SWNOVELXO Chapter 86: Chapter 93: King's Authority, Kotoamatsukami
"You are the Son of Fortune?" Gu Yuena and the Ten Thousand Demon King both showed looks of surprise. However, the former quickly came back to her senses and said with a cold, mocking tone, "You are merely a human evil soul master. How can you prove you are the Son of Fortune?"
Huo Yuhao didn't care about his reputation as an evil soul master. He didn't waste any words either. He activated his Spirit Eyes martial soul, and three million-year, lustrous white soul rings rose from under his feet, emitting a brilliant golden glow.
"Three divine-level soul rings!" The jaws of both the Ten Thousand Demon King and Gu Yuena dropped directly. They were soul beasts themselves and naturally had a different perceptual ability than humans. But there was only one existence like the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm. How did this kid manage to possess three million-year soul rings?
"Still not enough," Gu Yuena was born to find the Son of Fortune. As the rising new star of this continent in the near future, the Son of Fortune had to have something extraordinary about him.
Huo Yuhao's three great million-year soul rings had given her a huge shock, but she still wanted to see what made Huo Yuhao different from other humans.
If Huo Yuhao could not gain her recognition, he would naturally not have the qualification to continue communicating with her.
Huo Yuhao took a deep breath. He knew that if he couldn't get the support of the Star Dou soul beast lineage, especially the Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena, he would surely lack a large portion of combat power when facing those existences from the God Realm in the future.
"Your Majesty, I need to absorb my fourth soul ring now."
Huo Yuhao said to Bibi Dong in his spiritual sea.
Bibi Dong naturally understood his meaning. Her beautiful eyes turned to the true divine sense of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm at the side. The latter did not dare to be negligent and hurriedly guided two of the remaining five balls of spiritual origin to fly towards Bibi Dong's location.
Huo Yuhao's fourth soul ring had not yet been completed. The reason was naturally the absorption speed of worldly primordial energy and life energy. Before Huo Yuhao participated in the Soul Dueling Tournament and got that Life Gold carving knife, his constitution was still just a Semi-Life Affinity Constitution. The speed at which he absorbed life energy was far inferior to a true Life Affinity Constitution.
In other words, even though the current Huo Yuhao was far superior to his original self at the same period, in terms of talent, he was still far inferior to the rotten salted fish in Douluo IV. His energy absorption couldn't even reach his passive level.
But the rotten salted fish had the true bloodline of the Dragon God. Huo Yuhao, however, was of commoner birth and had only achieved what he had today with the help of various aids.
Although Huo Yuhao's fourth soul ring had been delayed due to insufficient energy, this life energy and worldly primordial energy were not without substitutes. That was the pure origin power that the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm had accumulated for a million years. Originally, the five remaining balls of spiritual origin from the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm were prepared for Huo Yuhao's fifth soul ring. But at this point, he had no choice but to use them first. Although this would greatly slow down the production process of the fifth soul ring, the current Huo Yuhao had no other choice.
Under Bibi Dong's guidance, the two spiritual origins instantly merged into the still-ethereal soul ring in his spiritual sea. The soul ring instantly burst forth with a dazzling, brilliant golden light, illuminating Huo Yuhao's entire spiritual sea in splendor.
Gu Yuena and the Ten Thousand Demon King only felt a majestic energy gushing out from Huo Yuhao's body. Although they didn't know what this kid was planning to do, as long as Gu Yuena's true self was here, no matter what means he used, it was impossible to pose a threat to them.
The next moment, the fourth soul ring, infused with the origin of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, quietly appeared, enveloping Huo Yuhao's body. Compared to the first three soul rings, the golden patterns on this fourth soul ring were more complex. This was a masterpiece of Bibi Dong and Huo Yuhao's joint efforts, carved with the fourth soul skill that would rewrite destiny!
"A... a self-created soul ring?" The Ten Thousand Demon King's jaw hit the floor. This was clearly an ability that only a soul beast that had transformed into a human should have.
Gu Yuena at the side gently shook her head, her shapely brows slightly furrowed. She said, "This is not a self-created soul ring. It should be something replicated from the structure of the first soul ring that Tianmeng bestowed upon him. The so-called soul ring is just a vessel for the soul masters of this continent to display an ability they obtained by hunting us soul beasts. If the god attached to his body can project the external prototype of this million-year soul ring and just change its internal ability, then it's not surprising."
"What he was doing just now was probably supplementing this million-year soul ring, which was empty on the inside, with the energy of the corresponding level. What was consumed was probably the spiritual origin of that ice silkworm," Gu Yuena, as expected of the common lord of soul beasts, had analyzed the origin of this fourth soul ring of Huo Yuhao's with just a simple perception.
"Not just his fourth soul ring, I'm afraid his second and third soul rings were also created this way. There aren't that many million-year soul beasts on this Douluo plane."
"Then... then is he really the Son of Fortune?" A look of joy instantly appeared on the Ten Thousand Demon King's face. There was no precedent for a soul master on the continent to possess multiple million-year soul rings. Even the Sea God from ten thousand years ago had only killed a nearly million-year-old Deep Sea Demonic Whale to get its soul ring.
If the boy before them was really the Son of Fortune of this continent, then it was truly getting something without any effort!
Absorbing this million-year fourth soul ring also required a soul bone as a medium, and it had to be a spiritual-type head soul bone of over fifty thousand years. However, Bibi Dong had long been prepared for this. When Huo Yuhao had taken her away from the Holy Spirit Hall back then, she had packed this soul bone and run away with it.
