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

Chapter 296 The Invisible Hand Controls Everything (4K)

This time, Huo Yuhao did not refuse to absorb the soul bone as he had done before.

Given Di Tian's strength and bloodline, the resulting soul bone is still qualified for him to absorb.

The left leg bone is another soul bone of a pure-blooded dragon, and after the previous absorption and fusion, its age has exceeded the 900,000-year mark, infinitely approaching one million years.

This is another pure-blooded dragon soul bone that Huo Yuhao has absorbed, following the left and right arm soul bones of the Water and Fire Dragon King and the torso bone of the Mountain Dragon King.

Although it offers limited help to his strength, and Huo Yuhao doesn't even care about soul bone skills, it is an indispensable part of perfecting his full-body soul armor.

Of all the soul bones produced by Di Tian on the entire Douluo Star, these are among the few soul bones that he can accept now.

After absorbing the left leg bone produced by Di Tian, ​​he now only has his right leg bone left to be replaced in his entire body of soul bones.

However, he had already made a suitable choice. It was not Xiong Jun, but the Demon Emperor, the being in the deep sea who hated the little scoundrel.

The person whose husband was killed by that scoundrel will be his ninth soul spirit. At that time, he will give this person a chance to take revenge, uh, a very reasonable exchange.

However, by contracting with the Crimson King, Bi Ji, and other ferocious beasts, the soul bones in his hands became even more unpredictable.

Adding to what he obtained from the Lake of Life, as well as those from Dragon Valley and Shrek Academy, he has now become a Soul Bone Collector.

Let alone the Three Kingdoms and the Sun and Moon, even the entire Douluo Continent combined probably doesn't have as many high-quality soul bones as he does.

Forget it, let's give some of it to Meng Hongchen and the others later. Besides, these can serve as the foundation for building our power in the future, benefiting future generations.

Thinking about this, Huo Yuhao felt that he still needed to modify the mechanism rules for the generation of soul bones.

Otherwise, given human greed, even with the Soul Spirit Technique, it would be difficult to guarantee that some Soul Beast Masters wouldn't hunt down Soul Beasts relentlessly for Soul Bones.

However, he also knew that such things could not be completely eliminated. Even without soul bones, there would still be humans who would do evil for other things on soul beasts.

He could only do his best to ensure that the Soul Master system was buried in the dustbin of history, so that the world could become more fair and equal, and conflicts could be minimized.

The rest has little to do with him.

Meanwhile, in Mingdu.

Did you hear that bell?

He stared at Vina for a long time, his face bearing an indescribable complex expression.

Indeed, the sound of the Twin Flowers' bells was no longer confined to one place, but had spread throughout the entire continent.

Vina nodded. Of course, they knew who the bell was from. It could be said that hearing this bell, full of a sense of destiny, meant that the man's strength had increased by one point.

They didn't know why they had this feeling, but they just subconsciously thought so.

That man was simply too mysterious, both in terms of his rapidly increasing strength and the bell that rang out each time, striking the deepest part of a person's heart.

Moreover, this time was different from the previous times they knew about. This time it was even more irresistible, as if the level of life was suppressed under this bell.

"Do you think that the meteorite that fell in Mingdu before, as well as the several strange events in the world before, were all Huo Yuhao's doing?"

With their current strength, they are not yet capable of sensing changes in the dimensional realm, but as princesses, they can learn some details from the powerful figures around them.

This includes powerful individuals with titles or higher, whose life levels have changed, and whose lifespans have increased.

The strange bell tolling, the changes in the Sun and Moon Sect and the Body Sect, the inexplicable celestial phenomena in Mingdu, and the dazzling genius that had not appeared in tens of thousands of years—it was truly difficult for them not to connect all of this with Huo Yuhao.

Vina shook her head blankly, but she was already certain in her heart that all of this was inextricably linked to Huo Yuhao.

Thinking back to how she and Jiu Jiu had planned to use information about deities from the Three Kingdoms period to gain Huo Yuhao's support, she felt utterly ashamed.

No wonder he rejected them so decisively; it turns out that from beginning to end, in Huo Yuhao's eyes, they were nothing more than clowns.

"I do not know."

Hearing this answer, Xu Jiujiu didn't care, after all, she knew Vina's personality well.

Furthermore, given that this woman had so brazenly made promises to Huo Yuhao in front of him, she wasn't expecting to hear anything bad about Huo Yuhao from Vina.

Like herself, she was not taken seriously by that person at all. Although she tried her best to obtain more information about Huo Yuhao, all she knew were the well-known facts.

The core information about that person has long been sealed off by the Sun and Moon faction. Not to mention them, even the Sun and Moon royal family probably only knows a limited amount.

