Huo Yuhao: If the person in the book were really me, I'd want to slap him to death!

Therefore, he began to devote himself to research, seeking to improve the Soul Spirit Contract.

With the full support of Di Tian, Bi Ji, and other Great Beasts, combined with the necromancy knowledge imparted by Electrolux, his own insights into the laws of the world, and the cutting-edge Soul Tool technology of the Sun Moon Empire, he began an ultimate exploration into the essence of "Soul Rings" and "Soul Bones."

The research achieved a breakthrough.

He discovered that Soul Rings and Soul Bones were not innate to Soul Beasts.

A Soul Ring is a combination of the heaven and earth energy and spiritual imprints condensed by a Soul Beast throughout its life, manifesting upon death under the guidance of certain natural laws.

Soul Bones, however, are closely related to whether a Soul Beast can condense a "Soul Core"—the embryonic crystallization of a Soul Beast's power.

Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts always drop Soul Bones precisely because, upon reaching that level of cultivation, they have already stably condensed a complete Soul Core, which has a high probability of transforming into a Soul Bone upon their death.

This discovery was like a bolt of lightning in the darkness, illuminating the path forward for Huo Yuhao.

Combining Electrolux's supreme philosophy on contracts and energy conversion, he experienced a flash of inspiration and began attempting to bypass the Soul Beasts themselves, communicating directly with the laws of heaven and earth.

After countless failures and life-threatening situations, under the guidance of Electrolux, Huo Yuhao successfully pioneered an unprecedented method of contracting. He named it the "Heavenly Dao Contract"!

This method no longer uses Soul Beasts as a medium. Instead, the Soul Master uses their own spiritual power and soul power as a guide to resonate directly with the hidden energy and rules of heaven and earth, utilizing the power of the world to condense "Artificial Soul Rings" that perfectly match their own attributes and needs!

The age, attributes, and even the potential skills of these Soul Rings are all closely related to the Soul Master's cultivation, state of mind, and their degree of harmony with heaven and earth.

The emergence of this method meant a fundamental revolution in how Soul Masters acquire power, and the Soul Beast race finally saw the dawn of completely escaping their fate of being hunted!

Di Tian, Bi Ji, and other leaders of the Great Beasts were ecstatic, and their gratitude and admiration for Huo Yuhao reached their peak.

To verify the feasibility of the "Heavenly Dao Contract," Huo Yuhao tested it on himself.

At level 70, relying on his deep accumulation and his understanding of the multiple laws of Ice, Spirit, and Fate, he successfully condensed his first "Artificial Soul Ring"—a beast soul ring with a quality reaching the 200,000-year level!

This act completely established the authority of the "Heavenly Dao Contract."

At nineteen, Huo Yuhao's Soul Engineer rank also rose to level 8.

Under the arrangements of Jing Hongchen, he was able to enter the Sun Moon military, starting as a high-ranking officer in the front-line troops confronting the White Tiger Legion.

Relying on his military exploits, strength, and unparalleled talent for Soul Tools, he was promoted all the way, eventually becoming the commander of an elite Soul Engineer regiment under the Sun Moon Empire's Beast King-level legion—the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion.

At twenty, with his soul power breaking through level 80, Huo Yuhao commanded his Soul Engineer regiment in the Mingdou Mountain Range, launching a decisive offensive against the Star Luo Empire's Northwest Group Army.

He led the charge, relying on his Ultimate Ice, powerful spiritual force, and masterful application of Soul Tools to slay several Star Luo Empire Titled Douluo in succession. He personally destroyed the White Tiger Royal Guard that Dai Hao was so proud of, annihilated the main force of the arrogant White Tiger Legion, and finally, amidst the tens of thousands of troops, captured his enemy Dai Hao alive.

He chose no complex trial or humiliation; in the presence of the military high command and countless soldiers, he personally severed the head of the White Tiger Duke, Dai Hao, before the front lines.

With his great vengeance fulfilled, he felt no joy in that moment, only a cold, hollow emptiness, and... a craving for even higher levels of power.

At twenty-three, Huo Yuhao broke through to level 90 and, in one go, used the "Heavenly Dao Contract" to condense powerful Soul Rings of corresponding ages for all the remaining slots of his two Martial Souls.

The surging energy infusion caused his soul power to skyrocket, reaching the peak of level 98.

Subsequently, he returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and with the help of the power left behind by the fallen Ice and Fire Dragon King, he used immense perseverance and wisdom to successfully condense an unprecedented third Soul Core, stepping into the realm of a level 99 Limit Douluo in one leap and becoming the strongest person in the world.

With his help and inspiration, Kong Deming broke through his bottleneck to reach level 97 and pushed Soul Tool research to an unprecedented level 10; the level 10 Soul Tools he crafted possessed power sufficient to threaten or even contend with a Limit Douluo!

Du Busi also successfully condensed the Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores, promoting himself to a Limit Douluo.

