"I've got a cheat!"

Huo Yuhao acted immediately, getting up at once to pack his luggage.

After rummaging through the room for a while, he suddenly realized that, as members of the Mule and Horse Servant Class in the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, Huo Yun'er and Huo Yuhao could not exactly be called wealthy—but they could certainly be called dirt poor.

The most valuable things in the entire house, aside from the White Tiger Dagger, were the clay jar on the table.

He had practically vacuumed up every speck of dust in the room, yet all he found were seven Silver Soul Coins and twenty Copper Soul Coins.

That was right—not even a single Gold Soul Coin! This amount was not small for an ordinary family, but for a soul master planning to travel far, it would probably only last a week.

"No wonder the original Huo Yuhao had to catch fish to eat in the Star Dou Great Forest. He really didn't have money to buy rations."

Huo Yuhao stared at the money on the table and fell into thought.

"Looks like I'll have to pick up my old Grilled Fish trade again later."

Although he had little money, it still could not stop Huo Yuhao from wanting to leave the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.

There was no helping it. Even without the reasons from his past life, no normal person who saw Huo Yuhao's memories would choose to remain in the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.

To the White Tiger Duchess, Huo Yuhao and his mother were thorns in her eyes and flesh.

Every few days, she would send people over to cause trouble, and her methods only grew more vicious.

It began with verbal abuse, then escalated into physical beatings. She had become increasingly unrestrained.

She was certain that Huo Yuhao, who had not awakened the White Tiger Martial Soul, would never attract the attention of Dai Hao, who was far away in the Ming Dou Mountain Range. Even if he died, with her power to cover the sky with one hand in the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, she had countless ways to deal with it.

As for resistance, the Duchess was a genuine Soul Saint. Even if she was not an assault-type soul master, her realm was there. Her mere pressure could crush Huo Yuhao to death hundreds of times over.

Of course, he would have his revenge. After everything he had endured over the years, once he had fully developed, he would definitely let the Duchess and Dai Huabin have a taste of the Ultimate Insult.

He would even record it with a Soul Tool, make hundreds of millions of copies, and let the world enjoy it.

Just imagining that scene was enough to get him so excited he was nearly pitching a tent.

"Forget it. I should hurry up and prepare my luggage first."

Huo Yuhao shook his head and pushed those thoughts aside. He put the money into his clothes pocket, then hung the White Tiger Dagger at his waist so he could use it at any time if danger arose.

The next most important matter was checking the state of his Spiritual Power and Soul Power.

Soul Power and Spiritual Power were the foundation of his existence. Nothing could go wrong with them.

Huo Yuhao opened his Spiritual Eye. His deep-blue eyes immediately became crystal clear, and if one looked closely, it seemed as though stars flowed within them.

After activating his Martial Soul, the world became exceptionally clear in Huo Yuhao's eyes. The fine grain of the table, the dust floating in the air—every detail entered his sight.

At the same time, the Soul Power inside his body circulated along his meridians, reached his brain, transformed into Spiritual Power, and then flowed through his Spiritual Eye.

Huo Yuhao used his Spiritual Power to sense his entire body. Every inch of flesh and blood formed a clear image in his mind.

After a rough inspection, he frowned. While examining himself, his Spiritual Power had sensed a faint feeling of discord.

It was as though something existed inside his body. If he had not possessed Spiritual Power at the Spirit Connection Realm, he likely would never have noticed such an abnormality.

Huo Yuhao began using his Spiritual Power to inspect every inch of his flesh bit by bit. Although his Spiritual Power realm was strong, his Soul Power was only at level nine. By the time he finished searching, his face had already turned pale.

The strange thing was that although he could clearly sense that abnormal feeling, he could not find anything at all.

Huo Yuhao knitted his brows tightly. He absolutely would not permit an unknown hidden danger to remain inside his body. If it suddenly erupted during battle, it could cost Huo Yuhao his life.

Thus, ignoring the warnings already coming from his body, he forcibly squeezed out his Soul Power, transformed it into Spiritual Power, poured it into his Spiritual Eye, and examined deeper levels of his body.

