The Peerless Tang Sect: Heavenly Heart Douluo

Chapter 96 Entering Dragon Valley, Preparations for Plundering Dragon Valley (4000 words)

At this moment, the Soul Master was cultivating. After Huo Yuhao's spiritual avatar entered, it immediately unleashed a triple attack of mental shock, fear imprint, and mental control before leaving.

After a moment of mental confusion, the Soul Master became Huo Yuhao's lackey. For more than half a month, similar incidents continued to occur in various corners of the city. The spiritual avatar seemed to have become a ruthless mental attack machine, targeting anyone who showed any signs of entering the Dragon Valley.

In just over half a month, Huo Yuhao marked and controlled thirty disciples sent by various major forces. He also found an opportunity to control fifty or sixty independent individuals who had discovered Huo Yuhao's interest in Dragon Valley.

Early in the morning, Huo Yuhao activated his true form and assumed the appearance of the Soul Sect member, following the group to the location of Dragon Valley. The journey was uneventful, as the native inhabitants of this place were extremely familiar with it after thousands of years, and no accidents occurred. Moreover, Huo Yuhao controlled almost 90% of those who were able to enter Dragon Valley.

As Huo Yuhao followed the large group to Dragon Valley, he discovered that in addition to the thirty people who possessed the Dragon Pearls, there were also many independent individuals without any affiliation who would be participating in the opening of Dragon Valley, numbering around one hundred.

It's important to understand that Dragon Valley today is not like it was during the Dragon King Legend era. It hasn't undergone as much exploration and excavation, and it's still fraught with danger. Moreover, all the major factions will hide the information they've discovered, so they will try to lure all sorts of lone wolves into Dragon Valley while concealing their intelligence.

Without special means to escape, the most likely outcome for these people is to die in Dragon Valley after encountering danger. Of course, there will be a few lucky ones who will coincidentally break through the level 50 barrier.

Or perhaps they will seize the opportunity they gained from Dragon Valley when the spatial rift closes and rise to power, just like the current Lord of Soul Douluo City.

Then a new legend was left on this continent, which the uninformed talked about with great interest, and at the same time hoped that they would become one of the legends in the future. But no one remembered the bones of those who were buried in Dragon Valley, where one general's success was built on the bones of ten thousand dead.

Led by the city lord of this city known as Watchtower City, the teams of various forces stopped at the foot of the mountain, while those who were preparing to enter Dragon Valley were led to the top of a high mountain.

As the vegetation here begins to thin out, the altitude is at least two thousand meters above sea level, and there is a faint layer of snow on the ground, the temperature has also dropped significantly.

Then, the city lord surnamed Long walked to the edge of the cliff at the top of the mountain, and a surge of soul power suddenly burst out from his body, with rings of soul power rising up in succession.

Yellow, yellow, yellow, purple, purple, purple, black, black—eight soul rings rose up and then shone brightly at the same time. A wave of soul power emanated from his body, and faint light patterns appeared beneath his feet.

These light patterns are very complex and beautiful, somewhat resembling a soul-guided magic array, but they look more ancient, giving people a sense of antiquity and vicissitude.

Huo Yuhao didn't know if it would be useful, so he immediately used his mental power to record it and then prepared to study it slowly later.

As these light patterns spread outward, they quickly expanded to a diameter of 100 meters. The light patterns were filled with rising mist, and the aura became stronger and stronger. The soul power fluctuations on the city lord's body continued to increase. He seemed to be using his soul power to activate the light patterns under his feet.

His face was flushed, as if he had used some special secret technique to amplify his soul power. Huo Yuhao could feel that the blood and qi in the other's body were burning. With each ripple of the white halo, the city lord's face became paler.

Then, the city lord activated his Martial Soul True Form, transforming into a massive, ten-meter-long crimson dragon. With a roar, the white light patterns on the ground suddenly intensified, rising in white and transforming into a rainbow.

It transformed into a pillar of light that shot into the sky, tearing the sky apart as seven-colored light spread outwards, revealing a huge gap.

"When you encounter an insurmountable crisis within Dragon Valley, activate the Dragon Balls, and you will be automatically teleported out to begin your journey!"

