"Elder Yi, my body has reached its limit for absorbing Soul Power. To avoid wasting the immense Soul Power in these two Soul Rings, I have an idea. But once I begin, I'll have to give it everything I have and won't be able to spare any attention elsewhere. So I'm sorry for the trouble, but I'll have to leave Zi JI's and the Scarlet King's soul assaults to you."
Electrolux's interest was piqued. He wanted to see what Huo Yuhao had in mind; studying ways to harness different kinds of energy was his favorite pursuit.
"Yuhao, rest assured. With me here, a little puppy and a mudfish won't be stirring up any waves."
Electrolux brimmed with towering confidence.
The corners of Huo Yuhao's mouth twitched. Having spent so long with Electrolux, he had more or less figured out the old man's personality. Two words described him perfectly:
King of show-offs!
Swaggering lines about holding the sun and moon and plucking the stars never stopped pouring out of his mouth. The million-year-old Tian Meng, the eight-hundred-thousand-year-old Di Tian, and all those other Ferocious Beasts were nothing but little bugs, ants, and mudfish in his eyes.
But what could anyone do? He was powerful. He really did have the strength to back up his swagger.
Hadn't the three Mas from Huo Yuhao's previous life each been a bigger show-off than the last?
Perhaps this was a genius's twisted sense of fun?
With Electrolux's assurance, Huo Yuhao finally had no more worries holding him back and began his all-out gamble.
There were two keys to condensing a soul core.
The first was control over one's mental power, and the second was an enormous reserve of energy within the body.
He now met both requirements.
He cultivated his Psychic Power every day to increase the number of flying blades he could control, and his control over his mental power had reached the point where the furnace burned pure blue. Moreover, both his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul and his Divine Dragon Pearl Martial Soul were mental-type Martial Souls, naturally granting him exceptionally vast mental power.
As for an enormous reserve of energy, those two three-hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings were right there. Combined with the immense liquid Soul Power inside his body, if he still failed to condense a soul core, he would have only himself to blame.
His body was still absorbing the Soul Rings, a process Huo Yuhao could neither interrupt nor afford to interrupt. After steadying his mind, he slowly raised his right hand, and milky-white Soul Power began flowing out.
The liquid Soul Power resembled a pool of milk. Under the control of his mental power, not a drop escaped.
There was no other trick to condensing a soul core: rotate and compress.
Huo Yuhao made the liquid Soul Power in his hand rotate and compress into a sphere. Under his control, he poured out more and more Soul Power, and the vortex in his palm spun faster and faster.
As time passed, the rapidly spinning sphere of solid Soul Power in Huo Yuhao's hand began floating in the air. Under his control, a crescent-shaped embryonic fan blade of energy soon appeared around its center.
As he continued pouring out Soul Power, more fan blades appeared. By the time the liquid Soul Power in his body had been completely exhausted, the rapidly spinning center had become a shaft, surrounded by nine fan blades of Soul Power.
The terrifying rotational force sent those nine blades spinning at high speed. In an instant, countless terrifying hurricanes sprang up around them, lifting waves thousands of meters high from the golden ocean before Huo Yuhao.
That palm-sized little fan before him possessed such astonishing might that Huo Yuhao could not help marveling.
His body had been drained dry, yet the nine Soul Power blades on his bizarre soul core still had not solidified. Huo Yuhao increased the force of his absorption, even directing his Spirit Eyes to transfer the pure Soul Power from the Soul Ring straight into his soul core.
The moment gaseous Soul Power entered it, the little Fan Soul Core's high-speed rotation compressed it into a transparent thread of Soul Power that wound around it.
With such an efficient method of absorption, Zi JI's Soul Ring soon vanished completely. A third Soul Ring, bright red as blood, slowly appeared beneath Huo Yuhao.
Without a moment's hesitation, Huo Yuhao hurriedly drew over the Scarlet King's three-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. After draining all the energy from Zi JI's Soul Ring, his little Fan Soul Core had actually begun devouring even his life force.
