Soul Power Circuit

Soul Power Circuit

After school, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong returned straight to their dormitory to rest. After all, over the past three months, they had suffered no small amount of physical and mental torment under Zhou Yi. They needed to relax and recover.

Unlike the previous three months, when they went to the outer courtyard library after every class and did not return until late at night, Huo Yuhao climbed into bed quickly this time and fell asleep early.

Watching Huo Yuhao sleep soundly, Wang Dong could not tell whether he truly did not care or was simply brimming with confidence. Even if it was useless, shouldn't a normal person still cram at the last minute at a time like this?

Huo Yuhao really had a big heart, actually managing to fall asleep so early. Seeing this, Wang Dong lost all interest in the hard training she had been planning to do.

After washing up hastily and circulating her Soul Power for a while, she also went to sleep early.

What she did not know was that, within his dreams, Huo Yuhao was secretly leaving everyone else behind and grinding away.

After three months of constant attempts and gathering information, Huo Yuhao had more or less mastered how to use his own body as a vessel.

By using Spiritual Power to control Soul Power, he could construct an additional set of Soul Power Circuits within his body, outside his meridians. He could then use them to simulate the activation of certain Soul Skills or imitate the effects of simple Soul Tool Core Arrays.

The Soul Skills and Soul Tool Core Arrays Huo Yuhao could currently simulate and construct were not particularly advanced, at most reaching the standard of a second-level Soul Tool. After all, his own strength placed a limit on him.

Although he could already dismantle and even reconstruct fourth- and fifth-level Soul Tool Core Arrays, the power his body could exert was only around the second level.

If he forcibly installed a third-level Soul Tool Core Array or a Soul Skill of equivalent rank, his body would only be overloaded and injured. That was not an outcome Huo Yuhao wanted.

Besides, for a Soul Master's body to carry Soul Skills at the Soul Grandmaster level and unleash abilities beyond one's own realm was already no easy feat.

Aside from the Soul Power Circuits installed within his body, Huo Yuhao could also combine Spiritual Power and Soul Power in battle to release the effects of certain Soul Skills and Soul Tool Core Arrays outside his body.

However, because the Soul Power Circuit had not been built in advance, this method took at least three or four times longer to activate than a normal Soul Skill. With Huo Yuhao's current capabilities, he had no particularly good solution to this problem.

After all, neither Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Power nor his Soul Power cultivation was high enough yet. Furthermore, these externally released Soul Skills had one issue: they were far too conspicuous.

Although Huo Yuhao could now imitate quite a few offensive Soul Skills, such as Wang Dong's Wing Scythe and Light of the Butterfly God, or Beibei's Thunder Dragon Claw, Wrath of Thunder, and Wrath of Thunder,

the manifestations of those Soul Skills were all too exaggerated and obvious. Anyone could see at a glance that the effects of these "self-created Soul Skills" were vastly different from Huo Yuhao's own Spiritual Attribute.

Therefore, Huo Yuhao could not reveal these abilities in public yet. He could only keep them as hidden trump cards.

The Soul Power Circuits Huo Yuhao was currently attempting to construct inside his body were all support-type circuits, such as ones that imitated Food Type or Support Type Soul Skills, or Soul Tool Core Arrays focused on enhancement.

If he merely borrowed their ability framework, Huo Yuhao, as the user, would not need to shape those Soul Skills and release them from his body. He could activate them naturally, integrate them into himself, and obtain their enhancement effects.

However, with Huo Yuhao's current physical condition, he could at most support four pre-prepared Soul Power Circuits equivalent to first-level Soul Tools within his body, or two circuits equivalent to second-level Soul Tools.

These Soul Power Circuits could be activated directly in battle according to his needs. They were as convenient as the Soul Skills on Soul Tools or the Soul Skills attached to a Soul Master's Soul Rings, and they were difficult to detect.

At most, those sensitive to Soul Power fluctuations would notice a change in Huo Yuhao's Soul Power. But with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Spiritual Power concealing it, it would still be difficult for anyone to discover the truth.

Since the Soul Tool Core Arrays Huo Yuhao normally used were stable, long-lasting arrays that constantly assisted his cultivation, he now needed to alter their structure to deal with the upcoming battle.

