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

Chapter 236 Soul Bone Skills, Planning, Rare Metals (4K)

As the strongest defensive being among the nine dragon kings and the dragon race, the mountain dragon king's torso bones naturally provided Huo Yuhao with ultimate defense and the laws of the earth.

One of the soul bone skills of the Mountain Dragon King's torso is called [Dragon Vein Suppressing Prison], an ultimate defensive soul skill. Its active effect is to use the great dragon of the spine as its root, linking with the earth veins to obtain a continuous source of power to replenish itself.

During this period, he is continuously immune to all physical attacks. At the same time, depending on the size of the ley lines, the strength of the attacks that can be triggered by the laws of the earth varies. Each additional ley line adds another layer of earth properties to him, doubling his defense, up to a maximum of nine layers.

In theory, as long as there are enough ley lines, his power will never run out.

While using this soul skill, one is not only immune to all physical attacks, but also triggers a passive ability when attacked by non-physical attacks, generating a phantom of the Mountain Dragon King. Based on the amount of ley lines, the damage received is transferred to the ley lines in a corresponding proportion.

Another soul skill is called [Immortal Dragon Soul]. The effect of the soul skill is very simple. It is the same as the second-stage derivative skill of the Water and Fire Dragon King Soul Bone. It allows him to use the power of the earth veins to continuously replenish the power of the Mountain Dragon King's torso bones and summon the phantom of the Mountain Dragon King to assist in the battle.

During this period, the damage he causes is absolutely real, and once marked by the Dragon Soul, the target cannot use any healing abilities.

Huo Yuhao wasn't as excited as he had imagined. These soul bone skills might still be useful now, but in the future they would definitely only be used as derivative skills.

Having grasped the meaning of what he had learned, Huo Yuhao rose to his feet, still feeling a sense of enlightenment.

His body is now comparable to that of a true dragon. According to his guess, not to mention the laws, his physical strength alone should be comparable to those second-level gods in the God Realm, and the latter do not have his immortal regenerative ability.

At the same time, with the absorption of the Mountain Dragon King's torso bone, the number of soul bones on his body has reached seven.

Among them, four external soul bones are the Eye of Annihilation, the Wings of the Ice God, the Emerald Scorpion Tail, and the Ice Silkworm Remains of Tianmeng. Of the six soul bones in the body, two arm soul bones and one torso bone are all from the Dragon King's dragon bones.

If no suitable external soul bone is found in the future, then the only soul bone slots left on his body will be his skull and the two leg bones.

"It's time to put the design of the Soul Armor on the agenda."

At this point, the soul bones in several major parts of the body are almost replenished. So, based on the soul bones of each part of the body, we can then connect with necromancy to strengthen them again, and it's time to begin the process of achieving the goal of having a full set of divine equipment in the later stages.

While the Dragon God's Heart and the Tower of Eternity are certainly good, it's the unique artifacts that you can use with greater ease.

In the original route, the technology used in the level 12 soul-guided bomb ten thousand years later, namely the technology called the single-source core cyclic array, is a good choice.

In addition, his modular integration technology and soul bone embedding technology are more than enough to support his subsequent research.

Once these technologies mature, he can use anything from god-level soul armor to interstellar warships—things that don't belong to this era—to achieve a major technological explosion in Douluo Star.

Moreover, with his current level of mental strength, he doesn't need to use things like Soul Forging or Heaven Forging, which sound impressive but are actually useless.

The reason why blacksmiths, divine craftsmen, and holy craftsmen still exist ten thousand years after the original route is simply because Tang Hao possessed the will of the plane and promoted the continuation of the Douluo Star professions according to his preferences.

Even if Tang Hao were to be constantly devoured and replenished by the Douluo plane, and even if he were to actually possess the plane's will, Huo Yuhao would absolutely not allow him to forge iron.

He could have used his mental power and metal control to shape and summon metal with this soul skill in the undead demiplane, or in the current Dragon Valley small world, since the plane rules don't apply here.

Not to mention that the entire plane's will favors him now, and what he wants to do is what the entire Douluo Star wants to do.

Even if he wanted to reshape the cultivation system of this world, the entire Douluo Continent would embrace him and support him without reservation.

However, these things cannot be accomplished overnight. The battle armor in the original route was designed based on Huo Gua's semi-divine artifact, the Ice Extreme God Armor, and it took a long time to develop.

What he needs to do, besides redesigning the energy closed-loop design from scratch, is to design a special array structure to transform soul power or life energy into a continuous power source, forming a self-circulating system.

