FE—Chapter 148: When the Death God Envoy Hijacked Huo Yuhao
"Junior! I think you've heard of my fierce reputation as the Death God Envoy. Even the Titled Douluo of Shrek Academy can't do anything to me. If you dare to take another step forward, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
In the cave near the Sun Moon region of the Mingdou Mountains, the Death God Envoy glared at a group of students from the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy outside and threatened them viciously.
Guo Nu smiled and signaled. Ma Rulong and Xiao Hongchen understood immediately, calling on the students of the regular and reserve teams to surround the cave entrance. Their soul engineers didn't need to go inside; they could just use soul missiles to bombard the cave from outside.
Xiao Hongchen was a little excited: "Yuhao, open it for a moment—share your spiritual detection!"
Huo Yuhao had already released his Spirit Eye martial soul. At this moment, he activated spiritual detection to share the spiritual connection with everyone. The scenes inside the cave were vividly displayed in everyone's sea of consciousness.
"Is this your soul skill?" Guo Nu sensed the detection map in the spiritual sea, which detailed every inch of the cave and was momentarily shocked. His eyes shifted as he looked at Huo Yuhao with new respect.
Huo Yuhao smiled politely and nodded: "Yes, it's my soul skill."
Guo Nu's eyes grew even more eager. As the head of the second soul engineer legion of the Sun Moon Empire, he could see how this soul skill would greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the soul guidance artillery shells.
This detection map would assist in aiming artillery shells on the battlefield, significantly improving hit accuracy. When two armies confronted each other, this would create an absolute suppression force through artillery fire.
Xiao Hongchen chuckled: "You look surprised, Captain Guo? He's the student that Grandpa values most. Compared to his talent, this soul skill isn't very impressive."
Guo Nu recognized the girl next to Huo Yuhao. She was Meng Hongchen, the granddaughter of the Hall Master. Seeing their close relationship, he expressed admiration:
"Well, it's clear the Hall Master truly treasures him... Little brother, are you interested in joining our second soul engineer legion after graduation? With your soul skill, you have tremendous potential in the army."
Guo Nu's tone shifted quickly, almost eager: "If you train with us, I believe you could become a commander-in-chief of the three armies someday."
Xiao Hongchen coughed and said, "Captain Guo, let's first capture the evil soul master. Grandpa might let us join the army in the future, but which soul engineer legion we join depends on how Captain Guo fights with Grandpa."
After speaking, he activated his three-legged Golden Toad martial soul, controlling the surrounding gold elements, and quickly formed rows of level-5 soul cannons in front of his chest, aiming at the Death God Envoy inside the cave based on the detection map.
The Death God Envoy felt a bad premonition. When he was in Star Luo Empire's territory, a wave of Shrek students came to give him a show.
But now, under Xuan Zi's pursuit and fleeing to Sun Moon Empire's territory, facing these students from the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, his heart's pressure doubled.
He threatened sinisterly, ready to escape at any moment:
"My corpse explosion technique has caused a lot of trouble for the Shrek Supervisory Group. I didn't expect you to come knocking on my door. Today, I will show you how powerful I am!"
"Corpse slaves, get up!"
As he spoke, the Death God Envoy summoned most of his previously refined and accumulated corpse slaves.
He controlled these corpse slaves to attack Ma Rulong and the others, looking for an opportunity to repeat his old trick—turning into gray gas to escape.
Ye Guyi whispered, her eyes slightly brightening: "This evil soul master has some skill... Okay! Let me handle these corpse slaves."
She felt confident she could destroy the Death God Envoy today and was not worried about exposing her martial soul, so she prepared to purify these corpse slaves with holy light.
Although this wouldn't be as effective as directly destroying the Death God Envoy, it could strengthen her sacred power somewhat.
Meng Hongchen reached out to stop Ye Guyi: "Guyi, don't use your martial soul recklessly. Let Xiao bomb first."
Thinking of the communication between her grandfather and Xuan Zi just now, she smiled softly: "I didn't expect this Death God Envoy to escape from the hands of the Titled Douluo."
Di Rachel watched the scene like she was watching a good show: "This evil soul master is a five-ring Soul King. His corpse explosion technique was so powerful that even the Titled Douluo of Shrek couldn't react in time... By the time they reacted, many people had already been injured."
