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

Chapter 172: All Members Upgraded, Epic Enhancement
A few days later.

The help of the immortal herb is indeed enormous. Although its effect on improving soul power is limited for a level 60 Soul Emperor, its benefits in improving aptitude are absolutely undeniable.

A 100,000-year-old soul ring and soul bone can also make up for the shortcomings in soul power enhancement and fill this gap.

Following Huo Yuhao's instructions, Meng Hongchen absorbed the essence of Xuanbing and the spiritual dew. With Huo Yuhao's help, she raised her ice attribute to its peak. The Narcissus Jade Bone provided her with a 100,000-year soul ring and soul bone.

With the added boost from the immortal herb itself, Meng Hongchen's soul power surged to level 67 in this wave of power.

Not only have her attributes been upgraded to the extreme, but her aptitude has also been greatly improved. It can be said that her talent is now on a smooth and worry-free path to the limit.

Besides Meng Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen's soul power and aptitude also improved significantly. In addition to that immortal herb, Huo Yuhao also selected an immortal herb essence for him. After absorbing the immortal herb and soul rings and soul bones, his soul power level reached level sixty-six.

He was naturally one level lower than his sister Meng Hongchen in terms of soul power, since he didn't have the 70,000-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion left arm bone, nor did he have the Xuanbing Essence, a divine herb essence that was extremely suitable for ice-attribute soul masters.

As for Ji Juechen, his improvement was the least. After absorbing the essence of the immortal herb, his soul power level only increased by two levels. This was because he did not fuse with the immortal herb's 100,000-year soul ring and soul bone.

Of course, more importantly, it's because most of the immortal herbs' abilities are applied to their aptitude and martial spirit.

Therefore, after this round of enhancement, the soul power levels of the individuals are as follows.

Huo Yuhao remained a level 68 Soul Emperor, Meng Hongchen a level 67 Soul Emperor, Xiao Hongchen a level 66 Soul Emperor, and Ji Juechen a level 65 Soul Emperor, descending in a step-like manner.

As for Gu Yuena, she is not a reference point, as her soul power level changes constantly along with Huo Yuhao's level.

The 100,000-year-old soul rings and soul bone skills are even more powerful. Xiao Hongchen's two 100,000-year-old soul ring skills and soul bone skills are as follows.

The first soul skill of the 100,000-year-old, thousand-times-forged golden vine: Unbreakable Barrier.

Xiao Hongchen summoned nine golden vines inscribed with runes from the ground to form a defensive array. With his current strength, each vine pillar could withstand one soul power attack that was no more than twenty levels higher than his own.

When the vine pillar is shattered, it will burst forth with 'golden spikes', which will deal counter-damage to the attacker without ignoring defense, and friendly units within the formation will gain a 30% increase in metal resistance.

Second Soul Skill: Golden Toad Devours the Sky.

Summon a giant golden toad phantom to devour all metal within range, including the metallized parts of enemy martial souls and even soul masters, converting them into temporary soul power reserves. If the target's soul power is lower than your own, directly deprive them of 30% of their current soul power.

The left leg bone of a thousand-year-old, thousand-times-forged golden vine.

First Soul Bone Skill: Golden Toad with Ten Thousand Ren.

The absorbed metal is condensed into tens of thousands of miniature golden blades, forming a continuously rotating metal storm. Each blade is equipped with 'armor-piercing' and 'soul power corrosion' effects. A gravity trap can be generated at the center of the storm, combining crowd control and continuous damage.

Second Soul Bone Skill: Burning Gold.

Actively burning soul bone energy triples all attributes for a certain period of time, but leaves the user in a weakened state after the event ends.

When receiving fatal damage, the Soul Bone Substitute passive skill is automatically triggered, granting immunity to the fatal damage at the cost of shattering one of one's own Soul Bone.

The two 100,000-year soul skills and soul bone skills of Meng Hongchen's Narcissus Jade Muscle and Bone are as follows.

The first soul ring skill of the 100,000-year-old Narcissus Jade Bone and Skin is Beauty Corrosion.

The effect is that it can condense the deadly poison into a cinnabar-like mist, causing those infected to fall into a 'drunken dream' state, while indiscriminately attacking surrounding units. Furthermore, the poison will absorb the target's soul power and feed it back to Meng Hongchen.

If the target dies from this skill, their corpse will become a secondary source of poison explosion.

The second soul skill after 100,000 years: Ice and Fire Twins.

The effect of this soul skill is that Zhu Qingbing Toad can release dual-attribute soul power of ice and fire simultaneously, with the extreme ice attribute as the main element, guiding the fire attribute to form an interwoven energy torrent.

When the Soul Skill touches the target, the clash between ice and fire detonates, causing an elemental annihilation effect that deals true damage in an area and inflicts both cold and fire poison. This double continuous damage cannot be dispelled by normal attacks.

Narcissus Jade Muscles and Bones, Right Arm Bone.

The first soul bone skill in 100,000 years, Ice Skin and Jade Bones.

Under this Soul Bone skill, daffodil patterns appear on the right arm, which can instantly release a thousand ice crystal poison needles, each containing both ice and fire poison.

Upon impact, it causes a meridian and soul power freeze effect for 15 seconds. Due to the extreme ice attribute, the enemy's movement speed is reduced by 70%, and an ice and fire explosion damage is triggered every 3 seconds.

At the same time, the needle's shadow trail will leave behind a jade-bone cold mist, which will slow down the opponent for 10 seconds.

