"Hiss... Boss, hehehe..."
Xu Tianzhen suddenly made a move, yet Huo Yuhao suppressed her with a practiced hand. He calmly took the soul tool tablet, swiped the card to pay, and finally left the private room, handing the tablet to a nearby waiter.
A moment later, the group arrived at the handover point to collect the various items they had just purchased before turning to leave the Starlight Auction House.
Less than ten minutes after Huo Yuhao and the others departed, a purple-haired young woman rushed over in a hurry.
"Where are they?"
"They have already left, Princess."
Xu Jiujiu frowned slightly.
Upon learning that the current Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Engineer Academy team included the only direct-line princess of the Sun Moon Empire, she had prepared to come and make her acquaintance. She hadn't expected to miss them.
After a brief silence, Xu Jiujiu seemed to recall something and pressed further: "Your message mentioned that there was a young man beside Princess Tianzhen who seemed very close to her?"
"Yes, Princess. The relationship between the two appeared very good; their behavior was quite intimate."
"Intimate behavior... A pre-selected Prince Consort, or perhaps some kind of secretly nurtured genius?"
Xu Jiujiu speculated, but ultimately had no definitive answer. She could only instruct her maid to compile the information and submit it.
In recent years, internal purges within the Sun Moon Empire had been exceptionally frequent. Many spies they had sent and smuggling routes they had arranged had been wiped clean.
Anyone with eyes could see that the Sun Moon Empire was planning something, but their Three Douluo Nations simply couldn't penetrate it. They had no news at all, completely left in the dark.
Thus, while the Three Douluo Nations appeared peaceful on the surface, undercurrents were surging. Because of this, the princess from the Sun Moon Empire was truly eye-catching at this moment.
If she could make contact, perhaps she could glean some information?
After a moment's thought, Xu Jiujiu spoke: "Go and organize the data on that young man, and hand it to me together when the time comes."
"Yes, Princess."
...
On the other side, Huo Yuhao was walking while admonishing Xu Tianzhen: "Stop thinking about things you can't eat. How old are you, thinking about this?"
"I'm not small, okay! Although this part is indeed a bit small, if I squeeze... or wear a realistic simulation, it won't affect warming the bed!"
Xu Tianzhen touched her chest, speaking with a lack of logic but plenty of confidence.
"Is 'warming the bed' the only thing in your brain?" Huo Yuhao rubbed his forehead.
"Well, if you want more, Boss, it's not impossible! I can do anything! I'm super good at it!" Xu Tianzhen blinked, her face full of sincerity.
Huo Yuhao sighed. When it came to being shameless, he really couldn't beat Xu Tianzhen. She was naturally gifted!
...
Carrying their many purchases, the group returned to the hotel. This was followed by the daily routine of Miss Meng guarding her "food," attempting to drive away the enemy Xu Tianzhen. However, Xu Tianzhen, completely oblivious, naturally leaned in, causing Miss Meng's "monopoly" plan to fail utterly.
Watching this scene, the heavy mood from the previous meeting lightened significantly for everyone.
Amidst this relatively cheerful atmosphere, the next day arrived.
The Emperor of the Star Net Empire, Xu Jiawei, attended the opening ceremony. He delivered the customary passionate speech and then immediately declared the start of the competition.
Huo Yuhao, meanwhile, stayed in the viewing box prepared for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Engineer Academy representative team. His eyes were tightly shut, looking as if he had stayed up late last night and was now catching up on sleep.
In reality, however, Huo Yuhao's consciousness was no longer in the Star Net Empire.
As his consciousness descended, the undead puppet Long Xiaoyao slowly opened his eyes. Simultaneously, many prepared undead Titles slowly appeared nearby.
These were all Titled Douluo who had lost their value as materials and could only be transformed into undead to squeeze out their remaining worth.
Every undead had been forcibly converted to Huo Yuhao's new system. Their combat power was at least at the Super Douluo level. Among them, the elite—such as Zhang Peng—would definitely reach the 98th-rank level even if fighting on instinct without Huo Yuhao's direct control.
Huo Yuhao nodded in satisfaction.
Ning Guan had reported that the Body Sect had developed designs on their Spirit Transmission Pagoda and the "Artificial Soul Ring Device," and had even taken substantive action. This made Huo Yuhao, who had originally planned to deal with the Body Sect later, unable to sit still.
If you play dirty and rob me, then I don't need to play by the rules either.
Coincidentally, the Body Martial Soul was also one of Huo Yuhao's research directions. It wasn't necessary to capture them all as materials, but beating them into submission and making them sign contracts to serve as employees (oxen and horses) was certainly no problem.
While he was at it, he could have the Body Sect handle the Heaven Soul Empire directly. When the war eventually broke out, he could make the Heaven Soul Empire surrender immediately, which would also result in less bloodshed.
After all, everyone would be family after the future unification. All this killing was quite unpleasant!
His thoughts halted as Huo Yuhao looked at the surrounding undead Titles and gave a calm command.
"Well then... let's go."
In the next instant, over a dozen streaks of light shot into the sky. Each streak unabashedly radiated an aura comparable to a Super Douluo, heading straight for the mountain gate of the Body Sect!
...
On the other side, at the tournament grounds:
"The first match: Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy of the Battle Spirit Empire vs. the Shrek Academy team. Members of both sides, please enter the arena to prepare."
The host announced the entry of both parties. Shortly after, the members entered the field.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, a single icy-blue figure walked slowly into the arena from the Shrek side.
"Just one person? What is Shrek planning?"
In the viewing box, Ma Rugong frowned slightly.
"It's nothing more than this person being powerful enough to take on the whole field alone, while hiding the information of the other team members. You can't see something so simple?"
Xiao Hongchen sat with his legs crossed, his tone casual.
"I—" Ma Rugong was at a loss for words. Xiao Hongchen always managed to accurately counter him and leave him speechless. "Xiao Hongchen, even though you are a reserve, you will still take the stage. She will be your opponent too! Watch closely!"
"Opponent? Heh."
Xiao Hongchen gave a disdainful smile and, as if showing off, shook his sleeve, naturally revealing the deep blue bracelet on his wrist.
Immediately, several people present, especially the boys, couldn't help but let a hint of envy leak from their eyes.
"Brother Ma, aren't you mistaken?" Xiao Hongchen said, shaking his bracelet again with a laugh. "The only opponent for me, Xiao Hongchen, is myself!"
—Excluding my brother-in-law.
"You—" Ma Rugong wanted to say more, but his peripheral vision caught sight of a certain someone who seemed to still be fast asleep, and his voice instantly dropped.
"In short, be serious for me. Don't be so lazy all the time!"
Ma Rugong scolded in a low voice, looking twice at that certain someone to see if he had woken up. Seeing that Huo Yuhao's eyes remained closed, Ma Rugong breathed a sigh of relief.
He didn't want to wake this lord up. If he upset him, his place in the production queue might be moved to the back.
He wanted to pilot a Mecha too!!!