Chapter 41 - Xuan Ziwen: He is too suitable for the sun and the moon (2800 words)
Seeing Huo Yuhao controlling the shaking of the bamboo stick tube, Beibei was surprised: "Brother Huo, you also have this trick?"
"It's not a great skill." Huo Yuhao picked up the stick he had just shaken out and said half-jokingly, "I have some experience with this thing called luck."
"As for drawing lots, it's just a pastime in my spare time, just for fun."
There are dozens of simulated bamboo sticks, and each route has different degrees of luck: bad luck, very bad luck, very good luck, more bad luck than good luck, more good luck than bad luck... Each route has multiple possibilities.
He did not deliberately control the shaking; he just shook it randomly to draw the lot.
That is to say, he may shake the right side to get very bad luck, and at the same time, he may also shake the right side to get very good luck.
Dugu Luo approached Huo Yuhao, looked at the stick in his hand curiously, and asked cheerfully, "Yuhao, what do you say?"
"Sister Dugu, the divination result tells me that the right road is extremely dangerous."
Dugu Luo nodded heavily: "Yes, Yuhao, we won't take the right road when the time comes."
Of course, this method may have a good predictive effect for people with a little luck. It is not recommended for ordinary people to use.
Then the two of them continued to shake the sticks while eating the skewers. The atmosphere was quite lively. However, when the next two sticks were drawn, Huo Yuhao was suddenly startled.
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[Middle road, very bad luck, very bad luck], [Left road, very bad luck, very bad luck].
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Hmm? Are all three roads dangerous? Huo Yuhao's expression suddenly became serious.
What does it mean? Among dozens of lots, the first three he randomly drew corresponded to the very unlucky lots on the left, middle, and right roads, respectively.
Could it be that all three paths lead to death?
Huo Yuhao fell into a brief thought, wondering if he would be contaminated by something filthy no matter which road he took...
Although the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well were created by that adult, it couldn't be so outrageous that the God King would sense the breath of fate as soon as he went there and then make a series of arrangements.
Dugu Luo looked at the three very unlucky lots, her lips slightly opened, and after being stunned for a long while, she slowly smiled and joked, "Yuhao, has your luck always been so bad?"
Huo Yuhao shook his head without any nervousness and said in a friendly manner, "To be honest, I still have a little luck."
"Maybe these three roads are really strange." Huo Yuhao seemed to be thinking about something.
Tang Ya, who was standing beside him, looked confused and asked curiously, "Yuhao, what are you looking for?"
Dugu Luo responded on behalf of Huo Yuhao, hooking a strand of hair behind his ear and speaking in a semi-serious tone: "My martial soul has a problem, which has caused me to have many problems. I need the herbs from that place to heal me."
"Ah? Is it urgent?" Tang Ya asked subconsciously.
"Urgent."
After that, Huo Yuhao and Dugu Luo discussed it and decided to rest for a night and then go check out the entrance the next morning, at least to know the approximate location of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
A few people chatted while eating skewers, and soon it was evening when they discussed establishing a sect.
Zhang Lexuan paused the skewers in her hand and said with a little surprise, "I know that Tang Ya wants to rebuild the Tang Sect. Little brother Yuhao, do you also want to establish a sect?"
"This idea just came to me."
Huo Yuhao looked at Zhang Lexuan and smiled: "Sister Lexuan if I establish a sect one day, will you be willing to join?"
Zhang Lexuan smiled gently. She would not ruthlessly attack Huo Yuhao's dream, so she encouraged him: "Little brother Yuhao, just work hard."
"Anyway, you have helped your sister a lot today. If your sect is successfully established one day in the future, I am willing to take on a position."
Huo Yuhao thanked her with a smile. He had only asked casually, so it was good to receive such an answer. If one wanted to establish a sect, it was closely related to their strength.
As long as one is strong enough, establishing a sect is just a matter of course. After all, most people cannot escape the influence of the strong.
At this time, Xuanzi, who had been eyeing the skewers for a long time, walked over, dragging the corpse of the Three-Soul Ghost Mantis.
"Little kid, you are a pretty good griller. Can you help me grill this mantis?"
Xuan Zi said angrily, "If I don't eat this beast today. My mind wouldn't be clear."
Huo Yuhao was stunned and frowned slightly. "Roasting a mantis? It's too old. With my cultivation level, I will not be able to roast it well."
"It doesn't matter. After I cut it into pieces, I will decompose the energy contained in it. You can roast it just like normal meat."
Xuan Zi said as he cut the Three Souls Ghost Mantis into dozens of pieces.
There is nothing wrong with roasting captured soul beasts, but roasting mantises is indeed quite rare, and Huo Yuhao has never roasted one before.
