Douluo Continent: When Huo Yuhao Becomes the Lord of the End

Chapter 156 Second Awakening of a Gold-Level Martial Soul

Huo Yuhao's residence was next to his teacher, Du Busi, and the residences of the successive sect leaders of the Body Sect.

As a disciple of the sect leader's lineage, he naturally did not need to live with the outer and inner disciples.

Gu Yuena didn't care about anything. She now lived in the same courtyard as Huo Yuhao. Outsiders saw her with Huo Yuhao and, after being introduced by the sect leader Du Busi, knew that she was a disciple of the head of the Sun and Moon Bright Virtue Hall, so naturally they wouldn't say anything.

Speaking of Gu Yuena, since she recovered most of her injuries in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, she now trusts Huo Yuhao unconditionally.

She believed that Huo Yuhao could keep his promise and wanted to do her best to help him recover and grow.

Huo Yuhao has already told her that the next target is Shrek Academy, the number one academy on the continent, which contains the life core that can help her.

If she could obtain this item, the Dragon God's creation divine essence would completely merge with her, and her physical body would no longer have any possibility of disintegration.

By then, although her strength will not reach the level of a God-King, she will still have the strength of a Level One God. Coupled with the trump cards she holds, she will no longer need to be too wary of those people in the God Realm.

As for the life core, she has no doubt that Huo Yuhao can achieve it, as it is the result of the friendship built over the past year and the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Time just passed.

To help his disciple Huo Yuhao learn the secret techniques of the body body as soon as possible, Du Busi arranged an extremely detailed training plan for him.

Its core cultivation method still involves stimulating and activating the body's potential through extreme environments, combined with secret mental techniques, in order to achieve the level of awakening a golden-grade martial spirit.

To put it simply, the essence is still to help the body, martial spirit, and mind break through in a unified way, so that pressure becomes nourishment and desperate situations become opportunities.

Huo Yuhao has already achieved the second awakening of the first-level silver-grade main body martial soul, so the next gold-grade awakening may not necessarily be limited to the title of Douluo level.

The second awakening of a martial soul mainly depends on the soul master's mental and physical qualities, as well as whether the martial soul receives sufficient stimulation. Huo Yuhao's physical and mental strength are already comparable to most titled Douluo.

If you see anyone who can absorb a 100,000-year spirit ring with ease at the fifth spirit ring level, even a Title Douluo would not dare to challenge the 100,000-year level at the ninth spirit ring level.

Huo Yuhao's conditions are fully met to achieve the gold-level awakening of his original martial soul, but the stimulation or pressure on the martial soul is insufficient.

What Du Bu Si wants to do is to leverage the inherent advantages of the Body Sect's cultivation environment to help his disciple achieve this step, giving him sufficient stimulation and pressure.

As for what to do after completing the second awakening of the Gold-level Martial Soul, that's not the point. After all, there's still the cultivation of the Flawless Golden Body above the second awakening of the Gold-level Martial Soul. However, this realm only exists in theory, and none of the past sect leaders of the Body Sect have been able to achieve this step.

But anything is possible with human effort!

Poison Undying believed that his disciple could become a pioneer, the first to cultivate the secret technique of the body to the level of the flawless golden body, paving a new path for those who came after.

It was under these circumstances that Huo Yuhao was assigned to a high-intensity training mission with no rest time.

He didn't run, but the Body Sect had a variety of cultivation methods that gave martial souls stimulation and pressure, so there was bound to be one that suited him.

Water pressure training is a basic and mandatory program that most disciples of the Body Sect must undergo, and Huo Yuhao naturally cannot miss it.

The Body Sect specially arranged for several elders to take him to a deep ravine in the back mountain, where he would undergo water pressure training at a depth of a thousand meters underwater. At the same time, they would protect him and seal his soul power and blood.

Huo Yuhao was forced to withstand the water pressure and lack of oxygen using only his physical body for 3 hours every day.

This process will be combined with the 'Sea Breathing Technique' recorded in the Secret of the Body, allowing Huo Yuhao to breathe in and out at a specific frequency in the water, converting water pressure into energy that is beneficial to the tempering of internal organs.

Firstly, it enhances physical strength, and secondly, it improves physical qualities such as bone density and muscle resilience, accelerating the fusion of the physical body and one's own martial spirit.

After water pressure training, one must also undergo qi and blood control training.

Except for a small number of physical martial souls that involve the soul, the cultivation of qi and blood is essential for most physical martial souls.

Or rather, even for a martial soul that involves the soul itself, the cultivation of qi and blood is an essential part, let alone for Huo Yuhao.

The secret techniques of the body also record methods for cultivating qi and blood.

The specific method involves temporarily blocking the blood flow and using soul power to temporarily cut off blood circulation in the limbs. When the tissue is on the verge of necrosis, the blockage is instantly lifted, and this cycle is repeated to hone the cell regeneration ability.

Of course, this method is only applicable to Soul Masters who have already awakened their original Martial Soul once, and their own recovery speed must meet the requirements; otherwise, doing so is suicidal.

This is quite similar to the River Chariot Circulation Method in the Zhou Tian Gong of Huo Yuhao's previous world. It also requires guiding the Qi and blood to circulate along the great dragon of the spine in order to strengthen the linkage between the body's martial soul and meridians.

