The Bright Half-Plane was entirely under Huo Yuhao's control. Zi JI had fled for ages, only for Huo Yuhao to catch up with her in an instant.
But now, Zi JI had shed her beast form and taken human shape. Violet-black scales covered her entire body. She had a slender figure, a full bust, and long, straight legs. Above her breasts, her snow-white shoulders and deep cleavage lay exposed.
Her long violet-black hair spilled down her back, stirring without a breeze and naturally billowing out on either side of her body.
Although blood loss had drained the color from her lovely face, it could not hide her beauty, which could bewitch all living beings. Instead, it added a touch of sickly allure.
"Sir, I can see that you're immensely powerful, but your Soul Power Level is only in the seventies. You probably can't absorb a three-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring anyway. As long as you let me go, I can give you everything I have, including my body."
Zi JI did not want to die. Her heavenly tribulation was still more than ten thousand years away, and even when it came, Di Tian's help would let her survive it and gain another hundred thousand years of life. The sight of the Scarlet King's death kept haunting her mind. After living for so many years, she had felt fear for the first time. At the same time, she was very confident in her beauty.
Huo Yuhao sneered. "If you give yourself to me, won't Di Tian get angry when he finds out?"
Hearing this, Zi JI immediately felt she had a chance. Delight appeared on her face, along with a trace of resentment.
"All Di Tian knows how to do is cultivate, day in and day out. Only someone as free of worldly desires as Bi Ji could put up with him. If I weren't afraid of his strength, I would have found myself countless male consorts long ago."
Huo Yuhao was utterly stunned by her words.
He could see that Zi JI did indeed have a graceful figure and beauty that could bewitch all living beings. An ordinary person would probably have fallen willingly and taken her into his harem.
But who was he?
A famously ironclad straight man. Zi JI was nowhere near capable of seducing him. He had absolutely no interest in human-beast affairs.
Thus, his answer to Zi JI was eight golden flying blades carrying terrifying force, along with the lightning-covered battle blade in his hand.
"You-" As Huo Yuhao suddenly attacked, Zi JI instantly understood. She transformed back into her hundred-meter-tall dragon form, resisting desperately and making a stubborn last stand.
"Human, if you kill me, Di Tian will avenge me! Just you wait!"
Knowing she was certain to die today, Zi JI began verbally attacking Huo Yuhao.
Unfortunately, her trash talk had no effect on him whatsoever.
Huo Yuhao's gaze remained resolute. Battle blade in hand, he began his final clash with Zi JI, the Abyss Demon Dragon.
Xuan Zi had already injured Zi JI so badly that she had only a tenth of her strength left. After another half hour of being worn down by Huo Yuhao's flying blades, she was now a spent arrow at the end of its flight. Following a few brief exchanges, Huo Yuhao successfully killed this nearly three-hundred-thousand-year-old Soul Beast.
A rain of blood fell from the sky once again, while the dragon's severed body crashed heavily to the ground in two pieces. Although the Hell Demon Dragon King was younger than the Scarlet King, her death caused a far greater commotion, all thanks to her enormous size.
Thus, the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff and the Hell Demon Dragon King-the Abyss Demon Dragon King-two three-hundred-thousand-year super Ferocious Beasts ranked among the top ten Ferocious Beasts, had both died at Huo Yuhao's hands in an incredibly humiliating fashion.
They had died in this other plane.
But luck was also a kind of strength. Was the gravely wounded Scarlet King and Zi JI's encounter with a sneaky bastard like Huo Yuhao not also an arrangement of fate?
After steadying his breathing a little, Huo Yuhao piled the Abyss Demon Dragon King's and Scarlet King's corpses together. He sat cross-legged before the two severed bodies, solemnly studying the two blood-red Soul Rings in front of him.
One was a three-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, and the other was a two-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year Soul Ring. Both were terrifyingly old, and Huo Yuhao could see with his own eyes just how vast the energy within them was.
Come, the third Soul Ring for my Spirit Eyes.
