After Huo Yuhao finished explaining his Soul Skills and Soul Bone Skills, Tian Meng could barely hold it in. "Wait, I remember Bing Bing gave up specializing in poison a long time ago and focused on ice instead. What's with your Inverted Horse Poison Stake?"
"I have no idea either. Ice Empress isn't a Spirit System Ferocious Beast, yet she still gave me a Spirit System Soul Skill." Huo Yuhao looked completely innocent.
Tian Meng opened his mouth but hesitated. At that moment, Ice Empress cut in, "Yuhao already has a Spirit System Martial Soul. On top of that, I ruled the Extreme North with my own will for countless years, so it isn't strange for a Spirit System Soul Skill to appear."
"As for the poison-type Soul Skill... perhaps it awakened hidden power within my bloodline. Although I abandoned poison long ago to achieve Extreme Ice, I was originally proficient in both poison and ice."
After chatting for a moment, Tian Meng asked, "Yuhao, what are you planning to do next?"
"Well... as for what comes next, my Spirit Eyes Martial Soul still has two empty Soul Ring slots. If possible, I'd like you and Ice Empress to help me persuade the Lord of the Far North, Snow Empress..."
"Yuhao, you want to add Snow Empress's Soul Ring to your Spirit Eyes Martial Soul?" Tian Meng clearly disagreed. "I have some confidence in making Snow Empress your Wisdom Soul Ring, since she's nearly at the point of undergoing her tribulation anyway."
"The Fierce Beast Tribulation becomes more dangerous the farther one goes. There's a good chance Snow Empress will agree to our Ascension Plan. But Snow Empress is clearly more suitable for your Second Martial Soul. Your Spirit Eyes would be best suited to Soul Rings with the Spirit Attribute!"
"Why don't we find one of my kind instead? You can add an Ice Silkworm Soul Ring, and I can use my stored energy to raise it to the Hundred-Thousand-Year Level!"
Huo Yuhao quietly listened to Tian Meng finish, then explained, "Brother Sky Dream, this is what I'm thinking: my Soul Power is already close to level thirty-three. If Snow Empress sacrifices herself, I'll definitely be able to reach level forty or higher!"
"If Snow Empress provides three Soul Rings like Ice Empress did, then my Spirit Eyes' Soul Rings will be complete, while my Second Martial Soul will have one empty Soul Ring slot!"
"If I get another chance to persuade a high-year Soul Beast to sacrifice itself, my Soul Power could soar even higher. I might even reach level fifty directly, and then..."
"Wait, wait!" Tian Meng interrupted him with a face full of exasperation. "Are you planning to step on your left foot with your right and ascend to heaven? Going by your logic, forget three years—you'll become a god within a year!"
"There have been plenty of people with Twin Martial Souls throughout history. Has anyone else ever been as ridiculous as you?"
Huo Yuhao scratched his head. "But none of them had your help, Brother Sky Dream, or Ice Empress's. And they didn't have so many Soul Beasts and Ferocious Beasts willing to sacrifice themselves for them, either, did they?"
"But I'm different. When ordinary Soul Masters absorb a Soul Beast's Soul Ring, they can only increase their Soul Power by one or two levels at a time, three at most. That's because they have no assistance and can only absorb the berserk Soul Power on their own."
"A single Soul Beast's power is enough to provide more than one Soul Ring for a Soul Master. That proves that most of the Soul Power is wasted during the process."
"But with your assistance, I can make the best possible use of the chance to rapidly absorb Soul Power while adding Soul Rings. Naturally, my cultivation will rise quickly."
Ice Empress spoke up at this point. "That still doesn't mean you can keep using this method to raise your level without pause."
"Do you think improving your physical constitution takes no time? Do you think your body and Soul Rings don't need time to adapt?"
Tian Meng chimed in as well. "Bing Bing is right. A Soul Master's physical constitution and other aspects don't improve all at once after their level rises. You need time to adapt."
"Still, while we're in the Extreme North, we can first find Snow Empress and tell her about the Ascension Plan. Then Bing Bing can persuade her from the side. There shouldn't be much of a problem."
"Give Snow Empress some time to consider it. After that, we'll first add Soul Rings to your Spirit Eyes Martial Soul..."
The plan in the Heaven's Screen for Huo Yuhao to continuously level up through Ferocious Beast Sacrifices was so wildly imaginative that everyone on the continent, ordinary people and Soul Masters alike, was left dumbfounded.
Most ordinary people did not really understand what it meant for a Soul Master to rise ten or even dozens of levels in a row. However, they knew that in their own cities, the great nobles and even the City Lord—figures who were impossibly lofty in their eyes—were only around level thirty or forty in Soul Power.
In other words, they were about the same as the twelve-year-old boy currently shown in the Heaven's Screen.
And everyone knew how difficult it was for a City Lord to advance any further in office.
Once that difficulty was converted into the difficulty of increasing a Soul Master's level, it became immediately clear just how terrifying Huo Yuhao's plan would be if it succeeded.
As for the Soul Masters, Huo Yuhao's plan—or rather, the results he had already achieved—drove them into a frenzy!
Soul Masters... especially those with ordinary aptitudes or low Innate Soul Power Levels, understood better than anyone how difficult it was to increase their Soul Power.
The higher one's Soul Power, the harder it was to improve! A Soul Master with level-one Innate Soul Power could reach level ten or higher after five or six years of hard cultivation without resources, averaging an increase of two levels per year.
But after reaching level ten, leveling up would only become slower and slower!
One had to understand that Shrek Academy was the First Academy on the continent, yet its standard for entering the Outer Court was merely reaching level fifteen at the age of eleven.
In theory, as long as a Soul Master with level-three or four Innate Soul Power increased their level by slightly more than two each year, they could meet the requirement. In reality, only a tiny number of people managed to meet Shrek's admission standards each year.
Cultivation above level ten was already this difficult, let alone after reaching levels thirty or forty!
And yet, everyone on the continent had watched Huo Yuhao add Ice Empress's Soul Ring at level twenty and soar directly to nearly level thirty-three!
He still wasn't satisfied and wanted to repeat the process again and again. Fortunately, Tian Meng and Ice Empress ultimately did not support Huo Yuhao's plan.
Otherwise, if they had really seen a Soul Master add one Soul Ring after another in a short period and rapidly rise to level fifty or sixty, their minds would have exploded!
However, after setting aside some of their envy and jealousy, many people came to their senses.
Huo Yuhao's plan in the Heaven's Screen seemed capable of rapidly increasing his level in a short time, but in reality, it was yet another act of self-sacrifice on his part.
As Tian Meng had said, Snow Empress's Soul Ring was most compatible with Huo Yuhao's Second Martial Soul, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, while his Spirit Eyes were best suited to Spirit Attribute Soul Rings.
Choosing to add Snow Empress's Soul Ring to his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul was undoubtedly a waste. The Soul Skill he obtained might also fall short of expectations, preventing him from achieving perfection.
For a Soul Master, this meant sacrificing his own future!
Many people could not help sighing, "That child is truly far too filial. To revive his mother sooner, he really doesn't care about anything else..."
However, just as people once again praised Huo Yuhao for his filial devotion and discussed what kind of Soul Ring his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul might receive,
the new scene that appeared in the Heaven's Screen caused everyone's expression to change.
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