Reborn as Huo Yuhao, but also in Battle Through the Heavens

Chapter 53: Should we have people set up the formation or use people to set up the formation?

After sensing the greed and malice in the other party's emotions, Huo Yuhao lost interest in exploring their purpose.

"Pfft!" The pebble easily pierced through the thick tree trunk and accurately struck the throat of the leader of the trackers who was hiding behind it, thinking he was well concealed!

From the moment the pebble left her hand to its impact, only a fleeting instant passed. The leader had no time to react, not even enough time to condense her protective battle aura armor. Clutching her instantly shattered throat, her eyes wide, she collapsed to the ground. Her cultivation as a Great Battle Master was simply insufficient to survive such an injury.

"Big sister!"

"Damn it, how dare you..."

"We are the Mohists..."

Seeing their leader dead, the other followers were filled with shock and rage. They leaped out from their hiding places, unleashing their fighting spirit, and charged towards Huo Yuhao and his group!

"Speaking of which, it's been a long time since I've used this move." Huo Yuhao stared at the crowd in front of him, his spiritual power bursting out from his pupils.

[Soul Shock]!

Seeing the enemy charging towards them, Mr. Yao and Payne were on high alert, each drawing their weapons and assuming a fighting stance. But in an instant, they were astonished to find that the charging enemies fell silently, one after another. These people had no wounds on their bodies, and the anger they had felt before their deaths remained on their faces.

"What are they doing..." Mr. Yao and Payne swallowed hard, their hands and feet feeling weak.

"They're already dead. I shattered their souls."

Unlike his previous head-blasting maniac, Huo Yuhao can now precisely control his mental power to shatter their souls without damaging their brains.

"So, Yuhao, what are you planning to do with their bodies?" Xiao Yan asked, a questioning look on his face, as he walked halfway around the corpses. "You really want to play a zombie apocalypse game?"

Huo Yuhao silently chanted an incantation, and a gray mist spread out, causing the soul fragments of these people to gather in their minds and form soul fire.

"Last time, I was a little worried because his soul was still intact, which led to the accident." After reciting the incantation and casting the spell to control the dead, Huo Yuhao explained, "So this time I used the soul fire ignited by the soul fragments to control them."

"Once my spiritual imprint disappears, they will never be able to recover."

"So what's the point of you creating this team of 'zombies'?" Xiao Yan rolled his eyes when he heard Huo Yuhao's irrelevant answer.

"Hmm..." Huo Yuhao had only acted on a whim, wanting to relive the soul impact while also showing off his control. Now, pressed by Xiao Yan about its purpose, he hesitated for a moment, uncharacteristically stumbling over his words, before answering uncertainly, "Perhaps... to take it back to the Xiao family for guarding their property?"

"It can also be used as source material."

"Damn! Are you evolving into a Frankenstein's monster?" Xiao Yan was speechless. "Or are you no longer satisfied with refining weapons and have switched to refining people?"

Huo Yuhao explained helplessly, "After all, we are leaving the Jia Ma Empire, so I want to leave some trump cards for the Xiao family. In addition to using array patterns and array bases to set up arrays, there is also a branch of arrays that use people to set up arrays. I plan to use these undead to experiment and research one or two such arrays."

Xiao Yan's mouth gaped open: "No way? Using people to set up an array? The kind you're talking about... isn't it supposed to be cultivators cooperating and circulating their Dou Qi to form the array?"

"Uh, so...is that how it is?" Huo Yuhao scratched his head, somewhat embarrassed.

"Yes, that's right." Little Fairy Doctor covered her mouth and chuckled, probably having secretly asked Yao Chen earlier and confirmed Xiao Yan's answer.

Just then, the woman behind the tree staggered over, as if she were also being controlled by Huo Yuhao, and approached them with faltering steps.

"Hmm? How come she also..."

Huo Yuhao frowned; this wasn't under his control. In the instant his thoughts shifted, the female corpse's speed suddenly increased dramatically.