The city lord shouted, and then everyone rushed in impatiently, and Huo Yuhao naturally became one of them, mixed in with the crowd.

Huo Yuhao felt a sudden darkness before his eyes, followed by a dizzying spin. Everything around him became blurry, as if space itself was distorted. However, after Huo Yuhao activated the Wall of the Heart, the sense of chaos and dizziness vanished instantly.

Not long after, he felt a bright light before his eyes, and then he fell downwards like a free fall. Around him, he could see Soul Masters falling from the sky. It could be said that this level alone eliminated most of the first and second-ring Soul Masters.

Huo Yuhao discovered that his soul power was not restricted by the laws of space here. Perhaps it was because the abilities of the Heart Wall and the Heart Will could still be used normally, isolating him from contact with the outside space. Although it was somewhat different from what he had initially imagined, it was still in a good direction. Originally, he had imagined that the power of belief would be able to be used normally, but the soul power would not be able to be used.

After landing, Huo Yuhao did not rush to explore, but instead tried to use the power of belief to replace soul power to cast necromancy and activate the teleportation array.

Although the space was unstable, Huo Yuhao still managed to open the Gate of the Dead. He then closed it again, feeling that the loss of his inner power of conviction was not significant.

Moreover, even within the Dragon Valley space, Huo Yuhao could feel the constant influx of fear from those outside who had been branded with his fear, replenishing his depleted energy. Furthermore, Huo Yuhao could sense the every move of the Soul Masters he controlled within the secret realm.

Now that soul power can be used, things are much easier.

The space in Dragon Valley is not stable. Even soul power fluctuations of level 50 or above will cause the place to actively reject them to avoid damaging the origin of the small world.

Dragon Ball further exploited this point by using an excessive amount of soul power fluctuations to expel the holder from this space.

Unlike the others, Huo Yuhao did not absorb the dragon cloud or challenge the dragon soul. Instead, he first used mental control to issue an order to the soul masters he controlled, commanding them to hunt down all the soul masters who had not been mentally controlled by Huo Yuhao.

Then he began to measure the size of the entire Dragon Valley boundary with his footsteps, while using the knowledge of space and magic from Elex's memories to seal off and erode the boundary of this small world space.

His purpose in coming here was to allow the undead demiplane to devour this unstable little world, in order to help the undead demiplane evolve while plundering the treasures it contained.

You must know that for a necromancer, the dragon souls and dragon bones buried in Dragon Valley are unparalleled top-tier materials. No necromancer has ever fought a battle with such abundant resources. Huo Yuhao had already planned a shocking idea in his mind.

Moreover, after comparing the memories of the original Douluo that Huo Yuhao had viewed with his own memories from his previous life, he roughly understood that this place should be part of the former Dragon God Realm, and also the place that was most severely damaged during the war between the Dragon Clan and the Gods.

Originally, this place should have been a complete plane or part of a world, but it was shattered by the aftermath of the battle between the gods and the dragons when the war of the gods ended and fell into Douluo Star.

This continent might even be a fragment of that shattered piece, only more stable. Moreover, the formation of Dragon Valley here may be because the souls and remains of the dragons were subconsciously gathered by the remnant soul of the Dragon God, and then preserved here after being surrounded by the remains of the Mountain Dragon King.

The true spirit of the Light Dragon King is also hidden here. Although he cannot go out and do anything big, he is probably responsible for concealing his aura and hiding the small world.

What Huo Yuhao needs to do now is to use magic to organize the space of this small world, integrate its completely broken and extremely unstable space and then drain it, so that the part that is as intact as possible can be connected to the undead demiplane and stitched together. Then, he can use the power of the undead demiplane to gradually eat away at and devour it.

This is a huge project; it absolutely cannot be completed in less than a year and a half.

Huo Yuhao kept his Heart Wall and True Simulation disguises active at all times, ensuring that his whereabouts were not exposed to anyone here, as he gradually sorted out the space.

Huo Yuhao then began to control the Soul Masters under his control to cooperate in a planned manner to lure the Dragon Souls and Dragon Clouds of different attributes to the designated area he had set up. As time went by, those people were gradually repelled out of this space.

