A few days later, at the Spirit Transmission Tower headquarters, in a special "treatment area" temporarily designated as a restricted zone and personally warded by Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao sat cross legged in the center. An invisible but calming, gentle aura flowed around him. Not far away, a dozen bodies were neatly arranged.
These people had their eyes tightly closed. Their faces were pale or blue black. Their auras were weak, but their chests still rose and fell faintly. They were the people recently screened from various parts of the Douluo Continent who had been possessed by Possession Demons, including the former Soul Spirit Management Department head, Mu Qingfeng.
However, the Possession Demons inside them had already been stripped by Huo Yuhao.
Mu Qingfeng only felt that he had slept for a very, very long time. In his dreams, there was only boundless darkness and cold, as if bound by invisible shackles at the bottom of an abyss. His consciousness was blurred. He felt his "existence" being nibbled and replaced bit by bit. Fear and despair washed over him like tides. He had struggled, but was powerless. He had called out, but there was no sound.
He had thought he would sink forever in the darkness. Unexpectedly, a familiar voice reached his ears. His consciousness gradually surfaced, breaking through the darkness.
Under a familiar call, Mu Qingfeng opened his eyes with difficulty and squinted at his surroundings.
It seemed to be the layout of the Spirit Transmission Tower. What had happened to him? Why was he lying here?
Just awakened, Mu Qingfeng's mind was still somewhat muddled. His memories were like broken puzzles, chaotic and confused. Moreover, his head hurt terribly. His spiritual power seemed to have been completely exhausted.
"Brother Mu. You are finally awake."
A voice filled with surprise and relief sounded not far away.
Mu Qingfeng struggled to turn his stiff neck and saw Fist Emperor Douluo, who had been walking toward the door, suddenly approached him with an excited expression.
Fist Emperor Douluo had originally come to deliver the "sealed" Possession Demons. He had not expected to see this friend, who had been treated by His Majesty Huo Yuhao, awake. He was quite surprised.
"Brother Da Mo?"
Mu Qingfeng's voice was hoarse and dry. "What happened to me? What is going on?"
The excitement on Fist Emperor Douluo's face subsided slightly, replaced by a grave and fearful expression. "You were eroded by a Possession Demon."
"Possession Demon?"
Hearing these three nightmare like words, Mu Qingfeng's pupils suddenly contracted. The broken fragments of his memory suddenly began to reassemble. He remembered the whole story.
Yes. He had encountered a friend who had been possessed by a Possession Demon, been attacked, and become another possession target.
A chill shot up from his spine to his head. Cold sweat instantly soaked Mu Qingfeng's back.
His voice trembling, he asked, "How... how long was I controlled? What... what did I do during that time?"
Having been possessed by a Possession Demon, he dared not imagine how many absurd things the other party had done using his identity.
"Calm down, Brother Mu."
Fist Emperor Douluo quickly held him down. "Those things were not your fault. And."
Fist Emperor Douluo looked toward the seated figure, his voice full of awe and gratitude. "Instead of worrying about that now, should you not first thank your lifesaver? It was His Majesty Huo Yuhao who saved you from the Possession Demon."
Hearing this, Mu Qingfeng suddenly reacted. He turned to look at Huo Yuhao, his eyes wide, his mind churning.
Being possessed by a Possession Demon should have meant there was no hope of survival. Yet the air he was breathing now, the familiar heavenly and earthly origin energy, all told him he was not dreaming. He had been saved from the Possession Demon by this young man before him.
To be able to strip a Possession Demon from him, to make the always proud Fist Emperor Douluo so respectful. When had such a capable person appeared on the continent?
Countless thoughts raced through his mind, but the lifesaving grace made Mu Qingfeng temporarily put them aside. He bowed respectfully. "Thank you for saving my life, Your Majesty."
Huo Yuhao waved his hand. Looking at the "Possession Demon" newly delivered by Fist Emperor Douluo, he said to the two, "Since you are awake and your soul and spirit are not too damaged, leave this place. I still have others to treat."
Keeping these people here was to observe their awakening state. When stripping the Possession Demons, Huo Yuhao had not been sure he had not damaged them.
But he had already used his Reincarnation Domain to mark their states while possessed. If it involved time reversal, he could at most reverse a single instant. But if it was simply repairing the soul and body, there was no such time limit. And at that time, apart from lacking consciousness, their souls had been intact. If something really went wrong, there was a remedy.
If you save someone, save them all the way. Do not save a fool with a damaged soul. That would be awkward to look at.
"We understand." While Mu Qingfeng was still dazed, Fist Emperor Douluo had already reacted. He pulled the former toward the door.
After leaving that room, Mu Qingfeng could not help asking, "Who exactly was that?"
Fist Emperor Douluo laughed. "That was our Spirit Transmission Tower's newly appointed Spirit Transmission Envoy, the divine realm's Fire God reincarnated, His Majesty Huo Yuhao."
"The Fire God reincarnated?" Mu Qingfeng was bewildered.
"Yes."
Seeing Mu Qingfeng's expression, Fist Emperor Douluo simply recounted recent events.
