Pfft—
As one of the Spider Queen's spider legs pierced into the body of that thirty-thousand-year Man-Faced Demon Spider, that poor guy instantly shriveled like a deflated balloon.
"Mmh ah—"
The Spider Queen instantly made a dreamy moaning sound. That tone made Bibi Dong blush instantly.
At this time, Huo Yuhao could clearly feel the Spider Queen's aura starting to climb steadily, and Bibi Dong's soul power also began to fluctuate slightly.
Electrolux's divine thought was highly concentrated, seemingly wanting to discover something in this process.
Before long, that thirty-thousand-year Man-Faced Demon Spider turned into a pile of debris, and the Spider Queen's aura also reached its peak.
"Not enough, just a little bit more, just a little bit..." The Spider Queen moaned morbidly, seemingly dissatisfied with this absorption.
"How about catching a few more Man-Faced Demon Spiders?" Xiong Jun had been paying attention to the Spider Queen's changes. Seeing the opponent approaching the bottleneck of two hundred thousand years of cultivation, but failing because the life vitality of that thirty-thousand-year guy was not enough.
"Just now because my aura leaked, the nearby Man-Faced Demon Spiders are probably hiding far away. Not so easy to catch." The Spider Queen pouted in annoyance. Although she was the King of Man-Faced Demon Spiders, her subjects stayed away from her because of the nature of the species.
"Elder Yi, any progress in the research?" Huo Yuhao turned his head and asked Electrolux.
Electrolux shook his head, "The Spider Queen didn't get a substantial transformation. It's not enough to draw an experimental conclusion yet."
Xiong Jun looked around and said: "There should be many other kinds of soul beasts nearby. How about I catch a few to try?"
"That would be putting the cart before the horse." Huo Yuhao smiled. The original intention of him and Electrolux researching the Soul Spirit System was to reduce the killing of soul beasts by human soul masters. Now harming soul beasts for experimental data, wouldn't it be no different from the Spirit Pagoda founded by the original Huo Gua?
Huo Yuhao thought for a while, then took out a piece of Life Gold the size of a fingernail from the storage space and threw it to the Spider Queen in front of him.
At the first moment the Life Gold appeared, both the Spider Queen and Xiong Jun widened their eyes a bit. That thing was a fatal temptation for any soul beast.
"What a rich life aura!" The Spider Queen took that piece of Life Gold, shouting with ecstasy on her face.
"Try using it to replace devouring soul beast life vitality." Huo Yuhao urged.
"Okay!"
The Spider Queen couldn't wait to swallow that piece of Life Gold in one gulp. The originally stagnated aura fluctuated again.
Raging...
It could be clearly seen that substantial energy fluctuations began to rise from the Spider Queen's body. It seemed not far from breaking through the bottleneck of two hundred thousand years.
"Yuhao..."
Bibi Dong grabbed Huo Yuhao's hand. The Spider Queen's transformation made her body somewhat strange too. A pretty face turned red instantly, and the circulation of soul power also gradually became chaotic.
"How do you feel?" Huo Yuhao frowned. If Bibi Dong's physical condition showed abnormality, he would immediately stop the Spider Queen's behavior.
After all, the first object of the Spirit Ascension experiment was one of his most important women.
"Rest assured and leave it to this old man."
At this moment, the Necromancer God released an unprecedented powerful pressure from his body. Not the necromancy power full of death aura, but incomparably pure and sacred light aura.
At the same time, the entire staff in Electrolux's hand turned incandescent. Intense golden light flame began to burn and bloom violently on the staff.
Subsequently, a golden light suddenly sprinkled from the staff in Electrolux's hand, falling accurately on the Spider Queen, rendering it dark golden.
Under Electrolux's guidance, part of the Spider Queen's energy formed a terrifying vortex. That aura which even the Spider Queen couldn't suppress with full effort actually became obviously sluggish.
"Yuhao, help me!" Electrolux instantly connected part of his divine thought to Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea. Hearing this, the latter dared not neglect, transmitting spiritual power at maximum power to assist.
It could be clearly seen that spots of light constantly overflowed from the Spider Queen's body, instantly paving a layer of misty halo on the surrounding environment.
"Xiong Jun, the Spider Queen probably can't absorb so much life essence. The rest is cheap for you!" Huo Yuhao looked at this overflowing life energy, feeling distressed, and immediately urged Xiong Jun.
"Good!" Xiong Jun was overjoyed, immediately opening his bloody mouth, sucking all those life energies into his body.
The Spider Queen watched Xiong Jun absorb, although unwilling, she also knew clearly that she probably couldn't completely digest the energy of that piece of Life Gold alone, so she could only let it be.