With a thought, Huo Yuhao drew the blood-red Soul Ring above the corpse of Zi JI, the Abyss Demon Dragon King, toward himself.
Terrifying Soul Power accumulated over two hundred and ninety thousand years instantly poured down, flowing from his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul into every limb and bone. Had Huo Yuhao's physique not already been strengthened to the level of a Titled Douluo, that initial surge of energy would have made his body explode, killing him. A two-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year Soul Ring truly was terrifying.
But besides his Spirit Eyes, Huo Yuhao had two other Martial Souls.
The Eye of Devouring of his Spirit Eyes worked furiously, absorbing the terrifying energy within the blood-red Soul Ring. At the same time, the golden White Tiger behind him began gulping down that energy like a whale, sharing the Spirit Eyes' burden. His Divine Dragon Pearl also began helping him channel the violent energy within his body, and his aura steadily grew stronger.
The Soul Power within a Soul Ring was indeed the purest form of energy. Moreover, the older the ring, the greater the quantity and quality of its Soul Power. But there were limits to all of this. A beast king's Soul Ring undoubtedly exceeded what a Soul Master could absorb.
Throughout the entire Douluo Soul Master World, no one had ever heard of a Soul Master absorbing a Soul Ring older than a hundred thousand years.
First, such rings were difficult to obtain. Second, when a Soul Douluo advanced to Titled Douluo, they simply could not absorb such a powerful Soul Ring.
Yet Huo Yuhao was now absorbing a nearly three-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring as a Soul Saint. To anyone else, this would have sounded like a tale from the Arabian Nights. Even in the original story, Huo Yuhao's early Ferocious Beast Soul Rings had required sacrifice and sealing to be absorbed.
The present Huo Yuhao, however, was relying on his formidable physique and powerful Martial Souls to forcibly absorb it.
Truly terrifying!
Soon, his Soul Power rose from level seventy-six to level eighty. But once the Soul Power within him reached the threshold of level eighty, his Soul Power Level stopped increasing. Vast, powerful Soul Power nevertheless continued pouring madly into his body.
Huo Yuhao could only keep compressing that Soul Power, compressing it, and compressing it again.
The baptism of heaven and earth had already made the Soul Power within Huo Yuhao incomparably pure. Afterward, his Divine Dragon Pearl had absorbed several Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings in succession, so the amount of Soul Power within him was already immense. Now, as he absorbed this nearly three-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring with such a high-grade bloodline, his frantic compression turned almost all the Soul Power within him into liquid.
His flowing, gaseous Soul Power became liquid Soul Power.
Yet a third of the energy in Zi JI's Soul Ring still remained.
Huo Yuhao could only continue compressing it.
Looking at the remaining portion of Zi JI's Soul Ring and the Scarlet King's even stronger three-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, Huo Yuhao suddenly had a bold idea.
He would keep compressing the liquid Soul Power within his body into solid Soul Power, then condense a Soul Core in one fell swoop.
When a Soul Douluo broke through to Titled Douluo, they condensed all the liquid Soul Power in their body into solid Soul Power and stored it in their dantian, forming a Soul Core. As the Soul Core continuously rotated, it drew in external Soul Power through the Soul Master for them to use.
By condensing all their strength into a Soul Core and storing it in their dantian, they created a self-sustaining cycle. Its high-speed rotation not only accelerated their absorption of Soul Power, but even allowed them to absorb external Soul Power for their own use.
The Soul Power expended while condensing a Soul Core could also be recovered very quickly. In other words, after condensing a Soul Core, a Soul Master's strength would at least double across the board, and that improvement was permanent.
This was also why Super Douluos in Douluo II could crush Ferocious Beasts hundreds of thousands of years old.
And now, Huo Yuhao was about to make this dangerous attempt.
I don't know what it means to be young and reckless. I only know that the victor is king.
If it works, it works. If it doesn't, I'll just try again next time. I won't lose anything anyway.
He put his plan into action immediately.
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