"You'd best not inherit it recklessly."
At this moment, Gu Yuena's cold and clear voice rang out in time. With Huo Yuhao fusing god positions and causing such a huge commotion, how could she not notice?
"I feel like this god position should be stronger than Asura or Destruction," Huo Yuhao stared intently at the god position before him. Judging from the great battle that occurred on the Douluo Continent six million years ago, Lucifer's strength could entirely rival the Supreme God King, the Dragon God. You must know, the opponents standing against him were all existences at the God King level.
With a flash of light and shadow, Gu Yuena's spiritual clone gracefully walked out of the light cocoon, like a fairy untainted by mortal affairs.
"That god position is not normal."
"How so?" Huo Yuhao was stunned, not understanding Gu Yuena's meaning.
"The so-called deities are transcendent powerhouses whose cultivation has surpassed the shackles of the plane, and because their strength is too great, they are rejected by the universal rules," Gu Yuena seriously reminded him. "But this god position clearly doesn't seem like the type that normally suffers rejection from the universal rules..."
"Are you saying it is accepted by the universal rules?" Huo Yuhao's eyes lit up. Wasn't this a good thing? This meant that even if he became a god, he could still stay on the Douluo Continent without any worries, without needing to go to that troublesome Divine Realm.
However, Gu Yuena shook her head. "If that were the case, I wouldn't stop you. If the gods are powerhouses standing in opposition to the universal rules, then this god position is an ominous existence transcending the universal rules."
"Ominous?" Huo Yuhao felt a chill all over his body. He couldn't help but recall Lucifer's ending. It seemed this existence eventually went completely mad, then committed suicide in the void, splitting his god position in two.
"The Dragon God is very strong, right? And is unique in the multiverse. Other universes might have other Sea Gods, Asura Gods, or Gods of Destruction, but there will only ever be one Dragon God in the boundless universe," Gu Yuena continued. "But the feeling this god position gives me is that it's not a product of the universe. You'd best think carefully about whether to inherit it."
"Then let's put it aside for now, no rush," Huo Yuhao said, adopting a slack attitude. "At worst, I'll follow the God of Destruction's intention and inherit the Destruction god position after going back."
"That is also a good choice," Gu Yuena nodded. "What level is the soul power of your primary martial soul now?"
"It should be level 98, stuck at the third soul core," Huo Yuhao scratched his head. His cultivation had never properly leveled up; he would jump ten levels at a time, then get stuck at a realm for a long time. Once it was almost consolidated, he would jump another ten levels.
Theoretically speaking, after he came out of the Holy Ghost Church's secret room, his accumulated soul power had already reached the Titled Douluo level. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to attach multiple soul rings continuously to his other two martial souls in one breath later.
Like the last five soul rings of the World Tree and the Necromancy Saint Law God, they were all Super God-level divine rings directly bestowed by the Dragon Kings.
"While we haven't arrived at the Longma Galaxy yet, let me assist you in condensing the third soul core," Gu Yuena suggested.
"Will it affect you?" Huo Yuhao looked at her seriously. "Your current state is not good. If you act rashly..."
"It's just condensing a third soul core, not too difficult." Gu Yuena felt warmed in her heart, but Huo Yuhao's immediate strength improvement was more important.
"Then I'll leave it to you." Huo Yuhao didn't refuse anymore; after all, they were family anyway—
...
In order to better guide the dragon power, Huo Yuhao came to the root of the World Tree, a place suitable for condensing a soul core. The root veins here coiled like giant dragons, and the sound of surging dragon power was like a dragon's roar. Various dragon power vortexes were visible to the naked eye.
Huo Yuhao took a deep breath and slowly sat cross-legged. He closed his eyes and carefully released his divine thought, trying to establish a connection with the surrounding dragon power. However, as soon as the dragon power came into contact with his divine thought, it acted like a runaway wild horse, crazily impacting his mental defenses. Huo Yuhao only felt a sharp pain in his head, as if countless needles were piercing him at the same time.
An overwhelmingly powerful and majestic dragon power surged towards his face like a raging tide. This power containing an ancient aura carried an irresistible dominance, seeming as if it wanted to completely devour his body and soul.
Seeing this, Gu Yuena immediately circulated her own dragon power and transmitted it to Huo Yuhao through the spiritual link. Her dragon power was like a gentle spring breeze, soothing those manic dragon powers. With Gu Yuena's help, Huo Yuhao gradually steadied his mind and began attempting to guide the dragon power into his meridians.
