Hehuan Sect's Mutual Devouring, Male-Female Duel Platform Battle

It was an object that looked like a gemstone.

Its entire body was ice-blue and shaped like a water droplet, covered in countless tiny facets.

When the green firelight shone upon it, it immediately reflected a myriad of magnificent rays.

Furthermore, the green light itself transformed into an ice-blue hue.

That brilliant ice-blue radiance turned into beams of light in the air, crisscrossing throughout the entire Sea of Consciousness.

The mere refraction of the light gave the impression that the Sea of Consciousness, which had seemed like a sea of fire, was on the verge of being frozen solid.

The temperature surrounding the Heart of the Ice God hovered perpetually around absolute zero.

The energy it contained was extremely pure—the purest form of ice-attribute energy.

Its energy intensity sat somewhere between the explosive core of a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell and a Level 10 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell.

To this day, no one knows how to use it or how to harness its energy.

This is because it is not merely ultra-low temperature; it also autonomously isolates itself from contact with any other form of energy.

The internal energy cannot be mobilized through any Soul Tool or Soul Guidance Array.

Otherwise, even with the support of high-ranking military officials, this item would never have fallen into the hands of Mu Han.

After all, theoretically, this thing could be used to forge a fourth God-Slaying weapon!

But regardless of whether it could be used, one thing was beyond doubt:

It was absolutely an artifact-level existence of the ice attribute.

For this reason, Mu Han had to promise to help each of the Federation's eight major military regions forge a set of over-specification Three-Word Battle Armor.

That is to say, the raw materials were Spirit Alloy made from six rare metals with a fusion rate reaching one hundred percent.

The power of an over-specification Three-Word Battle Armor was sufficient to contend with inferior Four-Word Battle Armor.

Mu Han had shelled out eight sets in total.

However, back when they were haggling, the military hadn't just provided the Heart of the Ice God.

They had also granted Mu Han a certain degree of privilege, including a massive amount of resources.

After all, the development of Mu Han's Fatui required vast resources.

The same went for the Spirit Pagoda.

To invite Xia Zhengleng to assist Mu Han in cultivating his spiritual power, Mu Han had paid more than just one set of over-specification Three-Word Battle Armor.

He had handed over three sets.

But as a price, besides Xia Zhengleng helping him seal the Heart of the Ice God within his Sea of Consciousness, the Spirit Pagoda was also responsible for helping him build a Spirit Ascension Platform.

Mu Han promised not to open the Spirit Ascension Platform to the public, using it only for the internal members of the Fatui.

Moreover, all energy consumption within the Spirit Ascension Platform had to be resolved by himself.

Yet, this thing would become a secret cultivation realm for the Fatui to mass-produce seven-ring Soul Saints.

As for the Tang Sect, besides agreeing to let Mu Han imprint Zang Xin's soul skills as solidified soul skills when his battle armor leveled up, they also promised to let Mu Han go to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to select two hundred-thousand-year-old heavenly treasures.

But Mu Han had to help the Tang Sect forge five sets of over-specification Three-Word Battle Armor.

Adding in the set for Zhuo Shi, Mu Han had to forge a total of seventeen sets.

However, it was no difficult task for him, especially since the personnel had not yet been finalized.

These quotas looked large, but these factions were massive, and this small number was merely a drop in the bucket.

Except for the quota for Zhuo Shi's set, which was confirmed, even the quotas for the eight major military regions were still up for debate.

The Northern Legion was easy enough; just give it to the Legion Commander.

But the Central Legion Commander already possessed Four-Word Battle Armor, so who should it be given to?

Therefore, Mu Han wasn't exactly busy; at most, he was just killing time.

Gu Yuena, Xu Xiaoyan, Zheng Yiran, and Wu Sidu had also successfully completed their One-Word Battle Armor with his help.

Having become One-Word Battle Armor masters, they were all eligible to graduate.

Wu Sidu and the others could continue to develop in the Inner Court, but Gu Yuena chose to leave.

