A few days later, in the Sun and Moon Empire, Mingdu. When Huo Yuhao got off the soul guide bus and saw the huge gatehouse of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Guide Academy in front of him, he couldn't help but feel as if he was in another world. Behind him, there was a beautiful girl in an ice-blue dress, it was Xue Di. It was not until he left the Land of Chaos that he realized how long he had been there, a full two years and one month! More than two years have passed, and now considering his age, Huo Yuhao is already a young man of seventeen, almost eighteen years old. After such a long time, Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen should have come back by now. I wonder how Brother Xuan has been doing these past two years? With these complicated emotions, Huo Yuhao strode towards the gate of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Institute. "Yuhao, I don't want to go in here. I can wait for you outside." Xue Di suddenly said before entering the academy gate. Huo Yuhao was stunned, then turned to look at Xue Di and found that there was obvious disgust on her face. Huo Yuhao suddenly remembered that Xue Di had been imprisoned in Mingde Hall before. No wonder she was so disgusted with this place.

Thinking of this, Huo Yuhao first brought Xue Di to a hotel not far from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy. "Open a room for me." Huo Yuhao casually threw a few gold soul coins to the hotel front desk. A few gold soul coins are enough for Xue Di to live here for a long time. "Xue Di, please wait for me here for a while. I will come to you after I have settled some things in the academy." Xue Di nodded, indicating that she had no objection. She had originally wanted to practice quietly alone for a while, and Huo Yuhao’s arrangement was exactly what she wanted. After settling the Snow Queen, Huo Yuhao walked towards the gate of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy again. It has been three days since he returned to Douluo Continent. Three days ago, he crossed through the space node in that small world, and then he was surprised to find that the place he was in after he crossed back was actually in the Tiandou Empire instead of the Xingdou Great Forest. The Tiandou Empire is very far away from the Sun and Moon Empire, with the Xingluo Empire and the Tianhun Empire in between. Therefore, he had no choice but to once again take Xue Di on the journey using his own flying soul guide. After flying for a while, Huo Yuhao and his companions had to stop to recover their soul power, so it took some time. After three full days of sleepless nights, they finally returned to Mingdu. Arriving at the gate of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy again, Huo Yuhao discovered that he could not get in. The two guards from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy wanted to verify his student ID, but Huo Yuhao had never had one. Only then did he remember that he used to use a flying soul guide to enter the academy directly, so there was no need for these cumbersome procedures. After thinking about it, Huo Yuhao did not make things difficult for the two guards. Instead, he took out a rather old carving knife and handed it to them. "You two, please help me find Mr. Xuan Ziwen from the academy. I'm his friend. If you give him this carving knife, he will know." Huo Yuhao thought that he had just returned to the academy and might not be able to find Xuan Ziwen for a while, so it would be more convenient to ask the guards to help him find him. What he handed to the guard was the carving knife that Xuan Ziwen had given him when he taught him how to engrave the core formation of the soul guide. The two guards were a little confused when they saw this, but since Huo Yuhao's aura was so powerful, they did not dare to be negligent. One of them immediately took the carving knife and ran towards the academy.

