Douluo Dalu II: I, Huo Yuhao, join Sun Moon

Douluo Dalu II—Chapter 157: The Idea of the Body Sect

Jing Hongchen stepped into the laboratory and saw Huo Yuhao in front of the workbench. He thought to himself that Yuhao was indeed a talented and diligent child.

He cleared his throat and said, "Yuhao, I've brought the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record."

"Oh? Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record? Dean, did they agree to your request?" Huo Yuhao subconsciously lifted his head, placing the rare metal he was holding on the laboratory table.

Studying rare metals is very important for him as a soul engineer. According to common sense, he shouldn't stop his research. But since the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record was so significant, he quickly set down his work and walked over to Jing Hongchen.

Soon, he stood in front of him.

Jing Hongchen took out the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record from his storage ring and handed it to Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao took the booklet and began to study it carefully.

After a while, he memorized all its contents.

He thought to himself that this was worthy of being Tang San's work. This version of Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record was indeed authentic enough.

In fact, within this Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, techniques like the Purple Demon Eye were quite complete.

However, Mysterious Heaven Skill lacked the part about opening the eight extraordinary meridians, which meant that practitioners of the castrated version of Mysterious Heaven Skill would have limited achievements within the Tang Sect's unique skills.

No wonder the Tang Sect fell into a state of decline as soon as the hidden weapons fell out of use.

According to the original story, to achieve great success with the Mysterious Heaven Skill, one must open the eight meridians and practice it to the eighth level.

A clear sign of the meridians opening up is the emergence of body-protecting Qi, which essentially reflects internal force release.

Tang San once said that the eight meridians could be opened after reaching the sixth level of Mysterious Heaven Skill.

In other words, no matter how much the descendants practice, they can only reach the fifth level of Mysterious Heaven Skill at most, and cannot continue further.

Of course, Tang Wulin, as Tang San's son, was an exception. Tang San taught him the method of opening the eight meridians.

But Huo Yuhao never understood why Tang San kept this secret. Logically, even if he left a complete version of Mysterious Heaven Skill for the descendants of the Tang Sect, no one could overthrow Tang San's achievements.

After all, Mysterious Heaven Skill has its limits.

Tang San was a dual god, and there were very few gods in the God Realm capable of competing with him.

Even if someone from the Tang Sect, aided by a complete Mysterious Heaven Skill, advances step by step and eventually becomes a god, Tang San would likely have an ally or helper. Isn't that a good thing?

"How about it, Yuhao? Is this the real thing? If not, I'll go bother Yan Shaozhe and the others later," Jing Hongchen asked.

"It should be this. They wouldn't make a fake Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record just to fool us. After all, Fan Yu and He Caitou are very important to Shrek Academy," Huo Yuhao replied, accepting the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record. He planned to show it to Electrolux later so he could consider if Mysterious Heaven Skill could be further improved.

He then chatted with Jing Hongchen for a while before Jing Hongchen left the laboratory to handle other matters.

Huo Yuhao didn't leave immediately. Instead, he called out to Electrolux in the Spiritual Sea: "Teacher, I got an incomplete version. I want to show it to you."

"Incomplete?" Electrolux was a little confused.

"Yes, I'll show it to you now." Huo Yuhao took out the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.

Electrolux sensed the contents briefly, then fell silent for a moment before commenting: "The internal skill called Mysterious Heaven Skill in the Treasure Record does have some problems. However, it can be improved to eliminate these issues. This will take some time—don't worry, I'll study it carefully."

"Thank you, teacher," Huo Yuhao said with a smile.

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The Heavenly Soul Empire, Body Sect

The 98th-level Super Douluo Du Busi was sitting in the lobby, gazing at the elders of the Body Sect with a helpless expression. He said, "So, we still haven't purchased the earth-drilling soul guidance devices? Without it, how are we supposed to attack Illustrious Virtue Hall from underground and retreat afterward?"

Although the overall strength of the Body Sect was formidable, Illustrious Virtue Hall was a crucial location of the Sun Moon Empire. Attacking it to seize the embryo of a hundred-thousand-year-old soul beast would inevitably lead to pursuit and interception.

Du Busi believed that even if surrounded by powerful enemies, he could break through easily—he was very strong. According to his intelligence, the Sun Moon Empire did not have a powerful Extreme Douluo.

But the problem was that the other members of the Body Sect were far weaker than he was.

Du Busi couldn't rely solely on his strength to ensure their safe retreat.

As for sacrificing some members of the Body Sect, honestly, Du Busi couldn't bring himself to do that.

On one hand, he was the sect master and needed to fulfill his duties.

On the other hand, owners of the body martial souls are very rare on the Douluo Continent.

Therefore, each owner of the body martial soul was extremely valuable.

He recalled the failure to recruit the young Huo Yuhao last time, which left Du Busi somewhat dissatisfied.

Based on Huo Yuhao's performance in the Soul Master Competition, his martial soul was exceptional.

A white-haired elder sighed. "Master, it's not that we aren't trying. We've offered a lot of gold soul coins to buy the earth-drilling soul guidance device, but no one is willing to sell it."

He continued, "If it weren't for the strict confidentiality of this operation, I'd almost think that Sun Moon Empire knew we were planning to attack Illustrious Virtue Hall with the earth-drilling soul guidance device and preemptively took countermeasures."

Du Busi frowned. "Is there no other way? This embryo of the hundred-thousand-year soul beast is too important. It can help Aotian go further. We must get it."

He emphasized, "Once I die, the Body Sect will need you and Aotian to support it."

Aotian is the future leader of the younger generation of the Body Sect and will become the sect master eventually.

But his martial soul is a skin type, which is inferior to Du Busi's. Aotian's future achievements are likely to be lower than his.

However, if he obtains this hundred-thousand-year soul beast embryo, Aotian could become the owner of twin martial souls. You should understand what that means.

The elders looked at each other, and then the white-haired elder continued, "Sect Master, perhaps we could ask Xu Jiawei for help?"

"He issued this task and reached out to us, but we're now in trouble. It's reasonable to seek his assistance."

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