The Sun Moon Empire, having integrated the strongest forces, joined hands with the three peak powerhouses—Huo Yuhao, Kong Deming, and Du Busi—as well as the Beast God Di Tian, who was invited to assist in secret. With the force of a thunderbolt, they completely annihilated the Holy Spirit Cult, which had been lurking within the Sun Moon borders and was controlled by the Dragon Emperor Douluo Long Xiaoyao and the Death God Douluo Ye Xishui, thoroughly eradicating this tumor of the continent.

In the same year, after pacifying internal strife, the Sun Moon Empire's Emperor Xu Tianran, fearing Huo Yuhao, attempted to plot against him in secret.

Huo Yuhao struck first, decisively executing him, and subsequently, relying on his unmatched prestige and strength, became the Regent of the Sun Moon Empire, taking full control of power.

Under his command, the Sun Moon Empire's army crushed the Heavenly Soul, Dou Ling, and Star Luo Empires one after another, and breached Shrek Academy, which symbolized the holy land of Soul Masters but had long since rotted from within.

The Douluo Continent entered an era of unification, historically known as the first year of the "Sun Moon Era."

At twenty-four, the unified Huo Yuhao had more time to explore the origin of power.

He was already fate-bound to the Emperor Auspicious Beast, and having pioneered the "Heavenly Dao Contract" to communicate with heaven and earth, his spiritual power had long since reached the God Origin Realm.

During a deep meditation, he successfully glimpsed a trace of the truth of the Laws of Fate, and using this as a foundation, condensed his own "Demi-God Position," becoming the true "First Person Beneath the God Level," with combat power that defied the heavens.

In the same year, following the vague guidance of the Laws of Fate, he discovered an ancient secret realm within the borders of the Sun Moon Empire.

Inside the secret realm, he received an unexpected surprise—the "Ice God Pearl," an accessory to the divine artifact left behind by the Ice God, as well as a portion of the inheritance of the Ice God's insights from when he became a god. This provided him with the crucial direction and accumulation needed to create his own god position and complete his divinity.

However, just as he had made a great harvest and was preparing to leave the secret realm to return to the Sun Moon Empire to make a push for the god position, an ambush was suddenly sprung!

The Clear Sky Sect's Grand Sect Master Niu Tian, the Second Sect Master Titan, and the Sea God Island's Great High Priest—three powerhouses who had long reached the Limit Douluo realm and were clearly bolstered by the infusion of Sea God divine power—launched a lethal surprise attack on him together!

This was clearly a long-planned elimination operation targeting him, the "variable."

Even though Huo Yuhao's spiritual power had long reached the God Origin Realm and his body had become a Demi-God Body through multiple tempering sessions and the nourishment of his Demi-God Position, he still fell into a bitter struggle when faced with the siege of three Limit Douluos who were bolstered by divine power, coordinated perfectly, and willing to pay any price. He was eventually critically wounded and on the verge of death.

In this desperate situation, the ruthlessness and decisiveness in Huo Yuhao's bones manifested once again.

Without hesitation, he burned the "Demi-God Position" he had worked so hard to condense. At the cost of the disintegration of his god position, he erupted with a strike comparable to the god level, killing Niu Tian, Titan, and the Sea God Island's Great High Priest on the spot!

And what followed connected to the final memories before his rebirth—just as he lay dying, in the moment of weakness when his Demi-God Position had burned to nothing, Tang San's divine consciousness descended in person, adopting a high-and-mighty stance to erase him, the "error" that had "disrupted causality."

Unwilling to be slaughtered, Huo Yuhao ultimately chose to burn his Martial Souls, soul power, spiritual power, and soul origin... everything he had, transforming it into a final strike to perish together with Tang San's divine consciousness.

This was the true past life of Huo Yuhao!

A thorny path filled with blood and fire, resistance and revenge, independence and creation!

It was as different from the "Huo Yuhao" in that so-called "original work"—who became a loyal dog of the Tang Sect, a pride of Shrek, and eventually ascended to the God Realm with a happy family—as heaven is from earth!

After digesting the so-called "original plot" from Wang Teng's memories and comparing it against the blood-soaked past he had personally endured, Huo Yuhao felt a sense of absurd irony surge into his heart, followed immediately by a bone-chilling cold and hatred so profound it threatened to freeze his very soul.

In that "plot," he had actually repaid his enemy Dai Hao with kindness? He had actually felt gratitude and indebtedness toward Tang San, the one who manipulated everything?

He had actually viewed the fates of his soul beast companions and his beloved confidantes as mere sacrifices or appendages to be taken for granted?

It's a good thing this guy isn't the real me... Huo Yuhao slowly opened his eyes, gold and blood-red colors intertwining deep within his pupils, his killing intent nearly solidifying into reality.

"If that spineless coward in the 'plot' were truly me, I would rather end my own life than allow such a humiliating and laughable existence to ever come to pass!"

He took a deep breath, the frigid air rushing into his lungs, yet it could do nothing to quell the churning rage and the icy, resolute determination within his heart.