Peerless: After traveling through time, who would still want to be Tang San's son-in-law?

Chapter 282 How about... messing with soul spirits?
"Wow~—that feels so good!"

Within Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea, Tianmeng frantically absorbed the soul power diverted by Huo Yuhao, filtering it and injecting it into the seal to replenish the seals that had been exhausted.

Hyotei, standing to the side, looked at Tenmu with a face full of disdain.

"Sister Tianmeng, Hyotei."

Huo Yuhao suddenly appeared in the sea of ​​consciousness and greeted the two of them.

"Huh? Huo Yuhao, what brings you here?"

Seeing Huo Yuhao suddenly appear, Bingdi asked, "Why are you in the Sea of ​​Spirit at a time like this, instead of sorting out the energy in your body?"

Huo Yuhao said, "Isn't this to prepare for the soul shock? The soul power in my body is enough to spare some energy."

"You really are something... Did the gentle surge of soul power you experienced during the last soul ring fusion give you a false impression?"

Ice Emperor rubbed his temples, feeling a bit of a headache, and said, "Anyway, you don't need to worry too much about the soul shock. With us here, how could we possibly damage your spiritual sea? Just focus on guiding your soul power. The fusion has only just begun. Only after the fusion of the soul ring and the martial soul is complete will it be time to pour a large amount of soul power into your body. You will be a Soul King by then, and this time Tianmeng won't help you guide the soul power into your body like she did with the third soul ring."

"I see... then I won't bother you any longer."

Having been reprimanded, Huo Yuhao left the Sea of ​​Spiritual Power in a huff, his spiritual energy covering all his meridians, ready to face the impending impact of soul power.

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"It can actually be absorbed?"

Outsiders, seeing Huo Yuhao gradually getting back on track, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The fact that Huo Yuhao was able to withstand the first wave of soul power impact so smoothly suggests that his decision to absorb this 50,000-year soul ring was not without reason.

After confirming that Huo Yuhao's condition had stabilized, Cai Meier leisurely got up and prepared to leave the team, allowing them to continue their training.

"Alright, you guys go about your business and don't let Huo Yuhao affect you."

Despite noticing Dean Cai Meier's gaze, Wang Dong remained unconcerned and continued to observe Huo Yuhao's condition as if nothing was amiss.

In this way, Wang Dong can notice even the slightest abnormality in Huo Yuhao's condition immediately.

Young people nowadays.

Seeing this, Cai Meier didn't say anything more.

However, what no one present noticed was that within the pitch-black soul ring that Huo Yuhao was absorbing, there was a dark purple light mixed in, but it was obscured by the pitch-black halo and difficult to detect.

If Huo Yuhao were conscious at this moment, he would naturally be able to detect this anomaly through mental detection.

Unfortunately, Huo Yuhao was focused entirely on absorbing the spirit ring at the moment, and had no time to observe any abnormalities on the spirit ring.

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Unexpectedly, in the end, it still couldn't escape the fate of becoming a spirit ring...

Nightmare Cat thought sadly.

For over 20,000 years, ever since it gained intelligence, the Nightmare Cat has always feared becoming a Soul Master's Soul Ring or food for other Soul Beasts. Therefore, the Nightmare Cat has always hidden itself, carefully surviving by using its ability to trap its targets in dreams.

Even the auspicious beasts repeatedly tried to capture it, but the Nightmare Cat always managed to escape.

After finally breaking through to 50,000 years old and awakening new abilities, he was grabbed by an invisible hand and brought before a group of Soul Masters.

There is only one task—

Die here.

Could it accept this? Of course not, so it activated its newly awakened soul skill—Dream Domain—and pulled everyone into a dream in a single encounter.

Just as the Nightmare Cat was about to unleash its power and strike the group of Soul Masters, a terrifying aura suddenly emanated from it.

Damn it, there's actually a Title Douluo following us!

Nightmare Cat immediately abandoned the idea of ​​finishing off the enemy. It was too late to run away at this point, so Nightmare Cat immediately activated another new ability—Dream Stealth—to hide its true form in a dream.

Nightmare Cat had already decided to stall for time until their mental energy was almost depleted, then awaken one of them to negotiate with the Title Douluo outside and try to save his own life.

Unexpectedly, this plan was ultimately ruined by a mere quasi-Soul King!

Most importantly, in the end, it was actually this little Soul King who absorbed the Soul Ring he left behind after his death!

Fortunately, Nightmare Cat had anticipated all of this and made many preparations.

Hmph, to be fair, ever since Nightmare Cat foresaw that it might be hunted down by a spirit-attribute Soul Master, it has been preparing its final escape route...

