"Life's Pattern"
This was the forbidden-spell-level magic Huo Yuhao had carved onto Zhao Kang's Eighth Soul Ring.
Zhao Kang's martial soul was merely darkness-aligned, not an evil martial soul, so in theory, it was compatible with any type of magic.
As for why Huo Yuhao had carved a spell unrelated to his martial soul's attribute...
It was actually to help Zhao Kang successfully break through to level 90 and smoothly become a Titled Douluo.
As everyone knew, when a Soul Douluo broke through to Titled Douluo, they needed to condense a soul core in addition to absorbing a soul ring.
He worried that someone like Zhao Kang, whose growth he had forcibly accelerated like a farmer tugging on seedlings, might fail to withstand the soul core's impact and botch the breakthrough.
Zhao Kang was an excellent experimental subject for him.
This increase in strength was one of his trials.
Once it succeeded, Huo Yuhao could use this method to produce an endless stream of subordinates firmly under his control.
He did not want Zhao Kang, his test subject, to fail. After all, he was rather fond of him.
The Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring was immensely powerful. After the forbidden spell was carved onto it, it even triggered terrifying celestial phenomena.
For the level-89 Zhao Kang, however shaky his foundations were, that single level was no insurmountable chasm. He crossed it easily and reached the great threshold of level 90.
With a pull of his hand, Huo Yuhao took another hundred-thousand-year soul beast's corpse, its soul ring not yet dispersed, from the Undead Demiplane and tossed it before him. Zhao Kang understood immediately and began drawing in and absorbing the ring.
This absorption was extremely fast. With his experience absorbing the previous soul ring, the process went very smoothly, and