Although Xiong Jun was one of the Star Dou fierce beasts and naturally had the honor of getting Life Gold to temper his physique, such invaluable treasure also had to be obtained by merit. He joined hands with Di Tian to guard the Star Dou Great Forest for hundreds of thousands of years, but so far hadn't received many rewards of Life Gold from Gu Yuena.
Good person! Xiong Jun was almost moved to tears. With these life essences, he had greater confidence in breaking through the next limit in the future.
Wasn't Di Tian called the number one fierce beast on the Douluo Continent precisely because he was close to the water and got the moon first, getting a lot of benefits from the Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena?
Therefore, Xiong Jun wasted almost nothing, swallowing and digesting all the life essence overflowing from the Spider Queen's body like a whale. Similarly, his aura also increased constantly, about to reach his fifth limit.
This scene was also noticed by Huo Yuhao. Long ago he promised to help Xiong Jun break through this catastrophe smoothly. Now the latter finally reached this step.
About half an hour passed. The light on the Spider Queen's body gradually converged. This also indicated that she successfully broke through the bottleneck of two hundred thousand years with this absorption of life vitality.
"Done!"
With the Spider Queen's surprised cry, Huo Yuhao could see that the rhythmic first soul ring on Bibi Dong's body was gradually changing from red to orange-gold.
"Your Majesty, stabilize your mind."
Huo Yuhao used spiritual power transmission directly, straight to the depths of Bibi Dong's mind.
Hearing Huo Yuhao's voice, Bibi Dong ignored her body dripping with sweat, adjusting her state to maximize benefits.
Electrolux was also trying his best to stabilize the connection transmission of the Soul Spirit Contract. Don't look at the Spider Queen only improving from hundred-thousand-year cultivation to two-hundred-thousand-year level this time. This improvement was a huge change for her. She also officially stepped into the ranks of fierce beasts because of this.
Moreover, with the combat power of the Man-Faced Demon Spider species, even facing veteran fierce beasts like the Crimson King head-on, she might not be unable to fight.
Wait until the color of Bibi Dong's first soul ring completely changed from red to orange-gold, she gasped heavily and relaxed, collapsing sideways, caught by the quick-eyed and quick-handed Huo Yuhao.
"Elder Yi, how is the situation?" Huo Yuhao hurriedly asked Electrolux about this experiment. Although he already had the answer in his heart, he still hoped it would be said by Electrolux, the authoritative creator of Soul Spirits.
"Hehehe..." Electrolux's consumption was also not small, but his divine consciousness was many times stronger than when he first met Huo Yuhao. This consumption was still within his bearable range.
"Mission accomplished!"
With Electrolux's announcement, if Huo Yuhao didn't have to support the exhausted Bibi Dong, he would probably jump up directly.
Once the method of Spirit Ascension was completed, it meant the Soul Spirit System was developed to a quite complete extent.
From now on, all soul masters cultivating soul power on the continent could use Spirit Ascension to increase the age of originally fused lousy soul rings. Of course, the massive life energy required for Spirit Ascension would need to be paid for by the soul masters hoping to increase soul ring age through Spirit Ascension themselves.
It was also from this moment that Huo Yuhao had the confidence to officially announce the Soul Spirit System. Except for soul bones, the Soul Spirit Contract could completely replace the cultivation tradition of soul masters hunting soul beasts to obtain soul rings.
"Long live Elder Yi!"
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On the other side, the Hongchen siblings brought nearly a hundred jin of fine wine and returned to Mingyue Hotel with Gao Dalou.
Gao Dalou didn't continue drinking. He had drunk a lot before, and his whole person had completely entered a confused state. It could be said he had never been so crazy in his life.
Drinking so much was also quite tough for Xiao Hongchen. He hurriedly urged soul power with all his strength, refining the impurities and remaining alcohol in those wines.
Just returning to the hotel, they happened to bump into the Earth Dragon Gate participating team returning from the competition. After the Continental Youth Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition entered the round-robin stage, the Earth Dragon Gate finally could catch a breath. In the following four matches, they defeated opponents consecutively, breaking through barriers with powerful strength, ranking third in the group with a record of five wins and one loss.
It could be said that the Earth Dragon Gate had basically stepped into the category of top eight.
In this group, besides the Earth Dragon Gate, there was another team maintaining complete victory, which was the Tang Sect representative team. In the first five round-robin matches, Tang Wutong relied on her personal Soul Douluo strength to defeat opponents alone consecutively. Even the Bright Jade Sect, which surrendered to the Earth Dragon Gate, was defeated by her.
It was also on this day, after the Bright Jade Sect was basically confirmed eliminated, that Captain Cain, possessing the powerful martial soul Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King, found the Earth Dragon Gate members alone.
The next match would be the absolute highlight of tomorrow's competition—
The two battle teams with the most antagonistic color in the history of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament were about to collide.
