All love and righteousness severed?
Huo Yuhao only felt a string in his heart snap. He opened his mouth and blurted out, "Why?"
"No need to hide it anymore. I know everything," Ma Xiaotao's beautiful pupils were without a single ripple. As if she had used up all her strength, she said coldly.
"That's not right. When did I cause you to become a sinner of Shrek?" Huo Yuhao grasped the main point and hurriedly pursued the question.
Ma Xiaotao just sneered coldly and did not answer his question, her beautiful pupils slowly closing.
Zhongli Wu frowned slightly. He released his hand and let Ma Xiaotao fall to the ground.
"Pontiff, let me talk to her alone," Huo Yuhao's face was ugly. He knew that there must be some misunderstanding in this. If it could not be resolved in time, I'm afraid the two of them would never be able to go back to how they were before.
"Holy Son, if the Phoenix Holy Maiden is too resistant to this cult, I do have a way to destroy her reason," Zhongli Wu said indifferently from the side.
Hearing this, Ma Xiaotao just smiled mockingly and did not say anything more.
"No need," Huo Yuhao shook his head. If he really did that, then just as she had said, he would only be able to get her person, but not her heart.
"Alright. Then I will let you two be alone for a while," Zhongli Wu glanced at Huo Yuhao thoughtfully, made a gesture to the person beside him, and added, "The Holy Son should focus on the bigger picture. Matters of love between a man and a woman will only slow your steps forward."
"Many thanks, Pontiff," Huo Yuhao nodded, as if he had made some kind of a decision.
Zhongli Wu walked outwards. In the end, the gaze with which he had turned his head back revealed a trace of a meaningful color.
Seeing Zhongli Wu leave, Huo Yuhao hurriedly came to Ma Xiaotao's side and squatted down, with one hand taking hold of her jade-like hand.
"Xiaotao, what on earth has happened?"
"Don't call me so intimately," Ma Xiaotao pulled her hand back with one hand and stared at him coldly. "What? You've covered your own eyes. You don't even have the courage to face me?"
Huo Yuhao was silent for a moment, and then immediately uncovered the cloth on his eyes, and with his fingers, propped open his eyelids, revealing a sheet of a gray eye-white.
"What's wrong with your eyes?" Ma Xiaotao's beautiful pupils finally showed a trace of a fluctuation. Her tone inadvertently carried a bit of concern. This made Huo Yuhao's heart feel a little at ease.
One must know that the Spirit Eyes were the foundation of Huo Yuhao's invincibility among his peers. It was his most important body martial soul. If his eyes were blind, it would mean that his path as a soul master would from then on become extremely bumpy.
"Do you still remember the soul spirit I mentioned to you? I have a soul spirit that needs a heavenly tribulation's baptism. I had to withstand a few waves of a thunder tribulation," Huo Yuhao did not go into detail about the matter in Star Dou. He patted Ma Xiaotao's hand and briefly explained.
"A thunder tribulation?" Ma Xiaotao's beautiful pupils suddenly widened. That thing, is it something a person can casually take? "Are you mad?"
Huo Yuhao suddenly smiled. "You are still concerned about me."
Hearing his words, Ma Xiaotao's face instantly turned cold. "Don't be narcissistic. Who's concerned about you?"
Huo Yuhao did not expose her but just smiled at her gently. Immediately, his face turned serious. "No matter what you think, one day, I will clear away this cancerous tumor of Shrek for the continent."
"Just you?" Ma Xiaotao laughed in extreme anger. Let alone that the Holy Spirit Cult had two great Limit Douluos, the Sea God Pavilion was not something that could be destroyed with just one or two Limit Douluos. Of course, she still did not know about Elder Xuan's matter.
"Yes, just me," Huo Yuhao's tone was without any fluctuation, as if he were stating a fact. "You are in the middle of it all and do not know that a series of Shrek's actions have long since touched the bottom line of all the countries on the continent. You know even less what Shrek is plotting."
"You stop with the nonsense!" Ma Xiaotao jumped up as if her tail had been stepped on. "Our Shrek is a hero of the Douluo Continent! A hero must not be blasphemed!"
"A hero?" Huo Yuhao couldn't help but want to laugh. "You tell me how Shrek is a hero."
"Although at present there is no large-scale war on the continent, disputes are always present. If it is just a dispute between ordinary people, even if something happens, it will not cause too much damage. But if it is a dispute between soul masters, it is a different matter. A soul master's own ability far exceeds that of an ordinary person, and they lack supervision and restraint. Our Shrek's responsibility is precisely to supervise," Ma Xiaotao had memorized the teachings of the Shrek Supervision Group and, when she spoke of these things, her pretty face was as if one could see a holy light.
"To supervise?" Huo Yuhao sneered at this. "Who gave you the right to supervise others?"
"What we supervise is only soul masters. It is only aimed at people and even officials, but it is by no means aimed at a country. We have our own sources of intelligence. Once a vicious incident that the country cannot supervise or does not supervise, or a soul master does evil, appears on the continent, we will have inner court disciples make a move to resolve it. At this time, our inner court students are called supervisors, Shrek supervisors! And our inner court also has another name, the Shrek Supervision Group. At present, Elder Xuan, his old self, is the vice leader of this supervision group," Ma Xiaotao said stubbornly. Of course, she still did not know that the vice leader of the supervision group she was talking about was also the Supreme Elder of the Holy Spirit Cult.
