Chapter 169

Final Chapter — Pinned Against the Wall by the Grown-Up Him

"……"

Black lines surfaced on Huo Yuhao's forehead.

He kind of wanted to humanely destroy this book along with the author.

The episode he most wanted to kill someone over.

"Puhahahaha——"

Tianmeng Ice Worm rolled around laughing in the Spiritual Sea, "Yuhao, don't be angry, you're a famous person from ten thousand years ago, this kind of thing is unavoidable, unavoidable…… can't take it anymore, hahaha!"

The Ice Empress and the other soul spirits also revealed expressions of being at a loss for words.

Huo Yuhao took a deep breath and silently put the book back in its original spot.

To the side, Gu Yue Na looked at this scene with some puzzlement, "Yuhao, aren't you going to read it?"

"Nothing, I've already read the contents of this book at the Association." Huo Yuhao said without changing expression: "This author is too unorthodox, it won't work."

Gu Yue Na blinked, her gaze lingered on the book for a moment, then she lightly nodded.

At this moment, somewhat anxious footsteps came from outside, Lin Qinghan walked into the office with cold sweat streaming down her forehead, and seeing the three of them including Huo Yuhao without books in hand, she let out a sigh of relief.

Good, good.

There have been quite a few matters to handle recently with the start of term, she almost forgot about certain books…… if the Spirit Pagoda's juniors saw them, not to mention other influences, it would always be somewhat awkward.

Lin Qinghan squeezed out a professional smile: "The procedures have been handled, the Mingde Hall researcher will arrive shortly."

Before her words fell, the office door was pushed open, a researcher wearing the standard Mingde Hall white lab coat stood in the doorway. His gaze noticeably brightened when it swept over Huo Yuhao:

"Researcher Huo Yuhao, long admired your great name, your Distracted Inscription Technique……"

The researcher realized his loss of composure, gave a light cough and straightened his expression:

"I am Mingde Hall Third-Rank Researcher Xu Mo, responsible for guiding you all on the tour, please come with me."

Lin Qinghan watched the three leave with Xu Mo, quickly walked to the bookshelf, and collected several books into her storage ring.

Next time she can't just leave them on the bookshelf, some of the books in here are unique copies she discovered while organizing the library, she doesn't know who the creators are either, if they were discovered by someone, she might not get to read them anymore.

……

Although Mingde Hall is an independent institution, due to historical reasons, it has a very deep relationship with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, similar to the relationship between Shrek Academy's inner and outer courts, the two are located very close to each other.

If students successfully graduate from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, they can participate in Mingde Hall's assessment.

Following Xu Mo through the connecting corridor, the group quickly arrived at the Mingde Hall main building.

Cold metallic light flowed through the space, the entire hall was filled with a futuristic technological feel. A massive metal sphere over five meters in diameter floated in the very center, its surface rippling with dark blue soul power waves, occasionally revealing the intricate core array structure inside as it slowly rotated. The soft light emitted by the sphere enveloped the entire space in a peculiar technological aesthetic.

"This is Mingde Hall's Sky Vault Master Control System, responsible for coordinating the building's internal soul power supply." Xu Mo introduced to Huo Yuhao and the others while lightly tapping on the floating control panel, and the metal sphere immediately projected a three-dimensional building structure map.

Huo Yuhao gazed at this colossal object, keenly discovering that the arrangement of its core array faintly carried a few hints of familiarity——that was clearly an improved version of the Linked Soul Guidance Array, merely scaled up hundreds of times.

"Then, we're transferring, please prepare yourselves."

Lan Fuzi was somewhat confused, then suddenly realized.

Intense spatial fluctuations suddenly struck, the surrounding scenery distorted like water ripples. Before she could even react, the scene before her eyes had already instantly switched——they were directly teleported to another completely different space.

Lan Fuzi looked around, discovering she was standing on a circular silver platform, surrounded by countless floating soul guidance screens pulsing with complex data streams, "Space teleportation technology?"

