"Come in if you dare!"
A young man in his twenties, about twenty meters away from Yu Longheng and Ning Yue, said coldly: "Fighting is prohibited within a kilometer of the Spirit Transmission Tower. If you've got the guts, come in! I'll fight you then!"
He had just come to the Spirit Transmission Tower to obtain a Spirit Soul, and here he was, running into some inexplicable battle maniacs. Just eager to fight from the get-go. Whose troublesome kids were these?
He was a auxiliary system spirit master. Even if he was a Soul King, he had practically no combat ability. What was there to fight about?
If he hadn't been close to the protection zone of the Spirit Transmission Tower and run in quickly, he might have even gotten beaten up.
Yu Longheng looked at the young man with a face full of black lines. He wanted to rush over, but he was also worried about the Spirit Transmission Tower's enforcement team.
"Big brother — we just want to have a sparring match with you."
Ning Yue said from the side: "We just came out of the academy. We're itching for a fight and wanted to spar with someone. Could you please cooperate a little?"
"You say fight just because you want to fight? What's in it for me to fight you? Beating up two kids — winning or losing, it's not a good look either way."
The young man didn't explain that he was a auxiliary system spirit master. He just snorted. "If you've got guts, come in here! Let's see if the Spirit Transmission Tower's enforcement team brothers will arrest you and toss you back to your academy."
Where did they think this was?
This was Spirit Transmission Tower territory, the place that took the best care of us civilian spirit masters. Try barging in if you dare!
"This..." Ning Yue looked troubled. She turned to Yu Longheng beside her.
"...Let's go. To the spirit master academy." Yu Longheng glanced at the spirit masters and Spirit Souls who had gathered around to watch the show, took a deep breath, and turned to leave.
This one didn't seem to work. On to the next.
After that, Yu Longheng and Ning Yue had better luck. They defeated a Level 42 spirit master near a spirit master academy.
Next, the two successfully cornered a suitable female spirit master, about seventeen years old, a four-ring Spirit Ancestor — not a match for them.
Just when they thought their challenge mission in Tianhun City was about to be completed, things took a sudden turn.
That young lady... had called for reinforcements.
The girl, who had been beaten up and had a flushed face, whipped out a red-and-white ball. Longheng and Ning Yue's faces turned green.
Of course, they recognized a Spirit Soul Ball — they had them too, they just hadn't brought them to the academy.
"Quick, run!"
Yu Longheng hurriedly called out, wanting to pull Ning Yue away, but it was already too late.
The girl threw the red-and-white ball, gritting her teeth. "Ancestor Heavenly Frost! It was the two of them who beat me up for no reason!"
A spirit beast ten meters long, its entire body covered in ice crystal scales, suddenly appeared on the scene, blocking Yu Longheng and Ning Yue's path.
A ten-thousand-year Spirit Soul — the Heavenly Frost Dragon Python!
Yu Longheng's expression was ugly.
You go to school and bring your ten-thousand-year Spirit Soul ancestor with you?
There was something wrong with you!
"Longheng — I probably know why the academy set the location to be the Tianhai Alliance." A bitter smile appeared on Ning Yue's face.
"Because in those second-tier cities, there would be fewer families with ten-thousand-year Spirit Souls. There would be fewer variables for us."
Some spirit masters liked to build a relationship with Spirit Souls they hadn't yet absorbed, carrying them around in Spirit Soul Balls.
A thousand-year level was still manageable. But no matter how strong they were, as mere Spirit Elders, facing a powerful ten-thousand-year Spirit Soul and a spirit master more than five levels above them together — they were no match!
Shen Yi, who had witnessed everything, frowned. She inwardly lamented their luck.
At this rate, even if they could escape, they would have to start over.
If the number of portable high-level Spirit Souls increased again, the difficulty of completing the assessment would only get higher and higher. Should the assessment system be changed?
The Heavenly Frost Dragon Python glanced at the girl's battered appearance, turned back, and looked at Yu Longheng and Ning Yue with a cold gaze. It let out a mighty roar.
"ROAR——"
A sky-falling pressure, accompanied by a blizzard, rushed toward the two. Yu Longheng and Ning Yue's hearts sank.
This time, it couldn't be easily settled.
