As the "Dark Department Master," Miss Nanaly was clearly very busy. After giving the gifts to Huo Yuhao and the others, she hurriedly left Mingde Hall.
The three watched her leave, then headed to the accommodations arranged by Mingde Hall.
As they walked, Gu Yuena voiced the doubt in her heart through a sound transmission.
"Yuhao, did you leave a contingency on that Blood Eyes evil spirit master before?"
Huo Yuhao nodded slightly, not explaining in detail.
Seeing this, Gu Yuena understood and did not ask.
Since Yuhao chose silence, she knew her limits and was willing to wait for him to tell her.
Mingde Hall had prepared for them a spacious, bright suite with three bedrooms, a main and secondary living room, as well as functional rooms like a manufacturing room.
The room was elegantly decorated, with soft tones and a comfortable atmosphere. In the center of the main living room was an exquisite sofa set. Beside it was an antique-style coffee table on which sat a beautiful tea set.
Huo Yuhao quietly released his spiritual power, carefully scanning every corner of the room. After confirming nothing was out of the ordinary, he turned to Gu Yuena and Lan Fozi. "What do you think?"
Gu Yuena did not reply. She also turned her head to look at Lan Fozi.
The latter was completely bewildered. After a moment, she quickly said, "I think this is fine as a temporary lounge. But it's better not to stay at Mingde Hall too long. Otherwise, I'm worried I might cause trouble for you two."
Among the four major powers of the Federation, Mingde Hall had the fewest top-tier powerful individuals. After all, it was an organization focused on research.
But its research results were the most advanced in the entire Federation. The results of some soul tools could be beyond expectations. Staying at Mingde Hall for too long, it would be hard to avoid surprises.
Lan Fozi was worried she might inadvertently reveal a flaw and cause trouble for the two deities... and then be eliminated by them.
"Then we'll do that."
Huo Yuhao nodded. Together with the other two, he began organizing the Mingde Hall books they had brought.
As he read, Huo Yuhao suddenly saw a strange soul tool book. His thoughts stopped.
Its outer packaging was normal, but there were obvious signs of rebinding. He seemed to have just seen such a book.
A sense of foreboding rose in Huo Yuhao. Just as he was about to reach for the book, a fair, jade-like hand beat him to it, taking it away.
Gu Yuena glanced at Huo Yuhao with a hint of confusion, puzzled by his sudden distraction, but did not delve deeper. She casually opened the soul tool book, her gaze quickly scanning across the pages.
In an instant, a heady blush spread from her delicate cheeks to the tips of her ears. A flicker of embarrassment and annoyance appeared in her amethyst-like eyes.
She closed the book with a smack, her fingertips unconsciously tightening, crushing the book slightly. Then she glanced at Huo Yuhao, pressed her red lips together, and transmitted, "Yuhao, did you have close relationships with many women ten thousand years ago?"
The corner of Huo Yuhao's eye twitched. "I'd like to ask first... who wrote that book?"
"There's no attribution." Gu Yuena's fingertip lightly tapped the spine of the book. The space where the author's name should have been was empty.
"And the content?"
The tips of Gu Yuena's ears suddenly grew redder. She turned her face away, handed the book to Huo Yuhao, and said in a low voice, "See for yourself. Although it's somewhat obscure, it contains stories about you and the founding members of the Spirit Transmission Tower. Angel Douluo, your disciple Su Tong, all of them are there."
Huo Yuhao took it and read for a moment. His face gradually darkened.
This book was supposedly about the history of soul tool development from ten thousand years ago. Yet after reading it carefully, although it did contain scattered bits of information regarding the development of soul tools—most of which were related to him—the pages were filled with the author's wildly imaginative "artistic embellishments." It felt less like a historical record and more like a storybook, or perhaps… an unofficial history.
And this book had come from the very place that Kong Lao had painstakingly arranged to preserve their foundations? How had something like this been mixed in there? Did it even have half a copper soul coin's worth of relevance to the development of soul tools in Mingde Hall?
Wait… back then, it had been he himself who authorized Su Tong to erase certain official records.
If that was the case, then…
After reading for a while, Huo Yuhao suddenly remembered something. His heart jumped. He asked Snow Empress, "Su Tong's method of deleting information for me wouldn't have been..."
"What you taught her. Better to divert than to block."
Snow Empress's The tone was flat and unreadable.
Deleting information about Spirit Ice directly was a very troublesome affair. After all, as the First Generation Tower Master, Yuhao's achievements and symbolic significance were immense. Even Su Tong, as his disciple, found it difficult to manage. Direct deletion might actually lead to unfavorable rumors.
And it's better to divert than to block. In such a situation, using unofficial history to cover up the official history was a good choice.
After all, the information Yuhao had left behind was not extensive. Under the cover of various "unofficial histories," the truth was ignored by many. Then, when Su Tong began to clear away some information, there was much less resistance.
