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These soldiers all knew what would be the fate of the rebels. They all looked at the man in white in the air with fear. This strong man killed their commander with one blow. It would be just as easy to kill them. No one was willing to stay there and wait to die.
Just then, a loud voice resounded throughout the hillside.
"The commander is dead. Everyone, lay down your weapons. Our army will treat the prisoners well."
It was Jing Ziyan who spoke. She held a soul-guiding loudspeaker in her hand and sent the military order into the ears of every soldier under the Grand Duke of Brilliance.
"Grand Duke Huihuang is trying to hit a rock with an egg. He is overestimating his own strength. Your Majesty has issued an order that those who surrender will be spared and given a light punishment. Otherwise, once the main force of our Sun and Moon Army arrives, those who resist will bear the consequences themselves."
The army, which was about to fall into chaos, regained some order, but no one seemed to believe this statement.
Finally, a leader among the army's soul mentors asked, "How can we trust you?"
They could not afford the charge of rebellion, nor did they dare to bear the consequences.
"Golden Sun and Silver Moon, these are all your Majesty's decrees, and they are no joke."
Jing Ziyan's voice once again echoed across the hillside.
The leader hesitated for a long time, and after thinking it over again and again, he nodded and said, "Okay, our army is willing to surrender..."
The Golden Sun and Silver Moon Totem has always been the highest standard of oath taken by the Sun and Moon Royal Family, and no royal family would joke about this.
Ji Juechen, who took the head of the enemy general in the midst of thousands of troops, said nothing. He just took back his sword and gently wiped the blood off the sword. Dressed in white, he looked like a god of war in the dark army.
On a hillside a few kilometers away, Huo Yuhao looked at the battlefield and sighed, "Masters and generals should not be arrogant. Thousands of troops will avoid the white robes."
In his hand he also held a booklet, on which was copied the secret of the body that Du Bu Si had lent him for three days.
He did not stay in Tianhun for long before returning to the Sun and Moon Empire. Just now, Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan were able to successfully break through the firepower network thanks to the assistance of his shared spiritual detection.
The Ice Emperor frowned and asked, "This Emperor really cannot understand."
"What can't you understand?"
"That Brilliant Duke doesn't have any strong men under his command. Why does he have the courage to start a rebellion?"
Huo Yuhao snorted softly: “Not only do you not understand, I also cannot understand. Does he think that since Mingdu is fighting for the throne, no one can control him?”
"Even if I'm not here, it would be easy for any other member of the royal family to deal with him. It's just a matter of whether they want to or not."
Bingdi asked again: "Why did these soldiers dare to follow the Grand Duke in rebellion? Aren't they afraid of Mingdu's army?"
Huo Yuhao pondered for a while and said, "This question is more complicated. I guess the main reason is that they were born and raised in the north. The strongest person they have ever seen is the Brilliant Duke who rules them. They have never seen anyone in Mingdu and cannot disobey the Duke's orders."
He frowned slightly and said to himself, "Under this feudal system, there is no difference between him as a Grand Duke and the so-called principality. They are all governed by him. Since he is pushing his limits, I will deal with him. From now on, all northern cities will be managed by Mingdu again and will no longer be granted to anyone."
north……
Snow Queen looked far to the north and suddenly murmured, "Going north from the Sun Moon Empire, we should be able to return to the Far North."
Huo Yuhao added: "Yes, it should be bordering the icy sea in the west of the Far North."
"Would you like to take this opportunity to go back to the Far North?" asked Xue Di.
Huo Yuhao thought for a moment and nodded: "There shouldn't be any problems in the future in the Sun and Moon North. Anyway, I have already reminded them of the military's discipline. In this case, we have time to go to the Far North."
As he was speaking, he turned his head and looked to the west, frowning slightly.
"The Demonic Forest should be not far from that direction. I will stop by the Demonic Forest first to see the headquarters of the Holy Spirit Church, and then go to the Far North."
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 488: Exploring the Holy Spirit Church Headquarters Again
To the northwest of the Sun and Moon Empire, as the latitude increases, the vegetation here also shows unique regional characteristics.
Looking ahead, one can see an endless coniferous forest. Compared with the vibrant Star Forest or Sunset Forest, it has an even more solemn and murderous aura. This is the Demon Forest, the largest gathering area for soul beasts in the Sun-Moon Continent.
