Douluo Continent: The Eye of Truth

Chapter 103 The Second Martial Soul

After Poison Immortal set up a soul power seal and controlled the group of immortal herbs, he checked the seal again to ensure it was secure.

"Alright, that solves the problem. At least for the next ten days, these immortal herbs won't be able to break the seal from the inside." Poison Immortal nodded in satisfaction.

At the same time, he also picked the snow-white swan neck according to the method Huo Yuhao had previously instructed.

With the suppression of the Heart of Qiluo, the process of picking the snow-white swan neck went very smoothly without any accidents.

Huo Yuhao wandered around the valley, leaving Du Busi completely bewildered.

"Yuhao, what are you looking for? Those old soul beasts should all be under control by now."

Huo Yuhao spoke up, "Master, I am searching for the location of the opportunity I sensed before."

In reality, Huo Yuhao was searching for the most suitable location to analyze the Ice Dragon King's remains.

Although the Eye of Truth's analysis was comprehensive enough, the Ice Dragon King was ultimately a former God-King level being. The previous large-scale analysis only allowed Huo Yuhao to confirm the location of its true remains.

If we really want to fully analyze it, it's probably going to be a long time coming.

After all, Huo Yuhao's cultivation level is not high enough yet, and he is still a long way from the god level. However, Huo Yuhao's purpose in this trip is not to analyze the existence of the two dragon kings, but just to gain some benefits.

After finding the best spot to observe the Ice Dragon King's remains, Huo Yuhao sat down cross-legged on the shore near the Ice Eye of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Not far from him was the location where the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass grew.

As the Eye of Truth analyzed the structure layer by layer, the form and composition of the Ice Dragon King's corpse gradually took shape in Huo Yuhao's mind.

The analysis of the elemental laws controlled by the Ice Dragon King, his remaining divine power, and his divine consciousness is progressing particularly slowly.

Therefore, Huo Yuhao directly abandoned this part and instead focused on deconstructing the Ice Dragon King's physical body.

Having gone through the process of deconstructing the external soul bone of the Ice Dragon, although the Ice Dragon King's cultivation level was high enough, its life level was already vastly different from that little Ice Dragon with weak cultivation.

However, apart from the strength of their accumulated cultivation, the bloodline and racial composition of the dragon race have not actually changed in essence.

Using his experience in deconstructing the external soul bone of the Ice Dragon as a guide, Huo Yuhao quickly found the correct way to open the Ice Dragon King's physical body.

At the same time, drawing on his previous experience in modifying martial souls, Huo Yuhao began to establish the final form of the second martial soul that the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had given him—the formless ice.

However, although the essence of the ice-attribute martial soul brought by the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm is pure, the quantity is very small.

After all, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm is not a soul beast that is good at using ice attributes; its ice attribute can only be considered as an accessory at most.

Therefore, the second martial soul he gave to Huo Yuhao was a product formed by purifying his own ice attribute.

Although the ultimate attributes in Douluo Continent are not considered particularly powerful in other worlds, at most they are considered relatively pure, unfortunately, the other attributes in Douluo Continent are weaker and more chaotic.

Huo Yuhao has a way to adjust this purity, just like the affinity that Electrolux mentioned. For example, if a person's affinity for ice attributes is only 10%.

So, if we eliminate these 90% incompatible parts, the remaining part will naturally have a 100% compatibility.

But how can humans with only 10% of their body parts survive? And how can they continue their cultivation without a complete body?

This is the process known as complete energy transformation, and also what is called a divine body on Douluo Star.

The first step to becoming a god is to purify one's physical body and discard the disordered parts.

But how can this be done?

The ultimate attribute of a martial soul is achieved by making the non-physical martial soul pure enough to compensate for the deficiencies of the human body.

However, unlike the ultimate attribute soul beasts that have truly possessed more than 90% elemental affinity from the root through continuous evolution, the human body is ultimately still made of flesh and blood, and is also affected by various mutations.

