Douluo Continent: The Eye of Truth

Chapter 135 Condensing the Soul Ring, Leaving the Far North

"No need to rush to answer me, Snow Empress. You can go and negotiate with the other ferocious beasts in the far north first."

Huo Yuhao gently waved his hand, and the Ice Dragon Spirit, which had been playing with Di Ruier, immediately obediently floated into his hand.

While stroking the cool, icy spirit of the ice dragon, Huo Yuhao was pondering how to configure the spirit rings for his second martial soul, the Ice Dragon King.

Firstly, for Huo Yuhao, although his second martial soul, the Ice Dragon King, is powerful, it is not the direction he wants to cultivate. Therefore, he naturally cannot allow the Ice Dragon King martial soul to have too much of an impact on him.

Secondly, even without a spirit ring, the Ice Dragon King's inherent characteristics and Huo Yuhao's mastery of various magic and spirit skills allow him to unleash the immense power of this divine-level martial spirit.

Compared to ordinary Soul Masters who often use Soul Rings to add new abilities to their Martial Souls, Soul Masters can only unleash the full power of their Martial Souls through Soul Skills.

Therefore, if Huo Yuhao wanted to add a spirit ring to the Ice Dragon King martial soul, the only aspect he needed to consider was how to strengthen the Ice Dragon King itself.

As a god-level martial soul, even the sacrifice of the 100,000-year-old immortal herb, the Eight-Cornered Profound Ice Grass, could only provide a negligible enhancement to the Ice Dragon King.

However, strengthening the essence of a god-level martial soul is easier said than done. Does one have to search for a soul ring at the level of a divine beast? This is obviously unrealistic in the Douluo Continent.

Therefore, since it is impossible to directly address the issue from a qualitative perspective, Huo Yuhao's only option in choosing the Ice Dragon King's spirit ring is to achieve a qualitative change through quantitative change.

Although the Ice Dragon King possesses a very powerful Absolute Zero property, the range that Absolute Zero can currently affect is too small; one must be very close to the Ice Dragon King to use it.

This makes the existence of absolute zero seem somewhat useless, since it's rare for two people to get close to each other in a battle with a strong opponent.

To solve this problem, Huo Yuhao must ensure that the ice element contained in the soul skill used by the Ice Dragon King is pure enough.

However, controlling the purity of ice elements is quite troublesome, since most ice elements contain some impurities to varying degrees.

Absolute zero can only be generated in absolutely pure ice elemental energy, and once even the slightest impurity is added, it will no longer be absolute.

This has always been a headache for Huo Yuhao, because although the idea is simple, putting it into practice is far from easy.

Even the Ice Dragon Spirit and the Ice Palace, which originated from the ten-thousand-year-old Xuanbing Marrow, currently only have an ice element purity of about ninety-eight percent.

It contains some other components, but it is still relatively pure, something that even some ultimate ice possessors may not be able to achieve.

Although this is very close to 100% purity at absolute zero, the effort required to truly advance to this final 1% or 2% far surpasses all that has been done before.

Even if it's just converting the ice element energy of this level within the Ice Palace.

To convert ice elemental energy into something that can power the Ice Dragon King's Absolute Zero level techniques, the conversion process would consume at least ten times more energy.

Although the environment here allows Huo Yuhao to quickly extract the Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow, a rare and precious material with ice attributes.

However, for the hypothetical enemies that Huo Yuhao has envisioned, these opponents at the Limit Douluo level, the help that the Myriad Years of Profound Ice Marrow can provide is far less direct and powerful than Absolute Zero.

"Let's try it out with this idea first."

"Even if problems arise later, my current abilities are sufficient to modify the spirit ring itself."

After a moment's thought, Huo Yuhao released the Ice Dragon Spirit from his hand.

He then said to Xue Di and Di Rui'er, "I have some new ideas, but they may cause some turmoil in the far north."

"I also hope that Snow Empress and Rui'er can help me stabilize the situation in the far north during the implementation process, so as to prevent the soul beasts from panicking and rioting."

