Douluo Continent: Angel Saint Huo Yuhao

Chapter 214 Soul Core, From Adversity to Prosperity

Soul beasts can absorb each other's essence to enhance their strength, and Tianmeng Ice Silkworm has a highly authoritative proof of this.

However, in most cases, this kind of primal absorption is an extremely wasteful act of energy. Only a very small percentage can be absorbed by the other party, and the vast majority is dissipated in the process of strengthening the body, just like humans eating the flesh of soul beasts.

Of course, if Hyotei were to receive the power now, it would indeed be possible to achieve a similar efficiency to the transfer of power due to the compatibility of their attributes.

But now...

"My primary attribute is mental power. Water, as a secondary attribute, was gradually abandoned during the evolution of our race. Now, as for compatibility with the ice attribute..."

The Sea Princess looked helpless: "I'm afraid it won't make a difference no matter how much more source energy I add. I'm still more than 80,000 years away from the 700,000-year limit. I reckon I might have a chance to succeed if I absorb all the power you had in your lifetime."

The process of obtaining dual soul cores is extremely difficult. Even someone like the Snow Empress was stuck halfway through and could not make any progress. How could she possibly have the ability to skip it in one step?
"You don't need to break through... I will!"

A hint of hidden resentment seemed to flash in Xue Di's eyes, but she quickly concealed it, regaining her coldness and confidence: "You only need to control your spiritual core. I will bestow upon you a stable second core of ultimate ice!"

Although her first attempt ended in failure, she was later forced to abandon her path due to a major calamity and seek a way to prolong her life.

However, there was only one reason for her failure: her research into spatial power was not deep enough, and she was unable to maintain the coexistence of two soul cores within her body on her own.

Now, this task is divided into two parts, each to be undertaken separately. Since the core is their own origin, they are fully capable of forcibly stabilizing the dual-core state until they enter the sacrificial state of dismantling the soul beast itself.

"Yuhao, didn't you want to know about soul cores? Then take a closer look!"

The Snow Empress's voice carried a hint of seriousness. This time, it was not only to give Huo Yuhao a pair of enhanced soul bones, but also to give him the opportunity to observe the entire process, so that he could condense his soul core on his own in the future.

"let's start."

Composing himself, Huo Yuhao exhaled softly.

Whether he can achieve success in one fell swoop depends on how much he can glean from this.

"Crack~"

With a light tap of his fingers, the Snow Emperor caused the snow lotus to slowly bloom amidst a sound like ice cracking, revealing a tightly packed mass of snow-white air.

With another flick of his finger, the energy that had formed into a pill-like shape split into five, one of which had become so faint that it was almost completely depleted.

Seeing this, Xue Di seemed to have anticipated it. She decisively drew out three complete streams of air and reunited them into one. Under her spiritual power, which had reached the realm of spiritual awareness, she kneaded and compressed them, transforming them into a prismatic solid with a cloud disk.

Although the details of controlling balance and adjusting energy distribution can only be understood intuitively and cannot be explained in words, Huo Yuhao still saw some wonders in them.

Rotation is an inevitable product of driving soul power to compress inward, but this also happens to involve spatial power. In the end, only when soul power, rotation, and spatial power reach a stable state of mutual constraint can the soul core be considered successful.

"The three are mutually restrictive..."

Huo Yuhao's thoughts inexplicably drifted to Jun Lintianxia, ​​as well as the auspicious beasts and the blood and qi power repeatedly displayed by those evil soul masters.

Vitality and spirit seem to correspond perfectly.

There are indeed various connections between them...

"Let's leave it for now, there'll be plenty of time to study it later." Huo Yuhao quickly stopped his wandering thoughts and refocused his attention on the constantly compressing and accelerating crystal core. Under Xue Di's extremely stable control, the prismatic object that had quietly crossed the boundary disappeared instantly, replaced by a mixture of soul core power and spatial power.

There may still be a wildly spinning prism there, but the spatial forces covering its surface have distorted the light, swallowing up the remaining primal forces around it.

Of course, within this process, the Snow Emperor's resilient spiritual threads were still connecting the soul core with himself, slowly turning into the Sea Princess's dantian as if dragging a kite.

"Snapped!"

The Sea Princess, having solidified her dual cores within her body, grasped Huo Yuhao's hands once more. This time, however, it wasn't just a transfer of power; her entire body dissolved in light, transforming into two pure soul energies that merged into his arms.

At the same time, a primal force, like seawater, flowed into his torso, instantly diluting the intense chill contained in his spine. This caused Huo Yuhao to shift his body slightly, feeling somewhat uncomfortable.

After all, such a long period of physical training had already made him accustomed to contact with frost, so the sudden arrival of so many other elemental powers was quite...

Something is wrong.

I just feel uncomfortable all over.

However, at that very moment, as the Sea Princess's soul power surged into her body, bringing with it two soul bones that merged into her arm, the Snow Empress's voice rang out: "Now... Soul Core!"

"Then come on~"

Huo Yuhao moved his body, getting used to the newly acquired arm bone, and then took control of the last remaining wisp of his original essence.

The moment he probed into it with his spiritual power, his first sensation was—

weight!
The sheer weight and immense size were incomprehensible. It was clearly just a wisp of light air, yet the power it contained made him feel incredibly sluggish, as if he were pushing a cart uphill, and he was already close to exhaustion after only a few steps.

"Spirit Eyes!"

Holding his breath and concentrating, Huo Yuhao opened his vertical eye after being possessed, and his spiritual light was activated instantly, giving his already much-needed mental strength a boost.

Now, the amplification skill has once again demonstrated its value.

Of course, the mental techniques that Elder Yi taught him also played a crucial role, enabling him to compress and condense energy at an extremely stable and slow pace, proceeding step by step.

However, the moment Huo Yuhao added energy beyond the limit, the steadily progressing project suddenly changed, revealing some danger.

Huo Yuhao's soul power attribute is purer and more extreme than that of the soul core. The moment the snow-white crystal core was shrouded by black spatial ripples, the pure soul power in his body began to flow rapidly along the spiritual threads.

Immediately, the previously stable soul core suddenly became agitated.

"That is……"

Sensing the terrifying power brewing within the light array, Elder Yi's expression faltered slightly, and he paused thoughtfully with his staff: "After the worst comes the best?"

Ice and fire are like numbers on a clock. When the hands are near twelve, they may be driven by external forces to quietly cross over and turn to the most extreme and opposite side.

According to Yi Lao's experience, such uncontrollable transformations often occur when pure attributes are extremely compressed and there is an external force to trigger them.

(End of this chapter)