Douluo Continent: The Eye of Truth

Chapter 56 The Eye of Truth

After observing for a while, and seeing the enormous vertical pupil that had replaced the original Life Gold appear in his spiritual sea, Huo Yuhao stopped thinking about it.

Regardless of what abilities the Eye of Truth will possess after its second awakening, I will experiment with it later and naturally discover its effects.

Now that it has fully fused with the Soul-Devouring Carving Blade, the Life Gold is subtly influencing every aspect of Huo Yuhao's body.

The immense life force contained within it was constantly nourishing Huo Yuhao's body, but for the time being, Huo Yuhao's current cultivation level was no longer able to bear a stronger life force.

Therefore, the nourishment of Huo Yuhao's physical body by the life-giving metal will be a very slow, even imperceptible, process.

Unless Huo Yuhao deliberately spends a lot of time compressing his own life force.

This allows one's body to undergo another transformation based on its original state.

This is the only way to support a stronger life force, but in reality, it is not necessary.

After all, once his soul power is increased, the upper limit of the life energy that Huo Yuhao's physical body can bear will naturally increase as well, without needing to spend time specifically training it.

Furthermore, due to the existence of the Life Gold, before it is completely absorbed, its immense life force will allow Huo Yuhao's physical body to quickly repair itself after any injury, even regenerating severed limbs would not be difficult.

Opening his eyes, Huo Yuhao's consciousness left the Sea of ​​Spirit and returned to his physical body.

At this moment, he felt that his vision and perception were much sharper than before; the air currents and the scents formed by the mixture of various substances were all so clear.

Huo Yuhao's physical strength has now reached a whole new level, and after the second awakening of his martial soul, his soul power has also been improved along with it.

When Huo Yuhao's martial soul awakened for the second time, the soul power from the original soul beasts that Huo Yuhao could not absorb formed the structure of his soul skills, carrying the residual consciousness of the soul beasts.

The remaining soul beast consciousness within Huo Yuhao's body has now been shattered by his second awakening of his martial soul, turning it into unclaimed soul power that has flowed into the circulating soul power within Huo Yuhao's body.

At the same time, the structure of the soul skill was also integrated into Huo Yuhao's body, becoming part of Huo Yuhao's martial soul.

This is something that can only be achieved when the original martial soul is awakened to the gold level or above, except that the lower the level of the second awakening.

The less control a martial soul owner has over their spirit rings, even though an awakener with a silver-level main body martial soul can absorb all the soul power contained in the spirit rings.

However, to perfectly control the soul rings and soul skills, one cannot achieve the same level of smoothness and naturalness as a Gold-level Awakened; it requires a long period of training.

Of course, the soul power of the first soul ring with a million years of history brought by the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm was too enormous, and as an intelligent soul ring, the consciousness preserved by the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm was also too complete.

Huo Yuhao naturally couldn't fully absorb the first spirit ring, so most of the spirit power contained within it was still sealed.

Even so, by completely absorbing the soul power of the second soul ring a second time, Huo Yuhao successfully broke through the bottleneck of level 30 in soul power.

Even if he no longer consumes the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm's original energy, Huo Yuhao can still subtly strengthen his second soul ring based on its original foundation through the improvement of his own soul power and the evolution of his martial soul.

The biggest impact of this on Huo Yuhao's appearance is that the color of Huo Yuhao's second spirit ring will improve as Huo Yuhao's spirit power cultivation and martial spirit are subsequently strengthened.

However, there is not much room for improvement in the second awakening of a gold-level martial soul. After all, if Huo Yuhao's martial soul is to be upgraded further, it will be heading towards a god-level martial soul.

In the God Realm, without anyone around, relying solely on oneself to autonomously evolve one's Martial Soul to the God level is something to consider after reaching level ninety-nine.

Therefore, the age of the second spirit ring increases more in sync with Huo Yuhao's spirit power.

However, doing so only produces quantitative changes, because the only difference between a thousand-year soul ring and a ten-thousand-year soul ring or a hundred-thousand-year soul ring is the output flow of soul power.

It cannot achieve a qualitative change, nor will it have two attached soul skills like a congenital 100,000-year soul ring.

For Huo Yuhao, who possesses the Eye of Truth, a spirit ring is merely an additional energy storage and source device. After all, he can create and assemble both spirit skills and spells on his own using the Eye of Truth and his mental power.