This process also involves medicinal baths and spiritual energy absorption. He soaks in a medicinal pool engraved with body-tempering runes, the liquid containing rare medicinal herbs such as dragon blood grass powder. Every day, the Body Sect supplies him with the highest quality dragon-attribute and spirit-attribute soul beast meat to stimulate his martial soul's activity. This is a privilege and resource unique to the sect leader's closed-door disciples.

The two cultivation methods mentioned above involve qi and blood, bones, muscles, and internal organs, respectively. In addition, there is also extreme physical training.

For example, Huo Yuhao endured a torment even more painful than running with a heavy load when the Body Sect spent a huge amount of money to build the gravity staircase using gravity meteorite iron.

He had to climb steep cliffs while bearing the weight of black iron dozens of times his own weight, all under the influence of gravity. During this process, he would also have to endure attacks, and even if he fell, he could only use one hand to grab the rock face to save himself. The purpose was to train his absolute control over his limbs.

This took the least amount of time, since his main spirit was his eyes, not other parts of his body, so he didn't need to have absolute control over his limbs.

However, spiritual cultivation is also essential, and is the most important part.

The Body Sect has produced Soul Masters whose Martial Soul is a Soul, so there is a special Martial Soul Mirror Chamber made of the skull and skeleton of a Soul Beast with a Spirit attribute.

This place suits him well. By sealing his mental perception, the Body Sect allows him to rely solely on the instincts of his Martial Soul to perform high-precision actions such as threading a needle and dodging dangerous attacks in a dark, mentally disruptive chamber, thus achieving zero delay in the transmission of his Martial Soul and nerves.

This means enhancing his mental instincts, allowing his mental strength to integrate with his physical body, so that even without projecting his mental strength outwards, he can still have a general sense of danger, which is known as Peter's scare.

The worst is the mental stimulation of the martial soul. The Body Sect has a special pain amplification technique that allows him to take special herbs to amplify his pain perception and keep him absolutely conscious when injured.

This really put Old Huo through the wringer. Under such immense pain, he also had to toughen up his mental resilience, making Old Huo, who originally thought he was just on vacation, exclaim "666" (a Chinese internet slang for "awesome").

Even if the poison doesn't kill him, Huo Yuhao will receive extra training every night after he finishes his cultivation.

He soaked his disciple's entire body in dragon blood and, in conjunction with his own secret techniques, patted 108 acupoints in a specific order to stimulate the activity of Huo Yuhao's body cells. At the same time, he used high-frequency vibrating soul power to hammer his disciple's muscle groups, so that the damage to the skin and the internal repair could proceed simultaneously, thus gradually achieving the state of 'indestructible golden body'.

Cultivation is cultivation, but you absolutely cannot leave any hidden injuries. You can say that these methods are self-torture, but the benefits are undeniable.

Of course, without the special soul power circulation and nourishment pathways of the Body Secret Technique and Body Meditation Method, all of this training would absolutely cause anyone who wanted to try it to suffer from mental exhaustion and organ failure.

And so another six months passed.

Throughout the entire process, Old Huo never uttered a single complaint, and his perseverance astonished countless disciples of the Body Sect.

Many people believe that Huo Yuhao, the sect leader's last disciple, has masochistic tendencies.

They weren't at the point where they could undergo a second awakening of their martial soul at the gold level, and their past training wasn't that exaggerated.

Seeing Huo Yuhao cultivate like this every day for half a year without uttering a sound, I was both impressed and utterly astonished.

Previously, many disciples of the Body Sect had reservations about Huo Yuhao, the suddenly appearing successor to the sect leader.

After all, you may be strong, but what your actual level is is mostly what people outside say; we don't really know.

Now her eyes have suddenly become clear.

They didn't even need to lift a finger. They couldn't even finish one of the training programs. Just by observing Huo Yuhao's daily training, they could guess his strength level.

That would definitely be enough to beat them up hundreds of times without any hesitation.

Moreover, not long ago, Huo Yuhao fought against Long Aotian, a young man who was invincible throughout the sect, and after his victory, all the discussions disappeared completely.

Just kidding, how about we give them a whole stack of sect leader successors who are incredibly talented, hardworking, and even defeated Long Aotian, the strongest of the younger generation?

Soul Masters worship the strong, and this is even more true of the Body Sect. Even though Huo Yuhao had single-handedly taken on the path of most of the elite disciples of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy before he replicated his past, the Body Sect disciples still absolutely respected him as their sect leader successor.

In the process of constantly tempering his martial soul, Huo Yuhao thoroughly refined the essence of the immortal herbs he had previously absorbed, and gained a more comprehensive and detailed understanding of his soul skills, soul power, and even his martial soul.

Only then did he fully grasp all his previous insights and make no mistakes.

The Body Sect's special awakening ceremony had stimulated Huo Yuhao's martial soul during this period, and also activated his bloodline power, giving his martial soul new characteristics.

With the help of his teacher, Poison Immortal, and the secret techniques passed down only within the sect leader's lineage, which were infused with the power of triple divine favor, his martial spirit strength increased several times over.

Another half month passed.

On this very day, Huo Yuhao, who had been cultivating for more than half a year using the Body Sect's secret techniques, finally achieved a second awakening of his Body Martial Soul, the Spirit Eye, at the Gold level, even though his strength had not yet grown to the level of a Title Douluo.

(End of this chapter)