While the outside world was troubled, inside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Huo Yuhao stood at the junction of the icy and fiery springs. On his left, the cold spring was bone-chilling. On his right, the hot spring blazed with raging flames.
Behind him, the two dragon souls flew in the sky. On his shoulders, the two immortal herbs, Octagonal Mystic Ice Grass and Blazing Apricot, each occupied one side.
In the distance, the remaining four immortal herbs looked at each other in bewilderment.
Was my Lord truly going to undergo the Ice and Fire Tempered Golden Body?
Blazing Apricot and Octagonal Mystic Ice Grass had certainly gotten a good deal.
"You two remember? Once I reach the junction of ice and fire, you begin."
Huo Yuhao gave a few instructions to Blazing Apricot and Octagonal Mystic Ice Grass.
"We understand." Though Blazing Apricot still had some doubts, she did not ask. She just moved her leaves slightly, as if nodding.
Octagonal Mystic Ice Grass is also assigned.
Seeing this, Huo Yuhao nodded to Gu Yuena not far away, took a deep breath, circulated his spirit power, and leaped into the cold spring.
The extreme cold energy, capable of killing a Title Douluo, instantly surged toward Huo Yuhao. But Huo Yuhao also possessed Extreme Ice. And his spiritual power had already recovered to the Spirit Domain realm. Though the cold spring's energy was powerful, its effect on him was limited.
On the other side, after Huo Yuhao leaped into the cold spring, the Water Dragon King's dragon soul followed closely, being the first to fuse into his body.
The next moment, six spirit rings appeared around Huo Yuhao. The third spirit ability, Sky Silkworm Metamorphosis, was instantly activated.
The Water Dragon King's dragon soul no longer had its own body. But the half-step god-level Extreme Ice spirit power and Spirit Domain realm spiritual power still resides within it. Otherwise, it could not possess strength comparable to a half-step god.
Now, Huo Yuhao used Sky Silkworm Metamorphosis to split the spirit power and spiritual power. He brought the Extreme Ice energy and the Water Dragon King's bloodline power together into the origin of the Ice Empress martial soul. He pulled the spiritual origin together with the Water Dragon King's Spirit Soul into the Sea of Spirit.
With the Water Dragon King's dragon soul actively cooperating, Huo Yuhao completed this process on his own. But to seal the seal that spirit power and spiritual power, he also spent several hours.
Especially the spiritual power. Because the dragon soul had little intelligence to begin with, only instinct, it could not seal itself. It could help him seal the Extreme Ice energy with its spiritual power. But when it came to seal its own spiritual power, it could not help much.
During the process, a situation similar to the Evil Emperor's possession attempt occurred. Huo Yuhao's Sea of Spirit was even covered by the Water Dragon King's spiritual power.
After all, Huo Yuhao had only just returned to the Spirit Domain realm. There was still a gap between his spiritual power and that of the two dragon souls.
One must know that the gap in spiritual power from the Spirit Domain realm to the peak of the Spirit Domain realm was 30,000. Although this no longer involves a real qualitative change, the gap was even larger than from zero to the Spirit Domain realm. The quantitative change in between was something many Limit Douluos could not complete in their entire lifetimes.
The peak of the Spirit Domain Realm was synonymous with the peak of the quasi-divine realm. Although the two dragon souls were no longer at the peak of the Spirit Domain Realm, they were still at the late stage of the Spirit Domain Realm.
However, sealing the seal was something that had to be completed as quickly as possible.
After all, the two dragon souls acted purely on instinct. If they encountered a special situation—such as overwhelming pressure from a true dragon clan powerhouse—unexpected circumstances might arise. Allowing them to retain too much power would become a hidden danger, both to themselves and to their companions within the Sea of Spirits.
It was better to take precautions early rather than regret it later.
Fortunately, the Water Dragon King had no intention of possessing another soul. Huo Yuhao possessed the Soul Devouring Spirit ability. This struggle for the Sea of Spirits ended with Huo Yuhao's victory. After devouring part of the Water Dragon King's spiritual power, he gradually completed the sealing of that spiritual power.
And after sealing this energy, Huo Yuhao and the beings in the Sea of Spirits perked up. Autumn Dew That Gazes Through, who had just learned of Huo Yuhao's thoughts, was also affected. Her expression became solemn and heavy.
Next came the main event.
"Xue'er, you should participate in what comes next as well. Focus on understanding it carefully. It will help you in the future."
Snow Empress nodded obediently.
"Yes."
Having suddenly gained such powerful energy, logically, it should be sealed away and kept for future use.
