Douluo: Founding the Heavenly Court from the Holy Spirit Cult Section 10

As for the Golden Radiance Soul Bone of the light attribute, Yang Hao did not consume and fuse it into the Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone, as its attributes clashed with those of the spider leg bone itself, making fusion difficult.

The Soul-Devouring Demon Spider possessed dark and evil attributes, so the soul bone it produced naturally carried those same properties.

Back then, he had struggled to digest the Holy Scepter martial soul he consumed, and even now, that portion of its origin power remained sealed within the Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone.

The consumption and integration of the soul bone took another full day. After a good night's sleep, Yang Hao began the third step of his plan.

"You're next."

He took out the box containing the Spirit-Devouring Engraving Knife and opened it; a fierce, malevolent aura rushed toward him.

Without the slightest hesitation, Yang Hao manipulated his eight Soul-Devouring Spider Legs to strike, their sharp tips all piercing into the engraving knife.

A tyrannical devouring force erupted, draining the power from the Spirit-Devouring Engraving Knife.

The reason he chose to consume the soul bone first was to strengthen the Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone, so it would be capable of devouring the remnant soul and curse attached to the Spirit-Devouring Engraving Knife.

Sensing the danger, the remnant consciousness within the Spirit-Devouring Engraving Knife awakened, erupting with all its malevolent aura like a surging black wave, even forming a hideous face.

Unfortunately, the current Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone was far too strong. That malevolent aura was rapidly devoured, and the face formed by the remnant consciousness was torn into eight pieces, consumed, and refined.

As the remnant consciousness and malevolent aura were devoured, the Spirit-Devouring Engraving Knife revealed its original, pure cyan color. Furthermore, a surging aura of life poured out, making Yang Hao, who was standing close by, feel refreshed in both body and mind.

"Should I consume this too?"

Examining the Spirit-Devouring Engraving Knife, Yang Hao hesitated.

In the future, this item would eventually become Huo Yuhao's third eye with the help of Electrolux, but he lacked such means and dared not poke a hole in his own forehead.

The only way he could think to utilize it now was to have the Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone consume it.

"Do it. Besides, there's a larger piece of Gold of Life over in the Star Dou Great Forest anyway."

Having quickly made his decision, the Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone continued its consumption.

Vast life force was extracted, dyeing the Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone a deep cyan.

At the same time, this pure life force surged into Yang Hao's body, nourishing and strengthening his muscles, bones, flesh, meridians, acupoints, and even his dantian.

The original injuries to his meridians were also rapidly healed, and Yang Hao took the opportunity to circulate his soul power to absorb and refine this life force.

Unfortunately, life rarely goes exactly as planned; this soul bone strengthening project was destined not to be smooth sailing.

When the Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone had consumed enough life energy, that life energy began to repel the evil attributes inherent to the soul bone itself, and it did so quite aggressively.

The primary reason was that the energy level of the Gold of Life was far too high, far beyond what the Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone could compare to.

Noticing this anomaly, Yang Hao pondered for a moment and decided to reshape his martial soul ahead of schedule.

He manipulated the metal-attribute spider leg to lift away from the Spirit-Devouring Engraving Knife, guiding the repelled evil attributes to transfer to the very tip of this spider leg.

He then raised his hand and summoned his martial soul: three energy spheres, one large and two small.

This was his martial soul. It had originally been a Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade, but it had been shattered and tainted by evil power, making it difficult to reshape.

Later, he had split the origin of his martial soul into this state, and it was one of the smaller spheres that had been contaminated by the evil power.

He manipulated the metal-attribute spider leg to pierce into that contaminated martial soul origin, consuming it and fusing it with the evil attributes of the Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone to achieve an upgrade.

Chapter 13: Twin Martial Souls

Yang Hao's martial soul, the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade, was a congenital mutation, fusing the martial soul bloodlines of both his parents.

His father Yang Jun's martial soul was a long spear, while his mother's was a pair of daggers, much like the Moon Blade martial soul of the Martial Soul Hall's Golden Generation member, Xie Yue, from ten thousand years ago.

The method of this congenital mutation was simple and crude: a combination where the long spear served as the main blade, and the twin daggers became the side blades.

This made it much easier for Yang Hao to separate them into this current state. The large mass of martial soul origin was the component of the long spear, while the two smaller masses were the twin daggers, one of which carried the contamination of the evil power.

