Huo Yuhao from The Peerless Tang Sect is incredibly talented.

Huo Yuhao leaned against the tree trunk, his consciousness beginning to communicate with the world-shaking wisdom.

"What are the next plans for the Virtual Realm?"

"The Void Realm will soon undergo a major version update. After the update, all official users can upload their personal insights on martial spirits and their understanding of soul tools to the Void Realm—submitted in the form of papers, which I will then review."

"Review standards?"

"The highest passing standard is based on the Nobel Prize judging mechanism in our memory. It requires original breakthroughs, verifiable deductive paths, and substantial subversion or supplementation to the existing system. Those who pass will be rewarded with a large amount of holy coins, and all shopping restrictions in the store will be lifted, and the deep store will be opened."

The Deep Store offers services different from those sold in regular stores, such as resetting skill points, soul bones, and divinely bestowed soul rings.

What they are selling is a method of making money localized in the Douluo Continent; in other words, a method of creating a godhood that does not rely on the faith of the masses.

"What about passing normally?" Huo Yuhao asked. After all, in Huo Yuhao's opinion, the most promising candidate for the Nobel Prize level was Kong Mingde of the Sun Moon Empire.

Unfortunately, given the prevailing trend in Douluo Continent, Kong Mingde will most likely not reveal it publicly, but will only pass it on to his successor.

"For papers of the next level, once approved, only Holy Coins will be awarded, and access to the Deep Shop will not be granted. The amount of Holy Coins will fluctuate depending on the quality of the paper."

"Hmm, this version update is good. It will help improve the academic atmosphere in Douluo Continent. They're all brainless brutes. The Sun Moon Empire is a bit better, but they're still a bunch of idiots."

Why follow anyone but the Holy Spirit Cult?

In Huo Yuhao's view, the original Three Kingdoms of Douluo Continent were like chocolate that tasted like shit, while the Sun Moon Empire was like shit disguised as chocolate—both equally disgusting.

In the original Three Kingdoms period of Douluo Continent, commoners were not given the right to awaken their martial souls, while the Sun Moon Empire allowed the Holy Spirit Cult to cultivate freely. Their disgusting methods were varied and bizarre, but their disgusting nature remained the same.

Commoners are not worthy to be associated with us Soul Masters and nobles.

"How is the erosion of the Douluo Continent by the Void Realm progressing?"

"Currently, only the corruption level in Tiandou City has reached level eight," the world-shaking wisdom responded. "The corruption progress in other regions is uneven. The main area of ​​influence is currently within the territory of the Tianhun Empire, and stable corruption nodes have not yet been established within the territories of other empires and federations."

The degree of erosion is divided into nine stages. Note that this is the spontaneous disturbance of the virtual realm in the ownerless stage. If it is manipulated by an owner, its expressiveness will often rise several levels.

At the first level, a small number of people dream of entering the virtual world.

At the second level, most people can enter the virtual world in their dreams.

At the third level, anyone who dreams can enter the virtual world.

At the fourth stage, the power of the illusory realm begins to have an initial impact on reality, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in this place rises slightly.

At the fifth level, a few individuals can directly project their illusory realm into reality, transforming it into fantastical tales.

At the sixth level, the interference of the virtual realm with reality increases further, and under certain processing conditions, illusory species appear.

At the seventh tier, the number of Phantom Creatures has increased significantly, and they have become a common sight in the daily lives of residents.

The eighth order can alter reality within a certain range and slightly modify some physical constants.

Level 9, Custom Room, please enter text.

Tian Dou City is currently at the seventh level, but the birth of the Illusionary Species and the emergence of supernatural tales have been blocked by the world-shaking wisdom using administrator privileges.

Erosion nodes are medium to large-scale organizations in the Douluo Continent that believe in the Lord of the Void Realm and have a clear structure and organization.

"Transfer half of the forces that have been encroaching on the territory of the Heavenly Soul Empire to Shrek City," Huo Yuhao added.