Following a specific soul power circulation route, he guided a trace of dragon power into his body. As soon as this trace of dragon power entered his meridians, it acted like a blazing fire, scorching his meridians. Enduring the severe pain, Huo Yuhao continued to guide more dragon power in. With the continuous influx of dragon power, tiny cracks began to appear in his meridians, and blood seeped out along the meridians, dyeing his clothes red.
Seeing this, Gu Yuena immediately increased the output of the Dragon Valley's dragon power. On one hand, she helped Huo Yuhao repair the damaged meridians; on the other hand, she stabilized the dragon power rampaging in his body. Under Gu Yuena's full-force assistance, Huo Yuhao finally successfully guided the dragon power to his dantian.
The soul power and dragon power in the dantian were like two stars attracting yet repelling each other, beginning to violently blend and collide, bursting out dazzling, multi-colored rays of light.
This was the most critical life-or-death moment in condensing the soul core. Exerting his utmost effort, Huo Yuhao concentrated all his divine thought to conduct an arduous and meticulous compression and fusion of the soul power and dragon power according to specific mysterious laws.
As time slowly passed, the dragon power and soul power gradually tended to stabilize within Huo Yuhao's dantian, beginning to slowly rotate around a center point like stars. This center point grew brighter and brighter, like a newborn nova about to be born, emitting a light full of expectation.
Gradually, a phantom-like and mysterious embryonic form of a soul core appeared in the dantian like an illusion. Huo Yuhao didn't dare to slack off in the slightest. He continued to increase the compression force on the soul power and dragon power. The compression of every trace of power felt like a thrilling contest with himself.
Soon, under Huo Yuhao's unremitting efforts and Gu Yuena's full-force assistance, the third soul core was successfully condensed.
A suffocatingly powerful aura erupted abruptly from Huo Yuhao's body like a volcanic eruption, instantly spreading throughout the entire valley. The surrounding dragon power seemed to be summoned by some mysterious force, converging towards Huo Yuhao like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, further strengthening his newly condensed soul core.
Huo Yuhao slowly opened his eyes, a light of intertwined excitement and thrill flashing within. He clearly felt the world-destroying powerful force brought by the third soul core. This force allowed his strength to undergo a qualitative, rebirthing leap.
Gu Yuena looked at Huo Yuhao, a gratified and joyful smile appearing on her breathtakingly beautiful face, and said softly, "Yuhao, congratulations on successfully condensing the third soul core."
To this, Huo Yuhao shook his head and looked at Gu Yuena affectionately: "Yuena, if it wasn't for your full-force assistance in guiding the dragon power of the Dragon Realm this time, it would have been impossible for me to do it so smoothly."
At the same time, Huo Yuhao was pleasantly surprised to find that the third soul core not only brought a massive enhancement in soul power but also endowed him with some unimaginable special abilities. He could more acutely perceive the subtle flow of surrounding dragon power, as if he had integrated with the power of the Dragon Realm. He could even carry out deep spiritual communication with the dragon souls of the Dragon Realm to a certain extent!
Now, what he had to do was to make this third soul core fuse mutually with his other two soul cores, and during the collision process, form a brand new collision chain.
His comprehension of the power of space was mostly complete. Right now, the most important thing was to completely fuse this comprehension with his soul cores. He also had to control the collision process of the three soul cores. How difficult was this!
If his spiritual realm hadn't reached the God King realm, Huo Yuhao truly wouldn't have had any confidence in the upcoming fusion steps. But now, he finally had a certain degree of assurance.
With his divine thought fully mobilized, the rotation speed of the three great soul cores gradually slowed down under his control.
The slower the rotation speed, the less likely errors would occur during the fusion process later. This was undoubtedly Huo Yuhao's best choice.
As the speed of the three soul cores weakened, Huo Yuhao had to begin making fine adjustments again.
First, he made the spiritual soul core at his glabella—the first soul core—rotate slightly faster, while the rotation speeds of the second and third soul cores at his chest and dantian both weakened a bit.
As a result, the first and second soul cores, which originally blended with each other, inevitably began to become somewhat disordered.
"Yuhao, from here on, it depends on yourself." Gu Yuena's divine thought clone dissipated; this was as far as she could help Huo Yuhao.
At this time, the mutual blending between the soul cores was built on the foundation of balance, which was how the Yin-Yang Complement could be achieved. Now, with one rotating fast and the other rotating slow, the balance was naturally about to be broken.
The soul power fluctuations began to become unstable, but Huo Yuhao followed the operation from the original timeline and made the same choice: extracting the divine thought from his sea of consciousness.
The spiritual soul core was located at the core of the sea of consciousness. As he extracted, he gradually separated the spiritual soul core from the sea of consciousness.
