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

Chapter 257 Soul Orb, Soul Armor, The Next Tournament (5K)

What kind of expression would you have if a pile of soul bones containing the bloodline of a true dragon and aged for hundreds of thousands of years were placed in front of you?
At this moment, Kong Deming, Du Busi, and Jing Hongchen, all top figures on the continent, have fully demonstrated this point.

Surprise, astonishment, disbelief, incredulity.
Quiet, quieter than ever before.

After the previous incident involving the immortal herb, Kong Deming's soul power level had reached level 96. Now, after this period of cultivation, he is just one step away from breaking through to level 97.

Jing Hongchen's own soul power level was level 95. He only absorbed the evolution and soul bone of the Golden Toad Embracing the Moon Lotus Immortal Grass that Huo Yuhao gave him, while the soul ring was given to Xuan Ziwen, resulting in limited improvement.

At this moment, it would be difficult for anyone to calm down.

A thought popped into everyone's mind: Could it be that Yuhao has robbed all the soul beasts that have died over the years?
Huo Yuhao's next words completely dispelled everyone's doubts. The existence of the Dragon Valley Small World, which was like a secret realm, had no need to hide anything.

Therefore, after learning the exact details, everyone could only sigh once again that Yuhao was the world's most beloved child, and there was no other explanation.

Kong Deming had previously absorbed a 100,000-year-old Longing for Autumn Sight skull and a 100,000-year-old Qiluo Tulip torso bone. Apart from these two soul bones that Huo Yuhao had prepared for his teacher, Kong Deming only had two arm soul bones left to fill the six soul bone slots.

Therefore, Huo Yuhao carefully selected two True Dragon Soul Bones that were primarily spiritual and also possessed light and fire attributes.

My teacher's poison-resistant level is already 99, which can be considered demigod.

This realm is a definition of the strength of powerful individuals who cannot become gods, based on the original route ten thousand years later. It can also be called a quasi-god. Quasi-gods are further divided into pseudo-demigods, demigods, and pseudo-gods according to their strength.

Among them, the pseudo-demigod can be seen as someone who has just entered the Limit Douluo realm. The level of demigod life has leaped, and the physical body has begun to be deified. The pseudo-god, under the different circumstances of the three levels of gods in the God Realm, is already close to the ultimate human achievement. The physical body and soul are both deified, and can crush the gods of the God Realm.

Huo Yuhao's idea was to take this opportunity to use the True Dragon Soul Bone to complete all the soul bones in his teacher, Du Busi, so that his teacher could enter the pseudo-god realm and become truly invincible among mortals.

By then, they would be no different from gods; all they would lack was the title of a god.

On his senior brother Xuan Ziwen's side, he was also generous with some true dragon soul bones of the mental type, as well as Dean Jing Hongchen.
He obtained countless true dragon soul bones in Dragon Valley. If it weren't for the fact that the true dragon remains were needed to complete the plane of the dead and allow the dragon bloodline to reappear in the new plane, thus strengthening the foundation of creation, he could have used these soul bones to build a powerful army.

Time passed, and Huo Yuhao lingered in the Hall of Offerings for a long time.

The two teachers and Jing Hongchen couldn't wait to finish their chores and go absorb these soul bones to enhance their own strength.

Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen reluctantly returned to the Hongchen family with their grandfather for the time being.

However, Huo Yuhao's senior brother, Xuan Ziwen, was not in a hurry. Now at level ninety-two, as a research fanatic, he had many things to discuss with Huo Yuhao.

For example, there's the research on soul armor, the soul bone inlay technology, and the soul orbs that have been updated and iterated several times in his hands, inspired by Huo Yuhao.

"Senior brother, let's talk as we walk."

Having been away for a long time, Huo Yuhao decided to take a leisurely stroll around the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

Xuan Ziwen had no objection. He knew his junior brother's talent best. He had been holding back some questions for a long time and wanted to have a good talk with his junior brother.

The main buildings of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy have now been replaced with silver-white metal alloy.

The soul-guided airships above the academy are gone, replaced by various flying machines of different shapes equipped with flight control systems. Even the main building, the symbol of the teaching department, with its pyramid structure, is suspended ten meters above the ground, maintaining its balance with the help of hundreds of level-six soul-guided levitation devices at its base.

