Douluo: Founding the Heavenly Court from the Holy Spirit Cult Section 5

First and foremost, he valued various books, especially that copy of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.

There were quite a few books, especially in the storage Soul Tools of Shrek Academy's seven students, including textbooks. This was perfect for Yang Hao to learn about Soul Masters.

For the past three years, he had been confined to the Strength Clan's territory, forging iron and rarely encountering knowledge about Soul Masters, only cultivating his meditation method to improve his Soul Power.

He desperately needed knowledge on Soul Master cultivation now, so these books couldn't have come at a better time. He even found books on Soul Tools, clearly indicating some of those students were from the Soul Tool department.

After a simple, thorough inventory and categorized storage of his spoils, Yang Hao diligently studied the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, particularly the section on the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

"The Mysterious Heaven Skill has indeed been modified."

After reviewing the cultivation method of the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Yang Hao confirmed his suspicion.

There were two versions of the Mysterious Heaven Skill: one cultivated from childhood, before awakening one's Martial Soul and Innate Soul Power, which produced pure Mysterious Heaven Skill Internal Energy, the path taken by God King Tang back then.

The other version could be cultivated directly with Soul Power, lacking much of the profoundness of the pure Mysterious Heaven Skill, which Huo Yuhao had switched to.

Of course, the improved version was not bad either; it had strong universality, especially for Soul Masters with powerful Martial Souls, as it integrated the Martial Soul's attributes, making its power significantly greater than the balanced and gentle Mysterious Heaven Skill Internal Energy.

"Little Jade, let me see your limit."

After recalling the contents of the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Yang Hao decisively activated the power of his Golden Finger, his comprehension instantly increasing manyfold.

As a transmigrator, he naturally possessed a Golden Finger, a sliver of jade in his mind that could enhance comprehension.

Unfortunately, in the past, he only knew one meditation method, and later, he secretly learned the Disorder Splitting Hammer Technique and Iron-Forging Hand from the Strength Clan's forging workshop.

Although he had learned the Disorder Splitting Hammer Technique and Iron-Forging Hand, he couldn't practice them. If he had displayed his extraordinary talent and comprehension, Zhao Min would have targeted him, possibly even killing him.

What he could comprehend was the meditation method passed down by his parents. With the enhancement of his Golden Finger's comprehension, he had thoroughly understood it, even making some improvements to better suit himself.

Now, he needed to use his Golden Finger-enhanced comprehension to quickly grasp the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

With the Golden Finger's assistance, Yang Hao quickly understood the first layer of the Mysterious Heaven Skill and began to cultivate.

His Soul Power circulated through his meridians according to the Mysterious Heaven Skill's method, involving far more meridians than his previous meditation method, thus leading to higher cultivation efficiency.

However, Yang Hao's cultivation did not go smoothly due to injuries in his meridians. Three years ago, he was ambushed and some of his meridians were damaged. After three years of nourishment, they had recovered somewhat, but considerable damage remained.

Now, as Soul Power flowed through those injured meridians, it caused numerous stinging pains, as if countless steel needles were piercing him, making it very uncomfortable.

He paused the circulation of Soul Power in the damaged meridians to avoid further injury, attempting to adjust it so that the Soul Power flowed as much as possible according to the technique.

Although this greatly reduced the effectiveness, it was still better than his previous meditation method.

This fine-tuning was possible not only due to the Golden Finger's comprehension boost but also due to his three years of cultivation.

The meditation method had time limitations, mainly due to mental energy. People get tired, and one cannot sit in meditation all day.

During his free time, Yang Hao practiced his Soul Power control. He could now condense Soul Power into threads and extend them outside his body, a technique he referenced from the puppeteers in Naruto.

If he could condense Soul Power into threads and control them outside his body, controlling them inside was even easier, hence this level of control.

As for multitasking, he had been practicing that for a long time and could now divide his attention into three tasks, which greatly aided in the circulation of his cultivation technique.

After such modifications, deletions, and additions, he retained about half of his cultivation results.

"My Soul Power has become a bit gentler."

Feeling the change in his Soul Power, Yang Hao confirmed the cultivation's effect.

The Mysterious Heaven Skill's power was balanced and gentle, possessing excellent health benefits, and could even heal internal injuries and repair meridians, which was perfect for his own recovery.

Having confirmed the effect, Yang Hao continued to cultivate. Although the cultivation effect was only half due to his meridian issues, his overall cultivation results were not bad, thanks to his superb comprehension and Soul Power control.

