Sun Moon Imperial Capital
After leaving Shrek City, Su Ming headed straight for the Sun Moon Imperial Capital.
He had just returned to Mingde Hall when he heard some bad news: Huo Yuhao had fought with students from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and had fallen into deep meditation.
Su Ming: ???
Hadn't Huo Yuhao already been crippled? How did this plot point still happen?
After asking for details, Su Ming was even more unable to hold back his disbelief.
"While I was off seizing the Ice Fire Two Eyes, Tang San was stealing people from my backyard?"
Not only had Huo Yuhao fought in this exchange match and entered deep meditation, but he had also encountered Ji Juechen and the others.
"He already has four Spirit Rings."
Su Ming took a deep breath, feeling that he might have underestimated the capabilities of the Child of Destiny.
Not long after the Continental Soul Master Elite Spirit Dueling Tournament ended, Huo Yuhao had broken through to the 30th rank. However, because Mingde Hall required the exchange program handover to be completed within a month, Huo Yuhao couldn't enter the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Spirit Rings, thus missing the opportunity with the Beast of Fortune.
But, over three years, he had still broken through to the 40th rank.
For an ordinary talented Spirit Master, this would be quite normal, but Huo Yuhao possessed Ultimate Ice, whose cultivation speed should have drastically slowed down starting from the third ring.
Without the Blade of Life, without the Ice Jade Scorpion Spirit Bone, how did he manage it?
Thinking of this, Su Ming remembered he still had an Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone on him.
The Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone could only be fused by an Ultimate Ice Spirit Master. Su Ming did not possess the ice attribute, let alone Ultimate Ice. However, Electrolux had also helped Su Ming find a method for fusion: using Necromancy to complete a conversion to the Yin attribute, and then attempting to fuse the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone by leveraging the connection between the Yin and Ice attributes.
It was just that after the tournament, Su Ming had been far too busy and had forgotten about this.
"Your Lich Martial Soul has now become part of your second Martial Soul and still possesses the Yin attribute. Moreover, because of the integration method you used that borrows power from Heaven and Earth, it has gained an Indestructible Diamond Body characteristic. Combined with your Ice-Fire Tempered Body and your minor achievements in Necromancy, you can indeed attempt fusion now."
The so-called pride of the Ice Jade Scorpion clan was, in the end, just that.
In Electrolux's eyes, as long as a race had not yet stepped into the realm of Gods, they were controllable.
Clearly, the Ice Jade Scorpion was not yet worthy of being called a Divine Beast.
The so-called requirement for Ultimate Ice was merely suppression against ordinary ice attributes.
Their Spirit Bones inherited the Ultimate Ice attribute due to their pure, extreme ice nature. If a Spirit Master themselves did not possess Ultimate Ice, they would be naturally suppressed and thus be at a disadvantage during absorption.
As long as one wasn't suppressed by the attribute, the possibility of fusion wasn't actually low.
"If it were a Spirit Master with no attribute, like those from your Body Sect with their Body Martial Souls and powerful physiques, they could completely withstand the intensity of the Ultimate Ice and forcibly absorb it."
Su Ming understood.
Electrolux's perspective was just so thorough.
He wasn't in a hurry to absorb the Spirit Bone and went to find Ji Juechen first.
When Su Ming sought him out, Ji Juechen was puzzled.
However, he soon showed an excited expression.
Because Su Ming knew forging, and his current Martial Soul was a piece of Meteorite Iron. If he could ask Su Ming to forge it—
"You want to learn Huo Yuhao's Unity of Man and Nature?" Su Ming asked.
Ji Juechen was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
"Yes, his Monarch's Descent is very strong. I want to learn it."
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Ming, opposite him erupted.
In the blink of an eye, Su Ming's aura became deep and carried an authoritative divinity.
He had invoked a Deity.
He invoked the God of Spirit Cores.
With his two Spirit Cores operating, Heaven and Earth were completely under his control.
"And now?"
Although Su Ming was asking, he gave Ji Juechen no chance to answer, slapping down with his palm.
As his hand fell, the power of Heaven and Earth condensed into a giant hand that slammed down onto Ji Juechen.
Ji Juechen's face changed dramatically.
At this moment, he felt the entire world had turned into a palm, swatting towards him.
He exerted himself to the utmost, pouring all his sword intent into the iron sword in his hand.
"The unremarkable iron sword erupted with dazzling sword light."
However, no matter how dazzling the sword light, it still shattered under Su Ming's palm.
The hand landed, leaving a giant palm print. Ji Juechen was already collapsed in the palm-shaped crater.
His eyes held not fear, but excitement. His whole body seemed to be trembling frantically.
"I see it now."
So Unity of Man and Nature wasn't all that great.
A higher realm was controlling Heaven and Earth.
Infusing Heaven and Earth into one's own sword!
Seeing Ji Juechen's state, Su Ming knew he had changed his mind.
Without saying anything more to Ji Juechen, he turned and left.
After Su Ming left, Jing Ziyan, who had been secretly watching the battle from afar, hurried into the palm crater, hauled Ji Juechen out, and took him for treatment.
Seeing Ji Juechen's condition, Jing Ziyan, who knew him best, understood that he had been saved and wouldn't keep clamoring to follow Huo Yuhao to that Tang Sect anymore.
After dealing with Ji Juechen, Su Ming returned to his dorm.
He took out the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone and pressed it directly against his left arm.
"Your Lich Martial Soul has the qualifications for the Corpse Explosion technique, which your Body Martial Soul has also inherited. I'll try to bind the characteristics of this Spirit Bone closely with those of the Lich Martial Soul. In the future, if there's an opportunity for this bone to evolve, perhaps the Ice Explosion technique can be expanded upon."
Grey currents of air emerged around Su Ming's left arm, intertwining with the ice-blue light emitted by the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone.
This Spirit Bone, renowned for being fuseable only by Ultimate Ice users, was absorbed and fused by Su Ming within a mere hour.
"Su Ming challenged Ji Juechen to a one-on-one fight?"
Huo Yuhao was greatly surprised.
Then, he showed a helpless expression.
His attempt to poach someone had been discovered just like that.
But Ji Juechen wasn't the main focus after all.
He sat down again and began to plan the timing for his outing.
During the recent break, Wang Dong had come to find him and taken him to the Clear Sky Clan. There, he had experienced the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Jade Marrow Bed for a month, which allowed him to break through to the 40th rank. Before leaving, he received a brocade pouch from the Great Sect Master of the Clear Sky Clan.
The requirement inside the brocade pouch was that if he could accomplish it, the Clear Sky Clan's Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Jade Marrow Bed would be given to him.
Huo Yuhao accepted without a second thought.
Of course, it wasn't really a matter of whether he wanted to or not; it was because Tianmeng Iceworm was shouting in his mind, telling him to accept the task no matter what.
Whatever the task was, what if he could manage it?
Cultivating on the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Jade Marrow Bed for a month had increased Huo Yuhao's cultivation speed by at least fifty percent. How could anyone not be tempted by that?
Of course, this thing was a consumable, probably only enough for Huo Yuhao to cultivate up to the 60th or 70th rank.
But even so, it was an opportunity on Huo Yuhao's cultivation path that he had to seize.
However, after getting the brocade pouch, Huo Yuhao was stumped.
It only marked a location, telling him to pass the trial there, and that was it. No further details, leaving him scratching his head.
"It's in the Western Mountains, where Heaven and Earth are inverted, and the Sun and Moon form a lake. Go there to accept the trial."
Huo Yuhao had originally planned to wait a while before going.
But, after half a month of deep meditation, an inner voice was urging him to go quickly.
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