The second soul bone skill after 100,000 years: Immortal Bone Meridian Opening. The effect is that under this soul bone skill, the right arm transforms into a semi-transparent jade state, unleashing two spiraling, intertwined ice and fire tornadoes. Wherever the tornadoes pass, they leave behind extreme ice crystals, causing the soul power of those who touch them to be disrupted, and indiscriminately delaying the enemy's skill release for 10 seconds.

At the same time, this Soul Bone Skill has a buffing effect. When Meng Hongchen is within the range of the ice crystal, his movement speed is increased by two times and he gains a 20% damage reduction.

Aside from a few individuals, people like Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming also underwent significant changes.

Kong Deming refined the essence of the immortal herbs one after another, attaching the spirit rings and spirit bones of the immortal herbs to his second martial soul. With the help of the Qiluo Tulip Immortal Herb, as well as the 100,000-year spirit ring and spirit bone it generated, and the effect of the 100,000-year Longing for Autumn Skull Bone, his soul power increased by two levels, making him a peak Super Douluo of level ninety-six.

They are only one step away from reaching level 97.

Because of that skull that had been waiting for ten thousand years, his spiritual power had also been greatly enhanced. Not only his own soul power, but also his spiritual power had changed dramatically, and the research on level ten soul tools was no longer a problem.

Not only that, the Qiluo Tulip Fairy Herb also produced a torso bone, greatly enhancing Kong Deming's physical fitness.

The reason why I didn't add a spirit ring to my second spirit, the Sun, in the past was because my physical strength was insufficient. After all, adding spirit rings to twin spirits requires extremely strong physical qualities to support it; otherwise, the spirit master would explode and die due to the energy conflict of the spirit rings.

This 100,000-year-old torso bone has arrived at an exceptionally timely time.

In addition to the effects of the immortal herb and the boost from breaking through to level 96, it is certain that the path ahead has been completely opened for Kong Deming, leading him directly to level 98 or even level 99, the Ultimate Douluo.

After absorbing a celestial herb, Jing Hongchen's improvement wasn't as dramatic as Kong Deming's. After all, he didn't have twin martial souls, so the 100,000-year-old celestial herb's soul ring was useless to him. Only the 100,000-year-old soul bone could help him.

Therefore, Jing Hongchen gave his 100,000-year soul ring to Xuan Ziwen, and then absorbed the soul bone and essence produced by the 100,000-year Golden Toad Embracing the Moon Lotus, and also swallowed the immortal herb.

His soul power has also increased from level 94 to level 95, and he is only one step away from level 96.

The Super Douluo realm can be considered an insurmountable chasm that limits most of the top Soul Masters in the Sun Moon Sect.

Only by breaking through this realm can one be considered to have entered the ranks of top-tier Soul Masters.

Previously, Sun Moon was inferior to the original Douluo Three Kingdoms and Shrek Academy because of a lack of high-end combat power. It could only rely on the soul tools in the hands of soul masters to form a strategic deterrent.

Now, with the breakthroughs of Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen, Sun Moon Sect is no longer a weak point in terms of high-end combat power. In fact, once Kong Deming stabilizes and consolidates his realm, Sun Moon Sect alone will be able to deal with several Limit Douluo in terms of high-end combat power.

This is neither alarmist nor boastful.

In the original route, Kong Deming, possessing a level 10 soul tool, the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield, was able to suppress two Limit Douluos, Xuanzi and Ye Xishui. Now that his soul power has reached level 96, and may even reach level 97 or 99 in the future, how exaggerated will that be?

Then, as long as he spends some more time honing his skills at the level 10 Soul Master realm, he can rely on his status to acquire several level 10 Soul Tools. With several level 10 Soul Tools in his possession, the original Douluo Three Kingdoms and Shrek Academy simply cannot defeat him.

And then there's Jing Hongchen; he might very well become a level 10 Soul Master in the future.
Let's talk about Xuan Ziwen. Although he is still far from being a level 10 Soul Master, his Soul Power has reached level 92 after absorbing the immortal herb and the 100,000-year Soul Ring.

Even if the Golden Toad Embracing the Moon Lotus wasn't the most suitable soul ring for him, a 100,000-year-old soul beast was enough to make up for any shortcomings in his attributes. Moreover, Xuan Ziwen wasn't just a soul master in the traditional sense, but a pure soul mentor.

He already possessed the knowledge reserves of a level nine soul master, and now soul power is no longer an obstacle restricting him. Sun Moon will obviously have another high-end combat force reserve soon.

In conclusion, all of Huo Yuhao's elders and friends have received epic-level enhancements.

The next step is to consider preparing for Shrek's Golden Tree, which is the core of life.

His preferred time is before the next All-Continent Soul Master Tournament begins, but before that, he plans to cultivate first, further enhance his soul power, and raise his Soul Master level.

Research on the fusion of soul bones and soul tools, research on necromancy and soul tools, and the study of necromancy can all be put on the agenda in the next few years.

Mingde Hall Research Room.

Huo Yuhao hasn't been idle during this time either. While everyone else is strengthening their skills, he is working on his fifth-level Soul Master project.

With soul skills such as mental puppetry and mental detection sharing, as well as a spiritual power that has reached the point of being tangible yet intangible, his level of learning soul guidance knowledge is incredibly fast.

However, Huo Yuhao always felt that he had overlooked something.

what is it then?

At the same time, a certain auspicious beast in the Star Dou Great Forest rolled over out of boredom and lazily yawned.

Beneath her, there still lay a strangely long golden spear.

Inside, a faint soul was struggling, seemingly merging with the auspicious beast on its body. Everything was so quiet and silent.

(End of this chapter)