Dirui'er smiled and said, "Leave it to me! My Eye of Destiny has been rested for a while and is ready to be used again. I guarantee there won't be any problems."

The Snow Empress nodded slightly, then left the Ice Palace to search for the other ferocious beasts in the far north.

The purpose was both to discuss the feasibility of Huo Yuhao's previously proposed plan to swallow the sea, and also because of the potential turmoil that Huo Yuhao had just mentioned.

After signing the contract, the fate of the far north became inextricably linked with Huo Yuhao.

Although Huo Yuhao's actions now appear to be impulsive, Xue Di and the others can only do their best to clean up the mess.

Di Ruier opened the Eye of Destiny between her brows, staring intently at Huo Yuhao in front of her. Only after she nodded to indicate that she was ready did Huo Yuhao begin his operation.

Although Huo Yuhao can also control the power of destiny, influencing himself through the power of destiny will more or less cause some fluctuations and effects. It would be more stable to have Di Ruier assist him.

With the appearance of the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul, under Huo Yuhao's command, the Ice Dragon Spirit directly attached itself to the Ice Dragon King.

At this moment, through the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul, Huo Yuhao could clearly perceive the icy and snowy land that radiated from the Ice Palace to most of the far north.

With the help of the Ice Dragon Spirit, Huo Yuhao used his mental power to control a large amount of ice elemental energy and integrate it into the Ice Dragon King's body.

As the Ice Dragon King's form was filled with ice elements, it gradually underwent slight changes.

The decorative patterns that originally accompanied its scales were now even more deeply embedded in its body.

At the same time, the 100,000-year soul ring that had been standing alone beneath the Ice Dragon King began to shimmer slightly.

Then, the second spirit ring gradually began to appear, following the flashing of the first spirit ring.

Unlike ordinary spirit rings which come in colors such as white, yellow, purple, black, and red, the Ice Dragon King's newly formed second spirit ring is a translucent ice blue.

As this ice-blue soul ring gradually formed, a large amount of ice element was drawn from various regions of the far north.

This even caused the overall temperature in the far north of this region to rise slightly.

This naturally led the spirit beasts of the far north, who originally lived in these areas and were extremely sensitive to temperature changes, to notice something was wrong.

An atmosphere of panic began to spread among the soul beasts who were unaware of what had happened.

Fortunately, Huo Yuhao had arranged for Xue Di and the others to make the arrangements in advance.

With the full deployment of the four ferocious beasts of the far north, the soul beasts of the far north, who were initially somewhat uneasy due to the changes in the environment, were gradually calmed down.

Sensing the temperature changes in the far north, after a brief discussion, the Snow Empress instructed the Ice Empress, Titan Snow Demon King, and Ice Bear King to arrange the migration of the soul beasts in the far north.

Although the spirit beasts of the far north are naturally adapted to the extremely cold climate.

However, if they were to choose to migrate, a slightly warmer environment would be suitable, and Huo Yuhao could also loosen up a bit after the soul beasts had finished migrating.

He can use areas where no soul beasts live as the main sites for extracting ice element energy, thereby reducing the extraction of ice elements from other areas in the far north.

With the formation of the Ice Dragon King's second spirit ring, the Ice Palace, which already had a close relationship with the Ice Dragon King, is now almost completely bound to him.

Because the spirit of the ice dragon already exists, the ice dragon king will not be bound here to maintain the existence of the ice palace until the spirit of the ice dragon perishes.

However, the increase gained was not that much, but even so, it was enough for Huo Yuhao at the moment.

Through the effect of the second soul ring, the Ice Dragon King can directly use this ice palace to extract, purify, and condense ice elements from the far north, releasing a power capable of reaching absolute zero.

Now that the far north and the ice palace are available as energy pools, Huo Yuhao's next few spirit rings for the Ice Dragon King are all aimed at minimizing the losses incurred when the Ice Dragon King's martial soul converts ordinary ice element energy into absolutely pure ice element energy.

The biggest advantage of this is that Huo Yuhao doesn't have to worry about the existence of the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul, but instead will consume a lot of his own soul power.