And what Huo Yuhao didn't know was that this soul bone was none other than the Illusion-Creating Head Soul Bone of the former Pontiff who had toyed with Bibi Dong ten thousand years ago, the Angel Douluo Qian Xunji. After Bibi Dong had brutally killed him back then, she had kept this trophy with her, waiting for the opportunity to give it to her disciple to use. It was just a pity that she had not been able to wait for the day when Hu Liena met the requirement to absorb this soul bone. Hu Liena had been injured by Tang San's Eight Spider Lances in the Soul Master Tournament back then, and her origin was damaged. She was unable to step into the Titled Douluo realm in her entire life.
The Illusion-Creating Head Soul Bone melted in Bibi Dong's hand, turning into a stream of light that drilled out from Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea and attached itself to the fourth soul ring, making it possible for Huo Yuhao to once again absorb a soul ring, skipping ranks.
Compared to absorbing the third soul ring last time, this time was much more painful for Huo Yuhao. Firstly, he was not in a complete state. Not to mention his severe injuries, his soul power was also almost depleted, and his spiritual power had been consumed too much by the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm capturing the Ice Empress. So the moment the soul ring was placed on him, a pain originating from the depths of his soul swept through his entire body, causing him to spasm.
Huo Yuhao gritted his teeth and endured it. Succeed or die trying. Not only would he lose the qualification to negotiate with the Silver Dragon King, but even Zhongli Yu would also die from not receiving treatment in time.
A vast and mighty life energy began to surge around Huo Yuhao. This made the two great soul beasts who had been paying attention to his changes finally unable to remain calm. Regardless of whether Huo Yuhao was an evil soul master who committed all kinds of atrocities, firstly, the planar life energy had acknowledged him. Normal evil soul masters were all spat upon by the planar life forms. What wrapped around them was always only death qi and resentment. This was also the reason why most evil soul masters were easy to distinguish.
The frantic life energy surged into Huo Yuhao's body. The still somewhat ethereal fourth soul ring gradually solidified, emitting a dark golden brilliance different from the first three soul rings. The golden patterns on the soul ring turned blood-red, like blood vessels appearing on the surface of the ring, looking extremely strange.
At the same time, the dense wounds on Huo Yuhao's body were also healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. His aura gradually stabilized due to the absorption of life energy. The restless soul power in his body gradually underwent a qualitative change. The bottleneck that had been stagnant at the peak of a Soul Elder was instantly broken through with the absorption of the soul ring. The soul power that had been compressed to the extreme also leaped from level thirty-nine to level forty-nine, which was the peak of a Soul Ancestor. It was just that the soul power compression density had plummeted from the original ninth degree back to the fifth degree.
As the light gradually faded, Huo Yuhao slowly opened his dual pupils in a halo of light. Compared to the previous sharpness, his gaze this time was much deeper. Just one look was enough to make one unable to extricate themselves.
Four soul rings were arranged one by one on his body. Four white soul rings. White million-year soul rings!
Along with the great increase in his soul power, his body's affinity for life energy had risen to another level. Even in the Land of Extreme North, a life forbidden zone, the life energy hidden deep under the earth also involuntarily surged into his body. He was like a darling of the heavens and the earth, a child of life, carrying the fortune of this era, suppressing an entire generation.
However, this was not the most terrifying thing. The biggest improvement this fourth soul ring brought him was to his spiritual power. His spiritual power cultivation had actually leaped directly from the early Spirit Domain realm to the peak of the Spirit Domain realm!
A terrifying spiritual fluctuation spread out in all directions. All life nearby trembled for it. Huo Yuhao's gaze shifted down, looking at the Ice Jade Scorpion swarm that had followed Gu Yuena and the Ten Thousand Demon King to retrieve their emperor.
He couldn't wait to try the two great skills that this fourth soul ring brought him—
Left eye: King's Authority.
Right eye: Kotoamatsukami.
They were, respectively, an unlimited one-time mental manipulation and a limited permanent will rewriting ability.
Huo Yuhao slowly raised his right hand, his left hand gently stroking his left eye socket. A spiritual thought instantly enveloped the Ice Jade Scorpion swarm.
"Son of Fortune, Holy Son of the Holy Ghost Cult, Huo Yuhao, hereby commands you, all Ice Jade Scorpions, to bow your heads and submit to me!"
As his words fell, the Ice Jade Scorpion swarm, which was about to assemble to attack Huo Yuhao, suddenly felt as if their consciousness was being controlled by some unknown power. A blood-red "V"-shaped rune appeared in their hexagonal eyes, and they involuntarily prostrated themselves in Huo Yuhao's direction.
"What is this ability?" The Ten Thousand Demon King's entire tree was dumbfounded. An ability that could instantly control such a large swarm of soul beasts, it had never heard of it!
At this moment, Huo Yuhao was the emperor of the Ice Jade Scorpion swarm!
If the Ten Thousand Demon King's spiritual power were a little weaker, it might have also been affected by this ability of Huo Yuhao's.
At this point, the Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena and the Ten Thousand Demon King no longer had any doubt about Huo Yuhao's identity as the Son of Fortune.
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Author's Note: The fourth soul skill is here. In front of the Silver Dragon King, he showed off a wave of his operations. This is also the fourth soul skill the author planned to set for the protagonist. If the first and second soul skills are the most practical two great divine skills of the original protagonist, then the third soul skill must be set as a life-saving skill for him. Since his little life can be saved, then it is naturally time to build his own subordinate forces. So these two skills are indispensable.