Huo Yuhao: I'll step on my right foot with my left foot and ascend to heaven!

[After Huo Yuhao finished explaining his Soul Skills and Soul Bone Skills, Brother Sky Dream couldn't hold on: "Wait, didn't Bing Bing give up on poison long ago to focus purely on ice? What's that Inverted Horse Poison Stake about?"]

"I don't know either. Ice Empress isn't a Spirit System Fierce Beast, yet she gave me a Spirit System Soul Skill too." Huo Yuhao looked innocent.

Brother Sky Dream hesitated, about to speak, when Ice Empress cut in: "Yuhao himself has a Spirit Attribute Martial Soul. Add to that my will ruling the Extreme North for countless years, and it's not strange for a Spirit System Soul Skill to appear."

"As for the poison Soul Skill... it might have awakened some hidden power in his bloodline. Though I abandoned poison long ago to achieve Extreme Ice, I started out as a dual poison-ice system."

After a brief exchange, Brother Sky Dream asked: "Yuhao, what are your plans next?"

"Hmm... next, my Spirit Eyes Martial Soul still has two Soul Ring slots open. I was thinking, if possible, could you and Ice Empress help me convince the ruler of the Extreme North, Snow Empress..."

"You want to attach Snow Empress's Soul Ring to your Spirit Eyes?" Brother Sky Dream disapproved. "I'm fairly confident I could convince Snow Empress to become your Wisdom Soul Ring, since she's nearing her tribulation time anyway."

"The Fierce Beast Tribulation only gets more dangerous the longer it's delayed. Snow Empress has a good chance of agreeing to our Ascension Plan. But Snow Empress clearly suits your Second Martial Soul better! Your Spirit Eyes should be best with a Spirit Attribute Soul Ring!"

"Why not find one of my Fellow Race? You could attach an Ice Silkworm Soul Ring, and I can use my stored energy to boost it to the Hundred-Thousand-Year Level!"

Huo Yuhao listened quietly as Brother Sky Dream finished, then explained: "Brother Sky Dream, here's my thinking: right now my Soul Power is close to Level Thirty-Three. If Snow Empress sacrifices to me, I'm sure I can rise to over Level Forty!"

"If Snow Empress provides three Soul Rings like Ice Empress did, then my Spirit Eyes' Soul Rings will be complete, and my Second Martial Soul will have one slot open!"

"If I get another chance to convince a high-year Soul Beast to sacrifice, my Soul Power could skyrocket again. Maybe I'd even hit Level Fifty, and then..."

"Hold on, hold on!" Brother Sky Dream interrupted, face full of dark lines. "Are you trying to step on your left foot to boost your right foot up to the sky? With that logic, forget three years—you'd Become God in one!"

"There have been plenty of people with Twin Martial Souls in history. Has anyone been as ridiculous as you?"

Huo Yuhao scratched his head: "But none of them had help from you, Brother Sky Dream, and Ice Empress. Not many Soul Beasts or Fierce Beasts were willing to sacrifice to them, right?"

"I'm different. Ordinary Soul Masters absorb a Soul Beast's Soul Ring power and only go up one or two levels, maybe three at most. That's because they have no support and have to absorb the violent Soul Power on their own."

"One Soul Beast's power is enough to give a Soul Master more than one Soul Ring. This shows that most of that power is wasted in the process."

"But with you two helping me, I can make the most of the chance to rapidly absorb Soul Power when attaching a Soul Ring. Naturally, I level up fast."

Ice Empress spoke up then: "That still doesn't mean you can keep leveling up this way nonstop."

"Do you think your physical fitness grows without time? Do you think your body and Soul Rings don't need to adapt?"

Brother Sky Dream chimed in: "Bing Bing's right. When a Soul Master levels up, their physical abilities don't improve overnight. You need time to adapt."

"But we can take advantage of being in the Extreme North to go find Snow Empress and talk to her about the Ascension Plan. With Bing Bing persuading her from the side, it shouldn't be a big problem."

"Give Snow Empress some time to think. After that, we'll go attach Soul Rings to your Spirit Eyes Martial Soul..."

In the Heavenly Screen, Huo Yuhao's wildly imaginative plan of continuous Fierce Beast Sacrifices to level up left everyone on the continent—whether Ordinary Person or Soul Master—staring in shock.

Most ordinary people didn't fully grasp what it meant for a Soul Master to jump ten or even dozens of levels at once. But they did know that in their own cities, the high nobles and even the City Lord, untouchable to them, had Soul Power Levels of only thirty or forty.

In other words, about the same as the youth in the Heavenly Screen, who had just turned twelve.

And to think how hard it was for a City Lord to take a Further Step in rank.

Translating that difficulty into Soul Master leveling made it instantly clear how terrifying Huo Yuhao's plan would be if it succeeded.

For Soul Masters, Huo Yuhao's plan—or rather, the results he'd already achieved—drove them crazy!

Soul Masters, especially those with average talent or low Innate Soul Power, knew best how hard it was to raise Soul Power.

The higher your Soul Power, the harder it got! A Soul Master with Innate Soul Power of Level One, training hard without resources for five or six years, could reach over Level Ten, averaging about two levels a year.

But once past Level Ten, leveling only got slower!

After all, Shrek Academy, as the First Academy on the continent, only required Outer Court entrants to reach Level Fifteen by age eleven.

In theory, a Soul Master with Innate Soul Power of Level Three or Four, gaining a little over two levels a year, could meet that requirement. But in reality, very few achieved Shrek's entrance standards each year.

If cultivation was already that hard past Level Ten, what about after Level Thirty or Forty?

Yet the entire continent's Soul Masters watched helplessly as Huo Yuhao, after attaching Ice Empress's Soul Ring at Level Twenty, shot straight up to nearly Level Thirty-Three!

And he wasn't satisfied, wanting to repeat it again and again. Luckily, Brother Sky Dream and Ice Empress didn't support his plan in the end.

Otherwise, seeing a Soul Master slap on one Soul Ring after another in a short time, rocketing to Level Fifty or Sixty, would have shattered their minds!

But after setting aside some envy and jealousy, many people realized something.

Huo Yuhao's plan in the Heavenly Screen seemed like a shortcut to rapid leveling, but it was actually another act of self-sacrifice.

As Brother Sky Dream said, Snow Empress's Soul Ring best suited Huo Yuhao's Second Martial Soul, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, while his Spirit Eyes were best with a Spirit System Soul Ring.

Choosing to attach Snow Empress's Soul Ring to his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul was undoubtedly a waste. The Soul Skill he gained might not be ideal or perfect.

For a Soul Master, that meant sacrificing his own future!

It made many people sigh: "This kid is too filial. To revive his mother as soon as possible, he really throws caution to the wind..."

But just as people were once again praising Huo Yuhao's filial piety moving heaven and earth, and discussing what Soul Ring his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul might get next—

A new scene appeared in the Heavenly Screen, and everyone's expressions changed.

P.S. Tonight, a Blood Moon Across The Sky. Here's a handsome picture of the author: Crimson Moon Aatrox!