Douluo Continent: The Incarnation of a Divine Beast, Sister Huo Yutong!

Chapter 17 Star Forest

Tang Ya stayed at the Huo family's house for three days before finally leaving.

After spending a few days together, Huo Yuhao's opinion of the young girl changed slightly, so when they parted, he quietly advised her to bring her parents to Shrek City as soon as possible.

After saying these words, Tang Ya's eyes flickered, but she ultimately did not respond and simply walked away in silence.

Huo Yuhao also felt helpless about this.

He risked being discovered by Tang Buddha to speak up and remind her; he had already done enough. But Tang Ya and her parents didn't believe him. What could he do?
After Tang Ya left, the Huo family returned to peace.

Two and a half months later, outside the Star Dou Great Forest, a young figure was looking down, carefully examining the half-buried sign covered by Blue Silver Grass.

The sign, worn and dilapidated by time, still bears the faint inscription "Starry Sky Forest, Extremely Dangerous."

The young figure was Huo Yuhao. After two months of "cultivation", his soul power level had reached level ten.

Huo Yutong, who awakened her martial soul at the same time as him and whose innate soul power barely reached level four, has only just reached level eight.

Originally, Huo Yuhao planned to continue cultivating until Xiao Yutong reached level ten before going to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain a soul ring. However, after reaching level ten, Huo Yuhao discovered that the soul power in his body had stagnated.

According to a theory proposed by a master ten thousand years ago, a Soul Master can continue to cultivate when they reach their current limit, and the Soul Power they cultivate will also be released when they acquire a Soul Ring.

Unfortunately, while regular Soul Masters can accumulate Soul Power through meditation even without obtaining Soul Rings, Huo Yuhao cannot.

His soul power was all obtained through his "hard work" by plundering those soul beasts; not a single drop was cultivated by him on his own.

Therefore, rather than wasting a month of cultivation and waiting for the little girl to reach level ten, Huo Yuhao might as well acquire the soul ring on his own.

Consider this a way of leaving spatial coordinates. Next time we bring Xiaoyutong to obtain a soul ring, we won't need to take a carriage.

Although the journey was a bit boring without Xiao Yutong's company, Huo Yuhao was also able to confirm a question that had been bothering him.

The question is whether he replaced Huo Yuhao as the chosen one in the original story, or whether the plot has changed and Xiao Yutong is the chosen one.

This question is very important, important enough to determine Huo Yuhao's next course of action.

If he were the chosen one, he could have feigned a connection with Wang Dong after entering Shrek Academy, thus deceiving the Buddha Tang.

As long as he avoids the major pitfalls in the original story, Huo Yuhao is fully confident that he can turn the tables, step out of the game, and, like the great Han chess master, deliver a crushing blow to Tang Buddha.

Who plays chess without a helmet?!
If Xiaoyutong is the chosen one, then Huo Yuhao's course of action needs to be changed.

Surely Tang Buddha, who's such a doting father, wouldn't actually be willing to let Tang Wutong undergo a sex change to trap Xiao Yutong, right?

Based on Huo Yuhao's understanding of Tang Buddha, he probably wouldn't do that.

The simplest way to find out if you are a chosen one is to see if you can encounter the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm.

With a try-it-out mentality, Huo Yuhao did not directly step into the Star Dou Great Forest, but instead lingered on the edge first.

In the original novel, there was a sign near the stream where Huo Gua encountered the giant insect, which was very obvious.

Huo Yuhao explored along the edge and found three places that matched the description, but no matter how much mental energy he released, no cheeky bug appeared in his mind.

Today is the second day, and it's the fourth location he's found that matches the description.

If this attempt fails, Huo Yuhao will give up completely.

Standing still, Huo Yuhao closed his eyes, his mental energy gradually surging, then suddenly released, transforming into a cloud of mental energy mist that spread outwards. Centered on Huo Yuhao, the surrounding Blue Silver Grass and hidden small beasts were severely suppressed by this destructive mental energy, lying firmly on the ground, unable to move.

Three minutes later, Huo Yuhao calmly withdrew his mental energy.

"Failed…"

"It seems that Xiaoyutong is the chosen one..."

In fact, Huo Yuhao doesn't care too much about the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm right now. Compared with the divine beast token and various heaven-defying items, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm's million-year soul power and its associated ice attribute are not worth mentioning at all.

What truly interested him was the necromancer saint from another world—Elex—who had been drawn by the soul power fluctuations of the giant insect!
Huo Yuhao possesses a deity that is extremely compatible with the Necromancer Saint God. With Elder Yi's help, Huo Yuhao can definitely realize many of his ideas, but...

"Fine, I'll wait another two and a half months at most..."

Huo Yuhao shook his head and quickly composed himself.

Since he couldn't encounter that giant bug, his next step was to acquire a spirit ring.

Before setting off, Huo Yuhao had already conducted some experiments on the divine beast martial soul in his body.

First, after he reached level ten, the divine beast token brought about his first transformation. Now he is finally able to display the power of the divine beast, instead of only being able to use the most basic power.

Take Palukia, which Huo Yuhao is most familiar with, as an example.

Before reaching level ten, Huo Yuhao could only teleport or move an object, but he couldn't damage objects. He had to rely on the White Tiger Dagger in combat.

However, after reaching level ten, the power of the divine beast was unsealed, and Huo Yuhao was able to create tiny spatial rifts, resulting in a geometric increase in destructive power.

Of course, with his current soul power, he can only create a spatial rift ten centimeters long.

However, in the Douluo Continent, apart from those extremely rare space-type martial soul masters, only a few peerless Douluo can capture the power of space.

In other words, Huo Yuhao's spatial rift has an extremely strong ability to kill upon first sight.

Perhaps he should be a hitman now?
Similarly, the abilities of the other divine beast tokens also increased significantly, which is why Huo Yuhao dared to go to the Star Dou Great Forest alone.

Due to the special nature of divine beast tokens, the obtained soul rings will not generate new soul skills, so there are naturally no high requirements for soul beasts.

In other words, as long as the age is right, Huo Yuhao can absorb even a Blue Silver Grass.

Of course, if given a choice, Huo Yuhao would still prefer to absorb a powerful soul beast, because a powerful soul beast would bring a greater boost.

Composing himself, Huo Yuhao took out the lucky egg he hadn't seen in a long time and swallowed it in one gulp.

After savoring the taste of the lucky egg, Huo Yuhao lit the lucky incense.

Huo Yuhao didn't use these two items when he was searching for the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm because he didn't need them.

If he truly is a chosen one, he will encounter the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm even without using it.

As Huo Yuhao used the two items, deep within the distant Star Dou Great Forest, in a mysterious and ominous place, a strange soul beast with three eyes on its head and resembling a lion raised its head, its eyes full of doubt.

"Is it...delicious?"

(End of this chapter)