Compared to the soul skills gained from absorbing soul rings, the pure energy derived from the life cultivation of a soul beast, which is plundered from the soul beast using the soul ring as a carrier, is the most valuable thing for Huo Yuhao.

Of the cultivation accumulated by a soul beast over thousands or tens of thousands of years, only about one or two tenths can ultimately be absorbed by a soul master.

If it is said that an ordinary person absorbing a soul ring of the ultimate age can increase their soul power by about two levels.

After Huo Yuhao's martial soul awakens for the second time and he fully absorbs the energy contained in the soul ring, he can at least increase the effect by 50%.

In this way, Huo Yuhao can greatly shorten the time needed to increase his soul power level.

This is why, in the original work, Long Aotian of the Body Sect had a soul power cultivation and physical qualities that far surpassed those of the Shrek Seven Devils of the same age.

Although after absorbing a spirit ring, the sect members who have undergone a second awakening of their martial soul will use most of the spirit power contained in the spirit ring to temper their physical body.

However, a powerful physical body can in turn accelerate the cultivation of soul power. Therefore, even if one does not go all out to improve their soul power level, a disciple of the Body Sect whose Body Martial Soul has undergone a second awakening to a high degree will not fall behind in soul power cultivation and physical fitness.

Unlike ordinary sect members who can only achieve Silver-level awakening during their first second awakening,

Due to the existence of the Life Gold and the Eye of Truth brought by Huo Yuhao's transmigration, Huo Yuhao's martial soul awakened for the second time, directly reaching the Gold level.

Moreover, for Huo Yuhao, who possesses the Gold of Life, the soul power he absorbs from his soul ring can be used entirely to enhance his own cultivation.

After all, the life force brought by the Life Gold was enough to strengthen Huo Yuhao's physical strength to the level of an ordinary Limit Douluo.

After entering the bathroom of the luxurious private room at the Star Emperor Hotel, I washed away the grime that had been brought about by the transformation of my body after merging with the Gold of Life, and regained a clean and refreshed state.

Stepping out of the bathroom, Huo Yuhao touched the almost imperceptible fine line between his eyebrows, closed his eyes, and focused intently on sensing his martial soul, attempting to unleash the power of his original martial soul's second awakening.

Previously, when Huo Yuhao was absorbing the Gold of Life and undergoing his second awakening of his Martial Soul, both Electrolux and the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm were helping to conceal the energy fluctuations and life energy emanating from Huo Yuhao's room.

Elder Yi is currently using the power of the Life Gold to repair his divine consciousness, and this task naturally falls to the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm.

Ignoring the constant mutterings in Huo Yuhao's mind from Tianmeng Ice Silkworm because it couldn't sleep soundly.

Golden light and shadow appeared behind Huo Yuhao, and a huge vertical pupil, exactly the same as the one in Huo Yuhao's sea of ​​consciousness, but appearing more illusory, appeared behind him.

Previously, when he first awakened, Huo Yuhao had no time to focus on experiencing it, but now he realized just how powerful a Gold-level awakening truly is.

Even the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm within the Sea of ​​Spirit was somewhat shocked: 'How is this possible? Yuhao, how did your spiritual power already reach the realm of tangible yet intangible?'

"Putting everything else aside, your total mental energy level simply can't possibly meet the standard, can it?"

Compared to Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's surprise, Huo Yuhao seemed much calmer.

"My martial soul is inherently mental, so specializing in mental control during my Gold-level awakening is nothing special."

"Furthermore, I can sense that the increase in both the quality and quantity of spiritual power is merely the most basic ability of a second awakening of a martial soul."

Just as if it were the first time he had used his mental power, Huo Yuhao tried to control this gold-level awakened martial soul and draw out its potential power.

Within Huo Yuhao's vision and under his conscious control, accompanied by the depletion of mental and life force.

From the golden light behind Huo Yuhao, a slender, small, dark light, resembling a 'hand', extended out.

The moment this 'hand' touched the piece of crimson wood that Huo Yuhao had taken from his storage soul tool, the heartwood of the Crimson Blood Wood, a hundred-year-old soul beast, shattered instantly, turning into dust on the ground without a sound.

"Huh, what's going on?" Tianmeng Ice Silkworm asked in Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea with some confusion.

He had been maintaining his mental strength to help Huo Yuhao conceal the energy fluctuations emitted by the second awakening of his gold-level martial soul, so he didn't notice what Huo Yuhao was doing.

