Douluo Continent: The Eye of Truth

Chapter 6 Perspective Determines Everything; Knowledge is Power

Huo Yuhao noticed that he had some dirt on his body and some inconspicuous dead skin. This was probably due to the effect of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm opening up his meridians during his cultivation.

However, that's all there is to it. To achieve a qualitative change, it will take a long time and painstaking effort. But at least it's much more convenient than trying your luck to find rare and precious materials.

Feeling the soul power constantly circulating and growing within his body, Huo Yuhao stretched his stiff muscles and bones, which had become somewhat stiff from sitting cross-legged in meditation for a long time.

Ordinary people need to enter a specific meditation state to cultivate themselves because they lack control over their own soul power and must undergo long-term posture training and concentration to achieve this.

Even ordinary titled Douluo powerhouses, due to their greater power, must concentrate their energy to recover their soul power if they cannot fully control it.

When a Soul Master reaches the Super Douluo level, because they have condensed their own Soul Core, the Soul Core can form a stable and powerful Soul Power circulation system to replace the Soul Master's subjective control, thus greatly improving the Soul Master's endurance.

Moreover, soul cores are not exclusive to Super Douluo. Whether it's Huo Qubing in the original work or later in Douluo Continent, as the cultivation system became more widespread and evolved, people discovered the method of condensing soul cores.

Soul Masters generally choose to establish their cultivation path and condense their own Soul Core at the Soul Saint stage, which also serves as a foundation for future upgrades.

Although Huo Yuhao is currently unable to directly condense a soul core due to the quality of his mental strength and the soul power within his body.

However, with the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm's top-tier spiritual power as an aid, he doesn't need to be bound by any specific posture to enjoy the fruits of his soul power cultivation.

"Phew, it's still so much more fun to cheat!" For Huo Yuhao, a modern person who had just transmigrated, what difference was there between cultivating soul power, which was highly repetitive and mechanical, and screwing in screws?

For Huo Yuhao, who is aware of the limitations of the original plot and the Douluo Continent worldview, his time is even more precious, and he wants to use it to do something more meaningful, not because he is lazy.

For example, one can use their own martial soul to study soul tools, or use their own martial soul to study soul skills, or use their own martial soul to study the essence of their martial soul.

Because no matter which path you take with your Martial Soul, you will eventually have to face a choice: the Soul Master system relies on Soul Rings for breakthroughs over a long period of time.

Therefore, Soul Masters cannot exist independently of Soul Beasts. Soul Masters without Soul Rings may not only have the possibility of breaking through by using Soul Rings, but from the first Ring onwards, the future path of a Soul Master has been deeply bound to Soul Beasts.

For a transcendent system, this is absolutely fatal, and this is precisely the shackle that the God Realm has set for the vast number of Soul Masters.

If Huo Yuhao wants to defy the fate predetermined by Tang San, he must walk a path that transcends that of a Soul Master.

Since a Soul Master can break through and overcome bottlenecks by using Soul Rings provided by Soul Beasts from the first to the ninth ring, what about the tenth ring?

To become a god at level 100, one must possess a god-level divine ring to directly break through, which brings us back to the same question.

Because soul beasts are naturally suppressed by the laws of Douluo Star, divine beasts only exist in the God Realm and cannot be born on Douluo Star.

Then I have to tell a joke.

If I want to break through level 100 and become a true god to enter the God Realm, I need a divine ring.

What? You don't have a divine halo? Then go hunt down divine beasts!

So where are the mythical beasts? Of course, they're in the realm of gods.

But I can only enter the God Realm if I break through level 100 and become a True God.

Then go hunt down mythical beasts.

Therefore, the cultivation of Soul Masters has entered a vicious cycle at this point, coupled with the gradual decline of Douluo Star due to the failure of the Divine Dragon Realm's advancement.

Only those with great perseverance and great opportunities can condense a divine position on their own by gathering a vast amount of faith power, break through the shackles of level 100, and overcome the obstacles of quasi-gods and true gods.

However, this path has now been blocked by our God King Tang. In the past ten thousand years, no god has appeared on Douluo Star who has created his own godhood and ascended to godhood.

If a powerful figure on Douluo Star wants to become a god, they must gain the recognition of the God Realm, which means the inheritance of a godhood. One person, one hole. Now that the God Realm is full, you powerful figures in the mortal world can just obediently wait to die.

Or you can pray that after you've survived the time difference between one day in the divine realm and one year in the mortal realm, some deities will want to leave the divine realm.

The other party is willing to pass on their divine position, and coincidentally, their inheritance falls into the plane where you exist. And coincidentally, the other party has chosen you as the lucky one from among thousands of powerful people who have been waiting in vain.

Only through countless coincidences will you have the opportunity to escape these worlds planned by the gods.

"Phew, let's not think about that anymore." As Huo Yuhao opened his eyes, he discovered that Bei Bei seemed to have not slept all night and was waking Tang Ya.

"Young Brother Huo, take a good look. This is a unique skill of my Tang Clan, and it is absolutely the most suitable for your martial soul to cultivate."

Beibei said with a smile, while Tang Ya opened her eyes wide and looked eastward, staring intently at the gradually brightening dawn on the distant horizon.

At this moment, a faint purple tinge appeared in Tang Ya's eyes.

Narrowing his eyes, Huo Yuhao activated his True Eye, carefully observing Tang Ya and the rising sun in the east.

