The Angel Domain was powerful, certainly, but it had a one-year cooldown. Huo Yuhao understood that, and he also finally realized why the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had possessed such a formidable ability yet still been unable to deal with Da Ming and Er Ming.
So this was where the problem lay.
That made sense. How could an ability that defied the heavens possibly have no restrictions? He did not know what restrictions the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had faced, but his was a year.
Since he could only use it once a year, he certainly could not waste it on the two beast kings. Without question, he had to save this eighth Soul Skill for Tang Hao.
In that case, he would hunt those three 99,990-year-old Soul Beasts instead. He happened to have a second Martial Soul, so he could absorb their rings simultaneously.
The Thousand-Day Resurrection Powder had strengthened his body countless times over. On top of that, he had two divine-grade Martial Souls and cultivation above rank ninety. Even Tang San could absorb these three Soul Rings simultaneously; there was no reason he could not.
Putting thought straight into action, Huo Yuhao headed directly toward the area where the three Strength Ant brothers might be living.
Come to think of it, those three Strength Ants were a scourge upon the Star Dou Great Forest. Killing them would count as a great deed.
After searching for some time, Huo Yuhao finally found traces of the three brothers. Sure enough, a dog could never stop eating shit: the Strength Ant brothers were once again preparing to sneak into an ant nest and hunt its Ant Emperor.
Without another word, Huo Yuhao unleashed his Blood Angel Domain. After absorbing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Soul Ring, the evil energy within him had grown even more powerful and uncanny.
His evil far surpassed that of these three Strength Ants. In an instant, bloody light and evil spread throughout the entire cavern, poisoning some of the low-level ant Soul Beasts to death on the spot.
At the sight, the three Strength Ant brothers charged madly at Huo Yuhao. The three beasts had swept all before them in the Star Dou Great Forest. Even if they encountered the Titan Giant Ape or the Sky Azure Bull Python alone, they could still put up a fight. Why would they fear a mere Soul Douluo?
Strength Ants had two defining traits: strength and perception talent. He was not choosing Soul Rings at random. Rather than selecting those with the highest cultivation, he chose those that suited him best, and perception talent was an excellent fit for Huo Yuhao's eyes.
After being strengthened, Huo Yuhao's power had soared. Stimulated by the power of evil, his Blood Angel Martial Soul immediately swelled to several times its size. Blood Angel Wings unfurled, blotting out the sky and sun, while countless Devouring Blood Threads spread outward with Huo Yuhao at their center.
In moments, they filled the entire cavern. The whole ant nest resembled a spider's lair, except these webs were not white strands but blood-colored Slaughter Threads.
The instant these threads touched anything, they drained its blood, inflicting unbearable suffering! The three Strength Ants were enormous, and more than half of each one's body was covered in the threads.
Before Huo Yuhao had even begun to fight in earnest, the power of his domain had already plunged these Soul Beasts into agony. All the blood consumed by these devouring threads would be converted into the purest Soul Power and supplied to his body.
It would raise his cultivation as a Soul Master.
This also saved him a great deal of time.
In truth, Huo Yuhao had long since discovered that his cultivation speed was not particularly fast. It was not as the research claimed-that the greater a Martial Soul's innate aptitude, the faster its cultivation speed.
He found that his cultivation speed was actually not much faster than it had been in his original world. Of course, while the difference in speed was small, the Soul Power he cultivated was as different as heaven and earth.
In his original world, he had not been qualified to learn about such matters, and in this world, no one studied them either. He could only explore them himself and draw his own conclusions.
Huo Yuhao discovered that Soul Masters with innate full Soul Power did indeed cultivate quickly. However, if such a Soul Master's Martial Soul had extremely stringent demands, or even reached the level of an ultimate attribute, their cultivation speed would fall.
It could even become slower than that of a Soul Master with innate rank-one Soul Power. The same held true for Huo Yuhao. He had two ultimate Martial Souls, so his cultivation speed was outrageously slow.
That was why he had gone to such lengths to obtain hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones for himself, consume immortal herbs, and ask Dugu Bo for an inner core.
He had even gone so far as to frantically add Soul Rings to his second Martial Soul, using them to break through the shackles of his slow cultivation aptitude and raise his rank at a furious pace.
Over these ten years, without any boosts at all, his Soul Power had actually risen from rank seventy-five to above rank ninety. That was simply inconceivable.
All he could say was that it truly lived up to its red-quality rating.
Originally, he had planned to use his Soul Ring configuration to obtain vast amounts of Soul Power and break through his cultivation bottlenecks. Now, however, his Soul Power had inexplicably filled up already. That counted as an unexpected blessing.
The Soul Power he had saved could help him gain a few more ranks, greatly increasing his chances of completing the mission.
Although this was still several years earlier than when Tang San had absorbed these three Soul Beasts in the original story, what if he scored a critical hit? If he could get three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, he would gain three more Soul Skills.
The three Strength Ants were merely ninety-thousand-year Soul Beasts, and all of them relied on their cultivation to overpower others. Their actual strength was not even as great as the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's.
After a fierce battle, Huo Yuhao still subdued the three Soul Beasts with ease. Having completely drained the Strength Ant brothers' flesh and blood dry, the bloody aura around him had become unbelievably dense.
Now he truly resembled the Evil Soul Masters of his own world, who had existed only in his imagination because he had never been qualified to encounter them.
Retracting the Blood Angel Claws on his hands, Huo Yuhao looked at the three powerful Soul Rings floating up together, their black tinged with red. Without the slightest hesitation, he released his Glazed Divine Fire Eyes Martial Soul, sat cross-legged, and began absorbing them.
The Strength Ants' Soul Rings were extremely domineering. If he absorbed them one at a time, Huo Yuhao could have succeeded very easily. But now he was absorbing all three simultaneously, so naturally, the pain multiplied as well.
Yet he savored it as though it were sweet nectar!
What he wanted was not three pitch-black Soul Rings. He wanted a critical hit that would push them to a hundred thousand years.
A quarter of an hour passed. The Strength Ants' three Soul Rings had vanished, and three more pitch-black Soul Rings had appeared around Huo Yuhao.
"Damn it, no critical hit."
Huo Yuhao immediately deflated. It seemed that only the protagonist could pull off something like that. In the end, he was just a nobody.
Still, although he had not scored a critical hit, Huo Yuhao's strength had once again surged dramatically. He estimated that once he obtained all his Soul Rings, his Soul Power could reach rank ninety-five, making him a Super Douluo.
After absorbing the Soul Rings, Huo Yuhao sank into thought. His Glazed Divine Fire Eyes Martial Soul now had six Soul Rings, while his Six-Winged Blood Angel Martial Soul had eight. Altogether, he could still add four more Soul Rings.
Of those four Soul Rings, it would not matter even if two were only half a year old. But whether for his Glazed Divine Fire Eyes or his Six-Winged Blood Angel, the final Soul Ring had to be a hundred-thousand-year one.
The two beast kings of the Star Dou Great Forest-he was determined to claim them...
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