His Spiritual Power carefully searched through each internal organ. Thankfully, persistence paid off. He eventually discovered a mysterious "line" within the Sea of Consciousness in his brain.

That "line" brutally split the pure-white sky of the Sea of Consciousness into two halves, while countless points of light swirled around it.

When his Spiritual Power tried to touch that line, it rapidly expanded into a huge door, from behind which erupted an immensely powerful suction force.

It was as if a Black Hole had suddenly appeared within his Sea of Consciousness. The floating points of light, along with Huo Yuhao's consciousness, were sucked inside.

Once his consciousness entered, he felt as if someone had stuffed him into a washing machine running at full power and was torturing him wildly.

As his consciousness spun violently, Huo Yuhao vaguely sensed that some indescribable higher existence had established a connection with his soul.

Before Huo Yuhao could determine what it was, his consciousness was flung back into the Sea of Consciousness.

"That was close. My consciousness nearly got flung apart."

He endured the nausea rising from the depths of his soul and inspected his Sea of Consciousness again.

He found that the pure-white space was now completely empty. If not for the huge number of missing points of light and the discomfort coming from his soul, no one would have known anything had happened here.

Huo Yuhao originally wanted to investigate further, but there was no Soul Power left in his body, and his Spiritual Power was nearly exhausted. His Spiritual Eye Martial Soul was also sending warnings.

With no other choice, he had to deactivate his Martial Soul and withdraw his consciousness.

Huo Yuhao braced himself with one hand and lifted his head from the table. His face was deathly pale, a sign that both his Spiritual Power and Soul Power had been overdrawn.

He refocused his eyes, intending to look at the trees outside to recover his spirits. Yet the sight before him made his pupils suddenly contract.

A transparent screen had appeared in front of him.

After the shock came wild joy!

Having browsed countless webnovels from the Golden Age on the virtual reality network in his previous life, he had seen this sort of development more than enough times.

This was the hallmark of a panel-system protagonist!

His brain, which had been throbbing from Spiritual Power exhaustion, instantly cleared up. It was probably the adrenaline kicking in.

Huo Yuhao focused intently and began reading the contents on the screen.

Name: Huo Yuhao
Race: Human (God?)
Soul Power: 15 (Level 9)
Spiritual Power: 300
Martial Soul: Spiritual Eye
Abilities: None
Authorities: [Dream]: Life's unique fantasy (Mastery 2%)
[Understanding]: The desire to command the unknown (Mastery 1%)
[Fantasy]: The distortion of reality (Mastery 1%)
Lottery Draw: Random manifestation based on Fantasy (Attempts ×3)
Conclusion: O former High-Dimensional Lord! Please ascend the divine throne!

After reading the panel, Huo Yuhao fixed his gaze on the final line.

"High-Dimensional Lord? Is it referring to my past life?"

As if possessed, Huo Yuhao lightly tapped the final line with his finger.

Violent ripples spread across the entire panel from his fingertip. The final line gradually faded amid the distortion of the ripples, and then a vast amount of information poured from the panel into Huo Yuhao's brain.

Having already experienced the awakening of his past-life memories, Huo Yuhao's brain had adapted to this sort of informational impact.

This information mainly concerned the origin of the panel and how to increase his mastery of the Authorities.

The panel had been formed by the Three Authorities based on Huo Yuhao's memories.

[Dream] was the body of the panel, [Understanding] filled it with content, and [Fantasy] granted the panel its functions.

Huo Yuhao had originally been a High-Dimensional existence. After arriving in this universe, he had descended in dimension. During that process, he had captured this universe's laws of spirit and branded them with his own mark.

Simply put, the current Huo Yuhao was already the Lord of Spirits of this universe, but he had not yet mastered his Authorities.

In the terms of other worlds, Huo Yuhao possessed only the status, without the Authorities or power.

As for how to master the Three Authorities, the [Dream] Authority required Huo Yuhao to collect dreams and weave a Dream Kingdom to increase its mastery.

[Understanding] required him to explore the unknown. The definition of unknown was extremely broad: unknown realms, unknown places, and unknown knowledge all counted.

