The Peerless Tang Sect: Heavenly Heart Douluo

Chapter 78 The plan is underway, the round-robin tournament has ended (5000 words)

"Damn it, does his second soul skill not require soul power?" Because Huo Yuhao always used his second soul skill when he used mental attack, everyone assumed that Huo Yuhao's mental attack was caused by his second soul skill.

"How can he be so strong?" The others from Zhengtian Academy looked grim as they watched Tang Xiaolei being carried off the plane, blood spurting from his mouth and nose.

Looking at Huo Yuhao on the stage, whose complexion had somewhat recovered, Yu Mengdi's fear deepened. She then said, "Forget it, we've lost this time. Let's conserve our strength for the next match."

In the end, Zheng Tian Academy conceded defeat, and Shrek Academy once again achieved a complete victory. Now, after experiencing battles with three academies, everyone has seen the formidable strength of this boy from Shrek who is not even fifteen years old. He defeated multiple Soul Kings with only three Soul Rings. Is this the monster that Shrek Academy has cultivated?

The crowd below erupted in thunderous cheers, applauding Shrek Academy. Wang Yan was delighted to see this, as Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao would soon be able to make their move, although they wouldn't be able to crush the other academies with their full strength.

However, with their cultivation levels and Huo Yuhao's help, Shrek Academy might still have a chance to continue its glory. Moreover, once they are able to take action, they won't have to rely on Huo Yuhao alone, and they will have more confidence.

However, looking at Huo Yuhao, who was surrounded by cheers but remained unmoved, Wang Yan felt a sense of powerlessness. He couldn't understand what Huo Yuhao was thinking or seeking. Logically speaking, at his age, he should at least be somewhat moved by such a scene.

As before, Huo Yuhao left the stage and went straight back to the Star Emperor Hotel without lingering for a moment or interacting with anyone else. It seemed that the only person he was close to was Wang Dong'er, and Xiao Xiao, his classmate, seemed to be afraid of him as well.

Huo Yuhao has been cultivating through a spiritual avatar, channeling his spirit into the undead demiplane. Now, with the souls of nearly a million people piled up, even though only a month has passed...

However, the vessel of Hei Yuhao's undead puppet has already reached the eighth level, and with the help of Ilex's memories, it is enough to cast some ninth-level great magic through long chanting and array formation during non-combat hours.

Before Hei Yuhao stood a massive array, a hundred meters in diameter. At its center lay a corpse, skin covering bones, devoid of any flesh or blood. Without a doubt, this was the former messenger of death.

His soul and spirit had been stripped away by Hei Yuhao, leaving only an empty shell.

A green carving knife floated beside Hei Yuhao, radiating an incredibly strong life force. In his hand, he held a ball of extremely evil black energy, yet it appeared remarkably stable.

"Is this what that level nine soul master evil soul master left behind?" Huo Yuhao asked.

Hei Yuhao nodded: "I plan to put this thing into the body of the Grim Reaper. I have already washed away the independent consciousness in this vengeful spirit, but I have retained most of its resentment. Although it won't last long, it can guarantee that it will have a few opportunities to fight at the level of a Title Douluo."

"What about spirit rings? We can't possibly use a five-ring cultivation level to unleash the power of a Title Douluo, can we? That would attract too much attention."

Hei Yuhao nodded and said, "I have studied the Death Messenger's martial soul. It is an evil martial soul called Ghoul. I previously tried to use the resentment of the millions who died in Dragon City to create some vengeful spirit-type soul beasts."

"Although it's not a perfect match and the age is quite low, it's still enough to fill in the rest of his spirit rings. Also, due to the influence of necromancy, I noticed that the Grim Reaper's previous five spirit rings have all turned gray."

"Let me fine-tune it for a while longer. Once it's almost done, I'll insert a vengeful spirit as the main body to control the Grim Reaper's body. Then you can use your spiritual avatar to imprint fear and the power of faith on it."