It truly spared neither kith nor kin.
I'm your father, you unfilial brat!
Before the Scarlet King's Soul Ring energy arrived, Huo Yuhao could only mobilize everything in his body to feed it. The energy contained in the Divine Dragon Pearl, his Spirit Eyes after their Gold-Level Second Awakening, and the Golden White Tiger-even the two strands of golden fortune within him-was all supplied to the unfinished Fan Soul Core. After the Spirit Eyes drew in the Scarlet King's Soul Ring, its terrifyingly immense reserve of pure, three-hundred-thousand-year Soul Power began entering Huo Yuhao's body through them. He followed the same method, handing all of it over to the little fan soul core to absorb.
As the blades gradually solidified, the little fan's rotational speed visibly soared. It absorbed Soul Power faster and faster as it spun, and the Scarlet King's blood-red Soul Ring faded at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Three days later, the Scarlet King's Soul Ring, bearing three hundred thousand years of cultivation, vanished completely above Huo Yuhao's head. A blood-red Soul Ring slowly rose from beneath his feet. Four red Soul Rings pulsed rhythmically above his head, two of them especially dazzling, their color as vivid as blood.
The Soul Rings had been fully absorbed, and his Hurricane Soul Core had successfully condensed.
The instant the soul core finished condensing, nine terrifying hurricanes over ten meters tall sprang up around it, blowing Huo Yuhao and Electrolux far away. The fierce cutting winds made Huo Yuhao feel as though knives were slicing through his skin.
The Nine-Leaf Fan Soul Core resembled an Eye of the Storm.
Only after a long while did Huo Yuhao steady himself and look over. To his astonishment, this palm-sized soul core, as exquisite as a work of art yet impossible to look at directly, had spun and sliced at such speed that it formed a black sphere of a black hole around itself. Within it, the Eye of the Storm soul core continued moving at high speed.
His solid Soul Power had not collapsed and compressed space to form a black-hole vortex like that of other Titled Douluos.
Instead, it had sliced through space at high speed, forming a black-hole vortex on its own.
Moreover, after other people condensed their soul cores, those cores became rapidly spinning black-hole vortices. Huo Yuhao's soul core was the exact opposite. His solid Soul Power core had not collapsed into a black-hole vortex; instead, its rapid rotation and cutting had created a black-hole vortex in space.
The Eye of the Storm at the center was spinning, and the black-hole vortex outside it was spinning rapidly too.
Huo Yuhao could also clearly sense that this black-hole vortex was still expanding, though only by an extremely tiny amount.
Bizarre. It was simply too bizarre.
He could clearly feel an exceptionally close connection between himself and the Eye of the Storm soul core, as though it were part of his body.
But as Huo Yuhao looked at the powerful, violently raging Eye of the Storm soul core, he suddenly found himself at a loss.
How the hell am I supposed to absorb this?
If I take it into my body, won't this super invincible mini fan on its ninth speed setting tear me to shreds?
"Yuhao, is this the result of these past few days? You've condensed all your strength into this solid core. If you absorb it, your strength will instantly double.
"Your world really is fascinating. Now I finally understand why that human's aura earlier was stronger than those of these two Ferocious Beasts with hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation. This Soul Power core is truly marvelous."
Electrolux spoke with keen interest. Clearly, soul cores had caught his attention.
Huo Yuhao gave a bitter smile and was about to start lamenting his plight. But when he saw the two formidable figures behind Electrolux, he was stunned.
He had been wondering why there had been no sign whatsoever of Zi JI's and the Scarlet King's soul assaults over the past few days. Even if Electrolux had destroyed them, there should at least have been some disturbance. Now, however, understanding finally dawned.
It seemed Electrolux had not merely kept himself busy these past few days-he had accomplished something major.
You're incredible, Elder Yi!
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