[Fantasy] was much simpler and more direct. He only needed to keep drawing lotteries to increase its mastery, while Lottery Draw attempts could be obtained through unique spirits.

Any intelligent creature that had awakened its consciousness possessed a unique spirit. The uniqueness of such spirits came from their memories and souls.

The simplest way to obtain these unique spirits was—killing!

Huo Yuhao considered it. He definitely could not kill civilians just to obtain Lottery Draw attempts.

The ideological education he had received in the dungeon in his previous life would not allow him to do such a thing. But this was the era of Absolute Tang Sect. This place had a local specialty—Evil Soul Masters. He would feel no psychological burden whatsoever in killing those people.

There might be innocents among Evil Soul Masters if he killed them all, but if he killed nine out of ten, there would definitely be some who slipped through the net!

After roughly planning how to obtain Lottery Draw attempts, Huo Yuhao turned his attention to the three Lottery Draw chances included with the panel.

After thinking for a moment, he decided to use them now.

He clasped his hands together and began muttering, "Three Pure Ones, bless me. Buddha, bless me. God, bless me. Praise Allah. Ancestors, bless me..."

"Give me something good!"

Huo Yuhao's face twisted fiercely as his finger stabbed toward the Lottery Draw button on the panel.

After Golden Light rippled three times in succession, the names of three items appeared on the panel.

Faceless Mask: After wearing it, you may freely alter your appearance and adjust your height. The maximum adjustment range cannot exceed 10 cm above or below the user's original height.

Yilin Concentrated Potion (Douluo Special Supply): Do you know? Even the air in that country is sweet. After injection, your mind will be filled with Shrek's glory.

Mangekyo Sharingan: A Mangekyo Sharingan containing recorded versions of Amaterasu, Kagutsuchi, Tsukuyomi, and Kamui. If the user suffers severe Spiritual Power stimulation, they may also awaken their own ocular technique. Note: Excessive use will cause blindness.

Looking at the three items on the panel, Huo Yuhao's grin was harder to suppress than an AK.

Aside from the Yilin Concentrated Potion, whose use was currently unknown, both the Faceless Mask and Mangekyo Sharingan were golden legends.

Moreover, this Mangekyo Sharingan had recorded quite a few ocular techniques.

Since Soul Spirit Technology had not yet been born, soul masters in the era of Absolute Tang Sect had not explored Spiritual Power very deeply. Few people took the initiative to cultivate Spiritual Power.

The Spiritual Power realms of this era were roughly divided into Formless and Qualityless, Formed but Qualityless, and Formed and Quality.

The unsystematic cultivation of Spiritual Power meant that no one had yet discovered that reaching great mastery in Spiritual Power could actually give birth to a Spiritual Domain.

Therefore, illusion-type ocular techniques such as Tsukuyomi would absolutely work with a single glance on soul masters below Soul Saint.

As for soul masters above Soul Saint, Huo Yuhao did not know how great the mental enhancement from a Martial Soul Avatar was, so he could not be certain.

Amaterasu and Kagutsuchi, meanwhile, were paired ocular techniques. Although Amaterasu's black flames had never burned anyone to death in Naruto, their power was still quite considerable.

Amaterasu was said to possess a temperature comparable to the sun. Judging by Naruto's portrayal, it was probably comparable to the surface of the sun.

That meant around 5,500°C, while Douluo's Ultimate Fire was only 3,000°C.

As for Kamui, this ocular technique was one of the pinnacles among Sharingan techniques in Naruto.

It had mechanics, stats, strong survival capability, and decent offensive power, even with a measure of mobility. It came with its own Alternate Space. In Douluo Continent, could it perhaps be called a Demi-plane?

However, considering that spatial abilities were not particularly rare in Douluo Continent, Kamui's actual performance in this world was somewhat uncertain.

"Too bad there's no Yachihoko."

Huo Yuhao sighed regretfully. If he had Yachihoko, he would not even have his final Soul Power weakness. Maybe he could give Douluo a taste of Infinite Tsukuyomi.

His thoughts returned to the panel, and Huo Yuhao silently said in his heart.

"Fuse with me!"