Douluo Continent: The Eye of Truth

Chapter 76 First Encounter

Although the Ten-Thousand-Year Aurora Ape took the opportunity to escape far away when the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was distracted by the clash between the Crimson King and Shrek's Title Douluo, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion is still a super soul beast even without the status of an Emperor-level auspicious beast.

The difference in racial level made the Three-Eyed Golden Lion far stronger than the ordinary Ten-Thousand-Year Aurora Ape in every aspect. The reason it had chased the other for so long before was more out of a playful mentality.

However, when the Three-Eyed Golden Lion truly exerted its power, after transforming into a golden streak of light, it easily caught up with and pounced on the ten-thousand-year-old Aurora Ape. Its powerful mental energy directly stunned the ten-thousand-year-old Aurora Ape, and then it opened its skull and had a hearty meal.

After a delicious and satisfying meal, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion stretched lazily like a big cat, while the faintly glowing orb beside it caught its attention.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who has always lived deep in the core area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest, mostly encounters soul beasts when she goes out to forage. Moreover, most soul beasts either worship her or run away when they see her.

Because of the protection of the ferocious beasts, she had never seen many human soul masters in her life, especially human soul tools. After all, the Star Dou Great Forest also belonged to the original Douluo Continent region, and its soul tool technology was not advanced.

Moreover, those who can venture deep into the Star Dou Great Forest are mostly powerful Soul Masters. In addition, most of the original Soul Masters of the Douluo Continent are more traditional and more resistant to Soul Tools than to using them.

Looking at the large sphere of light in front of it, and the tiny figure encased within it, the three eyes of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion were filled with curiosity.

Compared to the three-meter-long, eight-foot-tall Three-Eyed Golden Lion, Huo Yuhao's figure appeared small.

For some reason, the feeling that this young man gave the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was different from that of the Soul Masters it had encountered by chance before.

As if some inexplicable force was drawing her here to meet this young man.

After meeting Huo Yuhao, the original doubts were immediately resolved, and it was an arrangement of fate. However, for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, even more doubts followed.

Why did the power of fate guide me to meet this boy? What makes this boy different from ordinary Soul Masters? And why doesn't this boy show the same panic as other Soul Masters when he sees me?

Indeed, while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was peering over to observe, Huo Yuhao had already successfully fused the Thousand Shadow Illusionary Spirit Butterfly soul ring.

After all, for Huo Yuhao, the age limit of this spirit ring was not the limit, so he could fuse with it with ease and the speed was naturally very fast.

With the attainment of Soul Master status, Huo Yuhao's cultivation level directly broke through to level 33, even though his Soul Rings had not yet reached their limit.

After experiencing his newly acquired soul skill, which was the Thousand Shadow Illusionary Spirit Butterfly's innate soul skill and could manifest various characteristics of other soul beasts through mental power, Huo Yuhao had some new inspiration.

Through the Thousand Shadows Illusionary Body, the Thousand Shadows Illusionary Butterfly can conjure up a phantom of a soul beast it knows through its spiritual power every thousand years of cultivation.

The illusory soul beasts that are conjured up are very weak in defense, and can be pierced even by forces far weaker than the Thousand Shadow Illusionary Spirit Butterfly.

However, the phantom of the soul beast created through the Thousand Shadows Illusionary Body can inherit some of the abilities of the original soul beasts it creates.

This includes, but is not limited to, elemental control methods and the use of non-physical soul skills.

Having successfully transformed, the powerful Thousand Shadow Illusionary Butterfly is also known as the Illusionary King Butterfly by Soul Masters. With nearly 100,000 years of cultivation, the Thousand Shadow Illusionary Butterfly can summon nearly a hundred Soul Beast phantoms to jointly annihilate an enemy with a single flap of its wings.

Even if these soul beast phantoms are exposed, as long as the Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly's true form still exists, it will conjure up new soul beast phantoms in the next moment, endlessly.

After being adapted to Huo Yuhao's Eye of Truth, the Thousand Shadows Illusionary Body also mutated, becoming even more suitable for the Eye of Truth.

Huo Yuhao can now use his third soul skill to temporarily conjure other martial souls that he has deconstructed. These martial souls have about 30% of the physical enhancement effect of the original beast martial soul of the same level, as well as the special abilities of the weapon martial soul, although the conjured martial soul does not come with a soul skill.

However, that's not the point. The point is that once Huo Yuhao has the ability to temporarily switch martial souls, he will have room to use the soul skills, soul power circulation, and magic that he has combined but which are not suitable for the mental attribute of the Eye of Truth, but are suitable for other attributes.