Therefore, among human soul masters, those with ultimate attributes are extremely rare. Even if one inherits a martial soul with ultimate attributes, one may not necessarily possess the same ultimate attributes.

This is similar to the martial soul that the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm gave to Huo Yuhao. The reason it didn't take shape is that if it had, it would only have been the Ice Silkworm martial soul.

It was precisely because the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm removed all the parts except for ice that this unformed second martial soul possessed entirely new possibilities.

But if others can possess such extreme attributes, how could Huo Yuhao not be able to do so now?

The so-called ultimate attribute is nothing more than extremely high elemental affinity, which is pure.

With the ability to analyze and reorganize through the Eye of Truth, Huo Yuhao could completely remove the impure parts that constitute his martial soul. However, this created another problem.

So what should be used to replenish the missing parts? Energy, like flesh and blood, cannot be created out of thin air.

At most, it can be transformed into a part of oneself through other forms of conversion.

However, Huo Yuhao is not yet able to take that step, because he is not yet able to fully transform according to his own will.

Therefore, he needs to take advantage of the location of the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire, and he also needs to take advantage of the essence of the Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass.

He needed external support to complete the process of constructing his martial soul form using pure ice.

Otherwise, even if he eventually molds his second martial soul according to the Ice Dragon King's body structure, what will ultimately be born will only be a martial soul that has form but no substance, merely an empty shell.

"Master, please give me the essence of the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass." Huo Yuhao said to Du Busi beside him, "Disciple has found the knack. Please keep your distance from me from now on."

Poison Undying was somewhat puzzled. After all, although Huo Yuhao had shown many extraordinary talents, he had never shown any talents related to ice attributes. Why would he need the essence of the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass, a rare and precious material with ice attributes?

However, seeing Huo Yuhao's confident look, Du Busi nodded without saying anything more and handed over the container containing the essence of the Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass to Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao used his mental power to support the vessel containing the essence of the Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass, letting it float in front of his chest, and then slowly closed his eyes.

Once the Poison Undying was a little further away from him and its aura no longer clashed with his, an aura similar to the Ice Eye in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye began to rise from Huo Yuhao's body.

Frost began to form along Huo Yuhao's skin, eventually turning into a thick layer of ice crystals that completely enveloped his entire body.

If I had to describe it, Huo Yuhao's current appearance, enveloped in ice crystals, is just like the dragon egg that was encased in crimson crystals at the previous auction.

Meanwhile, within Huo Yuhao's body, a martial soul that was originally formless but truly existed was taking shape.

"Incredible!" At this moment, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was also awakened, after all, the martial soul that Huo Yuhao was currently modifying was born because of him.

At this moment, the ice that Tianmeng Ice Silkworm had originally called soulless had turned into ice crystals, covering every part of Huo Yuhao's body.

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm said with some concern, "If you have a spirit ring from an ice-attribute spirit beast as the main body, with the help of the spirit ring's energy, you will definitely be able to give your second spirit a true form."

"But Yuhao, you don't have any spirit rings to provide external support right now. If you rely entirely on yourself and fail, your second spirit will definitely disappear."

"Don't worry, Brother Tianmeng, I never do anything without preparation."

Huo Yuhao was right; he never did anything without preparation, but he also didn't say he was 100% certain of success.

If Huo Yuhao were to do it on his own, his chances of success would be only about 30%. However, with the life force provided by the Life Gold, the essence of the Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass, and the Ice Eye of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye as assistance, the success rate would increase by at least another 30%.

And if we take into account the influence of the power of fate, Huo Yuhao's success rate will increase by at least 10%, bringing it to 70%.

With a 70% success rate, it's worth a shot, because Huo Yuhao doesn't actually value this second martial soul. After all, people in Douluo Continent believe that the more martial souls you have, the better, but he doesn't think so.

For the original inhabitants of Douluo Continent, having more martial souls is equivalent to having more soul skills. Having more soul skills means having more complex methods and being more difficult for others to target.

However, for Huo Yuhao, in battles of the same level, his abilities already cover a wide range of attacks; what he lacks is a sufficiently powerful and absolute weapon.