On one side was the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy battle team led by Ma Ruhu and Lan Xiu, with five consecutive wins in the first five round-robin matches. On the other side was the Tang Sect battle team supported by Tang Wutong alone.
And the identities of Tang Wutong and Xu Sanshi were gradually dug out by more and more people. They were exactly students of Shrek Academy back then, and also members of the last nominated Shrek Seven Devils in the world today.
Now their identity was members of the Tang Sect. Even if the Sun Moon Empire intended to target them, it wasn't good to act openly, just like the Body Sect putting on the Snow Demon Sect coat in the original timeline. Furthermore, there were thousands if not ten thousand elite soul masters graduated from Shrek Academy, holding important positions in various countries on the continent. They couldn't be listed as wanted just because they studied at Shrek Academy.
Therefore, for both sides, this match was not only a battle for qualification but also a battle of life and death, a battle of glory.
In this round-robin tournament, although the Sun Moon Team had never lost a match, if they lost this one, then the glory won by Huo Yuhao and his partners five years ago would be returned to the hands of Shrek Academy people.
Of course, even if they chose to give up this match and not fight, the Sun Moon Team could also qualify hand in hand with the Tang Sect.
But if they won, then the last round of the round-robin tournament would be a desperate fight between the Tang Sect and the Earth Dragon Gate. If the Tang Sect won, then the Tang Sect, Earth Dragon Gate, and Sun Moon Team would have to compete on small points. Judging from the current small points, the Tang Sect maintained complete victory, so they occupied too big an advantage in small points. While the small points of the Earth Dragon Gate and the Sun Moon Team were almost the same. The gap might be reflected in this match.
The Sun Moon Team had no way back. They must win this match. As long as they won this match, the subsequent matches would be much easier for them, and they would face these two troublesome opponents only at the end.
And for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, what they were most willing to see was the Tang Sect with double Soul Douluos and the Earth Dragon Gate with double Soul Sages fighting desperately, finally causing a scene where only one side could qualify.
And the Tang Sect side was the same. As long as they could take down the Sun Moon Team, they would inevitably qualify with a record of six wins. Ranking first in the group.
Regarding this, the Earth Dragon Gate wasn't particularly concerned, because Huo Yuhao said clearly that Tang Wutong, as the daughter of the Sea God, except for Huo Yuhao, there was no peer in the same realm capable of defeating her.
Therefore, while both sides were still competing on the field, the Earth Dragon Gate people chose to leave the competition venue directly.
Compared to the match situation, the Earth Dragon Gate crowd was obviously more curious about Cain who came to visit, but they soon noticed the tear stains on her face.
"Ah De is dead."
Cain's character was ruthless with few words. In their battle with the Tang Sect, her brother Ah De was directly killed by Tang Wutong opposite with a sentence "Evil Soul Masters deserve to die" because of his blood-sucking ability.
Until now, her mind was still full of images of her brother being crushed to pieces.
"My condolences." Zhang Lexuan didn't know what to say. She only watched the Tang Sect's matches in the first few days. A Soul Douluo level participating member was absolutely enough to sweep the whole field. So the Tang Sect's matches basically ended with individual matches sweeping away withered leaves. Tang Wutong instant-killed the opponent, changed person, continued to instant-kill.
What was there to watch?
The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy battle team relied on the advantage of soul tools and might gain some upper hand, but the absolute gap in cultivation couldn't help them achieve the final victory. Moreover, they were severely consumed in the battle with the Earth Dragon Gate.
"So you looking for us, is there something?" Zhongli Yu was somewhat impatient. In her view, all beautiful girls would become dangerous as long as they approached her Yuhao.
Only ugly people like Gao Dalou and fools like Xie Huanyue and Ji Juechen wouldn't pose any threat to her.
"Saintess Zhongli, I am willing to submit to the Holy Church. I implore you to take action and avenge my brother!" Cain suddenly knelt on one knee and bowed down towards Zhongli Yu.
This time it was Zhongli Yu's turn to be puzzled, but she soon thought of something and exclaimed: "You are that little bat back then?"
"What little bat?" Zhang Lexuan looked at the two of them. What is this about?
"It's me." Cain nodded. When she just awakened her martial soul, she was noticed by the Holy Spirit Cult at that time. Only she had been protected very well by the sect. After all, a soul engineer possessing a powerful martial soul was not easy to find.
In the original timeline, Cain was taken away by the Holy Spirit Cult people after the competition ended. Probably she was assimilated and completely reduced to an Evil Soul Master.
"Didn't expect you to be so big in a blink of an eye." Zhongli Yu clicked her tongue in wonder, not knowing what she was lamenting about becoming big.
Cain seemed to have no intention of catching up with her. She then turned to Die Qiu, Nan Qiuqiu and others: "Since the Saintess is here, if nothing unexpected, you are Demon King Huo Yuhao's people."