Swallowed Star World, Mist Island, shelter.
After receiving Huo Yuhao's eyes, Luo Feng began cultivating without a moment's delay. After all, he only had one day.
Neither he nor Huo Yuhao would ever do something like this again in their lives. For cultivators like them, keeping their bodies intact was extremely important. Even if the eyes could be put back, no one knew what hidden problems might arise in the future.
After gulping down the remaining half of the thousand-year Willowwood Heart, Luo Feng drank another one. With his physique reaching the War God level and his spiritual telekinesis breaking through to advanced War God, he had grown much bolder and started venturing into the island to harvest thousand-year Willowwood Hearts.
He had stripped every area bare except the central region, which he still dared not approach. Hundreds of thousand-year Willowwood Hearts now lay in his shelter. He could truly be called filthy rich.
Luo Feng assumed the Five Hearts Facing Heaven posture, then guided all the energy in his body into Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eyes.
Everything went smoothly at first, but as he poured in more and more energy, he discovered that his body had suddenly become unable to move.
This terrified him. Nothing like this had ever happened since he began cultivating. Soon, by probing with his senses, he located the source of the problem.
Huo Yuhao's eyes, which were called a Martial Soul, were emitting a terrifying white power that enveloped his entire body. Only later did Luo Feng learn that this power was called world rule power.
The rules of the Douluo Continent converted energy into Soul Ring skills. Now that Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul had appeared in another world, a strange twist of fate had led Luo Feng to trigger that rule by accident.
The situation was now beyond Luo Feng's control. After Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eyes Martial Soul absorbed enough energy, two tiny vortices actually appeared in the eyes, sucking in the Vegetation Spirits stored in his shelter one after another at astonishing speed.
Luo Feng felt no heartache over this. After all, the eyes would return when the time was up, so it was naturally a good thing if Huo Yuhao could take these with him. There were still so many on Mist Island, and he had been worrying about how to repay Huo Yuhao anyway.
Although other thoughts occupied his mind, he did not relax in the slightest. His Psychic Power watched every movement of those two eyeballs like a hawk, afraid that something unexpected might happen.
After sucking in more than a hundred and fifty Vegetation Spirits, the Spirit Eyes Martial Soul began radiating a soul-shaking aura. Merely sensing it made Luo Feng tremble a little. Its current state was simply too bizarre.
Just then, two enormous vertical pupils suddenly appeared behind Luo Feng. They were white at first, then rapidly turned the color of black iron, their aura gradually growing stronger.
Then their color rapidly shifted toward green. Soon, both vertical pupils had turned bronze. At that moment, their aura was far stronger than it had been at the black iron stage. Yet as time passed, their color continued changing, silver light beginning to shimmer across the green surface.
Luo Feng could sense that the vast energy within the eyes had diminished a little. Even so, after devouring hundreds of thousand-year Vegetation Spirits, the energy they contained remained immense.
The sight of so much energy made him tremble. After all, he had needed only one thousand-year Willowwood Heart to break through from the peak of advanced Warrior General to beginner War God, leaving him just one step away from intermediate War God.
With half a day remaining before the eyes returned, the two enormous vertical pupils behind Luo Feng had become completely silver. They radiated an immensely terrifying might. Compared with their bronze-level state, the difference was simply that between heaven and earth.
What shocked Luo Feng was that the transformation still had not ended. Golden light began flashing at the centers of the gleaming silver pupils. The actual eyes in Luo Feng's body were doing the same, pale golden light emerging from the centers of the pupils and spreading outward.
As the golden light grew stronger, the energy consumption increased as well. Once both eyes had turned completely gold, Luo Feng felt that he could no longer even look directly at his own eyes. Well, that was certainly a strange way to describe it.
Observing through his Psychic Power, Luo Feng could sense that Huo Yuhao's eyes seemed to have undergone an utterly incredible transformation. It was surely a beneficial one, too. One look at that gold was enough to know it represented power.
As the minutes and seconds ticked by, he still could not move. At this point, he could only apologize to Huo Yuhao in his heart. He had promised to help condense genetic origin energy within his eyes, only to fail to keep his word. With just one final hour remaining, the aura of the golden pupils finally stabilized, and the energy within the eyes stopped draining away.
His body finally broke free of its restraints as well, allowing him to move. Luo Feng silently sighed. It's finally over. There's still a little time left to cultivate. I should still make it.
Yet only a few minutes after the golden pupils returned to normal, they suddenly grew restless again. The energy within the eyes abruptly surged toward the dark golden sphere in his spiritual sea of consciousness.
This gave him an enormous fright. After all, that was the source of his Psychic Power.
Through its connection with the dark golden sphere, the energy actually flowed into his body and rapidly began condensing.
"Seriously? What's it up to now?"
Luo Feng grumbled helplessly. Is this ever going to end?
The vast, pure energy flowed out of the eyes, traveling from his head all the way down to the soles of his feet. Soon, a golden halo condensed beneath his feet and slowly rose.
A large portion of the energy produced by the Vegetation Spirits was instantly consumed. Then, under Luo Feng's gaze, halo after halo continued to condense, while the immense energy within Huo Yuhao's pupils vanished at a staggering rate.
Time passed, and soon the full twenty-four hours were up. As the ninth golden halo condensed, all the energy devoured by Huo Yuhao's pupils disappeared, transformed into nine enormous, dazzling golden halos around Luo Feng.
After the final golden ring condensed, Luo Feng's eye sockets suddenly became empty, while his own two eyeballs appeared in his hands.
Enduring the agonizing pain of his eyes instantly leaving his body, he hurriedly put his own eyeballs back in.
Only then did he calm down and take stock. To his astonishment, he discovered that the dark golden sphere within his body had disappeared along with Huo Yuhao's eyes.
Yet the nine golden halos around him remained. He found these nine golden rings fascinating, but they were not the strangest part.
His physical strength had now advanced to the advanced War God level, while his Psychic Power had somehow inexplicably reached Planetary Level One.
Everything that had happened today was far too bizarre. He needed some time to collect himself, then he would ask Huo Yuhao about it later and apologize to him while he was at it.
Luo Feng was incredibly exhilarated. Although he had no idea what had happened, his strength had undergone an earth-shaking change in a single day. What could possibly be more exciting than that?
Compared with Luo Feng, Huo Yuhao's situation was the complete opposite.
After absorbing the energy he had obtained by licking Luo Feng's eyeballs, he had at least gotten started with the Genetic Origin Energy Cultivation Method.
But there was now a major problem: he could sense only an extremely faint trace of cosmic energy in the air.
Thus, after spending half a day refining it, he had obtained only a tiny bit of genetic origin energy. He suspected that the Divine Realm was behind this. The Douluo Continent had most likely been sealed by the Divine Realm, becoming a sphere that allowed neither exit nor entry, leaving outside energy completely unable to get in.
(End of chapter)
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