blogombal Chapter 52 Opening the Mud Pill and the Sea Dragon Soul Skill
Chapter 52 Opening the Mud Pill and the Sea Dragon Soul Skill
"good!"
"Poison Doesn't Die" was the first to cheer.
"Regardless of Hailong's current condition, the fact that you were able to kill it single-handedly at your current level is an astonishing achievement, even in the entire history of Soul Masters!"
The elders landed one after another, their eyes filled with admiration as they looked at Huo Yuhao.
Poison Undying's gaze swept around, and his voice suddenly rose.
"All disciples, retreat one hundred meters. No one is permitted to interfere with Yuhao's absorption of the soul ring for any reason. Violators will be punished according to sect rules!"
Upon hearing this, the disciples who had originally come over to congratulate Huo Yuhao immediately retreated.
They even lowered their voices considerably.
Huo Yuhao sat cross-legged beside the sea dragon's corpse, channeling his soul power and raising his hand to guide it.
The jet-black, ten-thousand-year-old soul ring, as if drawn by some kind of gravity, slowly floated to the top of Huo Yuhao's head.
Huo Yuhao closed his eyes and began to guide the spirit rings to merge with himself.
As the Sea Dragon's soul power continued to flow in, he suddenly felt as if he were a small boat drifting on the vast ocean.
The sea dragon's soul power was extremely domineering, far surpassing the ethereal quality of the thousand-year-old ice silkworm's soul power.
Although it was a water-attribute dragon soul beast, its soul power was full of masculine energy, rampaging through Huo Yuhao's meridians.
Huo Yuhao circulated his martial arts manual with all his might, and soon he felt as if he were wrapped in a large, dark cocoon.
His meridians were extremely resilient; even as the powerful and domineering Sea Dragon Soul Force continuously stretched them, there was no sign of them breaking.
Roar--
Just then, a loud dragon roar, which only Huo Yuhao could hear, resounded from his sea of consciousness.
The remnant soul of the sea dragon!
Soul-shaking!
Huo Yuhao knew that the best time to try transforming the Spirit Eye into a rune had arrived!
Even if he doesn't succeed in one fell swoop, he can still accumulate extremely valuable experience!
Huo Yuhao was multitasking, continuously absorbing the sea dragon's soul power while attempting to open his Niwan Palace by using the soul shock caused by the sea dragon's remnant soul!
The head has nine palaces, corresponding to the nine heavens, which are called the Niwan (mud ball).
The Niwan Palace is located at the very center of Huo Yuhao's mind, in the deepest part of his spiritual sea, where his soul and primordial spirit reside.
This is where spiritual power is born, and its role is as important as the dantian is to soul power.
To condense the talisman, one must first open up the Niwan Palace.
The remnant soul of the sea dragon had bloodshot eyes and an ethereal body.
Its dragon whiskers danced wildly, twisting its body in Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea, staring intently at Huo Yuhao's spiritual body.
Roar--
Its mouth opened wide, and it let out a silent roar.
The mental clash was silent, yet it sent a shiver down Huo Yuhao's spine, cold sweat dripping from his forehead.
He chanted the talisman master's incantation in his mind, and an invisible yet powerful spiritual force roared in the sea of his spirit!
The remnant soul of the sea dragon trembled violently, and the scarlet color in its dragon eyes deepened.
Electrolux, Ice Emperor, and Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm stood quietly to the side, none of them making a move.
They knew that this was the most critical moment for Huo Yuhao, and helping him would only harm him.
This was Huo Yuhao's first experience with soul shock, and this experience was extremely important for absorbing soul rings in the future.
Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea surged with towering waves, constantly colliding with the remnant soul of the sea dragon.
Faintly, Huo Yuhao could sense that the gate to the Niwan Palace, located at the deepest part of his spiritual sea, seemed to be trembling.
His expression hardened, and he immediately released his mental restrictions, allowing the remnant soul of the sea dragon to rush directly into the depths of the sea of spirit!
The remnant soul of the sea dragon churned the seas, causing the ocean of spirit to surge and roar!
Huo Yuhao gritted his teeth and persevered!
Leverage their strength to build my own momentum!
Finally, just as the sea dragon was churning wildly and about to reach the bottom of Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea, which was the gate of the Niwan Palace!
Huo Yuhao's already turbulent spiritual sea suddenly surged even more violently!
