Chapter 148 One year later

A year has passed since Di Ruier left the Body Sect.

Many changes occurred on Douluo Continent during this year.

The tension between the Sun-Moon Empire and the other three kingdoms that originally belonged to Douluo Continent is becoming increasingly intense.

During this period, the Haotian Sect, which had been in seclusion for many years, announced its entry into the world, and Shrek Academy strongly invited its chief and second chief to join the Poseidon Pavilion.

At the same time, the world came to know that although they had not been heard of for many years, the two leaders of the Haotian Sect were actually top figures at the Extreme Douluo level.

This undoubtedly gave a shot in the arm to the residents of the three kingdoms originally belonging to Douluo Continent. However, despite this, the Sun-Moon Empire was still carrying out its previous plans in full swing.

The atmosphere between the Sun-Moon Empire and the three kingdoms formerly belonging to Douluo Continent has become increasingly tense, and has reached a critical juncture where swords are drawn.

At the same time, with the support of two Extreme Douluo, Shrek Academy's originally shattered prestige was also picked up again.

But a broken mirror cannot be mended. Even due to the existence of the two Ultimate Douluo, the three empires today still openly maintain awe of Shrek Academy.

But how could the so-called Ultimate Douluo interfere with the thoughts that quietly change in people's hearts?
In addition to the sudden changes in the human world, some unknown changes have also occurred in soul beast gathering places such as the Star Dou Great Forest, the Demon Great Forest, and the Far North.

But all this has nothing to do with Huo Yuhao, because he is already level 70.

About half a year ago, Huo Yuhao's cultivation broke through to level 70, and this level was also the key node for a qualitative change in his strength.

The soul power is transformed from liquid to solid, and at the same time it is reorganized and arranged to lay the foundation for future promotion.

Through the self-condensing soul ring, the form of the gold-level second awakening Eye of Truth can be stabilized and maintained permanently, allowing one's own martial soul to complete its evolution.

Recognize and learn the last high-level magic in Alex's memory, analyze it and increase your own foundation to pave the way for future practice.

All of these cannot be achieved all at once in a short period of time, and they can only be achieved after one's cultivation has become truly solid and one has broken through to the Soul Saint level.

As the transformation of his martial soul feeds back to his body, Huo Yuhao can also rely on his strengthened body to more effectively unleash the power of his second martial soul, the Ice Dragon King.

After all, compared to the Ice Dragon King, whose martial soul has already reached the god-level, the factor that always restricts the maximum output that the second martial soul can achieve is still Huo Yuhao’s own insufficient cultivation and weak body.

Even though Huo Yuhao’s physical level was no less than that of an ordinary Soul Douluo when he was a Soul Emperor, it was still far from that of a god-level martial soul.

The huge amount of mental power was constantly being consumed rapidly in Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea. At the same time, the spiritual origin of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was gradually unsealed, replenishing Huo Yuhao's rapidly drying spiritual sea.

At this moment, inside Huo Yuhao's body, the Life Gold, which originally symbolized the powerful life energy in solid form, had already suffered visible damage.

Because the endless life energy is being rapidly transformed and extracted into qi and blood power by Huo Yuhao.

Through the combination of Qi and blood power and spiritual energy, the container of soul power, and also the seventh soul ring that perfectly fits Huo Yuhao himself, is gradually taking shape.

The seventh soul ring symbolizes a soul master's martial soul true form.

No matter what soul beast it comes from, its final effect is unique and fixed, that is, the soul master's martial soul true body.

Just because of the different soul beasts they come from, the impact of soul rings on the soul master's martial soul origin is the most serious at this stage.

For example, some weaker martial spirits, such as blue silver grass, if they are fused with some more powerful spirit beasts to form the seventh spirit ring.

Then the origin of its martial soul will definitely be seriously affected, causing it to shift and evolve.

This is different from other spirit rings that have a subtle influence on the martial spirit.

As the carrier of the martial soul's true form, the seventh soul ring has the greatest impact on the martial soul itself.

However, deviation and evolution do not necessarily mean that they are absolutely good things, because the changes in martial spirits caused by external forces are uncontrollable and risky.

Unless the level of the source of the seventh soul ring is lower than the quality of one's own martial soul, the impact it receives can be almost ignored.

