Spiritual Breakthrough? What's the Fuss!

The first wonder of Immortal Herbs was their ability to evolve Martial Souls, making up for shortcomings in natural talent.

The Sea God Trident and the Asura Demon Sword were both Super Divine Artifacts. As Martial Souls, they were already close to perfection.

Unless a Dragon God Martial Soul existed somewhere in the world, no Martial Soul could surpass them in quality.

There was no hope of evolving them with an Immortal Herb!

Lin Hao looked over the Immortal Herbs and ultimately took only the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.

This Immortal Herb could strengthen his spiritual power, making it the most beneficial to him.

His spiritual power was already strong. Consuming the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew could raise it beyond that of Psychic Soul Masters who specialized in spiritual power, making him a flawless Hexagonal Warrior.

The Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew was green all over, with three snow-white leaves. A few droplets rested at their center, like dew left behind by the morning.

Lin Hao raised the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to his lips and tilted it slightly. Several drops of clear liquid fell into his mouth.

The moment the liquid left its leaves, the entire plant withered. In the blink of an eye, it crumbled into dust and drifted away.

Sweetness flowed down his throat, and a crisp, refreshing fragrance filled every corner of his body.

Waves of coolness spread through him, then gradually drew back, rising from his limbs through his meridians toward his head.

The Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew's medicinal effects were gentle, making it smooth and pleasant to absorb.

The coolness slowly turned warm. His Sea of Consciousness felt as comfortable as if it were being soothed with warm water, while his Soul Power and spiritual power seemed to help the medicine take effect.

Sea Horse Douluo, Dugu Bo, and Dugu Yan watched Lin Hao curiously.

They had heard of cultivating by consuming pills and medicinal herbs, but such methods usually came with severe aftereffects.

They had never even heard of the Immortal Herbs Lin Hao described, which could both strengthen one's foundations and improve one's aptitude.

Naturally, their curiosity about Immortal Herbs grew.

An hour later, Lin Hao opened his eyes, the Purple Demon Eye gleaming. The world suddenly seemed full of dazzling detail. Countless tiny changes appeared before him, revealing strange sights hidden in the smallest things.

His Purple Demon Eye had broken through again, reaching the third level: the Mustard Seed Realm.

He looked around. The Poison Formation outside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was no longer a cloud of poison to his eyes, but countless tiny particles. Vast life force flowed through the veins of the Immortal Herbs around him, and then...

So big. So white!

Lin Hao immediately looked away, but everyone who met his gaze felt a chill, as though he had seen straight through them.

Dugu Bo and Sea Horse Douluo only felt that Lin Hao had become even more formidable, while Dugu Yan glared at him in flustered annoyance.

A woman's intuition told her he had crossed a line.

Noticing Dugu Yan's glare, Lin Hao naturally gave nothing away. Under Dugu Bo's expectant gaze, he began to explain.

"Senior Dugu, I have four ways to solve your problem. Which one you choose is up to you."

"Which four?"

Dugu Bo nearly jumped for joy. He rubbed his hands together and stared eagerly at Lin Hao.

"First, condense a Soul Core and store all the poison inside it. Then you won't have to worry about poison entering your body. But condensing a Soul Core requires the strength of a Titled Douluo, so this won't work for Dugu Yan."

"Second, absorb these two Immortal Herbs. Each contains an extreme ice or fire poison, but taken together, they neutralize each other and make the person who consumes them immune to all poisons."

"Third, absorb a Soul Bone and store the poison inside it. But Soul Bones have a limit, and I don't know where that limit lies. A poison-attribute External Soul Bone would be best."

"Fourth, purge all the poison from your body, consume an Immortal Herb, and trigger a Martial Soul Mutation. That would let you abandon the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor's cultivation path entirely."

After hearing Lin Hao's options, Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan fell into thought.

Having reached his current level, Dugu Bo had already seen through many things.

He had his own understanding of his Martial Soul's problem.

There was nothing wrong with the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor. After breaking through to Titled Douluo, he had condensed a Poison Core within his body, and all the poison he cultivated afterward was stored inside it.

No new poison entered his body. The poison still within him had accumulated during his earlier cultivation.

But that was precisely the problem. A Jade Phosphorous Serpent had no Poison Core. One would form only upon reaching the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor stage—in other words, the Titled Douluo realm.

It was a thoroughly rotten catch.

Without cultivating, there was no way to condense a Poison Core, and uncontrolled poison would enter the body. But cultivating made the poison sink ever deeper, until death became inevitable.

It was a single narrow road blocked at both ends.

By all rights, Dugu Bo should never have reached Titled Douluo. He should have died first.

But luck had smiled on him. He had stumbled into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, used its aura to suppress the poison in his body, and successfully broken through to Titled Douluo.

For once, he had been fate's favored son.

"Then... that solves the poison I'll cultivate from now on, but what about the poison already in my body?"

"Don't worry. I'll handle it!" Lin Hao pointed calmly at himself. "I'll use Sea God's Light to cleanse your meridians from head to toe. I guarantee there won't be a trace of poison left in either of you."

Lin Hao had not been able to use Sea God's Light on such a scale before, but with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, he could now sustain it once or twice.

Dugu Bo's last concern vanished. Determination filled his eyes. "I'll choose the first method. All my poison arts rely on the poison of my Martial Soul. If I got rid of it, I'd lose half my strength."

"As for Yanyan, Lin Hao, please help her achieve a Martial Soul Mutation. This Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul has brought the Dugu Family no end of suffering. We're better off without it!"

After speaking, Dugu Bo's expression grew complicated.

His life could be summed up in a single line: the Jade Phosphorous Serpent had made him, and the Jade Phosphorous Serpent had ruined him.

Dugu Yan's feelings were not as tangled as Dugu Bo's. She was thinking only of what Lin Hao had said about using Sea God's Light to cleanse her entire body.

She did not know what Sea God's Light was.

But remembering the strange feeling that Lin Hao had seen everything beneath her clothes, she grew uneasy, a tingling sensation running through her.

"All right. I'll teach you how to condense a Soul Core."

Lin Hao nodded. Of course, he did not forget Sea Horse Douluo beside them.

The method for condensing a Soul Core was part of Tang San's inheritance. It seemed that inheritance had not come from a Tang San who had only just become a god; it belonged to a later point in his life.

Lin Hao even knew how to form the beginnings of a Soul Core and was already preparing to do so. He should be able to condense one by the time he became a Soul King.

"Astonishing. With this method, breaking through to Titled Douluo will become much easier."

After hearing the explanation, Dugu Bo looked at Lin Hao with open admiration.

He had never imagined that Lin Hao could devise a cultivation method for the Titled Douluo realm.

In this era, there was no clear method for breaking through to Titled Douluo. Everyone had simply forced their way forward.

A Soul Core, however, gave them a direction and paved the way for their later cultivation as well.

Sea Horse Douluo was nowhere near as amazed as Dugu Bo.

Lin Hao was a Sea God Successor. Wasn't it only natural that he knew a little more?

What was all the fuss about?