Time rewound to when Huo Yuhao had just recovered his soul power and spiritual power.
"Brother Feng, are you there?"
The reply came instantly.
"When you need something, it's Brother Feng. When you don't, it's Luo Feng? How long has it been since you last contacted me?" Luo Feng looked thoroughly aggrieved on the other end.
"More than half a year, I think!" Huo Yuhao was equally wistful, marveling inwardly at how quickly time had flown. They really did seem like old friends catching up after a long separation.
"How have you been lately?" Luo Feng and Huo Yuhao asked at the same time.
"Pretty good." Once again, they answered in unison.
After those two inexplicable moments of synchronization, both of them laughed, looking utterly at ease. Luo Feng could no longer remember how long it had been since he had laughed like this, and the same was true of Huo Yuhao. Their friendship had been brief, but the distance between their times and worlds had made it unshakably strong.
They were like kindred spirits.
"Have you gone into space yet?"
A moment later, Huo Yuhao asked.
"No, but I'm somewhere I can grow stronger. Every day feels fulfilling."
Luo Feng answered candidly, then asked, "What about you?"
"I'm somewhere I can grow stronger too. We both have reasons we need to become even stronger." With their catching up finished, Huo Yuhao's expression turned solemn. "Luo Feng, I need your help!"
On the other end, in the Swallowed Star World, Luo Feng also grew serious. In all the time they had known each other, this was only the second time Huo Yuhao had asked him for help. He valued this friend, who was much younger than him, a great deal. Huo Yuhao held a very important place in his heart.
The place he had mentioned where he could grow stronger was the Virtual Universe.
Every day, aboard Planet Yun Mo's spaceship, Luo Feng fought geniuses from across the universe and grew stronger. The more contact he had with the universe, the more astonished he became by the abilities Huo Yuhao had given him. He could still picture Babata's exaggerated expressions and frantic bouncing upon learning that he had mastered countless law-based skills.
Remembering that Huo Yuhao had once worn the same expression made him want to laugh.
But Huo Yuhao's request was important, and Luo Feng took it seriously.
It's a good chance to change my hairstyle too.
He took several thousand-year-old pieces of fo-ti out of his storage space and wolfed them down in a few bites. Soon, his short black hair became long, flowing locks. After precisely cutting off eighteen hundred strands, he took out a translucent energy crystal that smelled of rice. It was the treasure with the greatest amount of energy he currently possessed: a Muya Crystal.
After shattering and dissolving it, he placed the cut hair inside, trying to infuse all that energy into it.
Luo Feng had long since learned that Huo Yuhao could not exchange for energy from his world-not even a little. If Huo Yuhao wanted energy from Luo Feng's world, they could only keep exploiting the loophole. He had originally intended to keep trading his eyes, but Huo Yuhao had adamantly refused.
So they replaced eyes with hair.
Huo Yuhao had 1,800 withdrawal points, so Luo Feng cut off a small lock of hair. After soaking it in the Muya Crystal's energy, he decisively clicked "Gift."
"Babata, give me a handsome haircut. I'm going out to spend some time with Xu Xin."
The little demon Babata floated over, circled Luo Feng once, and teased him.
"What's this? Luo Feng, a cultivation maniac like you is actually willing to go out and relax?"
In an excellent mood, Luo Feng looked at Babata and said with a smile:
"It's not that I don't want to rest. I just happened to get an excuse to slack off today."
Huo Yuhao was still struggling to hold on. Electrolux's healing had greatly improved his condition, but the Eye of the Storm soul core inside him was inflicting far too much damage. Absorbing that berserk energy was like something out of an impossible fairy tale.
Even with Seven-Color reducing the damage by half, Huo Yuhao still struggled to withstand it. He had only reached the halfway point of absorption when he spat out another mouthful of blood filled with fragments of his internal organs, and his consciousness finally began to blur. Just then, the withdrawal points on the virtual screen in his spiritual sea of consciousness-the one Elder Yi could not see-vanished instantly. A lock of long black hair appeared in his hand. Looking at those abnormally long strands, Huo Yuhao felt a trace of warmth in his heart.
The hair was very dry, clearly drained by the shrewd system, but Huo Yuhao could still sense the immense energy it contained. He did not hesitate any longer, nor could he afford to feel disgusted. After all, he had already eaten Luo Feng's eyeballs. What was a little hair?
Sure enough, treasures from Swallowed Star had never disappointed him.
As soon as that lock of hair entered his stomach, its immense energy activated the cells in his body. His damaged internal organs were immediately repaired as well. With his condition restored, Huo Yuhao instantly threw everything he had into absorbing the Eye of the Storm soul core.
The excruciating pain remained, but his heart held "Huo Yuhao's" hatred. Though he had suppressed those negative emotions, they had never dissipated. This was also one of the reasons he was so determined to avenge "Huo Yuhao" and Huo Yun'er. He wanted to break free completely.
To let him go, and to let himself go too.
That hatred allowed Huo Yuhao to resist stubbornly when the agony struck. Even though his body trembled violently from the pain, he remained seated firmly. His hands had clenched into fists, his nails even digging into his flesh.
The damage to his body had been dealt with. Now it was a contest of willpower.
The Eye of the Storm soul core had begun merging with Huo Yuhao. His clothes had already been shredded by that powerful force combining astral winds and space. Nine blue-green lines spread outward across his body from a single point on his chest.
His forehead, limbs, chest, abdomen, and back were all covered in those blue-green lines, as though they had been engraved into his skin. Huo Yuhao's body visibly rose without any wind. An invisible breeze seemed to flow along those markings, suspending him in midair.
At that moment, Huo Yuhao's three Martial Souls also manifested on their own. All three golden Martial Souls now visibly glimmered with a faint blue-green light, and powerful astral force surrounded them, as though the slightest movement could unleash the might of a hurricane.
As time passed, a fist-sized black vortex appeared in the center of Huo Yuhao's chest. Within it was a blue-green vortex that could not be looked at directly. Driven by the nine leaves, the vortex spun rapidly.
That part of his body seemed intact, yet also looked as though someone had dug a piece out of it.
This black-hole vortex containing the blue-green soul core seemed to grow out of Huo Yuhao's chest, yet also seemed to exist in another world.
Electrolux watched from the side, marveling endlessly. He could tell that the aura around Huo Yuhao was gradually settling down. In other words, Huo Yuhao was about to succeed.
And that was indeed the case. Huo Yuhao had now completely merged with the Eye of the Storm soul core and could control it at will.
He directed the Eye of the Storm soul core to gradually shrink away from his chest until it disappeared completely. His chest became smooth and unblemished again, but it seemed as though an enormous engine sat within it, constantly producing thunderous vibrations.
Huo Yuhao briefly checked himself. His strength had increased at least threefold across the board.
He seemed to have an inexhaustible supply of soul power, and his blood and vitality were unimaginably strong. Even his soul power had gained an additional attribute-the wind element attribute.
And it was not just his soul power. All three of his Martial Souls had gained the wind attribute to varying degrees as well.
The Eye of the Storm soul core was powerful indeed.
Moreover, from Huo Yuhao's observations, his soul core obtained soul power in a different way.
Other Titled Douluos' soul cores absorbed soul power directly from space or the air.
His soul core, however, drew in the soul power in the air through the black-hole vortex's high-speed rotation, then further purified it through the nine blue-green cores before feeding it back into Huo Yuhao's body.
Dual-core drive, greater efficiency!
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