After three days, Yang Podi and his group finally returned to the Heavenly Pursuit Academy. However, the school seemed rather quiet, as if something was about to happen.
This trip lasted a full four months, and everyone made quite a few gains. They obtained five Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, and also explored some of the secrets of the Star Dou Great Forest.
My father, Yang Zhentian, has emerged from seclusion and finally reached Level 97. He is considered a rare expert on the entire continent. Even the so-called Upper Three Sects only have one Level 97 Titled Douluo at most.
Grandpa Yang Wudi led everyone in a small meeting to recount recent events.
In recent months, the Heaven Dou Empire, the Spirit Hall, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and the Clear Sky Sect have all sent people to visit, all of them trying to curry favor. It seems that all these forces want to win over the Heavenly Pursuit Academy, especially the Heaven Dou Empire.
The situation between the Spirit Hall and the two great empires is becoming increasingly tense. Although the Spirit Hall Spirit Hall has kept a relatively low profile recently, everyone is now very wary of it, especially the two great empires.
The situation in the Heaven Dou Empire is extremely delicate. The Heaven Dou City region alone has the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Clear Sky Sect, with a total of seven Titled Douluo. However, on the other hand, the Heaven Dou Empire also feels immense pressure, since they do not have their own Titled Douluo. If the two major sects were to turn against each other, the empire might be directly destroyed.
The Spirit Hall actually launched a simultaneous attack on the Upper Three Sects, basically displaying most of its strength. It had more than a dozen Titled Douluo and tens of thousands of Soul Master. No matter which force it was, they all felt immense pressure.
In particular, the Spirit Hall's plan to re-establish Seven Great Sects next year is a provocation to the Clear Sky Sect and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, leaving the two crippled sects in a dilemma.
Currently, both the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Clear Sky Sect only have a mere five hundred Soul Master each, and their total number is even less than that of the Lower Four Sects. They might not even be qualified to run for election.
Moreover, according to the news, the Heaven Dou Empire, the Clear Sky Sect, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect have all sent people to visit recently, seemingly wanting to form an alliance. They probably want to play the victim and talk about cooperation.
Yang Podi thought carefully before speaking, "Ignore them, let's do our own thing. In a while, I'll go to Heaven Dou City and bring Grandpa Ye Renxin over too, so they won't keep having such wishful thinking."
At this moment, Yang Podi had no time to deal with these sect conflicts. He had specially taken Ye Lingling to heal Chrysanthemum Douluo and the others in order to avoid conflict with the Spirit Hall. There was no point in forming any alliances. Besides, Yang Podi did not have much faith in the power of the Heaven Dou Empire.
Yang Podi has more important things to do now. What could be more important than improving his own strength?
Yang Podi plans to find a way to condense his Second Soul Core in the near future; this is the real key point.
However, this is also what Yang Podi has been hesitant about. Although his Soul Power has reached the peak of Level 97, and he can even say that he can break through to Level 98 in half a year at most, his control over Soul Power is still insufficient. After all, his Soul Power was built up by Soul Ring, not cultivated by himself.
One more thing is that, up to now, Yang Podi does not have Head Soul Bone, which means he is still lacking in Divine Power and control. Of course, Yang Podi has actually reached the Limit Douluo level in terms of Divine Power, but even so, there is still a certain gap between him and Bo Saixi.
Especially since Yang Podi himself planned to condense Yin-Yang Balance Dual Soul Cores, this was even more dangerous, requiring even higher control over his body and Soul Power.
Yang Podi possesses a full- Body Martial Soul, and in terms of physical strength, even Limit Douluo might not surpass him. His weakness is that he currently lacks Head Soul Bone and Torso Soul Bone, which is a disadvantage.
As for the contents of the two Soul Core, the First Soul Core controls the Ultimate Metal, and the Second Soul Core controls the Ultimate Strength. These are Yang Podi's two strongest aspects at this stage.
In the original novel, Huo Yuhao's First Soul Core controlled his Divine Power, and his Second Soul Core controlled his Soul Power. Huo Yuhao was also the first human Soul Master to condense Yin-Yang Balance Dual Soul Cores, but he relied on the help of several Soul Spirit, making him a cheat-like existence.
Yang Podi didn't have many Soul Spirit to help him, and he didn't even have anyone around him who could help him. In terms of conditions, he was much worse off.
After so many years of hard training, Yang Podi has mastered the Mysterious Heaven Skill and has excellent control over his Soul Power, which is one of his greatest advantages.
Yang Podi's seclusion this time did not alert anyone. Others were of no help to him at all, since everyone was far inferior to him in terms of both Divine Power and Soul Power.
In his secluded cultivation room, Yang Podi brought himself to peak condition and began preparing to condense his second Soul Core.
The first step is to activate his Soul Core. Yang Podi looked inward at his dantian, where a dark golden Soul Core was rapidly circulating. This was the result of years of cultivation and a change that occurred after the Soul Breaking Spear absorbed the Ninth Soul Ring. After all, it was only after the Ninth Soul Ring that it truly possessed the Ultimate Metal and Ultimate Strength.
The first step is to decompose the power in the Soul Core and find a way to separate the metal and strength attributes.
