Third Soul Skill and Snake Gallbladders

When Medusa's phantom flashed past Huo Yuhao for the third time, he suddenly raised his hand.

An icy-blue light gleamed along his arm. At the same time, Huo Yuhao's eyes lit up as well. His right eye was a pure icy blue, while his left blended icy blue and purple into an entirely new color.

Ice Crystal Spirit Eye overlaid with Purple Demon Eye!

With the effects of both eyes combined, Medusa's afterimages vanished, leaving behind only its true body.

Huo Yuhao finally saw its full appearance.

It was a wholly dark-green snake. It was not the humanoid serpent of myths from his previous life, but a pure snake-like creature.

Medusa's eyes also contained a strange light. With just one glance, Huo Yuhao felt a frigid chill rise from his heart, as if his blood had instantly frozen somewhat.

Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes. At that moment, the Saint King Pupil on his wrist suddenly lit up. Warm light power instantly spread from his wrist to his torso, then coursed through his entire body.

The frigid power that had frozen his blood vanished after the light power permeated his body.

Although Huo Yuhao had expelled the chill, he did not attack immediately. Instead, he went with the flow and collapsed beneath a nearby tree, pretending that the icy power was difficult to eradicate.

After Huo Yuhao fell, Medusa's movements visibly slowed. Though it was fast enough to skim over the ground as if flying, it was still a snake and could not eat while moving at such tremendous speed.

At that moment, Huo Yuhao suddenly threw a punch. The shockwave produced by his Soul Power even faintly distorted the air.

Medusa was startled and recoiled, its pair of snake eyes fixed firmly on Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao deliberately forced his blood and qi to flow in reverse, spitting out a mouthful of blood onto the ground. He then glared hatefully at Medusa, slowly closed his eyes, and let his hand fall limply to his side.

To make the act convincing, he even used Soul Power to conceal most of his aura.

From Medusa's perspective, Huo Yuhao's life was gradually draining away.

Huo Yuhao seemed truly dead at that moment, his face pale as he sat motionless in place, even his hands slackened.

Medusa circled Huo Yuhao three times. In the end, unable to resist the soul master aura emanating from him that was so beneficial to it, it opened its jaws and bit toward Huo Yuhao's face.

Huo Yuhao suddenly opened his eyes. He reached out, and in that instant, he had already switched to the Titan Profound Ice King martial soul.

Layer upon layer of pure ice crystals condensed over Huo Yuhao's arm. At the same time, the Ice God Eye on his arm opened.

In this state, Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice surpassed even Snow Empress's, while the Titan Profound Ice King itself possessed the power of Ultimate Ice.

Huo Yuhao did not bother with striking a snake's vital point. He directly seized Medusa's lower jaw. Horror immediately appeared in Medusa's eyes, and it snapped its jaws shut, trying to bite through Huo Yuhao's flesh.

But with a crack, Medusa's unusually long venom fangs shattered almost instantly upon striking the ice crystals on the back of Huo Yuhao's hand.

With its venom fangs gone, the horror in Medusa's eyes deepened. Huo Yuhao, meanwhile, revealed an evil grin.

Before Medusa could react again, Huo Yuhao's other hand had already gripped its upper jaw.

With both hands exerting force, he tore Medusa apart down the middle.

Medusa's blood immediately sprayed everywhere, and the snake body that had been struggling wildly moments ago stopped thrashing.

A deep-purple Soul Ring then floated into view.

Huo Yuhao tossed Medusa's body aside and looked at the deep-purple Soul Ring before him.

Faint black patterns had already appeared in the middle of the Soul Ring. Clearly, this Medusa had nearly reached the level of a ten-thousand-year soul beast. Unfortunately, it had encountered Huo Yuhao and ultimately failed.

Huo Yuhao gauged the Soul Ring's strength and felt that he could absorb it as his third Soul Ring. He sat cross-legged and reached out, guiding the ring toward the position of his third Soul Ring.

Under Huo Yuhao's guidance, the purple Soul Ring flew toward the top of his head, while he switched his martial soul back to the Ice Spirit Eye.

His deep-blue eyes glowed faintly as Huo Yuhao quietly began absorbing the Soul Ring.

The process of absorbing the Soul Ring was not especially painful, but it consumed an enormous amount of time.

When Huo Yuhao opened his eyes again, day had turned to night. Moonlight shone upon the ground, making the entire garden seem somewhat tranquil and secluded.

Medusa's corpse still lay there, its blood already congealed. Huo Yuhao thought about it and decided that, although the odds were slim, it was still worth checking. He walked over and touched the snake corpse with a finger.

There was no Soul Power response, which meant the snake had not dropped a soul bone.

Huo Yuhao sighed softly, then unleashed his third soul skill and prepared to examine the System's new six-choose-two options.

Just then, Huo Yuhao's Purple Demon Eye grew faintly warm and pointed toward the snake gallbladder area within the corpse.

Curiously, Huo Yuhao drew the White Tiger Dagger, cut open the snake's belly, and took out two purple-black snake gallbladders.

They were entirely purple-black, each as large as a fist. It was almost unbelievable that they had come from Medusa's slender snake body, which had appeared somewhat slim for the sake of agility.

Huo Yuhao sniffed them and smelled something like a mass of Chinese herbal medicine, leaving him somewhat hesitant.

According to many common tropes, snake gallbladders could strengthen one's physique. But this was the world of soul beasts, and these were the gallbladders of a venomous snake like Medusa...

Huo Yuhao ultimately decided to ask Sky Dream Ice Silkworm first. The latter was somewhat bewildered upon hearing about Medusa's gallbladders, but the Titan Snow Demon King nearby spoke instead.

"I know a little about that. Before, a human soul master entered the Far North. His strength was greater than that of ordinary soul masters at the same level. According to him, he had eaten one of these enormous purple-black snake gallbladders."

Huo Yuhao pondered it and decided to put away the two gallbladders for now. Once he returned to Shrek, he would find a lucky volunteer to test the poison first.

The Titan Snow Demon King could not tell one snake gallbladder from another, but Huo Yuhao did not dare gamble with his own body.

After putting away the snake gallbladders, Huo Yuhao began to sense the effects of his third soul skill.

After absorbing Medusa's Soul Ring, Huo Yuhao's Soul Power had reached level thirty-three. His third soul skill was Mass Petrification. After activating it, Huo Yuhao could petrify people within his field of vision, as well as energy-based soul skills. He did not need to follow Medusa's limitation of having to make eye contact to petrify someone.

At that moment, the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord System also presented the results of its six-choose-two options...