Chapter 74 The Gears of Destiny

Unlike others who were still in deep meditation and clarifying their future path, Huo Yuhao appeared in the Star Dou Great Forest.

The towering trees blocked a large area of ​​sunlight, and the Star Dou Great Forest was quite quiet at this time, because Huo Yuhao was now approaching the edge of the mixed zone.

However, this time, the one following Huo Yuhao was not the unreliable Taotie Douluo Xuanzi, but another level 93 titled expert assigned by Moon.

Although this Titled Douluo himself did not understand why he was dispatched to personally bring a Great Soul Master student from the outer courtyard to the Star Dou Great Forest just because he needed to obtain the third soul ring.

However, this was an order from Moon, the Pavilion Master of the Sea God Pavilion. This Titled Douluo, whose status had not yet reached that of a Pavilion Master of the Sea God Pavilion, naturally did not dare to neglect it.

Moreover, when coming here, Moon En also emphasized to him the importance of Huo Yuhao, as well as the precautions for his martial soul and the soul beast that is suitable for it.

However, he was not told about Huo Yuhao’s exact role and related interests. After all, the weighing of interests was done by the top leaders of the Sea God Pavilion.

For these Titled Douluo and Shrek members who act as high-level thugs and window dressing, in addition to doing their job as a soul master, they only need to constantly pursue the glorious aura of Shrek that has been passed down for thousands of years.

As for those private exchanges of interests, perhaps smart people will guess it themselves, but smart people will also pretend to know nothing. After all, they are too deeply tied to Shrek Academy.

As for taking Huo Yuhao to the Body Sect for exchange of interests, would the Tang Sect, to which he originally belonged, have any objections?
It can only be said that the Tang Sect, whose leader is only the Soul Sect, is not really qualified to be involved in the transaction between the two behemoths, the Body Sect and Shrek Academy.

Without asking any more questions, the Title Douluo went straight to the point and said, "We are almost in the mixed zone now."

"Have you thought about the third spirit ring you need, what spirit beast you want, and how old you want it to be?"

"You should know that spirit-attribute soul beasts are always rare, because there are fewer spirit-attribute soul beasts."

"It's more because spirit beasts are generally smarter than ordinary spirit beasts, so they are good at hiding themselves."

“Even though we have students from Shrek Academy training in the Star Dou Great Forest all year round, we don’t have accurate information on the habitats of spiritual soul beasts. This soul hunting mainly depends on luck.”

Huo Yuhao nodded and replied: "As for me, the third soul ring I hope for is preferably from a soul beast with a cultivation base of more than 8,000 years. This will be the biggest improvement for me."

"If it can barely reach the ten thousand year level, I have the confidence to try to absorb it."

Hearing this, the Titled Douluo nodded and muttered, "He started trying for the Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring from the third spirit ring. Is this the advantage of his original spirit? No wonder."

In fact, what Huo Yuhao said just now was actually concealing the maximum number of years he could absorb spirit rings. After all, with the blessing of the gold of life, even without the multiple spirit bones in the original book.

But now, the age of the soul rings that Huo Yuhao can absorb is definitely over 10,000 years, after all, he has experienced the second awakening of his martial soul.

The transformation and strengthening that the gold-level second awakening brought to Huo Yuhao's body was definitely not to be underestimated, not to mention the magic potion prepared by Alex that he had absorbed before.

Now Huo Yuhao’s physical strength alone is no less than that of ordinary Soul Kings, and his mental strength is even better.

And this was without the help of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm. Through Huo Yuhao's own spiritual power that had entered the tangible and intangible level, he was able to completely absorb and integrate the soul ring of about 15,000 years.

If he used the method of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm to seal the absorbed soul rings, Huo Yuhao should be able to absorb soul rings of about 20,000 years at most. The soul power brought by soul rings above that would be too enormous.

It is not something that can be perfectly endured now, and it will only accumulate in the body. But even so, for a soul master who has just reached level 30 in soul power, it is still somewhat shocking.

In order to maintain the tacit understanding reached with Moon, Huo Yuhao naturally had to demonstrate his talent and value.