According to Yang Podi's own plan, the First Soul Core is the Ultimate Metal, the second Soul Core is the Ultimate Strength, and as for whether to condense Third Soul Core in the future, that will be considered at that time. After all, Yang Podi does not need to worry about whether he can reach the Limit Douluo level.
As the Mysterious Heaven Skill was used to its fullest extent, it seemed that the limbs and bones were filled with Soul Power. This was the original function of the Soul Core, which could rotate and cultivate on its own even when resting.
As time passed, the Soul Core stopped rotating, and it seemed to be drawing some kind of primordial power from Soul Core. The color of the Soul Core seemed to be turning black, and its original gold color seemed to be slowly disappearing.
When Yang Podi's Soul Power was nearly 70% depleted, his Soul Core split in two. In addition to the original Soul Core, a black sphere appeared. However, this sphere was not fully formed and was still in a half- Soul Core state. Moreover, the sphere was located at his heart.
When Yang Podi's Soul Power was nearly 90% depleted, his entire body was filled with a powerful sense of weakness. It seemed that his two Soul Core had almost drained all of Yang Podi's Soul Power.
However, this is also the most crucial moment. Both Soul Core must be activated, and in reverse order, which places extremely high demands on Divine Power.
The first thing to activate is the golden Soul Core, which is the First Soul Core located in the dantian. This Soul Core is Yang Podi's basic Soul Core, and it is relatively easy to activate.
Getting the Second Soul Core running is the real key, and that's the goal of everything.
When the First Soul Core began to rotate, the entire body seemed to be filled with infinite repulsive force, as if trying to expel all power attributes from the body.
When Yang Podi exhausted all his Soul Power, his Second Soul Core began to slowly rotate, but this was only the beginning of the real suffering.
As a black Soul Core began to operate, two Soul Core appeared simultaneously within the body. The space between the two cores was filled with immense repulsive force, as if it were about to explode the body.
This is where Yang Podi's physical strength will be tested. In the original story, among all the Ferocious Beast, only Di Tian formed Second Soul Core, which was due to the powerful physical qualities of his Black Dragon Clan. Yang Podi, on the other hand, relied on the Gold-Grade Awakening Body Martial Soul.
As time went by, the two Soul Core repelled and collided with each other. With each collision, it felt as if his entire body was about to crack apart. Yang Podi even felt his body cracking and breaking down.
Of course, as the two Soul Core operated simultaneously, they rapidly absorbed energy from the air, and their speed increased faster and faster, like two Extreme Speed spinning spheres, as if they were about to tear everything apart.
The body seemed to be undergoing countless cycles of destruction, repair, and reconstruction, resulting in extreme pain.
The biggest problem at this moment is whether there is enough energy in the body to support the two Soul Core, which is also the problem that Yang Podi has been worried about.
Huo Yuhao possessed the Dragon Core given to him by Long Xiaoyao, which gave him enough power to condense Second Soul Core, but Yang Podi did not have Dragon Core.
However, Yang Podi had something else: the inner core of the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent he obtained from the Slaughter City. Yang Podi originally planned to use this inner core to form a fire-attribute Soul Ring, but it seems he will have to use it ahead of schedule.
Throughout the entire Douluo World, treasures of the inner core type are extremely rare, and can even be said to be of extremely high value.
Ma Hongjun achieved a further evolution of his Martial Soul through the inner core of the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent. This shows that the energy of the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's inner core is beyond that of the Douluo World, since it can enable the Phoenix to evolve.
Despite the excruciating pain, Yang Podi removed the inner core and placed it on his chest.
Yang Podi's two Soul Core spun rapidly, absorbing energy from the air at an extremely fast pace. As his body began to absorb the energy from the inner core, it seemed that both Soul Core were being replenished with energy, making them exceptionally fierce and dangerous.
As time went by, the inner cores of the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent also began to spin rapidly, slowly decomposing into countless energies, which were gradually injected into the two Soul Core.
After an unknown amount of time, the two Soul Core that had initially repelled each other began to calm down, seemingly becoming stable, and each formed new rotational rules, even creating new vortex shapes.
Yang Podi himself was also Divine Power and fell into a coma, but even in his coma, his body was still in unnatural pain.
After an unknown amount of time, Yang Podi slowly regained consciousness. At this moment, his body seemed to have undergone some kind of change, and his physical attributes became even stronger, as if he had undergone a thousand temperings. This tempering effect was even better than the Tidal Body Tempering on Sea God Island.
Yang Podi quickly examined his body and found two Soul Core rotating inside. One was a golden Soul Core in his dantian, which was the Ultimate Metal Soul Core, and the other was a black Soul Core in his heart, which was the Ultimate Strength Soul Core.
The two Soul Core within his body were in a strange state of balance, seemingly not interfering with each other, yet also promoting and growing together. In particular, when the two Soul Core rotated simultaneously, his cultivation speed was significantly enhanced compared to when he had only one Soul Core.
Yang Podi was filled with excitement: It's done! I've finally mastered the Yin-Yang Balance Dual Soul Cores! In just a very short time, I'll truly have the strength to fight Di Tian.
At the same time, due to the formation of two Soul Core, Yang Podi finally broke through to Level 98. Moreover, this breakthrough was achieved through his own cultivation. Even if he were to face Limit Douluo, he would be fully capable of fighting.