"Is his corpse explosion really that strong? Or did Xuan Zi from Shrek Academy fail to show his true strength this time?"
Xiao Hongchen sensed something was off.
Huo Yuhao smiled and said, "Brother Xiao, it's not that the corpse explosion is so powerful. It's just that Xuan Zi from Shrek tends to perform poorly when leading the team."
Xiao Hongchen nodded, thinking that made sense. How could the evil soul master's corpse explosion be as destructive as their soul guidance turret's firepower?
The Death God Envoy noticed the metal barrel in front of Xiao Hongchen's chest and felt a little scared.
He quickly realized that since the students from the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy had arrived, there must be an extremely powerful protector hiding nearby.
The protector was probably no weaker than Xuan Zi.
His mind raced, and he prepared to execute his old escape plan.
He had no corpses ready for detonation, so he planned to control his corpse slaves to explode and create chaos.
Hijack the hostages, then desperately flee into the mountains while the corpse slaves detonated.
If the teacher protecting him was chasing him, he would throw the hostages off a cliff to buy himself a precious escape opportunity...
He thought this would give him some peace of mind.
"Hehe, even Shrek's Titled Douluo can't catch me, so Sun Moon Title Douluo won't catch me that easily either."
Xiao Hongchen and others saw dozens of corpse slaves attacking. He was about to activate his soul guidance turret for a barrage, but suddenly, all the corpse slaves swelled and glowed red.
Yes—the Death God Envoy directly controlled the corpse slaves to explode.
Thanks to the shared spiritual detection, everyone noticed the impending explosion early and activated their shields.
Guo Nu even deployed a foldable, medium-sized defensive soul guidance device in front.
The few corpse slaves sent by the Death God Envoy to test the defenses were estimated to be only about three rings in cultivation. Their explosion power was not enough to breach the invincible shield.
After a series of "boom boom boom" explosions, most of the impact was blocked by Guo Nu's defensive soul guidance device.
The Death God Envoy seized the moment to rush toward the cave entrance, shouting:
"Jie Jie Jie, how's this Envoy's corpse explosion? Is it—"
His words suddenly froze—the entire team of students from the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy was safe and sound, with not a single casualty.
Ma Rulong, Xiao Hongchen, and the others looked at the Death God Envoy with a smile.
All his actions just now were displayed on the spiritual detection map. The Death God Envoy couldn't hide anything.
Electrolux also chuckled inside Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea:
"Yuhao, his inferior undead spell of sacrificing flesh and blood to summon corpse witches is fundamentally different from the undead magic I taught you—summoning half-plane undead creatures."
"Although it carries the aura of death, Yuhao, you must remember: any spell, including undead magic, depends on how you use it, rather than judging solely by its surface."
Huo Yuhao knew that the "Undead Disaster" had a profound influence on Electrolux. When facing this five-ring Death God Envoy, he reminded himself not to follow the path of natural disasters in the future.
He smiled inwardly and responded silently: "Don't worry, Teacher Electrolux. I'm not interested in the Undead Calamity or Fire Calamity."
Electrolux couldn't help but wonder: "How come Yuhao himself can also use the Fire Calamity?"
But Yuhao's flames were indeed very strong—sometimes even stronger than his Undead Magic. His attack methods were somewhat monotonous, but he had seen Huo Yuhao melt the Flame into a Flame Lotus.
It seemed there were very few fire attribute magics derived from his Fire.
Electrolux didn't ask further. If Yuhao had a deeper understanding of the Fire Calamity, that would be undesirable—something he least wanted to see.
The gray light in Huo Yuhao's eyes faded.
His communication with Electrolux lasted only a few breaths, but it made the Death God Envoy at the cave entrance feel cold and frightened.
Whether an illusion or not, in the Death God Envoy's spiritual world, he could vaguely sense a breath of death far superior to his own emanating from Huo Yuhao.
In reality, the Death God Envoy used his soul power to carefully sense—he found that Huo Yuhao was just a three-ringed Soul Elder.
When Huo Yuhao was at the second ring, he had already confronted the Death God Envoy, who had not yet broken through the fifth ring. At that time, he used an illusion imitation soul skill to change his appearance, so the Death God Envoy could not recognize him.
