolster his forces.
He quickly communicated with the Dimensional Consciousness, instructing it to teleport him to the battlefield.
Of course, he wasn't worried about his safety.
With Electrolux, the Dimensional Consciousness, and his soul spirits as his backup, a mere Soul Douluo level evil soul master posed no threat at all.
Unlike Xuan Zi, the man who always managed to screw things up.
The ocean churned.
Bai Xiuxiu fled desperately, her body covered in wounds far worse than when she had first started running. The Death God's Envoy was getting closer and closer.
Despair gripped Bai Xiuxiu.
"This is it," she thought bitterly.
She couldn't fight back.
She couldn't outrun him.
It was a dead end.
(End of chapter.)
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