"This is my ability after my martial soul awakened for the second time. Brother Tianmeng, didn't you sense anything just now? Even your mental energy didn't detect anything unusual?"

"Hiss," Tianmeng Ice Silkworm hesitated for a while before finally saying, "I must have been careless just now. Try again, and this time I'll definitely see it clearly!"

Huo Yuhao smiled slightly, took out a glass water glass from his storage soul tool, and placed it in a spot some distance away.

He then once again controlled the light and shadow of his awakened Golden Martial Soul behind him, extending a 'hand' towards the glass in the distance.

Just like the Crimson Bloodwood Heart before it, the originally intact glass cup disintegrated the moment it was touched by the 'palm', and then turned into neat, one-centimeter-sized glass cubes.

Compared to the mental and life force consumed when affecting the heart of the Crimson Bloodwood tree, the mental and life force used to destroy this glass cup was undoubtedly much less.

"So, Brother Tianmeng, what did you figure out this time?" Huo Yuhao asked Tianmeng Ice Silkworm again.

Although he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Huo Yuhao could still imagine it in his own sea of ​​consciousness.

Although Tianmeng Bingcan hadn't figured anything out, she stubbornly insisted on maintaining her already diminished image in Huo Yuhao's eyes.

"Haha, okay, Tianmeng-ge, I'm just teasing you."

However, after this test, Huo Yuhao understood that the light and shadow that resembled a 'palm' could only be seen by him.

Later, when Elder Yi has some free time, we can also ask him to come and try it out, to see if he can detect anything unusual with his insight that has reached the level of divine sense.

Besides, the extension of the 'palm' light and shadow seems to have no limit, but the longer it extends, the greater the loss of spiritual power and life force.

However, compared to its intangible and formless advantages, this minor limitation is completely negligible.

Through his experience with two objects of different shapes and textures, Huo Yuhao had roughly figured out the basic abilities of his Gold-level Martial Soul after its second awakening.

In this state, firstly, one's already terrifying penetrating ability, enhanced by the Eye of Truth, will be further amplified.

Moreover, Huo Yuhao was able to use this as a basis to manipulate the light and shadow of a Gold-level Martial Soul Awakening, and through its extended parts, to decompose things whose structure he had completely understood.

That's right. Although those two things seemed to be destroyed in an instant, Huo Yuhao actually understood their structure first, which allowed the power of the awakened Gold-level Martial Soul to take effect.

The degree of decomposition was entirely determined by Huo Yuhao's own will, and the final form of the decomposition products of the Crimson Bloodwood heart and the glass water cup was exactly as Huo Yuhao had envisioned.

The original volume of the object being decomposed, the fineness of the decomposition, and the complexity of its original structure also determine the amount of mental and life energy that Huo Yuhao needs to consume.

However, the current tests are only being conducted on inanimate objects. If there is an opportunity in the future, it would be best to conduct tests on living objects and other more complex and higher-energy objects.

After all, only by having a thorough understanding of one's own abilities can one control them and unleash their full potential.

Subsequently, Huo Yuhao deactivated the light and shadow of his second awakening of his Gold-level Martial Soul. In that short moment, Huo Yuhao had consumed one-third of his original spiritual power, and his life force had also been significantly depleted.

However, with the help of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm's spiritual essence and the continuous flow of life energy from the Life Gold, Huo Yuhao quickly recovered the spiritual and life force he had lost.

In this way, no matter when or where he is, Huo Yuhao can unleash his full power without restraint by taking advantage of the second awakening of his Gold-level Martial Soul.

Even without considering the deconstruction and decomposition abilities that come with the second awakening of a Gold-level Martial Soul.

The increase in mental power alone, given that Huo Yuhao's mental power has reached the realm of tangible yet intangible after the amplification, is now enough to allow him to easily crush even Soul King powerhouses who specialize in mental power.

"But it's a bit strange. The appearance of this Gold-level Martial Soul after its second awakening looks so much like the big eyeball behind the Gate of Truth in Fullmetal Alchemist."

"And their deconstruction and decomposition abilities are so similar, but I didn't watch Fullmetal Alchemist before I transmigrated."

A slight doubt arose in Huo Yuhao's mind, but he could only suppress it. 'In that case, naming the ability of a Gold-level Martial Soul after its second awakening "Eye of Truth" seems quite fitting.'

(End of this chapter)