Apart from the source of the soul beast, the basis of the seventh soul ring is actually the age of the soul beast.

Because the age of the soul beast is the basis for constructing the soul ring, the seventh soul ring's martial soul's true body's increase in the soul master's own strength is also based on this point.

The more powerful the seventh soul ring is, the more powerful the true power of the soul master can exert.

Before the existence of soul masters, martial souls were illusory entities.

Even though the possession of a martial spirit can strengthen a soul master, it does not fundamentally change the essence of the soul master as a human being.

The martial soul avatar can be regarded as the first step for a soul master to move from a human to a non-human level. The martial soul avatar can serve as a carrier, allowing the soul master to carry more powerful soul power.

At the same time, the soul power it carries will make the existence of the martial soul more and more "real", until it finally truly merges with the soul master himself.

This is why only soul masters starting from level 70 have the possibility of condensing soul cores, because the existence of soul cores requires a powerful container.

However, the human body is not strong enough to carry the soul core. It must have a strong enough martial soul body to serve as the initial container to condense the power of the soul core.

As the soul core is formed, the power of the soul core will gradually change the cells in the soul master's body, essentially completing the transformation.

Although in the end it is still not enough to match the innate physical body of a soul beast whose soul power has been fully integrated and strengthened, but at this stage the soul master's body really begins to have the possibility of transforming into complete energy.

It is for this reason that the choice of the seventh soul ring is crucial. If the soul beast chosen does not match the nature of one's own martial soul, although it will not be visible in the martial soul in a short period of time, it will lay hidden dangers for subsequent breakthroughs.

Therefore, due to various considerations, Huo Yuhao did not hunt hundred thousand year soul beasts to add new soul rings to himself after reaching level 70 soul power.

If we have to say which clan is most suitable for Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eyes martial soul, it would be the Evil Eye Tyrant clan.

Among them, the Evil Eye Tyrant, which has purely spiritual attributes, has at least 70% compatibility with Huo Yuhao's future development.

If it is any other soul beast with purely spiritual attributes, then the minimum compatibility should be around 30%.

But since you have the ability and experience of self-condensing soul ring.

Huo Yuhao naturally couldn't give up the path he had already decided on and settle for the soul rings of other spiritual attribute soul beasts. Even though the resources required to self-condense soul rings and the time required to self-condense soul rings were longer, it was all worth it.

Behind Huo Yuhao, the originally brilliant and dazzling light and shadow of the Eye of Truth seemed to have faded, and mottled cracks appeared on it.

The originally golden shadow had dimmed a lot at this time, and was replaced by Huo Yuhao's eyes, which had slightly changed in color from the original martial spirit possession.

Faint colorful lights flow through it, and finally return to the deep, inky black color.

The second awakening light flowed, the power of qi and blood, and spiritual energy changed, and the somewhat pale and illusory seventh soul ring gradually appeared under Huo Yuhao.

Time passed little by little, and with the appearance of the seventh soul ring, the spiritual energy and blood power that had been consumed in large quantities gradually returned to calm.

Instead, the soul power that was originally surging and constantly circulating in Huo Yuhao's body merged into the seventh soul ring.

As if filling a bottomless pit, the large amount of soul power stirred and immersed did not cause any obvious changes to the seventh soul ring, but only stained it with a faint color.

But now that the foundation of the soul ring has been laid, all Huo Yuhao has to do is add a large amount of soul power to fill it up. After it is filled up, the martial soul true body and soul core will come into being naturally.

Although this step can be considered a slow process that takes some time to complete, Huo Yuhao has already made sufficient preparations for this moment.

In order to avoid any further complications and other unexpected events, it would be better to complete the final step of condensing the seventh soul ring in one go.

As the fourth soul ring flashed, six illusory fox tails appeared around Huo Yuhao.

These six fox tails store the excess soul power that he has accumulated over the past few days while consuming his spiritual energy and blood to condense his seventh soul ring.

The usable soul power accumulated in each spirit fox's tail is the sum of Huo Yuhao's soul power, and now is the time to use them.

Along with the influx of a large amount of soul power, the terrifying soul power fluctuations even caused the environment around Huo Yuhao to distort.

The density of Huo Yuhao's soul power is already quite good. Due to his strong physical strength and conscious storage, Huo Yuhao is not inferior to some Titled Douluo who are not very strong in terms of the quality of his soul power.