In this way, the limitations of the original route, which required the machinery to continuously devour soul-forged metal ten thousand years later, are no longer needed. This is enough to break through the narrow view that traditional soul tools rely on external charging and achieve internal regeneration and efficient utilization of energy.

If the goal is to achieve universal compatibility of power sources, then this technology can serve as a core element, laying the foundation for the future development and application of eco-warships, as well as for life-driven machinery.

Even if it's extended to derivatives, whether it's implanting a single source core into a living organism to replace life energy, achieving human body modification, and enabling the living organism to gain life abilities beyond the limits, or limb-mounted mechanical exoskeletons and prosthetics, it will be enough to allow the world's technology to achieve an explosive leap forward.

Furthermore, with the development of the times, whether it is the Soul Beast Master and Soul Spirit he was going to introduce, or the current Soul Master profession, they will inevitably be refined. This is a trend that any field will inevitably experience when it develops to a certain extent.

The current knowledge system of Soul Masters is too extensive and complex. With limited energy, it is difficult for one person to concentrate all their efforts on cultivating all areas. Dividing a main branch into smaller sub-branches is more conducive to the development of the times and allows people to go further.

Besides technology, the development of ideology and the rule of law are also essential for the progress of the Douluo World.

Although the current Sun and Moon follows a technological path, it is still fundamentally a feudal monarchical state, and its ideology and rule of law will inevitably advance along with technological progress.

There's a saying that goes, "The progress of productivity affects the superstructure." And with a superstructure like the Sun and Moon now, it will inevitably affect or even hinder the progress of productivity in the future, which is something Huo Yuhao doesn't want to see.

On Douluo Star, it's not a matter of "Are kings and nobles born with special privileges?" Because of the existence of martial spirits, which major sect or noble family has a history of thousands or tens of thousands of years? All of these need to be reformed.

Shrek Academy is gone, but the four great empires still stand before us like mountains. The conflict between righteous and evil soul masters has subsided with the destruction of the Holy Spirit Cult, but where there is light, there is bound to be darkness, and we cannot be complacent about such matters.

Having addressed the immediate issues, there are still more distant ones to resolve. Among them, the two most important matters are the conflict between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts. He has already put this on his agenda. The Soul Spirit Technique and Soul Orbs can resolve most of the superficial conflicts, but the underlying root cause cannot be resolved, and Huo Yuhao has no intention of resolving it at its root.

Secondly, there's the conflict with the God Realm. This conflict isn't with the gods themselves, nor does he intend to be an enemy of the entire God Realm—that's completely unnecessary. The crux of the matter lies in his relationship with that nobody, which is destined to be a fight to the death. The reason is simple: that nobody went to great lengths to scheme against his fortune, as well as the fortune of Douluo Star, trying to ensnare him, even going so far as to set up so many obstacles. If he didn't kill that nobody, it would truly be unreasonable.

He also sealed half of his daughter's soul, and also had control over his mother Ah Yin's soul. Furthermore, he allowed Tang Hao to be absorbed as nourishment by the Douluo Continent. At this point, he didn't think that narrow-minded guy could tolerate it.

Then it becomes clear that one of the two must die.

As one of the five great god-kings of the God Realm, Xiao Bie San has the support of gods like Dai Mubai and Oscar who ascended with him. When he has a conflict with Tang San, these guys will definitely help Tang San. In this way, he will inevitably have to face other gods.

Despite the fact that Destruction and Tang San, the Sea God, don't get along, Huo Yuhao himself doesn't believe that sacrificing a current God-King level fighter in exchange for the friendship of an unknown guy like him would be worthless.

Therefore, he will definitely face the targeting of most of the gods in the God Realm, unless he can expose everything Tang San has done. But even so, according to the rules of the God Realm, a nobody like him will not be punished much.

What he wanted was to kill that scoundrel. Once the latter knew what he had done on Douluo Star, he would definitely make the same choice.

Fortunately, he now has more leverage. The only thing he lacks is strength. However, as long as the little scoundrel goes down to the lower realms regardless of the consequences, he can quickly make up for this only weakness given enough time.

At that time, the balance of power will truly shift.

Having decided what to do next, he was no longer willing to waste any more time.

Outside, Gu Yuena was absorbing all the dragon souls to recover her strength, which would obviously take a long time. Huo Yuhao decided to first gather the remains of these dragons in preparation for arranging them into the undead plane.

