Douluo: This time we will rewrite our destiny

“Although it was only less than a second,” Huo Yuhao had a thin layer of sweat on his forehead, “most people might not be able to notice it, but my mental strength is strong enough.”

Chi Qiu held his hand. As it was covered with black scales, Huo Yuhao wanted to pull his hand back immediately, not wanting to scratch Chi Qiu, but the latter used his strength to hold his hand tightly and prevent him from withdrawing it. Then, the spiritual power connected between the two began to flow, and Huo Yuhao felt that the consumption of the moment just now was gradually relieved.

"At least you don't have to worry about this in front of me," Chi Qiu blinked, "But, Yuhao, judging from your reaction just now, you can't put this away for the time being?"

"Yeah." Huo Yuhao nodded embarrassedly.

“How are you going to go out now? Are you still bandaging me?” Chi Qiu pinched his scale-covered hand and looked at it over and over again. Huo Yuhao gently pinched her fingers:

"It's okay, Qiu'er. I just want to calm down and practice to pass the 80th level. I've been busy recently, with all kinds of things and the new power I've gained, leaving me with little time to comprehend. Although we are really short on time, we can't rush it."

"I was just thinking, maybe because I help everywhere and ask for advice everywhere, the various gains I get are also complicated, and my abilities are not rising in a straight direction. According to the previous cultivation concepts, this is definitely not good."

"But I also feel that since I have acquired the ability, there shouldn't be anything wrong with it. It's just that most of the time, soul masters lack the ability to integrate and coordinate these miscellaneous things. I just want to find some time to quietly experience it and find the key that can connect everything in me."

"Maybe after my retreat is over, I will be able to control it freely?" As he said this, he gently gathered his five fingers together and took Chi Qiu's hand into his palm. He was still very careful when using force, for fear of hurting her.

"...I agree with your idea, Yuhao." Chi Qiu said, "But-"

"but?"

She was actually a little embarrassed. In Huo Yuhao's impression, Qiu'er was the type who responded enthusiastically even on the day he confessed his love to her. There were not many things that made her hesitate because of embarrassment. However, this actually deepened the shadow of her humanity. In the past, frankness was the privilege of soul beasts.

"I want to participate in the Autumn Fire Festival," she said finally. "I have never properly participated in human festivals."

Huo Yuhao understood what she meant. Of course, she could go to festivals and celebrations alone and play with her friends and sisters, but they were such a deep bond as lovers, and no matter what, Qiu'er still wanted him to be there. Huo Yuhao himself did not want to miss this opportunity to attend a human festival with Chi Qiu for the first time.

“Okay.” Huo Yuhao nodded with a smile, “Then we’ll talk about it after we finish participating.”

"But this..."

"Don't I have another outfit covered in bandages? The bounty hunter's grotesque attire is also suitable for the celebration!"

As he spoke, Huo Yuhao raised his hands, placed them on both sides of his head, and bent his index fingers to pretend to be wolf ears. Because his left hand was not used to it, the bend was very stiff.

"It's just right," he said, "I should be able to meet Bai Tan at the festival, and she's familiar with our attire."

"Okay," Chi Qiu was also amused by him, "Then the Dragon Witch will also return to the arena. We haven't had any bounty hunter performance for so long, will the Odu Chamber of Commerce expel us?"

"Then we have to go to Brother Xiao to seek justice. However, the Aodu Chamber of Commerce is now one of the two underground giants on par with the Pingfan League. I guess they are not short of manpower..."

In a cheerful and lively atmosphere, the Autumn Fire Festival arrived as scheduled. In the evening, the setting sun burned the clouds red, and 108 soul-guided salutes sounded from one end of the imperial city. The sound of the cannons spread all the way to the festival venue on the other side of the city, and the fireworks pointed directly at the first morning star rising in the night sky.

People went out to the streets, banging gongs, children holding small fireworks and metal lanterns, and women delivering stickers door to door. The entrance of the Ordinary League was crowded with people, the top underground dulcimer players played passionately, and the dancers' sleeves fluttered, showing off their beauty and competing for beauty. The entrance of the Aodu Chamber of Commerce held a folk soul guide invention exhibition, welcoming people of any status to introduce their inspirations and inventions, and those with excellent ideas could receive huge subsidies for rare metals.

The former main hall of the Xishui League has been transformed into a memorial hall for victims of the Holy Spirit Church. People who come here will temporarily put aside their joy and quietly offer a sunflower in front of the wordless monument in the main hall.

The closer to the main festival venue, the more prosperous the streets became. There were endless hawkings, and all kinds of novelty items were on display. During festivals, adding some commemorative signs would always help sell cheap items at a good price. There was a long queue in front of a stall. Huo Yuhao glanced over and saw that they were all soul masters. He took another look and immediately realized that the person who opened the stall to sell elixirs was Wang Dong!