"Using the Grim Reaper as a medium, I can release him after making some minor adjustments to his mindset and actions. When there are the most people during the finals, I can just blow him up on the finals field. The response should be pretty good."

Huo Yuhao nodded: "Then I'll try my best to build up fear in the minds of the viewers during this period, and then find a way to receive it on the day of the finals. But if I succeed, will such a large amount of emotion cause any abnormalities?"

Hei Yuhao thought for a moment and said, "I can't be sure either, but isn't there the external soul bone of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm? With the Death Messenger as the first layer of filtering, and then the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm's soul bone covering it up, there's probably no problem."

"Even if something really goes wrong, to be honest, we don't necessarily have to stay at Shrek Academy anymore. Although staying at Shrek Academy would make Tang San less vigilant, if all else fails, you can just use the summoning circle to return to the Undead Demiplane, and we can go to the far north to continue developing."

"We've already obtained the most important things in Shrek Academy, and staying here is only for safety reasons."

Huo Yuhao nodded: "What about this Life Gold?"

Hei Yuhao shook his head: "I always feel that the timing of this thing's appearance is too strange. It's better not to put it into the Sea of ​​Spirit. Anyway, if you want to break through to the Spirit Domain Realm, you can't do it in the short term. Even if you want to, there are other methods."

"I'll keep this thing to carry out the previous plan and see if I can add it to the soul beast vessel I'm going to create."

"I've already made some progress through this period of experimentation."

A summoning circle appeared beside Hei Yuhao, and a somewhat strange soul beast emerged from it.

This spirit beast is shaped like a giant baboon, with a mottled white and gray body, but its tail is a thick snake body with a complete snake head on top.

Its eyes were open listlessly, and faint breathing came from its nostrils. Its heart was beating slowly, and its head was swaying involuntarily.

"This is something I cultivated using the right arm bone of a ten-year-old Wind Baboon, along with a large amount of life energy. The life energy I used was the remnants from the corpses in Dragon City. However, because the life energy is too fragmented, it doesn't quite match the soul of the Wind Baboon. You'll understand if you sense it carefully."

After sensing it, Huo Yuhao discovered that there was an extremely obvious incompatibility between the body and the soul.

"Moreover, during the process, I discovered that the biggest difference between life in the Douluo World and life in the Holy Demon Continent is their essential nature as living beings."

Hei Yuhao slowly began to speak: "Electra once conducted a similar experiment, but his experiment went very smoothly, although that thing could not be considered a complete life form."

"After studying the bodies of thousands of Soul Masters and Soul Beasts, I discovered that, unlike the clear distinction between the human soul and the physical body in the Holy Demon Continent, this is not the case."

"Humans and soul beasts in the Douluo world seem to have undergone some kind of unspeakable transformation and evolution, and the soul bones of soul beasts still contain their original vitality and soul."

"Strictly speaking, they are not considered dead at this stage. Soul bones are more like the soul core of the Evil Eye Tyrant, except that their souls and consciousness are too fragile to retain independent thought like the Evil Eye Tyrant."

"The bloodline and life force within a soul beast's body will also retain a portion of its soul and will, and the same applies to soul rings. Even when soul rings dissipate into the world and give back to it, they cannot be considered to have truly disappeared."

"The concept of life and death of soul beasts in the Douluo world is very vague. If a soul master absorbs their soul ring after they are killed, then this part of their consciousness can be considered to coexist with the soul master. It just doesn't show up normally, but there are exceptions like the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm."

"Therefore, I can extract many different soul beast bloodlines from a soul master's body."

"When I use the life energy of other soul beasts or soul masters to cultivate a vessel for the soul bone in this situation, the countless fragmented consciousnesses contained in the life force will compete for control of the body, ultimately leading to a situation where I cannot wake up and only have instincts."

"Just like this wind baboon, but it's actually very easy to deal with the fact that the soul bone only contains the single consciousness of a soul beast. I can easily peel it off and provide space for our will to take over."

"However, the will of the soul beast in the life energy is too fragmented and tightly connected, making it impossible to completely filter it out when the life energy is nurturing the carrier."