"The threshold for Shrek City's outer court students, inner court disciples, and ordinary teachers to come into contact with the Void Realm must be lowered to the very bottom. The more people who use it, the faster the erosion will occur."

Shrek City doesn't even have a Tier 1 yet. The ability to enter the Virtual Realm relies entirely on the Guiding Technique, which sends a signal to guide the Virtual Realm.

As for why holy coins are needed, it's because the virtual realm guides and protects the user of the guiding spell from needing energy!

"reason?"

"Shrek City is very important. The Core of Life and the Golden Tree are inside. If we want to greatly enrich the Douluo Continent with resources, we must obtain the Core of Life."

"Understood. Personnel and resources will be redistributed immediately. Shrek City is expected to reach Tier 2 erosion level shortly after the relocation."

Huo Yuhao didn't say anything more. He opened the system panel in his mind, and a semi-transparent light screen silently unfolded before his eyes.

His gaze swept across the densely packed list of data and landed on the newly popped-up entry at the very end.

[Progress of the Virtual Realm Erosion]

Heavenly Soul Empire Territory: 23.7

Shrek City: 1.2%

Seeing Shrek City's 1.2% erosion rate, Huo Yuhao glanced at the Mutual Aid Association members and couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

"The fate of these people in the Mutual Aid Association seems to carry a lot of weight. They just joined the Mutual Aid Association, yet their Void Realm Erosion Rate has increased so much."

Then Huo Yuhao began to use the administrator privileges of the Void Realm Lord to create monsters, allowing everyone to quickly get along in battle and increase their sense of belonging to the Mutual Aid Association.

Therefore, this monster cannot be too weak or too strong; its strength must be moderate.

So...

Beyond Tang Ya's perception, a monster was being created.

A moment later, Tang Ya sensed him through the Blue Silver Grass.

"Back off!" Tang Ya's voice was so sharp it was almost tearing her apart.

Huo Yuhao's mental detection sharing covered the entire battlefield almost simultaneously, connecting with everyone's mental sea.

Before anyone could even gasp in amazement, they saw the monster a kilometer away.

It was larger than an adult bull, and its body was covered with dark green bone plates, each plate engraved with ancient runes identical to those in the pillar of light.

Its head resembles a fusion of a crocodile and a lion, with interlocking fangs and spitting out emerald green mist from its mouth and nostrils. Most striking are the three rows of bony spikes on its back, each over a meter long with a sharp, spear-like tip.

With a sharp sound, the Virtual Realm Network promptly issued a reminder.

[Holy Fang Beast, Grass type, Elite]

[The mutated monster that devours the remains of gods is incredibly powerful. Once it targets you, you are destined to be immortal. Unfortunately, you have been targeted.]

Looking at the information provided by the virtual realm, Tang Ya couldn't help but curse her bad luck, having actually encountered an elite monster.

Having spent some time in Tiandou City and possessing a Tiandou City household registration, I naturally know the strength of elite monsters.

The lowest level is a soldier, with the minimum combat strength being a three-ring Soul Master as per the standards of Heaven Dou City.

Elite level, the minimum combat strength of a Soul Master squad in Heaven Dou City.

Leader level, minimum combat strength of three hundred Soul Masters according to the standards of Heaven Dou City.

It should be noted that the standard combat strength of a Soul Master team in Heaven Dou City is that not only are all members equipped with thousand-year soul rings, but they also have perfect coordination and can unleash combined attacks. They can even hunt down ten-thousand-year soul beasts without taking any damage.

A dark green beam of light shot out from the mouth of the Holy Skeleton Beast toward the crowd, who all dodged in panic.

Only Wang Dong reacted a beat slower and was closest to the Holy Skeleton Beast. The dark green energy shockwave had already reached the edge of her butterfly wings, and the light membrane was thinning and becoming brittle at a visible speed, turning into something like a layer of glass about to shatter.

Then a silkworm thread was wrapped around her waist and pulled her out.

