Thoughts Begin to Slide

"Roar—"

Within the Spiritual Sea, a phantom white tiger raised its head and roared at the sky, emanating a faint killing intent. The kingly aura it released even rippled the surface of the Spiritual Sea, sending rings of waves outward.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm looked at the tiger cub, less than ten centimeters tall, hesitated to speak, then hesitated again. After carefully organizing his words, he finally said, "That's it?"

As if it had heard Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's mockery, the tiger cub turned around and bit him.

With an "ah-woo," it clamped its mouth around one of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's little feet.

To be honest, it did not hurt. It was actually a little itchy.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm shook his little foot, but he could not shake the tiger cub off.

"Brother Hao, isn't your tiger cub a little too weak?"

"It was only just condensed, after all. Brother Sky Dream, be gentle. I worked hard to visualize that white tiger—don't crush it."

Huo Yuhao's spiritual body appeared nearby and carefully took the tiger cub into his arms.

No, it should have been called a white tiger.

It was just a little small—one could call it a White Tiger Cub.

The White Tiger Cub became docile in Huo Yuhao's arms. Like a kitten, it licked Huo Yuhao's fingers.

That was right. What Huo Yuhao had visualized was a white tiger!

The so-called Visualization Method was the practice of visualizing a projection within one's mind. It could be a living creature or a landscape. Different visualization targets produced different cultivation results. The more one understood the target and the more detailed the visualization, the better the effects of the Visualization Method.

The Visualization Method was generally an auxiliary technique for various cultivation methods, commonly seen in mental and soul-related cultivation.

The Visualization Method in the Demon Buddha Method was the same.

Theoretically, the Visualization Method had no limits.

As long as one dared to imagine it, one could even visualize the sun in the sky! The gods and Buddhas of all heavens could be visualized at will!

However, theory was only theory. If one visualized a target beyond one's control, being unable to advance in cultivation would already be a good outcome. Mental collapse, qi deviation, and sudden death on the spot were far more likely.

The Visualization Method Pudu Cihang used in his cultivation did not begin with visualizing the Heavenly Dragon, either. It started with himself.

If he wanted to combine it with the Demon Buddha Method, Huo Yuhao's visualization target had to meet two strict requirements.

First, Huo Yuhao had to be familiar with the target he was visualizing in order to begin practicing the Demon Buddha Method. The Demon Buddha Method's visualization followed the path of evolution; only by completely visualizing the target could evolution be initiated.

Second, regardless of what the target might evolve into in the future, it had to have some connection to Huo Yuhao from the very beginning. Otherwise, it could not provide feedback to Huo Yuhao, and evolution would be nothing but empty talk.

So, what was Huo Yuhao familiar with and connected to himself?

It could have been Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul.

But Huo Yuhao chose the bloodline at the source of his Martial Soul.

In the Demon Buddha Method, using the Visualization Method to feed back into oneself and evolve oneself meant evolving one's bloodline!

At its core, the Martial Souls of the Douluo Continent were products of bloodlines. The Douluo Continent was a world where bloodlines determined everything.

Even though the Spirit Eye Martial Soul possessed potential beyond the White Tiger Martial Soul and was also a special Main Body Martial Soul, it could not deny that the Spirit Eye Martial Soul was a Mutated Martial Soul of the White Tiger Martial Soul.

The Spirit Eye was merely the direction of mutation; the white tiger was the root of the bloodline.

Why had the White Tiger Martial Soul mutated into the Spirit Eye Martial Soul?

Because the Dai Family's bloodline carried a certain peculiarity related to the eyes.

Double Pupils were the mark of the Dai Family. The more talented a member of the Dai Family was, the more likely they were to possess Double Pupils.

Dai Mubai had been like this ten thousand years ago, and Dai Hao and Dai Huabin were the same ten thousand years later. In contrast, Dai Yueheng, whose talent was somewhat inferior, did not bear this mark.

Dai Hao and Dai Huabin were not Dai Mubai's direct blood relatives, merely descendants of the same clan, yet they possessed the same trait of Double Pupils.

This proved that the Dai Family's bloodline indeed carried a special eye-related gene, one that could only be awakened when a person's talent reached a certain level.

If they left the Douluo Continent and went to another fantasy world, this would at the very least be a rare talent. At worst, it would grant the bearing of a hegemon; at best, it might make one a person with Double Pupils.

Yet on the Douluo Continent, the Dai Family seemed not to have paid much attention to or developed this special gene. Instead, they merely regarded it as a family emblem.

Wild white tigers did not possess Double Pupils, yet they appeared in members of the Dai Family who possessed White Tiger Martial Souls. Did that not prove how extraordinary these Double Pupils were?

Considering that Martial Souls could degenerate because descendants were unable to bear overly powerful Martial Souls...

It was reasonable to boldly speculate that the Dai Family's ancestral Martial Soul might once have been far more than just a white tiger.

Huo Yuhao chose to visualize a white tiger because he was naturally very familiar with white tigers. More specifically, he was familiar with the Dai Family's White Tiger Martial Soul.