This involves splitting the soul, hiding it within the body, and waiting for it to merge into the newly formed soul ring after the soul master dies. Then, when the soul master begins to absorb the soul ring and is completely unprepared, the soul master breaks through the soul sea, devours the soul, and takes over the body!

As the fusion of spirit rings progressed, the spirit rings began to come into contact with the spirit master's body, and the Nightmare Cat finally found an opportunity to quietly come into contact with the spirit master's sea of ​​consciousness.

Seeing the unsuspecting sea of ​​spirit, Nightmare Cat licked its lips, ready to rush in and tear it to shreds!

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“It’s almost time… Tianmeng, you continue sealing the soul power, I’ll go outside and deal with the soul shock first.”

Inside the Sea of ​​Spirit, Hyotei stretched and slowly walked towards the outer edge of Huo Yuhao's Sea of ​​Spirit.

After all, it was a 50,000-year-old soul beast, so Ice Emperor decided to be serious and personally go to the outer edge of the Sea of ​​Spirit to greet it, so as not to affect Huo Yuhao's Sea of ​​Spirit during the process.

Just as Hyotei reached the edge of the Sea of ​​Spirit and was about to step out.

With a tearing sound.

A crack appeared out of nowhere in the vast sea of ​​the spirit.

A purple figure suddenly burst in.

Hyotei's movements suddenly froze, and he looked up at the purple figure in the air.

"The first step was successful... The next step is to find the target's soul essence and devour it. However, this sea of ​​spirit is quite vast. No wonder it dared to absorb my soul ring, even though it's a level above it."

Looking at this vast sea of ​​spirit, Nightmare Cat's expression became much more serious. It seemed that the opponent's spiritual power was probably not much weaker than its own, and a fierce battle was likely to follow.

However, Nightmare Cat remained unfazed. As a 50,000-year-old soul beast, Nightmare Cat was equivalent to a Soul Master at the Soul Douluo level. Nightmare Cat refused to believe that its opponent, a mere Soul King, could have a stronger soul than it.

This time, the advantage is on me!

"Hey, little guy over there."

The sudden mental fluctuation startled Nightmare Cat. Looking in the direction from which the fluctuation came, it spotted a bright green figure.

"Who are you?!" Nightmare Cat looked at Hyotei warily.

Nightmare Cat never expected that the other party was so close to it, yet it had no sense of the other party at all.

The other party's aura was too similar to this sea of ​​spirits. If the other party hadn't spoken up, Nightmare Cat would probably have ignored it completely.

Ice Emperor completely ignored Nightmare Cat's actions and casually said, "The spirit ring that Huo Yuhao absorbed came from yours?"

Huo Yuhao?
What was the name of that spirit-attribute Soul Master?

Nightmare Cat remembered this name...

So that's how it is, they're the enemy.

Having confirmed this, Nightmare Cat no longer hesitated and pounced on Hyotei in front of it, its sharp claws reaching for Hyotei's throat.

Just as the sharp claws were about to touch Hyotei's throat, a furious shout rang out:

"presumptuous!"

A terrifying soul fluctuation exploded outwards from Hyotei. The moment Nightmare Cat came into contact with this shockwave, it was as if it had been hit by a soul-guided cannonball and was sent flying backwards. After this ordeal, Nightmare Cat's soul became much more ethereal, as if it could dissipate at any moment.

Not only the Nightmare Cat, but even Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea was disturbed by Ice Emperor's angry rebuke, and the originally calm spiritual sea began to surge with turbulent waves.

Even if the Ice Emperor doesn't specialize in spiritual power, how could a 50,000-year-old spiritual attribute soul beast possibly confront the accumulation of 300,000 years of spiritual power head-on?

"What happened?"

As the original owner of the body, Huo Yuhao immediately sent a wisp of his mind back to the sea of ​​his spirit to investigate its condition after such a change occurred.

"Nothing much, just an unlucky guy with a bit of cunning."

Ice Emperor said disdainfully, while telling Huo Yuhao what had just happened.

"I see……"

Huo Yuhao nodded thoughtfully.

Nightmare Cat's actions truly opened Huo Yuhao's eyes. Abandoning his physical body and choosing to possess a Soul Master as a last resort, he must have put in a lot of effort.

If it had been another spirit-attribute spirit master instead of Huo Yuhao who absorbed this spirit ring, this guy might have actually succeeded.

Do spirit beasts with decent spiritual attributes possess the skill of retaining a wisp of their soul when transforming into a spirit ring? The Evil Eye Tyrant in the original work also had a similar method, which he could use as a last resort after his soul was hunted.

