Huo Yuhao stared at the rewards, shocked beyond words. He had drawn three martial souls. What did that mean?
It meant that once he fused with them, he would become the only person on the continent with four martial souls.
Moreover, all three martial souls were God-Level, and he had possessed each of them before. He knew exactly how powerful they were.
Even if he had received just one of the three, he would have become a genius with twin martial souls, one of them God-Level. Yet now, he had drawn all three at once.
He was downright invincible.
Compared to those three martial souls, the other rewards clearly seemed less important.
"Congratulations, host. The draw is complete. Your rewards will be distributed shortly. Please prepare to receive them."
Huo Yuhao nodded repeatedly.
"I'm ready."
As soon as he finished speaking, the system distributed the rewards. Three martial souls appeared in his martial soul space in an instant, but Huo Yuhao suddenly felt dizzy, his head throbbing.
The impact was simply too powerful. As the three ultimate martial souls collided wildly, Huo Yuhao's body instantly turned red, gold, and blue.
The sacred six-winged angel and the evil Six-Winged Blood Angel martial souls began fighting each other. Both embodied ultimate powers that were fundamentally incompatible. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao's Glazed Divine Fire Eyes martial soul did not remain idle either. It began devouring his spirit eyes martial soul.
One face could not have two pairs of eyes, so one pair would ultimately have to die. Sacred and evil powers could not coexist either; one would have to prevail over the other.
The four martial souls fought fiercely for supremacy, but Huo Yuhao was the one who suffered. His Spiritual Sea of Consciousness shattered wildly, his face turned deathly pale, and blood streamed from his seven orifices.
At this rate, something would go terribly wrong.
He had never expected fusing with so many ultimate martial souls at once to cause this.
"System, is there a solution? These martial souls are too powerful. My body can't withstand so many God-Level martial souls."
The system fell silent for a moment, then quickly spoke. "Host, you can use the single-use item, the Three Purities Illusory Clone. It is an extremely powerful God-Level item that will be of tremendous help to you."
"Once used, the Three Purities Illusory Clone will create three clones identical to you. Although they are illusory, they are also real."
"Why are they both illusory and real? Isn't that a contradiction?"
Huo Yuhao asked through gritted teeth.
He could still barely hold on, but the moment he could no longer endure it, he would use the item immediately.
Upon hearing Huo Yuhao's question, the system quickly explained, "They are illusory because they are Phantom Bodies. But wherever you are, you overlap with these three Phantom Bodies at every moment. That makes them real as well. They are all you."
"What kind of nonsense is that?"
Huo Yuhao did not understand, but he had no other options left. He immediately used the Three Purities Illusory Clone.
Three little figures immediately fused with Huo Yuhao's body. Soon, a blue-green light blossomed from him. At first, it was faint, but in the blink of an eye, it engulfed him entirely.
Then Huo Yuhao floated motionlessly in the air. His body seemed to stutter, as though even his soul were about to leave it. Three illusory versions of him kept appearing, then overlapping with his body again. This repeated for a quarter of an hour.
Three clones identical to Huo Yuhao appeared before him, each possessing a martial soul.
While creating the clones, Huo Yuhao had also separated out the three martial souls he had just obtained. Now, one clone possessed the six-winged angel martial soul, another possessed the Six-Winged Blood Angel martial soul, and the last possessed the Glazed Divine Fire Eyes martial soul.
Huo Yuhao had successfully escaped danger, but all three martial souls had gone down the drain.
He was immediately annoyed. However, once he learned the precise effects of the Three Purities Illusory Clone, he was overwhelmed with delight.
He finally understood what the system had meant: they were both Phantom Bodies and his true body.
Huo Yuhao could touch them. Every Phantom Body felt completely real, and every one truly existed, yet every one was also false.
He alone was the true core.
He could touch the Phantom Bodies because they shared his body at all times, wherever they were. When Huo Yuhao had touched a Phantom Body's shoulder just now, he had actually been touching his own shoulder.
It was as though he were standing in a unique space, with three illusory versions of him outside it. When someone touched a Phantom Body's hand, they were actually touching his hand. When someone touched a Phantom Body's head, they were actually touching his head.
And when a Phantom Body fought with a sword in his left hand, the hand holding that sword was actually Huo Yuhao's.
Even that did not quite capture it. Huo Yuhao did not know how to explain this peculiar sensation. These divine Phantom Bodies were simply too strange.
If a Phantom Body merely cultivated or went about his life without coming into contact with anyone or anything, Huo Yuhao would not be affected at all.
But the instant a Phantom Body picked up an object or touched someone, a part of Huo Yuhao's body would appear within that Phantom Body's body. Or rather, that person would touch Huo Yuhao through his Phantom Body.
Yet he himself would notice nothing, nor would he be affected in any way.
All the Phantom Bodies were merely illusions, but they were illusions no one could see through, living illusions that could carry out Huo Yuhao's orders. It was a God-Level item, after all. Still, an illusion was ultimately an illusion. Once one picked something up or touched someone, the deception would be exposed.
At that moment, however, the illusion would automatically share Huo Yuhao's body, keeping the deception from being detected and allowing the clone to fight normally. But he could not fight or maintain contact for too long, or the deception would easily be exposed.
So at crucial moments, he still had to rely on his true body.
Even so, it was unbelievable. He already knew the Phantom Bodies were false, yet those false bodies could actually cultivate, absorb soul rings, and store all their soul power in the martial soul space.
It was like someone telling him that his shadow could meditate to cultivate soul power, absorb soul rings, and break through levels.
In the past, he would certainly have considered that person insane. Now, however, he had become that madman himself. He had witnessed something unbelievable.
The Three Purities Illusory Clone truly lived up to its status as a God-Level item.
Huo Yuhao found it utterly incredible. This ability was simply miraculous. Even more miraculous was that he could instantly enter any of his Phantom Bodies, regardless of distance.
And when he left a Phantom Body, he could choose to remain there or return to the place from which he had disappeared.
This skill was simply too cool. It practically made him invincible. No one could kill him, because he could instantly teleport to three different locations.
He only needed to place the three clones far away, and he would forever stand undefeated. This was nothing short of a divine escape skill.
Moreover, it was also a divine cultivation skill. If Huo Yuhao had absorbed all three God-Level martial souls at once, his cultivation would have been three times slower than cultivation with an ultimate-attribute martial soul. That would undoubtedly have been a disastrous reduction.
After all, cultivating with an ultimate-attribute martial soul was already very slow. With three ultimate-attribute martial souls added to the mix, he could already imagine how slowly he would cultivate if he obtained all three God-Level martial souls.
But now that he had separated them out, each martial soul still belonged to him. He could only use them separately, but that was a minor issue. After all, his cultivation speed had increased.
This had turned out to be a good thing instead.
After all, once the Three Purities Illusory Clone reached its strongest state through cultivation, the clones could fuse with his true body. At that point, the soul rings and martial souls the Phantom Bodies had absorbed would all fuse with Huo Yuhao.
Moreover, he could assign these clones to the continent's powerful factions. Originally, he had not wanted to attend Shrek Academy. But now that he had clones, and the system had also concealed him from Tang San, he could go take a look at Shrek Academy after all.
Of course, he would send a clone.