Huo Yuhao named his third soul skill Thousand Shadows Illusion Soul because it originated from the spirit attribute. Therefore, Huo Yuhao can now simulate martial souls of other attributes.

Therefore, the soul skill of that attribute, performed through mental power, will naturally gain affinity and resonance from the elements between heaven and earth, without any decrease in power or increase in consumption.

However, unlike the Thousand Shadow Illusionary Spirit Butterfly's Thousand Shadow Illusionary Spirit Body, which can simultaneously manifest up to a hundred bodies, Huo Yuhao's Thousand Shadow Illusionary Soul can only use the Eye of Truth as a basis to conjure one martial soul at a time, but it can switch at any time.

The only downside is that each transformation consumes a significant amount of soul power and mental energy, but its advantage lies in its fast switching speed and ever-changing nature.

After learning about his new soul skill, Huo Yuhao opened his eyes. However, as soon as he woke up, he saw the Emperor Beast staring straight at him, which was quite a shocking scene.

However, Huo Yuhao had actually anticipated this before coming to the Star Dou Great Forest, and the possibility of encountering an Emperor-level auspicious beast was part of his plan.

Compared to Tang San, the true villain of Douluo Continent, neither the Emperor Beast, nor the Silver Dragon King, nor Di Tian are as difficult to talk to.

After all, compared to Tang San, the Asura God who is a beneficiary of the system and constantly courts death, the soul beasts, who have been victims of several generations in the Douluo Continent, are more likely to unite with humans.

Because of Electrolux's existence, the magic cultivation system was also brought into this world, and it turned out that although it would be assimilated by the world in the form of a martial spirit.

However, in the original work, Huo Yuhao's third spirit, which he obtained through Electrolux, did not necessarily require a spirit beast's spirit ring to be upgraded.

Compared to the Soul Master system, which is controlled by the God Realm and Tang San, making it difficult to break through the Limit Douluo level and ascend to godhood on its own, the magic system, if it can be integrated into this world after modification, is undoubtedly more attractive.

Moreover, in the Divine Seal universe from which Electrolux originated, there are also professions like Summoners, who raise magical beasts, become partners with them, establish contracts, grow together, and fight alongside their magical beasts.

The advantage of soul beasts is their long lifespan, while their disadvantage is their slow growth rate. This is because soul beasts generally inherit the legacy of the Dragon God, and thus inherit some of the characteristics of the dragon race.

Humans have the advantage of growing very fast, but the disadvantage is that their lifespan is squeezed by the gods. At the beginning, the Limit Douluo could live for a thousand years, but in later generations, even the Limit Douluo and demigods could not live for more than three hundred years.

In the magic system, summoners can bind themselves to magical beasts through contracts, allowing them to share a portion of the beast's lifespan and innate talents, thereby improving their physical strength and aptitude.

At the same time, those magical beasts that are difficult to grow, such as dragons, can also receive support from their human companions, which can accelerate their growth and help them get through their weakest period.

The Spirit Pagoda system in the original work was modified based on the soul contract of the summoner. However, what Electrolux left behind was only a rough framework, and it was ruined by Tang San before it could be refined.

Huo Yuhao himself was indecisive, and later became Tang San's lackey, which is why he left behind the Soul Spirit System in Douluo Continent, a thing that has caused endless trouble for thousands of years.

After the Spirit Pagoda was created, due to the short-term benefits of the Soul Spirit system, many Soul Beasts whose lifespans were nearing their end or who were about to die from injuries chose to cooperate with humans and become human Soul Spirits.

However, the consequence of doing so is that most of the energy contained in the bodies of the dead soul beasts will return to the world, that is, the environment of the entire Douluo Star, while a small part will remain in nature, that is, the Star Dou Great Forest where they died, or other soul beast habitats.

Although the soul beasts are sacrificed to humans using the Soul Spirit Technique, they will still return to the world normally because humans cannot absorb most of the energy within them.

However, the portion that should have been left to nature was intercepted by humans, and even the Ascension Platform appeared later.

A large amount of energy that should have been in nature was intercepted at the Spirit Ascension Platform, and Douluo Star could only continuously reapply its own energy to those energy-deficient areas.

As a result, the energy that Douluo Star itself can mobilize will naturally become less and less. This practice can be described as draining the pond to catch all the fish, although it created a seemingly prosperous Soul Master civilization during the Dragon King Legend period.