At this moment, Vina seemed to have thought of something, looked at Xu Jiujiu, and asked.

"Jiujiu, has your elder brother told you about the recent unusual activity in the Star Dou Great Forest?"

He nodded after a long while and sighed.

"My royal brother sent word that the soul beasts are gathering in an orderly fashion toward the core area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest, which is not good news for our current situation."

"Although we paid a price to temporarily stop the actions of those soul beasts and prevent a potential beast tide, we both know that this is not a long-term solution."

"Without Shrek Academy, the agreement we made with the soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest is null and void. If there is any disturbance in the Three Kingdoms or if war breaks out, it is really hard to guarantee that those soul beasts will not take any action."

But worrying is useless, because they can't stop it at all. They are too busy taking care of themselves to put their hopes on destroying the Sun and Moon Armory to delay the war between the Sun and Moon. They don't have any energy left to guard against those soul beasts.

And talking about friendship with spirit beasts? Don't be ridiculous. Those spirit beasts didn't kick you when you were down. After Shrek Academy was destroyed, they triggered a beast tide that directly impacted the Three Kingdoms. That's because those spirit beasts were restrained. How can you expect anything else?

However, when it came to soul beasts, Vina and Xu Jiujiu both fell silent for a moment, and then they both thought of the strange things that had happened with the changes in the world.

In other words, after a Soul Master hunts Soul Beasts and absorbs Soul Rings, it becomes even more difficult to improve.

Moreover, many Soul Masters, after obtaining Soul Rings, are unable to acquire Soul Skills, even those who break through the barriers of their cultivation realm.

Although this discovery is rare, it is a real event.

This not only baffled Soul Masters, but also gave many high-ranking officials of the Three Kingdoms a headache.

The main source of strength for these three kingdoms comes from the Soul Master system, but for some unknown reason, this system seems to be changing in a strange direction, which is something they have to be concerned about.

However, at this point, many people would not make any other connections. After all, the Soul Master system has existed for countless years. Even the Soul Masters of the Sun and Moon Sects are just abnormal products of the Soul Master system. To upgrade, they also need to improve their Soul Power as a foundation.

The Soul Master system can never collapse; this is a consensus. Otherwise, what would this world become?

Won't these privileged Soul Masters be no different from those lowly peasants in the future?

However, the experiences those Soul Masters went through were real. If a Soul Master's strength doesn't improve after acquiring a Soul Ring, or even if they can't develop Soul Skills, then what's the point of acquiring a Soul Ring? It's utterly baffling. Not only them, but many high-ranking officials from the Three Kingdoms and Sun Moon factions also noticed this change.

Many powerful individuals were initially complacent about their increased lifespan, but after this unexpected event, many began to worry.

The reason is simple: they all have descendants. If the Soul Master system collapses, even if they can persist for decades or hundreds of years, what about their descendants and the inheritance of their Martial Souls?

Speaking of this, we have to mention Huo Yuhao's previous act of integrating the soul system into the will of the plane.

Although the current plane won't completely replace the existing soul ring system with the Soul Spirit Technique, it's still possible for it to gradually become more widespread.

In other words, it's like boiling a frog in lukewarm water—slowly initiating advanced and randomized experiments to gradually diminish the weight of the Soul Ring system in the world, ensuring that humanity doesn't benefit from it. Only in this way can preparations be made for the popularization of the Soul Spirit Technique for His beloved son, Huo Yuhao.

This process will not continue indefinitely; we have not yet reached the point where one can awaken their martial soul independently without going through the initial awakening process.

The optimal choice is to first gradually diminish the influence of the spirit ring system, then reduce the weight of martial spirits, and increase the attributes of spirit masters and the affinity of the new generation of humans for spirit beasts.

All of this happened so quietly that no one could discover the real reason behind it, because Huo Yuhao had not yet set up his soul collection on a large scale among humans.

This can only be done after the mainland is unified and there are no more obstacles.

At that time, the influence of the spirit ring system will be reduced to the minimum, and human martial spirits will awaken on their own. Without a future, the spirit ring system will naturally collapse, and the spirit spirit system will be accepted accordingly.

Both Xu Jiujiu and Vina had their own thoughts, but neither of them mentioned it. It was too terrifying; they dared not imagine what the world would be like without Soul Masters.

It's as if a giant hand is hanging over the heads of everyone in this world, invisible and intangible, yet undeniably controlling everything.

Perhaps the gathering of soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest this time is also related to these silent changes.

"I can't think about it anymore," Xu Jiujiu followed up.