However, although she had participated herself, she still felt that Su Tong had gotten far too carried away in this matter.
Teacher Yuhao, look at me — did I do well? — Su Tong
It was as if a "despicable" voice, cool yet with a hint of amusement, sounded in Huo Yuhao's ear.
"..."
What else could he say?
From this book, it seemed Su Tong hadn't even spared her own reputation. This gift from his disciple, spanning ten thousand years... he could only accept it.
If he ever had the chance, he would definitely settle the score with her!
While sighing inwardly, Huo Yuhao said to Snow Empress, "There are even rumors about you and me in here."
He and Snow Empress had gone to Mingdu together to "hit people over the head." Although they had used Imitation to conceal themselves at the time, some people would later suspect who had acted.
That the Lord of the Extreme North was willing to do such a thing with an unrisen Spirit-Ice Douluo, their relationship was clearly something some people thought worth writing about.
"However, given the current situation, reality might even be better than this book." Huo Yuhao muttered to himself, but his voice sounded in the Sea of Spirit.
"..."
Upon hearing this, Snow Empress's flat expression gradually melted. Her face reddened slightly. Her gaze shifted, drawing a roll of Ice Empress's eyes.
High attack power, low defense.
"Yuhao." Gu Yuena's sound transmission came, deep and quiet. "How much longer are you going to look?"
Huo Yuhao looked up. She was standing with her arms crossed, her amethyst-like eyes fixed intently on him.
Huo Yuhao smiled helplessly. "Na'er, in my time, the Vice Tower Masters also included the Ji clan's ancestors."
Even just sparring with Juechen could evolve into all sorts of bizarre historical accounts. He truly wanted to send his regards to those "fictional historians."
"..."
Gu Yuena's amethyst eyes widened. "The book also wrote about you and..."
She stopped mid-sentence, barely resisting the urge to burn the book directly.
What unofficial history? Defaming Yuhao's reputation.
"That's right. Not only Juechen." Huo Yuhao glanced at Gu Yuena in a strange way. "Also, in order to ensure the continuation of the spirit beast clan, the Lord of Star Dou also... ahem."
He didn't finish, but he understood that Gu Yuena should get it.
"..."
The Lord of Star Dou ten thousand years ago couldn't have been referring to her, could it?
Gu Yuena's tone cooled. "Such a book is better off destroyed."
"This is Mingde Hall's book. We can't just destroy it. At the very least, we should inform the Hall Master."
Huo Yuhao stepped forward. His slender fingers grasped Gu Yuena's wrist, pulling her close. He lowered his gaze to look at Gu Yuena's slightly flushed cheeks and smiled. "Come to think of it, were you jealous just now?"
"No."
The tips of Gu Yuena's ears grew hot. She raised her hand to push him away, but Huo Yuhao wrapped an arm around her waist.
"Ten thousand years ago... I couldn't promise anything to anyone." Huo Yuhao said softly in Gu Yuena's ear, then put the book away. "So you don't need to worry about these things."
Gu Yuena's fingertips trembled slightly. A gentle ripple appeared in her eyes.
"Yes."
She responded softly, her voice as pleasant as a clear spring.
Beside them, Lan Fozi watched the interaction between the two. Although she didn't hear their sound transmissions, she still sensed something.
These two had definitely been husband and wife in the Divine Realm, hadn't they?
Being both husband and wife and top-tier existences among deities, even capable of guiding the direction of a war in the Divine Realm, who in the Divine Realm could match them?
Perhaps she could investigate a little.
Thinking this, Lan Fozi took out a book and immediately fell silent.
The page title had several particularly eye-catching headlines.
Spirit-Ice Douluo Meets the Ten Great Savage Beasts at Night, Gets Drunk and Swears Brotherhood — From Then On, the Two Great Spirit Beast Gathering Places Join the Game.
Shocking! The Untold Story of Spirit-Ice Douluo and Snow Empress!
Is Tower Master Su Tong the Daughter of Snow Empress and Spirit-Ice Douluo?
"..."
What did this have to do with the history of soul tool development?
And the deeds of the Spirit Transmission Tower's First Generation Tower Master, Spirit-Ice Douluo, were this bizarre?
Lan Fozi's eyes widened. She unconsciously began to study them seriously, completely unaware that Gu Yuena's gaze was slowly growing cold.
A moment later, watching Lan Fozi, whom she had sent off to clean, Gu Yuena looked back at the some books she had separated out on the table and sighed.
Many of the books the three had taken were about the history of Mingde Hall's soul tool development. After all, Mingde Hall's collection was vast. To find the parts useful to them, reading some of this history was necessary. It allowed for a systematic understanding of Mingde Hall's research progress in soul tools.
But because of this, they had discovered many histories and storybooks written by "fictional historians." (Wang Hongchen: Ancestor, didn't you say they were all history, not storybooks?!)