He was preparing for a breakthrough, but Huo Yuhao, observing the blue orb formed by the seal of the Water Dragon King's energy at the origin of his martial soul, took a deep breath and began to compress the energy within, combining it with his Spirit Souls and Electrolux.
After the energy was compressed into a small blue pearl, Huo Yuhao suddenly released his control over it.
At the same time, Huo Yuhao began to absorb the energy of the cold spring from heaven and earth and brought out the Ice God Pearl, mobilizing its cold energy to absorb it.
Usually, when Huo Yuhao cultivated, his spiritual power flowed like a gentle stream, calm and slow. But at this moment, the spiritual power within his body was like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, endless and surging. The racing spiritual power flowed rapidly into his dantian, its speed ten times faster than usual.
Even Huo Yuhao's tenacity... His meridians began to throb with waves of swelling pain.
But Huo Yuhao's expression remained unchanged. He merely gathered all of it at the origin of his martial soul through the Sky Silkworm Metamorphosis.
The blue pearl, sensing the various Extreme Ice energies flowing into it, suddenly emitted a powerful suction force, like a gale sweeping across the land, greedily drawing in the Extreme Ice spirit power within Huo Yuhao, the cold energy of the Ice God Pearl, and the heavenly and earthly elemental forces permeating the cold spring.
The cold spring originated from the Water Dragon King. The heavenly and earthly elemental forces within it were extremely similar to the Water Dragon King's own power. The energy contained inside the blue pearl was the compressed and sealed source power of the Water Dragon King itself. Having already broken free from the Water Dragon King's control, it had long become unstable. Now that Huo Yuhao was actively absorbing the cold spring's power to strengthen it, the pearl was further stimulated.
Acting purely on instinct, it began devouring the power of the cold spring… gradually spiraling further and further out of control.
And Huo Yuhao merely watched its actions. Despite the soul-deep pain wracking him, his expression remained completely focused.
According to Elder Electrolux, mastering the "when extreme is reversed" of an extreme attribute was something only a divine consciousness could do. But Huo Yuhao felt he was being too humble. Even with divine consciousness, not everyone could do it. But since even Elder Electrolux said so, one could imagine the difficulty.
He had been able to do it in the past. But his current power did not allow him to complete "when extreme is reversed" on his own. The purity of his Extreme Ice and his spiritual power were insufficient to achieve that process.
However, so-called opportunities were meant to accelerate the cultivation process.
If self-transformation could not be achieved, then use another method: out of control of the origin.
The origin attribute of the Water Dragon King manifested as Extreme Ice in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Its energy was definitely the closest to the extreme ice in the world. After being compressed repeatedly by them, something that had once happened in the original work, under Huo Yuhao's deliberate guidance, began to happen to him.
Just as Snow Empress's snow core had spun out of control due to the Cold Jade Marrow Bed, producing "when extreme is reversed," a similar change occurred in the Water Dragon King's origin power.
The Water Dragon King's origin power was like a snow core. The cold spring of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and the Ice God Pearl were equivalent to the Cold Jade Marrow Bed, igniting the Water Dragon King's origin power.
Ice and fire reverse reverses. When a thing reaches its extreme, it reverses. When extreme is reached, the opposite follows.
Extreme fire appeared within Huo Yuhao's martial soul. The high temperature and the origin attribute of Extreme Ice repelled each other, about to directly destroy the Ice Empress martial soul.
This was a very dangerous behavior. If something went wrong, the Ice Empress martial soul would be completely destroyed. But the Huo Yuhao of now and the several in the Sea of The spirits were not the weakened versions of those from ten thousand years ago.
"Begin the next step. Reverse it again."
Before the originating Extreme Fire could erupt, under the control of Elder Electrolux, Snow Empress's divine consciousness, and the other spirits, it was compressed again. Huo Yuhao, with the divine consciousness power of Elder Electrolux and Snow Empress, controlled its transformation again. Combined with the influence of the cold spring outside, it gradually returned to its original ice attribute.
Extreme Ice, Extreme Fire.
Extreme Fire, Extreme Ice.
When yin reaches its extreme, yang is born. When yang reaches its extreme, yin is born.
The extreme energies of ice and fire intertwined wildly within Huo Yuhao's body. Each reversal was like dancing on a knife's edge. His meridians were constantly torn under the impact of this violent energy, then gradually healed under the effect of the Gold of Life. Frost sometimes solidified on... his skin. Red firelight sometimes appeared.
Octagonal Mystic Ice Grass and Blazing Apricot watched this scene in shock. The latter murmured, "Extreme Ice and Extreme Fire can really be transformed? How is that done?"
Octagonal Mystic Ice Grass interrupted her thinking. "Stop being surprised and puzzled. As my Lord instructed, we begin the next step."