The protective shield above the academy has been transformed into soul-guided glass with adjustable light transmittance. It can not only provide absolute protection against attacks below the Soul Saint level, but also refract energy ripples like iridescent aurora during the day-night cycle.

The water forging areas, which were originally set up with fountains throughout the academy, have completely disappeared. In their place are lathe manufacturing centers dedicated to helping soul tools with metal processing.

The least changed part is the core arrays embedded with energy-conducting metals in the academy's underground. However, in addition to building a transmission network for the soul power of the entire academy and ensuring the energy supply of the soul tools, these energy-conducting arrays now have another function: to detect and filter harmful metals.

In the artificial forest of the Riyue Academy Ecological Experimental Zone.

Many mechanical plants have leaves that are actually solar-powered soul guides, and various bionic soul guides are used for maintenance as they move among the canopies.

The lake in the center of the forest glows with a pale green fluorescence, a unique phenomenon resulting from the underwater soul-guided array filtering heavy metals.

Huo Yuhao and Xuan Ziwen were deeply moved as they watched these changes; this was the advantage of being a Soul Master.

It has a powerful driving force for technological progress. Whenever a brand-new soul tool appears, soul masters can apply it in a universal way, thereby promoting the development of the times.

"Yuhao, in the next period of time, do you want to try to break through to the ninth level Soul Master realm?"

Xuan Ziwen looked at Huo Yuhao expectantly. He knew that his junior brother had long been able to manufacture level eight soul tools, but he had never focused on level nine soul tools.

He agreed with Huo Yuhao's suggestion to first improve his soul power and mental strength before learning the vast and complex knowledge of a soul master.

However, he is now finding it difficult to continue. His energy is limited. He has to conduct research on soul armor, experiment with different metals and soul bones, and test the tolerance of different soul orbs to soul beasts. He is truly overwhelmed with work.

"Well, in the time to come, I will try to become a level nine Soul Master, and then completely perfect the Soul Bone Inlay Technique and Soul Armor Technique."

"Thank you for your help during this time, senior brother."

Although Xuan Ziwen was the mentor left to him by his teacher, Huo Yuhao understood that there were some things in the Soul Orb and Soul Armor that his senior brother would find difficult to comprehend.

For example, the core principle of the Soul Orb is necromancy, which is difficult to explain to my senior brother using the logic of the Douluo Continent.

Xuan Ziwen can construct the material of the soul orb using the properties of metal based on the attributes of different soul beasts, but he cannot understand the energy conversion principle after the soul beast becomes a soul spirit.

Even after studying it for so long, he still couldn't understand why the soul could be particle-like and simultaneously achieve a double superposition state in spatial logic, allowing the soul to coexist with the external entity and the internal particle-like data.

This is similar to using science to explain the laws of cultivation; the two are not creations within the same system.

After his senior brother Xuan Ziwen asked these questions, Huo Yuhao could only try his best to explain from the opposite perspective, such as the core array of the quantum resonator inside the soul sphere, the energy coating, and the inscription of the core array.

The current Soul Orb, or rather, the Soul Orb designed by Huo Yuhao and crafted by Xuan Ziwen, is now capable of bearing Soul Spirits with energy levels equivalent to ten thousand years.

However, there are still many shortcomings that need to be addressed. For example, there is a contradiction between material strength and energy backlash. Existing metals, without special treatment, make it difficult to guarantee that the soul sphere will not release attribute energy when it is subdued.

There's also a capture mechanism, involving a two-way authentication protocol at the mental link level.
Clearly, Xuan Ziwen couldn't handle these matters, so he simply took this opportunity to hand them all over to Huo Yuhao.

Compared to the Soul Orb, Xuan Ziwen has clearly done a deeper study on the inlay of metal into Soul Bones.

After becoming a level nine Soul Master, coupled with the Soul Bone and Soul Tool data left behind by the Mingde Hall and the Soul Bone Fusion and Forging Plans that Huo Yuhao gave him before leaving, he gained a new level of understanding of Soul Bone Inlay Technology.

If he had enough materials now, he could create a super-model soul tool that incorporates a 100,000-year-old soul bone.

It's important to know that Huo Yuhao's current work on soul bones and soul tools is only the Ice Soul Spirit Chain, which is fused with a ten-thousand-year-old soul bone.

