Chapter 42: Black Demon
"Good, very good! This way, your Spirit Eyes' third Soul Ring can be a ten-thousand-year one!"
Mu En rarely had such high expectations. In Shrek's history, many Geniuses had ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Rings, and he was one of them.
But compared to Huo Yuhao, they seemed less like Geniuses.
If his third Soul Ring could absorb a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, what about a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring?
Could he absorb a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring by his sixth Soul Ring?
If so, by the time Huo Yuhao became a Titled Douluo, he could have four hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings!
His strength would far surpass others at the same level.
Huo Yuhao also had a second Martial Soul, and the Soul Rings attached to it should at least be ten-thousand-year ones, with no shortage of hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings.
This was Shrek's hope!
"Yuhao, what is your second Soul Ring's Soul skills? Tell your teacher."
"Okay, Teacher, my second Soul Ring was obtained by absorbing a Soul Beast called a Mirror Image Beast. It's called Spiritual Mirroring."
Huo Yuhao's second Soul Ring lit up, and in an instant, a ball of blazing flame flew out.
Yan Shaozhe's eyes twitched. What was going on? This was in front of Sea Gods Pavilion. What if it set something on fire?
He reached out, and his profound Soul Power instantly dispersed the fireball.
"Ah, I apologize. Thank you, Senior Brother."
Huo Yuhao said apologetically.
He was currently at Soul Power level thirty, with three permanent mirrors and three temporary mirrors.
Only one of the three permanent mirrors was filled: the Blazing Roar of a forty-thousand-year Blazing Lion.
Its power was decent, capable of dealing with Soul Masters at the Soul Emperor level.
The temporary mirrors were casual; they disappeared after use. What Huo Yuhao just used was a Soul skills from a thousand-year Soul Beast.
Isn't it normal for a thousand-year Soul Beast's Soul skills to be dispelled by a Super Douluo with a wave of his hand?
"Hmm? Yuhao, your Soul skills isn't that simple, is it?"
Mu En's eyesight was indeed excellent. He clearly saw that although Huo Yuhao's Soul Ring lit up, he didn't consume his own Soul Power.
In other words, this ball of flame was not his true Soul skills.
"Teacher has Wisdom Eye."
Huo Yuhao smiled.
"Senior Brother, can you release your thousand-year Soul skills?"
Yan Shaozhe nodded. His Light Phoenix Martial Soul possessed him, and nine Soul Rings rose: two yellow, two purple, four black, and one red.
His fourth Soul Ring lit up.
Phoenix Shadow Burning Evil!
A phantom Phoenix soared into the sky.
Huo Yuhao watched intently. Although his Martial Soul was not possessing him, his eyes were still golden, reflecting the phantom Phoenix.
"Caw!"
Huo Yuhao also directly released this Soul skills, and a slightly smaller phantom Phoenix also soared into the sky.
It was obvious that although Huo Yuhao's mirrored Soul skills had one hundred percent of the original skill's power, that was the skill's power. A Super Douluo's Soul Power driving a Soul skills had power that a Soul Elder or Soul Sect could not compare to.
Could the same thousand-year Soul skills be driven by different Soul Masters in the same way?
"This is a replication-type Soul skills? Yuhao said it's Spiritual Mirroring. Good, good, a very powerful Divine Skill, but I don't know its specific effects and limitations. Never mind, I won't ask too many questions, lest the child finds this old man annoying!"
Mu En narrowed his eyes, very satisfied with Huo Yuhao's Soul skills.
Many thousand-year Soul skillss could be considered Divine Skills, with effects that many ten-thousand-year Soul Rings couldn't achieve.
"Yuhao, half a month ago, I went to the Star Dou Great Forest and caught many Spiritual-attribute Soul Beasts. Shrek's merchant guild also collected many from various parts of the continent. Coincidentally, your third Soul Ring can absorb a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring. How about we go to the Beast Fighting Arena together?"
Mu En chuckled.