In the central area of the Demonic Forest, a gray space door quietly opened, and Huo Yuhao slowly walked out of it.
This was not his first time to come to the Demon Forest. He was now at the headquarters of the Holy Spirit Church, which was located in the center of the Demon Forest.
Huo Yuhao had not been to the headquarters many times, and had only stayed there for a few days before and after the team-building ceremony, which was called soul-raising but was actually brainwashing.
The headquarters of the Holy Spirit Church was not luxurious, but it was certainly spacious. It was hard to imagine that a human organization's headquarters would appear in the center of one of the top soul beast gathering areas on the continent, without having to worry about being attacked by other soul beasts in the forest.
Huo Yuhao walked in the buildings left behind by the Holy Spirit Church, activated his spiritual detection, and checked the status of the surrounding scenery.
Two months ago, there were many powerful evil soul masters guarding the Holy Spirit Church headquarters, but now it is deserted, with only ruins and broken walls, a lonely and cold scene.
A somewhat emaciated wolf soul beast was on the ruins, picking up the rubble on the ground like a scavenger. It had only cultivated for a few hundred years, and lived cautiously in the gap between the center and the periphery of the Demonic Forest. The ruins of human settlements provided it with a temporary shelter.
There are many traces of fighting and destruction on the ruins, which are obviously left behind after the Holy Spirit Church abandoned this headquarters.
The moment Huo Yuhao appeared, the wolf sensed a strong sense of crisis, stopped flipping its claws, and stared at Huo Yuhao in fear.
"Wow--"
Tian Meng suddenly opened his mouth and howled towards that side. The wolf was immediately frightened and its hair stood up on end. It ran to the safe periphery.
Tian Meng said proudly: "This is the aura of Lord Tian Meng."
Bingdi was too lazy to say anything. She had already managed to ignore Tianmeng's childish behavior and was just looking at the ruins around her.
"It looks like it was destroyed by humans, not by a soul beast."
She said with some approval, "I am somewhat impressed by the Holy Spirit Cult. They were able to build a headquarters in the Demonic Forest that other soul beasts would avoid. Even now, there are few other powerful soul beasts that break in. How did they do it?"
"I dare to assert that if there are humans who want to compete with soul beasts for territory, not only in our Far North, but also in the Star Dou Great Forest, they will be crushed by the beasts in a few days."
Huo Yuhao quickly recalled the information he had learned from the Holy Spirit Church, and found no relevant reasons.
“I also feel strange. After all, there are powerful and large soul beasts like the Evil Eye living in the Demon Forest, but there is not a single Evil Eye within the range of my spiritual detection.” He asked puzzledly.
There was a hint of seriousness in Bingdi's tone: "It's not just the Evil Eye Clan. You know, there's also the second best guy on the continent in this forest."
"The Evil Emperor?" asked Xue Di.
Bingdi nodded.
"The Evil Emperor should be sleeping in a more core area. It is now approaching its eighth deadline. Perhaps because of this, it has no time to care about these humans who have entered its territory." Xue Di speculated.
"Wow... it's that big eyeball..."
Hearing the name of the Evil Emperor, Tian Meng swallowed with a trembling voice.
Bingdi frowned and asked, "Why are you so scared? Have you seen the Evil Emperor?"
“I haven’t seen it, but…”
Tian Meng said weakly, "When I was still imprisoned in Xingdou, it came to Xingdou to fight with the big black dragon. I only know that even the big black dragon suffered a great loss at its hands. Although it won, it almost didn't recover."
Xue Di said solemnly: "Even Di Tian is like this."
She had never seen the Evil Emperor in person, but apart from the Evil Emperor, there was probably no other strong person in the entire continent who could make Di Tian suffer.
The octagon on Tianmeng's head asked, "Is the Evil Emperor also a spiritual soul beast? Then who is more powerful, it or Master Tianmeng?"
This answer made Tian Meng stunned for a moment: "Uh..."
Although both of them are spiritual, she who has been sleeping for a million years can only scare people, while the Evil Emperor can hurt Emperor Tian. If we talk about the strongest spiritual master in the continent, it must be the Evil Emperor without a doubt.
While Tian Meng and the others were talking, Huo Yuhao's spiritual detection had already penetrated deep underground and he also discovered some clues.