Now, he intended to use the devouring nature and metal attributes of the Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone to reshape his martial soul.

Once the martial soul origin had fused with the evil attributes of the Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone, Yang Hao used his Metal Control skill to consume and fuse the Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Blade, integrating it into the first segment of the metal-attribute spider leg.

The evil attributes of the Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone were entirely absorbed into that portion of the martial soul origin, dyeing it the same green as the Soul-Devouring Demon Spider, and incidentally changing the color of the Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Blade as well.

"Green! A blade!"

"Should I change the design too?"

Staring at the discolored Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Blade, Yang Hao couldn't help but think of the Great Marshal's legendary blade from the neighboring Wu Geng Ji—a peerless weapon that had racked up hundreds of millions of views, its aesthetic was absolutely top-tier.

He acted on the thought, using his Metal Control ability to alter the shape of the blade.

Directly modifying solid metal consumed quite a bit of energy, but fortunately, the changes were minor, and he succeeded quickly.

He detached that segment of the blade-spider leg, forming an independent precious blade—or rather, a Demon Blade.

This was a method Yang Hao had been contemplating for a long time, referencing the future approach of Ji Juechen: turning the martial soul into origin energy to be integrated into a meteor iron longsword and a Judgment Sword, eventually forming a life-bound Soul Tool, which could also be used to reshape the martial soul origin.

"I wonder if it can continue to evolve."

Sensing the soul core within the Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone, which had become illusory and unstable, Yang Hao felt a twinge of worry.

The reason an External Soul Bone could continue to evolve lay in the complete soul core within it. But now, because the Gold of Life's energy had so aggressively repelled the evil attributes, that power had been separated, leaving the soul core hollow and even causing its form to become illusory.

"Wait, could this be fused with the soul tool core of the Nine-Turn Soul-Changing Instrument?"

He quickly found inspiration. Since the Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Blade could combine a soul bone with a soul tool, it should also be able to adapt to this situation.

Moreover, the origin of Soul Tools lies in soul beasts and soul bones; the core of a Soul Tool is modeled after a soul beast's soul core, so the two possess an inherent compatibility.

After some deliberation, feeling more and more that this was feasible, Yang Hao decisively guided the illusory and unstable soul core to fuse with the Soul-Devouring Soul-Changing Instrument's soul core.

The soul core of the Nine-Turn Soul-Changing Instrument is made of Chaos Silver, which is the source of its chaotic attribute, and the powerful inclusive nature of the chaotic attribute quickly accommodated the soul core—which now only possessed the devouring attribute—forming a Chaos Soul Core.

It didn't end there; the One-Eyed Vajra martial soul, bound to the spider leg soul bone, also joined in, its origin power being drawn in to fuse, resulting in a very compatible and stable state.

Yang Hao quickly understood why: the One-Eyed Vajra martial soul was a mutation formed by the fusion of the Great Strength Gorilla and One-Eyed Giant martial soul bloodlines, and since the One-Eyed Giant possesses the chaotic attribute, it was only natural for it to be attracted and fused in this manner.

"I really am a genius!"

Feeling the Chaos Soul Core gradually stabilize, Yang Hao couldn't help but praise his own world-shaking wisdom.

"Continue!"

Glancing at the spider leg soul bone, which was rapidly regenerating and recovering under the nourishment of life force, Yang Hao felt he could strike while the iron was hot and shape the other two martial soul origins.

Without delay, he devoured the origin of another dagger martial soul, then took out a light-attribute Soul Tool battle sword he had previously auctioned. Using his Metal Control ability, he fused it into the regenerating spider leg, evolving it into a broad, thick battle sword styled after the Seven Kill Sword of the Sword Douluo from the Douluo anime.

Still not finished, Yang Hao infused it with the holy attribute he had devoured and refined from the Holy Scepter martial soul, along with a holy-attribute soul bone he had also auctioned.

This step was somewhat difficult, but fortunately, the compatibility was high enough, and the fusion was ultimately successful.

"I shall call you the Holy Sword."

Examining the golden battle sword, Yang Hao named it Holy, to correspond with the Demon Blade.

This was a concept of his; perhaps he could evolve his twin dagger martial souls into twin companion martial souls, much like the Light Dragon Dagger and Shadow Dragon Dagger martial souls of Xie Xie ten thousand years later, which required two opposing attributes.

