Martial Soul Fusion Failure?

When he placed his hand against Huo Yuqing's, Wang Rui froze for a moment.

Huo Yuqing's hand was a full size smaller than his own. It became even more obvious when their palms met—Wang Rui's fingers were much longer than hers, and with just a curl of his fingers, he could enclose her entire hand in his palm... Probably because she was short. She'd be fine once she grew taller.

The important thing was that her hand was faintly cool from the base of her palm to her fingertips.

Wang Rui frowned.

Ordinarily, cold hands and feet meant a deficiency of qi and blood, but Soul Masters had far more abundant qi and blood than normal people. No matter what, their hands and feet should not be cold in summer.

Huo Hang had been cared for for a month, and she had taken medicinal pills too. Why was her body still so frail?

Lu Mingyou, could you even do your job? You still hadn't nursed her back to health?

While silently criticizing Lu Mingyou, Wang Rui gently squeezed Huo Yuqing's hand.

Huo Yuqing's fingers were extremely slender. Though there were rough calluses on her fingertips, her bones and joints were very soft, as if they would snap with the slightest force.

Wang Rui could not help giving her another look.

The child was terribly thin. Though she had grown a little taller over the past month, she was still skinny and had not put on much flesh... How long would it take to raise her into the one-meter-nine muscular man from the original novel?

The juvenile Three-Eyed Golden Lion could not help feeling a trace of an old father's worry.

On the other side, Huo Yuqing's feelings were completely different from his.

Wang Rui's hand was very warm. His bones were solid, and his joints were pronounced. Though he was still a teenager, his hand already closely resembled that of an adult man.

Moreover, there were barely any hard calluses on his fingertips... Huo Yuqing thought of the calluses on her own hands from doing laundry. Her heart felt a little sour, and she was also somewhat embarrassed.

Wang Rui clicked his tongue, shook off the jumble of thoughts, and said in a low voice, "Calm your mind. Feel the aura of my Soul Power, adjust your own Soul Power fluctuations, and try to synchronize them with mine. Then channel your Soul Power into my hand."

His own Soul Power was too domineering and violent. Naturally, he could not directly pour it into Huo Yuqing's body.

Huo Yuqing hurriedly calmed herself and tried her best to sense Wang Rui's aura.

That scorching Soul Power, like raging flames, surrounded him. Within it was another aura, one that seemed to have been passed down from the ancient wilderness—ancient and noble.

With a hum, hazy phantoms appeared behind them.

Behind Huo Yuqing appeared a pale golden vertical eye and a mass of icy-blue mist with no definite shape.

Behind Wang Rui rose a fiery-red phantom.

Huo Yuqing secretly glanced over. That phantom should have been some strange type of dragon.

It stood on four legs, a pair of dragon wings that blotted out the sky spread behind it. It was clad in heavy scales, with curved horns extending backward from its head. Its neck and chest were covered in fiery-red mane. Its features were indistinct, and only a pair of eyes like molten gold could be seen.

That strange dragon radiated a vicious, baleful aura that seemed to come from the primordial wilderness, yet it also faintly carried an air of noble majesty.

"Wang Rui, what exactly is your Martial Soul?" Huo Yuqing could not help asking curiously.

"Blazing Dragon. It was a kind of Soul Beast that once existed in ancient times," Wang Rui answered. Lying now was as natural to him as eating and drinking. "Among these strange beasts, the males were called Teostra, while the females were called Lunastra."

Teostra was naturally not a Soul Beast of the Douluo World, nor had such a Martial Soul ever existed in this world. It was an image Wang Rui had borrowed from the Monster Hunter series when he took human form and created his Martial Soul.

Although the Auspicious Beast taking human form differed from ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, and he could imitate a Martial Soul, he could not simply create a Martial Soul completely unrelated to his true body from nothing. All he could do was make some changes and minor adjustments based on his original form.

He also needed his Martial Soul to differ noticeably from his true body, so he made use of the Ultimate Fire attribute and dragon bloodline. With a few adjustments, he formed this lion-headed, dragon-bodied appearance, then simply borrowed Teostra's image directly from Monster Hunter.

Teostra also had a lion's head and a dragon's body, but its different coloration, rougher and heavier scales, and fluffy dragon wings made it look completely different from the Auspicious Beast's true body. No one could possibly connect the two.

By Soul Beast standards of beauty... the difference between his true body and the Martial Soul he had created was probably as vast as the difference between a sunny, handsome high school heartthrob and a muscular brute in a wrestling match.

Soul Power of different colors pulsed rhythmically across their bodies. The crimson on Wang Rui's body corresponded to the icy blue and gold on Huo Yuqing's body, gradually adjusting to nearly the same frequency. Yet in the end, they always seemed to be just a little short.

As the light flickered, the hazy phantom behind Wang Rui suddenly blurred. Then, as if melting, it split into two masses. One was a ball of crimson flame, faintly taking the form of a beast. The other was a mass of golden light flowing like blood, condensing into the shape of a dragon. This light radiated a terrifying primordial might, and a faint dragon's roar could vaguely be heard.

Very soon, the Soul Power fluctuations of the two completely stabilized at the same frequency, as though they were Soul Power fluctuations belonging to the same person.

Wang Rui nodded slightly, and Huo Yuqing tried channeling her Soul Power into his hand.

Huo Yuqing's Soul Power entered Wang Rui's meridians, and scorching, overbearing Soul Power immediately met it. After colliding with Huo Yuqing's Soul Power, the two instantly showed signs of merging. However, this fusion did not last long before Wang Rui's scorching Soul Power immediately began to burn the part that belonged to Huo Yuqing.

The balance was broken, and the synchronized Soul Power fluctuations around them immediately began to collapse.

Sure enough, Martial Soul Fusion Skills were not so easy to produce.

Wang Rui frowned.

The conditions for a naturally occurring Martial Soul Fusion Skill were incredibly harsh. It required Martial Souls that were inherently compatible, combined with completely opposite Soul Powers that formed two poles... or an extremely close bloodline to serve as a link.

The gap between their levels, the gap in the quality of their Martial Souls, and even a lack of unity between their hearts could all affect the activation of a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

At present, Huo Yuqing's ice-attribute Martial Soul was still only in its embryonic stage and had not truly awakened. The ice attribute within her body came only from the portion belonging to Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

In terms of rank, the ice attribute on her body was far inferior to Wang Rui's Ultimate Fire.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, it was absolutely impossible for the two of them to successfully perform Martial Soul Fusion right now.

In the original novel, Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul Fusion also made no sense at all. What connection could there possibly be between a butterfly and a hammer, or between an eye and a scorpion?

It was a cheat—a certain God King surnamed Tang had used a cheat!

But it was fine. Haodong Power had a God King surnamed Tang cheating for it, while Wang Rui and Huo Yuqing had the Power of Destiny as their cheat.

There was another update coming. Today's 4k was sooo long.