This Blade, Guard Against Arrogance and Impatience!

After eating and drinking their fill, the trio hacked and slashed their way through the outer perimeter of the Star Dou Great Forest, heading in the direction of Shrek Academy.

During this time, Huo Yuhao not only gave a preliminary demonstration of his soul skills, leaving Bei Bei and Tang Ya thoroughly impressed, but he also revealed the initial stats of his "Huo Gua" persona.

On the first day, Huo Yuhao's Purple Demon Eye had unexpectedly reached the first level, the "Overview" stage.

One must know that even for the two of them, it had taken quite some time to reach that level when they first started.

This left Bei Bei and Tang Ya in utter disbelief; they nearly stripped Huo Yuhao bare to give him a full physical examination.

Huo Yuhao made a preliminary deduction that this was likely related to the golden light that had entered his Sea of Consciousness earlier.

This was power from the Will of Douluo, struck into his Sea of Consciousness to guard against the Ghost Demon Venerable, so it was naturally no small matter.

Although the vast majority of it was being used to isolate the will of the Ghost Demon Venerable, some of it was bound to leak out.

Even though it was only an imperceptible trace of leakage, it was, after all, power condensed from the consciousness of the entire world, and for him right now, it was of great significance.

Since the Sea of Consciousness was in his brain, the leaked energy naturally entered his body directly, and with the stimulation and guidance of the Purple Demon Eye, he was able to reach this first level of the realm so rapidly.

However, Huo Yuhao could not tell Tang Ya and Bei Bei about such things.

Because even if he told them, they wouldn't understand what had actually happened.

Thus, Bei Bei and Tang Ya were destined to find nothing, and in the end, they could only brush it off, simply concluding it was an anomaly caused by the combination of the Purple Demon Eye and Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eye martial soul.

In any case, it was definitely a good thing for his cultivation.

Huo Yuhao didn't care about that, as he had long known the compatibility between his Spirit Eye martial soul and the Purple Demon Eye. Instead, he was more concerned with another secret skill of the Tang Sect, which was also their primary cultivation technique: the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

Although there was a Ghost Killing Art in his mind, personally bestowed by the Ghost Demon Venerable and absolutely a hundred times stronger than the Mysterious Heaven Skill, I come back to the same point:

He didn't dare to practice it!!

Who would dare to practice a technique given by the Ghost Demon Venerable??

Therefore, from the very beginning, Huo Yuhao had actually set his sights on this Mysterious Heaven Skill.

As for how to explain it when the Ghost Demon Venerable woke up, that was a problem for later.

He had to get past the current hurdle first.

Initially, due to concerns about his injuries, Bei Bei and Tang Ya did not hand the technique directly to Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao couldn't appear too impatient, so he could only wait for the time being.

Now that several days had passed, and after repeatedly confirming that Huo Yuhao's injuries were no longer an issue, Bei Bei and Tang Ya finally felt at ease handing the Mysterious Heaven Skill to him.

After repeatedly admonishing him on the details several times over, they finally let Huo Yuhao sit in meditation on the spot to begin his first formal cultivation session.

The two of them stood guard to the side, acting as his protectors.

After all, no matter what, this was still the Star Dou Great Forest; they still had to show at least a modicum of respect to their surroundings.

However, compared to the serious Bei Bei, Tang Ya was much more relaxed.

She stretched lazily and gestured for Bei Bei to sit down beside her.

"No need to be so vigilant."

"Little Yuhao's Purple Demon Eye cultivation went so smoothly, there won't be any problems with the Mysterious Heaven Skill either."

Bei Bei pondered this for a moment and felt it made some sense.

He had already cleared the surrounding soul beasts, so there was indeed no need to be this tense.

Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao began to officially practice the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

As a wisp of pure, gentle soul power surged from his meridians, the heart that Huo Yuhao had been holding in his chest finally relaxed.

He had thought that old ghost, the Ghost Demon Venerable, might have done something to his body to prevent him from practicing other techniques.

It seemed he had been overthinking it.

As long as he could circulate this wisp of soul power through one full minor cycle within his body, it would mean he had officially entered the threshold of the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

One cannot easily switch cultivation techniques; he would just use that as an excuse to fob off the Ghost Demon Venerable later.

It seemed he had won this first confrontation.

It appeared the Ghost Demon Venerable wasn't so difficult to deal with after all.

Thinking of this, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but reveal a smile.

Bei Bei and Tang Ya, standing to the side, didn't know what Huo Yuhao was thinking; they simply assumed the poor child was happy about his first contact with cultivation.

That smile looked particularly piercing in their eyes.

"I checked Yuhao's meridians earlier; they are nearly atrophied, clearly the result of malnutrition since childhood."

Bei Bei, arms crossed, suddenly said to Tang Ya.

"Ah? Then what should we do?"

Tang Ya blinked, looking a bit dazed.

"Should we buy some supplements for Yuhao?"

"Too much is as bad as too little."

Bei Bei shook his head; with his level of insight, he could naturally see the trick of the matter.

"Huo Yuhao's meridians are too fragile. Even if you give him more nourishment, he cannot retain it right now."

"Then you mean..."

Hearing Bei Bei's words, Tang Ya became thoughtful.

"It would be best to find something that can cleanse Huo Yuhao's meridians."

Bei Bei spoke as if he had something specific in mind.

"You mean..."

Tang Ya's eyes suddenly lit up. She turned to look at Bei Bei's face and, sure enough, saw a trace of a wicked smile at the corners of his mouth.

"You are too bad!"

Tang Ya understood his meaning in an instant and immediately gave him a thumbs up.

The meaning could not have been more obvious.

Go ahead and do it; as the Sect Master, I will fully support you!!

Just as the two of them finalized a perfect extortion plan, Huo Yuhao suddenly let out a muffled groan. The circulation of his Mysterious Heaven Skill was abruptly interrupted, and he collapsed forward, unconscious.

"Huo Yuhao!!"

Tang Ya and Bei Bei immediately noticed something was wrong and rushed forward to support him.

Seeing Huo Yuhao's aura in chaos, Bei Bei was completely baffled. The Mysterious Heaven Skill was an extremely gentle technique; how could it cause such a severe backlash?

But he had no time to overthink it and could only immediately probe his soul power into Huo Yuhao's body, hoping to help stabilize the rampaging energy.

However, it was one thing not to check, but upon checking, his expression changed drastically.

He saw that inside Huo Yuhao's body, the gentle Mysterious Heaven Skill soul power that should have been there had vanished, replaced by cold, bone-chilling soul power filled with murderous intent.

Ghost Killing Art.

Just as Huo Yuhao was about to complete a full small circulation of the Mysterious Heaven Skill and officially enter the threshold, the Ghost Killing Art, which had been in his mind, inexplicably began to circulate on its own. It surged out, wiped everything clean in an instant, and directly took its place!!

By the time Huo Yuhao realized what had happened, it was already too late.

Relying on the final strength of the Mysterious Heaven Skill, the Ghost Killing Art charged straight through the barriers of the small circulation, becoming the first technique he had successfully cultivated.

At the same time, Huo Yuhao was backlashed by that volatile murderous intent, and his vision went black.

Fortunately, after achieving its goal, the Ghost Killing Art receded on its own, leaving only black soul power flowing within Huo Yuhao's body.

"I'm fine, Senior Brother, Sister Tang Ya, I'm fine."

After a brief moment of dizziness, Huo Yuhao regained consciousness and waved his hand at the two of them.

Feeling the soul power within his body that had been completely converted into the Ghost Killing Art, Huo Yuhao could only let out a long sigh.

This time.

Guard against arrogance and rashness.