Du Busi greatly admired Huo Yuhao's way of settling a grudge on the spot, but Electrolux's reputation was what it was.
Although the Body Sect did as it pleased, it could not actually allow an Evil Soul Master to be associated with it.
Huo Yuhao raised an eyebrow. The same old outsourcing trick.
Still, all things considered, he could accept it.
Being a lone wolf was all well and good, but he would have to keep changing locations. More importantly, there was one thing he needed to confirm: whether his Double Pupils were currently in their complete form.
Were they currently in their complete form?
After Huo Yuhao agreed, Du Busi took him and Electrolux straight to a mountain outside Heaven Dou City.
It was none other than the Body Sect's territory.
Huo Yuhao was not surprised in the least. After all, the Body Sect would later become the Heavenly Soul Empire's divine guardian sect.
Its holy son, Long Aotian, would be joined in marriage to Vina early on.
Presumably, the Body Sect's habit of doing as it pleased had not come to light then only because it did not want to affect the Heavenly Soul Empire too much.
It was only the pace of the subsequent war that forced it into the open.
Upon arriving at the foot of the mountain, they saw the three large characters for "Body Sect" written above, and the guards beside them nodded respectfully when they saw Du Busi.
Afterward, Du Busi led them to the summit, where Huo Yuhao sensed the presence of several Titled Douluo and even Super Douluo.
At a glance from Du Busi, the other Titled Douluo, including the vice sect master, Golden Body Douluo, came over and bowed. Du Busi patted Huo Yuhao on the shoulder and said softly,
"This is Huo Yuhao. From now on, he is also a disciple of our Body Sect."
To Huo Yuhao's surprise, not one of them gave him a strange look. They simply smiled and accepted him.
Huo Yuhao thought about it for a moment and understood why.
Indeed, the greatest difference from the others was this:
There were simply too few people in the Body Sect, and most of them did as they pleased.
Slaughtering the Duke's Mansion and the like seemed cruel, but they also understood that, since Du Busi had brought Huo Yuhao back and accepted him, there must have been a reason for his slaughter of the city.
Afterward, Du Busi personally led Huo Yuhao to a residence. Although it was a bamboo house,
it had practically everything one could need.
"This book contains the secret of the Body Martial Soul's Second Awakening. You can try cultivating it."
Du Busi was not stingy in the least. He handed Huo Yuhao the manual for the Martial Soul's Second Awakening directly.
"Thank you, sect master."
Huo Yuhao took the manual and nodded slightly in thanks. Du Busi then walked out of the door; he also had something to take care of.
As for the uproar surrounding Huo Yuhao, although Huo Yuhao could disguise himself, he was now a disciple of the Body Sect.
Naturally, as the divine guardian sect, they could not allow the wanted notice to continue circulating throughout the Heavenly Soul Empire.
While Electrolux simply sat there resting with his eyes closed, Huo Yuhao opened the Body Sect manual.
"As the name suggests, a Body Martial Soul uses the body as its Martial Soul, bringing one's own power to its utmost limits."
"Upon the initial awakening, most of its power remains unreleased. After a period of cultivation, once one reaches the Soul Elder level or above, a second release of power occurs, divided into Black Iron, Bronze, and Silver."
"At Black Iron Grade, the degree of fusion with one's Martial Soul reaches forty percent, and strength can increase by thirty percent. At Bronze Grade, fusion can reach sixty percent, and strength can increase by sixty percent. At Silver Grade, fusion reaches eighty percent, and strength can double. When fusion with one's Martial Soul reaches above ninety percent, it is called Gold Grade, and strength can increase by at least double."
"As for a Gold-Grade Second Awakening, one must reach the Soul Saint level or above, and generally must have reached Silver Grade in the first awakening. A Gold-Grade Awakening is also known as completely fusing with one's Martial Soul form."
None of what he had read so far surprised Huo Yuhao, but when he continued turning the pages, he found another short passage on a damaged page at the end.
"Legend speaks of a final, transcendent state of awakening called the Third Awakening, which breaks through the shackles of ninety-nine. It is also called the God-Grade Awakening. Rumor has it that the first sect master of the Body Sect achieved a physical Third Awakening, called the Immaculate Golden Body, and his physical body could rival that of a deity."
After reading to the end, Huo Yuhao tapped lightly.
God-Grade Awakening? Immaculate Golden Body?
It reminded him of a certain legendary figure from ten thousand years later: A Ruheng.
He had indeed reached that stage.
But if a physical Third Awakening existed, shouldn't a spiritual one exist as well?
Still, if a spiritual-type Martial Soul could reach the Third Awakening, it would probably condense divine consciousness.
Perhaps other Martial Souls could not do it, but Huo Yuhao believed that if even his Double Pupils could not, then no Martial Soul could.
Huo Yuhao then followed the secret method described in the manual.
He closed his eyes and first tried to compress his spiritual power bit by bit, sending it through his meridians alongside his Soul Power and gradually merging the two.
Once the fusion was complete, he merged the power formed from his spiritual power and Soul Power with his Martial Soul, bit by bit. This was the process of the Second Awakening.
As that fused power-or rather, the spiritual power and Soul Power within him-gradually merged with his Double Pupils,
he opened his eyes. A black-iron sheen appeared first, flashing away before it was replaced by bronze.
But the bronze sheen also flickered in his pupils for only an instant.
A silvery-white light flickered over the surface of his Double Pupils.
There seemed to be signs of a mutation, but it also seemed to be suppressed, leaving a silver sheen tinged with gold.
After it flashed away, Huo Yuhao breathed out a mouthful of turbid air, feeling a faint heat in his Double Pupils.
Both had originally been purple, but the power within his Double Pupils seemed to be gradually mutating. The overlapping pupil on the left turned black as ink, while the one on the right shifted toward silvery white tinged with golden radiance.
But these signs ultimately lasted only an instant before reverting.
The corners of Huo Yuhao's mouth lifted slightly. Just as he had guessed, his Double Pupils Martial Soul was a Body Martial Soul, and it had not yet reached its complete form.
What would happen if its complete power were unleashed?
As Huo Yuhao pondered this,
he also took stock of his Martial Soul's Second Awakening. It seemed to be stuck somewhere between Silver Grade and Gold Grade.
Although his Martial Soul was strong enough, it was constrained by the shackles of his body or Soul Power.
Huo Yuhao defined his Second Awakening as Pseudo-Gold-or perhaps Platinum Grade?
Of course, when he actually reported it, Huo Yuhao still said that his Double Pupils had undergone a Silver-Grade Second Awakening.
This caused a sensation in the Body Sect.
Meanwhile, Shrek Academy's two Tang people-no, Tang Sect descendants-had finally reunited...