Heaven Favored Douluo stealing the Eternal Heaven. Yun Ming breaking through. Tower Master Emperor Tian defeating the true god Yun Ming. Shrek's true god trying to save Shrek. Huo Yuhao revealing the might of the Fire God. Chen Xinjie defecting and being surrounded by another reincarnated deity, Gu Yuena, and the Divine Origin realm Snow Empress.
One after another, heavy news hit Mu Qingfeng, leaving him dizzy.
What the hell? Had he been controlled by a Possession Demon for a thousand years, or ten thousand years?
Otherwise, why was this world so strange?
Shrek destroyed. The War Temple defecting. One divine level expert after another emerging, most of them concentrated in their Spirit Transmission Tower. The sheer amount of information was too much. Mu Qingfeng felt his dry brain was about to burn out.
The times did not need to develop this fast. He had not gotten on the train yet.
While Mu Qingfeng was rebuilding his worldview, Huo Yuhao used the Crimson Gold Mysterious Flame to unlock the Sea of Spirit of the man before him, which had been bound by divine consciousness power.
Those who had captured the Possession Demons were either Limit Douluo carrying divine weapons or people like Yun Ming, who possessed divine consciousness.
These powers could effectively prevent Possession Demons from escaping. Otherwise, ordinary experts really could not capture these mechanically strong creatures.
After the binding was released, the Possession Demon immediately tried to escape. But Huo Yuhao's spiritual power had already begun to connect with the possessed soul master's spirit soul contract. Through the backdoor in the spirit soul contract, he awakened the spirit soul inside the other party.
It was somewhat amusing to say, but Possession Demons seemed to have rather high standards for their possession targets. They would not bother with ordinary people without any strength. At the very least, the target had to be a soul master.
Because of this, those ordinary people had been spared.
And this choice by the Possession Demons actually made Huo Yuhao's treatment more convenient.
After all, without the connection between a spirit soul and a soul master, even though Huo Yuhao was proficient in necromancy magic, separating a Possession Demon from the soul it had devoured would have been troublesome. The two were nearly one. Without a connection to intervene, separation was truly difficult.
Before Huo Yuhao's eyes, as the spirit soul within the soul master awakened, the Spirit Transmission Tower's theoretical conception of awakening the possessed soul master through the spirit soul was gradually realized in his hands.
Feeling the threat, the Possession Demon's desire to escape disappeared. It looked at Huo Yuhao with a gloomy expression. "Fire God, you are seeking death. The Saint Lord will not let you off."
You are talking about the Fire God. What does that have to do with me, Huo Yuhao?
Huo Yuhao raised an eyebrow and pointed at the dozen or so people lying stiffly to the side.
"Do you have any other last words? I have heard all this before."
Because the capture times were relatively uniform, aside from the few closest to the Spirit Transmission Tower headquarters, the others had not yet awakened. But the Possession Demons inside them had already been cleaned out by Huo Yuhao.
Only then did the Possession Demon notice that many of its companions had already died. Fear rose in its heart.
But knowing that the two sides were already locked in a life and death struggle, it gritted its teeth and, carrying the soul of the possessed person and the spiritual power of their Sea of Spirit, planned to directly invade Huo Yuhao's Sea of Spirit.
Huo Yuhao had seen this before. It would have been strange if it had not fought desperately at the last moment.
But Huo Yuhao did not pay much attention to the Possession Demon's final resistance. Through the connection between the soul soul and the soul master in the spirit soul contract, he directly used necromancy magic in one step, beginning to sever the connection between the soul master's soul and the Possession Demon.
With so many divine weapons in his Sea of Spirit, even without Snow Empress's divine consciousness intervening, there were plenty of spirit souls who could entertain this Possession Demon.
The Possession Demon charged headfirst into the Sea of Spirit and was as stunned as its predecessors.
Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to do?
Looking at Skydream, Liya, Ice Empress, and the others, happily holding divine weapons, the Possession Demon completely despaired.
Indeed, a deity's Sea of Spirit was not something an existence like he could invade.
"No. I am not willing. Over the years, I have used this identity to make Merits for the Federation. I have shed blood. You cannot treat me like this."
A Possession Demon making Merits for the Federation?
Who would believe that?
Ice Empress snorted disdainfully.
In the end, after Huo Yuhao completely stripped the soul master's soul with necromancy magic, the Possession Demon was directly killed by Skydream and the others using the Tian Fen Shen Chu. The Abyss energy that made up the Possession Demon was then accepted by Huo Yuhao, completely transformed and devoured by his Reincarnation Domain.
Far from the Abyss passage, there was little resistance to refining and absorbing this Abyss energy. And because Possession Demons always liked to bring their host's spiritual power along when attacking, every time Huo Yuhao killed a Possession Demon, he could obtain an additional portion of spiritual power as a "bonus."
Although this spiritual power increase was no longer a huge boost for him now, little by little, it brought him closer to the late Spiritual Domain realm.
If he could eliminate all the Possession Demons inside Douluo, his spiritual power should reach the late Spiritual Domain realm.
Leveling up by defeating monsters was exactly this.
