Douluo Continent: The Eternal Dawn

Chapter 56 You bastard! What have you become?!
After shouldering his pack and leaving the area radiated by the Star Dou Great Forest, Huo Yuhao finally couldn't help but jump up and cheer.

"Hahaha, I did it!" He was only eleven years old this year, and it was his first time leaving home. Although he had encountered dangers on this trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, the overall result was good, and the gains made him extremely satisfied.

Having experienced the wonder of a Soul Master's abilities for the first time, how could he suppress his joy?

Huo Yuhao tightened the golden-eyed white lion's fur around his back and excitedly ran a few more steps forward. The gloom that had weighed on his heart for years seemed to have dissipated considerably, and he finally saw the sunshine after the clouds had parted, giving him a glimmer of hope.

"I did it! I've finally become a Soul Master!"

"You bastard! What have you become?!" A deep, reprimanding voice came from afar. Huo Yuhao felt his mind go blank, let out a muffled groan, and staggered. In shock, he quickly and alertly looked in the direction of the voice.

A strange trio appeared, seemingly also coming from the direction of the Star Dou Great Forest.

The man on the left is an ordinary-looking middle-aged man with an unusually thick right arm. The man on the right is thin with a large head, making him look extremely strange; it was he who uttered the reprimand earlier.

In stark contrast to the two, the silver-haired girl standing between them seemed to have stepped out of a painting. Her stunning appearance and gentle, delicate features were reflected in her emerald green eyes.

At least in Huo Yuhao's opinion, this girl's appearance was no less than that of Sister Tang, whom he had seen before.

The big-headed man's gaze sharpened, and Huo Yuhao instantly felt as if his spiritual sea had been torn apart, uncontrollably releasing his martial soul. Golden light flowed in his eyes, and a faint yellow soul ring rose from beneath his feet.

"What bad luck! A top-tier spiritual attribute spirit soul has been wasted like this." After being besieged by more than ten thousand-year-old spirit beasts, Lang Ya realized that something might have happened in the Star Dou Great Forest, so he and his brother Yu Tao took Vina and temporarily withdrew from the Star Dou Great Forest.

He initially thought it was a pleasant surprise to encounter a little guy with a spirit-attribute martial soul on the road, but after a closer look, he discovered that the little guy's talent was extremely poor.

Although Yu Tao recognized that Huo Yuhao's martial soul was an eye, he was not a spirit-attribute soul master, so he could not immediately judge Huo Yuhao's potential.

"Second brother, since his martial soul is the eye, there should still be room for development, right?"

"There's no need." Langya shook his head helplessly.

"His physique is too poor, and his disordered meridians have not been regulated since childhood. He has only just obtained his first soul ring, which basically cuts off his future cultivation path. The probability of his original martial soul awakening a second time is almost zero. Even if we forcibly absorb him into the sect, are we going to dedicate the entire sect's resources to nurturing him? If there really are such heaven-defying treasures, why not use them on Vina and Aotian?"

Langya's idea is completely in line with normal human logic.

In the original storyline, Huo Yuhao expended countless resources and opportunities to reach that point. If those resources and opportunities were given to geniuses like Vina and Long Aotian, who were already exceptionally talented, wouldn't their future achievements be even less than Huo Yuhao's, who only had level one innate soul power?

"What a pity. If we had discovered him earlier, he might have been worth nurturing," Yu Tao sighed in deep agreement. There was another reason why they lost interest in bringing Huo Yuhao back to the Body Sect.

That is, the original martial soul can hardly be inherited by offspring. Only when a very small number of powerful original martial soul masters combine with each other will their offspring have a certain probability of inheriting their parents' martial soul.

With a talent like Huo Yuhao's, reaching the three-ring Soul Master realm at best would be the limit, which would be of no value to the Body Sect.

This world is just that realistic. Even the Body Sect, which claims to accept all Body Spirit Soul Masters, doesn't actually accept just anyone. Only Soul Masters whose Body Spirit has already undergone a second awakening, or elites like Vina and Long Aotian who are destined to complete a second awakening of their Body Spirit, are considered true members of the Body Sect.

The core secret of the Body Sect isn't just about the Body Spirit. In fact, according to their sect's principles, any Soul Master's Soul Spirit has the potential for a second awakening. It's just that Soul Masters with Body Spirits have more vigorous blood and energy, making a second awakening more likely. Like Tang Wulin ten thousand years later, although he didn't have a Body Spirit, the powerful blood and energy from the Golden Dragon King bloodline within him still led the then-Sect Master of the Body Sect, Mu Ye, to accept him as one of only two direct disciples.

Therefore, what the Body Sect truly values ​​is the potential for a second awakening of the Martial Soul, not the nominal Body Martial Soul itself. After all, the Body Sect has always followed an elite path.

Langya waved his hand dismissively.

"Let's go, rest for a bit, and enter the Star Dou Great Forest from another direction tomorrow."

Vina glanced at Huo Yuhao briefly before looking away.

Compared to the spirit attribute spirit masters that Lang Ya and Yu Tao said had no value for cultivation, she was more concerned about the changes she had experienced in the Star Dou Great Forest.

"A million-year-old soul beast, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm?" The thought that had entered her sea of ​​consciousness during the chaos seemed to be extremely weak, but before it completely disappeared, it still told her some important information.

Vina carefully examined her surroundings and confirmed that her second spirit had indeed fused with a spirit ring and granted her four spirit skills. This was completely beyond her comprehension, but the facts were undeniable, leaving her no choice but to believe it.

Besides the million-year soul ring, the thought seemed to have also mentioned that it could grant her an ice-attribute martial soul. Considering that she already possessed an ice-attribute healing snow lotus martial soul, she decided to use that martial soul as a foundation and then utilize its ice-attribute source power to cause her snow lotus martial soul to lose its original form.

In other words, her original Snow Lotus Martial Soul had become formless ice. Once she absorbs and fuses with a Soul Ring from an ice-attribute Soul Beast, her second Martial Soul will naturally transform into the form of that Soul Beast.

In this way, as long as Vina chooses a powerful, offensive ice-attribute spirit beast, her ice-attribute martial soul can become a powerful offensive type. And as long as her body can withstand it, there will be no risk.

The last thought had instructed her to choose an Ice Jade Scorpion with a cultivation period of around five thousand years, which would be perfect for the current limit of the soul rings she could absorb.

Even with Vina's composure, it took her a long time to recover from this unexpected surprise.

"The Ice Jade Scorpion with the ultimate ice attribute..." If all goes well, she will be able to make up for her lack of offensive capabilities and become a dual-spirit master possessing both her original spirit and the ultimate spirit. One for control, one for offense; the combination is simply perfect.

Huo Yuhao stood there blankly, not understanding why the big-headed man had scolded him for no reason and then led his men away on his own.

However, he could also sense that these people were far more powerful than he could contend with. To avoid any unforeseen complications, he checked the map, found the right direction, and set off directly for Shrek Academy.

"Let's hurry and get away from this area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest. If we encounter other Soul Masters, who knows what might happen?" After this incident, he gradually realized that not every unfamiliar Soul Master was as friendly as Sister Tang and Brother Ye before.

Meanwhile, Vina and her two companions, who left from another direction, were completely out of the radiation range of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Vina remained silent for a long time, but then uttered a startling remark.

"Teacher, let's go back to Tiandou City first. I want to go to the far north."

(End of this chapter)