Huo Yuhao stood invisibly in front of the main gate of the Star Luo National Treasury, looking at the patrolling army around, and couldn't help but secretly praise the strictness of the guards.
This underground national treasury had long been arranged with a spatial attribute isolation soul tool. Even the omnipotent Kamui could not directly penetrate and enter the interior. The main gate of the national treasury was composed of countless, densely packed soul tool core formations. If it were to be forcibly broken open, it would surely attract the attention of the empire's experts.
Huo Yuhao didn't know if there were any Titled Douluos secretly guarding the surroundings of the Star Luo National Treasury. Even if there weren't, there must be a trigger-type soul tool alarm that would attract the Guardian Douluo from not far away.
He naturally was not afraid of any Titled Douluo. It was just that considering if this operation were to fail, it would surely cause the Star Luo Empire to strengthen the defense of its national treasury. What's more, it was during the tournament period. There were many people with various hands in Star Luo City. Right now was precisely the time when the national treasury's defensive measures were at their strongest.
However, Huo Yuhao had in his hand a sharp tool that could strip away all energy. It was precisely the carving knife named the Blade of Life's Vigil in the original novel. Facing the soul tools of this world, it could become a very good weapon.
Huo Yuhao used his spiritual detection to quickly find a weakly defended point underground. His entire person escaped into the Kamui space and began to drill underground.
After about a few minutes, Huo Yuhao finally arrived at the point where the soul tool protection of the underground national treasury was weakest. Then he took out the Life Carving Knife and gently poked it.
The Gold of Life could devour the life force of all solid objects. Back then in the original novel, even the thick main gate of the Mingdu underground warehouse could be gradually destroyed by it. The defense of the Star Luo National Treasury, facing its nemesis, could only sigh in a daze.
Just when the national treasury's protective shield was broken open by the Life Carving Knife into a hole the size of a fist, Huo Yuhao, with the help of Kamui's ability, easily drilled in.
Huo Yuhao only felt that he had entered a bizarre and motley space.
"I've struck it rich!"
On the shelves inside were filled with jade boxes containing various heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and rows upon rows of neatly arranged bottles of rare medicinal herbs. On the weapon racks on both sides were even more so filled with one after another of soul tools with powerful auras, numbering in the hundreds. Rare metals were even more countless.
Although Huo Yuhao knew that the Star Luo treasury would be very rich, he still hadn't expected it to be this rich.
"Sure enough, 'killing and arson wears a golden belt.' For a good thing like robbing a treasury with no capital and ten thousand profits, the ancients truly did not deceive me!"
In order to ensure he would not be captured by an image-recording soul tool, after Huo Yuhao had activated his simulation invisibility, he directly used his Kamui space to begin looting the treasury of the Star Luo imperial family.
Along the way, he used the Life Gold Carving Knife to break open the soul tool protective doors, putting all kinds of rare treasures, soul bones, and soul tools into his Kamui space.
The non-picky Kamui space naturally would not be polite with the Star Luo imperial family's treasury, instantly enveloping the entire treasury.
Of course, Huo Yuhao didn't take everything. For example, those old Tang Sect treasured hidden weapons that were of no use, Huo Yuhao directly ignored them. These iron lumps could deal with the soul masters of ten thousand years ago, but to use them to deal with a soul tool master legion was a little insufficient. And the kind of hidden weapon with great lethality like the Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus was extremely difficult to make. With the leisure time to make that thing, it was better to make a few more level-nine fixed-guidance soul tool cannon shells.
There were also many spirit pills in the national treasury made from a mixture of rare medicinal herbs. Besides the vast medicinal power possessed by the herbs themselves, these things had no qualitative change effect. Compared to the pill formulas gifted by Senior Xiao Huohuo, none of them were not trash. They couldn't even be re-smelted.
These things that could only be called pills still possessed no small amount of the medicinal power of the herbs themselves. Huo Yuhao thought of the few great masters who were in a deep sleep in his spiritual sea. These pills of pure medicinal power should be able to supplement their energy. So he threw them all into his spiritual sea.
