Douluo Continent: I, Huo Yuhao, am the Master of Spirit

Chapter 41 Heroes from All Walks of Life Join Together for a Grand Event (Please Read On)
Huo Yuhao traveled for three consecutive days before finally arriving at Xilu City, a city in the Heavenly Soul Empire near the Star Dou Great Forest.

This city has a very long history; it was one of the first cities established when the Tiandou Empire was founded.

It stood firm through the split of the Heavenly Dou Empire and the invasion of the Sun Moon Empire.

This is related to the fact that Xilu City is extremely close to Shrek City.

Actually, there were quite a few cities around the Star Dou Great Forest at the beginning.

These cities were all built to facilitate Soul Masters in hunting for Soul Rings.

Countless Soul Masters and merchants flocked to the event to participate in this grand occasion.

This prosperity also spurred economic development across the entire Tiandou Plain, making Shrek City the absolute center of the continent.

However, more than two thousand years ago, the Body Sect emerged and hunted down 100,000-year-old soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.

This enraged Di Tian, ​​triggering the first recorded massive beast tide!
Under the command of the major ferocious beasts in the core area, countless soul beasts indiscriminately attacked all human cities.

The Tiandou Plain was the first to be affected.

Countless cities near the Star Dou Great Forest perished under the onslaught of soul beasts.

Only the cities surrounding Shrek were spared.

After this attack, the Tiandou Plain was completely wiped out, and its former prosperity was gone. Now, almost no one dares to build a city around the Star Dou Great Forest anymore.

Currently, the urban layout of the Tiandou Plain is centered on Shrek City, with the other cities forming a pincer pattern on both sides, surrounding the Star Dou Great Forest.

To ensure that if another beast tide breaks out in the future, Shrek City can guarantee that the beast tide will not spread beyond the Tiandou Plain.

In other words, Di Tian is so stupid that he can't see that this is a Douluo Continent version of the island chain blockade, specially created by a certain Sea God Pavilion Master.

Moreover, this blockade is currently encroaching on the Star Dou Great Forest as Shrek City expands.

This layout also laid a good foundation for the future construction of the Star Fortress at the Spirit Pagoda.

If any of the soul beasts had even a modicum of sense, they would not allow this situation to occur.

They had long ago decided to launch an unprecedented beast tide at all costs. Even if they didn't destroy Shrek Academy, they were at least determined to carve out a passage on the Tiandou Plain.

Otherwise, a soul beast is like a frog in lukewarm water, or a skeleton in a grave.

Even if the Spirit Pagoda hadn't appeared, other organizations would have built Star Fortresses in the future.

Maybe it's the Federation, maybe it's Shrek.

No one would give up such a lucrative piece of meat as the Star Dou Great Forest.

Humanity is currently maintaining restraint and not showing its fangs entirely because Di Tian is too strong, in a class of its own.

Unless the divine realm intervenes, no one can withstand Di Tian's Dragon God Claw.

Huo Yuhao entered Xilu City an hour before the city gates closed.

The gatekeepers here are similar to those in Xuanfeng City; they basically just glance at you a few times and then let you through.

It's practically useless.

Even the Shadow Cats weren't thoroughly checked to see if they were soul beasts, yet Huo Yuhao went out of his way to disguise himself using his mental power.

Huo Yuhao had heard about this situation from a city gate guard who came to the clinic in Xuanfeng City, mainly because he was afraid of provoking a powerful Soul Master.

Killing them was no different from killing chickens for these Soul Masters.

These guards only earn five silver soul coins a month, which is considered high in Xuanfeng City. In many places, they only earn one silver soul coin. Why risk your life for such a small amount of money?

Taking a few glances occasionally, doing some superficial work, not slacking off, and firing a couple of arrows when facing attacks from soul beasts are enough to justify the empire's salary.

Getting them to work diligently comes at a different price.

Upon entering Xilu City, Huo Yuhao went straight to the bustling commercial district.

These places are crowded and serve as hubs for information exchange throughout the city.

A simple mental scan is enough to get a general idea of ​​the power structure in this city.