After saving another person, Huo Yuhao used wind elements to send this man to Lie on a Board with his Brothers in Misfortune. He then began to meditate and refine that spiritual power.
Why was it getting stronger?
The Titled Douluo who later came to deliver "Possession Demons," upon sensing Huo Yuhao's spiritual power, was astonished.
Logically, expending mental energy to treat these people should have weakened his aura. But they could feel that Huo Yuhao's spiritual power was not only not weakening, but was growing stronger.
Humans and gods were truly worlds apart. He could even become stronger by saving people.
A few days later, all twenty nine marked Possession Demons had been captured.
Although there were twists and turns along the way, the Possession Demons ultimately failed to stir up any trouble. The operation to capture the Possession Demons came to an end.
Many people who learned of this felt as if they were dreaming. They thought it was too easy.
But when they thought about the lavish lineup of all Limit Douluo carrying divine weapons facing the Possession Demons, it seemed only natural.
To go head to head with such a lavish lineup, one would need an Abyss Emperor from the later thirty six levels of the Abyss, comparable to a Limit Douluo.
With twenty nine Possession Demons cleaned out, plus the one used to make the one time divine weapon and the suspected possessed Heaven Favored Douluo, there were still five Possession Demons unaccounted for.
But the Federation was already very satisfied with this result. Everyone felt they had Won So Much It Was Numb.
The Douluo Federation had cleared out its internal traits.
The possessed had been freed.
Huo Yuhao had received the reward of increased spiritual power, reaching the late Spiritual Domain realm.
Win, a big win.
"Ha ha ha. I slept and woke up as an expert about to break through to Titled Douluo. Is there such a good thing? Did I get a lucky encounter? By the way, where is this place? Why are there so many people."
The middle aged man who had walked out of the "treatment room" supporting himself against the wall laughed like a child, stopping only when he saw them. The Spirit Transmission Tower members who knew about the Possession Demons exchanged glances.
Was there something wrong with this guy's soul? Had he become an idiot?
Being possessed by a Possession Demon made him this happy?
Yu Guanzhi, who had come to thank Huo Yuhao after hearing he was done, could not help looking at Huo Yuhao beside him.
"What is wrong with him?"
Huo Yuhao looked expressionlessly at the middle aged man and shook his head.
"His soul is fine. Perhaps he does not know about Possession Demons and the Abyss, and has no concept of them. Or maybe he was possessed when he was too young. In his eyes, he inexplicably slept for a while and suddenly became an expert about to break through to Titled Douluo. Naturally, he was excited. In other words, the Possession Demon cultivated for him from a low level to now."
"Possession Demons can cultivate after possessing someone. Since they had the body, they naturally had the ability to cultivate."
"You can check his file and see if there is an obvious turning point."
Yu Guanzhi frowned deeply and checked the man's information.
Gu Yi. Innate level ten spirit power. Family elder is a Major General of the North Sea Legion. Before age fourteen, he was Playful and Mischievous, disliking cultivation. One day, he suddenly Awakened and began to cultivate Diligently. After graduating from X Academy, he joined the North Sea Legion, was Dedicated to His Duties, and became a Pillar of Support there. Several years ago, he was rated as one of the most likely candidates to succeed the North Sea Legion Commander.
After reading this, Yu Guanzhi fell silent completely.
In his mind, he could already imagine a Possession Demon mole in the North Sea Legion, not possessing the North Sea Legion Commander, but using Gu Yi's identity to work hard step by step, rising higher and higher, three years and then another three years, gaining everyone's recognition. It was an inspirational story.
Damn. A Plant.
What benefit did such an Diligent Possession Demon bring to itself and the Holy Spirit Cult?
Incomprehensible.
Huo Yuhao had somehow come over, showing an expression of unsurprise. He shook his head. "He was probably possessed at fourteen. That Pillar of Support of the North Sea Legion was actually the Possession Demon."
"Without the memories of the Possession Demon's possession period, he is now essentially a fourteen year old child in terms of mentality. He has not yet noticed anything wrong. After we tell him the truth, he should feel a lingering fear."
Yu Guanzhi's eye twitched upon hearing this.
"The main point does not seem to be those things."
The main point was that the successor recognized by the North Sea Legion was a Possession Demon.
And that Pillar of Support of the North Sea Legion was now gone, leaving only a mischievous child.
"The North Sea Legion's Pillar of Support was a Possession Demon, not this child. Accept Condolences."
Huo Yuhao was very calm about this.
Was this not a classic case of a mole being more dedicated than regular personnel?
The winery moles in Detective Conan would be very familiar with this.
Come to think of it, when he was treating them earlier, he seemed to hear a Possession Demon say it had made Outstanding Contributions to the Federation. Was that this one?
Ice Empress in his Sea of Spirit was also somewhat surprised.
That Possession Demon had not lied?
A mole creating value for the Federation. This world was truly wondrous.
On the other side, hearing Huo Yuhao's consultation, Yu Guanzhi's feelings were complex.
Sigh. Starting over. We will have to see if Gu Yi can Grow Straight.
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