Moreover, having too many martial souls makes it difficult for a soul master to have a clear path, just like Huo Yuhao after becoming a god in the original work.

He did not cultivate his second martial soul as a primary ability, and even the existence of his third martial soul was practically ignored after he became a god.

After all, the levels before and after becoming a god are two different levels. The limit of the abilities that a martial soul can contain is at most only level one hundred.

As the ice crystals took shape, Huo Yuhao began his actions. Guided by his mental power and the Eye of Truth, he changed the form of his martial soul, which was originally composed of formless ice.

At the same time, with the help of the ice crystals enveloping his body, Huo Yuhao began to filter the essence of the eight-cornered Xuanbing Grass in front of him. The pure ice energy seeped into Huo Yuhao's body through the ice crystals.

The ice attribute of the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass is already extremely pure, but it is only equivalent to about 92% ice element affinity.

However, after being filtered by the ice crystals on Huo Yuhao's body, the energy absorbed by Huo Yuhao had a purity of nearly 99%. As for a purity of 100%, it was beyond what a martial soul could contain.

During this process, a new martial soul was conceived and slowly formed within Huo Yuhao's body.

However, with the absorption of this pure and extreme ice attribute energy and the formation of the new martial soul, the ultimate ice martial soul, which has an affinity of 99% ice attribute energy, also began to have a serious impact on Huo Yuhao's body.

Even the damage this effect caused to Huo Yuhao's body was more severe than the effects he experienced after obtaining the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul in the original story.

Although the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion had a high level of cultivation, most of its energy was completely sealed after it became a martial soul, leaving only the influence of its ultimate attributes.

All Ice Jade Scorpions possess the ultimate ice attribute, but the purity of the ultimate ice attribute varies. The purity of the ultimate ice attribute in ordinary Ice Jade Scorpions is around 90%.

As for the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, its ultimate ice attribute is only about 94%.

Even so, Huo Yuhao's cultivation speed in the original story was greatly reduced as his body had to adapt to the high purity of the extreme ice attribute. If it weren't for a lot of fortuitous encounters to make up for it, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

What does it mean to have 99% pure ice?

At this moment, Huo Yuhao's body began to change its form involuntarily. Under the influence of the ultimate ice, it began to perfect the final one percent of the process of complete elementalization.

Therefore, Huo Yuhao activated the energy of the Life Gold. With the help of the life force of the Life Gold, the flesh and blood tissue in Huo Yuhao's body began to recover and strengthen rapidly, resisting or adapting to the existence of the Ultimate Ice.

If Huo Yuhao's body cannot withstand the purest and most extreme ice attribute, then his body will eventually turn into a pure ice crystal.

However, if Huo Yuhao's body can withstand it, then under the high pressure of the extreme ice, his physical strength will surely rise to another level.

Generally speaking, this is difficult to achieve because the vitality of a Soul Master is far less than that of a Soul Beast, let alone the extreme attributes that even Soul Beasts would find difficult to withstand.

However, the existence of the Life Gold gave Huo Yuhao the opportunity to turn the impossible into possible. With a continuous stream of life force replenishing him, Huo Yuhao quickly absorbed the life energy that he could only absorb slowly through a steady flow of water.

Excessive saturation of life energy is not a good thing, but now, with the balance of power, the flesh and blood tissue in Huo Yuhao's body are being destroyed and regenerated at an astonishing rate, thanks to the dual tempering of the massive life energy and the extreme ice.

At the same time, its energy carrying capacity and its own strength are also rapidly increasing.

Moreover, through the regulation of the Eye of Truth, Huo Yuhao did not allow his body to develop in a way that favored ice attributes during this process.

Instead, it's simply about honing one's physical strength so that it can withstand the effects of extreme ice.

If left unchecked, Huo Yuhao's body would naturally begin to develop an affinity for ice under the tempering of life energy and extreme ice, which would be much simpler, but this is something Huo Yuhao disdains.

(End of this chapter)