Although Wang Dong usually has a flamboyant personality, she is the most low-key one among them in terms of popularity. At first, she was not used to her brilliance being overshadowed by her companions in the eyes of outsiders. However, after talking with Xiao Hongchen and studying the knowledge of elixirs, she seemed to have reconciled with herself a lot.

After that, she deliberately tried to erase her reputation from the outside world. Until now, due to her efforts, many people have even forgotten the name of the person who activated the brilliant Butterfly God Light in that competition.

According to her own words, as her agility attack ability improves step by step, she believes that she will be more likely to accept surprise attacks and assassinations in their operations in the future. For this reason, it is also important to maintain a low presence on weekdays.

Today she didn't completely steal the spotlight. She wore a pair of plain glasses, a light pink dress that she never wore on normal days, trimmed her bangs, and tied her long hair into a small braid at the back of her head. She looked like a capable and enthusiastic sister, completely different from the tomboy Wang Dong she usually was.

In that case, I won't go over to her to gain a sense of presence. Huo Yuhao thought, and turned his head in the bustling crowd. When he turned around, he saw Chi Qiu holding a lantern that looked like a string of beads and swaying it in front of him, like a dancing firefly.

"I bought it," she said, her tone filled with rare excitement, "It's really beautiful."

Huo Yuhao looked at it carefully. Although most people could not notice the patterns on this small paper-carved lamp, Huo Yuhao's eyes allowed him to see it clearly. The patterns were very delicate and the craftsmanship of the maker was very exquisite.

“It’s really beautiful,” he said.

As he spoke, Chi Qiu suddenly reached out to help him straighten his braid. Long hair made it a little inconvenient for him to move, so before he set off, Chi Qiu tied his hair up nicely. His black hair was tied into a ponytail at the back of his head, which made him look like a chivalrous knight in a storybook. Out of selfish interest, Chi Qiu also picked out two strands of hair, braided them into a small braid, and put them into the ponytail.

When she tied his hair, Huo Yuhao thought of the auspicious beast that had just walked out of the stars with him and knew nothing about the human world. Now, she was already familiar with things like tying human hair.

"Be careful, you almost got tangled up with that kid's lantern." Chi Qiu fixed his hair for him, "Human kids... don't look at people when they walk, don't adults care?"

Huo Yuhao smiled helplessly: "On a day like this, even if you say something to them, they won't do anything. They will even say that you ruined the mood of the festival. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter."

They walked around for a few times and greeted everyone they knew. Ye Yulin and Liao Mengkai led the team, each guarding one side, to secretly protect the huge venue. The first national celebration after the new prince took office, no accidents should occur.

However, after Long Ye's death, no one could have taken action here without escaping Huo Yuhao's eyes. His spiritual detection was as natural as breathing, blending into the venue around him. As long as he wanted, he could see the antennae of an ant clearly.

However, there really weren't any evil people like that today. Looking around the spiritual detection range, all of them were people celebrating the festival in various ways. This atmosphere also infected him, and Huo Yuhao felt very happy.

There was another thing that made him feel good. On the third day after the Holy Spirit Church situation was mentioned in the meeting, Wang Yiheng asked someone to send him a letter, saying that a group of victims of the Holy Spirit Church had been rescued. In the letter, Wang Yiheng tactfully asked Huo Yuhao if there was anyone he wanted to find. Huo Yuhao guessed that he had heard some clues in the court at that time.

He didn't hesitate to ask Wang Yiheng to help find Bai Tan's sister. The result was good. The information of this woman was quickly obtained. Her name was Yan Wei, and her martial spirit was a sword. According to the information they found, she was taken away by the Holy Spirit Church and separated from Bai Tan for about 20 years. However, the only important thing now was that she was still alive.

Huo Yuhao immediately notified Bai Tan to pick him up. He hadn't asked about the follow-up progress yet, and was planning to take this opportunity to ask for the result. He and Chi Qiu wandered around and returned to the Aodu Chamber of Commerce. Because of the invention exhibition, the Chamber of Commerce hall was crowded with people. Fortunately, Huo Yuhao would not be hindered by these, and he saw the eye-catching silver hair at a glance.

"Senior!" he shouted.

"Hey!" Bai Tan was visibly excited when she heard his voice. She was still wearing the red windbreaker, and the soul guides that Huo Yuhao gave her during the competition were still hanging around her waist. She was originally leaning against the pillar in the corner, not participating in the lively activities, perhaps guarding the order of the venue. When she saw Huo Yuhao and the others, she immediately straightened up, and then put her hands on Huo Yuhao and Chi Qiu's shoulders.

"Little wolf, little witch, long time no see!" She laughed cheerfully, "Why does it feel like someone has grown a lot taller, huh? This little wolf? And he has long hair?"

Huo Yuhao realized that the series of experiences he had during this period of time after the competition, and the repeated cleansing of his meridians by various forces, had caused his entire body to undergo significant changes, which could not be concealed even by disguise.

