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It was rare for Yin Laikes to show such importance to other people, and he gave Huo Yuhao a serious warning.
He understands He Caitou's past, empathizes with his experience, and has the most say in the choice he will make.
Yin Lex seemed to see that He Caitou was in the crater of a volcano that was about to erupt.
"It should be easy to resolve his worries," Tian Meng said, "Why not just help him get rid of the emperor?"
"Oh, no, we don't even need to check it ourselves. Given his physical condition, he will die in a few months."
Yin Lex shook his head: "No, it's not that simple. Compared to the young Tang Sect leader, the hatred in his heart is a hundred times deeper. If the long-accumulated hatred is not vented, it will lead to very bad consequences."
"Doesn't he know that his enemy is already terminally ill? But he still hasn't let go of his hatred. I'm afraid he has to resolve this knot in his heart with his own hands."
Huo Yuhao was silent for a while and said, “It is not feasible to help him take revenge personally. As the ruler of a country, the Sun Moon Emperor is under great protection as we saw last time.”
"It is almost impossible to kill him without the protection of so many level nine soul masters and even Kong Deming."
Yin Lex asked, "Child, can this be considered a request from me?"
There was an unprecedented softness in his tone.
Huo Yuhao was a little surprised by Yin Lex's words. This seemed to be the first time that Yin Lex asked him in a requesting tone.
"Mr. Yin, you go ahead."
Yin Lex said, "Can you help your friend to the best of your ability?"
Tian Meng stopped what he was doing and asked in confusion, "Old man, why are you suddenly so interested in a human?"
“Haha.” Yin Lex smiled softly, revealing a complex emotion in his smile, “Because I see my own shadow in him. He is trapped deeper than the young leader of the Tang Sect, and it is more difficult for him to get out.”
“Once such a person gains power…you all know the consequences that this old man suffered.”
Tian Meng shrank his neck in fear: "Old man, please stop talking. This continent doesn't have those messy things like your hometown."
Yin Lex stood on the snow in the frozen plane, looking at the endless ice field in the distance with a melancholy expression.
Xue Di walked slowly to his side and said, "Yin Lex, I didn't expect that a human at your level would be so sentimental."
Yin Lex looked helpless: "I did abandon my feelings once, but it took me a long time to pick them up again."
Bingdi asked aloud: "Is there any benefit in doing this?"
Yin Laix chuckled: "How can there be no benefit? Wasn't Yuhao's original plan to help him get revenge and then help him become a puppet emperor?"
Huo Yuhao continued, "It is very difficult to directly overthrow the royal rule. The new ruler needs to solve the problem of legitimacy in order to gain as much support as possible."
"Compared to direct rebellion, supporting a direct royal family member to launch a coup would not have legitimacy issues and would face much less resistance. This was indeed my initial thought."
Yin Lex sighed: "Child, I won't force you, just do as you wish."
Huo Yuhao hesitated for a moment and said, "Master Yin, since this is your request, I will give it a try."
His mind began to work rapidly, thinking about how to guide He Caitou to do what he had imagined.
Be open and honest? Or guide secretly?
"Lord Saint, the competition is about to begin." At this moment, Huang Zheng reminded Huo Yuhao in a low voice.
"Ah."
Huo Yuhao responded calmly, put his thoughts aside for the moment, stood up and walked towards the golden hall.
The second round of the main competition lasts a long time and adopts a last-elimination system.
All participating soul engineers need to make an offensive soul guide device of level four or above and conduct a power test. The five contestants with the least power and those who fail to complete the test will be eliminated, and those who successfully make a level five soul guide device will enter the next round without taking the test.
All contestants sat on the experimental table and waited for the host to announce the start of the competition.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am honored to host the second round of the Mingdu Youth Soul Instructor Elite Competition Xishui League Division. Please keep quiet, distinguished guests. Now I will announce the rules of this round of competition."
"Once the game officially starts, betting will stop. Please hurry up, dear guests."
When the host announced the rules, Huo Yuhao was already looking at the dozens of metal materials on the table, thinking about what kind of soul guide he should make.
The weight of each metal is strictly limited to two kilograms, and the use of self-brought metal is not allowed, so many large soul guides cannot be used.
Such a restriction made many contestants feel embarrassed at once, but this small restriction was not a problem for several outstanding contestants.
The two disciples of Minglei Douluo, Huang Zhengmoke, did not even take the time to think about it, they each took out a carving knife and started engraving quickly.
Huo Yuhao was still thinking about it when he noticed the carving knives in their hands and was stunned for a moment.
The two carving knives were dark red and dark green respectively, emitting an imposing sharpness. They were obviously two carving knives for making a list.
Huo Yuhao looked at He Caitou again. The carving knife in the latter’s hand was still the one that had accompanied him for many years, and its quality could only be described as above average.
He shrugged, and lamented that Shrek Academy's training of soul guide talents was not even as good as that of the Holy Spirit Church.
He had made special inquiries about the ranking engraving knife. Although it was a priceless treasure, there were only one hundred of them in the entire continent, of which about seventy were in the Sun-Moon Empire. However, from time to time, one or two would appear in the top auction houses in various countries, and the final transaction price was generally between 20 million and 30 million gold soul coins.
Most of these engraving knives on the list did not come from formal channels. Most likely, the previous owners were murdered and robbed, and the new owners were not soul guides, so they had no use for them and had to sell them at a high price.
The buyer must be a soul guide from a powerful force, who would spend a fortune for a ranking engraving knife. For example, the Jiubao Liuli Sect bought one for Ning Tian directly in order to train her.
There were only two soul guides in the entire Shrek Academy, one in the hands of Fan Yu and the other in Xian Lin'er's. But now the Holy Spirit Church gave one to each of the two young men. The difference between them made Huo Yuhao sigh.