It was as if it were boiling, with a rolling vortex condensing from the location of the Niwan Palace, rendering the remnant soul of the sea dragon unable to move.
Electrolux casually retrieved the remnant soul of the sea dragon, intending to use it later to explain soul magic to Huo Yuhao in more detail.
"Niwan Palace, open!"
Huo Yuhao gave a low shout.
Then, the seawater in the sea of spirit surged back and crashed into the Niwan Palace!
Huo Yuhao could sense that at this moment, something in the deepest part of his spiritual sea seemed to have been broken!
"Now!"
These golden waters in the sea of spirit were swallowed up by the whirlpool like whales drinking from a gushing ocean!
boom--
As the golden seawater poured in, Huo Yuhao's Niwan Palace burst open!
His accumulated spiritual power was already enough to blast open the Niwan Palace.
Because Lingmou's foundation was strengthened by the Martial Scripture, Huo Yuhao diligently practiced the Talisman Master's Secret Manual day and night, as well as the meditation method provided by Electrolux, to solidify his foundation.
Outside, he has the million-year soul ring of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm and spiritual medicines with spiritual attributes to expand his boundaries.
At this moment, Huo Yuhao's spiritual power was far more powerful than that of many other soul masters.
Even Gu Tong, who also possesses a dual-eyed martial soul, cannot compare to him.
He only needs a trigger to break through the Niwan point and take the first step on the path of a talisman master!
The next instant, a vast spiritual force far exceeding anything seen before erupted from the Niwan Palace!
With his Niwan Palace opening, his spiritual power surged forth like a celestial river, refilling Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea.
It swallowed again and gushed again, repeating this several times until Huo Yuhao's Niwan Palace had completed its expansion.
Now, his Niwan Palace has almost completely enveloped the entire sea of spirit.
This means that Huo Yuhao has successfully blasted open the Niwan Palace and taken the first step on the path of a talisman master!
If he can successfully condense the talisman, he can truly become a talisman master!
Huo Yuhao took a deep breath and slowly opened his eyes.
Now is not the right time to condense the talisman, after all, Du Bu Si and the others are still watching outside.
Seeing that Huo Yuhao had successfully absorbed the Sea Dragon Soul Ring, Du Busi immediately stepped forward.
"How are you feeling?"
Huo Yuhao stood up, the two spirit rings beneath him pulsating gently: "Better than ever before."
"By absorbing the Sea Dragon Soul Ring, my soul power level has now reached level 28 and a half."
"But most importantly, my physical strength has increased significantly once again."
Poison Undying nodded: "Hailong has been through a lot of trouble lately, so it's already quite good that he can improve like this."
"What about soul skills?"
The second ring beneath Huo Yuhao, a ten-thousand-year-old ring, lit up instantly.
In an instant, the extreme cold emanating from his body seemed to transform into a smooth ribbon that wrapped around him.
Not only that, but they also heard a faint sound of tides coming from Huo Yuhao's body.
"Azure Sky and Sea Dragon Transformation".
Huo Yuhao said, "This soul skill can turn hard ice into flowing water, but the cold power remains unchanged."
Poison Immortal and the others frowned: "Not strong at all? Isn't this just useless?"
Huo Yuhao continued, "This is merely a change in the Sea Dragon Water to the Ultimate Ice."
"After using this soul skill, my entire body has actually become flowing ice slurry."
"Teacher, you can try punching me."
No sooner had he finished speaking than Du Bu Si decisively raised his right fist.
He controlled his power, imprinting it directly onto Huo Yuhao's chest, according to the level Huo Yuhao could currently withstand.
"Bang."
With a muffled thud, Huo Yuhao's body rippled like water.
Poison Undying's fist actually pierced straight through his chest!
However, strangely enough, Huo Yuhao did not bleed at all.
Poison Undying withdrew his fist in surprise, and it was now covered with a thick layer of extreme ice.
The puncture wound on Huo Yuhao healed rapidly, like flowing molten ice.
"This..." The members of the Body Sect who had gathered around stared wide-eyed.
Huo Yuhao smiled slightly: "During the duration of the soul skill, my body can flow like water, and physical attacks cannot cause me any real damage."
Hongyue, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but ask, "How long can you hold out now?"