Bai Tan was a very tall woman. When Huo Yuhao was picked up during the competition, he was not even taller than her shoulders. Now, the two of them were about to look at each other at eye level.

“A lot of things happened,” Huo Yuhao said, “but they are not worth mentioning to you, Senior. I came here today to ask about the outcome of the previous incident.”

"Oh, my sister." Bai Tan let go of him and Chi Qiu and shrugged. "The first thing my sister did when she woke up was to chop me with a knife. I thought she was still unconscious! - Just kidding, just kidding. The army destroyed the Holy Spirit Church base and the source of brainwashing. It seems to be a place that can reflect moonlight. I don't know the details. The army is very tight-lipped. Should this be a state secret?"

Huo Yuhao understood. It was in that place that he learned the power of the Holy Spirit Church's hypnosis and copied the core hypnosis array. Wang Yiheng should have been ordered to destroy the array, which was a good thing. If such a thing spread, the Holy Spirit Church might have soil for revival.

"I joked with my sister that your days of being a zombie of the Holy Spirit Church are over, and to give me the key to go home. She said if you want it, come get it yourself, and that's when I knew she was awake. She used the key to the old house to open the door to the house she hadn't returned to in 20 years. There was nothing left at home, except for the photo of our family still hanging in the hall... I said this to say that the demise of the Holy Spirit Church saved my family, and I must have been the only one saved."

After saying this, Bai Tan looked at them steadily, as if she had already recognized that these two young bounty hunters were Huo Yuhao and Chi Qiu who had shined on the battlefield that day.

"No matter what," she said, "you must have contributed to this. This is the result of good deeds. Do you believe in karma?"

After hesitating for a moment, Huo Yuhao shook his head. "I don't really believe it," he said. "Although it's inconvenient to say, I still have some things that I have to seek justice for myself."

He thought of his mother's soul, which was still waiting for him.

"Hey, don't be so serious!" Bai Tan patted his shoulder, "How old are you? Why are you so bitter and resentful? The future is long. Don't worry, don't worry, the good things you do for everyone and the benefits you ask for will one day become the results you want. Alas, if people like you, the little wolf and the little witch, can't get a good result, then I really don't know who in the world deserves a good result."

“Senior is really…” Huo Yuhao smiled and calmly brushed away the heavy heart he felt when thinking of his mother. “But if it were me, I would think like this: I don’t expect some external force to make my wish come true, but I must get what I want this time.”

"Sure, that's impressive!"

Bai Tan opened a pot of wine for the two of them, and the three of them sat at the table in the Chamber of Commerce hall, drinking and chatting for half an hour. When the night completely enveloped the sky, the sound of salutes rang out again, the lights of the newly built festival square lit up, and Xu Tianling's loud congratulatory voice came from the radio. The regent's voice was full of energy, and compared to the weakness when Huo Yuhao first met him, he had been reborn.

After finishing his congratulatory speech, he mentioned that in order to show neighboring countries the difference in ideology between himself and Xu Tianran's regime, he would use this celebration to announce the release of all students and teachers from various academies and sects who had been imprisoned by Xu Tianran because of the competition.

This news was quickly transmitted to the armies of the Tianhun Empire and Xingluo Empire through the soul guide at the border of the Sun-Moon Empire. Not long ago, when the civil war between the Holy Spirit Church and the royal family broke out in the Sun-Moon Empire, the border defense armies of Tianhun and Xingluo had already gathered together and entered a state of combat readiness.

In that war, Tianhun and Xingluo lost part of their territory. Now that the Sun Moon Empire had just gone through a coup and had just experienced a civil strife among evil soul masters, the country's strength was certainly not as strong as it was during the heyday of the competition. This was a good time to take advantage of the situation.

However, the armies of the two countries stayed there for a week and did not take action. When the pressure from Emperor Tian, ​​Evil Emperor and Snow Emperor appeared over the Sun and Moon Empire at the same time, Shrek sent an urgent message to the two countries, telling them not to act recklessly.

Although Xuanzi is still the head of the Sea God Pavilion at Shrek, many affairs have gradually been taken over by Zhang Lexuan. Originally, it was not her turn, but after the competition, Shrek's reputation plummeted, and both the source of students and the resources of Shrek City were greatly affected. Under such high pressure, different voices emerged among the elders.

Everyone can unite when they are glorious, but it is different when they are on the decline. In several meetings, Elder Song once suggested impeaching Elder Xuan and asking him to resign as the leader of the Sea God Pavilion. This view was even supported by nearly half of the elders. The Sea God Pavilion meeting was deadlocked for a while, and the atmosphere was very awkward. When Moon was there, this situation had never happened.

In the end, it was Zhang Lexuan who intervened and eased the tense atmosphere. Elder Xuan did not resign, but after that, the elders became more willing to discuss with Zhang Lexuan rather than listen to Elder Xuan's instructions.