Self-Condensing Soul Ring

Gu Yuena's true form is the Silver Dragon King, and she commands the power of elements.

To strip away the elements of wind, lightning, and darkness was as simple as breathing for her.

"I command the power of elements; I can strip them away just as easily as I can bestow them. You didn't ask me to imbue it with other elements—do you have a specific goal in mind?"

Huo Yuhao took the Life Bead, which now contained only the attributes of time, space, and evil, from Gu Yuena's hands.

He looked up at Gu Yuena and nodded.

Gu Yuena still possessed her wisdom, even if she often displayed a more world-shaking side.

Huo Yuhao pondered for a moment before deciding to tell Gu Yuena his true thoughts.

Since Gu Yuena had staked all her chips on him, she surely wouldn't stop him.

Even if Huo Yuhao hid it from her now, the commotion caused when he eventually performed the attribute induction would inevitably alert her.

Rather than leaving a rift between them due to concealment, it was better to be upfront from the start.

Besides, his actions would not cause any harm to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

Since Gu Yuena had already invested this much, she clearly wouldn't mind adding a little more.

"If it were before today, I might have needed Sister Nana to help me integrate all the elemental attributes so that my eyes could evolve into the Eye of Elements. But after seeing that Auspicious Beast today, I want to be a bit greedier."

"The Auspicious Beast can perform attribute induction for humans, and while doing so, it will share a portion of the Power of Fate."

"I want my eyes to evolve into the Eye of Fate."

Huo Yuhao was the Holy Son of Spirit Hall and frequented the library daily, so Gu Yuena was not surprised that he recognized the Emperor Auspicious Beast and knew about attribute induction.

Over the past hundreds of thousands to a million years, this was not the only Emperor Auspicious Beast to have appeared.

Since they had appeared before and performed attribute induction for humans, there were records of it.

The Star Dou Great Forest's Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, was the key existence bearing the destiny of the soul beast race.

And Huo Yuhao was about to become the second Co-Lord of Soul Beasts.

Furthermore, he was currently carving out a path of survival for the soul beast race.

Even if Huo Yuhao hadn't brought it up, Gu Yuena would have eventually had the Auspicious Beast perform the attribute induction for him to make him stronger.

Gu Yuena fell into thought.

"The method you speak of is not impossible, but the Power of Fate shared during the Auspicious Beast's attribute induction is only a fraction. With the assistance of the Life Bead, this portion of the Power of Fate might allow your Spirit Eye to possess the initial form of the Eye of Fate, but it may not be enough to sustain its complete evolution."

Huo Yuhao gripped the Life Bead and smiled. "That will be enough."

If one Emperor Auspicious Beast couldn't solve the problem, he could just use two!

The strengthening of Elder Yi's divine consciousness fragments and the two million-year soul rings on his body all proved the feasibility of this.

Gu Yuena nodded, took the Life Bead from Huo Yuhao, and performed some modifications.

"Before you perform the attribute induction, place it into your Sea of Spirit first. Once it has absorbed the Power of Fate, then you can fuse with it."

"As for the Auspicious Beast, I will go speak with it."

Huo Yuhao was just marveling at how smoothly things were going when he heard Gu Yuena's last sentence and hurriedly pulled her back.

"Sister Nana, let's wait a little longer."

"Attribute induction is something an Auspicious Beast can only perform once in its life, after all. Let me get to know the Auspicious Beast first; let's do it after we've become familiar with each other."

If he performed the attribute induction now, he would be at a massive loss.

"Elder Yi, I will trouble you when I condense my soul ring."

Elder Yi had already observed the Sky Dream Iceworm's sacrifice and watched Huo Yuhao absorb soul rings after killing soul beasts; now, he was witnessing the scene of self-condensing soul rings, something that could only be seen in transformed soul beasts.

Huo Yuhao wanted a path that was mutually beneficial to both humans and soul beasts, and studying Huo Yuhao's self-condensing soul rings was an extremely important part of that process.

"Leave it to this old man."

Self-condensing a soul ring would absorb the surrounding heaven and earth energy, and Gu Yuena's healing space was not suitable for it.

She simply took Huo Yuhao away from the Lake of Life, though they remained in the core area where the heaven and earth energy was most concentrated.

Gu Yuena dispersed all the soul beasts in the vicinity, while she herself stayed not far from Huo Yuhao to stand guard for him.

Huo Yuhao sat cross-legged on a giant boulder and communicated with his Ancestral Dragon Spirit.

The phantom of the Ancestral Dragon appeared above Huo Yuhao, and the vast heaven and earth energy began to pour into the phantom in an endless stream.

It shifted from an initially invisible state to something so dense it looked like white mist.

The nearly materialized heaven and earth energy formed a massive vortex, and at the center of the vortex was the Ancestral Dragon phantom that no beast dared to look at directly.

By the shore of the Lake of Life, Xiao Wu looked toward the area thick with white mist from time to time.

"Daming, Erming, what exactly is happening over there?" Xiao Wu gnawed on a giant radish, her red eyes filled with curiosity.

"Aren't you two responsible for guarding the forest? How come you don't seem concerned at all?"

Arou, standing to the side, smiled and stroked Xiao Wu's soft rabbit fur.

"Xiao Wu, if you want to survive safely in this world, you must not have too strong a sense of curiosity."

Especially for their Soft Bone Rabbit clan, which lacked any powerful means of attack.

Given Xiao Wu's situation, she would surely follow the same path as her in the future: transforming into a human to enter the human world and interact with them, thereby improving her own cultivation.

"What is there to fear? Aren't Daming and Erming here?"

Xiao Wu didn't take it to heart. "With those two guardians of the Star Dou Great Forest around, who would dare to bully me!"

After making such a bold declaration, Xiao Wu suddenly froze.

She thought of the man in black who had made the Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape act so deferentially.

"It couldn't have been caused by them, could it?"

Xiao Wu spoke without thinking, the words slipping out before she could stop them.

Daming and Erming's expressions collapsed. "Sister Xiao Wu, don't bring up these matters!"

It was precisely because of this that they dared not reveal even a hint of the existence of Di Tian and the other Great Beast Kings to Xiao Wu.

If they were truly provoked, Xiao Wu, a rabbit nearing one hundred thousand years of cultivation, would end up as a dish on the dining table of those fierce beasts.

Xiao Wu quickly clamped her mouth shut and glanced around in a hurry. Seeing that no one had appeared, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Yet, the curiosity in her heart was impossible to suppress.

Some things were all the more intriguing precisely because people didn't want them to be known.

Huo Yuhao spent five full days absorbing, nearly draining the heaven and earth energy of the entire core area.

After five days, a new soul ring appeared around his Ancestral Dragon Spirit.

This soul ring was unlike any known soul ring; it was cyan-gold, exuding a solemn, archaic, and heavy majesty, yet it possessed a unique, transcendent beauty.

Huo Yuhao slowly opened his eyes.

He had grown a few centimeters taller, and the dragon horns on his forehead had grown slightly as well.

Gu Yuena flashed forward and appeared before Huo Yuhao. "Let's go, I'll take you back!"