Douluo Continent: The Eye of Truth

Chapter 51 Awakening Stance

As the referee announced Shrek Academy's victory, the audience throughout Star Luo Square cheered for Shrek Academy's triumph.

Even though Shrek Academy only sent a group of inexperienced reserve team members, they were still able to defeat the elite members of the Heavenly Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy, whose soul power cultivation was far superior to their own.

Isn't this enough to get their blood pumping? This is Shrek Academy! Even their reserve team is an invincible force compared to other academies!

At that moment, deafening cheers resounded throughout the entire competition venue, while the reserve team members maintained a calm and composed demeanor.

However, Beibei's body was feeling weak at this moment, and she relied entirely on her good buddy Xu Sanshi behind her to support and cover for her.

Beibei barely managed to maintain this posture, with a nonchalant smile on her face, until everyone left the stage and she reached the rest area before finally stopping.

This left a deep impression on the other college teams, after all, Beibei's performance was truly amazing.

He was able to eliminate four opponents of similar strength, all equipped with defensive soul tools, with a single strike, despite being only a four-ring Soul Master. In addition, he also eliminated two opponents who were slightly weaker but also had defensive soul tools protecting them.

Only family members know their own situation; Bei Bei's current cultivation level is only at the Soul Master level.

If he had already reached the level of Soul Saint, then forcibly activating the power within his body and entering the form of the Golden Sacred Dragon would not have consumed much energy.

However, for Beibei, doing this now is a very taxing thing to do, and it can only maintain the power of one strike for a short time.

Although occasional use will not deplete one's own reserves, it will at least leave Beibei weak for three days, requiring her to recuperate to restore the power of her bloodline.

Only to give other teams the impression that Shrek Academy is invincible, is Beibei forcing herself not to leave the field.

Otherwise, given that his soul power and mental strength are already exhausted, the best option for him would be to get some rest.

The team that is most interested in Shrek Academy in the competition is naturally the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

In the ranks of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

"Is this the captain of Shrek Academy's reserve team?" Xiao Hongchen's proud eyes revealed scrutiny and seriousness, but more than that, they showed confidence in his own strength.

Ma Rulong, the captain of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy this year, nodded and said, "That's right, they will also be the biggest opponent when you lead the team to participate in the next competition."

"He must have used some kind of secret technique. We had information about this student in the data we investigated before."

"Bei Bei, one of the two stars of Shrek Academy's outer academy, has the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex as his martial soul."

"However, judging from this, its bloodline and martial spirit should be due to its lineage from the Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang from ten thousand years ago, and therefore it also carries the characteristics of mutation."

"The lightning power just now clearly carried a powerful force of light."

Ma Rulong recounted all the information that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy had gathered.

Xiao Hongchen smiled slightly: "As expected of Shrek Academy. However, if their next captain is only of this level, then he is not worthy to be my opponent."

As the most outstanding student of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Masters in the past century, Xiao Hongchen has the qualifications to stand out from his peers in both Soul Master cultivation and Soul Master talent.

As a Soul Master, he became a Soul King at the age of fifteen, and his Martial Soul even possessed the bloodline of a divine beast. Moreover, its coordination with the Soul Guidance Device was perfect, making it a super Martial Soul—the Three-Legged Golden Toad.

Moreover, at this age, to become a level 5 Soul Master, Xiao Hongchen's application and manufacturing of level 5 Soul Tools, aided by his Martial Soul, far surpasses that of ordinary level 5 Soul Masters, which is enough to make him proud.

It should be noted that the level of Soul Masters in the Sun Moon Empire is quite high. Their Level 5 Soul Masters are equivalent to, or even higher than, Level 6 Soul Masters as assessed by Shrek Academy.

Moreover, he has a solid foundation and advanced theories, but this also means that the knowledge and practical experience that Xiao Hongchen needs to learn and master in the Sun Moon Empire Soul Master Academy will far exceed those of the original Soul Masters from the Douluo Continent.

With these two factors combined, for Xiao Hongchen, although Bei Bei's martial soul mutation is noteworthy, that's all. After all, whether it's his own soul power cultivation or the combat power added by external objects, he far surpasses Bei Bei.

At this moment, Xiao Hongchen had already set his sights on Bei Bei, who had stole the show in the first round of the competition.

Huo Yuhao, a nobody with only the cultivation of a second-ring Great Soul Master, was naturally not taken seriously by him.

However, Huo Yuhao was also thinking about and recalling the trump card that Bei Bei had just used by mobilizing the power of her bloodline.

This trump card was brought up by Beibei during the previous battle meeting. In order to make a decisive move and showcase Shrek Academy's prowess in one battle, Beibei didn't bother to hide it and revealed it.

According to Beibei, he stimulated the power of his bloodline through mental and soul power, using a brief overdraft and burst as a price to greatly increase his dragonification level, thereby revealing the golden holy dragon power hidden beneath the skin of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus.

However, based on Huo Yuhao's observation using the Eye of Truth, Bei Bei's statement is actually somewhat problematic.

In his observation, the power of bloodline was merely a catalyst; the real reaction occurred after the power of bloodline began to boil, resulting in a series of influences and changes on Beibei's martial soul.

In truth, the boiling of bloodline power is actually a side effect. Through this side effect, the martial soul is forcibly stimulated to undergo positive and stable changes, thereby suppressing the bloodline's turmoil and restoring balance.

In this way, although one can temporarily use the amplification generated by the positive fixed change of the martial soul to strengthen the soul skill, one part effort brings ten parts loss, which is why Bei Bei's soul power and mental power are both overdrawn.

After activating the boiling power of his bloodline, he was no longer able to control or stop the process.

He could only guarantee that he could activate his transformation into the form of a golden holy dragon, while ensuring that the side effects would not damage his foundation.

