Start with the Soul Forge

Chapter 84 84. Soul Furnace LV 3
After recruiting the wolf cavalry, the morale of the imperial recruits dropped significantly.

Mo Hao's response to this matter was very simple. He directly kicked the imperial recruits out of the formation and placed them in the village as a defensive force.

What he had to do next required highly mobile soldiers, and the imperial recruits who could only run on their own two legs obviously could not keep up with his needs.

Mo Hao didn't care about the spoils he brought back and just handed them over to Zhang Xueqing to deal with.

He believed that Zhang Xueqing could distribute and use these things well. If not, it would be enough for him to go out again and rob the Wind Wolf Tribe.

[Name: Mo Hao]

[Soul Furnace LV2 (0/700): A forbidden magic that plunders the life force, blood, and bone marrow from the killing, strengthening the recipient into a weapon of war that slaughters everything.]

[Ghost Transformation LV3 (0/800): The dark side of the soul transforms into an evil ghost. Is it an illusionary ghost, or a ghost walking in the human world? 】

[Blood Burning LV1 (0/10000): Burning blood to refine the body, devouring souls to forge the spirit, plundering is the essence of a Berserker. 】

[Bloodburn derivative skill - Death Resistance: The extreme desire for survival turns into the power to resist death.]

[Blood Burning Derivative Skill - Blood Frenzy: Crazy blood, insane power, giving the enemy infinite fear.]

[Experience: 1094]

Although those wolf soldiers were captives, recruiting them still required experience, but the cost was much less than formal recruitment.

Mo Hao took a look at the imperial recruits who had reached maximum experience points and were eligible for troop upgrades, and found that the experience they needed for promotion was less than one-fifth of the recruitment price of a second-level troop.

There is not much experience left, and there is no way to upgrade all skills, and some must be left for emergencies.

Since he had already upgraded [Ghost Transformation] last time, Mo Hao did not hesitate this time and directly upgraded the level of [Soul Furnace].

【Soul Crucible】LV 3!

At the moment of upgrading, Mo Hao felt a stream of hot steam in his body.

The extremely hot gas surged violently in his blood vessels, tearing his capillaries and causing the temperature in his body to rise rapidly.

In a very short period of time, Mo Hao's internal body temperature reached nearly 100 degrees, and the blood in his body was boiling.

The pain coming from his body made him frown. Although this level of pain was not as bad as the pain caused by multiple [Blood Burning], it also made him feel uncomfortable.

The steam rushed around in his body, trying to escape from Mo Hao's body.

But at this moment, Mo Hao activated the Golden Bell Cover technique, and relying on his strong body control, he forcibly closed his pores, and a blood-red bell-shaped energy emerged from his body.

The steam that was about to rush out of the body was forcibly pressed back.

Then Mo Hao felt a suction force begin to emerge in his body, absorbing all the high temperature inside his body and turning it into a warm current that slowly flowed throughout his body.

[Soul Furnace LV3 (0/1800): A forbidden magic that plunders the life force, blood, bone marrow, internal force, magic power and other energies from killing, and strengthens the recipient into a weapon of war that slaughters everything.]

[Remaining experience: 394]

The text description of the skill did not change much, except for the addition of [internal force, magic power and other energies], which made Mo Hao think.

He was basically certain that the higher the level of the [Soul Furnace], the more things he could gain through killing.

If this skill is upgraded to the maximum level, there is a very high probability that it will be able to plunder the souls of those killed.

Even though it is only at level 3 now, it has begun to plunder the extraordinary people's energy that is different from that of ordinary people.

However, there were no enemies now, so Mo Hao had no way to experience how the extra abilities of the LV 3 [Soul Furnace] worked. At this moment, Mo Hao looked to the other side of the room, his eyes filled with confusion.

Under Mo Hao's puzzled eyes, the phantom ghost slowly appeared and sat cross-legged on the ground.

It’s not that Huan Gui doesn’t want to stand up, but the houses in this village don’t allow Huan Gui to stand up completely. If he forces himself to stand up, Mo Hao will have to sleep looking at the moon tonight.

Because the roof will be pierced by the phantom.

The phantom ghost is different from the phantom ghost possessed by Arad Sword Shadow. Sword Shadow and the phantom ghost are two completely different consciousnesses, one alive and one dead, one man and one ghost.

The two are entangled with each other, competing with each other, and also cooperating with each other.

Looking at the process of Jianying becoming stronger, he was also making his own soul stronger step by step and maintaining a balance with the phantom ghost.

Even after the third awakening, humans began to change into ghosts, and ghosts also changed into the appearance of humans.

Mo Hao's phantom ghost is the other side of his soul. Rather than being an external consciousness, this phantom ghost is more like the most primitive and bestial Mo Hao, free from any moral, social, or human constraints.

This time, his appearance seemed to tell Mo Hao something.

Phantom Ghost opened his palm and stretched out his hand towards Mo Hao.

Looking at the palm that was bigger than his head, Mo Hao seemed to feel something. He slowly stretched out his hand, and the hands of the man and the ghost slowly put together.

Immediately afterwards, fire ignited on the ghost's body, but there was no temperature change in the room, and nothing was ignited.

Mo Hao felt as if he was falling into an icy cave. A cold wind came from nowhere and kept blowing on him, bringing a bone-chilling cold.

This feeling only lasted for a short time before the man and the ghost took their hands away.

Mo Hao found that his eyebrows were a little swollen, and at the same time he was very energetic, as if he had just had a deep sleep for eight hours.

The phantom ghost's illusory body now had a flesh-and-blood texture.

Mo Hao seemed to have some understanding, "The excess blood and energy in my body, or the Yang energy, has a tempering effect on you."

"And the yin energy and ghost energy in you also serve to train my spirit."

The connection between himself and the phantom ghost, and even the way they had tempered each other just now, were telling Mo Hao that the skill [Ghost Transformation] still had more mysteries that needed to be comprehended.

At the same time, he was very glad that when he had difficulty in making a choice, he directly asked Albert for help.

Otherwise, he might not be able to survive the first [Blood Burning].

……

The next day, Mo Hao gathered all the wolf riders at the village gate. The looks these wolf riders gave Mo Hao showed fear, obedience, but more of it was loyalty.

That is the loyalty that comes from surrendering to an enemy that is so terrifying that it is impossible to defeat it.

This loyalty is both strong and fragile.

Because as long as Mo Hao can continue to win, these wolf cavalrymen will be his most loyal swords.

Once Mo Hao fails, they will be the first wolf to retaliate.

(End of this chapter)