As it happened, the Demon Blade martial soul possessed an evil attribute, so its opposite was the holy attribute—which was the primary reason he had devoured the holy martial soul of that Shrek young lady back then.

After resting and adapting, once the spider leg had regenerated again, Yang Hao took out the long spear Tai Wushuang had once used. It was an eighth-level Soul Tool, its main body forged from Black-Veined Iron; it was now his to benefit from.

He didn't stop there, devouring and fusing a head soul bone he had auctioned into it as well.

That head soul bone originated from a Single-Horned Fire Dragon; the soul bone itself possessed a sharp dragon horn, and its soul skill was to release a Spirit Spike from the horn to directly attack an opponent's spirit and consciousness.

It was the perfect fit to fuse this soul bone skill with the long spear martial soul. With this, his martial soul splitting plan was complete, forming three martial souls, though he wasn't sure if they counted as "three-life" martial souls.

His martial soul was a fusion and mutation of his parents' martial soul bloodlines, inherently containing the inheritance of both; if split, they would effectively become twin martial souls.

One must know that the essence of twin martial souls is the simultaneous awakening of the martial soul bloodlines of both parents, such as God King Tang's Blue Silver Emperor and Clear Sky Hammer.

As long as he succeeded in splitting his martial soul, he would essentially possess twin martial souls as well.

Of course, such a split was not perfect; after all, the martial soul origin was limited, and the innate soul power was divided accordingly.

The Divine Spear took half, roughly equivalent to three levels of innate soul power, while the Demon Blade and Holy Sword each took a quarter, equivalent to one and a half levels of innate soul power. This would significantly affect his cultivation speed, and he would have to find a way to solve it later.

Regardless, this approach was more reliable than Huo Yuhao's type of "three-life" martial soul. One must realize that the only martial soul Huo Yuhao had that was related to his own bloodline was his Spirit Eyes; the subsequent Ice Jade Empress Scorpion martial soul and the Holy Necromancer were external, not belonging to him, and lacked the corresponding bloodline support.

If it were a tool martial soul, it would be fine, as tool martial souls are manifested externally, but his happened to be a beast martial soul, and beast martial souls manifest in the form of possession. Without a corresponding bloodline as a foundation, the compatibility naturally couldn't be very high; only a cheater like Huo Yuhao could make it work so unreasonably.

"First, devour all the life energy of the Gold of Life."

After studying the three martial souls, Yang Hao continued to use the Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone to devour the Spirit-Devouring Engraving Knife.

Vast life energy continued to surge in, cleansing and transforming the spider leg soul bone, making the green color upon it increasingly rich.

However, the energy of the Gold of Life was too immense, far beyond what the Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone could digest at present. When the concentration of the devoured life energy reached a certain level, it actually recrystallized, eventually forming a piece of Gold of Life the size of a chicken egg.

"This is also fine; I can absorb and refine the power of the Gold of Life at any time, and I have an extra life-saving charm. As long as it's not a fatal wound, I should be able to recover quickly."

After sensing that the Gold of Life was very stable, Yang Hao set his mind at ease.

Although this strengthening plan had some twists and turns, it was fortunately safe and sound.

"My physical fitness has improved too much; I need to slow down."

Standing up and stretching his limbs, Yang Hao could clearly feel the strength of his physique; it had improved by far too much.

Previously, when devouring and fusing those soul bones, the internal blood and qi power had been guided out to wash his bones and meridians, improving his constitution significantly.

Finally, with the help of the Gold of Life's power to cleanse him, his physical fitness had improved even further.

Beyond that, Yang Hao discovered an unexpected gain: the insight-boosting effect of his golden finger had improved.

"Why did it suddenly improve?"

"Is it because of the improvement of the Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone? Or because I devoured the Gold of Life? Or perhaps it's the result of the martial soul remodeling?"

Yang Hao pondered, but unfortunately, with too little information, he couldn't figure it out.

"Now I need to think about where to go next."

Without getting bogged down in dead ends, he turned his thoughts to his future path. Yang Hao needed a major power to act as his backer—partly to protect him, partly to obtain resources to assist his cultivation, and finally, for revenge: revenge against the Strength Clan and Shrek Academy.

His parents had been framed by the Strength Clan as evil soul masters and subsequently executed by the Shrek Inspectorate, who even went so far as to cut off their heads to bring back for verification.

His older brother had also been secretly harmed by the Strength Clan, who had stolen his soul bone.

This debt must be repaid!