"For the evil people, we are a life-claiming butcher's knife; for the weak who are bullied, we are indeed an existence like the god of goodness. There are countless people who have once received the help of a Shrek supervisor. To help them is the best process to perfect our hearts. I have always believed that to do good deeds is not to help others, but to help ourselves. The kind of satisfaction is something that no other matter can replace!"
Hearing Ma Xiaotao's sonorous and powerful words, Huo Yuhao almost put a hand to his forehead and laughed out loud. It was clear that Ma Xiaotao had been bound by the glory of Shrek for a long time. It was by no means something that could be enlightened in one or two days. A clear-headed person like Xie Huanyue was, after all, few and far between.
"Then, may I ask why so many national officials, including the honest ones, are extremely disgusted with your Shrek's actions?" Huo Yuhao chose his words and asked back.
"Impossible! Our Shrek Supervision Group, no matter what country or city we go to, what welcomes us is only cheers and shouts!" Ma Xiaotao immediately denied.
"The operation of a country must have both good officials and corrupt officials who achieve each other. If there were no corrupt officials and evil forces, then there would naturally be no need for the existence of good officials and evil-eliminating organs. You think you are punishing evil and promoting good, and have replaced the original role of these people, which has made the national talents who were originally rubbing their fists and preparing to do something great lose the meaning of their existence. Over time, Shrek has become the maintainer of order of other countries, which has exceeded the original intention of running an academy," Huo Yuhao eloquently explained the harm of Shrek's current actions.
"I am not saying that to punish evil and promote good is wrong. It is that your position is wrong. The only ones who can sweep away the evil of a country are the organs of that country, not an outside academy. For an academy to wantonly interfere in the politics of other countries, and to call itself the order-keeper of the continent—this kind of an act, what difference is there with Spirit Hall back then?"
Speaking of this, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but smile. "Spirit Hall at least had still worked for the two great empires back then, and had, on behalf of the government, distributed funds to the soul masters every month. And your Shrek is just constantly taking, constantly absorbing the talents of other countries, and brainwashing the geniuses on the continent one by one into the backer of Shrek. A typical case of taking the money and then plotting against others from behind."
"You are talking nonsense! My Shrek is open and aboveboard! How could we possibly do such a thing?" Ma Xiaotao was furious. She would absolutely not allow Huo Yuhao to blaspheme her sacred Shrek Academy in her heart.
"Then let me ask you one thing. If in the future, all the countries on the continent, just to dominate the continent and to divide the world, were to join forces and the first one they want to sweep away is your Shrek, at that time, what would the graduate students who had once studied at the academy do?"
Speaking of this, Huo Yuhao deliberately paused for a moment. Ma Xiaotao had already blurted out, "Of course it is to respond to the call of the academy and to resist the encirclement of all the countries!"
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"Good, good, good!" Huo Yuhao directly clapped for Ma Xiaotao's answer. "The outstanding talents of our major empires are sent to your Shrek to study, precisely to be a turncoat at this critical moment, to be brainwashed by you into the command of Shrek Academy!"
"You... you... I don't believe it! The various countries on the continent will, because of a war, give up the lofty Shrek Academy!" Ma Xiaotao bit her silver teeth tightly and still could not believe that this kind of thing would happen.
After all, she did not have Huo Yuhao's god's perspective and could not see the Shrek that had lost the protection of the Divine Realm in the Dragon King Legend period, suffering the baptism of two level-twelve fixed-guidance soul tool cannon shells.
This was the inevitable result of Shrek's vain attempt to interfere in the various governments of the continent. An academy, if it had lost its original intention of running a school and had begun to plan its own power and backer, would undoubtedly bring a fatal disaster upon itself.
"I don't care if you believe it or not. In short, you are still my woman now. Even if I have to snatch you, I will snatch you back to my side!" Huo Yuhao directly walked over, trying to take Ma Xiaotao into his embrace.
"Bastard! You filthy evil soul master! Don't you touch me!" Ma Xiaotao immediately began to struggle, as if extremely resistant to Huo Yuhao's embrace.
However, she, whose soul power had been completely imprisoned, how could she so easily break free from Huo Yuhao? In just a few breaths' time, she had been stripped naked by him.
Ma Xiaotao was held up by Huo Yuhao and was directly pressed onto the bed.
"Huo Yuhao! Even if you get this old lady's body, you will never get this old lady's heart!"
Ma Xiaotao's beautiful pupils were completely red. She was constantly struggling. Unfortunately, Huo Yuhao had already bared his fangs. Before she could come back to her senses, the long sword had already entered the scabbard.
Her beautiful pupils suddenly widened. The memories of their one after another of a night of wind and rain rushed in like a tide. Soon she had given up on struggling and was continuously crying out.
Just at this time, a vast life aura had in a moment broken through heavy obstacles and had poured into Ma Xiaotao's body.