Douluo Continent: Angel Saint Huo Yuhao

Chapter 158 Soul Power Solidified
With Huo Yuhao around, he somewhat improved his previously aloof personality and began to interact with his colleagues, chatting, handling affairs, and conducting research together...

Over time, his slightly quirky personality became more and more obvious.

--Yes.

The current farce was entirely instigated by him, and his colleagues were happy to cooperate with his performance, personally giving these good-for-nothings who rose to power through blood ties a good beating.

As scholars and researchers, what they find most distasteful is those who act arrogantly because of their family status.

"Let's go?"

Xuan Ziwen squeezed through the crowd and patted Huo Yuhao's shoulder forcefully. Only then did he detect a faint fluctuation of energy on Huo Yuhao, who had been unsealed.

'Level 48? No… wait, it's almost level 49, isn't it?'

Sensing the other party's soul power level, Xuan Ziwen was extremely surprised.

At this rate, Huo Yuhao is advancing at a rate of one level per month, and in just over four months he is about to reach the fifth ring.

"Shhh."

Huo Yuhao gestured for silence, manipulated the Xuan Tian Gong to smooth out the soul power within his body, and slowly suppressed the fluctuations: "Let's go to Mingde Hall first."

"…it is good."

Xuan Ziwen's gaze swept rapidly across his surroundings as he activated the soul tool on his wrist to shield his aura.

With such a commotion here, countless eyes are watching. It's better to avoid trouble and leave.

……

"Soul power is becoming increasingly difficult to control. One instance of soul power sealing almost disrupted the circulation."

Inside the light barrier, Huo Yuhao's expression turned grim as he watched his palm slowly emanating cold air.

Having cultivated to this stage, the vortex of soul power within his body had begun to sway precariously, and any external force could disrupt it.

The reason for this is not a decrease in control or the near depletion of snow lotus energy... it's simply a matter of the nature of soul power.

His soul power had begun to solidify.

The originally viscous, syrup-like vortex of soul power had turned into a vortex-shaped mass of fine snow. As it moved, it continuously compressed and formed large and small ice crystals, occasionally causing the vortex to slow down.

"Based on our deduction, the main reason you are the way you are now is due to the attributes of your second martial soul."

Xue Di read the diagnosis report expressionlessly: "Judging from the quality of your soul power alone, you are still some distance away from complete solidification. You will probably face this problem at level sixty-nine."

"But the attribute accelerated the solidification process, raising this hurdle to before the fifth ring. The only good news now is that the ice attribute only freezes soul power; if it were the fire attribute..."

It's estimated that a raging storm of flames will soon sweep through Huo Yuhao's dantian, igniting all his soul power and physical body from the inside out, transforming him into a humanoid fire elemental spirit.

However…

Xue Di glanced at Huo Yuhao's icy coldness that almost extended to his shoulders, then silently looked away.

Now, he's not actually that far from being an elemental spirit.

'The elementalization process is already one-quarter complete.'

If Huo Yuhao successfully transforms, he will be the first male in the history of the Ice and Snow Maidens clan...

"Xue'er? What are you thinking about?"

Hyotei gave Yuki-tei, who had suddenly drifted off into thought, a strange look on her face: "Could it be that you've thought of another solution?"

"Cough cough...no."

Xue Di suddenly became serious, her gaze falling on the snow lotus in her dantian: "Although that method is somewhat risky, it's the only way we can do it now."

Soul power solidification can also occur when breaking through to the ninth ring, and there are ultimately only two solutions.

Firstly, it increases the body's capacity, preventing excess soul power from condensing into a single mass. Secondly, it utilizes the soul core formed by the power of space!
Huo Yuhao's situation is more complicated. Since his martial soul attribute is the main reason for solidification, simply expanding it cannot solve the problem. If he continues to cultivate, it will still solidify.

"We can only use soul cores now."

Tianmeng looked at the sky with a blank expression: "How confident are you in the chances of getting this?"

His million years of cultivation were all gained through sleep; his total soul power surged to the god level with the help of the Xuanbing Marrow, and he didn't have a soul core at all.

He can talk a few words about the theory of soul cores, but when it comes to actually condensing them, we can only hope that the two emperors of ice and snow are skilled enough to control the soul core.

"Thirty percent?"

Hyotei glanced at Yuki-tei discreetly.

"Twenty percent."

Xue Di answered without changing his expression.

"How exactly did you arrive at this data?"

Tianmeng was a little confused: "Why does it keep getting lower as we talk about it?"

"It's simple, isn't it? You and Elder Yi, two god-level beings, each take 10%." Snow Empress patted Ice Empress's head. "We two will be responsible for assisting."

"hehe…"

Tianmeng lay limp on the water, utterly exhausted: "So I only account for 10%?"

It's over, there's no hope.

This silkworm of his doesn't seem like it can handle anything.
"It's alright, Tianmeng. I believe in you."

Huo Yuhao gently comforted her, then extracted a portion of his spiritual and soul power and inserted it into the vertical eye between his eyebrows, transforming it into a piece of gold and silver crystal.

Having reached the spiritual realm of tangible yet intangible existence, this amount of spiritual power is enough to unleash power comparable to a five-ring Soul King. Even if he becomes rootless water, he should be able to sustain himself for about half a year.

Whether I'll survive is unknown, but at least I won't instantly die.

Tianmeng: "...I think you could try to trust me."

"Isn't this enough of a sign of trust?"

Huo Yuhao was greatly surprised.

Isn't his current behavior a clear indication that he's letting Tianmeng do whatever he wants? Isn't this enough to demonstrate their brotherhood? This is something that could easily endanger their lives!

'I really don't know what's going on in his head...'

Silently criticizing Tianmeng's seemingly nonexistent brain, Huo Yuhao tapped the light screen in his hand and began to exercise his due rights.

"The Invincible Shield requires too high a Soul Power level. Let's replace it with a passively triggered Advanced Shield."

"The soul-guided ray is accurate enough, but the damage is too low. The assembly process for various cannon barrels is too long, so forget it..."

"Fixed-load soul-guided shells are fine. I'll ask later if we can change the trigger mechanism."

"Bombs... are not as good as fixed-position ones."

"The super-energy cannon takes too long to charge and has too slow an attack speed. It's unlikely to hit anything outside of combat environments... Should we try something else?"

Huo Yuhao wrote and drew on the screen, listing his equipment, and highlighted various fixed shells and soul-guided shields.

Almost all of his skills are now designed for offense, which has severely hampered his defense and soul power endurance. Until a better solution is found, it is more efficient to rely on external forces.

"Oh right, we also need to add some small thrusters..."

(End of this chapter)