After a long silence in the living room, Su Tong's fingers instinctively reached for the file, only to find it abruptly stopped.
Just as Huo Yuhao had described, the entire file consisted of interviews and investigations of the surrounding residents.
The information was fragmented, the clues chaotic, clearly showing that the investigators hadn't put in any effort and were merely going through the motions.
However, this was to be expected; it didn't surprise Huo Yuhao. The five missing people were all civilians, powerless and without influence.
The City Lord's Mansion only issued the investigation mission through the Adventurers' Guild due to public pressure and coercion from the Heavenly Dragon Gate, even offering a high reward of ten Ice Spirit Fruits.
The Heavenly Dragon Gate was so concerned about this case because the incident occurred not far from their territory. As the leading sect in Dragon City, they naturally had to show their support. They just needed
to demonstrate to the residents of their territory that they were indeed in charge.
Huo Yuhao tossed his empty milk tea cup into the trash can and asked,
"How is it?"
Su Tong shook her head, her icy blue eyes filled with confusion; she couldn't find a clue.
"Nothing, absolutely no information."
Huo Yuhao smiled. In a fantasy world, trying to find information through files was something only someone as clueless as Su Tong could come up with.
The most valuable part of this file was the description of the murderer's whereabouts on the first page.
Everything else was nonsense, just to fool the public and future inspectors.
In Xilu City, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm had already explained similar situations to Huo Yuhao when handling so many documents.
As long as the case didn't involve nobles, soul masters, or big merchants, those so-called files were practically like toilet paper.
"You're still too naive."
"Alright, the way soul masters solve problems ultimately comes back to soul power and soul skills."
"Tomorrow morning, you and I will go to the missing persons area. I'll take you to investigate."
Su Tong closed the file and pushed it back to Huo Yuhao, nodding at him.
"And tonight?"
Huo Yuhao put the file back into his storage soul tool and said to her with a smile:
"Let's go scavenge some things somewhere tonight."
"I figured nobody wants those rare treasures."
"Do you have any extra thick black stockings? I want to put them over my head."
Su Tong looked at him warily, as if he were a pervert.
"Haha, just kidding."
"I have a mask."
"We're companions after all, I'll take you with me tonight, so you'll feel involved."
Su Tong wasn't stupid; hearing Huo Yuhao's words, she guessed he probably wanted to rob something somewhere that night.
Seeing her resistant expression, Huo Yuhao tapped the table and said,
"Those rare treasures are currently unclaimed; the other party can't get them or use them."
"Besides, those rare treasures are very beneficial to your Ultimate Ice."
"Without rare treasures, the cultivation speed of the Ultimate Martial Soul is very slow."
Su Tong's eyes widened, her body leaning back, her cold voice tinged with panic.
"You know my Martial Soul?"
Huo Yuhao looked at her and said,
"I know a few juniors with ultimate Martial Souls, so I'm quite familiar with this type of Martial Soul."
"I'm puzzled that no one has discovered your Ultimate Ice yet."
"The difference between ultimate attributes and ordinary attributes is quite significant."
"I'm starting to suspect that everyone in Dragon City is blind."
Su Tong caught the key point in Huo Yuhao's words, her pupils slightly contracting, and asked Huo Yuhao,
"Do you know any other ultimate Martial Souls?"
"Then do you know how to cultivate an ultimate Martial Soul?"
Her cold voice carried anxiety, indicating that the slow cultivation speed of ultimate Martial Souls had been bothering her for a long time.
Huo Yuhao quite admired this girl; firstly, her appearance was a perfect first impression.
She dared to intervene in a case involving a suspected evil Soul Master simply because she had promised the victim's family, and her character suited Huo Yuhao's tastes.
Most importantly, she had excellent talent in mental cultivation; a level 55 Soul King, her mental strength had reached the high stage of the Spirit Sea Realm.
In this era where the mental cultivation system was not yet perfect, she could be considered exceptionally gifted.
Huo Yuhao was naturally willing to lend a helping hand to this hidden gem.