However, compared to the Evil Eye Tyrant and Overlord Lian Tianmeng, who were all fooled, this guy's skills still need practice.

"By the way, what should we do with this guy?"

Huo Yuhao said, holding the Nightmare Cat by the scruff of its neck.

"What else can we do? Just crush it."

Hyotei said in an icy tone.

"I think so too."

Huo Yuhao nodded slightly, but his tone suddenly changed—

"But then I suddenly realized that the most soul rings I've acquired are this guy's one soul skill. If the soul skill is to pull people into a dream, then I won't be able to get the soul skills that allow me to enter a dream later, which is a real pity."

"Unfortunately, my mental detection failed to capture the complete process of it entering the dream, otherwise I could have just made a copy of it."

Huo Yuhao said with some regret, as if he had suddenly thought of something: "But since this guy's soul is still here, maybe there are other ways to get other soul skills from it."

"By the way, Elder Yi, you are a man of great knowledge and experience. Do you know if you have any ability to read memories? Or any other way to obtain soul skills from it?"

After Huo Yuhao asked Tianmeng to help oversee the soul ring absorption mission, he immediately summoned Ilex to discuss further possibilities.

For example... souls.

Huo Yuhao felt that now was indeed a good time to bring out the soul spirit, so as to avoid having to find any excuses later.

"I do not recommend that you read souls."

Electrolux knew he had to make a move again, and said, "As a soul beast, this guy has a lifespan of 50,000 years and contains too many memories. It's like a mythical beast, stuffing all those memories into your head and letting you slowly read them."

"The time and effort required to extract useful memories from its vast memory is beyond your imagination. Moreover, most of the memories obtained through soul reading are incomplete. You can compare and supplement them with many other people, but there is only one Dream Eater."

Huo Yuhao nodded quite seriously, while pointing out the problem with Ilex's words: "To be precise, this guy is only a little over 25,000 years old. In the Star Dou Great Forest where auspicious beasts exist, all soul beasts grow at twice the normal rate outside..."

Huo Yuhao's voice grew softer and softer. He wondered if it was just his imagination, but he felt that Electrolux's eyes held a hint of resentment.

"Elder Yi...please continue, please continue."

Huo Yuhao said sullenly, making a zipping motion.

"Actually, your problem is easy to solve. Keep this part of the soul until you get your sixth soul ring, and then we will create a soul ring for you based on its soul. As for the energy of the soul ring, just use the original energy of Tianmeng as we did last time."

"Old Yi, I knew you had a way."

Huo Yuhao's face was filled with joy.

It's rare to encounter such a high-quality spirit-attribute spirit beast. Now that's great, I don't have to worry about my sixth spirit ring anymore.

Suddenly, Huo Yuhao seemed to have thought of something and said, "Elder Yi, what do you think, could we do it this way?"

"When Soul Masters absorb Soul Rings, they evolve a suitable Soul Skill from the many abilities of Soul Beasts. However, in most cases, the Soul Masters choose Soul Beasts with multiple Soul Skills that are compatible with them, such as Di Rachel's sixth Soul Skill and Soul Bone Skill, which complement each other even more."

Huo Yuhao paused for a moment before revealing his true intentions: "Could we find a universal sealing method to seal the energy within a soul beast and transform it into multiple soul rings? For example, a 50,000-year-old soul beast could be divided into several soul rings. Perhaps the improvement to a soul master's body wouldn't be as significant as normal absorption of soul rings, but these soul rings could possess the power of a 50,000-year-old soul skill."

Electrolux lowered his head, seemingly pondering the feasibility of Huo Yuhao's words.

In fact, what Huo Yuhao said was a variation of Electrolux's plan, except that the energy source was transformed into the soul beast itself. It was not difficult to implement, but there were many details to consider.

Hyotei stared at Huo Yuhao in disbelief: "You can do that? Huo Yuhao, you're a genius."

Hyotei immediately considered all the consequences of doing this.

Firstly, one only needs to hunt one soul beast to obtain multiple soul rings, reducing the number of soul beasts a Title Douluo needs to hunt from nine to seven or eight, or even fewer.

From the perspective of the soul beast race, Huo Yuhao's idea actually reduces the hunting of soul beasts by humans.

For humans, although their physical abilities might be slightly reduced, they would be able to acquire stronger soul skills earlier, which is a good trade-off. After all, if it weren't for the requirement of physical abilities for absorbing soul rings, most soul masters wouldn't care much about their physical abilities.

In addition, it can ease the conflict with the Soul Beast race, prevent the Soul Beast race from launching a counterattack when they are on their deathbed, and also prevent a situation where there are no Soul Beasts to hunt in the future.

(End of this chapter)