When Huo Yuhao brought a group of his companions back to the Star Dou Great Forest, a group of ferocious beasts, led by the Beast God Di Tian, had already been waiting for a long time. Xiong Jun was even more impatient and came up to meet him, and like offering a treasure, he raised the dark purple, bamboo-joint-shaped Thunderflame Purgatory Vine in his hand towards Huo Yuhao.
Old Xiong had actually found this thing!
Huo Yuhao's eyes lit up. He quickly descended from the spatial gate in the air, and with one hand, took the vine in Xiong Jun's hand. In an instant, a stream of an electric arc lingered on his arm, giving him a tingling sensation.
Good grief! This thing has just been born with intelligence, and it already knows how to launch a counter-attack against a human!
"Thunderflame Purgatory Vine? There's still this thing in the Star Dou Great Forest?" The Fragrant Silk Exquisite Immortal Product poked its head out and at the first moment, had identified the identity of the vine in Huo Yuhao's hand.
It wasn't that a Thunderflame Purgatory Vine had never been born in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. It was just that the moment this thing had broken through the soil, it had been destroyed by the Fragrant Silk Exquisite Immortal Product and the others.
For no other reason than that this thing was advancing by absorbing the thunder tribulation every day. They themselves already couldn't avoid the heavenly tribulation. How could they possibly tolerate such a crazy plant soul beast appearing by their side?
It wasn't just plants. The vast majority of soul beasts were incomparably disgusted with the Thunderflame Purgatory Vine race. No one was willing to have thunder and lightning every day by their side. This kind of plant was considerably rare on the continent.
"By the way, this thing was discovered on the corpse of the fellow you killed," Di Tian remembered something. His palm instantly flipped, and a ball of light slowly floated towards Huo Yuhao.
"What is this?" Huo Yuhao took the ball of light with some curiosity. The moment his palm had touched the surface of the ball of light, a stream of information immediately poured into his mind.
"The inheritance seed of the Body Sect, a thing passed down from generation to generation by the successors. The holder must be a disciple of my sect. It can raise the level of a body martial soul's second awakening by one grade..."
Meaningless. This was left by Cao Jinxuan. Huo Yuhao hadn't expected that even Du Busi had given him this thing. It seemed this fellow was indeed highly regarded.
From the awakening level of Cao Jinxuan's substitute martial soul, it should have reached the gold-grade awakening. Originally, if one didn't count the assistance of the Body Sect's inheritance seed, he should have at least been a silver-grade martial soul's second awakening, enough to be on par with Long Aotian.
Unfortunately, Cao Jinxuan had twin martial souls, and his potential was greater. Even if his will was not firm enough, for the future of the sect, Du Busi had still chosen Cao Jinxuan, and not Long Aotian.
Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eyes martial soul had long since completed its awakening, and it would surely not be lower than the gold-grade. So this thing was not of much use to him. Besides, he also didn't want to join the Body Sect, which rejected soul tools and had feudal ideas.
In the original novel, the Body Sect was so wildly arrogant in its early stages. The result later? Long Aotian had died. Wei Na, for the sake of the empire, had had no choice but to sacrifice herself to seduce Huo Gua. Du Busi's group had captured the Sun Moon's crown prince to force Xu Tianran. The result was that the other party simply didn't take it seriously. Du Busi, in order to seek a final bit of dignity, had self-destructed before the Sun Moon Imperial Palace. The result was that he hadn't even managed to hurt the other party.
This was the development of the times. The rise of soul tools was the inevitable evolution of the humans on the continent! An exclusive, unique martial soul sect could not become a major force!
As for whether Du Busi would find him through this thing, Huo Yuhao was not interested. A group of ferocious beasts at the Limit Douluo level was here. Plus Gu Yuena coming out of seclusion, his Body Sect had already lost many experts last time. He believed that even if he were given ten thousand guts, he would not dare to drill in again.
The urgent task now was to cultivate this Thunderflame Purgatory Vine, because the Snow Empress's seventy-thousand-year great limit was approaching.
Ever since the Snow Empress had broken free, although she had not explicitly stated that she wanted to become Huo Yuhao's soul spirit, she had always been silently following by his side, fighting a god for him, this familiar stranger.
Huo Yuhao was not a person who did not repay a kindness. On the contrary, he had always remembered the Snow Empress's friendship. As long as the Snow Empress needed him, he would not be stingy in lending a helping hand.
To tame a hundred-year-old plant-system soul beast, there was simply no need for a divine skill like King Authority or Kotoamatsukami. Huo Yuhao had just shown off the energy of his Son of Nature's soul ring, and the vine had already happily thrown itself at him.
"How long is there until the great limit arrives?" Huo Yuhao, disregarding the Snow Empress's struggle, took hold of her slender, jade-like hand and asked softly.
"Probably... just a matter of these one or two days," the Snow Empress struggled to no avail. A trace of a annoyance appeared on her icy, pretty face. "You let me go first!"
Huo Yuhao was taken aback. "I'm checking your body for you?"
"I don't need your trouble!" The Snow Empress shook off his hand with annoyance. For some reason, she was very repulsive to making intimate gestures with Huo Yuhao in front of a group of chattering women.
