Just as Tang San was in a standoff with Electrolux, Huo Yuhao on his side had already begun to absorb the soul ring.
He had decided to attach this million-year soul ring to his Immortal Spirit Wood martial soul!
The energy of the million-year Deep Sea Demon Whale King was simply too immense, and there was a good chance a wisp of her divine sense was hidden within it, so Huo Yuhao had to absorb it with extreme care.
What he had to do now was to ensure that this absorption was foolproof. So he decisively injected his spiritual power into the silver dragon pendant on his chest.
In the next second after his spiritual power was injected, a silver light appeared beside him.
The newcomer was precisely the Silver Dragon King, Gu Yuena.
Through the silver dragon scale, Gu Yuena could easily tear open space and teleport regardless of distance. She also knew that if it were a situation Huo Yuhao could handle himself, he would not easily ask for her help.
"A million-year soul ring?"
Gu Yuena could tell the age of the soul ring Huo Yuhao was absorbing at a glance, and her beautiful eyes couldn't help but widen slightly.
"Yes. I'll have to ask you to be my guardian." Huo Yuhao nodded at her. If he were just dealing with Tang San, he himself would be enough. After all, the latter could not be compared to the one in the Divine Realm.
Ever since Huo Yuhao had re-emerged in the world, the opponents he had encountered had all been crushed. They could not bring him the exhilarating feeling of a hard-fought battle.
And the Tang San before him was his best whetstone.
However, right now, there was something more important to do than fighting this guy.
So Huo Yuhao did not hesitate to invite this Silver Dragon King.
"Can you withstand it?" Gu Yuena gave him a strange look, as if blaming him for his greed.
"My Lord, leave the absorption of the soul ring to me." The Ten Thousand Demon King condensed a wisp of spiritual sense that floated out from Huo Yuhao's head and bowed slightly to Gu Yuena.
Huo Yuhao's second martial soul currently only had three soul rings: the dark green nine-hundred-thousand-year first soul ring of the Demon Eye Demon Tree, the green-gold second soul ring of the Son of Life, and the orange-gold two-hundred-thousand-year third soul ring of the Thunderous Nether Vine.
A million-year fourth soul ring was not unbearable for Huo Yuhao. After all, the first soul ring of his Evil Eye martial soul was of a true million-year level. The spiritual origin that the Skydream Iceworm had sealed had long since been completely absorbed by Huo Yuhao.
The reason why Huo Yuhao's spiritual cultivation was able to reach the Half-Step God King realm so quickly was inextricably linked to the spiritual origins of the major fierce beasts he had absorbed. After all, the million-year Skydream Iceworm, the five-hundred-thirty-thousand-year Ten Thousand Demon King, and the nearly eight-hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord were all paragons of the spiritual type in the soul beast world.
Finally, under the soul spirit symbiosis contract with the Emperor Auspicious Beast, which was also of the spiritual type, their spiritual origins underwent a qualitative sublimation. Huo Yuhao's spiritual power naturally reached this realm.
"Then I'll leave it to you." Gu Yuena no longer questioned. The Ten Thousand Demon King was extremely well-hidden. In a sense, its original threat to the Beast God Di Tian's position was far greater than that of the Bear Lord.
And just at this moment, among the three soul rings floating up and down on Huo Yuhao, another orange-gold soul ring suddenly appeared.
"What's going on?" Gu Yuena's face showed surprise. Could this Huo Yuhao produce a fierce beast soul ring on his own?
This soul ring was naturally bestowed by the Thunderous Nether Vine. Unlike Huo Yuhao's first and second soul rings, it was the true first soul spirit of Huo Yuhao's second martial soul. The Ten Thousand Demon King had given Huo Yuhao's second martial soul its form, the Son of Life had brought him a qualitative change, and the Thunderous Nether Vine was the soul spirit that officially attached a normal soul ring to Huo Yuhao.
The two-hundred-thousand-year Thunderous Nether Vine could already attach two orange-gold fierce beast soul rings to Huo Yuhao. As for what soul skills it brought him, Huo Yuhao would have to try for himself.
In the spiritual sea, Huo Yuhao guided the vast energy of the million-year soul ring of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King and began to absorb it.
In the next instant, a huge body suddenly lifted its head from that soul ring. Immediately after, a dazzling purple-gold light burst forth like an explosion.
That huge body, over a thousand meters long, began to shrink. In mid-air, a naked body slowly appeared.
Surrounded by a hazy purple-gold light, her appearance could not be seen clearly, but it could be distinguished that it was actually a woman.
The woman had completely transformed. She was right there, on the surface of Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea, walking step by step towards Huo Yuhao, gradually revealing her true face.
She was very beautiful, but she had a pair of sword-like eyebrows. Her eyes were cold, emitting a purple-gold light. With each step she took, the space would slightly distort, as if it were trying to reject her from this world. But the seawater beneath her, the purple-gold color would become a bit more intense.
"Your Majesty the Demon Empress is truly a peerless beauty." Huo Yuhao looked at the curvaceous body of the Deep Sea Demon Whale Queen with a smile, not at all surprised by her appearance.