However, after calming down, Gu Yuena could actually understand why certain "unofficial histories" appeared. Some of the founding members of the Spirit Transmission Tower... had no descendants.
For example, Yuhao.
And the second generation, Su Tong, also left no descendants. After passing down the position of Tower Master, she had disappeared into the Extreme North, her whereabouts unknown.
Under such circumstances, it was naturally time for the historians to shine.
Compared to Gu Yuena, facing these "fictional" books, Huo Yuhao was relatively calm.
He took out the spirit bone Nanaly had just given him, opened it, and looked.
This was a hundred-thousand-year left leg bone, from an Evil Demon Tiger Whale.
Yes, another seafood product.
In the Sea of Spirit, Snow Empress saw this spirit bone and spoke up: "Yuhao, keep it. When the time is right, if there is no better choice, you can apply for those two savage beast leg bones for spirit bone fusion. Don't absorb your original left and right leg bones."
Spirit bone fusion — several identical spirit bones could be fused to create a brand new spirit bone. This was not common in the spirit master world, but such a technology did exist.
The Spirit Transmission Tower had also done quite a bit of research in this area, aiming to study artificial spirit bones.
However, because this practice was not worth advocating, few people used it.
After all, who would use a ten-thousand-year or hundred-thousand-year spirit bone for such a extravagant and extravagant purpose? Wouldn't it be better to absorb it directly?
But Snow Empress wanted to accumulate more foundation for Yuhao, even if it was just the years of the spirit bones.
Hearing Snow Empress's reminder, a flicker of something passed through Huo Yuhao's eyes. He nodded and put the spirit bone away.
He knew what spirit bones Snow Empress was talking about.
The Evil Demon Tiger Whale King's left and right leg bones, from the same savage beast, with a age of 390,000 years.
The Evil Demon Tiger Whale was one of the Overlords of sea spirit beasts. It was stronger than the Demon Soul Great White Shark, but slightly weaker than the Abyssal Demon Whale. However, the Abyssal Demon Whale had a very small population, and savage beasts with a lifespan of over 300,000 years were even rarer. Huo Yuhao only knew of the Demon Emperor and the Abyssal Demon Whale King. The latter was already dead.
Thus, it could be seen that these two spirit bones, in terms of quality and age, were undoubtedly top-notch among spirit bones produced by sea spirit beasts.
And the origin of these two spirit bones also had a certain story.
In the past, some sea spirit beast Clan had contacted the Spirit Transmission Tower, wanting to join. But during the migration of their Clan, they had encountered that Evil Demon Tiger Whale King's Clan, which had come to hunt them. A battle began.
Then... that was that.
The Evil Demon Tiger Whale King, facing a savage beast sent to assist and wearing Battle Armor, had been badly defeated. Although it did not die in battle, due to its injuries, it would not survive its next heavenly tribulation.
In that situation, the Evil Demon Tiger Whale King hesitated between life and death. No one knew what it was thinking. But ultimately, it chose to become a Spirit Soul of the Spirit Transmission Tower and contributed two spirit bones. Its request was that its spirit beast clan also be allowed to join the Spirit Transmission Tower. Naturally, the Spirit Transmission Tower agreed.
A 390,000-year savage beast Spirit Soul, two savage beast spirit bones, and an entire Evil Demon Tiger Whale pack. This was a big deal!
As for the Evil Demon Tiger Whale being called the "evil spirit master" of sea spirit beasts, a creature that likes to kill?
So what?
The Spirit Transmission Tower kept evil martial soul possessors. And the so-called "evil" spirit beast clans were not absent from the Star Dou Great Forest and the Extreme North. One more or one less made no difference.
At worst, they could fit you with a neural connection device and let you kill to your heart's content in a virtual virtual space, until you were sick of it.
As for that Evil Demon Tiger Whale King Spirit Soul, it should now be installed in the last ten levels of the headquarters' Spirit Soul Tower. The Spirit Soul Tower had 108 levels. The guardian Spirit Souls of the last ten levels were all at the savage beast level. They were the Spirit Transmission Tower's foundation.
And its spirit bones, due to their years and quality being too high, were offered as rewards. They could only be obtained by made made sufficient meritorious deeds for the Spirit Transmission Tower.
"Two top-notch savage beast spirit bones won't be easy to obtain. But after the trip to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, there should be no problem. Yuhao can legitimately obtain them."
Snow Empress thought to herself.
While Huo Yuhao and the others were getting familiar with Mingde Hall's environment, Xie Xie and the others were enjoying the attention of many eyes.
And the reason, of course, was that they had become famous two years ago.
"Student Xie Xie, how did you feel when you defeated Shrek two years ago?"
After class, Xie Xie sat in his seat, looking at the classmates who had gathered around in such a short time, the corner of his mouth twitching.
How did he feel?
What could he feel as a backdrop?
Ask differently!
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