Douluo: This time we will rewrite our destiny

Chapter 257 Return to the Stars (page 12)

Huo Yuhao looked at Ma Xiaotao's eyes and her growling stomach, then looked at the grilled fish on the grill, and immediately picked it up and handed it to Ma Xiaotao: "Eat it."

She was really hungry. The long period of freezing and the unconscious consumption of soul power also brought a huge consumption of physical strength. Even a soul master would starve if he did not recover his soul power for a long time. People have to eat to live, and the taste of Huo Yuhao's grilled fish goes without saying.

Chi Qiu loosened his arm a little, and Ma Xiaotao immediately reached out to grab the grilled fish and began to bite it in a few clicks. It even looked a bit like a primitive beast.

Although Huo Yuhao carefully handled the fish bones before grilling, Ma Xiaotao was so weak at this moment and was still so rough when eating fish, which made Huo Yuhao worried that Quasi-Eight Ring Contra would be stuck by the fish bones.

"Slow down." He couldn't help but remind him, "We have finished eating, no one is competing with you."

After a while, Ma Xiaotao swallowed the fish whole. Only then did she look at Huo Yuhao and Chi Qiu warily. This look reassured Huo Yuhao. If she was still controlled by the evil fire in her current state, she would not even have this time to be vigilant and would take action directly.

"You are..." Ma Xiaotao's warning voice contained a hint of hesitation.

"You should first recall who you are." Huo Yuhao interrupted her question, "Take a good look at what you have done."

Ma Xiaotao was stunned. She seemed to be trapped in a whirlpool of memories for a moment; then, she immediately pressed her forehead and let out a painful groan. From time to time, a hint of darkness appeared in those bright red eyes, and then was replaced by bright red as if they were burned.

"I am... a saint from the Holy Spirit Church... No, I am...!"

"Treating the symptoms but not the root cause." Chi Qiu tilted his head towards Huo Yuhao.

"You still have to go to the Star Dou to find a suitable soul beast to make a contract with. At present, the ultimate ice has only suppressed the evil fire's counterattack. The damage she suffered is irreversible." Huo Yuhao said, and a cold soul power was applied to the horse. On Xiao Tao's temple, her pain seemed to have been reduced by most of the time.

"I am Ma Xiaotao." She said in a daze, "I...what have I done?! I am a sinner!"

After saying that, she immediately squatted on the ground, lowering her head, as if she couldn't believe that everything the "Fire Phoenix Saint" did was done by her own hands. She summoned her martial soul and looked at her six black and one red soul rings. This "strength" was her unshakable evidence of guilt.

"That's right." Huo Yuhao's tone did not contain any condemnation or sympathy. He just stated the facts. "As you can see from your memory, there is no falsehood. During the competition, your evil fire was out of control and you were mixed up in the audience. The evil soul master noticed that they kidnapped you."

Ma Xiaotao looked at Huo Yuhao and was stunned for a second. She stood up suddenly and took a step back: "Are you, the new pair of saints and saints? What do you want to do by telling me this now?!"

As she spoke, even though she was extremely weak, she still forcibly aroused the fire to surround her body, and she was determined to fight them to the end. Huo Yuhao smiled when he saw this posture. It seemed that he had made the right choice in instigating Ma Xiaotao to become a temporary ally. However, he can only be a thug.

"If that's the case, why would I bother to wake you up?" Huo Yuhao shook his head, "Wouldn't it be better for you to continue to be the sharp sword of the Holy Spirit Cult? Take a closer look at whose body the ice that has been suppressing your evil fire belongs."

Ma Xiaotao felt it carefully. Part of the reason why it was so difficult for her to use her soul power now was that Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice strictly restricted the counterattack of the evil fire. But this restriction is also temporary. Just like Chi Qiu said, it treats the symptoms but not the root cause. If the flaws of the evil fire itself could not be solved, it would one day be able to fight back, and Huo Yuhao would not help her for the rest of his life.