After sensing the situation, Huo Yuhao replied, "With my current soul power, I can maintain this for about ten minutes."
Everyone's eyes widened instantly.
Ten minutes?!
So long!
But Huo Yuhao wasn't finished: "And because my whole body is now covered in flowing ice slurry, I can undergo this change."
He raised his right arm, and to everyone's disbelief, it slowly transformed into the shape of the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd.
"I can mold my entire body into any shape or object."
Everyone gasped.
This is practically condensing all of Long Aotian's soul skills into a single soul ring!
Able to be immune to physical attacks and change one's form at will, such a soul skill is virtually invincible in battle!
"Not bad, not bad," said Poison Undying, "A very good soul skill! It suits our Body Sect very well!"
"But kid," Poison Undying then changed the subject, "you need to explain to us what's going on with that dragon-scale halberd of yours?"
"Able to cleave through the sea dragon's source of attack, your halberd, which resonates with your bloodline, is no ordinary weapon."
Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao summoned the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd once more.
This halberd has a majestic and ferocious design, with lifelike dragon patterns on it, and an aura of impending doom.
The Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd is indispensable.
In the days to come, it should be allowed to meet the people of the Body Sect.
Huo Yuhao had already prepared a response in his mind to Du Busi's question.
He gently stroked the halberd's shaft and said, "Its name is the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd, which originated from when the Ice Dragon Martial Soul awakened."
Huo Yuhao then began to explain in detail.
Everyone in the Body Sect knows that Huo Yuhao, while in the White Tiger Duke's mansion, did not awaken the more powerful Azure Sky Profound Ice Dragon Martial Soul due to his severely insufficient acquired foundation and his body's need for self-preservation.
It wasn't until he obtained the first spirit ring of the Spirit Eye that he was able to successfully awaken his second spirit, thanks to the power of the spirit ring and his physical growth over the years.
"After awakening the Ice Dragon Martial Soul, I dreamt of seeing an ancient battlefield."
"I can't see the specific details clearly, but I remember there was a person in the dream holding the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd, and he seemed to notice my gaze."
"After I regained consciousness, the Heavenly Scale Halberd in his hand appeared in front of me."
"I tried to touch the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd, but it began to frantically absorb my blood, and then attached itself to my right arm and fell into a deep sleep."
"After that, I felt like I fainted, or maybe I was conscious; I couldn't tell. But I'm sure there were no strange changes in my right arm at that time."
Then Huo Yuhao turned to Hong Yue: "Elder Hong, do you remember a book in the Heavenly Soul Library?"
Hongyue asked instinctively, "Which book?"
"Tales of Soul Beasts. The author is Wang Long, a Soul Master with a Panlong Staff from five hundred years ago."
Huo Yuhao said, "In the chapter on dragon-type soul beast research, he proposed a conjecture about the golden dragon."
Hongyue's face immediately showed a look of realization: "I remember."
"That chapter records that the first generation of the Golden Dragon had forty-nine ribs, while its descendants only had forty-eight."
"Based on this legend, Wang Long speculated that the lost rib was likely taken by a Soul Master who was about to become a god, or even by a god himself, and refined into his own weapon."
She suddenly realized what was going on.
Hongyue exclaimed, "You mean to say that the origin of the Heavenly Scale Halberd is very likely the same as the lost rib of the Golden Dragon—it came from some ice dragon?!"
"The Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd is a divine weapon?!"
Huo Yuhao shook his head.
He said, "I don't know if the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd is a divine artifact, and I haven't heard anything about divine inheritance."
"The reason I didn't mention this before was because I really thought it was just a dream."
"But when I fought against the Sea Dragon, perhaps it was the stimulation from this foreign dragon that caused my Ice Dragon Martial Soul and the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd to resonate at that moment."
"Then I subconsciously used the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd, and my right arm bone changed completely in that instant."
After saying that, Huo Yuhao handed the Heavenly Scale Halberd to Du Busi.
Poison Immortal reached out and took it, but to his surprise, the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd suddenly burst forth with a light that seemed to soar into the sky.
As the Poison Undying Hand made contact with the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd, a thick layer of solid ice instantly spread across his hands.
Poison Immortal was startled, sensing that the halberd was actually repelling him.
The Heavenly Scale Halberd became heavier than a mountain and fell to the ground with a clang.