"Thank you." Wang Dong's voice trembled slightly, whether from fear or shame, it was hard to tell.

Wang Dong knew she was too slow. She knew that if that attack had landed, at least a third of her butterfly wings would have been eroded. The battle had barely begun, and she had already become a burden.

"Don't think about useless things." Huo Yuhao's voice, shared through mental communication, was as cold as ice, suppressing Wang Dong's panicked emotions. "The second wave is coming. Prepare the Butterfly God Light, use area suppression, don't aim, just pour it directly into the beam of light."

Huo Yuhao knew that Wang Dong's martial soul had mutated, after all, the Flawed Butterfly template was given to him by Jing Shi Zhi Hun.

Meanwhile, in the Love God's shared channel, surprise and admiration could be heard from everyone.

"Tsk tsk, whose soul skill is this? It's simply invincible! Seeing so clearly, amazing!"

It was Xu Sanshi who spoke first.

"Forget about that. This monster is elite-level. If we don't cooperate, we'll all die today and have headaches for days. Quickly exchange information about our soul skills." The voice sounded very anxious, and it was Tang Ya who was speaking.

Before anyone could speak...

"Xiao Xiao!" Huo Yuhao's shout exploded in the shared mental connection.

The Sacred Skeleton Beast made its move without warning or preparation; its massive body instantly transformed into a dark green afterimage.

Its target was chillingly clear—Jiang Nannan.

The thick tail, carrying a corrosive light condensed from grass elemental energy, swept across the ground at such speed that it created a white sonic boom in the air. The tail ripped a deep trench into the ground, sending shards of rock flying like shrapnel.

Jiang Nannan's pupils suddenly contracted. There was no way to dodge; her teleportation technique had been used just as the beam of light was attacking, and it was still on cooldown.

Invincible Golden Body activated.

Golden light exploded from her body, and the tail of the Holy Skeleton Beast struck the light membrane with a deafening clang. The golden sphere of light enveloping Jiang Nannan was directly knocked away.

"Nan Nan!" A loud shout rang out.

Then a dark figure caught her; it was Xu Sanshi.

His eyes were already red, blood vessels spreading from the edges of his pupils and covering the entire white of his eyes. Despite Xu Sanshi's usual carefree and jovial demeanor, there was one bottom line he could never cross: Jiang Nannan.

"You fucking want to die!"

The Xuanming Tortoise Shell Shield was no longer a shield, but had transformed into a phantom of a Xuanwu with a tortoise head and a snake tail, enveloping his entire body.

He was like a cannonball that crashed into the Holy Skeleton Beast, and then was whipped back by its tail at an even faster speed.

Xiao Xiao had already made her move before Huo Yuhao even spoke.

She summoned the Three Lives Soul-Suppressing Cauldron from mid-air. The bronze cauldron swelled in the wind, its first soul ring lit up, and the cauldron's tremor was activated.

Visible shockwaves erupted from the cauldron's mouth, cascading in layers towards the Sacred Skeleton Beast. Wherever the shockwaves passed, the air emitted a muffled rumble, and the ground was plowed into wavy furrows.

This is the fastest wide-range control technique that Xiao Xiao currently knows.

The Holy Skeleton Beast did not dodge.

It didn't even make any defensive stance; it simply opened its mouth. A glimmer of emerald light appeared deep in its throat, and then it spat out a seed.

The seed takes root and sprouts the moment it hits the ground. As the shockwave hits, it transforms into a large leaf. The leaf vibrates rapidly, and the frequency of the vibration resonates with the shockwave of the cauldron.

The two shockwaves collided in mid-air, producing a strange, muffled sound.

The vibrations from the cauldron were dismantled by the resonance of the vines, and then the vibrations returned. Xiao Xiao felt a backlash force coming back from the cauldron, which made her body numb. The Three Lives Soul-Suppressing Cauldron flew backward uncontrollably.

"Resonance dismantling?" Xiao Xiao's eyes widened. "This thing can analyze the frequency of soul skills?"