Now, the gathering of seven times the total amount of soul power and the high-density aggregation of soul power have triggered a small-scale spiritual energy tide, attracting the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which is rushing towards the place where Huo Yuhao is in seclusion, and contributing to the condensation of his seventh soul ring.

Finally, after exhausting all the chaos and a large amount of spiritual energy from the heaven and earth where the Body Sect was located, Huo Yuhao succeeded.

The seventh soul ring that condensed on its own was flashing with a strange light. It was not like the white, yellow, purple, black and red of ordinary soul rings. Instead, it looked like a million-year soul ring transformed from the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, exuding a faint golden luster and as warm as jade.

Such a huge momentum and movement naturally alarmed other powerful people in the Body Sect.

However, under Du Bu Si's coordination, the other elders went to comfort those disciples who did not know what was going on.

Du Bu Si transformed himself into a dark green giant several thousand meters tall, and in the sky above the Body Sect, he fully deployed his soul power and mental power.

They monitored the place where Huo Yuhao was in seclusion, as well as any possible movement in the area belonging to the Body Sect. After all, Huo Yuhao was the future of their Body Sect, and there was absolutely no room for any mistake.

However, although the momentum caused by Huo Yuhao's breakthrough was quite huge, fortunately no other accidents occurred.

After all, before breaking through, Huo Yuhao naturally mobilized the power of luck to protect himself and eliminate the possibility of failure.

After completing the self-condensed soul ring, Huo Yuhao did not come out of seclusion directly. Instead, he closed his eyes and carefully felt the various changes that had taken place in his body, mind, and martial soul.

After connecting himself more closely with his martial soul through his martial soul's true body, Huo Yuhao can now finally take action on his 'original' martial soul that he was previously dissatisfied with.

Perhaps it was because the Eye of Truth had become normalized, or perhaps it was because Huo Yuhao’s soul power had solidified after breaking through level 70.

That created the 'root' of the Eye of Truth, and that allowed Huo Yuhao to possess the 'origin' of the Eye of Truth that broke through common sense. Huo Yuhao's speed in cracking and replicating it was much faster.

However, this is only compared to the previous speed. In fact, in Huo Yuhao's opinion, it is still too slow.

'Perhaps my current strength is not enough, so I can't rush it for now. If I want to continue to speed up the analysis, I may need to break through to the 90th level and have a second soul core.'

After thinking about it for a while, Huo Yuhao did not continue to dwell on this point.

After possessing a martial soul avatar and making the Eye of Truth permanent, Huo Yuhao's physical strength has now reached the level of a Titled Douluo.

Moreover, he can still compete with those Titled Douluo with stronger physical strength.

It is also because of this that Huo Yuhao can now let the Ice Dragon King's spirit "possess" him.

Although it was not a complete possession of a beast soul master in the conventional sense, Huo Yuhao was able to briefly draw on the absolute zero level power of the Ice Dragon King’s martial soul without causing any harm to himself.

This is also cause for celebration, after all, it also means that Huo Yuhao now has a new trump card.

Although the Ice Dragon King's spirit also possessed the power of absolute zero before, it was not Huo Yuhao who was able to use it, so this could be considered a not-so-small shortcoming of this god-level spirit.

Now that Huo Yuhao’s physical strength has reached the standard, he has completed this point and made it more perfect.

After carefully feeling and understanding the changes happening to himself, Huo Yuhao opened his eyes and left the place of retreat.

As Huo Yuhao stood up, the delicate balance maintained by this secret room, which was filled with a large amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth and soul power, was destroyed.

It directly shattered into fine dust and then dissipated in the wind. This was caused by Huo Yuhao subconsciously using his ability when forming his martial soul's true body.

Even the seclusion chamber that the Body Sect had built with precious materials for its own strong men could not withstand the destruction of Huo Yuhao's martial spirit's true body with just a thought and fell apart.

"Hahaha, my good disciple, come and see me quickly!"

Du Bu Si’s message reached Huo Yuhao’s ears the moment he stepped out of the secret room.

During the year that Huo Yuhao was in seclusion, he missed his disciple very much.

After all, he was also very worried about Huo Yuhao, because Huo Yuhao's theories and ideas were too bold, but now that Huo Yuhao had succeeded, everything was fine.

(End of this chapter)