Tianmeng let his guard down for a moment, and Illusion Butterfly's remnant soul charged straight into the martial spirit origin deep within Huo Yuhao's soul.
Pfft—blood flowed from Huo Yuhao's eye sockets as his body rapidly swelled, on the verge of exploding to death.
Yan Shaozhe hurriedly interrupted Huo Yuhao's absorption.
Although Yan Shaozhe's intervention saved Huo Yuhao's life, it also brought severe side effects.
His Spirit Eyes' quality had directly degraded from that blow.
Bloody tears streamed from his eye sockets, and the soul power he had painstakingly cultivated to Rank 30 fell back to Rank 29.
Huo Yuhao's Mental Sea teetered on the brink of collapse before he finally lost consciousness.
"How is the child doing now?" Yan Shaozhe asked the soul master by the Tree of Life.
The soul master shook his head and said helplessly, "Unfortunately, because he recklessly sought quick success and tried to absorb a Transcendent Spirit Ring, he failed, causing the quality of his Spirit Eyes martial spirit to degrade. The consequence of a martial spirit's quality degrading is that he will be forever limited to Rank 29 and unable to break through to Rank 30."
The elders of Sea God's Pavilion exchanged glances at this news. Though Huo Yuhao had not been as dazzling afterward as he had been before the Soul Master Tournament, he was still a twin top-tier martial spirit soul master, one with an Ultimate martial spirit. Shrek had still invested a certain amount of resources in him.
But now, what was the point of a soul master stuck at Rank 29, even if he had a top-tier martial spirit, even if he possessed Ultimate Ice?
"Wait, Huo Yuhao has another martial spirit. If he doesn't cultivate his Spirit Eyes and cultivates the Ice Jade Scorpion instead, wouldn't