Worthy of being the national treasury of the Star Luo imperial family, it was truly rich enough to drip oil. Even for the rare hundred-thousand-year soul bones, Huo Yuhao had taken away several pieces. The ones of ten-thousand-year quality were as high as over a hundred pieces. No wonder a soul bone was given as a prize for the champion of the tournament, several pieces given away without even batting an eye.
As for the gold soul coins that filled one treasure chest after another, there were several billion of them. This must also be the accumulation of wealth of the Star Luo Empire for tens of thousands of years.
After several shichen (hours), the vast treasury was eaten clean by the joint efforts of the Kamui space and his spiritual sea. Even a mouse would have to cry a few times if it came.
There were also many arrangements in the national treasury aimed at thieves, for example, trigger-type mechanisms hidden under some rare treasures. Once the treasure was taken away, it would trigger an alarm soul tool. However, this was all child's play in the face of his spiritual detection.
Huo Yuhao had been busy for a whole night and was also extremely tired. Most of the mechanisms in the treasury had been destroyed by him with the Life Carving Knife. So as long as it was something he slightly took a fancy to, without exception, it was all taken away by him. Let alone heavenly materials and earthly treasures, even the floor of the treasury and the jade pillars on all sides were moved clean by him. As for those iron lumps of the old Tang Sect and some low-level forged cold weapons, he just let them eat dust here.
This treasury had probably never been so shabby. I'm afraid that if His Majesty the Emperor came personally, he wouldn't even recognize it as his own treasury.
Looking at the treasury that now exposed the black rock below, even the only-awakened Ice Empress couldn't help but be a little embarrassed.
"Isn't this way of eating a little ugly?"
Huo Yuhao's old face turned red as he said, "Never mind that. The time is almost up. Let's go!"
He calculated the time. It had been almost a whole night since he had entered the national treasury. If someone came in to inspect after dawn and found something was wrong and immediately used a space-isolating soul tool to seal it off, his situation would be troublesome.
Huo Yuhao returned the way he came. When passing by the guard soldiers sitting at the treasury entrance, he couldn't help but turn invisible and move closer to vent the resentment in his belly at him.
Amidst a wave of curses, Huo Yuhao hummed a little tune and returned to the Star Emperor Grand Hotel in a great mood.
Arriving at Nanmen Yun'er's room, Huo Yuhao happened to run into Wu Feng, who had come to visit her.
"Yuhao, where did you go?" Wu Feng stood up with annoyance, her hands on her hips, with a look of questioning.
"A secret," Huo Yuhao said with a mysterious smile, then turned his gaze to the still-unconscious Nanmen Yun'er on the bed.
"Did the Sun Moon Academy invite someone to treat her?"
Wu Feng nodded. "Yun'er's injuries are not serious. They are all just superficial wounds. The main thing is that her soul power has been severely overdrawn. At that time, when she was facing that agility-attack-type Soul King, logically speaking, even with Ning Tian's amplification, it should have been impossible for her to challenge him across two ranks."
Huo Yuhao was silent. Nanmen Yun'er's martial soul, whether in terms of strength or ability limit, before it completely evolved into a Jadeite Demon Bird, was extremely weak compared to his other partners. Otherwise, she wouldn't have just appeared for one or two chapters in the original novel before disappearing without a trace. The evolution of some martial souls was not something that could be achieved overnight. Huo Yuhao had not yet found a way for the Jade-Green Bird to quickly evolve or have a benign mutation.
And a soul beast like the Jadeite Demon Bird had long since been retaliated against by the ancient dragon clan and hunted to the brink of extinction. It was very difficult to find a few on the entire continent. Unless one was lucky, it was simply impossible to find this kind of soul beast to evolve Nanmen Yun'er's martial soul.
In short, future matters would be discussed in the future. First, let Nanmen Yun'er recover.
Huo Yuhao took out a pill for recovering soul power from his Kamui space. After confirming that it would not have any side effects on the human body, he threw it into a medicine cauldron.