Huo Yuhao awkwardly rubbed his hands. There was still a little time. Just right to conclude the soul spirit contracts for himself and his partners.
With the previous experience of Cui Yejie and Ju Zi, plus the fact that Huo Yuhao's spiritual power realm had improved a lot, to carry out the soul spirit contract ceremony for his partners one by one, plus the fact that the immortal grasses were voluntarily cooperating, in total it had only taken less than half a day to hold all the soul spirit contract ceremonies.
Xie Huanyue had already directly reached the sixth ring. His soul rings were five red and one orange-gold; Cui Yejie had also half a foot into the Soul Emperor level. When she truly became a Soul Emperor, she would also possess her first orange-gold soul ring; Ju Zi, after fusing with her second soul spirit, had smoothly advanced to the fifth ring, with four red and one orange-gold; Ning Tian and Wu Feng had on the contrary broken through to the Soul King realm. Their first four soul rings had turned red, and their fifth soul ring was orange-gold; Nanmen Yun'er had also smoothly broken through to the fourth ring, her soul ring colors three black and one orange-gold. She believed that the next time she broke through, there would no longer be any black soul rings; Ye Linlin's foundation was weak and had not advanced again, but her physique had been strengthened a lot. She believed that when she reached the fourth ring in the future, she would also be able to possess an orange-gold soul ring; Meng Hongchen had also advanced to Soul Emperor. Her soul rings had collectively changed color, four black, one red, and one orange-gold.
Although everyone had made such an exaggerated progress in a short period of time, Huo Yuhao did not plan to have them continue to cultivate. Instead, he began to go into seclusion to digest the soul power that had grown enormously in these few days due to his fortuitous encounters.
Only the power that one could truly master was a person's true strength. And another thing was the foundation. A wildly soaring soul power cultivation realm would inevitably lead to an unstable foundation. This was a great taboo in soul master cultivation.
A group of partners naturally knew of the problem that Huo Yuhao had spoken of. Under the leadership of Di Tian, one by one they had found a place to go into seclusion.
Huo Yuhao, on the other hand, looked at the two great soul spirits he had just fused with, the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and the Thunderflame Purgatory Vine, and couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh.
After the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew had completed its fusion with him, it had not provided much energy for his fifth soul ring. After all, the energy of a spiritual attribute could not be directly drawn from the worldly primordial energy, but needed Huo Yuhao to absorb, digest, and then transform it. This was what had made the fifth soul ring so difficult to complete. To this day, he had only completed less than half of the energy accumulation.
And after the Thunderflame Purgatory Vine had fused, it had finally brought him a yellow, hundred-year soul ring that a normal person would possess, and it was the third soul ring of his second martial soul, the Immortal Spirit Wood. In the theory of the best soul ring ratio, for the third soul ring to be a hundred years was undoubtedly a waste.
But this was the third soul ring bestowed by a soul spirit! As long as there was enough of a heavenly tribulation, wouldn't its age limit soar up?
Right now, wasn't there a seventy-thousand-year-old ferocious beast that was about to undergo a tribulation?
Of course, Huo Yuhao couldn't possibly go up and directly take on a seventy-thousand-year heavenly tribulation right away. He had had Gu Yuena take him to find a place that was often struck by lightning to have some fun first. No matter what achievements he had now, as long as he was a normal person, there was no one who was not afraid of being struck by lightning.
Just right. In the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest, there was a thunder valley. The Thunderflame Purgatory Vine had been found there. When Gu Yuena had brought Huo Yuhao here, it had just happened to be a time of lightning and thunder in the sky.
Huo Yuhao released the Thunderflame Purgatory Vine. Trembling, he ran towards the center of the thunder valley. Especially when he had heard the rumbling thunder in the high sky, his back had even more so felt a chill.
Soon, a bolt of lightning had descended from the sky. Huo Yuhao did not dodge or evade and took a direct hit. He only felt a fierce tingling sensation from his whole body. His consciousness was also a sheet of blankness. His entire body and every part of him was as if ignited. The ultimate burning sensation made him can't help but let out a painful groan.
Damn it! So this is the feeling of being struck by lightning! Any normal person would have died! Huo Yuhao almost lost his temper. He had seen many kinds of stories of undergoing a tribulation by being struck by lightning, but for him to truly experience it himself was a different matter.
After all, besides the people of a fantasy otherworld, a normal person would have died the moment they were struck by lightning. Where would there be a chance for him to share his feelings after being struck by lightning?
Gu Yuena and the Snow Empress looked at the Huo Yuhao who was dancing like a madman after being struck by the ordinary bolt of lightning. A thick worry couldn't help but rise in their hearts. Can he do it or not? This fellow looks too unreliable.
Huo Yuhao was in no mood to listen to their slander in their heart. He quickly used his hands to fiercely rub his body. Only then had he lowered the tingling and burning sensation. Even Little Huo had stood up straight like a javelin.
But before he could run out of the thunder zone, the Thunderflame Purgatory Vine had impatiently drilled its head out. Another bolt of lightning had descended, and Huo Yuhao had been struck by lightning again.
"Gah..." Huo Yuhao tilted his head. His face was completely black. He spat out a mouthful of scorching qi.