Without a word, gray mist began to spread around Huo Yuhao. A layer of silver-white armor donned his body.
The armor's lines were as sharp as ice crystals. Blue soul tool patterns were embedded at the joints. A wispy gray halo flowed at the eyes of the helmet.
With this suit of armor covering him, Huo Yuhao's aura had risen several levels.
"I don't believe it. You're only a Soul King. Even if you're a Battle Armor Master, so what? Since you've come before me, you're coming with me!"
The evil spirit master's expression twisted. She suddenly sprang up, her five fingers forming claws. Blood-red spirit power condensed into sharp blades, reaching straight for Huo Yuhao's throat.
A Soul King, even with Battle Armor augmentation making him comparable to a Soul Sage, could never block her strike.
However, just as her claws were about to reach Huo Yuhao's throat, Hum!
Five black spirit rings rose beneath Huo Yuhao. The gray mist in his eyes suddenly boiled, as if an abyss had awakened. A chill that made the very soul tremble instantly enveloped the entire area.
Behind him, a huge vertical eye phantom silently appeared. The mere act of being looked at made the evil spirit master feel as if her soul had been locked by some entity, her very thoughts stagnant for a moment.
"A secondary awakening of a Body Martial Soul?!"
A secondary awakening of a Body Martial Soul not only sublimated the martial soul's quality, but was also an amplification state that could increase a spirit master's strength by one hundred percent, even across levels.
Before the evil spirit master could react, a five-meter-long dark green beam shot from the vertical eye that had suddenly appeared on Huo Yuhao's brow. The light was not dazzling, but it contained a terrifying energy that faintly twisted space. Where it passed, the blood-colored claws were instantly pierced.
Destruction Light!
"I underestimated you." The evil spirit master's pupils contracted. She transformed into a blood light and fled, dodging the attack. Her right hand grasped the air, and a slender blood-red longsword condensed out of thin air.
Blood Prison Thousand Eyes!
With the cold incantation, countless crimson points of light suddenly appeared in the entire sky, centered on the evil spirit master. At first, they were just scattered specks, but in an instant, they swelled and enlarged. They were tens of thousands of cold, blood-red eye pupils, densely packed across the sky, each one radiating a bone-chilling cold light.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!
Thousands of blood-red light spears shot from those twisted eye pupils, weaving a blinding death net in the air. Crimson light dyed the entire sky blood-red. The violent and violent blood-red formed a tidal wave, cascading down upon Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao stepped forward. A curtain of starlight blocked most of the blood spears. His figure flashed, and he was already before the evil spirit master.
Instantly, with him at the center, the gray mist spread like a living thing. Where it passed, the blood-red spirit power made a sizzling sound of corrosion, like snow meeting the blazing sun. It was devoured and dismantled.
The evil spirit master found that her spirit power and spiritual power were passing at a steady pace. Her heart sank.
A domain that erodes spiritual power and spirit power?
This boy's talent and strength seemed to exceed her expectations.
But still, at least he wasn't what she had previously imagined, a Limit Douluo disguised as a Soul King. Even without her Battle Armor and with her cultivation temporarily lowered to around Level 90, given the gap in combat experience, physical constitution, spiritual power, and spirit power, he was still no match for her.
The Blood Eyes evil spirit master quietly breathed a sigh of relief. While responding to the attack, she said in a low voice, "What's the use of staying in the Federation? No matter how extraordinary your talent, in three hundred years, you'll still be a pile of yellow earth. Surrender without a fight and join us. The Holy Cult is the best soil for your growth!"
"..."
Huo Yuhao remained silent. His attacks grew increasingly fierce as he mixed bloodline power into the necromancy mist to influence her.
"Hmph." The evil spirit master's mood grew increasingly irritable and restless. She gave a cold snort, and the blood light in her eyes surged. "Ungrateful!"
She bit the tip of her tongue. A mouthful of blood sprayed onto the blood-red longsword. The sword instantly erupted into a blinding flash of blood. The patterns on the blade writhed like blood vessels. A malevolent aura swept out.
"Blood Prison · Ten Thousand Soul Devour!"
The evil spirit master pointed her sword to the sky. Countless vengeful spirits surged from the blade. Their piercing wails resounded through the heavens. Those vengeful spirits turned into twisted, ghostly faces, clawing and pouncing toward Huo Yuhao. Wherever they passed, even the air sizzled with corrosion.
A dazzling golden light shot from Huo Yuhao's eyes.
Soul Shock!
