"This bead is the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Life Bead."
Gu Yuena examined the black bead in her hand for a moment, then put it away.
"Absorb its Soul Ring first. We'll talk about the bead in more detail once we're back at the Lake of Life."
Huo Yuhao knew a little about the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's bead. Aside from time and space, its other attributes didn't really suit his eyes.
Hearing Gu Yuena say this, Huo Yuhao nodded and stopped paying attention to it. He sat cross-legged beside the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's corpse.
Huo Yuhao knew that absorbing a Soul Beast's Soul Ring was a tremendous ordeal for a human.
It tested not only the body, but also the mind.
The two Soul Rings he'd absorbed before had both been offered willingly by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. He'd felt a little uncomfortable when his Sea of Spirit expanded, but otherwise hadn't experienced much.
Huo Yuhao had thought this time would be painful no matter what.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Soul Ring settled over Huo Yuhao. At the same time, an extremely sharp, icy stream of energy entered his body along with it.
The moment the cold, evil energy entered him, before it could do anything, Huo Yuhao's body changed on its own.
His blood boiled. Without him having to do a thing, dragon horns sprouted from his forehead.
That thread of evil energy was like a tiny icicle meeting the blazing sun. In an instant, it vanished without a trace.
Huo Yuhao absorbed the Soul Ring with astonishing ease.
An hour later, he slowly opened his eyes.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was only sixty thousand years old, but its strength had been undeniable.
Thanks to its selfless contribution, Huo Yuhao's Soul Power had successfully reached... Rank 32...
His idea of relying on Soul Beasts to level up quickly had also died out on the spot.
The Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood had indeed given him formidable combat strength, but it had also made leveling up much harder.
Want to take a shortcut?
Then buckle down and cultivate on your own!
"Looks like you gained quite a bit."
When Gu Yuena saw Huo Yuhao wake, she smiled.
She was the only one there now. Gu Yuena had sent the other Soul Beasts back to the Lake of Life.
"Mm." Huo Yuhao nodded, a little surprised as well. "It gave me two Soul Skills, and both are very powerful."
"In that case, let's return to the Lake of Life first."
As she spoke, Gu Yuena glanced at the place where the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's corpse had been. "All of its essence was concentrated in its Life Bead, so it didn't produce a Soul Bone."
Huo Yuhao replied helplessly, "Even if it had produced one, I wouldn't be able to absorb it."
The Ancestral Dragon Spirit rejected even Soul Rings formed from other Soul Beasts' power, let alone a part of a Soul Beast's body.
When he'd asked Elder Yi to help his Eye of Life evolve, he'd nearly failed.
That had been a far greater change, and it had only worked because Huo Yuhao had deliberately controlled the process and the Gold of Life had possessed such powerful vitality.
Fusing a Soul Bone meant letting it enter the body and merge with the body.
Body: What the hell do you think you're doing to my noble form?!
There was simply no chance of it working.
Gu Yuena wasn't surprised by Huo Yuhao's words. If anything, they only confirmed her earlier guess.
Huo Yuhao's body really had successfully returned to its ancestral form!
He was now a pure-blooded humanoid Soul Beast.
Had she ever seen a Soul Beast fuse with another Soul Beast's Soul Bone?
Gu Yuena smiled brightly. "With your bloodline, you don't need Soul Bones to give you Soul Skills. Now that we're back at the Lake of Life, you can also try condensing Soul Rings for your Ancestral Dragon Spirit."
Self-condensed Soul Rings had no age limit. They could even grow stronger as their owner's strength increased.
As for their color, it could be adjusted according to their owner's wishes.
This was Gu Yuena's final confirmation.
If Huo Yuhao succeeded, he would become another Co-Lord of Soul Beasts!
The underwater space of the Lake of Life.
Huo Yuhao sat cross-legged on the enormous Gold of Life, with the bead Gu Yuena had captured floating before him.
Gu Yuena sat across from him, her violet eyes fixed on the bead. "This Life Bead contains six attributes: time, space, wind, lightning, darkness, and evil. It'll be very useful to your First Martial Soul. Perhaps it can help your Martial Soul evolve again."
At the mention of Martial Soul Evolution, Huo Yuhao glanced toward the exit of the space.
Outside, a little beast with beautiful golden fur waited.
In the original story, Huo Yuhao's Eye of Life had evolved into the Eye of Fate because the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, sacrificed herself for him.
But because of that, the Qiu'er who loved him had also been lost forever.
Huo Yuhao wanted power, but he wasn't that utterly heartless.
His plan was to try to coax the Three-Eyed Golden Lion into offering him an attribute connection from both the her who lived ten thousand years in the future and the her who lived ten thousand years in the past.
Just like Electrolux and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, he'd exploit a bug in the world and get twice the Power of Fate, then see if he could evolve his eyes into the Eye of Fate.
Of course, the odds weren't high.
Now that he had the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Life Bead to help, perhaps his original plan really could work!
Huo Yuhao felt a surge of excitement.
"Sister Nana, can you remove the bead's other attributes and leave only its innate time and space attributes, along with its ability to contain another attribute?"
His Eye of Time, Space, and Life didn't need a bunch of flashy attributes. Time and spirit were already enough.
The evil, darkness, wind, and lightning attributes in the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Life Bead were of no use to him.
If he really needed other ways to fight, his own strength and Second Martial Soul were more than enough.
Gu Yuena carefully sensed the bead. "I can remove the wind, lightning, and darkness attributes. The evil attribute is fundamental to this Life Bead's existence, so it'll be difficult to remove without destroying it. If I were at full strength, I might be able to do it, but as I am now..."
"Yuhao, the evil attribute will benefit your First Martial Soul, too."
Electrolux reminded him from within his Sea of Spirit.
"For one thing, it'll make your Spirit Shock more offensive."
After a period of cultivation, Huo Yuhao had also learned the Soul Skill Spirit Shock, but he'd never used it.
If Huo Yuhao used Spirit Shock, he would originally need ten parts of spiritual power to affect his opponent.
With the evil attribute's enhancement, however, he might need only six parts, or even less.
The impact would also be stronger.
Simply put, this evil attribute was like a weapon with an armor-piercing effect, with an additional side effect that caused confusion.
Hearing Electrolux's words, Huo Yuhao immediately nodded to Gu Yuena.
"Then let's keep it!"
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