This was not all; he was also attempting to guide and fuse the spiritual power of his Soul Bone. The Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone had absorbed the head Soul Bone, and along with it, the spiritual power within. This spiritual power could be applied to Yang Hao, but it required guidance.

The enhancement of spiritual power would allow him to cultivate for longer periods without feeling tired.

When he got tired from cultivation, Yang Hao would read those books. With the super comprehension boosted by his Golden Finger, he could quickly master the knowledge within, especially about Soul Tools.

This was still not all; he was also studying the Metal Control Soul Skill from the Soul Bone, which might become a breakthrough for solving the problem of his corrupted Martial Soul.

His father's Martial Soul was a spear, and his mother's was a pair of daggers. They had a Martial Soul Fusion Skill that could fuse into a Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear, similar to Erlang Shen's Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade, but with a much smaller blade, not as wide as Erlang Shen's, hence it was called the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear.

Perhaps due to the high compatibility of their Martial Souls, his own Martial Soul was a congenital mutation, combining his parents' Martial Souls to form that Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear.

Unfortunately, his Martial Soul was shattered three years ago and contaminated by evil forces, preventing it from re-condensing and leaving it in a state of primordial energy.

To re-condense his Martial Soul, the first step was to resolve the contamination by evil forces, which he planned to separate. The medium for this separation would be a Soul Tool.

Simply put, he would borrow the concept of a lifebound Soul Tool in the Douluo world, integrating the contaminated part of his Martial Soul's origin into an evil-attribute Soul Tool, forming a lifebound Soul Tool, and leaving the pure part.

Only a portion of his Martial Soul's origin was contaminated, not all of it. As long as the contaminated part was separated and reformed with the help of a Soul Tool, similar to Ji Juechen.

Furthermore, the Metal Control Soul Bone skill had great potential. If he could perform fine-level operations, he could mass-produce Soul Tools and sell them for money.

The Star Luo Empire possessed a great treasure. If he could obtain it, his meridian damage would be resolved, and he would gain an additional life-saving trump card. Also, purchasing Soul Bones required a large amount of money.

The storage Soul Tools of the captured individuals contained some wealth, but it was not enough to buy those items. He needed to make money grow to earn a fortune.

Currently, the only way he could think of to make a fortune was by selling Soul Tools. He couldn't make high-level ones, but he could try making the lowest-level, Rank 1 Soul Tools.

Moreover, with the Metal Control Soul Bone skill to assist, he could see if he could achieve mass production.

He also needed to build a smelting furnace, purchase ores for smelting, and then use the Metal Control Soul Bone skill to assist in purification, which would greatly reduce costs.

As a "four-have" new person of the new era, he certainly wouldn't go back to hammering iron or being a sculptor.

With the assistance of a divine skill like Metal Control, one could easily overtake others; whether it be smelting, purification, or shaping Soul Tool cores, one could cheat their way to success, even achieving mass production—much like Magneto from X-Men.

Rare metals also hold immense potential; by the eras of the third and fourth installments, they formed the basis for Battle Armor and Mecha. Perhaps he could utilize the Soul Bone skill Metal Control to pioneer their development.

Finally, there is the matter of bonding with the Soul-Devouring Spider Leg Bone. An External Soul Bone can be seized in its initial stages; God King Tang once utilized the soul pressure from the Heaven Dou Royal Academy's education committee to complete the bonding process, merging it with his own body so it could never be taken away.

Chapter 7: Starlight Auction House

Just as Yang Hao was silently developing his strength, Tai Jingang, the patriarch of the Strength Clan, had already sensed that something was wrong, feeling particularly uneasy after seeing the wanted posters featuring Yang Hao's portrait posted everywhere.

Without delay, he rushed toward the Star Dou Forest, following the map to locate the Soul-Devouring Demon Spider nest.

Regrettably, all he found were ashes and the charred remains of numerous Soul-Devouring Demon Spiders. Although he did not see the corpses of his son and the others, this act of destroying the evidence proved everything.

He had been schemed against—tricked and plotted against by a mere child.

"You little bastard, this old man will definitely capture you, tear you into ten thousand pieces, and grind your bones to dust!"

Roaring in fury, Tai Jingang was consumed by hatred.

He regretted not accompanying his grandson personally to hunt for a soul ring; otherwise, he would never have been murdered by that little bastard.

The hatred burned within him!

Suppressing his rage, Tai Jingang mobilized the entire clan to search, but they found no one, not even a single clue; it was as if the boy had evaporated into thin air.

Yang Hao, meanwhile, was hiding and developing in obscurity. Capable of cross-dressing, he simply ignored the searches, including the wanted posters for himself.

