Chapter 76 First Encounter
Although the Ten Thousand Year Aurora Ape took the opportunity to escape far away when the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was attracted by the momentum of the battle between the Red King and Shrek Titled Douluo, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion is still a super soul beast even if it does not have the status of an imperial auspicious beast.
The difference in racial levels made the Three-Eyed Golden Lion much stronger in all aspects than the Ten Thousand Year Aurora Ape, which was of ordinary race. The reason why it had chased the other party for so long was mostly out of a playful mentality.
But when the Three-Eyed Golden Lion really exerted its strength and transformed into a golden stream of light, it easily caught up with and pounced on the Ten Thousand Year Old Aurora Ape. Its powerful mental power directly knocked the Ten Thousand Year Old Aurora Ape unconscious, and then it opened its skull and had a hearty meal.
After having a delicious meal, the three-eyed golden lion stretched lazily like a big cat, and the glowing ball of light beside her attracted her attention.
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion has been living deep in the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest. Even when she goes out to look for food, she mostly comes into contact with soul beasts. Most of the soul beasts either worship her or run away when they see her.
Because of the protection of the ferocious beasts, she had never seen many human soul masters or human soul guides since she was a child, especially human soul guides. After all, the Star Dou Great Forest originally belonged to the Douluo Continent, and its own soul guide technology was not well developed.
Moreover, those who can go deep into the Star Dou Great Forest are more powerful soul masters. In addition, most of the soul masters originally from Douluo Continent, the stronger and older they are, the more traditional they appear, and the more they reject soul guides, let alone use them.
Looking at the big ball of light in front of him and the little person wrapped in it, the three eyes of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion were full of curiosity.
Compared to the three-eyed golden lion, which is three meters long and eight feet tall at the shoulder, Huo Yuhao's figure seems smaller.
For some reason, the feeling that the young man in front of him gave Three-Eyed Golden Lion was different from those soul masters he had met by chance in the past.
It seemed as if some inexplicable force was attracting and guiding her to come and meet this young man.
After meeting Huo Yuhao, the original doubts were immediately resolved. It was the arrangement of fate, but for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, more doubts followed.
Why did the power of destiny guide him to meet this boy? What was the difference between this boy and ordinary soul masters? And why, when this boy saw him, he didn't panic like other soul masters?
That’s right, when the Three-Eyed Golden Lion came forward to observe, Huo Yuhao had already successfully integrated the Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly soul ring.
After all, for Huo Yuhao, the age of this soul ring is not a limit, and he can integrate it with ease and naturally at a very fast speed.
As he became a Soul Master, Huo Yuhao’s cultivation level directly broke through to level thirty-three, and this was the soul power brought by the soul ring not having reached its limit in age.
After feeling his newly acquired soul skill, which was the innate soul skill of the Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly and could manifest the partial characteristic powers of various soul beasts through mental force, Huo Yuhao had some new inspiration.
Through the Thousand Shadows Phantom Body, every time the Thousand Shadows Phantom Butterfly has cultivated for a thousand years, it can use its mental power to transform into a phantom of a soul beast that it knows.
The defense of the soul beast phantom itself is very weak, and even a power far lower than that of the Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly can pierce it.
However, the phantoms of soul beasts transformed by the Thousand Shadows Phantom Body can inherit some of the abilities of the original soul beasts they transformed into.
These include but are not limited to elemental control methods, the use of non-physical soul skills, etc.
The Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly, which has successfully transformed and has become powerful, is also called the Phantom King Butterfly by soul masters. With a cultivation base of nearly 100,000 years, when the Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly flaps its wings, nearly a hundred phantom soul beasts will surround and kill the enemy.
Even if these soul beast phantoms are punctured, as long as the Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly's body still exists, new soul beast phantoms will appear in an endless stream the next moment.
After adapting to Huo Yuhao's Eye of Truth, Thousand Shadow Phantom Body also mutated and became more suitable for the Eye of Truth.
Huo Yuhao can now use his third soul skill to directly and temporarily transform into other martial souls that he has deconstructed. At the same time, he has about 30% of the physical amplification effect of the original beast martial soul of the same level, and the special abilities of the weapon martial soul, although the transformed martial soul does not come with soul skills.
But this is not the point. The point is that once you have the ability to temporarily switch martial souls, Huo Yuhao will have room to use the Eye of Truth in his hands that is not suitable for spiritual attributes but is suitable for other attributes. Soul skills, soul power circuits, and magic.
