Ultimate Attributes were especially difficult to awaken. Even ordinary Soul Masters struggled to withstand Ultimate Attributes, let alone children who had yet to undergo Martial Soul Awakening.
A Super Martial Soul did not necessarily possess an Ultimate Attribute, but a Martial Soul with an Ultimate Attribute was always a Super Martial Soul.
In the ten thousand years of Douluo Continent's history since Tang San's era, Ultimate Attributes had appeared only three times: Ultimate Wind, Ultimate Wood, and Ultimate Fire.
The three owners of Ultimate Attributes had once been famous figures, each a renowned powerhouse of their era.
The descendants of the owners of Ultimate Wind and Ultimate Wood could not withstand the burden of awakening those Ultimate Attributes, and their legacies had already died out.
Ultimate Fire, though it could be passed down, had lost its ultimate nature, and the quality of the Martial Soul had fallen.
Ultimate Attributes completely suppressed ordinary attributes. When Soul Masters or Soul Beasts with ordinary attributes faced an Ultimate Attribute, they could bring out only seven-tenths of their strength.
As a result, the age of the Soul Rings Ultimate Attribute users could absorb was considerably higher than that of ordinary Soul Masters.
Besides, Bai Cai was a Twin Martial Soul user. Ralts's third Soul Ring was effectively equivalent to an ordinary Soul Master's fifth Soul Ring, so adding a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring was perfectly normal.
"Weilun, the problem isn't the age of the Soul Ring. It's where it came from."
Yan Shaozhe smiled. "A Thousand-Year Soul Ring comes from a thousand-year Soul Beast, and a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring comes from a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast. Even hunting a thousand-year Soul Beast is difficult for a Soul Grandmaster. How could one possibly hunt a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast?"
The middle-aged referee was at a loss. Then, inspiration struck, and he spoke with righteous conviction.
"Bai Cai's third Soul Ring doesn't consume Soul Power. It consumes spiritual power."
"As for spiritual strength, Huo Yuhao, you can ask your instructor about the connection between the spiritual shock of a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and a Soul Master's spiritual strength."
Huo Yuhao muttered, "A Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring? Spiritual shock?"
As far as he could remember, Teacher Wang Yan and Teacher Zhou Yi had never mentioned the spiritual shock of Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings. He couldn't possibly have forgotten!
Huo Yuhao came from the White Tiger Duke's Estate. He was even poorer than Bai Cai, and his talent was poor as well, with Innate Soul Power of just level one.
He had lived in poverty, his talent was poor, and the White Tiger Duke's Estate had ignored him while Soul Master academies had shut him out. It was plain to see how little education Huo Yuhao had received.
Even after enrolling at Shrek, Huo Yuhao's grades were quite good. But apart from his textbooks, he had spent no time studying in depth, devoting all his free time to Calm Mind and cultivation.
Besides, the first-year cultural courses were fairly simple. To keep students from chasing quick success and aiming beyond their reach, they didn't cover the Soul King stage in detail.
Normally, most outstanding sixth-year graduates were Soul Ancestors. Therefore, detailed courses on ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts and Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings were offered no earlier than the fourth year.
Among the social circles of sect disciples and noble descendants, spiritual shock was no secret. The academy library was full of books and records about it.
But Huo Yuhao had few friends his own age, and Bei Bei and Xiao Ya would never have discussed the additional effects of Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings with him.
Moreover, Huo Yuhao spent all his free time on Calm Mind and cultivation, and had never gone to the library. Of course he had no way of knowing that the spiritual shock of a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring was linked to a Soul Master's spiritual strength.
Wang Dong said disdainfully, "A frog at the bottom of a well, ignorant and narrow-minded."
Her Second Soul Ring lit up. Golden patterns blossomed across her azure butterfly wings, shining with dazzling light and illuminating the sky as they gathered on the two front wings.
While Huo Yuhao had been wasting time, Wang Dong had recovered some Soul Power. Light of the Butterfly Goddess was ready to unleash.
"Does Huo Yuhao's team concede?"
The middle-aged referee's expression was impassive. Only cowards were afraid of causing trouble. If you caused trouble, you had to bear the consequences yourself.
Huo Yuhao's eyes reddened, his gaze turned icy, and he looked like a savage tiger ready to devour its prey.
Faced with Huo Yuhao's demonic appearance, the middle-aged referee, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong, and Bai Cai all shuddered in fear.
"I haven't lost!" Huo Yuhao's voice was a little hoarse, but his resolve was absolute.
Stubbornness and obsession nearly robbed Huo Yuhao of his senses. His inner pain and the insults he had endured unleashed a pent-up resentment that erupted like a well overflowing.
At that moment, Huo Yuhao trembled slightly. The color in his eyes gradually faded, replaced by a dead, ashen gray that radiated fear, death, and other ominous energies.
Blood flooded his eyes, and Spite surged like a towering wave.
In an instant, a cool gray current suddenly spread through Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness, covering every corner. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm abruptly awoke, deeply wary.
Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness was instantly dyed gray, but the gray pearl that had been residing within it disappeared.
The cool gray current silently soothed the anger and resentment that had accumulated over time. Its gentle aura quickly restored Huo Yuhao's senses, and his eyes took on a hint of gray as his Sea of Consciousness changed.
"Hatred has blinded you."
The aged voice continued to echo through Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm also noticed the voice resounding there.
Ten dazzling golden clusters of light flared almost simultaneously, trying to drive away the gray current. But the current seemed to have neither shape nor substance. No matter how Sky Dream Ice Silkworm tried to expel it with its Origin, the gray current seemed impervious to force, showing no sign of fading.
"So this is how you use spiritual power."
Huo Yuhao realized that he seemed to have lost control of his body, yet every scene outside was clearly reflected in his Sea of Consciousness.
Then Huo Yuhao noticed that his hard-earned Soul Power—the Mysterious Heaven Skill Soul Power, unchanged in quantity or quality—had begun to boil.
The next instant, his Spirit Eye, now gray, suddenly lit up. His First Soul Ring flashed, and Soul Shock activated beyond his control.
Huo Yuhao was horrified. As Soul Shock activated, it moved exceptionally slowly, like a snake flicking out its tongue.
The Soul Shock, originally a single mass, narrowed to the thickness of a strand of hair. It lightly struck Wang Dong, then quickly withdrew.
From the middle-aged referee's perspective, Huo Yuhao's eyes lit up, seeming crystal-clear, and then gray light flashed for an instant.
In that moment, Wang Dong felt a gray steel needle stab into her. She even felt it pierce through her protective Soul Power layer by layer and enter her Sea of Consciousness.
"Hmph!"
Huo Yuhao seemed to hear a cold snort. A blue-and-gold trident instantly pierced his Sea of Consciousness and pinned the gray current in place.
"A god from another world..."
The aged voice cut off abruptly, and the gray current shattered into pieces.
Wang Dong was Tang Wutong, Tang San's daughter. She had descended upon Douluo Continent under a self-imposed seal.
If the power attacking Wang Dong was below the divine level, her self-imposed seal could not be shaken, and her Spiritual Origin would naturally remain unharmed. As the Asura God and the Divine Realm's enforcer, Tang San could not violate the Divine Realm's rules by interfering in the affairs of Douluo Continent.
But Electrolux was a demigod, with a spiritual level comparable to that of a god. He was already capable of breaking Tang Wutong's self-imposed seal and damaging her Spiritual Origin.
With his daughter's safety at stake, Tang San's intervention to erase Electrolux at that moment counted as legitimate self-defense. Even if the two God Kings descended, they would have no grounds to object.
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