But we can't go too far. If Huo Yuhao's talent is too strong, Moon will start to have other concerns.

After all, although Moon En did want to exchange Huo Yuhao for benefits with the Body Sect, he would definitely not allow the Body Sect to dominate.

Therefore, the talent that Huo Yuhao can display, no matter how excellent it is, has to have a limit and must be within Moon’s tolerance range.

After all, if the future Huo Yuhao is not a disciple of Shrek Academy, he naturally cannot act as aggressively as the original owner in the original novel who pretended to be a pig and eat the tiger.

As for the age of this soul ring, Huo Yuhao saw through Moon's thoughts through the Eye of Truth, and determined it based on this, which was below the red line of 13,000 years in Moon's heart.

Moreover, for Huo Yuhao, the age of the soul ring and the soul skill effects brought by the soul ring are actually not important.

After all, for a time traveler, especially a time traveler who has traveled through Huo Yuhao, there are too many ways to increase the age of his soul ring.

As for soul skills, Huo Yuhao now has a lot of soul skills that he can create and combine, but he has never had the opportunity to use and demonstrate them.

"The Dream-Eating Monster Bird and the Big-Headed Spiritual Ape are my first choices, but the Dream-Eating Monster Bird always keeps to itself and its whereabouts are secretive."

"This kind of soul beast is good at using its mental power to lure lost people and soul beasts into an illusion and suck their brains, but it rarely provokes soul masters and soul beasts with more than one group."

"Although the big-headed apes live in groups, the species itself is not strong, and only a few can reach the age that meets my ideal."

"And if it is a group of big-headed spirit apes that can give birth to a group with a cultivation level of more than 8,000 years, it would be quite troublesome to remove the means for them to unite with each other. There is a high probability that there are more powerful spirit beasts protecting them. It is not the best choice."

"Secondly, my targets are the Thousand-Eyed Spirit Butterfly and the Hundred-Eyed Centipede. Although the innate soul skills of these two soul beasts are less compatible with my future development path."

"But after all, these two soul beasts are also spiritual attributes, and their numbers are relatively large compared to other spiritual attribute soul beasts, so they are easy to find."

"As for those rarer spirit beasts, if you are lucky enough to encounter them here, it won't be too late to make a decision."

In fact, Huo Yuhao had another ideal soul beast in his mind that he had not mentioned, which was the Demon Eye Demon Tree. This was a species of the same clan as the fierce beast Ten Thousand Demon King, and was an extremely rare spiritual attribute plant soul beast. However, although the Ten Thousand Demon King was feared by Emperor Tian because he had secretly controlled the plant soul beasts outside the Xingdou Great Forest, he was still under Emperor Tian's control.

However, there is no guarantee that a certain Demon Eye Demon Tree is a minion of the Ten Thousand Demon King. So even though the Demon Eye Demon Tree's soul ring is suitable for Huo Yuhao, for the sake of safety, it is better not to cause trouble for himself.

The Titled Douluo nodded after listening to Huo Yuhao's request.

"Okay, then you should pay more attention yourself. As a spiritual attribute soul master, your intuition may be sharper than my observation ability when it comes to finding spiritual attribute soul beasts."

Then the two of them continued to move towards the depths of the mixed zone.

But at this time, the core area of ​​the Star Forest.

A big golden lion who was supposed to sunbathe in the Lake of Life and sleep comfortably until night shook his fluffy mane and opened his three eyes.

"What's going on? I just ate yesterday, why am I hungry again?" The three-eyed golden lion muttered in confusion.

Then it spread out its claws and ran towards the core area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest. The other fiery red figure also reluctantly followed this little ancestor and left the Lake of Life.

In addition to the ferocious beasts, the other creatures living in the core area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest are the hundred thousand year old soul beasts. In addition to those, there are the direct blood relatives of these soul beasts. Each of them has a powerful bloodline and is at least a high-level soul beast. There are also quite a few super soul beasts.

Although the Emperor Beast is nominally the king of soul beasts, under normal circumstances, she would not attack the direct descendants of these hundred thousand year old soul beasts and ferocious beasts.