"Tonight's operation, a joint effort between the two countries, must be a decisive and swift strike to completely extinguish the arrogance of the Sun and Moon forces and put them in trouble."

Today is the final, and both the Star Luo Royal Team and Vina's Snow Demon Sect have been eliminated. The final two will inevitably be decided between the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and the Body Sect.

They no longer need to focus on the competition; what they can't achieve on the field, they will find in other ways.

Moreover, they had already made up their minds to leave Mingdu as soon as possible, and would not even participate in the final closing ceremony.

They were very satisfied with the timing they had chosen. They knew that when the finals ended, Sun and Moon would be extremely happy and arrogant because of their championship. What they had to do was to deliver a fatal blow to Sun and Moon when they were at their happiest and most excited.

Hopefully, those guys from Sun and Moon will still be able to laugh then.

Xu Jiujiu was no longer planning to participate. Her elder brother had made it clear that the success of this operation depended entirely on fate, and she, as the princess, had to leave the territory of the Sun Moon Empire before the operation began.

There was no other way; valuing his life, he had no choice but to agree after a long time.

This was also the last time she and Vina met before parting ways, so some details naturally needed to be confirmed.

Meanwhile, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen and the others had already gathered together.

"Grandpa sent word that we should go to Mingde Hall as soon as possible after the final."

"It seems that the Three Kingdoms are planning some kind of trouble again."

That's right, the plan that Xu Jiujiu, Vina, and Dou Ling thought was foolproof has now been revealed even to Xiao Hongchen and the others.

Moreover, to avoid the Three Kingdoms' feint attack, the Sun and Moon forces planned to lure the enemy into a trap and wipe them out in one fell swoop.

Having said that, Xiao Hongchen simply snorted coldly.

"A bunch of filthy rats, only capable of resorting to underhanded tricks. Do you think they can send a Limit Douluo to cause trouble for the Sun Moon Sect?"

They even blew up the armory. The Three Kingdoms really had run out of tricks. They really thought too highly of themselves.

He really had the right to say that. Although they were only Soul Douluo at the moment, thanks to their Soul Spirit techniques and 100,000-year Soul Rings and Soul Bones, ordinary Super Douluo couldn't cause any trouble in front of them.

Given the current situation in the Three Kingdoms, it's impossible to mobilize the Limit Douluo; this would be tantamount to courting death.

"What does the hall master mean?" Ji Juechen felt there was some scheming involved and couldn't help but ask.

They have been entrusted by Yuhao to establish a legion of Soul Masters, and this is an opportunity.

That way, we can save a lot of time and directly use this event to obtain a large number of soul-guided weapons.

Xiao Hongchen explained, "Grandpa told us to take this opportunity to get rid of the rats in the Three Kingdoms while doing what we want to do."

"Moreover, Grandpa will secretly allocate a batch of soul tools and level-nine soul bombs and give them to us during this opportunity."

The meaning is quite clear. Obviously, Jing Hongchen not only anticipated this situation, but also planned to take advantage of it.

To put it bluntly, the true ownership of the soul tools of Mingde Hall belongs to the Sun Moon Empire. It is impossible for them to give all these soul tools to their own people without any scruples, as this would cause gossip.

However, if external factors intervene, the situation will be different, which is why this opportunity was seized to add fuel to the fire.

In any case, these soul tools are of limited importance to the Sun Moon Empire, so having fewer of them won't make a difference.

We helped the Empire resolve its crisis, so what's wrong with asking for some soul tools? Besides, during this process, the rats from the Three Kingdoms put up a stubborn resistance, so isn't it normal for some soul tools to be lost?

Is it reasonable? It is very reasonable.

It's unreasonable. Look at what the royal family dares to say. The promise to establish the Soul Master Legion was made personally by Regent Xu Tianran. Now they're just getting some interest in advance, which is harmless.

It can only be said that Xu Tianran never thought of this step. How could he have realized that not only were there external rats trying to get rid of this batch of weapons, but even his own people were eyeing it?

But even if I knew, I wouldn't care. As long as this kind of thing doesn't happen in the open, it's still the empire's wealth in the end, just a matter of moving from one hand to the other.

"Okay, let's do it that way."

Ji Juechen, Meng Hongchen, Yu Qiu'er, and the others all agreed.

"I can't wait any longer."

Xiao Hongchen was somewhat excited, not because he was going to deal with the guys from the Three Kingdoms, but because he could use this batch of things to increase their future resources.

This was the first time he had ever embezzled the empire's wealth, so it was quite a novel experience for him.

However, the prince will still keep his promise. These soul tools were obtained through our own abilities, and we will not be shortchanged on any of the resources needed to build the Soul Master Legion later.

(End of this chapter)