Golden light collided with the vengeful spirits, erupting in a deafening roar. The resulting storm swept across the surroundings, lingering for a long time without dissipating.
Seeing Huo Yuhao using his comparatively weaker spirit power to contend with her for so long, the evil spirit master began to frown. After watching closely for a moment, an unbelievable thought suddenly emerged in her mind.
A soul core? He had formed a soul core?!
She herself was a Super Douluo. Even though her cultivation had fallen to Rank 90, her soul cores had not disappeared. She possessed twin soul cores. But Huo Yuhao was only a Soul King!
The gap between their spirit power levels was enormous. Without a soul core to absorb the elemental energy of heaven and earth for replenishment, his spirit power should have been exhausted long ago!
Did the condensation of a soul core by a Soul King exist anywhere in history?
A flicker of shock passed through the evil spirit master's blood-red eyes, quickly turning to greed. Her blood-red robe robe flapped in the surging spirit power. She paid no attention to her deteriorating condition. "I didn't expect a mere Soul King to a soul core. Huo Yuhao, you are even more valuable than I imagined!"
"What use is the Federation's strength? Do they have a truly true god-level existence? Our Holy Cult does. Become the Holy Son of our Cult, and you will be the next deity. Eternal life, overlooking the continent!"
Upon hearing this, a wave passed through Huo Yuhao's eyes. He said in his heart, "Elder Electrolux, that's enough. Switch."
The gray mist in his eyes suddenly boiled, as if opening a gate of some taboo.
The evil spirit master met those eyes. Sensing an unprecedented sense of threat, her heart was filled with terror.
What was this?
Before she could react, she felt her thoughts suddenly solidified. The entire world seemed to have the pause button pressed.
Necromancy — Soul Control Fire!
This evil spirit master, depleted to this extent, simply could not resist Elder Electrolux's magic.
"Huo Yuhao" looked at the evil spirit master he had controlled. In a low voice, he asked: "Tell me everything. Your purpose. The Holy Spirit Cult's deity. Everything!"
"The purpose is to..."
The evil spirit master's expression was blank. Her pupils suddenly enlarged. Her entire body trembled violently, as if about to explode.
"Huo Yuhao's" gaze condensed. He knew someone had placed a curse on her soul and martial soul origin, preventing her from revealing this message. He decisively used necromancy to suppress her soul.
The evil spirit master then became somewhat normal and began to answer.
"Our purpose is to find seeds of future top-tier powerhouses, and to collect divine fragments."
"As for our Cult's deity, I only know that he is a divine consciousness from the Divine Realm. The Cult Master used a blood curse to reshape and reshape his physical body. He is currently reincarnating..."
"But no one knows whether we can truly control him once he succeeds in reincarnating. He is, after all, a true god. So we need someone to balance his existence. In my eyes, Huo Yuhao has that potential. That's why I was extra excited."
At the beginning, even hearing news of divine fragments, Skydream and the other Spirit Souls were calm. But upon hearing "divine consciousness," their expressions changed.
"Damn, a deity's divine consciousness?" Skydream Iceworm's pupils shook violently. "Not to be rude, but did one of those fall down too?"
"What's so surprising about that?"
The Evil Emperor snapped back to reality and gave a cold snort. "Don't just think about the benefits. Divine artifacts and divine fragments have fallen. So what if divine consciousness has fallen? And it might not even have fallen. It might have run down on its own, afraid to fight the Golden Dragon King."
Huo Yuhao's expression was also calm. "Expected."
As the Evil Emperor had said, with divine artifacts and divine fragments falling, what was so strange about divine consciousness falling on the Douluo Continent?
Old Gold was a lone dragon. When he killed, he couldn't possibly confirm the state of every god. Nor did he have the time.
And on a battlefield where deities were being crazily slaughtered, countless gods with their own thoughts could have made any decision.
Fleeing the Divine Realm, finding a way to transfer divine consciousness to the lower plane, transferring divine consciousness into a divine artifact. None of that was impossible.
When pushed to a dead end, anyone will struggle. You couldn't expect every god to fight to the death against Old Gold for the Divine Realm.
Fortune and misfortune are intertwined. Good fortune comes with hidden curses.
The Divine Realm's disaster could not bring him only benefits. Old Gold killed gods, not to benefit the lower plane.
Old Gold was only responsible for killing. He brought benefits to the lower plane, and he dug pits as well.
Clearly, the Holy Spirit Cult of this era was one of the great pits dug by Old Gold.
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