Douluo Continent: The Underworld Emperor Halosa Lets Three Fly

Chapter 240 The Prayer Angel

Yali gazed at the angel of prayer before her, a mirror image of herself yet with a bewildered look in her eyes, her mind racing. She tried to formulate a new guess: "Could it be—that she doesn't possess independent self-awareness, but is merely a projection of myself? A special projection highly concentrated with the power of faith, formed based on me?"

This idea seems to explain some of the contradictions. The previous "shyness" may not have been the angel's own emotion, but rather a reflection of Yali's subconscious feeling of embarrassment at being called "gluttonous," which was then projected onto a projection connected to her essence.

The pure "confusion" stemmed from Ya Li's own inability to accurately define the current state of the Prayer Angel—it was both a sublimation of the Martial Soul and seemed to transcend the scope of the Martial Soul.

"So, the prayer angel is essentially a mirror of me; all her emotional reactions and thought fluctuations are merely manifestations of my inner activities, not that she possesses an independent soul?"

Thinking about this, Yali was not disappointed. On the contrary, she felt that if that were the case, it might not be a bad thing.

This means that the strength and potential of the prayer angel will be forever bound to its own body, growing alongside it. The value of a "projection" that is forever perfectly synchronized with itself and composed of the purest willpower is immeasurable.

But speculation is just speculation; it needs to be verified through practice. Yali decided to delve deeper into the true state of the Wishing Angel.

She first attempted the most basic verification: spirit fusion.

With a thought, Ya Li channeled her divine power, attempting to merge the Prayer Angel into her body, just as she had done when summoning and retrieving her Martial Soul. To her surprise, the process went exceptionally smoothly; the Prayer Angel transformed into a warm, pure stream of light, slowly merging into her body.

"It can be fused? Could it still be my martial soul in essence?" Ya Li looked inward and felt that her divine power seemed to be more abundant, but an indescribable sense of strangeness also arose.

She released the Prayer Angel once more. This time, she used a different method; it wasn't a simple summoning, but an attempt to awaken a deeper form of its existence—something akin to a Martial Soul True Body.

hum!

The figure of the Prayer Angel manifested behind Ya Li, but instead of merging with her body, it formed a massive, solid phantom radiating immense divine power, exceeding ten meters in height. Its entire body flowed with holy light, and its face was identical to Ya Li's, yet it possessed a divine majesty that looked down upon all living beings and showed compassion for the world. This form indeed bore a striking resemblance to a powerful Martial Soul True Body.

However, the next moment, Yali's expression changed slightly.

She had anticipated that the Martial Soul True Body should have a significant amplifying effect on the Soul Master (God). However, at this moment, not only did she not feel any increase in power, but she also clearly sensed that the source of her life force was being slowly drained by the huge phantom of the Prayer Angel behind her!

This extraction was not plunder or destruction, but more like an energy transfer? It was as if the angel of prayer was actively drawing power from her to maintain its own special form.

Yali was surprised and doubtful, but she did not panic. This was because the deep-rooted and close connection between her and the Prayer Angel, which far exceeded that between ordinary martial souls and their hosts, still existed, and even became clearer in this energy flow.

She could sense that the prayer angel wasn't harming her, but rather performing some kind of adjustment or resonance that she didn't yet understand.

She suppressed her impatience, quietly sensing this change, letting the primordial energy slowly flow towards the phantom of the praying angel behind her.

Time passed slowly, and after about fifteen minutes, the feeling of being drained stopped, and the energy flow reached a new equilibrium.

Just as the balance was achieved, Yali keenly noticed a subtle change in the eyes of the giant phantom of the angel of prayer behind her!

Those golden eyes, which were originally filled with ignorance and etherealness, now seemed to be infused with a soul, possessing an indescribable spiritual radiance—a spirituality that Yali was extremely familiar with, it was the light of her own consciousness!

At the same time, Yali's perspective suddenly changed!

She could still see ahead with her own eyes, but in her consciousness, another perspective had appeared out of nowhere—a superior perspective from the huge prayer angel behind her!