Seeing Huo Yuhao's hesitation, Xuanzi gave him a small bag of gold soul coins: "One hundred gold soul coins are your reward for roasting it. You don't need me to pay more, right?" Huo Yuhao thought about it and did not refuse. "Okay then." Several disciples came over and said that they were willing to risk it and eat the roasted mantis even if they felt uncomfortable. Otherwise, they would not be able to swallow their anger and might easily suffer internal injuries.
Xuan Zi readily agreed and said to everyone, "I will treat you all to grilled skewers. Come and eat grilled mantises for me later."
Most of the disciples had been eyeing the grilled skewers for a long time, but when they saw the eldest sister and Huo Yuhao and the others staying together, they didn't have the nerve to ask if the skewers were for sale.
With the help of Xuan Zi and a group of students, Huo Yuhao started to roast the mantis.
Speaking of which, this time Xuan Zi did not chase after the Five-Ring Soul King but a stronger one, the Three-Soul Ghost Mantis is nearly 100,000 years old. This is enough to prove the power of Xuan Lao's passive ability.
After a while, the Three-Soul Ghost Mantis was roasted. The nutritional value of soul beasts of this level is still good, and Huo Yuhao roasted it in a very delicious way.
The Three-Soul Ghost Mantis was quickly consumed by Xuanzi and his disciples. Everyone kept saying how satisfying and delicious it was.
Xuan Zi waved his hand, and a chicken as big as half a carriage flew over, supported by his soul power.
He carried on his back and whispered, "Little kid, do you think my 25,000-year-old chicken soul beast can..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhang Lexuan's usual cold voice sounded behind him: "Master Xuan, I think Yuhao is a little tired and needs a rest."
Zhang Lexuan did not refute the roasted mantis just now; after all, the Three-Soul Ghost Mantis had hurt the disciples, but how could she bear to watch the roasting of this chicken that attracted Xuanzi to leave the team?
Xuan Zi coughed lightly. "Le Xuan, you guys take a good rest and continue to go deeper into the Sunset Forest tomorrow. I will follow the team closely."
Then he put the 25,000-year-old chicken into the storage soul guide and walked to the front of the team, holding a wine gourd.
Zhang Lexuan looked at Huo Yuhao and smiled, "Yuhao, it's getting late. You can camp with us so that we can take care of each other."
"Sister Dugu, what do you think?" Huo Yuhao asked Dugu Luo for her opinion. His main purpose was to find out the location of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well through Dugu Luo's map.
Dugu Luo naturally agreed, "Well, then I'll trouble Sister Lexuan to take care of me."
Before she was rescued from the evil soul master by Huo Yuhao, she was alone. Now that she is with such a large team, she feels a little more secure, even though the teacher who loves to eat chicken legs seems a little unreliable.
Zhang Lexuan returned to her tent and left a disciple who took turns to keep watch at night to accompany Master Xuan, while the rest of the disciples returned to their respective tents.
Dugu Luo took out her tent from her storage bracelet, and after quickly setting it up with Huo Yuhao, the two of them went inside.
There is a lot of space inside, but there is only a big bed, and some toiletries and blankets are piled in the corner.
Dugu Luo hung up the candles and saw Huo Yuhao pick up a blanket. She felt it was a bit inappropriate to let her savior sleep on the floor, and her lips moved.
"Yuhao, how about I sleep on the floor? You are young, so I will take care of you. You can sleep on the bed."
Huo Yuhao grabbed the blanket and waved his hand, "It's okay. I don't choose where to sleep. Before, I just dug a hole in the snow and slept there."
He spread the blanket and then asked Tianmeng Ice Silkworm to transform the remains into an ice silk quilt. He said slowly, "It's getting late. Go to bed early. Tomorrow we will go and see what the three routes of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well are like."
Seeing that Huo Yuhao had covered himself with the quilt and lay flat, Dugu Luo didn't say anything more. She leaned against the head of the bed and took out a book from her arms. The title of the book was:
"Listen to the Story of the World's Number One Poison Soul Master and the Story of Becoming Close Friends with the Sea God Tang San."
There is no doubt that this book was written by Dugu Luo's ancestor, Dugu Bo, and it has been passed down to her generation ten thousand years later.
Dugu Luo flipped through the book and whispered, "Tang San is a friend of different generations..."
"Hey Yuhao, if I meet our ancestor Tang San, do you think I won't have to worry about the accumulation of toxins in my body? He must have a way to deal with the poison of the Jade Phosphor Serpent king. Martial Soul"
Huo Yuhao naturally wouldn't start by talking about the power of the God King Tang, and Dugu Luo probably wouldn't understand.
"Sister Dugu, think about it carefully. Since your ancestor Dugu Bo, there has been a map of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well."