"You..." She finally let down her vigilance a little, "Who are you?"

"You have met us." Huo Yuhao looked at Chi Qiu. "We have also fought against us. In short, we just sneaked into the Holy Spirit Cult and noticed that acquaintances were there, so we tried to wake you up."

"Have you met me? You two are not in my memory." Ma Xiaotao tried hard to remember, but she really couldn't remember.

Chi Qiu's power was tempered by the Golden Dragon King's divine core, and its state was already different from what it was back then; during the first competition, Huo Yuhao did not show his ultimate ice martial spirit because he was afraid of Shrek's people, and now he is on horseback. Xiao Tao only used Ultimate Ice in front of her. The combination of various reasons made it impossible for Ma Xiaotao in front of her to guess their identities.

"It's normal if not," Chi Qiu directly told her to give up her memories, "If we want to lurk in the Holy Spirit Cult, naturally we won't use our original identities and appearances. If someone like you who has met us once can recognize it, then we still have to What's lurking? That's not the point right now."

"The point is, we want to invite you to be a landmine in the Holy Spirit Sect with us and detonate it at the right time." Huo Yuhao took up Chi Qiu's words.

"What kind of landmine?" Ma Xiaotao immediately waved her hand, "We are all out of the control of the headquarters now. Isn't it a good idea to escape now? Are you still staying in the Holy Spirit Cult?"

"You're so impatient, don't be impatient yet." Huo Yuhao quickly calmed down her emotions, "You have seen the strength of Ye Xishui and Zhong Liwu, right. Long Xiaoyao doesn't hold on to it for the time being. Let's leave like this. How will we deal with it in the future? These two people? Oh, you may not know... Let me tell you, Mu En is dead, and Xuanzi is now the master of the Shrek Poseidon Pavilion. Do you think he can handle Zhong Liwu and Ye Xishui joining forces, or you? Do you think the Sun-Moon Empire’s soul masters can handle it?”

"By staying in the Holy Spirit Cult, we can restrain them a little, and at the same time, we can warn them of their dangerous actions in time. For example, their action to assassinate the old emperor this time happened suddenly. If we hadn't been involved, it would have really happened. I want them to succeed. After that, the Sun and Moon Empire may really become the world of the Holy Spirit Cult."

"...Okay." Ma Xiaotao looked aggrieved, but fortunately she still chose to reluctantly accept the proposal, "What do you want me to do?"

"First of all, I guarantee that you will not be affected or controlled by evil fire in the future." Huo Yuhao spread his hands, "Now let me talk to you about another concept - about the equal contract between humans and soul beasts."

Huo Yuhao and Chi Qiu introduced the contract to Ma Xiaotao for a long time. The content of the introduction only kept the parts that could not be concealed. It was enough to let her know that she would benefit greatly from this matter.

As for Huo Yuhao's vision with the Lingqi Sect, as well as the principle and specific content of the equal contract, we have to wait until Ma Xiaotao actually becomes a companion one day. We don't even know if this day will come. Now, she's just a goon.

"What an evil sect," was Ma Xiaotao's first reaction after hearing this. "Why does it sound similar to the evil magic of the Holy Spirit Sect?"

"How can you accuse someone of innocence out of thin air?" Huo Yuhao couldn't hear this comment, although he probably knew that Ma Xiaotao was too straight-tempered and said what he said without thinking, "Don't compare my things with the methods of the Holy Spirit Cult." . However, I would like to hear the specifics of the Holy Spirit Sect’s sorcery. If you say it is similar, please explain what you saw.”

Ma Xiaotao touched her chin and tried to recall: "They use evil magic to manipulate the soul. For example, these soul rings of mine increase the life span by imprisoning the dying souls of other soul beasts and soul masters. Stay there, prevent them from being liberated, and then forcibly inject these souls into my soul ring, thus completing the increase in life span."