NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 86: Chapter 86: Electrolux
[Bonus]
"What's wrong, Brother Skydream?" At this moment, Huo Yuhao had already figured out what had happened to him and realized he'd gotten extremely lucky. He asked Skydream Iceworm in confusion. Since just now, Skydream had been on edge, as if danger might descend at any moment, wishing he could curl into a ball.
"It's nothing, Yuhao. There are two humans outside guarding you, seems like they mean no harm. You should go out quickly."
Skydream couldn't bring himself to tell Huo Yuhao that he, a mighty million-year soul beast, was so scared he almost peed himself. He still needed to save face.
"Guarding me? Could it be them?" Huo Yuhao was stunned.
He had no close friends or family left in the world. Thinking it over, the only possibilities were Bei Bei and Tang Ya, who had shared his grilled fish earlier.
After sending Huo Yuhao's spiritual body out, Skydream looked up at the gray light sphere above the spiritual sea, his eyes full of annoyance and caution.
During his fusion with Huo Yuhao, this gray light sphere had barged in to compete for territory, which infuriated him.
What made it worse was that, despite being a million-year spiritual power soul beast, he couldn't out-compete the gray orb in Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea.
This made Skydream extremely wary and vigilant toward it.
After all, in Douluo, existences that could crush him in spiritual power were few and far between.
Yet recently, he'd encountered two, each more monstrous than the last—enough to make him doubt his life.
"I can't believe a shred of my soul survived, and I ended up in this strange world. Was that just now a demigod of this plane?"
Inside the gray orb, a phantom shadow murmured softly.
Just awakened after world-hopping, Electrolux didn't intend to communicate with others yet, but quietly observed this new world and the young human he was attached to.
But he never expected that right after awakening, he'd encounter a demigod—a rarity even in his own world.
To encounter someone who had also condensed divine sense right after arriving in this world made Electrolux suspect this world might be even higher-level than his original one.
"Scared me to death, Bei Bei! I thought something was really going to happen! But that white-haired guy just now was way too handsome!" Tang Ya, seeing Lu Jingming's group leave, patted her ample chest with relief, and then her eyes sparkled with excitement.
"Was he?" Bei Bei, while inwardly admitting Lu Jingming's looks surpassed his own, usually didn't care about these things. Still, Tang Ya's comment made him a little self-conscious.
"Hehe, you're jealous, Bei Bei!" Tang Ya teased, eyes twinkling mischievously.
"No, Teacher Xiao Ya, you're overthinking. Let's check on Yuhao, he's still unconscious." Bei Bei smoothly changed the subject, hoping Tang Ya would drop it.
Hearing what Bei Bei called her, Tang Ya's face showed pride. Hands on hips, she said, "Bei Bei, I meant that white-haired big sister was super handsome. What are you thinking? I'm not some lovesick fool."
Bei Bei's mouth twitched, left speechless—obviously outmaneuvered by Tang Ya.
"Big Sister Xiao Ya, Brother Bei…" At this awkward moment, Huo Yuhao woke up, helping Bei Bei out by shifting Tang Ya's attention.
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"Those two just now must have been Shrek Academy students, right? A Grandmaster and a Soul Elder, daring to come to Star Dou Forest—pretty gutsy!" Zhang Lexuan instantly recognized their uniforms as Shrek Academy outer court disciples.
"Not quite, Lexuan. There weren't just three of them there," Lu Jingming said with a chuckle.
Though Zhang Lexuan had reached Soul Douluo, her perception couldn't match the soul tool detector made by Herta for him.
He couldn't sense the hidden powerhouses either, but on Douluo, even if they could hide their aura and soul power, they couldn't hide their life magnetic field. With the detector's range, even Ultimate Douluo would struggle to remain hidden.
Besides, Bei Bei was the only great-grandson of Dragon God Douluo Mu En, the sole heir of that line. There's no way Mu En would let Bei Bei and Tang Ya come to the dangerous Star Dou Forest alone.
So, it made perfect sense that there were hidden protectors.
Zhang Lexuan suddenly realized—of course, even outer court students would have teachers leading their soul ring hunts, not go alone.
"The wheels of fate have begun to turn. I want to make this continent much livelier." Lu Jingming's face showed excitement as he produced an ice-blue gem in his right hand.
He raised it to the sun, and for a moment, the ice-blue gem sparkled brilliantly in the sunlight.
However, Zhang Lexuan sensed an extreme chill from the gem.
At the same time, the energy waves it emitted were very familiar—wasn't this the same as the energy gained after the hologram-strategy session? According to Lu Jingming, that was a high-level energy called Honkai Energy.
Seeing Lu Jingming's excited face, Zhang Lexuan sighed inwardly.
She knew he was at it again, planning something big.
"The script for that God King is already underway. He shouldn't mind if I join as another player. But who should I pick as my chess piece?" Lu Jingming played with the gem, smiling lightly and lost in thought.
He wanted to stir things up, but wouldn't drag Haiyuan City into it—so a pseudonym was necessary, and he didn't plan to take the stage himself.
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Haiyuan City, St. Freya Academy.
"You hunted two hundred-thousand-year soul beasts in Star Dou Forest?" Gu Yue was stunned when she heard that Lu Jingming and Zhang Lexuan had each absorbed a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, and in Star Dou Forest at that.
She'd just finished a period of closed-door cultivation, only to find her territory had been raided.
Other places' hundred-thousand-year soul beasts were whatever, but in Star Dou Forest, those were her subordinates!
Lu Jingming killed two of her subordinates in one trip—no wonder Gu Yue was speechless.