After all, starting from the hundred thousand year soul beasts, these soul beasts are the top forces of the Star Dou Great Forest, and their death is the least possible.

Even with the protection of the emperor's auspicious beasts, their presence in the Star Dou Great Forest is extremely scarce.

And their ethnic group also has the potential to achieve 100,000 years, although the proportion is not high.

Therefore, most of the time, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion eats the brains of soul beasts that live outside the core area, are not valued by the Star Dou Great Forest, and have limited potential.

After all, if they cannot break through 100,000 years, it will be difficult for ordinary soul beasts to give birth to advanced wisdom. Without this wisdom, they basically will not consider those soul beasts that are more than 100,000 years old as their own "soul beast clansmen".

According to Alex in the original book, the Emperor's auspicious beast came into being. As the darling of destiny, it is born with the potential of a demigod, but it takes a long time to nurture.

At the same time, in addition to the long period of growth, the gift of fate has already secretly marked its price.

The so-called darling of fate is actually just because "fate" needs such a chess piece that can appear at the critical turning point of fate.

Therefore, every darling of destiny has their own mission, big or small, and the first turning point in the fate of the imperial auspicious beast, the Three-eyed Golden Lion, is the encounter.

When I met Huo Yuhao, the son of destiny who was also favored by fate, I had an intersection with him.

The mysterious fate has existed since the beginning. Some people may think that fate is nonsense, but eating, drinking, moving, sitting and lying down, everything may be destined.

From the very beginning, fate determines the starting point of all living things, and starting from the starting point, what follows is fate and continues to climb forward.

But at the same time, fate exists but is not predestined. Fate can determine the starting point but cannot determine the end point. Perhaps the general direction of the world will be determined by fate.

However, in a world with extraordinary powers, every step forward and every time a strong person becomes stronger, his fate, which was originally influenced by the general direction of the world, will shift, and his fate will shift along with it.

One influences two, two influences three, and the influence becomes stronger and stronger. As time goes by, more and more people will come into contact with each other. As the contact and influence go on, the destinies of both parties and multiple parties will begin to entangle and overlap, eventually converging into a new destiny and opening up a new future.

All fate can do is to determine the limited number of living beings and make contact with them at the turning points of fate where it is needed, so as to stabilize the general direction of fate.

However, this contact was not stable, just like in the original novel, because of the intervention of Tang San, the Shura God who is even more powerful than the God King, ultimately Huo Yuhao and the Emperor Beast, the two favored by fate, did not end up well.

The one who was killed was the soul beast emperor, the Three-eyed Golden Lion, and the one who became the God King's hawk was the son of destiny, Dai Yuhao.

Therefore, the fate of Huo Yuhao and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion in the original novel happened due to Tang San’s interference, and it was also the first encounter between these two chosen sons of heaven and the beast of destiny.

And now, the gears of fate begin to turn, but both parties who have walked to the crossroads of fate are unaware of this.

Because fate is untraceable, even if the Eye of Truth can see deeper trajectories, Huo Yuhao finds it difficult to understand because he is "illiterate" and cannot decipher the "text" of "fate".

Having never come into direct contact with fate, he was unable to understand the deeper trajectories presented in the Eye of Truth.

What do those traces that resemble the movements of muscles, bones, and cells of living beings, but are completely different, represent and symbolize?

Moreover, the Eye of Reality, or even the Eye of Truth, can only help Huo Yuhao see the underlying logic that ordinary people cannot perceive.

It is extremely difficult to understand it. After all, it is different from things like the activities of bones and muscles and the arrangement of molecules, which we have never studied but have a certain concept in our minds.

Destiny is a more mysterious existence than the soul. Even if Huo Yuhao can see it clearly one day, he will not be able to do so if he does not have enough strength.

Then Huo Yuhao could only interpret it through the Eye of Truth to understand the tip of the iceberg among the myriad possibilities, but he could not fully understand the context of fate and control the direction of fate for his own use.

The appearance of the Eye of Truth brought Huo Yuhao a ticket to become stronger, but in order to redeem it, it would take a lot of time to accumulate, and more importantly, Huo Yuhao himself must be strong enough.

(End of this chapter)