Half a minute later, a middle-aged man with tattered clothes and a haggard face walked over behind the guard. After seeing Huo Yuhao's face clearly, the middle-aged man was struck by lightning and stood there in a daze for three full minutes. After three minutes, he walked quickly towards Huo Yuhao, pushed aside the guards blocking his way, and placed his hands firmly on Huo Yuhao's shoulders. Xuan Ziwen said in disbelief: "Yuhao, you are not dead! You are really not dead!" Huo Yuhao smiled and said, "Brother Xuan, it's me. I'm back." Xuan Ziwen looked him up and down, and after confirming that it was indeed Huo Yuhao, his brows suddenly raised. Then he clenched his right fist and hit Huo Yuhao's lower abdomen hard. Huo Yuhao was startled and jumped lightly to avoid Xuan Ziwen's punch. "Brother Xuan, what are you doing? I just came back and you're welcoming me like this." Xuan Ziwen snorted coldly: "You little brat, you still knew how to come back? You disappeared without a word and have been missing for two years. I thought you were dead!" Huo Yuhao chuckled: "Brother Xuan, I am living well. When I left, I had no choice. Who knew I would encounter an accident?" Xuan Ziwen glared, "Then why didn't you tell me before leaving? Do you know how much has gone wrong with our research in the past two years since you were away? Come here, I can't get rid of the hatred in my heart unless I punch you!" Huo Yuhao sighed helplessly: "Okay, okay, Brother Xuan, let me make it clear in advance that you can fight me, but if it hurts, don't blame me." After saying this, Huo Yuhao closed his eyes as if he had accepted his fate and stood there motionless. Xuan Ziwen's nose was almost crooked with anger. What kind of words are these? If I hit you, will it hurt? Are you kidding me? He clenched his fist again and punched Huo Yuhao hard in the abdomen. "Ah," Xuan Ziwen screamed, covering his wrist and grimacing in pain. When he threw the punch, he felt as if he had hit steel. Huo Yuhao opened his eyes and quickly came to Xuan Ziwen’s side. He asked with concern, “Brother Xuan, are you okay? I told you not to hit me but you still did it. See.” Xuan Ziwen was so angry at this moment, what kind of words were these! "What's wrong with your body? So hard?" he asked in shock. Although Xuan Ziwen was also a Soul Douluo-level cultivator, his cultivation was very limited, mostly due to taking drugs. His martial soul was not a beast martial soul that strengthened the body, so of course his body was weak. The punch he just threw at Huo Yuhao actually caused his wrist to be sprained. "Brother Xuan, I just had some adventures. I'll tell you slowly. You just said that there have been a lot of changes in the past two years. How is our research going?" Huo Yuhao did not explain, but instead asked about the research he had done before he left. Speaking of this, Xuan Ziwen rolled his eyes at him unhappily: "When you mention this, I get so angry. Forget it, come back with me first." "This is not the place to talk. Come with me and I will tell you." As he spoke, silver light flickered behind Xuan Ziwen, and a pair of flying soul guide wings appeared behind him. Xuan Ziwen winked at Huo Yuhao, signaling him to follow. Huo Yuhao clearly saw that there seemed to be something else hidden in Xuan Ziwen's eyes, and immediately followed him.

What surprised Huo Yuhao was that Xuan Ziwen did not take him to Mingde Hall, but instead took him to the laboratory in the experimental building that belonged to Xuan Ziwen alone. As soon as he arrived at the laboratory, Huo Yuhao discovered that in addition to Xuan Ziwen, there was another person here, and it was Ke Ke, whom he had not seen for a long time. Compared to two years ago, Keke hasn't changed much and is still as petite as before. After seeing Huo Yuhao's face clearly, Ke Ke was stunned where she stood. "Junior brother, is it really you? You are not dead, you are back?" Ke Ke widened her eyes. Huo Yuhao greeted her: “Senior Sister Keke, long time no see.” Ke Ke jumped up from her chair and looked at Huo Yuhao in disbelief. "Two years ago, news came out from Shrek Academy that you, Junior Brother, had died in the Star Dou Great Forest. I said at the time that good people don't live long, but bad people live for a thousand years. Junior Brother, there is no way you could have died so easily." Huo Yuhao’s face was full of black lines. Are you praising me or scolding me? "Senior Sister Keke, I'm very happy to see you too." "Okay, okay, now is not the time for you two to reminisce about the past." Xuan Ziwen pointed to the chair next to him, motioning for Hou Yuhao to sit down first, and then turned around to pour him a glass of water. Then Xuan Ziwen sat down next to Huo Yuhao and said, "Yuhao, you must have a lot of questions, right?" Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes slightly and said, “Brother Xuan, you gave me that look at the school gate just now. Has something happened in the academy?” Xuan Ziwen sighed and said, "Yes, now it shouldn't be said that the academy has changed, but the entire Sun Moon Empire has changed. The reason why I didn't bring you to Mingde Hall is because there are spies in Mingde Hall and even the entire academy. Only here can we talk with confidence." "Spyliner, whose spyliner?" Huo Yuhao frowned. Ke Ke said, "Who else could it be? Of course it's the Crown Prince, oh no, he should be called the Regent now. Ever since the Crown Prince got involved in politics, anyone who says something wrong in the academy will be taken away by the Sun and Moon Royal Patrol Team. In more serious cases, the family will be implicated, so everyone in the academy has to be careful with what they say and do now." “How could this happen? Doesn’t the hall master care?” Huo Yuhao asked. "Hall Master? The Hall Master is the prince's man, how could he possibly be in charge? Now Mingde Hall has completely become the prince's soul guide device manufacturing factory. All the soul guide engineers above level five in the academy have entered Mingde Hall to mass-produce fixed-type soul guide shells. I came to Teacher Xuan just because I don't want to be used as a tool." Ke Ke said with a sneer. Large-scale production of fixed-type soul guide shells? Huo Yuhao was shocked. It seemed that Xu Tianran was already preparing to fight the Crown Prince and the others. "Ke Ke is right. Even I have been forced to research and develop some high-level war soul guides. I don't want to do those at all, but in Mingde Hall, even a high-level soul guide like me doesn't have any say at all." Xuan Ziwen smiled bitterly. Huo Yuhao hurriedly asked: "Brother Xuan, what about our previous research?" "I knew you only cared about this. Don't worry, I have already completed it. Thanks to Ke Ke for helping me all the time." Xuan Ziwen took out a soul guide with a very peculiar appearance from his storage soul guide, which looked a bit like a disc. Xuan Ziwen tapped the disc a few times with great skill, and a crack appeared in the middle of the disc. Then a purple energy body slowly rose from it. In just over ten seconds, it condensed into a purple soul ring! Seeing this scene, Huo Yuhao’s eyes widened. This was clearly a genuine thousand-year soul ring! "This is the soul ring of a thousand-year-old emerald bird. I asked Ke Ke to go to the Jingyang Mountains to collect it for me." "This soul guide device specially used to collect soul rings, I call it a soul ring storage device!" "It solves the problem that the spirit rings of spirit beasts cannot be preserved for a long time after their death. As long as the spirit rings of spirit beasts killed by fully automatic attack spirit guides are produced, they can be collected with it." Xuan Ziwen looked at his masterpiece, the result of his hard work over the past few years, with pride in his eyes. Obviously, he is very satisfied with his work. It can be said that he can be written into the history of soul masters with this soul guide!

Huo Yuhao was also shocked. With this thing, spirit ring trading would become a reality in the future. It could be said that this was a spirit guide device that would change the world landscape of spirit masters! In the future, soul masters don’t even need to go out to hunt for soul rings, but can purchase the soul rings that suit them! “Brother Xuan, how many years of spirit rings can this spirit guide collect at most? What is the production cost?” Huo Yuhao asked. Xuan Ziwen smiled and said, "What you have in front of you now is a level 6 soul ring collection soul guide, which can collect soul rings of about a thousand years old. The cost of this soul guide is about one hundred gold soul coins. Of course, my idea is that I can continue to develop more advanced soul ring collection soul guides. If I can upgrade this thing to level nine, then maybe I can collect soul rings of a hundred thousand years." Huo Yuhao was shocked: "The cost is so low? Brother Xuan, you are worthy of it. With this thing, we may be able to change the entire spirit master world!" Xuan Ziwen snorted, "How dare you say that? You've been missing for two years. Do you know how much effort Ke Ke and I put into developing this thing? Not to mention anything else, I don't know how much gold soul coins we invested, but you're just being a hands-off boss." Huo Yuhao was stunned: "Brother Xuan, how come you are short of gold soul coins? As long as you let other people know about this, you can get as many gold soul coins as you want, right?" Xuan Ziwen said unhappily, "Don't I know the value of this thing? As long as this thing appears on the continent, it will probably shake the entire continent. But you are missing. How can I announce the existence of this thing without your consent?" Huo Yuhao had mixed feelings in his heart, and he looked at Xuan Ziwen, not knowing what to say for a moment. Although Xuan Ziwen and Ke Ke didn't say anything, he could feel that the past two years had definitely not been easy for them, and the difficulties they encountered were beyond reason. After a long while, he was moved and said, "Brother Xuan, Senior Sister Ke Ke, you two, I really don't know what to say." Seeing Huo Yuhao like this, Xuan Ziwen waved his hands impatiently: “Alright, alright, stop it, kid. I tell you, the development of this thing is not over yet. Aren’t you going to create an organization? I’ll give you the things, and you figure out the rest for me.” (End of this chapter)