After completing the [Eye of Destiny] pendant Soul Tool, Huo Yuhao devoted most of his energy to guiding Snow Girl's cultivation.
In his previous life, his fervor for Shrek Academy's glory had resembled a pyramid scheme member's zeal for their organization, making him obsess over victory and defeat in the Soul Fighting Tournament. In this life, however, he did not care about the tournament's outcome.
Besides, as he saw it now, Soul Masters clashing in a Soul Fighting Arena for the world's entertainment, like slaves in a beast-fighting arena, was itself a form of self-discipline.
But Huo Yuhao also understood in this life that such an idea was destined to be difficult for those who had embarked on the path of a Soul Master to accept in this era.
Having embarked on the path of Soul Master cultivation, Snow Girl naturally needed to prove herself through her performance in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament. With Huo Yuhao's abilities as a former God King, guiding her in this regard was no more effort than lifting a hand.
With time to spare, Huo Yuhao drew on his previous life's experience to plan Snow Girl's cultivation path. Naturally, it represented the ideal form of the Soul Master's path.
"How ironic. The road the world has spent countless efforts exploring and studying is nothing but a table of scraps." Watching Snow Girl meditate and train hard whenever she had the chance these days, just like Ye Guyi and his former self, Huo Yuhao closed "Ultimate Douluo" in the [Audience] interface and sighed.
Before Lan Xuanyu, the exalted grandson of his Father-in-law [Tang Bingqing], attained his path, countless humans over countless years, including Huo Yuhao himself, had poured untold effort into Soul Master cultivation. Yet before becoming gods, not one had realized that the Soul Master's path was a path of imitation, imprinting the bloodline power of Soul Beasts.
Moreover, before he invented Soul Spirits in his previous life through Elder Yi's legacy, the Douluo Continent had barely even conceived of imprinting bloodlines or skills, let alone an Imprinting Art.
In other words, throughout all those years, the cultivation of Soul Masters with any inherited Martial Soul had merely been the development of a black box whose principles were unknown.
And to the Silver Dragon in the Star Dou Great Forest, the true source of that black box was nothing more than a residual gift.
In that respect, how were the lives of countless Soul Masters any different from years squandered?
Most of their cultivation amounted to little more than sitting in a daze.
It was just that no one exposed these emperor's new clothes.
Having seen through this, Huo Yuhao had spent these days at leisure, unlike the hardworking Snow Girl and Ye Guyi. By activating the [Eye of Destiny], he could experience a thousand years of one person's meditation in a single day.
This gave his Soul Power reserves a depth a thousand, ten thousand times greater than those of Soul Masters at his level. With all impurities thoroughly filtered out, its purity surpassed everything else. What use was such depth? His previous life's experience had taught Huo Yuhao that, internally, it did little of importance for a Soul Master.
But its important external effect was that it made it easier to catch the attention of deities in the Divine Realm.
This was also the essence of what the so-called immortal herbs and spiritual roots on the Douluo Continent did. They did not change their users' fundamental nature; they merely made their figures look better on a few of the Divine Realm's admission criteria.
In this life, Huo Yuhao knew the hidden dangers of places such as the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in the Sunset Forest. He did not dare visit them, and so could not fully resolve the problem of his constitution having only level-one Innate Soul Power.
Moreover, to leave Brother Sky Dream and the others a way out, Huo Yuhao had not even fully absorbed their origins.
Before completing the [Eye of Destiny], apart from the sliver of divine consciousness left over from being a God King in his previous life, he had actually yet to escape his identity as a [Good-for-Nothing].
In other words, after successfully producing this [Eye of Destiny], he no longer needed to rely on places controlled by Tang San, such as the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and Shrek.
This was the alternative trail Huo Yuhao had blazed.
For Huo Yuhao, his present regret was that this road had only just been opened, and Snow Girl, Brother Sky Dream, Elder Yi, and Ice Empress could not yet use it.
Aside from staying in room 411 of the Mingyue Hotel to cultivate and guide his companions' cultivation, Huo Yuhao had spent these days helping his teacher Xuan Ziwen design a solution to prevent Soul Power from leaking out of the Soul Power storage devices known as Milk Bottles.