After all, the relationship between the Spirit Pagoda and Shrek Academy was poor.

"Are you not going to take Na'er with you?" Mu Han suddenly asked while seeing Gu Yuena off.

"You've seen her?" Gu Yuena looked at Mu Han, her eyes filled with shock and complexity. "You aren't going to stop me?"

"My sister has never been Na'er, nor Gu Yuena, but the complete Gu Yuena!" Mu Han shook his head.

In truth, the "Na'er" he had met when he was a child was Gu Yuena herself.

It was only after her memories were restored that those few years became a heart demon.

That was why she had forcibly split into Gu Yue and Na'er, and even made some sort of wager.

"This wager of yours was a joke from the start. You treated Na'er as a heart demon from the very beginning."

"Even if you win, the heart demon will still remain."

"Even if you lose, you will forcibly devour the heart demon."

"What is the point of such a wager?" Mu Han curled his lip.

"Then what do you think should be done?" Gu Yue asked, feeling somewhat irritable.

"A duel to the death at the Hehuan Sect; whoever wins becomes the main body."

"A magical duel on the Male-Female Duel Platform; whoever loses becomes the furnace."

"Gu Yue can lose, Na'er can lose, but Gu Yuena cannot lose."

"Whoever wins becomes Gu Yuena; only in this way can the heart demon be completely eliminated."

"Because it simply doesn't exist; the one who loses disappears, and the one who disappears is the heart demon."

Gu Yue's eye twitched as she turned and walked away. She felt that Mu Han was right.

This method could indeed resolve the heart demon.

But if things went poorly, the one who would disappear was herself! And she would disappear as the heart demon, at that.

It wasn't that Gu Yue was afraid of death.

But the current line of soul beasts could no longer withstand such turmoil.

Na'er's philosophy was completely different from hers.

Na'er even identified entirely as a human.

In such a situation, how could she dare to have a fair, fifty-fifty duel with Na'er?

If she lost, would the soul beasts be removed from the Douluo Plane?

Thinking of this, Gu Yue felt a twinge of envy.

She envied that Na'er had lived as a human from the very beginning.

However, what she envied even more was Mu Han.

He clearly knew everything, yet he had never wanted to change anything from the start.

At the very least, in Gu Yue's eyes, Mu Han clearly carried many things, yet he didn't need to shoulder any of them.

Although Mu Han claimed to be "the product conceived by the Golden Dragon King and the previous Plane Master."

But the Golden Dragon King was already dead.

If Mu Han did not act, the previous Plane Master would not appear again.

Wouldn't Mu Han be able to live as an ordinary person then?

But Gu Yue could not do that.

She carried not only the identity of the Silver Dragon King but also the deep-seated blood feud of the soul beast lineage.

The other girl bearing responsibility was Zheng Yiran.

The responsibility she carried was also related to the soul beasts.

In reality, Zheng Yiran seeking out Mu Han was originally the intention of her family.

She was the eldest daughter of the Zheng Family, enjoying financial freedom and a revered status since childhood.

But many things were beyond her control.

For instance, she was currently a gift sent to Mu Han by her family.

Twenty thousand years ago, Poison Douluo Dugu Bo was backlashed by the toxins of his Jade Phosphor Snake martial soul.

The same was true for the Zheng Family twenty thousand years later.

It wasn't that there was no solution; it was the same method as two thousand years ago: forcing the toxins into a spirit bone.

But how precious were spirit bones? Nowadays, soul beasts were also on the verge of extinction.

Therefore, many members of the Zheng Family eventually died from the backlash of the toxins.

But if they joined Mu Han's Beast Soul Weaponization project, it would be different.

If the Jade Phosphor Snake martial soul became a tool-type martial soul, the toxins would naturally no longer cause a backlash.

Originally, Zheng Yiran had wanted to try and see if she could become his girlfriend.

As it turned out, Wu Sidu had beaten her to it!