Douluo: In an extraordinary world, with unparallel understanding!

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Su Yu searched through the small courtyard but did not find any items left behind by the evil soul masters.

"However, this time, it seems to be a coordinated operation."

Su Yu's previous hunting actions had taught the evil soul masters of the Holy Spirit Sect a lesson. This time, they seemed to have banded together, no longer hunting alone.

After circling the city again and sensing no other abnormalities, Su Yu made a preliminary judgment.

"The Heavenly Soul Empire, huh?"

*The Fallen Plan*

Su Yu thought of someone.

Tang Ya.

However, with the upcoming grand competition in Sun-Moon just two years away, based on the original storyline, Tang Ya should have already joined the Holy Spirit Sect for at least three years by now.

This was why Su Yu hadn't initially considered this possibility.

But now, the thought crossed his mind.

"The Iron-Blood Sect hasn't been wiped out yet!"

This suggested that Tang Ya's path had most likely deviated from the original development.

As for why, Su Yu didn't bother to delve deeper.

Most likely, his presence had influenced Tang Ya in some way, giving her new hope.

"With Tang Ya's Dark Blue Silver Grass devouring ability, there's indeed a possibility she's being valued by the Holy Spirit Sect."

In the past, Su Yu had advised Tang Ya on the issue of spirit ring selection. But clearly, she hadn't taken his advice, continuing to focus on poison attributes. From then on, whatever happened to Tang Ya had nothing to do with Su Yu.

Now that the divine trial required Su Yu to stop this process, his attention turned to Huo Yuhao.

Hmm, this kid probably owes Tang Ya and the Tang Sect something, right?

Perfect, this is a chance for him to repay his debt.

"Let's go, Yuhao. We're heading to Heaven Dou City."

"Brother Yu, have you already found a lead?" Huo Yuhao asked. Unlike Su Yu, he didn't have the ability to sense evil soul masters from afar. He could only feel the bloodthirsty aura when he got close.

However, at the scene, he couldn't draw any useful conclusions.

Brother Yu is incredible.

"No, we're just going to visit an old friend first."

Su Yu briefly recounted his last outing and experience with the Kuangyun Guard Corps to Huo Yuhao.

"But Brother Yu, what about your trial?" Huo Yuhao asked.

"The Kuangyun Guard Corps is rooted in the Heavenly Soul Empire. Their intelligence network is far faster than ours," Su Yu explained.

That made sense.

Huo Yuhao nodded and refrained from asking further questions.

The two flew for days, stopping at cities along the way to explore and continuing their daily training routines.

Five days later, they arrived at Heaven Dou City.

*Outside Heaven Dou City*

The two appeared in front of a grand estate on the outskirts.

Looking at the luxurious, newly renovated headquarters of the guard corps, Su Yu couldn't help but sigh. What kind of luck did Zou Yun have to become so wealthy and renovate to such an extravagant extent?

"Brother Yu, is this the Kuangyun Guard Corps?"

Standing in front of the estate, Huo Yuhao sensed the presence of the guard corps members inside.

With a sweep of his spiritual power, he could roughly gauge the level of these members.

The strongest among them, Zou Yun, was only two levels higher than him—at rank forty-seven.

"Don't casually use your spiritual power to scan others' soul power levels. While it's fine if you go unnoticed, being caught would be seen as a provocation," Su Yu warned Huo Yuhao.

"Using spiritual power to directly scan is impolite. Instead, sensing their energy fluctuations from a distance is the better approach."

Without physically probing others with spiritual power, one could sense the soul power waves within their bodies from afar. This method was less likely to cause misunderstandings while still satisfying curiosity.

Huo Yuhao withdrew his spiritual power.

"Good thing Feng Kuang isn't around, or you'd have learned this lesson the hard way."

Huo Yuhao, being spiritually inclined and possessing the million-year spirit ring of the Skydream Iceworm, had an exceptional spiritual power level. With the addition of his runic cultivation method, his spiritual power rivaled that of an average Soul Saint.

But Feng Kuang was not an ordinary existence.

While his spiritual power wasn't particularly outstanding—at best reaching the pinnacle level among Soul Saints and not yet at the Soul Douluo stage—his willpower far surpassed that of Huo Yuhao.

With his vigor and blood energy boosting him, Huo Yuhao would likely suffer a backlash in a direct confrontation.

Su Yu stepped forward and knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" Songzi's voice came from inside, sounding groggy. He rubbed his eyes as he opened the door.

When he saw Su Yu, Songzi stopped mid-motion, his eyes widening in excitement. "Su, you're back!"

Realizing that calling him "little Su" might be a bit inappropriate, Songzi was about to correct himself, but Su Yu waved it off with a smile. "It's fine. I'm not that old anyway."

"This is Xiao Huo."

He gestured toward Huo Yuhao, who was barely holding back laughter, and introduced him.

"Xiao Huo."

Considering Su Yu's strength, Songzi figured that Huo Yuhao couldn't be an ordinary person either. However, since Su Yu introduced him this way, Songzi decided to go along with it for now.

"Yuhao, this is Songzi. He handles most of the internal affairs of the guard corps."

"Nice to meet you, Songzi," Huo Yuhao said politely.

Hearing that Su Yu had arrived, Zou Yun was overjoyed and rushed out to greet him.

"Haha! Su, I was wondering why my soul power suddenly broke through the other day—it must've been because our lucky star has returned!"

"Boss Zou, I'm here on a mission this time. I need to investigate the whereabouts of a group of evil soul masters. I wanted to see if the guard corps had any information on them," Su Yu explained, aware of the danger posed by evil soul masters. He added, "Of course, the guard corps shouldn't get involved in the investigation. It's too dangerous to actively pursue evil soul masters. I'm only here to inquire about any intelligence you might have."

Zou Yun turned to Songzi.

"Songzi, have we encountered anything strange recently?"

"We have, actually. The Heavenly Soul Empire is never short on these kinds of incidents. The most recent one near Heaven Dou City involves the Iron-Blood Sect. They've been unusually active lately—things seem to be getting lively over there.

"But if we're talking about something possibly related to the evil soul masters you mentioned, we should discuss the Sunset Forest.

"In the past half-month, there have been three cases of spirit beasts being brutally slaughtered in the Sunset Forest.

"Reportedly, hundreds of spirit beasts were killed in a cruel and inhumane manner."

*Brutally slaughtered!*

That certainly sounded like the methods of evil soul masters.

However, another possibility was the use of secret techniques to create artificial spirit bones.

"There was also a small town outside the city that was massacred a month ago. At the time, the city lord of Heaven Dou sent a Soul Saint to hunt down the evil soul master responsible. It's said the evil soul master was eliminated."