Unbeknownst to them, Huo Yuhao had moved from the cold spring to the junction of the two springs, clearly reminding them.
Blazing Apricot stopped thinking and began to exert its power together with Octagonal Mystic Ice Grass.
Blazing Apricot, on Huo Yuhao's left shoulder, stretched out her fiery red leaves. A blazing red light spread like flowing lava. Octagonal Mystic Ice Grass, on his right shoulder, emitted a deep blue light. A chilling cold structure formed fine ice crystals.
Surprisingly, these two opposing energies did not repel each other. Instead, they intertwined into a beautiful red and blue halo in the air.
Over the years, through the unique environment of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the two immortal herbs had formed a wondrous connection. The concept of Yin and Yang working together.
Together, not only would they not weaken each other's power, they would actually greatly enhance and elevate each other. What a pity. Due to attribute reasons, no spirit master could simultaneously accommodate both of them as Spirit Souls. But Huo Yuhao, in their eyes, could.
So they used their full strength, intending to help Huo Yuhao complete the Yin-Yang balance, stabilize his state of Ice and Fire of the Same Source, and also fight for the opportunity to become his Spirit Souls.
With the assistance of the two immortal herbs, Huo Yuhao's cultivation progress accelerated again. The transformation of the two extremes within him gradually slowed, faintly forming a special shape.
In this process, time quietly passed. Six days went by.
Within the origin of Huo Yuhao's Ice Empress martial soul, a strange scene appeared. A Tai Chi pattern, composed of Extreme Ice and Extreme Fire, spun within.
The two extreme attributes contained each other... and could be mutually transformed.
Ice and Fire of the Same Source, achieved.
For Huo Yuhao, once he completed "when extreme is reversed," he would complete Ice and Fire of the Same Source. This was where he differed from Rong Nianbing. After all, the "when extreme is reversed" of extreme ice and fire was proved that they were of the same source.
Huo Yuhao slowly opened his eyes. A pattern of ice and fire flashed briefly in his pupils. He let out a light breath. An ice-blue light bloomed from within his body. A phantom of an entirely Ice-Jade Emperor Scorpion appeared behind Huo Yuhao. The aura it released made the plant spirit beasts of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well react with emotion.
Even Blazing Apricot and Octagonal Mystic Ice Grass felt a shudder.
"Extreme Ice and Extreme Fire, appearing on the same martial soul?"
Even having participated in this process, Octagonal Mystic Ice Grass was still somewhat incredulous.
Although he and Blazing Apricot had completed Yin and Yang, Yin and Yang were far beyond them.
In the distance, Earth Dragon Golden Melon murmured, "Don't you think that martial soul looks a bit like the Ice-Jade Scorpion?"
"The Ice-Jade Scorpion martial soul. Isn't that the martial soul of the Spirit Transmission Tower's First Generation Tower Master? Could he be a descendant of Spirit-Ice Douluo?"
Ink Jade Divine Bamboo exclaimed.
Qiluo Tulip swallowed. His tone was low. "No. To be able to coexist harmoniously with His Majesty the Silver Dragon King without any distinction of rank I'm afraid is not that simple."
While the immortal herbs were secretly shocked, Huo Yuhao was feeling and observing the changes in his martial soul. Now, the scorpion body of the Ice Empress martial soul was still as emerald green and translucent. But on the surface of its shell, red-red flame patterns appeared.
The scorpion tail was no longer pure ice blue. It now had a bizarre color of red and blue. At the tail hook, a constantly changing ice flame condensed.
Yes, the Ice Empress martial soul had already completed evolution. Even though he had not yet completed the process of unifying the seven elements through the method of Ice and Fire of the Same Source, after completing both "when extreme is reversed" and Ice and Fire of the Same Source, the Ice Empress martial soul had naturally completed evolution.
Perhaps a super martial soul could no longer describe it now. The fire element of the martial soul had been sublimated to Extreme Fire and had achieved co-existence with Extreme Ice, and the two could be mutually transformed. This was something he had not been able to accomplish in the past.
After all, this was the Douluo Continent, not the Holy Demon Continent. The martial soul system was based on bloodline, not ability.
Just as understanding spatial power and time power would not allow your martial soul to have those two attributes, what was directly related to the martial soul had always been bloodline.
In the past, although he could transform extreme attributes, he could not make the Ice Empress martial soul itself possess the Extreme Fire attribute.
Unless, like the original Electrolux, he sacrificed part of his divine consciousness power to pinch a new martial soul. But that was unnecessary.
After all, he knew how to transform extremes and could still use it. Whether the martial soul had this attribute did not affect anything.