It has to be said that Huo Yuhao was also somewhat surprised. His senior brother was indeed exceptionally talented in soul guidance research, and his research saved him a lot of time.

"Senior brother, you are truly a genius Soul Master. You will surely have a place in the history of Soul Masters."

Upon hearing the praise, Xuan Ziwen scratched his head shyly.

This was the first time he had heard praise from his peerless genius junior brother, and he felt somewhat embarrassed.

"I have always believed that soul tools are tools to drive human evolution. Yuhao, your brilliant ideas are different from all other paths in this world. In particular, soul spheres and soul spirits are a technological innovation for the future of soul tools, and a reshaping and subversion of the future development of soul tools."

"." Huo Yuhao waved his hand. He genuinely acknowledged his senior brother's abilities, so there was no need for any mutual flattery.

Having discussed the Soul Orb and Soul Bone Inlay Technique, the most crucial part is about to begin.

That's Soul Armor.

If the Soul Orb was a product Huo Yuhao used to drive change in the era, then the Soul Bone Inlay Technology laid the foundation for the emergence of Soul Armor.

From Huo Yuhao's initial assessment of the Soul Armor, it was clear that it could never achieve universality; no matter how it developed, it could only ultimately be the possession of top-tier powerhouses.

Why do you say that?

Because the Soul Armor adopts a symbiotic evolution path, this is the core architecture that Huo Yuhao set from the beginning.

This architecture is essentially based on the soul bone as the energy core, with the metal shell forming life characteristics through special technology, and then the two achieve bidirectional energy circulation through the soul power circuit.

In terms of evolution mechanism, soul bones need to be fused with compatible metals through soul bone inlay technology, relying on the primordial energy overflowing from the soul bone to gradually unlock higher-level attributes.

This means that Soul Armor requires Soul Masters to periodically inject the power of their Martial Soul's origin to cause the metal and Soul Bone to mutate synchronously, thereby achieving evolution. This naturally makes it lose its universality.

Without powerful soul force, it is impossible to achieve this. Moreover, the manufacture of soul armor requires powerful soul bones as materials. In this world, who can easily produce a 100,000-year-old soul bone? Let alone 100,000-year-old soul bones, it is difficult to even gather 10,000-year-old soul bones.

Therefore, the Soul Armor was merely a luxurious design by Huo Yuhao for himself to break through the limitations of the plane and achieve a full set of divine equipment. He had no intention of giving this product to anyone around him, because it was simply impossible.

Perhaps Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen could do it, since they possess fully equipped soul bones that they themselves have arranged, but no one else, and even the strongest humans for a long time to come, could possibly achieve such luxury.

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Soul Armor is not something that can be so easily judged. After all, Huo Yuhao's design for Soul Armor includes not only a symbiotic evolution path but also a modular integration system.

If we isolate the soul bone and retain the modular design of the interlocking system, using only metal, and then forging the metal to divide it into multiple energy nodes, each node independently encapsulates a replaceable metal module.

This still allows for dynamic self-enhancement. By forging metals with different properties, specific nodes can be locally enhanced, enabling targeted evolution and strengthening of defense or speed modules.

This not only allows for excellent risk control but also enhances one's own strength and prevents overall degradation. The metal at each node of the body is independent of each other, and each one is the energy center of the soul armor.

Doesn't it look a lot like the battle armor from ten thousand years later? It does look very similar, but it has abandoned the step of fusing the martial soul with the metal mimicry.

In other words, without the restrictive process of metal forging, one can simply design a metal that is compatible with one's own martial soul, use the metal shell to simulate the form of the martial soul, and then use the origin of one's own martial soul to gradually reshape the microstructure of the metal, control the metal with soul skills, strengthen the martial soul and abilities, and achieve perfect compatibility.

That's not what Huo Yuhao needs to worry about right now. His goal is to first fuse his own soul bone with the metals he obtained to create a soul armor that can evolve with him.

As mentioned before, Xuan Ziwen has already pushed the soul bone inlay technology to the level of 100,000-year soul bones. What Huo Yuhao needs to do next is to take it a step further on this basis.

He allowed the soul bones fused into his body, as well as the metals obtained from the Dragon Valley Small World, to completely integrate with himself through a symbiotic evolution path and a modular chimera system.

