Douluo Continent: I, Huo Yuhao, am the Master of Spirit

Chapter 86 Martial Soul Vessel
Huo Yuhao kicked the white-purple worm under his feet. According to the catalog, the three fangs in the worm's mouthparts could inject a gene-targeting virus.

Seeing that its feet were being attacked, it wriggled its body, turned its head toward Huo Yuhao, and opened its mouth as if it were exhaling.

"Hagen is already available!"

"We absolutely need Dass!"

Unlike the Thunderous Hell Vine, Huo Yuhao had no liking for this kind of soul beast that was almost irrational, ugly in appearance, and decadent in heart.

The reason why they are said to be almost irrational is because Huo Yuhao just attacked the 30,000-year-old Ice Demon Worm directly with his mental power.

To Huo Yuhao's shock, the king of the Ice Demon Worm was actually a lowly beast!

Their brains contained not a trace of rationality befitting intelligent life, but were completely filled with the instincts of wild beasts.

This was the first time the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm in the Sea of ​​Spirit had ever seen such a situation.

"This is impossible!"

"A ten-thousand-year-old soul beast must have developed intelligence by now!"

“Even my brother, a low-ranking ice silkworm, gained intelligence after consuming ice marrow underground for ten thousand years!”

How could this happen?

"How could a pure, irrational soul beast cultivate for 30,000 years? This defies the laws of nature!"

Huo Yuhao was unaware of this situation, after all, he was a human, not a soul beast.

The golden tortoise shell raised its head, a hint of sadness appearing in its golden eyes, and gently raised its golden head to say to Huo Yuhao:

"Yuhao, maybe I, Old Turtle, know the reason."

“Brother Tianmeng, you’ve eaten and slept your way up to ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts.”

"I, Old Turtle, bet you were sleeping when you were promoted to ten thousand years old."

Upon hearing this, the golden-haired hooded child, who was actually the incarnation of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, scratched his head sheepishly, clearly having been correctly guessed by the Golden Tortoise Shell.

The golden tortoiseshell continued in a deep, muffled voice:
"Yuhao and Tianmeng, actually, when a soul beast advances to become a ten-thousand-year soul beast, it can choose not to develop sentience."

"For example, when I, the old tortoise, ascended to a thousand years old, I had the option to develop sentience."

“Normal life forms would certainly not refuse to develop intelligence, because once they have intelligence, soul beasts are no longer just wild beasts controlled only by instinct.”

"Or rather, in the world of soul beasts, only those soul beasts that have gained sentience can truly be considered members of the soul beast race."

"The Beast King will not treat those soul beasts that have not awakened their intelligence as its own kind."

"Just food or slaves."

“My elders once told me that intelligence is a gift from heaven and earth.”

"It is proof of cultivation, a stepping stone to evolution!"

"A ten-thousand-year-old soul beast has no intelligence and cannot advance to become a hundred-thousand-year-old one!"

"This is an ironclad rule!"

This is the first time I've heard of this saying about Tianmeng Ice Silkworm. This guy has lived a long time but has the least experience.

"Since intelligence is so important, why did the Ice Demon Worm abandon intelligence?"

Before the golden tortoiseshell could continue answering, Huo Yuhao gave the answer first.

"To belittle oneself."

"It despises itself."

"Ha, that's why I said they're a bunch of lowly beasts!"

Huo Yuhao made no attempt to hide the disgust in his eyes and kicked the hundred-year-old ice demon worm that was breathing on him.

"If only they had even a little bit of ambition to fly again."

"Anyone with a little courage to roar at the world again."

“I would think twice about them.”

"It possesses the noblest bloodline, which once held the crown of evolution."

"Now it's self-destructive."

"The soul and the appearance are the same, ugly and twisted!" "I take back what I just said."

"When Di Tian saw them, he felt not anger, but humiliation! A humiliation that struck his very soul."

Huo Yuhao genuinely despised this kind of soul beast; self-degradation was the behavior he hated most!
Life can be destroyed, but it must never be defeated.

In his view, life can be lived in a state of humiliation, but it should be a time of enduring hardship and biding one's time, with all the setbacks being for the purpose of roaring at the world again!

I remember how I supported the homeless plan in my past life, happily munching on nutritional paste and dried earthworms every day.

Even after being told that there was a very high probability of death, they still volunteered to participate in the final rescue mission, because they believed that humanity could definitely get through this most difficult time.

In our new home, let the planet regain its blue skies, and let humanity's voice roar across the world once more.

“Yuhao…”

This was the first time Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and Golden Tortoiseshell had sensed Huo Yuhao's extreme anger.

Hearing the calls of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworms, Huo Yuhao calmed himself down a little.

"Ah, how annoying."

"It's alright, Brother Tianmeng, I'll extract the virus now."

Huo Yuhao looked at the hundred-year-old Ice Demon Worm at his feet and mercilessly used his telekinesis to pry open its mouthparts.

With precise eye, she locked onto three terrifying dark purple fangs, then placed three test tubes made of golden glass unique to the Douluo Continent beneath them.

Huo Yuhao used his mental power to suppress the Ice Demon Worm, causing it to instinctively begin secreting venom due to the danger.

Soon, the three test tubes contained a transparent liquid, which, judging by sight, looked about the same as water.

"Elder Yi, may I borrow your divine sense?"

Huo Yuhao's mental power is not yet able to reach the microscopic level, and he doesn't have a microscope at hand, so he'll use his divine sense as a substitute.

"No problem at all."

Elder Yi interrupted his research into alchemy and handed over control of his divine consciousness to Huo Yuhao.

Using Elder Yi's divine sense, Huo Yuhao could clearly see what was inside the transparent liquid.

"These viruses are somewhat similar in appearance to the HIV virus."

"However, it seems that some kind of golden energy is flowing within my body."

After roughly observing the virus's form with his divine sense, the virus secretion within the century-old Ice Demon Worm also ended.

A total of one milliliter of viral fluid was collected from the three test tubes.

Huo Yuhao opened the Martial Soul Furnace and attempted to use his mental power to transmit information about a Martial Soul into one of the test tubes.

However, it was unsuccessful; only a portion of the information was transmitted because the amount of liquid was too small.

However, this virus can indeed be identified as a carrier by the Martial Soul Furnace.

"That'll be easy."

Huo Yuhao kicked the drained ice worm aside.

Three spirit rings appeared around Huo Yuhao, and the golden spirit ring belonging to the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm began to shine, and its telekinetic power began to spread.

The once calm oil lake began to surge, with black oil being swept up by an invisible force, and large numbers of ice demon worms being carried and suspended in the air.

The ten-thousand-year-old ice demon worm instinctively began to roar, unable to find Huo Yuhao due to the mental shielding effect.

Huo Yuhao found the other party's voice too loud, so he directly used his Spirit Eye Kaleidoscope to cast an illusion.

This irrational beast was immediately brought under control and slumbered at the bottom of the lake under Huo Yuhao's command.

The opponent's fangs were too large, and Huo Yuhao did not have a matching gold glass test tube.

Looking at the hundreds of ice demon worms that were ten or a hundred years old, Huo Yuhao waved his hand, and a large number of test tubes appeared from his storage soul tool.

They arrived at the fangs of the Ice Demon Worm one by one and began collecting the Martial Soul carriers.

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(End of this chapter)