"Third Martial Soul"

"Profound Essence Pill?" Dugu Lu murmured to himself, reaching to dip another trace of pill liquid from the bottom of the pot. Though the Profound Essence Pill tasted somewhat lacking, its effects were quite good.

Smack!

Seeing Dugu Lu reaching for the pill liquid again, Xu Jie slapped his hand away.

"Lu, I made this pill for Yuhao. There wasn't much to begin with, and it won't be of much use to you anyway. If you want some, I'll make an extra batch tomorrow." It was not that Xu Jie was unwilling to share; there truly was not much pill liquid, only a thin layer at the bottom of the pot.

There would be even less once it was refined into pills. That batch of ingredients was only enough for Huo Yuhao for one day. It was Xu Jie's first time refining pills in this life, so he did not dare use too much.

"Fine, fine. Come on, Yuhao, hurry up and give it a try." Dugu Lu did not say anything more. He knew that Huo Yuhao's talent was poor and that his cultivation speed was relatively slow.

"Alright, I'll try it." Huo Yuhao, who had been unable to get a word in from the side, finally got the chance to step forward and taste the "Profound Essence Pill" Xu Jie had refined.

"Use this. Be careful, it's rather bitter." Xu Jie handed Huo Yuhao a spoon.

"Mm." Huo Yuhao took the spoon without another word, scooped up a spoonful of pill liquid from the bottom of the pot, and put it into his mouth.

Having prepared himself beforehand, he did not dry-heave from the bitterness like Dugu Lu had. Huo Yuhao merely frowned slightly, then closed his eyes and sensed the effects of the Profound Essence Pill within his body.

Five minutes later, the moment Huo Yuhao opened his eyes, Dugu Lu beside him impatiently asked, "Yuhao, how is it?"

He had eaten very little just now. Other than feeling a trace of pure Soul Power merge into his body, he had not felt anything else.

"The effect is excellent. Aside from the pure Soul Power, the pill also has a calming effect. I can feel that my Soul Power circulates a little faster than before." Huo Yuhao carefully described what he felt.

"Mm, nothing wrong with that." Xu Jie nodded. What Huo Yuhao had said was correct. The Profound Essence Pill was originally a pill that aided internal cultivation; its main effects were calming the mind and stabilizing one's essence, while providing pure Soul Power was merely an additional benefit.

Xu Jie had considered every medicine he refined. Huo Yuhao had yet to avenge his great hatred, so there was always a trace of impatience when he cultivated. With a pill to calm his mind, his thoughts would no longer be so rushed, and his cultivation speed would naturally increase somewhat.

"Xu Jie, this pill of yours..."

"Ha, you want to learn? I'll teach you." Seeing Dugu Lu's hesitant expression, Xu Jie immediately understood what he meant.

"Uh, forget it. You used Soul Power while stirring just now, right? You know the problem with my Martial Soul. Even if I learned it, the pills I refined could only be eaten by me. No one else could take them!" After thinking it over, Dugu Lu still refused.

"You could refine them for the rest of your family to eat." Huo Yuhao knew that Dugu Lu's Soul Power was inherently infused with his poison. Aside from members of the Dugu Family, no one else could withstand it.

"Yuhao, my Martial Soul is the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor. My family members all have Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Souls. Jade Phosphorous Serpents are poisonous to begin with, and the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor is only more poisonous." Dugu Lu explained.

"If I really refined them for my family to eat, they'd only die faster."

"Alright, alright. I'll make you a batch while I'm at it. It's not any trouble anyway, and besides, even the money for the ingredients came from our Young Master Dugu." Xu Jie grabbed Dugu Lu by the neck and dragged him toward the door.

Dugu Lu did have some knowledge. The pill-refining method Xu Jie had used earlier was boiling, one of the water-method techniques of pill refinement. It required constant stirring while using different Soul Power techniques according to the ingredients in order to successfully form pills.

Without the Soul Power techniques to support it, it would just be plain old brewing Chinese medicine.

"Let's go, Yuhao. It's time for dinner. We'll let Brother Lu pay tonight and treat him to dinner. Oh, and put the pot and pills into the Soul Guidance Device."

"You bastard, let me go already." Unable to break free, Dugu Lu was dragged out of the dormitory by Xu Jie.

"Alright." Huo Yuhao looked at Dugu Lu and Xu Jie, who had already left the dormitory, with a helpless smile. After putting away the pot and pills, he shut the dormitory door and hurried after them.

After dinner, when they returned to the dormitory, Dugu Lu did not follow Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao upstairs, instead returning to his own room.

The moment Xu Jie returned to the dormitory, he took out the dark gold staff they had put away earlier from the Storage Soul Guidance Device the two of them shared.

"Brother Jie, Old Yi said this is called the Dark Gold Spirit Staff. It's for you to use in learning necromancy magic." Huo Yuhao looked at the staff in Xu Jie's hand as he spoke.

"Then what about you, Yuhao? Didn't Old Yi get you a staff too?" Xu Jie played with the Dark Gold Spirit Staff in his hand and slowly channeled Soul Power into it, only to discover that the faint connection he had previously felt with the black-robed man had now vanished as well.

"Brother Jie, try out some necromancy magic first!" Huo Yuhao did not answer immediately. With a mischievous smirk on his face, he said this instead.

"Alright, I'll give it a try." Xu Jie's attention was entirely focused on the Dark Gold Spirit Staff in his hand, and he did not notice Huo Yuhao's mischievous smile at all.

He had long wanted to try the necromancy magic in his mind.

Xu Jie poured Soul Power into the staff in his hand and began slowly constructing it according to the magical patterns in his mind.

Pfft!

Hm, it failed. Why? Huo Yuhao had seemed to release it quite easily before.

Unwilling to believe it, he poured Soul Power into the staff again. Five minutes later, Xu Jie lowered the Dark Gold Spirit Staff in his hand and looked at Huo Yuhao, who was suppressing a mischievous smile beside him. He stepped forward and kicked him right in the butt.

"You brat, you've really been holding back something nasty. Hurry up and tell me, what else did Old Yi say?"

"You kicked me again. I'm not telling you." Huo Yuhao covered his butt and ignored Xu Jie.

"Hey, I didn't even use any force. Believe it or not, I'll give you another kick." Xu Jie made as if to kick Huo Yuhao in the butt again. Huo Yuhao hurriedly dodged, and the two brothers began fooling around like that.

After messing around for a while, the two finally stopped.

"Brother Jie, Old Yi said that learning magic requires constant practice, especially his kind of magic that completely fuses the opposing elements of light and necromancy," Huo Yuhao explained.

"Then how did you learn it?" Xu Jie looked at Huo Yuhao. When Huo Yuhao had cast Purification earlier, it had been incredibly smooth, like diarrhea.

"Brother Jie, because of this." As he spoke, ancient gray spread across Huo Yuhao's entire eyes. A gray soul ring rose from beneath his feet, and an indistinct gray moan appeared behind him.

The gray soul ring flashed, and a glimmer of golden light appeared in Huo Yuhao's hand.

"!!!" When Huo Yuhao had first cast Purification earlier, he had not summoned this "Third Martial Soul" from the original work, instead constructing the magic purely with his own Spiritual Power.

What was going on? Why had Electrolux granted Huo Yuhao access to his Third Martial Soul ahead of time?!