"Ah Feng, do me a favor with your dragon fire," Huo Yuhao opened his Spiritual Detection Sharing, preparing to refine a type of Qi-Returning Pill with a relatively good medicinal effect. For this, he needed the help of a fire-attribute soul master.
Wu Feng guessed that Huo Yuhao was going to refine a healing pill for Nanmen Yun'er and immediately started to prepare to light a fire. With the spiritual sharing guiding Wu Feng to control the flame, even if Huo Yuhao did not have fire-attribute soul power, he could still perform some simple pill refining.
Because the Star Luo National Academy team had surrendered, today's individual matches would be held between the victorious Shrek Academy and the Di'ao Academy. The members of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy were also able to rest for a day, to welcome the upcoming finals.
Because it was Huo Yuhao's first time refining medicine, he couldn't grasp the heat and the output of his wood-attribute soul power well. The medicine refining failed more than ten times in a row. It wasn't until noon that he barely completed the refining of a furnace of Qi-Returning Pills.
Huo Yuhao and Wu Feng, with their faces covered in dust, looked at the faint azure pill in their palms. They both couldn't help but grin, revealing their white teeth and smiling foolishly. This was the result of their entire morning.
It wasn't that Wu Feng hadn't seen a pill that could recover soul power, but compared to the pill before her, it was undoubtedly extremely weak.
The Qi-Returning Pill was currently the most suitable pill for recovering Nanmen Yun'er's overdrawn soul power. Once soul power began to circulate in her body, it wouldn't be long before she woke up.
Wu Feng excitedly ran over and stuffed the pill into Nanmen Yun'er's mouth. The pill melted in her mouth, instantly transforming into a fragrant stream of air that poured into all parts of her body.
Although after taking the pill, entering a state of cultivation could maximize the medicinal power of the pill, at this time, Nanmen Yun'er clearly did not have the conditions to concentrate on cultivation. This pill was somewhat of a waste. But in order for his partner to wake up as soon as possible, if it was a waste, then it was a waste.
After taking the pill, Huo Yuhao grabbed one of Nanmen Yun'er's fair wrists and used his soul power to guide the medicinal power to circulate throughout her body. Before long, Nanmen Yun'er successfully and slowly woke up.
"How was it? Do you have any insights from the clash with the Soul King?" Seeing the beauty wake up, Huo Yuhao did not directly offer words of comfort, but directly had Nanmen Yun'er recall the battle before she had fainted. This made Wu Feng at the side roll her eyes at him.
Although for him to directly ask this was a bit of a mood killer, when a person has just woken up, it is easiest for them to remember the various events before they fainted. For Nanmen Yun'er, this was an invaluable and precious experience.
Rather than cooing and asking after her health, it was better to be direct and lead the topic to the battle experience that was most profound in Nanmen Yun'er's mind before she had fainted.
Fights, Huo Yuhao could help them find; injuries, Huo Yuhao could help them heal; even soul power, Huo Yuhao could help them recover. But becoming stronger could only rely on themselves.
Huo Yuhao did not want the companions by his side, especially these girls, to become one after another of vases that were good to look at but of no damn use. He hoped that his partners could also be like him, killing enemies across ranks, having their own proud specialties, and living as the protagonist of their own stories.
Meeting Huo Yuhao's serious gaze, Nanmen Yun'er instantly understood something. She immediately began to savor the memory of her clash with the same-type Soul King before she had fainted. Even if she were to say one more useless word and it affected her memory, it would cause Huo Yuhao's painstaking efforts to be in vain, and would even more so delay the improvement of her strength, which she cared about the most.
Huo Yuhao signaled to Wu Feng behind him with a look. The latter understood and retreated to the side to sit down cross-legged. The two tacitly did not make a sound, letting Nanmen Yun'er gain enlightenment from the previous battle.
During Nanmen Yun'er's enlightenment, Huo Yuhao might as well concentrate his mind and wander around the completely full Kamui space. Like a landlord patrolling his own territory with his hands behind his back, he revealed a wicked smile with smugness.
The number one on the Douluo individual wealth list is going to change hands today!