"Why is it that after ten thousand years, each of your generations cannot find the exact location of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well?"
Dugu Luo was startled, frowned, and thought for a long time, and tentatively said, "They can't be incapable of reading a map…"
Huo Yuhao slowly spoke: "I don't think so."
Dugu Luo thought so too. Which soul master can't read a map? Thinking of this, she couldn't help but curl her lips in complaint.
"My ancestor Dugu Bo and Tang San were close friends regardless of age differences. Ten thousand years have passed, but we still can't find the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, and our ancestor Tang San hasn't given us any guidance to help us." Huo Yuhao's leisurely voice came.
"Tang San will probably say that gods are not allowed to interfere with the lower world without permission, so they can't help you."
Dugu Luo was a little angry. "If it weren't for the immortal grass of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well given to Tang San by Patriarch Dugu Bo, he might not have been able to become a god."
If it weren't for the poison, her talent would be good. She was already level 26 when she was twelve years old. In the beginning, she relied on her surname Dugu to get a city lord-level recommendation letter and went to Shrek Academy to apply for admission.
As a result, because the toxins in her body continued to accumulate, Shrek Academy had no solution. They gave her some pills to suppress the toxins but had no choice but to reject her.
After that, she could only rely on herself to find a way to survive and look for medicinal herbs that might be able to cure the venom of the Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Soul.
She suddenly realized tonight that the ancestral map might still make it difficult for her to find the exact location of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
Thinking of this, Dugu Luo clenched the book tightly in both hands until her fingertips turned white.
"Yuhao, I suddenly feel that Tang San is not a good person. He is not sincere at all and is hypocritical."
"My ancestor Dugu Bo's magical herbs helped him and his friends become gods. It's okay that he can only detoxify and treat the symptoms but not the root cause. We, the younger generation, can't find the location of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well for some reason."
Huo Yuhao pursed his lips. You suddenly felt so accurate.
Seeing Dugu Luo's indignant face, he chuckled and comforted her, "Okay, okay, Sister Dugu, you will not be able to break out when you encounter my poison."
Dugu Luo's eyes lit up when she heard this and she asked happily, "Yuhao, why do you say that?"
"Although I can't completely solve your problem now, I can refine a detoxification pill to inhibit the spread of the toxin."
Huo Yuhao pointed out the flaws in this method: "But your toxins are equivalent to your cultivation. Taking detoxification pills directly will weaken your combat effectiveness."
"Maybe the toxins you have accumulated through hours of hard practice can be eliminated by a detoxification pill."
Dugu Luo was overjoyed, threw the book on the bed, and clenched her fists. "It's okay; as long as I can live, I can always find a way to completely solve the Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Soul."
"Yuhao, you can refine pills." Dugu Luo felt that happiness came so suddenly.
"Well, the little skills I mastered in my spare time."
"You have so many little skills."
"More little skills means fewer ways to die."
The two chatted for a while in a good mood and then fell asleep.
The night passed peacefully.
The next morning, the two got up and packed up. Dugu Luo packed up the tent, while Zhang Lexuan and a group of disciples had already organized their formation, ready to continue going deeper into the Sunset Forest.
"Yuhao, do you want to join us today?"
Huo Yuhao glanced at Dugu Luo's map and found a section that was on the way, so he accepted the invitation.
After a while, Zhang Lexuan stopped in front of a large bush of vines.
She released several moon blades to clear away the annoying vines, leaving behind a special vine with a green and transparent texture, which was tightly imprisoned by Zhang Lexuan's moon ring.
Tang Ya came up to take a look and said excitedly, "Beibei, look, it's a thousand-year-old soul-binding vine. Great, I want this one."
Zhang Lexuan said calmly, "The soul-binding vine has life attributes and its toughness is also very good. Let's take it."
Then, while Tang Ya was hunting for soul rings, Huo Yuhao, Dugu Luo, and Zhang Lexuan said goodbye to each other.
Following the route on the map, Huo Yuhao and Dugu Luo continued to go deeper in another direction.
Zhang Lexuan watched Huo Yuhao departing back and wished him, "I hope you can realize your dream."
After walking for an unknown distance, Huo Yuhao released his spiritual detection sharing while habitually rubbing the Angry Buddha Lotus Flame and stuffing the Soul-Restoring Pill into his mouth.
Behind him, somewhere beyond the range of mental detection.
"Xuan Ziwen, what are you looking at?" Xu Sheng was confused.
Xuan Ziwen took off his self-made soul guide glasses and handed them to Xu Sheng, unable to hide his excitement: "Spiritual attribute, most likely the main body martial soul."
"And he likes to take drugs, which is perfect for us Sun Moon."
(End of this chapter)