The portrait on the wanted poster only bore a passing resemblance to him, and that was before accounting for his female disguise; even standing right in front of the poster, no one would associate the girl with him.

After cultivating for a period, he began purchasing materials to craft Soul Tools, focusing his efforts on a specific type of manufacturing.

Half a year passed in the blink of an eye. Inside a hidden mountain cave, Yang Hao was busy working beside two self-built blast furnaces, one large and one small.

He filled them with smokeless coke, Iron Essence ore, and Black-Veined Iron ore, then ignited them for smelting.

The raw ore was far cheaper than finished Iron Essence or Black-Veined Iron; one Gold Soul Coin worth of Iron Essence ore could yield about a kilogram of refined Iron Essence.

Of course, this smelting method resulted in low purity, but with the assistance of his Metal Control Soul Bone skill, the efficiency skyrocketed, and the purity reached much higher levels.

Under the continuous burning of the charcoal, the Iron Essence ore shattered after half a day, and the molten Iron Essence flowed out. Guided by his Soul Bone skill, it was separated and directed into the adjacent furnace to maintain its molten state.

Afterward, Yang Hao opened the mechanism at the bottom of the blast furnace, allowing the high-temperature slag to fall and cool, before filling it with a second batch of smokeless coke and ore to continue the process.

Next, Yang Hao manipulated the metal spider legs to pierce into the molten iron, using his Metal Control Soul Bone skill to further guide the condensation of the Iron Essence, squeezing out other impurities.

The denser material settled at the bottom, while the lighter material floated to the top to be scraped off with a spoon; the impurities at the bottom were also drained through the outlet, resulting in high-purity Iron Essence.

The operation for the Black-Veined Iron ore was identical, ultimately yielding high-purity Black-Veined Iron.

While it remained in a high-temperature liquid state, Yang Hao separated a peanut-sized glob of Black-Veined Iron, manipulating it to shape a Soul Tool array.

This was his method for crafting Soul Tool cores; the Metal Control Soul Bone skill required minimal energy to manipulate molten metal and allowed for the most precise control during shaping.

Combined with the soul power control he had cultivated, he was able to shape the Soul Tool cores in this manner.

Moreover, first-level Soul Tool arrays were the simplest, and those for melee-type Soul Tools were even simpler; with practice, his shaping speed was quite fast.

As for soul power consumption, he was already able to multitask, keeping the Mysterious Heaven Skill running to circulate soul power, effectively balancing his recovery and expenditure.

Yang Hao crafted one hundred such Black-Veined Iron Soul Tool cores in a row, using the furnace to keep them at a temperature between liquid and solid.

He then injected the purified liquid Iron Essence into a prepared spear mold, placed the Soul Tool core at the handle position, and guided the Iron Essence and the outermost layer of Black-Veined Iron to permeate each other, forming a single, unified whole.

Finally, he guided the liquid Black-Veined Iron to shape the edge of the spearhead, a process equivalent to cladding steel; the contact surface was serrated, further interlocking and permeating to form a solid unit.

He wasn't finished yet; as the temperature of the Iron Essence dropped and it was about to solidify, Yang Hao used his Metal Control Soul Bone skill to trim the edges, effectively polishing them.

With that, a batch of spears was completed, needing only to cool before being stored away.

As for quenching or tempering, it was completely unnecessary; those processes act on a molecular level, but his material was high-purity Iron Essence, a single-element atomic structure that had no concept of quenching or tempering.

Besides, the strength of the Iron Essence was more than sufficient.

Once he had shaped a sufficient number of spears, Yang Hao finally left his hiding place.

It was time to plot for that treasure!

At the city gate of Star Luo City, a round-bodied young girl stepped down from a carriage.

"It's so huge!"

Gazing at the towering walls of Star Luo City, Yang Hao couldn't help but exclaim.

That's right, he was currently in his cross-dressed state, complete with a long dress, silk stockings, lady's shoes, and everything else, all in a pink, girlish style.

Even his hair had grown into long, shoulder-length locks after half a year of accumulation.

Half a year without sunlight had made his originally wheat-colored skin much fairer; from the outside, he looked exactly like a young girl.

Furthermore, half a year of eating and drinking heartily had added several layers of fat to his body, masking the traces of his broad, masculine bone structure. Especially on his hands, the fat covered his knuckles, making them look chubby, and his already inconspicuous Adam's apple was completely hidden.

The calluses on his palms, formed from years of swinging hammers and forging, had been filed away and allowed to regrow.

Now, even if someone from the Strength Clan stood right in front of him, they would absolutely not recognize him.