This will definitely involve Elder Yi's necromancy. Only a soul armor made from his entire soul bone, fused with countless rare metals and linked to necromancy abilities, will be able to meet his needs.

Perhaps one day, his soul armor will be able to evolve to the level of a super artifact, or even go further.

Unbeknownst to them, the two had already arrived at the research department of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

The scenery here is different from that of the teaching department; it's more technologically advanced and the atmosphere is more tranquil.

However, no matter where he went, many people within the academy frequently looked towards him.

Huo Yuhao's fame is not just because he is the number one genius of the Sun Moon Empire. His outstanding appearance and past achievements make him even more renowned and respected than Xu Tianran, the crown prince of the Sun Moon Empire.

Of course, there is another important factor involved.

That is, the next Continental Soul Master Tournament is about to be held, and the venue for this tournament is Mingdu, the capital of the Sun Moon Empire.

This competition is of extraordinary significance, as it not only allows sects to participate but also permits the Three Kingdoms Academy forces and sect forces to combine their efforts to participate.

Clearly, after Shrek Academy's demise, the Sun Moon faction no longer takes any of the Three Kingdoms' opponents seriously.

At the same time, this is also the last transition of the political situation between Sun Moon and the Three Kingdoms. Everyone knows that after the carnival of this continent-wide Soul Master Competition ends, the war between Sun Moon and the Three Kingdoms could break out at any time.

The Sun and Moon Kingdoms wanted to crush the morale of the Three Kingdoms in this tournament, while the Three Kingdoms Kingdoms shared the same idea, preparing to avenge their defeat and inspire the people's confidence in the tournament a few months later.

Huo Yuhao, as the most watched genius of Sun Moon Academy, is not even eighteen years old this year, and can be said to carry the hopes of countless people in Sun Moon Academy.

In the eyes of all Sun Moon people, Huo Yuhao played a crucial role last time, knocking Shrek Academy down from its pedestal in the All-Continent Soul Master Competition in Star Luo City. Now, five years later, he will surely continue his previous glory.

Aside from those around him, no one truly knows Huo Yuhao's current strength, but the people of Sun Moon and the students of the Royal Academy all have complete trust in him.

Even Xuan Ziwen couldn't help but say something.

"Yuhao, it seems the Empire is planning to appoint you as captain to lead the academy's team in the Continental Soul Master Tournament a few months from now."

Upon hearing this, Xuan Ziwen couldn't help but laugh.

My junior brother is representing the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and Sun Moon in the competition. No matter how you look at it, it seems like using a soul-guided cannon to kill a mosquito.

Huo Yuhao remained noncommittal. The Continental Soul Master Tournament?
He has absolutely no interest in these baby cup-like competitions right now.

The royal family of Sun and Moon must also know that by having him participate, Sun and Moon will be 100% guaranteed to win the championship. Their purpose is simply to use his presence to stimulate Sun and Moon's strong public opinion and self-confidence.

Seeing that Huo Yuhao wasn't interested, Xuan Ziwen spoke again.

"It's just a title. Everyone knows what you represent, Yuhao. When the competition comes, all you need to do is lead the team. As for whether you fight or not, that's entirely up to you."

Huo Yuhao nodded, making sure he had a safety net in case of any uncontrollable accidents. It has to be said that the royal family, or rather Xu Tianran, was indeed very cautious.

If the other party knew the strength of Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen now, perhaps they wouldn't have such thoughts.

Even without his senior brother from his own Body Sect leading the sect in the competition, Xiao Hongchen could easily dominate the entire arena, given the strength of the academies and sects in the Three Kingdoms.

For a titled powerhouse like myself to participate in the Baby Cup is truly a loss of face and a bit too much of a bullying move.

However, he did understand the thoughts of the Sun and Moon side.

With his own strength evident, when he reaches that age and his abilities begin to emerge, it will inevitably cause a sensation, which will have an immeasurable impact on the prestige of the Sun and Moon and the confidence of the people.

"Let's talk about it then."

Leaving behind an ambiguous answer, Huo Yuhao thought of Long Aotian.

My senior brother might be interested in this. Ever since I gave him the immortal herb last time, I wonder what his strength is now.

I heard he's at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy now. I'll go see him later and give him the True Dragon Soul Bone I've prepared.

(End of this chapter)