Strangely, the Heavenly Scale Halberd, which Poison Immortal felt was unshakeable, fell to the ground and was treated like an ordinary halberd weighing only a few dozen kilograms, without collapsing in the slightest.
The core of the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd is the portion of dragon bloodline extracted by the Martial Ancestor.
After Huo Yuhao obtained the Azure Sky Profound Ice Dragon Martial Soul through the Azure Sky Dragon Transformation Technique, he nourished the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd with his own bloodline.
Nourished by bloodline, the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd has, by sheer chance, acquired some ice-related abilities.
As Huo Yuhao retracted the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd, Du Busi's eyes gradually sharpened.
He shattered the ice on his arm and grabbed Huo Yuhao's right arm.
Seeing the opportunity, Huo Yuhao activated the Azure Dragon Transformation Technique, pretending to circulate his soul power to stimulate the power of his right arm bone.
Hyotei activated the energy within the soul bone of his right arm at the opportune moment.
An aura, like that of a prehistoric beast, surged forth from Huo Yuhao.
"Such a powerful and ferocious aura! Such a rich dragon scent!"
Poison Undying was startled: "This feels even stronger than the Crimson King in the Star Dou Great Forest; it's at least a 400,000-year-old ice dragon bone!"
He released Huo Yuhao's arm, his eyes growing increasingly excited.
The dragon energy on this bone is too strong, and the ferocity is too intense.
If it weren't for such a powerful weapon, Huo Yuhao wouldn't have been able to cleave through the Sea Dragon's source attack.
As for the dream Huo Yuhao mentioned...
Legends of the Ice God have long circulated in the far north, and even the spirit beasts there are more devout to the Ice God than humans.
Based on Huo Yuhao's statement, Du Busi speculated that the so-called Ice God was likely a Beast God.
Perhaps more likely, it was an ice dragon that became a god.
"Ancient battlefield... perhaps a war took place in the realm of gods. And the two sides in the war were the human gods and the beast gods. However, the beast gods were defeated, otherwise why couldn't soul beasts become gods?"
"Leaving aside the Deep Sea Demon Whale King from ten thousand years ago, just considering Di Tian, his strength clearly far surpasses that of a Limit Douluo."
"But he still didn't become a god."
Du Busi recalled the dragon's roar he heard when he was young, following Du Bishi to hunt souls in the Star Dou Great Forest.
The Dragon's Roar alone feels far superior to the Poison Undying technique compared to Mu En.
Poison Undying withdrew his arm, thinking to himself, "Perhaps when Yuhao's Ice Dragon Martial Soul awakened, the Ice God's legacy weapon sensed his aura and chose to recognize him as its master."
"Dragon martial souls are rare to begin with, and ice dragons are even more unprecedented, not to mention that they are the ultimate ice."
"However, because the Ice God among the Beast Gods is dead, Yuhao did not receive the Ice God's inheritance."
The more I think about it, the more reasonable it seems that poison can't kill.
He exclaimed "Good!" three times in a row, "This is your good fortune, your lucky break!"
Afterwards, the elders of the Body Sect encouraged Huo Yuhao and let him and his disciples test the effect of the new soul skill in battle before letting Huo Yuhao go back to cultivate on his own.
He is currently at level 28.5, just one and a half levels away from obtaining the third ring.
According to Poison Undying's plan, Huo Yuhao's third ring will be Titan Snow Demon.
As for how to obtain this spirit ring, Poison Undying currently has no method.
Titan Snow Demons are one of the three dominant races in the far north, and the Titan Snow Demon King, one of the three kings of the far north, is from this race.
This race is enormous; with ten thousand years of cultivation, they could easily be tens of meters tall.
This humanoid soul beast is different from the sea dragon, and it would be extremely difficult for Du Busi to successfully capture one alive from the far north.
But he was worried about taking Huo Yuhao with him.
If they were unlucky enough to encounter the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North, it would be difficult for them to fight without being poisoned and to protect Huo Yuhao at the same time.
Especially the Snow Empress, who is hailed as the third most ferocious beast.
In Xue Di's far northern home ground, Du Bu Si lacked confidence in himself.
Just as Du Bu Si was worrying, Huo Yuhao returned to his room.
He closed his eyes and sat cross-legged. After confirming that he was in peak condition, he began to try to refine his spiritual eye into a talisman according to the method of condensing seals.