Whether or not the power under this posture can be fully mobilized or effectively mobilized is still an unknown, at least in Huo Yuhao's true eyes.

Of the burst of power Bei Bei unleashed just now, only about 20-30% of it actually landed on the students of the Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy. Seven or eight tenths of the power dissipated into the air.

However, because the Golden Sacred Dragon's martial soul level was high enough, and the students of the Heavenly Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy were already intimidated by the great reputation of Shrek Academy, the dragon's might had a synergistic effect, resulting in a result greater than the sum of its parts.

"Could I try to replicate it? After all, there's a concept of a second awakening for the original martial soul. Could I use the Eye of Truth's ability to gradually adjust the stimulation to the martial soul, allowing it to enter its awakened state under control?"

While watching the upcoming matches on the competition stage, Huo Yuhao pondered this question as he gradually stole the martial soul structures and soul skill compositions of the participating soul masters through the Eye of Truth to fill his database.

After all, according to the original work, the Body Sect's explanation is that the Body Martial Soul actually undergoes a second awakening after a series of inhuman trials.

It can also be considered a process similar to Bei Bei's current method of stimulating bloodline power to draw upon the potential power of her martial soul to protect her physical body.

However, Beibei's method was to forcibly stimulate her martial soul to react by using her already high, rich, and pure Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline.

However, the Body Sect, through summarizing the experience of generations, deduced a second awakening process that is most effective for most Body Martial Soul owners.

Currently, Huo Yuhao has no opportunity to contact the Body Sect, and he has no plans to join it at the moment.

After all, Huo Yuhao was more interested in a wider range of soul skills than the combat techniques practiced by the Body Sect.

After the first round of competition, the remaining matches continued in an orderly manner. Soon, as darkness fell, the day's competition finally came to an end.

After returning to the hotel, Huo Yuhao finally had time to enter his spiritual sea to organize the information he had gathered during the day's competition, including the martial spirits, soul skills, and even the information about the soul guidance core array.

Apart from Shrek Academy, the other strong academies did not participate in the competition today.

Therefore, Huo Yuhao did not collect any particularly valuable soul skills or soul guide core formations, but it greatly supplemented the soul skills that Huo Yuhao lacked, such as those for support, amplification, and defense.

"The next step is to see if we can advance the awakening of the Martial Soul."

Huo Yuhao kicked Tianmeng Ice Silkworm awake from its sleep.

"Brother Tianmeng, please protect me from now on. If my mental and soul power malfunction, please suppress it with your mental power and help me recover."

"Huh? What are you going to do again, Xiaoyuhao?" Tianmeng Bingcan asked, somewhat confused.

"To become stronger." Huo Yuhao only answered with two words, and then began to try.

Unlike the construction of the soul power circuit, which is simple enough and is an independent operating system separate from Huo Yuhao's body, it can be simulated and formed through mental power, and can be predicted directly in the sea of ​​spirit.

For Huo Yuhao at this stage, directly constructing a complete martial soul is far too complicated and too difficult.

Therefore, even if it can be simulated in the sea of ​​the mind, the final effect on the body is difficult to control.

Furthermore, because the connection between the martial soul and the person is too close, Huo Yuhao cannot let the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm control it on his behalf. If Huo Yuhao does not take the lead himself, there is a high possibility of accidents. He can only let the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm assist him.

Time flies, and it took Huo Yuhao a full day and night to successfully construct a fully replicated Martial Soul model within his spiritual sea.

What followed was a series of trials and errors, constantly imitating the changes in Beibei's martial soul when she entered the Golden Sacred Dragon.

After repeated collapses and reconstructions of his martial soul model, Huo Yuhao finally found the most effective way to stimulate his martial soul to react autonomously.

"But... the success rate is so low." Huo Yuhao frowned in thought.

According to his calculations, after consuming all of his soul power and mental energy, he could barely enter the transformation process he envisioned, following the guidance of his martial soul.

However, due to the large consumption of soul power and mental energy, Huo Yuhao no longer had the ability to interfere with the actual process of the transformation.

In his simulation, only about 10% of the time, the final martial soul can successfully transform and stabilize.

In another 30% of cases, the transformation fails, only guaranteeing a temporary evolution of the martial soul, which cannot be stabilized, and it will then revert to its original form.

In the remaining 60% of cases, the martial soul's transformation process is unstable, leading to various unpredictable situations.

Ultimately, the results calculated and deduced through the data collected by combining mental power with the Eye of Truth all indicate that, although the martial soul will not be greatly affected due to the forced suppression and interruption by the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, both the body and mental power will be damaged.

Huo Yuhao sighed, because the current calculation results had already explained everything.

It's not that his understanding of the second awakening of his original martial soul is wrong, it's just that his current soul power and spiritual power cultivation are not enough to support him to complete the transformation of his martial soul.

However, it won't be long. After obtaining the Gold of Life, with the Gold of Life as the hidden energy source behind it, perfecting the current concept will be a natural process.

Moreover, Huo Yuhao did not come away empty-handed during these two days and three nights. He successfully found a secret technique, just like the one Bei Bei had done before, that could temporarily stimulate the potential of a martial soul.

However, unlike Bei Bei, the ability that Huo Yuhao controls is actually more focused on increasing his control. Although it does not bring about a significant increase in strength, it is also much less costly and in terms of consumption.

Under these conditions, Huo Yuhao could now complete the soul power circuits that originally required a great deal of mental and soul power and a very long time to construct in an instant.

"That's settled then. Let's call this secret technique Awakening Stance. Consider it a preview of some of the abilities after the second awakening of the main body's martial soul."

His tense mind relaxed again, and Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, listening to Huo Yuhao's rambling words, yawned: "So, Yuhao, are you done with your research? Time for bed, I'm going to sleep!"

(End of this chapter)