However, in reality, they are all draining the blood of Douluo Star by constantly squeezing it out. Normally, it is extremely difficult for a Title Douluo above level 90 to cultivate.

The same is true for those Limit Douluo who are close to demigods. The energy they need can no longer be supplied by Douluo Star alone. Normally, there are two paths to further advancement.

One way is through the power of the collective will of all beings, that is, by ascending to godhood, to break through the shackles and reach a higher plane.

Another method involves cultivating by absorbing the energy of other celestial bodies and planets in the universe, similar to the method used by star-type martial souls.

Regardless of the process, it will all benefit Douluo Star. The abundant energy brought by the Limit Douluo and demigods through penetrating planes and drawing in energy will be absorbed by them, with about 70% to 80% being absorbed. However, the remaining 20% ​​to 30% will dissipate on Douluo Star, becoming its nourishment.

However, the Soul Spirit Method and the Spirit Ascension Method are different. They can be said to squeeze the value of soul beasts to the extreme, and can even be squeezed repeatedly. But over time, the energy level of Douluo Star will continue to decline, which will naturally lead to a series of collapses.

The three-eyed golden lion's large claws landed on the soul-guided protective shield. With a gentle exertion of its claws, cracks appeared on the soul-guided defensive shield formed by the level-six soul-guided device, and then it shattered with a crash.

Although its cultivation level is only 15,000 years, the Emperor Beast's racial level is extremely high, and its actual strength has already approached that of some ordinary soul beasts with nearly 100,000 years of cultivation.

This small level-six soul tool was naturally unable to stop her power, but seeing the soul tool defense shield shatter, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion also withdrew its claws and spoke.

"Roar, why aren't you afraid of me, human?" The three-eyed golden lion bared its teeth, pretending to be a fierce and menacing creature. In reality, the pressure it released was indeed terrifying, but the voice that came out of its mouth was that of a beautiful woman.

"Maybe it's because I felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity when I first saw you, and besides, I'm no match for you. If you really wanted to kill me, I probably would have been dead already."

Huo Yuhao spoke casually and nonchalantly, but at this moment, a monstrous wave had begun to surge within his spiritual sea.

The one who had previously warned Huo Yuhao was the spirit that had split off from the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm. Now, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm was also awakened, and said in a panic, "How could it be an Imperial Auspicious Beast? It's going to kill me!"

"The auspicious imperial beast is here; there must be other ferocious beasts nearby. Why am I so unlucky, bro? Xiao Yuhao, you'd better think of a way to escape!"

Meanwhile, Electrolux appeared in Huo Yuhao's mental sea and calmly said, "I've sensed the ferocious beast that the big bug mentioned. It should be fighting the Title Douluo who was with Yuhao earlier."

"But Big Bug, didn't you notice? Those two seem to be getting further and further apart as they fight. They probably won't be here anytime soon."

"This so-called imperial auspicious beast is quite interesting, but if there's any danger ahead, Yuhao, entrust your body to me, and I'll take you away from here."

Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao responded in his spiritual sea: "Alright, if anything unexpected happens, I'll rely on Elder Yi to save me."

Upon hearing Huo Yuhao's words, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was taken aback for a moment, then it put away its original fierce and menacing appearance. Its golden fur no longer bared its teeth and claws, but became smooth again.

The two, one human and one beast, stared at each other, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion trying to discern from Huo Yuhao why fate favored this human.

Huo Yuhao simply stared at the three-eyed golden lion in front of him, and with the analysis of the Eye of Truth, he gradually began to understand the threads of fate.

After watching for a while, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, whose temperament was more impatient, finally lost her patience. Although she couldn't see anything special about Huo Yuhao, since it was the guidance of fate, she would try to use the power of fate to give it a shot!

Suddenly, the golden vertical pupil on the forehead of the three-eyed golden lion shone brightly, and a beam of light without any killing intent shot towards Huo Yuhao.

This ray of light is called the Gaze of Fate. The short-term fate of those illuminated by this light will be known to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

At the same time, she can also use this to adjust the power of her own and the other person's destiny, by reducing the other person's luck to improve her own luck, or by reducing her own luck to improve the other person's luck.

Although it is the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's innate soul skill, this is the first time she has used it since she grew up and has always been under Di Tian's protection.

Therefore, she was unaware that although the Gaze of Fate could perceive and influence the fate of others, there was only one limitation.

That is, it cannot be used on those whose fate is too closely linked to their destiny, because their luck is too special, and if it is affected...

(End of this chapter)