How could someone who had lived in Duke White Tiger's Mansion fail to recognize the White Tiger Martial Soul? Much less Huo Yuhao, a youth who bore a bone-deep hatred for Duke White Tiger's Mansion.

The original owner of this body had long since etched the appearance of the White Tiger Martial Soul deeply into his mind.

Relying on the memories in his mind, Huo Yuhao spent half a month trying before finally visualizing a complete white tiger within his Spiritual Sea.

Even if it was only a cub.

Because Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had Sacrificed himself, helping Huo Yuhao expand his Spiritual Sea and strengthen his spiritual power, it had also provided Huo Yuhao with tremendous convenience in cultivating the Visualization Method.

Huo Yuhao had succeeded in visualizing it in just half a month, and the White Tiger he had visualized was exceptionally lively and lifelike.

Perhaps this was also due to the uniqueness of Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sea. In Pudu Cihang's memories, when he had first visualized himself, nothing like this had occurred.

Once the White Tiger Cub had been successfully visualized, the Demon Buddha Method had finally officially entered the beginner stage.

Huo Yuhao played with the White Tiger Cub in his Spiritual Sea for a while, then drew in his own Fortune to nourish it.

Wrapped in Fortune, the White Tiger Cub comfortably curled into a little ball and began to sleep with soft purrs.

As it slept, the White Tiger Cub began to grow slowly.

"Brother Hao, you still have too little Fortune. This tiger cub is growing far too slowly—slower even than ordinary soul beasts," Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said from the side.

Huo Yuhao nodded. "Indeed. But if I want to speed up the White Tiger's growth, I either need to obtain more Fortune or feed it with White Tiger Bloodline."

As the Main Body, Huo Yuhao could likewise promote the evolution of the visualized White Tiger by devouring White Tiger Bloodline.

Moreover, Huo Yuhao's circumstances differed from Pudu Cihang's.

Pudu Cihang had searched his entire life in his own world without finding a single Dragon Species—not even a flood dragon.

But on Douluo Continent, there were wild White Tiger soul beasts, and there were even quite a number of lower-ranked tiger-type soul beasts.

Not to mention that beyond the forests, there was Duke White Tiger's Mansion—a whole ducal household full of people with the same bloodline as Huo Yuhao, perfect blood food... Ahem, kindhearted people.

Huo Yuhao straightened out his wandering thoughts.

"Still, I really am curious. When Pudu Cihang transformed into a dragon, choosing Dragon Species dragon qi or Son of Heaven Dragon Qi led to different evolutionary paths. On Douluo Continent, would choosing to devour bloodlines from White Tiger soul beasts or from the White Tiger family likewise produce different evolutionary paths?"

"But if I use the bloodline of White Tiger soul beasts to cultivate my White Tiger, then in the future, I would probably only be able to evolve that bloodline to the level of a hundred-thousand-year White Tiger soul beast."

"On the other hand, if I use the White Tiger family's bloodline to cultivate my White Tiger, there might be a different result in the future..."

Of course, those were merely thoughts. Right now, Huo Yuhao's most important task was cultivation.

After all, a great opportunity was still waiting for him in the Far North Land.

After Bei Bei had prepared the necessary items, he returned to the Hotel and went back to his room to rest.

After stuffing himself full, Xuan Zi also staggered into the same Hotel.

Although Xuan Zi had never shown himself before Bei Bei, Bei Bei had still booked a room for him next to his and Huo Yuhao's room.

"As expected of Mu En's great-grandson—such a sensible kid."

After entering his room, Xuan Zi released his spiritual power and checked on Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei.

Bei Bei was resting.

Huo Yuhao, however, was cultivating. His expression was peaceful, his body shrouded in golden light, while he gave off a faint chill.

Xuan Zi looked at Huo Yuhao a few more times, then nodded in satisfaction.

He saw no problem with Huo Yuhao's cultivation. After all, wasn't it perfectly normal for an Ultimate Ice Attribute soul master to emit a chill while cultivating?

"Although there's a problem with his martial soul, he still cultivates diligently without interruption. He's a hardworking child. Not bad, not bad. If he can truly resolve the issue with his martial soul, he will surely become a pillar of Shrek in the future."

That was only because Huo Yuhao possessed the Ultimate Ice Attribute.

Only then did Xuan Zi feel that Huo Yuhao was working hard and had a promising future.

If Huo Yuhao did not possess the Ultimate Ice Attribute and was nearly twelve years old yet only level fifteen—

Xuan Zi would only think that Huo Yuhao was wasting his time and should simply accept his fate.

He would not even spare him a second glance.

After checking the original work, both Dai Hao and Dai Huabin explicitly said that they had eyes with double pupils. Dai Yueheng had never mentioned anything about his eyes, and Huo Yuhao had not recognized Dai Yueheng at first glance, which proved that Dai Yueheng likely did not possess the same obvious physical characteristics as Dai Hao and Dai Huabin.

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