Until one day, Huo Yuhao felt as if he himself was being rejected by this world. He knew that the Dragon Tomb was about to close. He saw that arrays were connected around Huo Yuhao, and a piece of land turned into a gray dead land under the power of these arrays, exuding a death aura.

At this point, only four-fifths of the land in Dragon Valley remained. The remaining one-fifth of the broken space had been cleared away by Huo Yuhao through magical adjustments, and the magic array that Huo Yuhao set up around the outermost edge of Dragon Valley had successfully connected with the undead demiplane.

As this area was devoured by the undead demiplane, Huo Yuhao, who was standing here, would no longer be affected by the spatial laws of Dragon Valley itself, and the spatial power that originally repelled Huo Yuhao gradually dissipated as if it had lost its target.

After the spatial fluctuations subsided, Huo Yuhao walked out of the gray area. Sensing that there were no more anomalies in the space, he continued to walk alone on the land of Dragon Valley. This time, Huo Yuhao wanted to traverse every inch of Dragon Valley.

Every place he passed through was marked with a hidden and hard-to-detect black array node. It took Huo Yuhao a whole year just to travel all over Dragon Valley and inscribe the array.

If it weren't for the abundant fear from the outside world replenishing the power consumed by Huo Yuhao in setting up the array, this process would have taken countless times longer. After the array was completed, Huo Yuhao did not activate it immediately, but instead relied on the characteristic that each array had residual spiritual power.

He traversed every corner of Dragon Valley through these arrays, imprinting a fear mark on every dragon cloud and dragon soul existing within the valley using his mental power. For these dragon clouds and dragon souls that lacked consciousness and self, Huo Yuhao needed to exert the power of his belief each time to imprint the mark on them.

Moreover, fear is an emotion that these mindless beings can never understand, and Huo Yuhao can hardly get any feedback of power from them, only a slight control effect.

However, Huo Yuhao still did it because neither the Dragon Cloud nor the Dragon Soul were Huo Yuhao's ultimate goals, and he didn't even care about the so-called True Dragon Soul Bone.

Huo Yuhao has only ever wanted two things since he came here: the vast spatial origin power within Dragon Valley and the remnant soul of the Dragon God located at the core of Dragon Valley.

Besides the remnant soul of the Dragon God, the most noteworthy thing in the Dragon Tomb is the true spirit of the Light Dragon King. That guy is still well preserved under the nourishment of the dragon energy here, and he is not on the same level as the Ice and Fire Dragon King.

However, Huo Yuhao used his mental power to isolate his aura, and he used a magic completely different from soul power. As long as he didn't absorb a lot of Long Yun's energy, he wouldn't wake up that guy. After all, there have been quite a few human soul masters who have come here throughout the ages.

If he could act and awaken without restraint, then as the Dragon King, he certainly wouldn't allow human soul masters to so easily take away the remnants of the dragon race's fallen true dragons.

Moreover, if Huo Yuhao wanted to control the remnant soul of the Dragon God, he was neither a direct descendant of the Dragon Clan, nor did he have Tang San's help to obtain the bloodline of the Golden Dragon King, nor was he the reincarnation of the Silver Dragon King. Therefore, Huo Yuhao would inevitably need some extremely special methods to accomplish this.

In Huo Yuhao's view, all the dragons of the Dragon Clan deeply revered and worshipped their clan leader and the only true god, the Dragon God.

However, Huo Yuhao could sense from the moment he entered Dragon Valley that not all dragons were without resentment or attachment and were willing to die peacefully. The dragon clouds were formed from their pure power, and the dragon soul was their proud dragon soul.

Their resentment and deep-seated hatred have transformed into every inch of land in Dragon Valley, buried deep underground, never to see the light of day again.

What Huo Yuhao needs to do now is to use the manipulation techniques for resentment in necromancy to mobilize them all.

It took Huo Yuhao another full year to inscribe the mark of fear on every dragon soul and dragon cloud in Dragon Valley. After that, Huo Yuhao inscribed ten huge array diagrams at ten spatial nodes at the edge of Dragon Valley.

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