Secondly, as the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul's conversion efficiency of ice element energy gradually increases, once it can convert 100% of the ice element energy into 80-90% of absolute zero,

Although it may seem like the quantity has decreased, the resulting increase in power is naturally incomparable.

As one icy blue spirit ring after another condensed, the concentration of the already exceptionally pure ice elemental energy within the Ice Palace continued to rise.

However, in contrast, within the area radiated by the Ice Palace, the presence of ice elements has dwindled to less than one in ten.

Even though the glaciers and snow in these areas are accelerating the production of ice element energy due to the lack of ice element energy, they are still somewhat unable to sustain it.

When Huo Yuhao condensed his fourth spirit ring, he stopped. At this point, including the spirit ring from the initial Eight-Cornered Ice Grass, the Ice Dragon King had five spirit rings.

However, most of the energy from these four spirit rings did not flow into Huo Yuhao's body to nourish his cultivation. Instead, it served as the foundation for the elemental refining array, so Huo Yuhao's cultivation did not fluctuate much.

However, Huo Yuhao did not continue, because he could feel that although he had stopped drawing ice element energy, the ice element energy in the far north was gradually returning to its original level.

However, if he continues to divert the energy, even if the ice element energy in the far north can stabilize again, the damage to the future foundation of the far north will be considerable.

"There's no need to rush," Huo Yuhao thought to himself before stopping.

After condensing four spirit rings on his own, the Ice Dragon King greatly improved the speed and efficiency of purifying ice elemental energy.

Ordinary ice element energy has a purity of only about 50%. Normally, to refine one part of ultimate ice energy, it would take about one hundred parts of ordinary ice element energy.

If you want to extract absolute zero energy, you need about a thousand parts of ordinary ice element energy.

Through his observation with the Eye of Truth, Huo Yuhao was able to discover that when ice element energy is converted into absolute zero energy, the resulting loss does not simply disappear into thin air.

It was only because of the splitting and recombination of the elements that they were transformed into various other new elements, which eventually dissipated into the air.

Ultimately, during the purification process, the amount of absolute zero energy that could be controlled and condensed was far less than the amount of ice element energy consumed at the beginning.

By solidifying the elemental extraction array into a soul ring, the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul's already powerful and domineering control over the ice element becomes even more precise.

With precise magic arrays for control, the losses generated during the transformation of ice elements are naturally greatly reduced.

If Huo Yuhao wants to condense absolute zero energy using the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul, he only needs about five hundred portions of ordinary ice element energy.

It is foreseeable that with the increase in the number of spirit rings and the enhancement of the Ice Dragon King himself, its conversion efficiency will naturally rise and become even more astonishing.

Although Huo Yuhao did not know how the real Ice Dragon King used ice elements when he was a god or divine beast, perhaps for the Ice Dragon King, it was just a matter of instinct that he could perform the transformation without any damage.

However, this is the best method Huo Yuhao can think of right now, since gods and mortals are completely different levels.

A deafening dragon roar echoed from the icy palace, resounding throughout most of the far north.

After Huo Yuhao stopped drawing ice element energy, the ice element energy, which was already rapidly recovering, recovered even faster, as if it had been injected with adrenaline.

The snow fell heavily, and the cold wind was biting. The areas that had lost the ice element energy quickly returned to their original topography.

The turmoil and upheaval that occurred earlier due to Huo Yuhao's large-scale extraction of ice element energy were buried under the snow and disappeared without a trace.

Gently picking up Di Ruier, who was now somewhat weakened due to the assistance of the Eye of Destiny, Huo Yuhao carried her away from the Ice Palace and headed towards Tian Dou City.

The dragon's roar just now not only stimulated the accelerated generation of ice elemental energy in most of the far north, but it also conveyed the message of its departure to the major ferocious beasts led by the Snow Emperor.

Since there's a soul contract as a guide, even if we can't communicate telepathically, it's not too troublesome to contact each other when needed.

After all, Huo Yuhao has already completed most of what he needed to do in the far north, and the Devouring Sea Plan still requires Xue Di and the others to plan for a period of time. There is no point in staying in the far north any longer.

(End of this chapter)