Huo Yuhao immediately made a decision. He was going to save Ma Xiaotao, even if he didn't know who the enemy was.
Hurriedly saying goodbye to Mu Jin, Huo Yuhao then ran off into the distance with his group of companions.
Watching his departing back, a woman's intuition told Mu Jin that this youth, with whom she had shared the spring wind several times, after this departure, perhaps they would never meet again...
"Yuhao, where on earth are you going?" Xie Huanyue and the others had been silently following behind him. Ning Tian, whose stamina was failing, finally couldn't help but ask.
"You all go back first. I'm going to an extremely dangerous place. Don't you follow me!" Huo Yuhao turned his head and persuaded his companions.
In his heart, he was still unwilling for these partners to venture with him.
However, Xie Huanyue just pulled down the brim of his hat. "Aren't we partners?"
"I am with you!" Cui Yejie also showed her attitude to Huo Yuhao.
"And us!" Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er raised their hands in unison.
"You guys..." Huo Yuhao opened his mouth but didn't know how to reply. One must know, this trip of his was very likely to face the danger of life and death. He didn't want these few partners to follow in Zhongli Yu's footsteps. The pain of losing a cherished person—he didn't want to experience it a second time.
"Yuhao, there's no need to say any more polite words," Ning Tian smiled faintly at him. Although she was somewhat lacking in strength, she still maintained her elegant posture.
Huo Yuhao's heart warmed. Immediately, he gritted his teeth and said, "Alright, but when we're out, you must listen to me. Absolutely do not act rashly!"
"Okay," the group replied in unison.
Receiving the response from his partners, Huo Yuhao simply put them directly into his Kamui space and at the same time let Zhongli Yu out, to prevent them from having disputes inside.
"What happened?" Zhongli Yu was suddenly brought out by Huo Yuhao, completely bewildered.
"We'll talk later. We're heading to the Ming Dou Mountain Range immediately!" Without waiting for her to react, Huo Yuhao directly grabbed her hand and left.
Zhongli Yu's foot speed was naturally extremely fast. With her carrying him, it would undoubtedly save a lot of time.
Just as Huo Yuhao rushed out of the academy gate and released Zhongli Yu, in a dark corner, the bandage-covered Gou Luanshi picked up a soul tool communication device and gently placed it to his mouth.
"Uncle Shi, that Huo Yuhao just left the academy gate and is heading towards the city gate..."
After speaking, a venomous smile filled his face. Huo Yuhao, this time, the score from our past and present lives, we'll have to settle it properly!
The reason Huo Yuhao dared to release Zhongli Yu in Shrek City was one, the supervision in the city was much weaker compared to within the academy, and two, the departure of the large batch of Sea God Pavilion elders had invisibly weakened the spiritual monitoring of the entire city, including the academy, by the Shrek experts.
The two had just left the academy. Under Huo Yuhao's instructions, Zhongli Yu held him under his armpits and flew towards the city gate.
Zhongli Yu naturally didn't know that Huo Yuhao was going to rescue his woman this time. Otherwise, with her personality, she would absolutely not have agreed to go with him.
"Could it be the Holy Ghost Cult?" Huo Yuhao couldn't help but guess. After all, if one were to talk about the organization on the continent that hated Shrek the most, the Holy Ghost Cult would undoubtedly rank first.
Right now, it was naturally not good for Huo Yuhao to have Zhongli Yu directly confirm with the cult. In the original novel, although Elder Xuan was unreliable most of the time, the mission for the group to participate in the competition and take a big detour to the Ming Dou Mountain Range to annihilate the Hand of Death Bandit Gang was a top secret among top secrets. Even many of the higher-ups in the Sea God Pavilion had no way of knowing.
As the Tang Buddha's daughter, Tang Wutong, Wang Dong's personal safety was naturally not within Huo Yuhao's consideration. Adding on Xu Sanshi, who was identified as the Son of Fortune, these two would likely not have any accidents. As for the others, it was hard to say.
Huo Yuhao and Zhongli Yu had just left the city gate when he took out a flying soul tool from his storage soul tool. As long as Zhongli Yu used her full strength, they could definitely reach the Ming Dou Mountain Range within a day.
However, things never go as one wishes. Just as Huo Yuhao had put on the flying soul tool for Zhongli Yu, countless attacks directed at the two of them came one after another.
Boom boom boom!
Giant cannonballs came striking, blasting huge craters in the earth. Zhongli Yu was agile and, carrying Huo Yuhao, avoided the series of cannon fire attacks.
"What's going on?" Huo Yuhao's face was ugly. He turned his head to look at the top of Shrek City's wall.
Ever since Shrek was built, among the entire city, the south wall had always been the highest and most heavily defended. The reason was simple: this direction faced the Star Dou Great Forest.
Many years ago, after the Star Dou Great Forest riot, the south city wall was further reinforced.
The city wall was fifteen zhang high, a full twenty zhang thick, and over five kilometers wide, able to accommodate tens of thousands of people fighting at the same time.
Clank clank clank...
Only the sound of one mechanism after another was heard. The defensive city cannons deployed on the city wall to guard against enemy armies were aimed at them.
Zhongli Yu stood in front of Huo Yuhao, instantly completing her martial soul possession. Eight soul rings appeared, and the unique aura of an evil soul master was undoubtedly revealed.