The massive divine thought within the sea of consciousness was the origin of the spiritual soul core. Without the support of the sea of consciousness, the spiritual soul core simply couldn't remain stable.
Only someone with Huo Yuhao's powerful mental control would dare to do this. If an ordinary Titled Douluo attempted this, they would have long been dead beyond dead.
Feeling the soul power in his body swell slightly, Huo Yuhao began his true arduous journey. It wasn't that his higher spiritual realm in this life made it easier to operate; on the contrary, more powerful forces were harder to control.
Under his control, the spiritual soul core, wrapped in the massive divine thought extracted from the sea of consciousness, suddenly descended, moving down towards his chest.
Meanwhile, the second soul core at his chest suddenly rose under the push of his soul power.
Unlike the original timeline, what he wanted to do was to align them on the same plane.
Normally speaking, to complete the cultivation of this third soul core, this was the best method he could think of at present.
In the original timeline, after Huo Gua absorbed the massive divine thought of the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord, his spiritual soul core was too strong, while the Ultimate Ice soul core was much inferior. Therefore, when they collided to generate vortex soul power, the power of the spiritual soul core would swallow the power of the Ultimate Ice soul core.
This time, however, he could achieve a mutual check and balance. He first formed a Soul Spirit contract with the Silver Dragon King, and then directly absorbed a portion of the Golden Dragon King's blood and qi, reaching a wondrous balance between the two sides.
But similarly, Huo Yuhao still had to separate a part of the sea of consciousness from the spiritual soul core and store it separately so no problems would arise. And right now, what he had to rely on was precisely the inherent advantage of the spiritual soul core to carry out this fusion.
The two great soul cores of the Yin-Yang Complement suddenly confronted each other in parallel. The pain this brought was like moving all the internal organs away and then rearranging their positions.
Even though Huo Yuhao had prepared himself mentally beforehand, when he actually did this, he still had to endure immense pain.
As the two soul cores crossed and opposed each other, in that instant, a layer of blood mist erupted from all the pores on Huo Yuhao's body. With the current toughness of his body, he couldn't bear such intense agony. On his forehead, the Eye of Destiny had opened uncontrollably, but it was dim and lightless inside.
The Eye of Destiny itself was mutually fused with the spiritual soul core. Now that Huo Yuhao was moving the spiritual soul core away to exist independently, this obviously had a huge impact on the Eye of Destiny. The energy from their collision and entanglement produced soul power that was already unstable. Low, muffled sounds of air explosions continuously appeared on Huo Yuhao's body. This was the effect produced by the unstable soul power constantly detonating inside his own body.
Subsequently, Huo Yuhao's right hand exerted force and pressed onto the Eye of Destiny.
A strange light suddenly shone there. At the same time, Huo Yuhao began to fuse the third soul core at his dantian. The rotating power of the third soul core instantly appeared. A massive pulling force abruptly erupted there, generating a spatial soul power vortex that instantly collided towards the two great soul cores at Huo Yuhao's chest.
But right at this moment, an unparalleled, massive divine thought instantly erupted at the position of Huo Yuhao's Eye of Destiny. The huge tearing force, combined with the already taut rubber band between the first and second soul cores, and Huo Yuhao's sudden release of control...
The spiritual soul core and the Ultimate Ice soul core instantly bounced, each returning towards their original positions.
At this time, the power of the third soul core was pulling on the spiritual soul core. Under that massive pulling force, this third soul core was instantly yanked out of the dantian, leaving its original position—
All three soul cores had shifted positions. Within his body, whether it was the energy of divine thought, dragon power, or soul power, everything was in a state of chaos.
However, during this rotating process of the three soul cores, one thing was not chaotic: the spiritual soul core bouncing towards its original position at the glabella, while the dragon core wanted to return to its place.
Due to the sudden, powerful suction force generated by the Eye of Destiny, the spiritual soul core bounced back instantly, abruptly merging with the Eye of Destiny and erupting with an unparalleled, massive divine thought. In that instant, the spiritual soul core, the Eye of Destiny, and Huo Yuhao's sea of consciousness completed their fusion instantly.
The rotation directions of the other two soul cores were diametrically opposite. Under Huo Yuhao's precise control, they also completed the effect of Yin-Yang Complement mutual fusion in almost the exact same instant. However, neither was in the position a soul core should be; instead, they rose to an area close to Huo Yuhao's shoulders.
The three soul cores formed a strange triangle—
A strange balance appeared just like this. Like a coiling, reciprocating ribbon, it manifested within Huo Yuhao's body. And these soul powers that had undergone multiple fusions condensed in Huo Yuhao's dantian, before transmitting into his meridians.
The Third Soul Core fusion was complete!