To Huo Yuhao's surprise, the class gap here was even greater than in Xuanfeng City!
There are three classes here: commoners, soul masters, and nobles.

Commoners are the lowest class, while nobles and Soul Masters are two separate classes, but there is some overlap. There are a great many nobles here, each dressed in the most splendid attire and accompanied by a large number of servants.

I didn't really see any powerful nobles; they were mostly around the level of Great Soul Masters.

Instead, many nobles were accompanied by several slaves, and the common people around them had to lower their heads and not look up when they saw them.

It's like the Celestial Dragons have come to life.

Huo Yuhao frowned. He remembered that the Heavenly Soul Empire had abolished slavery long ago.

Why are there still some here?

What does the city lord of Xilu City do? The laws of the Heavenly Soul Empire explicitly prohibit the existence of slavery.

It was a feudal empire after all, how could it possibly turn back the clock of history? It's gone back to slavery.

Huo Yuhao used the same trick again, finding the best restaurant in the area, ordering a few dishes, and using his mental power to gather information there.

Those who can eat here are either big businessmen, Soul Masters, or nobles.

The common characteristic of these people is that they possess a large amount of information.

Through these people's conversations, Huo Yuhao pieced together the truth about the city from their fragmented words.

Xilu City is close to Shrek City and can be considered a vassal of Shrek City.

Every year, they would offer a large number of rare items to Shrek City's Treasure Pavilion, including but not limited to soul bones, rare metals, rare medicinal herbs, and whale glue.

It was precisely because of this blatant flattery that Lin Huiqun, the head of the Treasure Pavilion among the members of Shrek Academy's Sea God Pavilion, would come to Xilu City for inspection every year.

By the way, let some petty thieves know that this place is under her protection.

Her existence allowed Xilu City to directly latch onto the Sea God Pavilion.

In fact, the cities surrounding Shrek Academy are more or less connected to Shrek's higher-ups.

Therefore, the Heavenly Soul Empire dared not touch these cities, and the tax revenue from these cities was directly given to Shrek City.

Furthermore, because these cities nominally belong to the Heavenly Soul Empire, a large number of nobles from the Heavenly Soul Empire gathered here to celebrate this grand occasion!

Here, these nobles could openly use slaves and run casinos, brothels, and bloody gladiatorial arenas.

The reason they didn't dare to interfere was because the Heavenly Soul Empire dared not, and Shrek Academy, seeing that the Heavenly Soul Empire had been paying tribute to them, was too lazy to interfere.

Let this place become a kind of lawless place.

After gathering the information and having eaten and drunk his fill, Huo Yuhao left the restaurant and searched for a place to stay on the street.

To be honest, compared to this place, Somalia is a place of political stability and social harmony.

After walking for a short while, I saw a group of heroes displaying their unique skills.

First, Huo Yuhao encountered five pickpockets at the same time. Before Huo Yuhao could use his telekinesis to deal with them, they started fighting each other.

Huo Yuhao couldn't resist and used his telekinesis to knock them all unconscious, then casually threw them into the stinking ditch.

Then I saw a group of robbers driving martial spirit vehicles, their faces covered with black cloth, robbing a jewelry store.

It turned out that the shop owner was a Soul Master who killed one of the robbers on the spot, while the others slipped away, dropped their goods, and ran.

Then the shop owner chased them for several blocks.

Then I saw a god-like figure who seemed to be drunk, his face flushed, catching stray cats or dogs all over the street, and then using his scissor spirit to shave off all the hair on his head.

The Shadow Cat was so frightened that it huddled on Huo Yuhao's shoulder, not daring to move.

Huo Yuhao sighed helplessly, used his mental power to knock out the shaving master, and casually threw him into an alley.

Then, stroking the Shadow Cat's head, he said, "Don't be afraid. You're a hundred-year-old soul beast. An ordinary person doesn't even have soul power. What are you afraid of?"

Then I wondered to myself, "What did they give me?"

"They are simply immortals, lined up like hemp."

Is this Gotham City?

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