"No, it's instinct." Huo Yuhao's voice rang in everyone's minds, as calm as if he were stating a mathematical formula. "The Holy Skeleton Beast's affinity for grass elements is innate. It doesn't need to understand the composition of shockwaves. It only needs to make contact, and then the life will find a way out and adapt. We need to finish this quickly, otherwise, if it adapts, we'll all die here."

The three rows of bone spikes on the back of the sacred beast lit up simultaneously, and dark green beams of light shot out from the tips of the spikes, weaving into a web of death in the air.

Huo Yuhao's mental detection sharing clearly marked the trajectory of each beam of light in everyone's consciousness, as if someone had drawn precise geometric figures in their brains.

All the beams of light precisely covered the positions where Xiao Xiao and Jiang Nannan were standing at that moment.

Jiang Nannan's second soul skill, Gravity Control, was activated the instant before the beam was fired, causing the gravity within a 30-meter radius of her to suddenly double. She slowed down the beam.

But Xiao Xiao couldn't escape it, after all, Xiao Xiao wasn't an agility-based attacker.

Xuanming Replacement

Xiao Xiao and Xu Sanshi instantly switched positions. The beam of light slammed solidly into the Xuanming Tortoise Shell Shield. Xu Sanshi grunted, his entire body propelled backward seven or eight meters by the enormous impact, his feet carving two deep furrows in the ground. However, his shield remained unmoved. The dark green beam of light exploded on the shield's surface, and the splattering energy waves corroded the ground within a ten-meter radius, creating a dense network of pits.

"That's it?" Xu Sanshi grinned, revealing a set of white teeth.

However, Huo Yuhao's mental detection clearly showed that the arm holding the shield was trembling slightly, the tiger's mouth was cracked, and blood was flowing down the inside of the shield.

The Holy Skeleton Beast gave him no chance to catch his breath.

With all four limbs exerting force, its enormous body launched itself into the air at a speed completely disproportionate to its size, drawing a dark green arc in the air.

And then its body suddenly split—not literally split, but the runes on its surface simultaneously glowed, creating six phantoms that were exactly the same as the original, each phantom having the same energy reading as the original.

Huo Yuhao couldn't tell the difference, but he didn't need to.

"Beibei, intercept them head-on! Tang Ya, parasitize all the phantoms!" Huo Yuhao gave the order.

Just now, everyone had exchanged information about their soul skills.

Bei Bei's Holy Dragon Martial Soul entered full power mode the moment Huo Yuhao spoke.

The first soul skill, Light Energy Convergence, completely extracted all light elements within a hundred-meter radius, causing the sky to darken abruptly, as if dusk had arrived prematurely. All the light converged on Bei Bei, and a layer of golden dragon scale phantoms appeared on his skin, while his eyes turned into burning gold.

It crashed straight into it.

At the same time, his second soul skill, Dragon Heart, was activated, which made his mental resistance reach a terrifying level. His willpower was amplified infinitely, and his body broke through the instinctive self-protection mechanism, bursting out all his power in a way that was almost self-destructive.

The right fist collided head-on with the front claw of the Holy Skeleton Beast in mid-air. Golden light energy and a variant of dark green grass element, with poison attribute, exploded simultaneously, and the shockwave snapped the surrounding trees in half.

Beibei's body was thrown backward by the shock, tumbling three times in the air before barely regaining her balance. The sleeve of her entire right arm had been completely corroded, and several deep, bone-revealing scratches were left on her forearm.

The attack of the Holy Skeleton Beast was intercepted.

Tang Ya's fourth soul skill, Parasite, is activated.

Tang Ya's fourth soul skill has never been turned off since she entered the Void Realm, and it has always kept the Blue Silver Grass seeds floating in the air.

At this moment, the phantom of the Holy Skeleton Beast was already covered with Blue Silver Grass seeds, and the roots of the Blue Silver Grass pierced into the phantom's body, beginning to absorb them frantically.