Xu Mo smiled slightly: "Correct, this is our Mingde Hall's developed Space Fold Jump System, improved based on space-type soul tools. The Mingde Hall main body is underground, there are no elevators or other passage tools, we must use space teleportation……"

Xu Mo noticed the three's unperturbed expressions and immediately realized the Spirit Pagoda must also possess similar spatial technology. He tactfully didn't continue this topic, instead explaining:

"Truly sorry, the Hall Master is handling an urgent research project and temporarily cannot meet with you all. However, you several came this time, besides exchange and study, it's also for the Huo Li tribe, right? There's a corresponding research project today, please come with me."

As a researcher, he wasn't very interested in those pleasantries, although he was very curious about some of the techniques on Huo Yuhao, that wasn't something to ask about now.

Still, main business comes first.

The four arrived before a metal door, the door slid open soundlessly, and a wave of heat rushed at them, making Lan Fuzi subconsciously retreat half a step.

In the center of the laboratory, a giant fire wolf was conducting an experiment according to instructions, surrounded by seven or eight researchers tensely recording data.

Seeing that fire wolf, a trace of surprise flashed in Huo Yuhao's eyes, and Lan Fuzi also felt some astonishment.

'A life form purely composed of fire elements, but without a trace of soul beast aura?' Lan Fuzi was secretly amazed in her heart.

It's not a soul beast?

This trip to Mingde Hall, she was temporarily appointed and didn't get much information from Huo Yuhao, she didn't expect that just entering Mingde Hall, she would see such a strange existence.

She herself is a soul beast, so she is very certain, this fire wolf doesn't have a trace of soul beast aura on it.

Lan Fuzi couldn't help but look at the calm and waveless Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue Na, the emotions in her heart gradually calming down.

She suddenly felt her previous shock was somewhat laughable——the two beside her are living, breathing gods, existences who once held authority over the God Realm. Compared to that, what does an otherworldly fire element life form count for?

Gu Yue Na looked at this fire wolf, and recalled the intelligence Di Tian had told her.

The Huo Li tribe, fire element life, extraterritorial race, suddenly appeared on the Douluo Continent many years ago. Benefiting from the Spirit Pagoda's policies, plus their powerful strength and not actively attacking humans, no soul masters attacked them.

But this massive clan must survive in magma, leaving the magma environment for long periods, the weak Huo Li tribe members would gradually perish.

For this, they wandered various places for a time, seeking a habitable place to live, but seemingly without success. Until one day, the Huo Li tribe suddenly rushed to the vicinity of Mingdu, and sought out the War God Hall.

'Thinking about it now, Yuhao appeared in that era, didn't he?'

Gu Yue Na glanced at Huo Yuhao, secretly thinking.

Huo Yuhao himself looked at the fire wolf, his eyes flickering slightly.

The Huo Li tribe, from the Falan World, living in the Crimson Sea there, every clan member innately possesses powerful combat strength. Although they cannot leave magma regions. But as long as they are in a place with magma, they are near-immortal existences.

How did such a race come to the Douluo Continent?

The answer is related to spatial turbulence.

Spatial turbulence swept away a planet much smaller than the Falan World, colliding with the Falan World, although that world's people put up resistance, human power is sometimes exhausted, ultimately they couldn't overcome this calamity.

That colliding planet shattered, the Falan World's main continent——the Fairy Continent also broke into several parts, the Crimson Sea where the Huo Li tribe lived was also affected and disappeared by more than half, many spatial cracks were produced as a result, this branch of the Huo Li tribe on the Douluo Continent was brought over by such spatial cracks……

The several people quietly waited for the experiment to end, and only then did Huo Yuhao, under Mingde Hall's arrangement, make close contact with the fire wolf.

The Fire Wolf had already learned from Mingde Hall's researchers that visitors would arrive today. When Huo Yuhao's figure appeared before it, it merely swayed its flame-constituted tail lazily, not paying too much heed.

However, the next moment, a wisp of extremely subtle mental fluctuation quietly probed over.

The Fire Wolf pricked up its ears; out of the idea of cooperating with the research, it still cautiously accepted this wisp of mental connection.

In an instant, its flame-body violently trembled!

Within the spiritual vision, what Huo Yuhao showed it was a segment of memory about fire — it was a strange flame nearly transparent, beneath its white-hot colored exterior, seven dreamlike colors flowed internally, as if a rainbow had been sealed within the flame.

That was... their Fire Li clan's innate true fire, possessed only by the royal family — the Seven-Colored Lotus!

(End of Chapter)