Within the Spiritual Sea, points formed from Spiritual Power began connecting into lines. The lines then outlined planes, the planes combined into solid forms, and those forms gradually warped and changed according to the distribution of a humanoid body.

Let me think. For a Soul Skill that can be used in battle, I'll go with an acceleration effect for a support-type Soul Skill. After all, concealed weapons are permitted in Shrek's internal competitions.

And since I've defined myself as an Agility Assault Type Soul Master, being a little more nimble won't stand out too much.

All right, the reconstruction and assembly are complete. Besides increasing my striking speed, reaction speed, and movement speed, this Soul Power Circuit will also improve my body's flexibility, preventing intense movement from placing too much strain on it.

However, since it is equivalent to a second-level Soul Power Circuit, it is still unrealistic for my current Soul Master-level body to sustain it for long. But it should last at least three minutes.

The effect should be an overall increase of roughly forty percent to my movement speed. In battle, it can only be maintained for around two minutes.

Hmm, I've got it. I can try combining this Soul Power Circuit's structure with the Soul Power Circuit structure of a Soul Tool.

Using the second-level Acceleration Soul Skill as the main body, I'll reconstruct it, then stitch in a second-level Soul Power Compression Array dismantled from the Soul Tool Core Array of the White Tiger Dagger.

With the support of this Soul Tool Core Array, I can increase the second-level Acceleration Soul Skill's effect by another fifty percent for a short time, but I will have to expend roughly twice as much Soul Power on top of the original cost.

The effect of this Soul Power Circuit should already be no weaker than the enhancement a typical Thousand-Year Soul Ring grants a Soul Master. It's just that my body is currently too weak to fully unleash its effects.

After constant experimentation, Huo Yuhao finally succeeded in combining a second-level Acceleration Soul Skill within his Spiritual Sea and connecting it to a second-level Soul Power Compression Array.

Continuously dismantling the operating paths of Soul Skills and the construction methods of Soul Tool Cores, then breaking them apart and reconstructing them within his Spiritual Sea into the new Soul Power Circuits he needed—this was what Huo Yuhao had been doing for the past three months.

Since arriving in this world, as he encountered more and more Martial Souls and gained a deeper understanding of Soul Power circulation, even without trying them in reality,

once these Soul Skills and Soul Tool Core Arrays were reconstructed into Soul Power Circuits, Huo Yuhao could use deduction within his Spiritual Sea to determine their actual effects after reconstruction.

All right. It took quite a while and failed dozens of times. Fortunately, even failure within the Spiritual Sea cannot harm me. At most, Spiritual Power disperses and needs to be gathered again.

If I were trying this outside, every failure would probably leave hidden injuries in my body. I would need at least several days to recover. Now, it's time to integrate this new Soul Power circulation route into my body.

Looking at Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who was sleeping soundly and had long since stopped pretending because Huo Yuhao frequently entered the Spiritual Sea over the past three months, Huo Yuhao kicked him awake again.

"Little Yuhao, what is it this time?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm yawned. By now, he had grown accustomed to Huo Yuhao waking him from time to time and making him work.

"Brother Sky Dream, help me first withdraw the original Soul Power Circuits in my body. Then integrate this set of Soul Power Circuits into my body in sequence according to the arrangement. Be careful not to interfere with the Soul Power's original circulation through the meridians. Just attach them to the meridians."

Huo Yuhao carefully used Spiritual Sharing to share the vision of the Eye of Truth with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, guiding him step by step as he helped construct the new Soul Power Circuits.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had done this work many times over the past three months, and with Huo Yuhao supervising him, he was thoroughly familiar with it. He quickly completed it just as before.

"All right, I'm going back to sleep. Little Yuhao, call me again if you need anything." Sky Dream Ice Silkworm flopped back onto the ground and began sleeping soundly again.

Although it looked simple, it was actually extremely difficult. Constructing Soul Power Circuits within one's own body was nearly as difficult as condensing one's own Soul Ring.

The difficulty was lower only because Soul Power Circuits did not last permanently, but it was still far more difficult than creating one's own Soul Skill.

After all, creating a Soul Skill merely meant circulating it through the meridians in a certain manner before releasing it. A Soul Power Circuit, on the other hand, required opening an entirely new path. The two could not be compared.

If not for Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's immense Spiritual Power and the assistance of the Eye of Truth, Huo Yuhao would not have been qualified to attempt adding Soul Power Circuits to his body while still only a Soul Master.