"Therefore, I need a large amount of pure life force to transform in order to complete the shaping of the carrier."

"Moreover, I estimate that the biggest difference between soul beasts and humans may be the way they manifest when they die. After a human dies, they are simply a soul, not a soul ring."

"In other words, our will must be invested into the soul bone at the beginning of the shaping process, and it must be integrated with the soul beast carrier throughout the shaping process, otherwise others may notice something amiss."

"Just like how a soul beast transforming into a human must obtain a true martial soul body at the seventh level, which is the Soul Saint stage, to fuse its soul with its body in order to avoid being seen through by a powerhouse whose spiritual power level has reached the Spirit Abyss Realm or above."

"On the bright side, if this vessel is successfully created, there is a very high probability that it will provide us with an extremely special soul ring if needed."

Huo Yuhao nodded: "But since you have successfully completed the reshaping of the Wind Baboon, it means that the general direction should be fine. According to what you said, only the Gold of Life can achieve the pure life energy you mentioned."

Hei Yuhao continued, "I've also figured out how to shape that body. I plan to use Yazi, one of the nine sons of the dragon, as the prototype. There are detailed records about him in the Shrek Academy's collection of books. Although he is not the original Yazi, he has several second and third generation Yazi with close relationships to him."

"I plan to use that Light Dragon Clan's Dragon Core to purify the bloodline of the former Golden Earth Dragon King, obtaining a pure-blooded Light Dragon Clan bloodline, which I will combine with the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's right palm bone and the Golden Wolf's torso bone."

"We also purified the golden bloodline from the corpses of the golden bloodline beasts we collected earlier to increase the physical strength of this vessel."

"Furthermore, the characteristics of the Golden Wolf and the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear are indeed very compatible with the Yazi lineage, whether it is the ability to devour gold and iron or to cut through gold and jade."

"Although such a combination would dilute the level of the Light Dragon Clan's bloodline, there are already no other pure-blooded dragons on the continent besides Di Tian's black dragon. If a pure-blooded one were to suddenly appear, it would be too abrupt. The Silver Dragon King doesn't count; that thing has a higher bloodline level than pure-blooded."

Huo Yuhao said, "However, I feel that this is still a bit monotonous. After all, if we want to attract the attention of the Star Dou Great Forest, and we can't make the cultivation level of this vessel too ridiculously high, then we can only start with its potential."

"Based on this performance alone, although it may earn the attention of the Star Dou Great Forest, it's unlikely that they'll be able to access the core secrets."

Hei Yuhao frowned: "In that case, we can only add other high-strength natural treasures or high-quality soul beast soul bones, but we don't have any on hand right now."

Huo Yuhao shook his head: "Have you forgotten that place? Sunset Forest. Although it has declined, I believe that if we search it from top to bottom, we can still find suitable soul bones."

"With the addition of the Earth Dragon and Golden Melon of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, and now with the help of the Ice Emperor and the Snow Emperor, it won't be difficult for us to take it down."

Hei Yuhao nodded: "So when are you planning to go?"

Huo Yuhao shook his head: "We can't count on it in the short term. Let's wait a while."

Hei Yuhao nodded, while Huo Yuhao's spiritual avatar assisted Hei Yuhao in conducting experiments and adjustments through mental simulation. Two more days passed in this way, and today was Shrek Academy's fourth appearance in the round-robin tournament.

Just as they were leaving the Star Emperor Hotel, Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen, although their injuries had not fully recovered, were able to fight again. So they left the room with Wang Yan. At that moment, Dai Huabin, contrary to his usual behavior, stopped Huo Yuhao.

"Huo Yuhao, you—" Dai Huabin was about to say something when he collapsed to the ground, bleeding from all seven orifices. Huo Yuhao glanced indifferently at Wang Yan, who was standing to the side with a gentle smile and was about to walk up and say something, but in the end, he simply stepped over Dai Huabin.