Huo Yuhao intended to immediately follow up with another move, but the subsequent change stunned him, causing him to slow down his movements.

Suddenly, black hair appeared on the woman's body, and her limbs transformed into those of some kind of canine animal. She turned into a streak of black light and charged towards Huo Yuhao and the others.

"Martial Soul Possession!?"

Xiao Yan seized the opportunity and finally snatched a monster from Huo Yuhao. His Dou Qi exploded beneath his feet, and he shot forward like an arrow, all the while muttering a curse:

"Damn, there are werewolves in this Dou Qi Continent? What did your dad do to offend your watchdog that resulted in you being born?"

The beast fire ignited in Xiao Yan's hand, and the Whirlwind Fire Fist technique was put into actual combat for the first time since it was created by Xiao Yan.

Faced with Xiao Yan's fierce attack, the "werewolf" that had just transformed was caught off guard and was hit solidly by the burning fist!

With a muffled thud, the werewolf let out a piercing howl, her body flying backward like a tattered sack before crashing heavily to the ground. The spot on her abdomen where she had been struck was charred black and a bloody mess. The surrounding beastly fire gnawed at her fur like maggots, unable to be extinguished. Soon, the smell of burning protein filled the air.

"Haha, I got it! As expected, the hair is weak against fire!" Xiao Yan was overjoyed as he looked at his achievement.

At this moment, Huo Yuhao's mental energy had already circulated several times within the "werewolf's" body, and he had studied almost every inch of its tissues.

Therefore, Huo Yuhao determined that the other party had simply used a body modification technique to transplant the limbs of a magical beast onto a human body. It was not that they possessed a martial soul.

Huo Yuhao breathed a sigh of relief, though he was still a little disappointed. However, when he saw Xiao Yan popping champagne halfway through the game, he couldn't help but laugh and say, "Heh, Xiao Yan, didn't you always emphasize finishing off the opponent? How come you forgot this time?"

"Oh, right!" Xiao Yan realized and was about to give the "werewolf" lying on the ground, who seemed to have lost consciousness, a few more blows when Huo Yuhao pulled him back.

"What are you doing, ouch!"

"If you go over there like that, you'll probably end up delivering vegetables."

As soon as Huo Yuhao finished speaking, the "werewolf" leaped up and fled into the distance.

"No way! It's alright?" Xiao Yan exclaimed in surprise.

"I still have something to do." Huo Yuhao explained as he unleashed a burst of cold air, catching up with the "werewolf" from behind and freezing it into an ice sculpture.

"She already possessed the strength of a Great Dou Master, and after using this... possession technique, her physical strength increased even more, now approaching that of a Dou Spirit."

With a wave of his hand, Huo Yuhao used his Qi control technique to lift the ice sculpture, which looked to weigh several hundred pounds, and send it flying to his front.

"Look!" Huo Yuhao pointed to the wound on the werewolf's abdomen and said to Xiao Yan, "Your punch left her with a considerable wound, but the biggest damage was the beast fire you injected into her body."

……

Although his understanding of "formation" was a misunderstanding, Huo Yuhao still brought these "materials," along with the "werewolf" ice sculpture, back to Wutan City. To avoid attracting attention, Huo Yuhao kept the simulation running throughout his journey back to the Xiao family after entering Wutan City.

After settling Mr. Yao and Little Fairy Doctor in, Huo Yuhao and Xiao Yan went to the study to see Xiao Zhan.

"Hahaha! Yuhao, Yan'er, you're back!" Xiao Zhan stretched out his hands and hugged his two children.

However, to Xiao Zhan's surprise, Xiao Yan did not appear very happy, but instead showed a kind smile.

"Father, did you send that guy named Payne to find us?"

"Ah, haha!" Xiao Zhan's face showed obvious embarrassment.

"You've cleared our names!"

After exchanging warm greetings, Huo Yuhao asked, "Father, why did you send someone to summon us back?"

Xiao Zhan's smile vanished, replaced by a serious expression.

"Nalan Yanran has arrived."