Huo Yuhao named his third soul skill Thousand Shadow Phantom Soul. Because it is derived from spiritual attributes, Huo Yuhao now only needs to be able to simulate martial souls of other attributes.
Then the soul skill of this attribute displayed through mental power will naturally gain affinity and resonance from the elements between heaven and earth, without causing a decrease in power or increased consumption.
However, unlike the Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly's Thousand Shadow Phantom Bodies which can manifest up to a hundred bodies at the same time, Huo Yuhao's Thousand Shadow Phantom Souls can only transform into one martial soul at a time based on the Eye of Truth, but they can be switched at any time.
It's just that each transformation consumes a lot of soul power and mental energy, but the advantage is that the switching speed is fast and the changes are ever-changing.
After learning about his new soul skill, Huo Yuhao opened his eyes. However, as soon as he woke up, he saw the Emperor Beast staring at him. This was also a very shocking scene.
However, before Huo Yuhao came to the Star Dou Great Forest, he had actually anticipated the possibility of encountering an imperial auspicious beast.
Compared to the real villain Tang San in Douluo Continent, the Emperor of Auspicious Beasts, the Silver Dragon King, and Emperor Tian are not that difficult to talk to.
After all, compared to Tang San, the Shura God who is a vested interest with a way to death on his left and blue silver entangled on his right, the soul beasts, who have been victims of several generations on the Douluo Continent, are more likely to unite with humans.
Because of the existence of Alex, the magic training system was also brought into this world, and it was proved that it would be assimilated by the world in the form of martial spirit.
However, in the original novel, Huo Yuhao's third martial soul, which he obtained because of Alex, does not necessarily require the soul ring of a soul beast to upgrade.
Compared to the soul master system that is strangled by the God Realm and Tang San, and cannot break through the level of Limit Douluo and ascend to become a god in its lifetime, the magic system is undoubtedly more attractive as long as it can be integrated into this world after modification.
Moreover, in the Divine Seal Universe where Alex was born, there is also a profession called Summoner, which trains Warcraft, becomes partners with Warcraft, establishes contracts, grows together, and cooperates with Warcraft in combat.
The advantage of soul beasts is their long lifespan, but their disadvantage is their slow growth rate. This is because soul beasts generally inherit the legacy of the Dragon God and thus inherit some of the characteristics of the dragon clan.
The advantage of humans is that they grow very fast, but the disadvantage is that their lifespan is squeezed by the gods. From the earliest Extreme Douluo who could live for a thousand years, to the later Extreme Douluo and even Demigod who could not live for more than three hundred years. The summoner in the magic system can bind humans and monsters through contracts, allowing them to share part of the monster's lifespan and innate talents, thereby improving their physical strength and qualifications.
At the same time, those magical beasts that are difficult to grow, such as dragons, can also receive feedback from their human partners, speed up their own growth, and survive their weakest period.
The Spirit Pagoda system in the original novel was modified based on the summoner's soul contract, but what Alex left behind was just a rough framework, and before it could be further refined, it was tricked by Tang San.
Huo Yuhao himself was a man without his own opinion, and later became Tang San's lackey, so he left behind the soul system, a thing that has caused eternal troubles in Douluo Continent.
After the Soul Pagoda came out, due to the short-term benefits of the soul system, a large number of soul beasts that were nearing the end of their lifespans or were about to die due to injuries chose to cooperate with humans and transform into human souls.
However, the consequence of doing so is that most of the energy contained in the bodies of the dead soul beasts will return to heaven and earth, that is, the environment of the entire Douluo Star, while a small part will be left to benefit nature, that is, the Star Dou Great Forest where they died, or other soul beast habitats.
Although after being sacrificed to humans through the use of soul magic, since most of the energy in the soul beast's body cannot be absorbed by humans, it will still return to heaven and earth normally.
However, the part that was supposed to benefit nature was intercepted by humans, and even a spirit-raising platform appeared later.
A large amount of energy that should have been in nature was intercepted to the Spirit Ascension Platform, and Douluo Star could only continuously re-cover those areas lacking energy with its own energy.
As a result, the energy that Douluo Star itself can mobilize will naturally become less and less. This practice can be described as draining the pond to catch fish, although it did create a seemingly prosperous soul master civilization during the Dragon King Legend period.