"Haven't you already found the path?"
"Your spiritual power."
Hearing Huo Yuhao's words, Su Tong was a little confused.
"Spiritual power?"
Huo Yuhao clearly revealed the true cultivation method of the Ultimate Martial Soul.
"Spiritual power is the key to cultivating the Ultimate Martial Soul."
"Powerful spiritual power can suppress the formidable Ultimate Soul Power within the body, allowing it to achieve the same rate of improvement as normal Soul Power." "
Currently, spiritual power is divided into three stages: formless and intangible, tangible and intangible, and tangible and tangible."
"You are currently still in the formless and intangible stage of spiritual power."
"Theoretically speaking, to quickly cultivate Ultimate Soul Power, you need tangible and tangible."
"That's almost impossible; the tangible and intangible stage is enough for you."
This wasn't something Huo Yuhao made up. In the original story, Huo Yuhao's power was too overpowered; with the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Emperor as his two power banks, he never experienced the extraordinary cultivation speed of the Ultimate Martial Soul.
Ma Xiaotao had a bug; she skipped the most difficult level seventy of the Ultimate Martial Soul.
In the original story, only the unfortunate Su Tong experienced the most difficult period of her ultimate martial soul from beginning to end.
However, the original story stated that once spiritual power advances to a tangible and substantial level, the shortcomings of the ultimate martial soul will disappear.
Therefore, it seems that spiritual power is the key to cultivating the ultimate martial soul!
Su Tong remained silent for a long time, a resolute glint flashing in her icy blue eyes.
She stood up, straightened her skirt, and bowed to Huo Yuhao, her long, smooth black hair falling to the ground, dusted with a few specks.
"I would like to ask you to accept me as your disciple."
Huo Yuhao's expression froze. Having stayed in this world for so long, he had never truly considered taking on a disciple.
Jiang Nannan, strictly speaking, was half a disciple, but only in terms of medical skills.
His brain was working frantically, while Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, Golden Tortoiseshell, and even Ilex remained silent, quietly awaiting Huo Yuhao's reply.
When Huo Yuhao opened his eyes again, his martial soul had already been activated.
The pupils of his spiritual eyes resembled a burning bluish-white star.
"I'll only ask you one thing: why do you want to become stronger?"
Su Tong's breathing quickened under the oppressive aura, as if a mountain were pressing down on her.
Only now did she truly realize just how strong Huo Yuhao was!
She managed to utter the words with difficulty.
"I don't want to disappear silently into the ice and snow like my parents. No one remembers that Dragon City once had two legendary Soul Douluos, so I want to leave something behind in this world!"
"Anything is fine, I want this world to remember me!"
"Yuhao, she's not lying."
"The big bug is right, and my mental energy hasn't detected any signs of lying."
Huo Yuhao deactivated his martial soul, and the oppressive aura vanished, as if nothing had happened.
Just as Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and Ilex had said, this girl hadn't lied. Huo Yuhao stood up and came to her.
A large hand appeared in Su Tong's vision; Huo Yuhao pulled her up, a smile on his face.
"I don't like kneeling here."
"Since you're willing to learn from me, I can teach you."
"But you must remember, what I hate most in my life are those self-proclaimed pure and innocent dogs, and those lowly, disgusting evil spirit masters."
"You must be like me, killing them one by one."
"If one day you merge with them, I will personally make you experience the most extreme pain in the world!"
Su Tong nodded vigorously and said to Huo Yuhao,
"Yes! Teacher! I will remember these words."
Huo Yuhao said to her, "Alright, in that case, come with me tonight to get some things from the Earth Dragon Gate."
Su Tong tilted her head, her icy blue eyes looking earnestly at Huo Yuhao, and said,
"Teacher, should we prepare black stockings?"
Many people had run away from the factory; the security guards had run away, and the warehouse manager had slipped away. They probably all went to school. During the meeting, the supervisor's face was almost liver-colored with anger, yelling at HR; it was a bit difficult to maintain composure.
(End of Chapter)
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