From this perspective, she could clearly "see" the back of her own body, see the swirling clouds around her, and even feel the power contained within the enormous body of the Prayer Angel phantom—a power that shared the same origin as hers but seemed even more condensed and pure!

"I—I'm—controlling two bodies simultaneously?" A storm raged in Yali's mind. She tried moving her fingers, and her physical body moved accordingly;

She tried again to control the phantom of the wishing angel behind her to raise its enormous light-forged arm—and succeeded! The wishing angel's arm rose smoothly, as if it were its own arm!

She can multitask, perfectly controlling both her main body and the Prayer Angel simultaneously! Whether fighting, cultivating, or performing any other delicate maneuver, there is no sense of sluggishness! It's as if this enormous Prayer Angel has become her second body!

Her current state is very peculiar: due to the energy output just now, her divine power level has temporarily decreased, and is now roughly at the threshold of entering the first level of godhood.

The phantom of the praying angel behind them possessed an energy intensity far exceeding normal levels, reaching the level of a senior first-level god! However, since their powers originated from the same source and their consciousness was unified, the combined combat power they could unleash was not simply one plus one, but rather produced a kind of wondrous resonance and amplification, with an effect greater than two!

"This—this is definitely not a state that an ordinary martial soul can achieve!" Ya Li completely overturned her previous guess.

No matter how strong a martial spirit is, it is still an entity subordinate to its host. It is impossible for the host to have a "dual-perspective control" feeling, let alone form a "second body" with energy intensity that temporarily surpasses the host and can be independently controlled.

"It possesses some characteristics of a martial spirit, such as originating from its host and being able to fuse with it, but its essence leans more towards a—divine artifact! A special divine artifact that is intertwined with my life, shares my consciousness, and can even serve as my avatar!"

Yali had seen many divine artifacts in the Samsara God Realm, from ordinary divine artifacts to great divine artifacts, and even the super divine artifact Six Paths of Samsara in Harosa's hands.

Those divine artifacts all have clear level characteristics and power fluctuations. But the prayer angel before us cannot be measured by existing divine artifact levels. It seems to be self-contained, unique and transcendent.

As Yali perceives and explores more deeply from a "dual perspective," she discovers more incredible abilities of the Prayer Angel.

Besides perfectly replicating all the life magic and healing laws she has mastered, it also seems to possess some special abilities that Yali herself does not have, stemming from her "pure willpower" essence.

One of the abilities that shocked Yali the most was—the ability to take someone else's place!

Through the connection of consciousness, Yali clearly perceived that when faced with an attack that was certain to kill her, she could use a special law conversion to completely transfer the fatal damage to the Prayer Angel, allowing the Prayer Angel to bear the devastating consequences for her!

If the master dies, the vice dies; if the vice dies and the master lives, the vice dies as well.

The cost is that the prayer angel will collapse and dissipate, requiring a massive amount of faith power and a long period of time to reassemble. Furthermore, this ability to sacrifice oneself seems to have some kind of cooldown period or usage restriction, and cannot be used continuously.

But this is undoubtedly equivalent to giving Yali an extremely precious "get-out-of-jail-free card"! In a moment of crisis, this is the trump card to turn life and death around!

"This—this is truly an unexpected surprise!" Yali's heart was filled with excitement and joy. Five years of accumulating faith had actually given birth to such a miraculous existence. This was not only an increase in strength, but also a great guarantee of survival ability.

With a thought, the enormous phantom of the angel of prayer slowly dissipated, transforming back into the one as large as her true form.

The angel of light, with its bright and lively eyes, stood quietly before her, its gaze reflecting Yali's joy.

Yali was increasingly delighted as she looked at it, and couldn't help but step forward and gently hug this "self" made of pure willpower, feeling its warm and sacred aura.

"Such great news, I have to share it with my husband right away!" A bright smile bloomed on her face. Holding the hand of the Prayer Angel, she flashed away and left the Douluo plane, heading towards the core temple of the Samsara God Realm. She couldn't wait to tell Harosa about this huge gain.