Almost all the above-ground buildings of the Holy Spirit Church's branches, big and small, are just facades; the real components are all built underground without exception, and the headquarters is no exception.
Under the seemingly messy ruins in front of us, the real headquarters of the Holy Spirit Church is hidden. Among them, there are several evil soul masters with low cultivation levels walking back and forth in the underground passage of the ruins.
The Holy Spirit Church has not completely abandoned the arrangements in the Demon Forest. Judging from their busy appearance, they should be collecting the last valuable treasures in the Demon Forest and putting them into the empty warehouse. They are waiting until they can no longer extract the last bit of treasure here and it is time for them to leave.
Huo Yuhao didn't waste any words. He walked silently to the top of the warehouse and stomped his right foot hard on the ground.
With a loud bang, a large hole with a diameter of ten meters suddenly opened up on the ground that was originally covered by the ruins. Light shone into the warehouse below, revealing the stunned figures of the evil soul masters.
These evil soul masters were few in number, and the highest level of their cultivation was only Soul Saint. Faced with such a sudden and huge impact, almost none of them could react.
Then there was a strong and violent wave of mental power. More than a dozen evil soul masters with low cultivation levels suddenly had bloody eyes and fell straight down. What's worse, some of them even had their heads burst like ripe fruits.
The leading evil soul master, the Soul Saint, was not in such a bad state. The moment the ground was blasted open, he shouted, "Enemy attack!"
Just as he was about to organize his men to launch a counterattack, he felt a buzzing in his head. He became dazed, dizzy, and almost fainted.
So powerful! Are you here to settle accounts with the strong men of our Sun-Moon Empire?
The last thought flashed through the mind of the evil soul master Soul Saint, and then his eyes turned a strange blood red, and the soul power fluctuations on his body suddenly became several times more violent.
"what is this?"
Huo Yuhao frowned and kept his distance, feeling the powerful aura from the other party that suddenly increased dozens of times, his eyes full of vigilance.
The evil soul master in front of him had extremely crazy emotional fluctuations and his aura was also abnormal. The aura he burst out in an instant was even more overwhelming than that of a Titled Douluo.
But he did not display the same fighting power and sense of oppression as a Titled Douluo. To be precise, the feeling he gave people was that... his mental power had suddenly skyrocketed dozens of times.
how did you do that?
Huo Yuhao was a spiritual attribute, so he knew how abnormal this phenomenon was. There were many secret methods that could instantly increase a person's combat power and soul power, but he seemed to have never heard of a secret method that could purely increase spiritual power.
The evil soul master Soul Saint in front of him gave him the feeling that he was not like a human evil soul master, but more like a soul beast, and a soul beast that Huo Yuhao had seen before, the Evil Eye Tyrant.
Suddenly, Huo Yuhao’s expression changed. He no longer paid attention to the evil soul master, but turned his head abruptly to look in another direction.
It wasn't just him whose expression suddenly became serious. The Ice and Snow Emperors and Tian Meng as well, all looked towards the depths of the Demonic Forest at the same time.
There, a terrifying aura was awakening. The terrifying pressure traveled across a hundred miles in an instant, giving Huo Yuhao an indescribable feeling of suffocation and oppression.
The evil soul master Soul Saint's mental state has already gone insane. Ye Xishui has already placed a most terrifying restriction on him, which will be automatically triggered as long as his life is in danger. This is also his last mission to stay here.
Let the powerful men from the Sun-Moon Empire who came to the former headquarters of the Holy Spirit Church to investigate pay the price.
The evil soul master Soul Saint shouted loudly: "Lord Lord, please show up and punish these humans who destroyed the peace of the Demon Forest!"
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 489: The Power of the Evil Emperor
Evil Soul Master Soul Saint's expression became extremely distorted due to pain, but his crazy tone was full of excitement. Strong mental power fluctuations emanated from his body, as if echoing the terrifying aura coming from the depths of the evil forest.
Huo Yuhao's expression had become extremely solemn. There was no need to explain at all. He understood the intention of the Holy Spirit Cult in an instant.
After the Holy Spirit Cult abandoned this headquarters, they left behind an extremely vicious trap. If anyone wanted to break into this place, they would use special means to awaken the real owner of the Demonic Forest.
The evil emperor ranks second among the top ten ferocious beasts, second only to the beast god Ditian.