The Death God Envoy sneered: "How dare you play tricks in front of this Envoy?"
He thought to himself: "Since I'm going to kidnap a hostage, Huo Yuhao's cultivation is the lowest among these students. I'll kidnap him later."
"As long as I escape, I'll refine him into a corpse slave as soon as possible. No more tricks."
He had already imagined how Huo Yuhao would die.
Xiao Hongchen smiled confidently: "Okay, this corpse explosion isn't too serious. Captain Guo Nu, let's take him back now."
"I don't understand why catching Xuan Zi from Shrek is so difficult."
Xiao Hongchen was not worried at all that the Death God Envoy would escape.
With Huo Yuhao's shared spiritual detection, once the Death God Envoy showed signs of fleeing, Xiao Hongchen would aim and fire instantly, unleashing a barrage of high-precision attacks.
Given the Death God Envoy's five-ring soul king's small body, without the corpse slaves in front, Xiao Hongchen's bombardment would leave nothing remaining.
The Death God Envoy's eyes flickered slightly, and then he activated his "special" escape plan that had been "verified by Xuan Zi."
The first step was to take hostages.
His soul rings lit up, transforming into a wisp of gray smoke that shot toward the Sun Moon reserve team.
All the metal barrels on Xiao Hongchen's body condensed, and the shells locked onto him through the detection map, ready to blow him up and paralyze him for capture.
The Death God Envoy turned into gray smoke, instantly hijacking what he thought was the best hostage:
Huo Yuhao, with the lowest cultivation.
Di Rachel snorted coldly and released a golden flame: "Humph, if you dare to capture Yuhao this time, I will burn you to death."
Meng Hongchen initially saw Xiao Hongchen wanting to show off alone and was not planning to attack, but sensing the Death God Envoy's intentions through spiritual detection, she instantly grew angry:
"Want to hijack Yuhao? That's too much!"
Her fifth soul ring flashed, unleashing her signature strongest attack: the Ice Fire Poison Dragon Drill.
The gray smoke of the Death God Envoy surged through the team. He sensed the golden flames of Di Rachel and Meng Hongchen's Ice Fire Poison Dragon Drill, and a wave of death washed over him.
After hijacking Huo Yuhao, he appeared immediately, pressing a black, evil spirit-filled dagger against Yuhao's neck.
This strange treasure was a Level-6 melee soul guidance device, obtained months ago when he was seriously injured after falling off a cliff during a battle and was surrounded by Star Luo Empire's soldiers. Its lethality was comparable to a Level-6 soul guidance device.
"Stop or I will kill him," the Death God Envoy threatened fiercely.
He tightly grasped the black, evil spirit-filled dagger, his expression fierce: "If anyone dares to move him, I will stab him in the neck."
Meanwhile, he unfolded his flying soul guidance device and slowly retreated.
Holding a three-ring Soul Elder hostage, he believed Huo Yuhao would die at his hands with little effort. Xiao Hongchen and others wouldn't dare attack him now.
But at this moment, the Death God Envoy suddenly realized that these students did not seem worried. Instead, they looked at him with a smile and a teasing glint in their eyes.
Could it be that this kid has a backup plan? He wondered.
'Impossible! I'm a fifty-second-level Soul King—how could I be controlled by a mere soul elder?' he sneered.
Xiao Hongchen relaxed his shoulders and said lightly: "Mr. Death God Envoy, you'd better not think about taking hostages and fleeing."
"Why not think about the glorious deeds and achievements you've made in your life?"
The Death God Envoy glared at Xiao Hongchen fiercely.
He snapped: "Arrogant junior, I haven't told you about my glorious record of tricks on Titled Douluo when I met the Shrek Supervisory Group yesterday, but you're bragging first."
He looked down to see that Huo Yuhao was still smiling, seemingly unharmed.
Huo Yuhao naturally sensed his gaze and smiled politely: "Oh? You had a good record yesterday?"
The Death God Envoy snorted with complacency and sneered: "I killed three people, seriously injured several others, and captured one alive under the hands of a Titled Douluo."
"It's just that the person I captured alive was finally rescued by that useless Titled Douluo."
(End of this chapter)