If anything went wrong, they could easily explode inside his body, injuring his meridians or even his foundation. But once completed, they would greatly enhance a Soul Master's strength.

Mm, that should be enough preparation. Based on my current physical condition and Soul Power, deduction indicates that this Acceleration Soul Skill can increase my overall movement speed by roughly sixty percent.

Paired with the Eye of Truth's deep-level Spiritual Detection, I should be able to contend briefly with even three-ring or four-ring Soul Masters. Only contend with them, though. But the strongest contestants in the Freshman Assessment are merely three-ring Soul Elders, so this is already enough.

It can only last thirty seconds once activated. After that, my body and Soul Power will no longer be able to bear the strain. I must use it carefully at critical moments.

There's still some time before dawn. I should sort through more information and other Soul Tool Core Array structures.

Just like that, when Huo Yuhao woke from his sleep, it was already broad daylight. Today was the first day of the Freshman Assessment.

Unlike Huo Yuhao, who reliably slept until the last possible moment every day, Wang Dong had gone to bed early yesterday and was up early today. By now, she was already used to Huo Yuhao's excellent sleep quality.

"Let's go. Hurry up and eat, then find Xiao Xiao to coordinate and discuss some tactics!" Wang Dong said excitedly.

Huo Yuhao yawned. "What tactics are there to discuss? Just listen to my commands. You two charge forward without thinking. First do this, then do that, and directly take down everyone on the other side. It's that simple."

"You always lecture me about using my brain. Why is it that when it's your turn to think, you refuse to use yours?" Wang Dong rolled her eyes at Huo Yuhao.

As they walked, Huo Yuhao said leisurely, "Whether you need to think depends on who you're facing. In my opinion, every opponent in this year's competition is trash. Hide your Second Soul Skill. Combine your First and Second Soul Skills—who in this year's competition can withstand one of your attacks?"

"As long as Xiao Xiao and I buy you time and create openings in the enemy's defenses, that will be enough. We can adapt on the spot. Planning everything in advance would be meaningless instead."

"Damn it, I can't argue with you at all."

Soon, after Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong finished breakfast, they went to the teaching building and found Xiao Xiao.

After Zhou Yi informed them of the assessment's time and location, the three of them casually found a quiet place.

"Let's start by talking about our Soul Skills and Martial Souls. I already know most of yours. This is mainly so you two can familiarize yourselves with each other."

"I'll go first. My Martial Soul is Spirit Eyes. My First Soul Skill is Eye of Insight, which lets me see through an enemy's movement patterns more easily and find their openings. My current offensive method is concealed weapons, and it is roughly at the Soul Grandmaster level." Huo Yuhao finished speaking.

Wang Dong spoke next. "My Martial Soul is the Light Goddess Butterfly. My First Soul Skill is Wing Scythe, and my Second Soul Skill is Light of the Butterfly God. Both are Assault Type Soul Skills."

Then Wang Dong said proudly, "If I use Fusion Ring with my first and second Soul Skills, I can heavily injure any Soul Master below the fourth ring. Even Defense Type Battle Soul Masters are no exception."

Hearing that, Xiao Xiao also displayed her Martial Soul. "My first Martial Soul is the Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron. My First Soul Skill is Cauldron's Quake, and my Second Soul Skill is Cauldron's Sway."

Then Xiao Xiao looked at Wang Dong somewhat unwillingly. "My two Soul Skills can also use Fusion Ring. Even a three-ring Soul Elder cannot break free from my control."

"My second Martial Soul is the Nine Phoenixes Auspicious Flute. It focuses on support and control, but it does not have any attached Soul Rings yet, so it is not very useful in battle for now."

"All right, stop competing." Huo Yuhao shook his head. "In any case, neither of you wants to be punished by that deranged old hag Zhou Yi, right?"

"I already understand your abilities well enough. What I need to tell you next is this: in every battle, you listen to my commands. If you have objections, raise them now, and we'll fight it out."

"Whoever wins, the others listen to her or him. How about it?"

Wang Dong shook her head at that, but Xiao Xiao voiced a different opinion. As someone with Twin Martial Souls, she was also one of heaven's favored children and naturally wanted to prove herself, especially in front of Wang Dong, whom she liked.