Huang Zheng and Mo Ke were both level six soul guides. With their smooth engraving and the blessing of the list-making knives, they completed a level four soul guide device in less than two quarters of an hour and handed it in.
They were the first two to finish and were quietly waiting for the power test.
About half an hour after the competition started, He Caitou also handed in his work, which was a fifth-level soul guide device. He passed this round of competition directly without taking an exam and was the first to leave.
Before leaving the stage, he made a somewhat high-profile gesture to show his confidence to the audience around him.
Huang Zheng looked at He Caitou's departing back and said in surprise, "Half an hour, it only took half an hour! I didn't expect that there is such a powerful guy under the age of 30 in Mingdu. Could he be from Mingde Hall?"
Mercer said, "If he really is from Mingde Hall, I wonder if the teacher and the deputy leader's recruitment will be successful. How is the Saint Son?"
Huang Zheng was somewhat speechless: "This... Lord Saint has not yet started to engrave it."
"what?"
Merck quickly turned his gaze to Huo Yuhao, only to see the latter standing quietly in front of the laboratory table without moving at all.
"Could it be that Lord Saint is stumped?" Merck looked around, considering whether to ask his teacher Minglei Douluo to help Lord Saint reduce the difficulty.
In fact, Huo Yuhao was not stumped by the proposition. There was no difficulty in making a fourth-level attack soul guide, and he could complete it in ten minutes.
The reason why he was motionless at this moment was because he was not planning to simply manufacture it, but was designing a brand new soul guide.
He held a video soul guide in his left hand and carefully observed the image on the screen. The small screen recorded the process of his battle with Xu Tianzhen in the afternoon.
A soul guide is a device that can release soul skills, and Huo Yuhao now wants to design a soul guide that can imitate the sun martial soul and perform the soul skills of the sun martial soul.
"High temperature, high heat, orange-red light..."
Huo Yuhao silently recited the characteristics of the Sun Martial Soul in his mind and finally ended his thoughts. He put away the soul guide, picked up a piece of red metal on the table, and began to engrave it.
He wanted to take this opportunity to replicate Xu Tianzhen's third soul skill, the Sun God Light.
The Sun God Light is a high-temperature orange-red beam of light that can be modified based on the soul guide ray. It is relatively simple and suitable for acquisition.
Unlike ordinary soul guide rays, the sun god light has an extremely high temperature second only to the ultimate fire, and its color is also a dazzling orange-red. In order to successfully replicate it, a lot of additional magic arrays need to be added.
Two hours after the competition started, most soul engineers had completed the production of soul guides and submitted their works one after another.
Finally, it was time to test the power of the soul guide. It was time to examine the results of Huo Yuhao’s in-class design.
The soul guide cannons made by Huang Zheng and Merck are both very powerful and there is no doubt that they will pass this round of competition.
The chief referee pointed at a transparent shield ball and said to Huo Yuhao, "Shoot at this level 4 soul guide ball to test its power."
This is a hollow sphere made of metal that can withstand strong external impacts and is specifically used to test the power of attacking soul guides.
Huo Yuhao extended the soul guide gun barrel and accumulated soul power towards the soul guide ball.
A dazzling orange-red light rose from the light orange barrel, and along with it came scorching heat.
The chief referee looked at the cannon barrel in Huo Yuhao's hand in a daze.
Soul ray is the most commonly used and common offensive soul guide device, so he is naturally familiar with it, but the soul ray in front of him contains extraordinary power.
At the moment he lost consciousness, the orange-red soul-guiding ray had already shot out. The fourth-level soul-guiding ball was penetrated by the orange-red ray, but there was no cracking sound.
The light disappeared, and the chief referee looked hurriedly, only to see a big hole in the front and back of the soul guide ball. The metal at the edge of the hole melted and became sticky, and wisps of steam floated out of the hole.
The chief referee waved his hand to fan away the steam and could still feel the residual heat.
“Hiss—Number ninety-nine, passed.” The chief referee took a breath and announced that Huo Yuhao had passed the second round of the main competition.
Being able to directly penetrate a level 4 soul guide ball, the power of this soul guide is comparable to that of a level 5 soul guide. But he didn't know that this was designed by Huo Yuhao on the spot.
There were only forty-eight players who made it through the second round of the main competition.
Before leaving Qingse Hotel, Huang Zheng said with a flattering smile: "Congratulations, Saint Son. We saw that you were slow to act and thought you were in trouble."
Merck agreed, "Yes, I have already planned to secretly inform the teacher and ask the referee to help you."
“Late bloomer, what do you know?” Huo Yuhao snorted coldly and was about to leave.
Huang Zheng reminded: "Master Saint, the next game is against the soul guide competition, I hope you like it."
"Is there anything special?" Huo Yuhao frowned and asked.
"There are almost no rules in the confrontation against the soul guide competition. Hehe, I hope you have fun."
The soul guide competitions between these underground forces are not limited to the confrontation between soul guides. Soul master abilities can be used, and the consequences of life and death are at their own risk.
What Huang Zheng meant was that Huo Yuhao could take this opportunity to justify killing people.
Huo Yuhao was silent for a while, left the Qingse Hotel and went to Mingyue Hotel.
It was late at night before the competition and it was dawn when we left.
"Yuhao, why do you have to use the soul guide to imitate the soul skills of the Sun Soul?"
In the sea of spirit, Tian Meng asked doubtfully.
"Isn't this obvious? You can see it at a glance."
"Ah... I didn't see that..."
Huo Yuhao shook his head helplessly: "Tianmeng, Xu Tianzhen is not as naive as you. It seems that you are really naive."
Tianmeng: "..."
"The simulation can only simulate ambient light, but it cannot simulate high temperatures and large-scale light."