MTLNOVEL Chapter 204: DD2—Chapter 204: The Opportunity to Enter the Underworld
DD2—Chapter 204: The Opportunity to Enter the Underworld
Moreover, the researchers of Illustrious Virtue Hall are quite important; they are essentially researchers, not skilled in combat, but proficient in developing soul guidance devices.
In the original work, a large number of researchers perished under the attack of the Body Sect, which greatly slowed down Illustrious Virtue Hall's development of soul guidance devices.
This caused the Sun Moon Empire to launch the war much later; otherwise, the Sun Moon Empire could have certainly started the war earlier and advanced the process of unifying the Douluo Continent.
The flustered researchers gradually calmed down after listening to Huo Yuhao's words and began to act according to his instructions.
After all, Huo Yuhao was the disciple of Chief Researcher Xuan Ziwen, highly regarded by Jing Hongchen, and had brought the honor of the All Continent Soul Master championship to the Sun Moon Empire; thus, Huo Yuhao enjoyed a high reputation in the Illustrious Virtue Hall.
"Yuhao, enemies are attacking the Illustrious Virtue Hall. If it weren't for your suggestion to the Dean to strengthen Illustrious Virtue Hall's defenses, I'm afraid a large number of researchers here would have been killed or injured," Xuan Ziwen said, walking over with a solemn expression.
Under normal circumstances, researchers are usually fully focused on developing soul guidance devices, with little time to care about external matters. If someone were to launch an attack on researchers in such a situation, the consequences would be unimaginable.
The nearby researchers were somewhat stunned by Xuan Ziwen's words, and then conversations began to rise.
"What? Was this Huo Yuhao's suggestion? I thought building the defensive fortifications was the Dean's idea. I was wondering when the Dean became so farsighted; it turns out Huo Yuhao was guiding him!
No wonder that when the defensive fortifications were first built, I felt it was a bit strange. With the Dean's personality, he should have used all those expensive, rare metals for us to develop new soul guidance devices!"
"Hiss, if Huo Yuhao hadn't suggested building the defensive fortifications, we would have suffered heavy casualties, and many families would have been torn apart as a result."
All the researchers present were now grateful to Huo Yuhao, and their gazes towards Huo Yuhao gradually became fervent, after all, he was their savior.
Soon, the researchers packed their belongings and followed Huo Yuhao into the secret passage; this was for safety, and any potential losses would only be structural damage.
The researchers were all very wealthy, so after activating their storage soul guidance devices, they practically emptied Illustrious Virtue Hall of all valuable items.
However, after Huo Yuhao had walked a certain distance, he heard Electrolux's voice echoing in his Spiritual Sea: "Yuhao, my strength has recovered to a certain extent. I just tried it and found that I can now enter the Underworld.
However, that golden light in your mind seems to have undergone some changes. A while ago, I felt that under its influence, the speed of my strength recovery seemed to have accelerated significantly."
Huo Yuhao thought that changes were normal, after all, the Plane Consciousness had now severed its connection with the Parasite named Tang Hao.
However, the Plane Consciousness's status on Douluo Star was indeed high enough that even Electrolux didn't notice his communication with the Plane Consciousness.
This was also normal; in the original work, even a God staying in the lower realm would be suppressed by the Plane.
However, this suppression should be flexible, and the extent of the suppression also has its limits.
The God Realm governs a large number of planes and planets, so it will naturally adhere to the rules of the God Realm; otherwise, if the God Realm sent a God to the lower realm to enforce laws and he was suppressed by the Plane, then defeated by a native of the Plane with lower cultivation, it would be too embarrassing.
Of course, he also planned to reveal the matter of the Plane Consciousness to Electrolux in the future, allowing the Plane Consciousness and Electrolux to cooperate and jointly help him become the Strongest. After all, Electrolux was a trustworthy teacher, completely unlike someone like Yu Xiaogang, who even messed up when taking Tang San to hunt Soul Beasts.
Previously, when he was teleported into the Ancient Golden Tree, Electrolux and his other Spirit Souls thought it was because he was a God reincarnated, thus possessing some special abilities.
He subconsciously condensed his spiritual body in his Spirit Sea and asked, "Teacher, since you can enter the Underworld now, can you try to bring souls out of the Underworld?"
He pondered for a moment, feeling that if he could bring out some relatively important souls from the Underworld, he could find a way to make those souls his allies, after all, he and Tang San would eventually have a battle.
"Of course, you can. Don't worry, through my attempts, I found that the speed of bringing souls out of the Underworld is very fast. I can show you in a moment," Electrolux said.
Thoughts surged in Huo Yuhao's mind; according to Electrolux, the speed of retrieving souls from the Underworld was very fast.
Then he could try to retrieve Du Bisi's soul, thereby affecting the Body Sect. Du Bisi was Du Busi's elder brother and the previous Sect Master of the Body Sect, but he died at Mu En's hands in his early years, which is why Du Busi took over the position of Sect Master of the Body Sect.
Moreover, if Du Busi, that old guy, saw that things were going wrong, he would flee; he wouldn't foolishly stay there and fight Jing Hongchen and the others. As for Jing Hongchen and the others stopping him, it's probably unlikely; after all, Du Busi might choose to fight to the death to allow his Sect members to leave.
Soon, Huo Yuhao led the researchers from Illustrious Virtue Hall out of the secret passage and encountered Jing Hongchen, who was rushing towards Illustrious Virtue Hall.
Huo Yuhao explained what had happened in Illustrious Virtue Hall to Jing Hongchen, who then hurriedly flew towards Illustrious Virtue Hall, followed by several fully armed Soul Engineer Legion.
Underground at Illustrious Virtue Hall.
Inside the hole dug by the drilling soul guidance device.
Du Busi looked at Illustrious Virtue Hall above with a puzzled expression.
The Body Sect's people had been continuously bombarding it with soul cannons, but no matter how much they bombarded, the silver-gray metal walls would at most bend and deform, but they simply wouldn't break.
He was somewhat perplexed: "Is the Sun Moon Empire's defense of Illustrious Virtue Hall that strong? Or are the soul cannons given by Xu Jiawei too weak? We couldn't even blow open the outer walls?"
Initially, according to Xu Jiawei's suggestion, the Body Sect should have first sent people to infiltrate Illustrious Virtue Hall, then detonate the soul cannons to cause casualties and chaos inside Illustrious Virtue Hall. This would strike at the foundation of Illustrious Virtue Hall.
It takes a lot of time to cultivate a competent researcher, but it only takes an instant to kill one.
Moreover, doing so would also create a good opportunity for the Body Sect to steal the 100,000-Year Soul Beast Embryo, which could be described as killing two birds with one stone.
However, Du Busi didn't expect that Illustrious Virtue Hall's defenses were extremely strict, completely different from what Xu Jiawei said about "lax defenses, easy to sneak in." He also sent people to try, but found that there was no way to sneak in and release the soul cannons.
Therefore, Du Busi could only bite the bullet and have his Sect members directly bombard Illustrious Virtue Hall from the outside with soul cannons. After half a day of bombardment, the walls only deformed; there was simply no way to blow them open.
"Sect Master, what should we do?" a middle-aged man anxiously asked.
Du Busi's expression darkened slightly: "According to the intelligence provided by Xu Jiawei, we already know the location where the 100,000-Year Soul Beast Embryo is stored. Therefore, I will personally act to destroy the walls and attract the attention of the Sun Moon powerhouse. You all charge in and seize the 100,000-year-old Soul Beast Embryo!"
After saying these words, Du Busi directly rushed out. Green light surged around him, and a dark green light and shadow floated behind him, emitting a majestic aura.
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