At the Eastsea Spirit Transmission Tower, several days had passed. Discovering that Huo Yuhao's tolerance for the heaven and earth elemental force far exceeded expectations, Mu Ye fell silent.
Indeed... a freak.
Inside the cultivation ground, a vast amount of heaven and earth elemental force entangled around Huo Yuhao,crazy surging into his body. He used the circulation path of the Innate Secret Method to guide them, quenching his body and comprehending the power of heaven and earth.
These heaven and earth elemental forces were not only drawn by Mu Ye but also by Huo Yuhao himself.
After all, his spiritual power had already reached the Spirit Abyss realm. He could try to mobilize external heaven and earth elemental forces.
Furthermore, Huo Yuhao had also engraved a Siphon Inscription magic array on his body, further improving efficiency.
"At this rate, the progress might be even faster than I imagined."
Mu Ye clicked his tongue.
After this period of understanding, he discovered that Huo Yuhao's blood and energy whirlpool was different from what their Body Sect records described.
The blood and energy core by the Body Sect from a blood and energy vortex was merely a condensation of blood and energy. It could only enhance the cultivation of blood and energy. It was different from A soul core's effects cannot be cumulative.
But if Huo Yuhao's blood and energy vortex condensed and solidified into shape, it would likely resemble a spiritual soul core—it could be called a "blood and energy soul core." Besides enhancing blood and energy cultivation, it could also function as a soul core.
One had to understand that condensing a soul core was something typically only Soul Sages could achieve.
Even then, it was based on a theory first proposed by the Spirit Transmission Tower's founding Tower Master, developed gradually over the course of ten thousand years. Back then, the earliest recorded instance of a condensed soul core only appeared at Level 90.
Even a spirit power vortex was only beginning to condense at the late Soul Emperor stage. Huo Yuhao already possessed one, indicating that during his normal cultivation, he was compressing his spirit power, improving its quality. In Mu Ye's view, the spirit power quality of an ordinary Soul King might not even match Huo Yuhao's.
However, his current spirit power quality is still... cannot compare to a Soul Sage's. The difficulty of making this soul core, which contains both blood and energy and spirit power, take shape is very high. It may not condense until around Level 50.
Mu Ye's eyes were bright.
That was still very good. The blood and energy vortex continuously accumulated and compressed spirit power and blood and energy force. When the soul core took shape, it would make up for Huo Yuhao's qualities other than his spiritual power.
By then, Huo Yuhao's various basic qualities — physical strength, spirit power quality, spiritual power — would not be inferior to a true Soul Sage's. In some aspects, he might even be a notch stronger.
This didn't even count the bonus bonus from Huo Yuhao's future secondary awakenings and skills. At that time, fighting across levels would become as easy as eating and drinking for him.
The younger generation was truly formidable.
Huuu...
Letting out a long breath, Huo Yuhao slowly opened his eyes. A trace of silver and gray light flickered in them. His entire body radiated an aura of power that made even Mu Ye raise an eyebrow.
Having initially mastered his blood and energy force, the various bloodline powers within Huo Yuhao's body could be mobilized by him at will, even released as pressure to influence others.
But — what kind of bloodline power was this?
It was too strong. If mobilized, any similar bloodline force before it wouldn't dare to raise its head.
On the other side, Huo Yuhao's brow furrowed slightly. He raised his hand and looked at the silver-white light in his palm, composed of silver and white.
This was the power produced by the fusion of spirit power and blood and energy force, a realization that had come to him naturally after mastering his blood and energy whirlpool.
"If I could balance blood and energy force, spiritual power, and spirit power, they should be able to fuse further."
Huo Yuhao thought to himself.
Just then, Mu Ye saw Huo Yuhao stop and walked over. "You have already mastered the fundamental cultivation of the Innate Secret Method. The bloodline power within you is very close to elemental forces, making the various attributes of heaven and earth elemental forces on your body excellent. So, I won't need to guide you much further."
"Now that your innate energy and various bloodline powers have been nourished, it is the best time to perform a secondary awakening. Tomorrow, I will take you to perform a secondary awakening of your martial soul. Be prepared. This time won't be so easy."
Huo Yuhao's expression shifted slightly.
Secondary awakening... surviving in the deep sea?
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