What? Huo Yuhao had been gone for over half a month without a word? That was no big deal! In the face of absolute talent and potential, no one would care.
Especially in a world where strength was everything.
Measuring the strength of a power was never about how many gold coins it had, nor how great its influence was, but how many Soul Masters it possessed.
What determined the height of a power were its top-tier experts.
Without a Super Douluo, one couldn't even be considered a first-rate power on the continent!
Was Huo Yuhao hiding things from him? Mu En knew that he was.
For example, how did Huo Yuhao escape Shrek City under the watchful eyes of four Soul Douluo?
Mu En knew, but he didn't care.
As long as Huo Yuhao gradually developed a sense of belonging to Shrek, that was enough.
As for how to cultivate a sense of belonging? Just shower him with resources.
Of course, some emotional bonds were also indispensable.
Mu En was very fortunate that he had taken Huo Yuhao as a Disciple before his talent was fully displayed... Until evening, after absorbing a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast Soul Ring at the Beast Fighting Arena, Huo Yuhao followed Elder Mu's instructions and bought a set of daily necessities in Shrek City.
He would now be living permanently on Sea God Island.
After all, Huo Yuhao was an Inner Court Disciple.
In his sea of consciousness, a completely black phantom Soul Beast trembled.
No, how was it inexplicably caught, inexplicably died, inexplicably came to this place, and how were so many terrifying things looking at it!
Surrounding it were:
Otherworldly Divine Sense, Electrolux.
Seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, one of the Heavenly Kings of the Far North, Snow Empress.
Three-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, one of the Heavenly Kings of the Far North, Ice Empress.
Million-year Soul Beast, Genius of the Ice Silkworm Clan, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm.
Fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast, Clan Chief of the Mirror Image Beast in the Icebound Forest, Mirror Shadow.
It was just a tiny ten-thousand-year Soul Beast!
Huo Yuhao was very satisfied with his Spirit Eyes' third Soul Ring.
Third Soul Ring:
[Weave Cycle Dream] Consumes Spiritual Power to weave and control dreams, which can be saved in advance. It can also, simultaneously with the release of the Soul skills, project a chosen target's inner dream, with different dream tendencies selectable. If the target's Spiritual Power is lower than one's own, they can be forcibly pulled into the dream. If stronger, there is a certain probability of pulling them into the dream; the greater the Spiritual Power difference, the lower the probability.
It is more effective when the opponent's Spiritual state is abnormal. During the dream's duration, ninety percent of the Spiritual Power consumed to maintain the dream is borne by the opponent, and ten percent by oneself. If the opponent's Spiritual Power is exhausted and they fall unconscious, the dream automatically ends. The perception of time in the dream and reality differs greatly; one breath in reality might be several days in the dream.
Forcibly exiting the dream will forcefully extract more than half of the opponent's Spiritual Power, causing a Spiritual dizziness effect, and a high probability of direct unconsciousness.
This was a Soul skills produced by a ten-thousand-year Black Demon, purely a mechanism monster.
Black Demon Soul Beasts are extremely rare on the continent. Generally, only hundred-year Black Demons are seen, and thousand-year Black Demons are extremely rare.
This ten-thousand-year Black Demon was known to exist in the Star Dou Great Forest according to Shrek's intelligence. Mu En personally sought it out and brought it back, intending for it to be Huo Yuhao's fifth Soul Ring.
Mu En was extremely attentive to Huo Yuhao. The Spiritual-attribute Soul Beast with the highest age limit of over thirty thousand years was prepared for his sixth Soul Ring, along with dozens of Spiritual-attribute Soul Beasts ranging from hundred-year to thousand-year.
But Huo Yuhao picked and chose, disregarding those rare and powerful Soul Beasts, and selected the Black Demon.
The Soul Ring's age limit was not an issue; it could be improved in the future. What Huo Yuhao wanted was a Divine Skill-like Soul skills, not a mediocre hundred-thousand-year Soul skills.
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