Kong Deming Becomes His Teacher, Yuhao Becomes a Sun Moon National Treasure

Over these three months, quite a few major events took place in the Sun Moon Empire.

For example, through his own efforts alone, Huo Yuhao had successfully cultivated to level fifty. He only lacked a Soul Ring to become a true Soul King.

Ahem, and that was only because Huo Yuhao had deliberately concealed his progress. He had clearly reached level fifty long ago, yet held back and did not report it to Jing Hongchen.

Truth be told, Huo Yuhao's actual Soul Power Level had already reached the Soul Emperor rank!

But considering that such a rate of advancement was far too heaven-defying, and that revealing it would very likely draw the attention of the Holy Spirit Cult hidden within the Sun Moon Empire, Huo Yuhao, who had always made prudence his motto, decided not to acquire any Soul Rings for the time being.

In any case, the Soul Power he gained from writing his diary would not disappear. It would simply continue accumulating in silence.

Twenty days after becoming a Soul Grandmaster, Huo Yuhao told Jing Hongchen that he had already reached level thirty and urgently needed a Third Soul Ring to advance to a Soul Elder and a level-three Soul Engineer.

When Jing Hongchen heard Huo Yuhao's words, his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

Even though he already knew Huo Yuhao had been exceptionally fortunate to consume an Immortal Herb, Jing Hongchen had never expected that herb to have such a terrifying effect!

Raising a Soul Grandmaster to the Soul Elder rank in twenty days was something that occasionally happened in the Sun Moon Empire, but only after frantically stuffing oneself with pills!

After questioning him several times, and even after Huo Yuhao brought out all the pills Xiao Hongchen had given him before, completely untouched, Jing Hongchen finally believed that Huo Yuhao had not chosen that force-fed method of advancement.

Still, to be safe, Jing Hongchen used several methods to examine Huo Yuhao's physical condition. His final conclusion was that every meridian in Huo Yuhao's body was far sturdier and broader than anything he had known before!

Under such circumstances, Huo Yuhao's cultivation speed was simply beyond what ordinary people could imagine!

Jing Hongchen could only attribute it to the Immortal Herb Huo Yuhao had consumed in the Star Dou Great Forest, believing that it had brought an earth-shaking transformation to his body.

After clarifying the situation, Jing Hongchen joined forces with several experienced experts once again to determine the age limit of the Soul Rings Huo Yuhao's current physical strength could absorb. He then personally took Huo Yuhao to hunt for a Soul Ring, allowing him to successfully become a Soul Elder.

Jing Hongchen had initially thought that would be the end of it. Yet a month later, when Huo Yuhao came to him again and said that his Soul Power Level had reached another bottleneck, and that he would become a Soul Ancestor with just a Fourth Soul Ring, Jing Hongchen discovered for the first time just how fragile his poor heart could be.

The sheer terror of Huo Yuhao's talent had already far exceeded Jing Hongchen's imagination. This time, he did not make the decision alone. Instead, he brought Huo Yuhao to Kong Deming, the master of the Sun Moon Empire's Hall of Enshrinement, and told him everything about Huo Yuhao in detail.

The facts proved that it was not that Jing Hongchen had weak nerves. Huo Yuhao's rate of advancement was simply too monstrous!

Even Kong Deming and the group of Titled Douluo in the Hall of Enshrinement were so shocked by Huo Yuhao's performance that their scalps went numb. Every one of them set aside what they were doing to examine Huo Yuhao's condition.

In the end, however, they reached exactly the same conclusion as Jing Hongchen. They unanimously believed that Huo Yuhao's heaven-defying cultivation speed was still due to the effects of that Immortal Herb.

Moreover, Kong Deming discovered that the Soul Power within Huo Yuhao's body was nothing like what someone who had just reached level forty could possess. He then came to another conclusion: Huo Yuhao's strength would likely continue to grow at that heaven-defying speed until he reached a certain level, after which it would finally slow down.

No one doubted whether Kong Deming's assessment was accurate. The Titled Douluo of the Hall of Enshrinement had only one thing on their minds: competing to take Huo Yuhao as their disciple.

They all envied Huo Yuhao's luck in finding an Immortal Herb even within the Star Dou Great Forest. If they had consumed that herb, they would definitely have broken through their bottlenecks and become Super Douluo!

But since the Immortal Herb was already gone, taking Huo Yuhao, who had consumed it, as a disciple became what they wanted most.