Needless to say, it's likely that Wang Yan was dissatisfied with Huo Yuhao's repeated failures to follow his tactics, and after seeing that Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen were ready to fight, he sent Dai Huabin to challenge him.

Otherwise, Dai Huabin, branded with fear, wouldn't have dared to provoke her directly. Zhu Lu quickly helped up the seriously injured and unconscious Dai Huabin, unsure whether to continue following the group or send him for treatment first.

The group arrived at the rest area of ​​the competition venue. In the end, Zhu Lu was asked by Wang Yan to take Dai Huabin for treatment and did not come to the competition venue with him.

"Today's match is between Changning Academy from the Star Luo Empire and our Shrek Academy!" the referee announced loudly. "Let's invite the captains of both teams to come up and draw lots to determine the match format!"

Unsurprisingly, the Changning Academy students turned pale when they were drawn into the singles elimination round. It was truly bizarre; how come Shrek Academy always drew the singles elimination round in their competitions?

After the referee repeatedly checked and confirmed that it was just a coincidence, the students from Changning Academy chose to concede defeat. After all, Yunluo Academy, Douling Academy, and Zhengtian Academy had all shown them with their blood and tears that they should not think about challenging Huo Yuhao in the singles elimination tournament.

The other four teams in the subsequent round-robin tournament had no more Soul Kings or higher, so they posed no threat to Shrek Academy. Therefore, Huo Yuhao stopped using Mind Control.

Then came four consecutive 2-2-3 matches.

Although it's frustrating, it can only be said that Huo Yuhao always uses the most unsuitable fighting style for Shrek Academy. However, now that Ling Luochen can take action, it would be an overwhelming battle against other academies whose strongest members are only Soul Sect.

Huo Yuhao's first solo match, and Ling Luochen's team match with Ning Tian, ​​both resulted in Huo Yuhao defeating his opponent in just two matches each time.

Every time Huo Yuhao went into battle, he crushed the opposing team members with overwhelming force, leaving them with a gift package of more than ten days of serious injuries and unconsciousness.

Besides Shrek Academy, Zheng Tian Academy also advanced from this group. Although all three Soul Kings of Zheng Tian Academy except Yu Mengdi were seriously injured by Huo Yuhao, apart from Yu Mengdi, only the captain of Changning Academy was a Soul King in this group.

Moreover, compared to Yu Mengdi, the Soul King with the Angelic Martial Soul, the gap between their Martial Souls is no longer something that can be bridged by Soul Power.

Shrek Academy's opponent in the round of 16 has also been determined: the Royal Academy of Spirits, one of the top four teams in the previous competition.

With the return of Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao, and the end of the round-robin tournament, Wang Yan held a long-awaited team meeting to prepare for the upcoming round of 16.

Just then, there was a knock on the conference room door.

Wang Yan frowned slightly and said in a deep voice, "Didn't we say that the staff shouldn't bother us?"

A melodious female voice came from outside the door: "Excuse me for disturbing you, I am not a staff member, I am from Starlight Auction House."

After Wang Yan went to open the door, he found that the person who came in was Qingya, the auctioneer from the previous auction house.

Qingya's gaze found Wang Yan directly. She smiled slightly and bowed to Wang Yan, saying, "Hello, Teacher Wang. I apologize for disturbing you all."

"When you purchased the auction items last time, you used Shrek Academy's account to pay, so we naturally guessed where you came from."

"We've come to bother you today because our Starlight Auction House is holding a top-tier auction tonight. Auctions of this caliber usually only happen once or twice a year."

"Only the most distinguished guests are invited by us. Last time, we were unaware that you were from Shrek Academy, the number one academy on the continent, and we apologize for any neglect."

"Our auction house owner asked me to distribute these invitations. If you are available tonight, you are welcome to attend the auction. I'm sure there will be something of interest to you."

As she spoke, she took out a stack of invitations and placed them on the table. Then, with a smile, she bowed again and said, "I won't bother you any longer. I apologize again."

She slowly backed away, and after leaving the room, she closed the door behind her.

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