in the god realm:
"Tang San, do you know where Xiao Qi is?" Xiao Wu asked, "I asked Destruction and Life, but they said that they haven't seen Xiao Qi all day!"
"I'm sure she's fine, Xiao Wu, I sent her into the lower realm for experience. She is with da ming and the clear sky sect" Tang San spoke, silently sending a thread of divine power into Xiao Wu's head.
"Oh, that's good..." Xiao Wu furrowed her brows with a blank expression.
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Dragon city:
Huo Yuhao arrived at Dragon city after another 2 days of traveling, astounding Li Erhu.
"please forgive me for being rude, but how did you survive?" Li Erhu asked.
"I was lucky" Yuhao spoke with a straight face, "Thankfully, I found a ice silkworm with the age of 400 years"
"I see" Li Erhu grumbled, "if only I had your luck, maybe I would have gotten a higher position..."
Li Erhu opened the city gates once again, letting Yuhao in.
Once Huo Yuhao was at least a block away from Li Erhu, he sighed with relief. He looked around, making sure nobody was watching him, and ran towards the nearest inn.
Intending to get a nice rest, Huo Yuhao reached the inn, he wanted to rent a room, but all the rooms were taken. Huo Yuhao sighed as he left the inn.
"Yuhao, there is someone following you" Bing Hao whispered.
Huo Yuhao stopped for a moment before resuming his walk, "are you sure, Old Hao?"
"yes, he seems to be a soul elder, around level 32" Bing Hao spoke, "we can probably kill him..."
knowing that it was possible to kill the pursuer, Yuhao's eyes sharpened. he walked toward an alleyway, seemingly unaware of the stalker on his trail.
halfway through the alley, a burly man blocked his path.
"hand over the contents of your soul guide, and maybe I'll let you die a painless death" the man threatened.
however, Huo Yuhao didn't speak. He didn't move and just stared at the man emotionlessly.
seeing that Yuhao wasn't going to hand over his soul guide, the man got angry and summoned his martial soul.
a blood red stick appeared in his hand, one white and two yellow soul rings floating above it.
the man waved the stick crudely and one yellow soul ring started glowing. A burst of soul power was ejected from the stick in the shape of a sword and flew towards Huo Yuhao.
But instead of dodging, Yuhao walked into the sword and passed through unharmed, shocking his opponent.
"what the-" the man stuttered as Yuhao walked towards him.
"well then, it's about time I end this fight" Huo Yuhao spoke.
Yuhao activated his soul bone and threads of silk as strong as steel appeared and bound the man from the neck.
The man tried to break free, but it was useless as the threads only squeezed him tighter, snapping his neck.
once the man died, Huo Yuhao disappeared and reappeared right behind the dead man, his soul ring shining while he breathed heavily from exhaustion.
the Huo Yuhao that was walking towards the man was just a simulation created by Yuhao's first soul skill.
sighing in relief, Huo Yuhao looted the dead man's soul guide, and left the alleyway before collapsing on the spot.
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Meng Hongchen was having a good day until the boy collapsed.
she had shopped for an hour, bought some candied haws, and was eating them, when a white haired boy stepped out of an alley and fell to the floor.
despite the dirt on his clothes, Meng Hongchen could see how handsome he was, and with her being a face-control, she decided to take him back to her hotel room.
Her brother would understand, right?
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He did not understand. In fact, he was quite appalled at the sight of his sister bringing in an unconscious boy from the street.
But it wasn't like he could just kick the boy out, after all, the boy was unconscious.
Even if he didn't want the boy in his hotel room, he wouldn't be so heartless as to leave him on the streets in that state.
Xiao Hongchen sighed and decided to bring this incident up when his grandfather got back from the far north.
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Jing Hongchen walked into the hotel room and froze.
His two grandchildren were sitting on the couch, while an unconscious boy was on the recliner.
There were 2 things wrong with this picture.
the first thing was that the siblings were not arguing, which Jing Hongchen was happy about, while the second thing was just confusing.
"Will anyone explain why there is an unknown sleeping boy on the recliner?" Jing Hongchen asked with a bulging forehead vein, speaking in an even tone.
The siblings, finally noticing their grandpa's entrance, shuddered.
"well-"
"It was Meng" Xiao Hongchen mercilessly said.
"brother?!"
Jing Hongchen sighed, "okay, since he's already here, explain what happened that led you to bringing him here"
"so I was shopping, and I saw him come out of an alleyway and collapse" Meng Hongchen spoke carefully, "it was too dangerous to leave him on the side of the road, so I brought him here"
"Okay, what do we do with him?"
"well," Xiao Hongchen started, "I was thinking of waiting for him to wake up before deciding anything..."
"wait, I think he's waking up now!" Meng Hongchen exclaimed.
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Huo Yuhao was having the weirdest dream of his life.
at first, he thought he was in his old world, attending a lecture on electronics and how they are made, when the person speaking summoned a pikachu, and commanded it to use "thunder arm".
the pikachu then began boxing with the students, and beat every one of them until only he was left.
the pikachu then said, "you want these hands?" in the most high pitched voice he had ever heard, until iron man broke through the ceiling and knocked out the pikachu.
and then he was on a plane, surrounded by piranhas.
one buff guy in the cockpit shouted something in japanese before flying the plane into a volcano.
then the entire Cars 2 cast ran over the buff guy, but were blasted into space by the volcano.
and then everything turned black.
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"-he's waking up now!"
Huo Yuhao's first thought was: 'where am I and where is pikachu?'
His second thought was: 'what?'
He rubbed his eyes and looked around, only to find himself in an unknown room with three unknown people.
"oh good, now that you're awake, do you mind telling us who you are?" the oldest one in the room asked.
Yuhao decided to voice the first half of his first thought out loud, "where am I?"
"You are currently in my hotel room" the man said, "now will you please answer my question?"
"My name is Huo Yuhao. now that I've answered your questions, can I leave?"
Huo Yuhao got up, but just as Yuhao was going to leave, he was blocked by the older man.
"not so fast, Xiao Yuhao, you have been taking up part of this room for over 3 hours" the man spoke, "and since hotel costs are so "expensive" you need to pay 15 gold soul coins"
Huo Yuhao froze, "are you trying to scam me? these hotel rooms can't be more than 4 gold soul coins anyway!"
The man's eyes lit up in a gleam, "oh? but my time is worth more than the hotel room. but if you don't want to pay up..."
The man paused before saying, "you can work off your debts at sun-moon academy"
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