"Kid Huo, your biggest mistake was to absorb my soul ring." The Demon Empress's pretty face was as grim as water. Her physical body had been destroyed by the Great Buddha. Possessing Huo Yuhao was her only way to survive.
"Just with that laughable God Origin Realm spiritual power of yours?" Huo Yuhao was dismissive. This Demon Empress's spiritual cultivation was much worse than Tang San's. And the spiritual sea was his world. He was the master here!
The Demon Empress suddenly smiled, a smile of disdain.
"I have long been in the true god realm. No soul master on the Douluo Continent can possibly absorb my soul ring. Just the life origin energy I have accumulated for hundreds of thousands of years is enough to easily make you explode!"
"That's why you're a rare resource..." Huo Yuhao licked his lips. "But before that, I need to remind you of one thing. Our common goal is the one who killed your husband, the Sea God, Tang San."
The Demon Empress just shook her head upon hearing this. "Don't even think about disturbing my dao heart! No matter who your opponent is, I will not submit to a human. I will take revenge for my husband myself."
"Then there's nothing to talk about." Huo Yuhao spread his hands. "Are you going to fight me here, or are you going to obediently become my soul ring?"
"Unfortunately for you, I won't give you any chance."
Huo Yuhao held the necromancer's staff high and began to chant a profound and difficult incantation.
Streaks of arcane runes appeared from the top of the staff as he chanted, dancing around Huo Yuhao, giving off a sacred and inviolable majesty.
"You kid really have a lot of secrets." The Demon Empress naturally would not sit and wait for death. From the aura emanating from Huo Yuhao, she clearly felt a natural restraint, a method aimed at the soul. No matter how glorious she was in life, she was now just a remnant of divine sense.
Just as the Demon Empress was on high alert, the tip of a blade appeared from her chest without any warning.
Not only was she stunned, but even Huo Yuhao himself was stunned.
"Your spiritual sense is clearly right in front of me, how could..."
The Demon Empress murmured. She only felt that the core of her divine sense had been completely shattered and destroyed by this one stab. She didn't even have time to defend herself. Because the blade that had pierced her chest carried Huo Yuhao's aura.
As the Demon Empress slowly fell, Huo Yuhao also saw the true face of the being behind her.
He had the exact same appearance and height as Huo Yuhao. On his slightly pale face was a cruel and ruthless smile.
"Yo! Huo Yǔhào, this should be our first meeting, right?"
"You are..." Huo Yuhao's pupils shrank. This guy, could he be...
"Yes, I am Huo Yuhao. The real Huo Yuhao." The person opposite him gave a wild smile. The Ice Wheel Blade in his hand was suddenly thrust towards the Demon Empress on the surface of the sea.
The long blade pierced through the Demon Empress's head, absorbing her spiritual origin along with it.
"You must be very curious why I have always existed in your body, and not completely dissipated or escaped at the moment you possessed it."
The original Huo Yuhao pointed the long blade at the transmigrator. "I am different from the Sea God Tang San. At the beginning of a life's birth, it is also the weakest moment of a life. But when you came to this world, I had already completely fused with my body. You simply could not completely expel my soul from this body."
"So, you've been lurking in the deepest part of the spiritual sea all this time..." Huo Yuhao's face was grave. The thing he had worried about most had still happened, and at this most critical moment of absorbing the Demon Empress's soul ring.
"All along, I have to admit, you have done better than me. You have all my memories, and I also have all of your memories." The original Huo Yuhao smiled. "From the moment you blew up the Duke's mansion, I accepted you. Later, you gradually rose in this world, step by step surpassing the achievements I could have reached."
"However! You are ultimately an outside soul. You are incompatible with this world. As you grew stronger, rationality gradually took over your mind. It wasn't until you risked everything to fight Tang San, letting emotion override reason, that I had no choice but to appear before you."
"So you plan to expel me now?" Huo Yuhao's brow furrowed. "We've come this far together, possessing equal spiritual cultivation. Do you think you can smoothly drive me out of this body?"
"Don't misunderstand. What you can do, I might not be able to do if it were me..." The original Huo Yuhao surprisingly shook his head. "I will not expel you, nor will I erase your soul. The reason you are still the Child of Fortune of this continent is because of my existence. Therefore, you cannot expel my soul either."
"Oh? You plan to cooperate with me?" Huo Yuhao, the transmigrator, smiled. He suddenly felt that the original Huo Yuhao was quite clever.
"Huo Yǔhào, you call yourself a Demon King. Then do you know what the difference is between a king and his mount?" The original Huo Yuhao gave a strange smile and twirled the long blade in his hand.
"Do you mean..." The transmigrator's eyes narrowed, hearing this familiar line.
"I am not asking you a shallow question about humans and horses. Regardless of spiritual power, soul power, or strength, if there are two identical souls existing in the same body, which one is the king that dominates the body?" The original Huo Yuhao grinned. "Which one is the mount that serves as support? What is the difference between you and me?"
The transmigrator stared thoughtfully at the other Huo Yuhao before him, a faint answer already forming in his heart.
"There is only one answer—"
"That is instinct!"