After all, according to Jing Hongchen, after his granddaughter Meng Hongchen spent more time around Huo Yuhao, even her martial soul had advanced to the level of Ultimate Ice.

In their understanding, only an Auspicious Beast beloved by heaven and earth could benefit other Soul Beasts, while Huo Yuhao was practically a humanoid Auspicious Beast.

Jing Hongchen had initially entertained the same thought and wanted to compete with the Titled Douluo. But once Kong Deming personally stepped forward and declared that he, too, wished to take Huo Yuhao as his disciple, everyone else gave up.

Naturally, Huo Yuhao had no reason to refuse Kong Deming's intention to accept him as a disciple.

Whether it was Kong Deming's identity as the strongest Soul Engineer or his transcendent status within the Sun Moon Empire, becoming his disciple could only bring benefits and no harm.

As though to confirm Huo Yuhao's thoughts, after he formally became Kong Deming's disciple, Kong Deming directly pulled out a massive pile of high-grade Soul Tools, nearly arming Huo Yuhao to the teeth!

He even had every Rank Nine Soul Engineer in the Hall of Enshrinement produce a welcoming gift. Even Jing Hongchen grudgingly gave Huo Yuhao a Hongchen Blessing.

As he handed it over, Jing Hongchen grumbled inwardly. Had I known this would happen, I should have accepted Huo Yuhao as my disciple before coming to the Hall of Enshrinement. Then I wouldn't have ended up like this.

Fortunately, his granddaughter and grandson had an excellent relationship with Huo Yuhao. Not only had Meng Hongchen's martial soul undergone a positive mutation, her Soul Power had already surpassed level forty. It would not be long before she advanced to Soul King.

Even Xiao Hongchen was now working harder to study Soul Tools and improve his strength, with no intention of slacking off in the slightest.

If this continued, Jing Hongchen believed that the glory of the Hongchen Family could continue smoothly.

Although the Rank Nine Soul Engineers of the Hall of Enshrinement had failed to take Huo Yuhao as a disciple, each of them still told him to visit the Hall of Enshrinement whenever he had time. Whatever doubts he had, he could come ask them.

They believed that even without a master-disciple relationship, spending enough time with a humanoid Auspicious Beast like Huo Yuhao might bring them some benefits.

If it could loosen the bottlenecks caused by taking pills and give them hope of breaking through to Super Douluo, it would be tremendous news for the entire Sun Moon Empire!

Huo Yuhao only wanted to say: Oh no, I've become a national treasure!

Besides that, a number of other events, neither too major nor too minor, also occurred.

The beautiful girls who had grown accustomed to revolving around Huo Yuhao every day steadily increased their Soul Power and received varying rewards. After Xu Tianzhen obtained a piece of Gold of Life so gentle that it would only replenish Life Force rather than devour it, she immediately gave it to her imperial father, successfully allowing the Sun Moon Emperor, who had been plagued by serious illness, to fully recover.

For a time, the imperial princes who had been openly and secretly fighting over the throne were all dumbfounded.

After learning that Xu Tianzhen was the greatest contributor to this matter, even Xu Tianran, who had always doted on this younger sister the most, could not help gritting his teeth as he "properly thanked" her.

However, when Xu Tianran learned that his younger sister was trying to find a way to see whether his disabled lower body could recover, he said nothing more. He simply waved her away and sat alone in his study for a long while.

Unlike the other girls, Gu Chieftain was still Gu Chieftain.

Although she had met the requirements many times over these three months, she either received only the guaranteed reward, or the other two rewards did not include the item she needed most to heal her injuries.

Gold of Life like the kind Xu Tianzhen obtained was simply a drop in the bucket for Gu Yuena's injuries. It could not even be compared with the vast amount of Gold of Life within the Lake of Life at the center of the Star Dou Great Forest.

The reason Gu Yuena had agreed so decisively to accompany Huo Yuhao to the Extreme North was not only because she did not want to see anything happen to him. She also wanted to use this period of time alone with Huo Yuhao to claim all three rewards for herself. She refused to believe that she still would not obtain the reward she wanted!

Huo Yuhao used the Diary's photo function to take a picture of Gu Yuena's graceful back, directly uploaded it to the Diary, and began writing in it with his thoughts.

Image, image. The journey to the Extreme North officially begins! With Gu Yuena, the Soul Beast Co-Lord, traveling alongside me, everything should go smoothly now that the God Realm and the Douluo Continent have lost contact, right?