But in reality, they are draining the blood of Douluo Star through continuous squeezing. Normally, it is extremely difficult for Titled Douluo above level 90 to practice.
This is even more true for those Extreme Douluo who are close to demigods. The energy they need cannot be supplied by Douluo Star alone. Normally, there are two routes for further advancement.
One is to use the power of thought of all living beings, which is the method of ascending to become a god, breaking through the shackles and heading to a higher plane.
The other is to cultivate through means similar to star-type martial spirits, by absorbing the energy of other celestial bodies and planets in the universe.
No matter which process it is, it will feed back to Douluo Star. The Extreme Douluo and Demigods will absorb 70% to 80% of the rich energy brought by penetrating planes and receiving energy, but the remaining 20% to 30% will dissipate on Douluo Star and become the nourishment of Douluo Star.
But it is not the case with the Soul Law and the Soul Ascension Law. The value of soul beasts can be squeezed to the extreme, and can even be squeezed repeatedly. But over time, the energy level of Douluo Star will continue to decline, which will naturally lead to a series of collapses.
The three-eyed golden lion's big claws rested on the soul guide shield. As its claws exerted force gently, cracks appeared on the soul guide shield formed by the sixth-level soul guide device, and then it shattered with a loud bang.
Although its own cultivation is only fifteen thousand years old, the racial level of the Emperor Beast is extremely high, and its actual strength has already approached some ordinary race soul beasts that are nearly a hundred thousand years old.
This small sixth-level soul guide naturally could not block her power, but when the soul guide defense shield was broken, the three-eyed golden lion retracted its claws and spoke.
"Roar, why aren't you afraid of me, human?" The three-eyed golden lion bared its teeth and pretended to be ferocious. In fact, the pressure it released was indeed terrifying, but the voice that came out of its mouth was a sweet female voice.
"Maybe it's because when I first saw you, I felt an inexplicable familiarity for some reason, and I'm no match for you. If you really wanted to kill me, I'm afraid I would have died just now."
Huo Yuhao said this casually and calmly, but at this moment, huge waves had already begun to rise in his sea of spiritual consciousness.
The one who had reminded Huo Yuhao before was the spirit that had been differentiated from the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm. Now the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was also awakened and said in a panic: "How could it be the Emperor's Auspicious Beast? I'm dying."
'The Emperor's auspicious beast is here, there must be other fierce beasts nearby. How could I be so unlucky? Xiao Yuhao, find a way to escape!'
And Alex also appeared in Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea and said calmly: "I have sensed the beast that the big bug mentioned. It should be fighting with the Titled Douluo who followed Yuhao before."
"But didn't you notice, Big Bug? They seem to be getting farther and farther away from each other. They probably won't be able to get here in a short time."
"This so-called auspicious beast of the emperor is quite interesting, but if there is danger next, Yuhao, you should give your body to me and I will take you away from here."
Hearing this, Huo Yuhao responded in his spiritual sea: "Okay, if something unexpected happens, I will rely on you, Master Yi, to save me."
After hearing what Huo Yuhao said, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was stunned at first, and then put away its original ferocious look. The golden hair was no longer baring fangs and claws, but became smooth again.
The man and the beast stared at each other. The three-eyed golden lion wanted to find out from Huo Yuhao why this human was so highly regarded by fate.
Huo Yuhao just looked at the three-eyed golden lion in front of him. With the analysis of the Eye of Truth, the thread of fate began to be gradually understood by Huo Yuhao.
After watching for a while, the more impatient Three-Eyed Golden Lion finally lost her patience. Although she couldn't see what was special about Huo Yuhao now, since it was the guidance of fate, then she might as well use the power of fate to give it a try!
The originally golden vertical pupil on the forehead of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion suddenly shone brightly, and a beam of light without any killing aura shot towards Huo Yuhao.
This ray of light is called the Gaze of Destiny. The short-term fate of those illuminated by the light will be known by the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
At the same time, she can also use this to adjust the power of destiny between herself and the other party, improving her own luck by lowering the other party's luck, or improving the other party's luck by lowering her own luck.
Although this is the innate soul skill of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, this is the first time she has used it even though she has been under the protection of Emperor Tian since her growth.
So she didn't know that although the Gaze of Fate could see into and influence the fate of others, there was only one limitation.
That is, it cannot be used on those who are too closely related to fate, because their luck is too special. Once it is affected.
(End of this chapter)