"I didn't expect you to have an evil soul master as a bodyguard. I underestimated you."
A faint voice came from the top of the city wall. Huo Yuhao raised his spiritual power and probed towards the source of the voice.
It was a tall middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties, with a square face and thick brows and large eyes. When his sturdy body stood there proudly, it even had a bit of a majestic feeling.
"A Titled Douluo..." Zhongli Yu's face suddenly turned gloomy. She never expected that her identity as an evil soul master would still be exposed in the end.
Recalling the description of the middle-aged man in the original text, Huo Yuhao instantly understood the identity of the visitor. This great power, when he was studying at Shrek Academy back then, once had the title of Time Magician. Later, after he advanced to Titled Douluo, his title was precisely Time—the Time Douluo, Shi Xing.
After the previous city lord retired and went to the inner court of Shrek Academy to live out his old age, Shi Xing was unanimously approved in the Sea God Pavilion meeting and became the city defense officer of Shrek City, responsible for the defense affairs of the entire city.
"I wonder what the meaning of the Time Douluo's action is?"
Huo Yuhao was still wearing the school uniform of Shrek Academy. He turned and stood in front of Zhongli Yu, asking in a deep voice.
"As a student of Shrek Academy, you have colluded with an evil soul master without authorization. You should be executed!" Shi Xing stood proudly on the city wall with his thick arms crossed, looking at the two with extreme disdain.
"Oh?" Huo Yuhao raised his eyebrows with great interest. "I've heard that the city defense officer is usually quite idle. To have the interest to wait here for the two of us to appear, my luck is truly bad."
"Kid, obediently surrender. Together with your evil soul master companion, come with me to be captured and brought to justice," Shi Xing sneered coldly, not putting the two in his eyes at all.
"Then that will depend on your ability," Huo Yuhao had no intention of wasting time with him here. He grabbed Zhongli Yu's hand and was about to fly far away.
Just as Huo Yuhao was pulling Zhongli Yu and speeding away for nearly a hundred meters, a giant silver disk appeared out of thin air above the city wall, with only a second hand moving slowly on it.
The next second, Huo Yuhao and Zhongli Yu instantly returned to their previous position, as if the two of them had never left.
"Tick, tock!" The crisp sound of a stopwatch was heard, as if the countdown to Huo Yuhao and Zhongli Yu's lives had begun. Huo Yuhao's face changed drastically. He ignored everything and was about to pull Zhongli Yu into the Kamui space to take temporary shelter.
In an area with a diameter of five hundred meters centered on Huo Yuhao and the other, the movement of all things became sluggish. Huo Yuhao could even see the distorted arc of space when he activated his Kamui.
Not good! Huo Yuhao immediately burst out with his strongest spiritual power without reservation, trying to resist this skill. One must know, even during the new student assessment back then, Huo Yuhao, with his own spiritual power cultivation, could easily break Cao Jinxuan's invincible Time Stop Domain.
Immediately after, within this range, a strange black airflow began to appear. When this black airflow appeared, within the five-hundred-meter diameter area, a strange scene of a sparkling starry sky actually appeared. Immediately after, the five-hundred-meter diameter area was suddenly emptied, and everything that was originally within this range disappeared.
In the instant that everything disappeared, a beautiful figure stumbled and rushed out. It was precisely Zhongli Yu who had relied on her own strength to avoid this long-charged-up blow from Shi Xing. Although she was hailed as an invincible evil soul master of the same rank, the gap in their soul power cultivation was too large. Even though she had barely managed to rush out of the range of this move, her own consumption was not small.
Zhongli Yu's pretty face instantly turned deathly pale. She clearly remembered that at the moment the two of them were hit by Shi Xing's Spacetime Turbulence, it was Huo Yuhao who had used his spiritual power to push her out. Then Huo Yuhao's figure had disappeared.
"Yuhao—" With the youth she had spent her days and nights with no longer before her eyes, Zhongli Yu couldn't help but let out a heart-wrenching scream.
Spacetime Turbulence. This was the ability the Time Douluo Shi Xing had just used, randomly teleporting Huo Yuhao to some time and some place. The Time Douluo Shi Xing's martial soul was called the Spacetime Silver Disk. What he controlled was not just time, but actually between time and space, having delved into both.
As for why this fellow was called the Time Douluo, only he himself knew. So, sometimes, the title of a Titled Douluo cannot be completely believed. Some cunning Titled Douluo would deliberately use their title to confuse their opponents.
Huo Yuhao's spiritual power was simply too strong. Shi Xing had no choice but to use all his own soul power to use this soul skill, which was what had prevented him from escaping into another dimension. To ensure that he could truly be killed, even Shi Xing himself had entered his own Spacetime Turbulence.
"You... all of you must die!" A terrifying aura came from Zhongli Yu's body. She, with her red, beautiful eyes, showed her Death God Demonic Puppet true body and, without any regard, attacked the city wall.
However, the vast power of Shi Xing's Spacetime Turbulence just now had still alarmed many of the experts in the city, including those in the academy. Just as Zhongli Yu used her Martial Soul True Body and smashed the entire city gate with one punch, a giant dragon exuding an aura of light also immediately descended.
"Kill—" Zhongli Yu was on the verge of going crazy. Last time, she had almost truly lost Huo Yuhao. And this time, to protect herself, he had once again been snatched away from her side.