It was just that times had changed. He had the Silver Dragon King's bloodline. So he needed to complete the method of Ice and Fire of the Same Source within the origin of his martial soul to unify the seven elements, complete his martial soul's evolution, and increase his foundation.
And with the Ice Empress martial soul itself having completed this transformation, even before he returned to the Divine Origin realm, he could freely control the two extreme attributes.
However, the cost of accomplishing this was also high. "When extreme is reversed" required an attribute to reach an extreme to complete. Extreme-level Extreme Ice origin could be said to be the foundation.
Now, the Water Dragon King's origin had completely fused into the Ice Empress martial soul, becoming the martial soul's evolution and the foundation for stabilizing Ice and Fire of the Same Source. It could no longer be taken out and used.
The other Spirit Souls needed to rest for a while due to excessive consumption. Huo Yuhao's own spiritual power was also nearly exhausted. Snow Empress's divine consciousness, having her body to replenish, and Elder Electrolux, with his rich experience in "when extreme is reversed," were still in good condition.
Having completed the evolution of his martial soul, Huo Yuhao did not immediately leave the spring. Instead, he seriously felt the various benefits and changes brought by this martial soul evolution.
Extreme Ice and Extreme Fire went without saying. They were the answer of the version ten thousand years ago. Moreover, his martial soul now possessed both of these attributes. Its strength was beyond doubt and beyond doubt.
And just now, while in the state of Ice and Fire Tempered Two Heavens, he had alternatively completed the Ice and Fire Tempered Golden Body, an enhanced version at that. The second level of the Body Sect's secret method had already been crossed, entering the third level, one step closer to the fourth level, Golden Body.
However, if we were to talk about the greatest gain, it was probably this Flame.
Huo Yuhao raised his hand, looking at the ice-blue flame that appeared in his palm.
It was neither pure ice nor pure fire, but a unique energy form produced during the mutual transformation of the two extreme attributes. It possessed the characteristics of both Extreme Ice and Extreme Fire.
A strange fire born from extreme cold. Bone Spirit Cold Flame? Elder Electrolux was Medicine Elder? Was his surname actually Xiao? Should he play with fire in the future?
Ahem, just joking.
Although this flame could also make people feel the joy of ice and fire, its function was completely different from Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
It was a talent derived during the martial soul's evolution, a power similar to an innate domain. It could be considered Huo Yuhao's own lifebound true flame. It had the same characteristics as an external spirit bone, growing with his strength.
Huo Yuhao tried it. Perhaps because it was born during the ice-fire transformation... it also possessed the ability to transform other flames and ice, taking them as part of its own power. It had extremely strong suppression over both Extreme Fire and Extreme Ice. Even the spring water of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could not resist this transformation, let alone ordinary fire and ice elements.
Perhaps it could be called Ice-Devouring Extreme Flame?
But speaking of the ability to transform flames...
Huo Yuhao looked at his lifebound true flame, narrowed his eyes, and raised his right hand. The Seven-Colored Lotus Flame appeared in his hand.
In an instant, all the fire elements in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well began to converge toward the Seven-Colored Lotus Flame. Even the Fire Dragon King's dragon soul, currently at half-step god strength, was somewhat affected.
And his lifebound true flame was also slightly affected. However, because it also possessed the characteristic properties of Extreme Ice, it was not greatly affected. Instead, the ice elements in the air began to converge toward it.
Nevertheless, Huo Yuhao still judged that his idea was temporarily impossible. "Sure enough it is not possible. The gap in level is too great."
Even a First-Class God would not dare touch the Seven-Colored Lotus Flame easily. There was no comparison between it and his lifebound flame. His thoughts would have to wait for later experimentation.
Just as Huo Yuhao was about to withdraw the two flames, a sudden change occurred.
The Fire Dragon King's dragon soul, looking at the Seven-Colored Lotus Flame, which could be called the ancestor of all flames, and the Ice-Devouring Extreme Flame, which co-existed with ice and fire, suddenly let out a roar. The immortal herbs, which had been lost in thought, all shuddered.
The Water Dragon King's dragon soul, which had already fused into Huo Yuhao's body, heard the sound and began to respond, wanting to come out. Huo Yuhao did not stop. He frowned as he watched the two dragon souls converge and together rush into the spring of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, somewhat puzzled.
What were they trying to do?
After a few minutes, the Fire Dragon King's dragon soul and the Water Dragon King's dragon soul each emerged from the spring with an orb of light and handed the orbs to Huo Yuhao.
Seeing what was inside, Huo Yuhao's pupils contracted.
They were two leg bones. And the spirit bones taken from beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could only be the dragon bones of the two dragon souls.
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