The Phantom is essentially a mimicry clone created by the Holy Skeleton Beast using grass elements, and the parasitic Blue Silver Grass happens to counter all grass-attribute energy.

The five phantoms were drained and disappeared in less than a second.

The truth has been revealed.

Jiang Nannan's third soul skill, Instant Transfer, was activated at the same moment her true form was exposed. Her figure disappeared from the spot and appeared below the belly of the Holy Skeleton Beast.

Her first soul skill, Waist Bow, was activated. Her legs wrapped around the left forelimb of the Holy Skeleton Beast with an extraordinary flexibility. All the power in her body was transferred from her waist to her legs, and she flipped the monster, which was several times her size, to the ground with a perfect soft-style throw.

boom!

The Holy Skeleton Beast's back slammed heavily onto the ground, its three rows of bone spikes embedding themselves deeply into the soil.

Tang Ya activated her first soul skill, Absorb, and her fourth soul skill, Parasite, simultaneously. The Blue Silver Grass grew wildly, binding the Holy Skeleton Beast on the ground while frantically absorbing its energy.

At the same time, the third soul skill, Growth and Awakening, transforms the energy absorbed by the Blue Silver Grass into one's own soul power, and through the channels constructed by the Blue Silver Grass, inputs one's extremely balanced and peaceful soul power, full of vitality, into teammates' bodies.

"Wang Dong, quickly use your first and second soul skills together!" Huo Yuhao shouted to Wang Dong.

Wang Dong's butterfly wings have been fully repaired thanks to Tang Ya's treatment.

Guided precisely by shared consciousness, the Winged Guillotine and the Butterfly God's Light merged two distinct attacks into a single strike.

The physical destructive power of the butterfly wing strike, combined with the suppressive range of the butterfly god's death power, caused the golden blade of light to be wrapped in a gray-black aura of death, like a scythe that harvests life, to pour down from the sky and slash at the exposed belly of the Holy Skeleton Beast.

After the Flawed Butterfly template mutated Wang Dong's martial soul into the Light and Dark Goddess Butterfly, the quality of his death power was frighteningly high. If he hit the target with one strike, the victory would be assured.

The amber vertical pupils of the Sacred Skeleton Beast suddenly contracted. The runes on its body shone even brighter, but their color changed from dark green to almost pitch black.

The dark green energy suddenly expanded outward from the Holy Skeleton Beast as its center.

This energy is composed of grass elements at a suffocatingly high concentration, and these grass elements are highly corrosive, practically poisonous.

In an instant, the situation changed again; Tang Ya's Blue Silver Grass was instantly corroded by the energy emitted by the Holy Skeleton Beast.

Beibei was already using her third soul skill, Blood Profound Yellow, to forcibly convert the surrounding grass elements into her own soul power, trying to rescue Wang Dong from the Holy Beast that could move freely.

Xu Sanshi had just used the Xuanming Replacement technique and couldn't use it anymore. Jiang Nannan was too fragile; rushing to Wang Dong's side now would be tantamount to suicide.

Xiao Xiao, all I can say is that the future is promising.

Tang Ya is stuck at a more delicate point—her Blue Silver Grass can also absorb grass elements, but the Sacred Skeleton Beast feeds on divine remains and is the pinnacle of grass attributes. Even though it is now in the beginner area, the Sacred Skeleton Beast's various stats have been greatly reduced.

However, in terms of grass element, it still surpasses Tang Ya's Blue Silver King, and it cannot absorb the poison domain released by the Holy Skeleton Beast in a short time.

If it were the Blue Silver Emperor, it would be more like it, since he is the only one on Douluo Star.

Huo Yuhao made a move.

His body snapped open like a bowstring stretched to its limit, and he transformed into a silvery-white afterimage as he rushed toward Wang Dong's location.

As Huo Yuhao began to construct the spell with his mental energy, his pupils began to turn blue.

It's time to show some real skills.

The next moment, Huo Yuhao flashed to Wang Dong's side and struck with a hand chop.