Through his teacher Xuan Ziwen, Huo Yuhao also heard news from the Douluo Three Kingdoms-which should now be called the Douluo Four Kingdoms. Since Star Luo City had become the front line of the confrontation between the Western Star Luo Empire and the Eastern Star Luo Empire, this Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament, originally scheduled to be held in Star Luo City, had been canceled there and moved to the Sun Moon Empire.
Just as Huo Yuhao had anticipated, the Soul Fighting Tournament that should have been held in the Star Luo Empire would now be hosted by Mingdu, which had originally been slated to host the next tournament!
But what concerned Huo Yuhao was the composition of Shrek Academy's team!
Chen Zifeng, Gongyang Mo, Xixi...
Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes as he looked at the names on Shrek's roster.
"So, will you make it to the Soul Fighting Arena in one piece?" Huo Yuhao repeatedly recalled every detail of their journey to the Star Luo Empire for the tournament in his previous life.
With a Super Douluo leading the team, a Soul King-level Evil Soul Master had successfully crippled Shrek Academy's younger generation and nearly escaped unscathed. No matter how one looked at it, this was a joke!
The only explanation was that there was something wrong with both Xuan Zi, that Super Douluo, and the Soul King-level Death Messenger.
That day, after completing registration with Snow Girl and checking the rosters of the participating teams, Huo Yuhao returned to the Mingyue Hotel and immediately began discussing the matter with Elder Yi, Ice Empress, and the others in his Sea of Consciousness.
"Elder Yi, you told me you were once the Child of Light, and that your plane favored you-just as the Douluo Continent's plane favored me. Do you think that incident on the way to the tournament was the plane paving the way for my subsequent performance, or..."
"It probably wasn't this plane's doing," Electrolux said gravely. "You haven't traveled far along the path of the undead, so you don't know that every normal plane strongly rejects it. A normal planet relies on the power of life both to develop into a plane and for that plane to evolve. The power of death is the complete opposite of life."
"If the plane could accept Evil Soul Masters who cultivate necromantic power as tools to achieve its goals, or rather, if it could embrace death, it wouldn't use the death brought by heavenly tribulations to punish us Soul Beasts." Ice Empress's cool voice rang out in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness.
"It seems that beneath my Father-in-law's dazzling exterior, his acceptance of the darkness he despises isn't as low as he makes it out to be. This goes beyond mere feelings, too." After hearing Elder Yi's explanation, Huo Yuhao had a rough understanding of the truth behind that incident.
The gloom on his face faded, replaced by amusement. "If the Tang Family arranged that scene to test your mettle, Elder Yi, then those senior fellow disciples I acquired so cheaply in my previous life should be able to reach this place safely in this life. If the Tang Family wants to test what's within me now, they'll have to come to the Sun Moon Empire."
"Knock, knock..."
That afternoon before the tournament began, Huo Yuhao heard the knock and knew that Ye Guyi had come to clean his room again.
Opening the door, Huo Yuhao saw the girl with the sizzling figure.
As the days passed, Ye Guyi's developing figure had made her both sweet and sexy.
When Ye Guyi approached him, Huo Yuhao felt a warm aura even more clearly.
Naturally, those warm fluctuations were a divine aura whose attribute had been concealed.
"Miss Ye, all sorts of people have been coming here lately, dragons mingling with fish. You need to be careful."
The situation in the Star Luo Empire had not escalated into a fight to the death; it remained at a stalemate. This had considerably improved Ye Guyi's complexion over the past few days. Hearing Huo Yuhao's concern, she gave him a smile.
"Thank you for worrying about me. I won't reveal my Martial Soul in front of anyone."
Glancing at Ye Guyi's stunning face, Huo Yuhao thought, Are all angels this careless? If you reveal your true appearance, who knows how many people will want to crush this flower with a ruthless hand?
With a helpless expression, Huo Yuhao told her, "Take some leave during the Soul Fighting Tournament! The people coming and going from the Mingyue Hotel these days won't be ordinary people."
"You want me to quit? But if I don't work, who's going to support me?" Ye Guyi froze.
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