Although Yu Qiu'er only absorbed some weak dragon souls, due to the sheer number of them, her strength had already reached level 86. She no longer needed to absorb soul rings, so there were no limitations on her strength.

If my guess is correct, this trip to Dragon Valley should be enough to raise Yu Qiu'er's strength to level 90.

He was the transformed form of an imperial auspicious beast. His original lifespan was only 15,000 years, but it was increased to more than 20,000 years through the fusion of his fate with Huo Yuhao. Even when his strength was only more than 10,000 years, it was enough to rival that of an ordinary 100,000-year-old soul beast.

At this point, with his strength reaching level ninety, he naturally cannot be described using the argument of the age of a soul beast.

She possesses both ultimate fire and ultimate light attributes, and with the power of destiny, even a 200,000-year-old ferocious beast should not be her match. Her strength is enough to rival a level 98 Super Douluo.

Seeing that the two women were absorbing the dragon souls as quickly as possible, Huo Yuhao naturally couldn't be idle either. He collected the dragon remains while constantly wandering inside the Dragon Valley Small World.

He knew that the Heart of the Dragon God must be in the Dragon Valley Small World, but the exact location was unclear. However, after exploring, he felt that the most mysterious place was the valley within a valley.

It is also the place where the remains of the Dragon God and the last wisp of the Dragon God's soul are located.

In addition to the dragon clouds and the dragon souls and remains of the dragon race in the dragon tombs that have already been seen, there are also many rare metal deposits in Dragon Valley that have never been seen on Douluo Star.

In the original route, ten thousand years later, after Tang Wulin gained recognition, the nine-colored stone, condensed with the will of the dragon race as its carrier, along with the remains and true blood of the dragon race, nourished the land, forming an energy crystal vein over countless years.

Without damaging the core of the items, Huo Yuhao packed them all into the Starlight Ring, a storage soul tool.

The value of these items cannot be measured in gold soul coins. Any one of them would undoubtedly be snapped up by soul masters outside, as they are all rare metals used to make the most advanced soul tools.

Huo Yuhao was originally worried that he might not have enough resources to create his own divine artifact-level soul armor by fusing his soul bones and rare metals into one. But now he doesn't need to worry about that at all.

The ores and metals formed from these dragon remains and the true blood of the dragons of yesteryear are enough to support him in adding soul armor to his entire soul bone body in the future, so he will never have to worry about metals and materials again.

Moreover, due to the dragons' robust physique and the nurturing they have undergone over countless years, most of these metals also possess the characteristics of different dragon races.

For example, there is a semi-transparent metal that does not exist on Douluo Star, but which Huo Yuhao named Dragon Crystal Gold. Upon sensing it, not only is its conduction efficiency frighteningly high, but because the metal absorbed the blood of the Space Dragon King, it even has the added spatial folding properties.

There is also Dragon Breath Silver, which was formed by absorbing the true blood of the Water and Fire Dragon Kings who fell from the divine realm. It can withstand extremely low temperatures without damaging its internal molecular structure, and its ability to withstand extremely high temperatures is frighteningly high.

In addition, there is Dragon Pattern Steel, which weighs only one-third of the lightest metal on Douluo Star, but its strength is twice that of the strongest metal. It also has metal memory and can recover on its own after being damaged.

Dragon Marrow Gold, Star Spiral Silver, Fire Iron, Golden Copper, and Thousand Machine Jade are all rare and top-grade metals that do not exist on Douluo Star, or have not yet been discovered.

Even the deepest hidden metals in this small world were all collected by Huo Yuhao under his extraordinary detection and perception, turning them into the foundation for his future creation of divine equipment.

"In this way, we will never have to worry about metal again."

The potential of the Dragon Valley Minor World is clearly not limited to this, but Huo Yuhao knows that the entire Dragon Valley World will eventually become the foundation for him to create a brand new world, just like the Undead Demiplane. Therefore, he decides to stop while he's ahead.

His actions, along with Gu Yuena's continuous devouring of these dragon souls, finally alarmed the remnant soul of the dragon god deep within Dragon Valley.

Suddenly, the entire Dragon Valley world trembled violently, as if something was awakening beneath the earth.

"Hmph, just a remnant soul, something that only has instincts and no consciousness of its own, yet it thinks it's a dragon god."

Huo Yuhao dared not delay. Although the remnant soul's strength was average, Gu Yuena and Yu Qiu'er could not be disturbed at this moment. It was time to deal with this guy and then obtain the Dragon God's Heart, this super artifact.

(End of this chapter)