After fully understanding it, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but be speechless. "This is truly martial arts from a wuxia world; isn't this just simple external martial arts training like Iron Palm?"

"Although it's been touted as something incredibly fantastical, it's essentially still within the realm of low-level martial arts. How did it manage to spread in a fantasy world?"

"By damaging one's own body cells with external force while maintaining them at a delicate level, and then using one's own energy and soul power to repair them, the repaired body tissues will become even stronger than before."

"The core of this Purple Demon Eye technique should be the method of transforming internal energy into soul power, through a specific energy circulation route."

"It can effectively and quickly repair damaged cells in the eye without causing substantial damage."

"At the same time, because the energy pathway passes through the brain, it can also stimulate and develop brain cells, increasing the output of mental energy."

"However, this process is also a long and arduous one. If one can obtain rare and precious materials, one can actually skip the lengthy cultivation process of the Purple Demon Eye."

"The so-called 'rising sun's purple aura' is nothing more than a relatively mild and stable source of continuous, irritating light."

"If other methods are used to stimulate, repair, and strengthen the cells and tissues of the eyes and brain, as long as the appropriate measures are taken, the desired effect should be achieved without resorting to these fancy procedures."

As Tang Ya let out a long breath and finished her practice, Bei Bei smiled and said, "Besides hidden weapons, the most important thing for the Tang Clan is the various unique skills of the Tang Clan."

"Unlike soul skills, the ultimate techniques of my Tang Sect are special cultivation methods that any soul master can practice. It doesn't matter what the soul master's martial soul is, giving a clear path for cultivation to the vast number of soul masters with special martial souls."

Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao nodded. Although he didn't quite agree with it in his heart, he still encouraged it verbally, having already made up his mind.

"Just as Brother Bei said, as a mutated martial soul, coupled with low innate soul power, I could only learn through self-exploration in my cultivation and training since childhood."

"I've made up my mind! Brother Bei, Sister Tang! I want to join the Tang Clan!"

Upon hearing these words, Tang Ya felt a jolt in her mind and quickly stood up to speak.

"That's wonderful! From today onwards, Xiao Yuhao, you're part of the Tang Sect family! I'll be your teacher from now on! Beibei is your senior brother, so call him senior brother!"

Seeing this, Bei Bei felt helpless again, but still said, "Well, since Junior Brother has joined our sect, and we have already discussed the sect's rules beforehand, I won't say anything more."

So Huo Yuhao followed the rules and performed a simple apprenticeship ceremony. As a transmigrator from the modern world, Huo Yuhao didn't really feel anything. He thought it was foolish not to take advantage of the opportunity, so he decided to enjoy the sweetness of the offer first.

As the apprenticeship ceremony was completed, Tang Ya took out a book from her storage soul tool. It was naturally a copy of the Xuan Tian Bao Lu, which Tang San had drastically altered.

Although Huo Yuhao had already learned most of the "ultimate skills" shown by Bei Bei and Tang Ya because of his martial soul, he still needed a suitable reason to demonstrate them.

"The methods of the Mysterious Heaven Technique and the Purple Demon Eye have been largely deconstructed. After reviewing this copy again, I'll tell Tianmeng Ice Silkworm so he can modify the energy circulation route."

"Improving the Mysterious Heaven Technique and opening the eight extraordinary meridians isn't urgent for now. This body's foundation is too weak; forcibly opening them could have many side effects. Let's wait until it's rested a bit."

"The Mysterious Jade Hand, Crane Control and Dragon Capture, and Ghost Shadow Steps can all be taught to Tianmeng Ice Silkworm for training, since the core of these techniques is all about developing special meridians and acupoints."

"As for the 'Hundred Solutions to Hidden Weapons,' you can study the mechanical principles behind low-level hidden weapons. As for high-level hidden weapons..."

"It can only be said that its existence is no less meaningless than begging with a golden rice bowl, and most of the advanced techniques for making hidden weapons have already been lost."

There's really no need to spend time researching it; we can just use a higher-level soul tool as a substitute later.

Then Bei Bei took out our old actor's storage belt, a replica of the one from the Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moonlit Night, from his own storage soul tool and gave it to Huo Yuhao.

Under Bei Bei's guidance, Huo Yuhao quickly mastered how to use this soul tool.

Tang Ya smiled and said, "Alright, let's have breakfast first. After breakfast, we'll continue our journey back to Shrek!"

Huo Yuhao and his two companions made their way to Shrek Academy. Their pace was not very fast, and because they had to bypass the Star Dou Great Forest, it took them some extra time.

Along the way, Tang Ya and Bei Bei were both quite shocked by Huo Yuhao's talent.

His physical attributes were terrible, coupled with his exceptional comprehension and superb mutated martial soul.

In their eyes, Huo Yuhao is top-notch in everything except for his cultivation talent, right?

"I used to think that Xiaoya was being a bit too reckless by accepting Yuhao, but now it seems like you really hit the jackpot," Beibei said with a complicated expression.

Although the Mysterious Heaven Skill was castrated by Tang San, its ability to strengthen the body and nourish the vital energy can still help Huo Yuhao make up for his lack of innate talent to the greatest extent.

Adding to Huo Yuhao's own comprehension and insight, Bei Bei could only say that Tang Ya was just a fool with good fortune. Tang Ya chuckled, quite satisfied.

"Wow, Yuhao, the creativity of you humans is truly terrifying. This cultivation method is much faster than your previous soul power cultivation." Tianmeng Ice Silkworm said to Huo Yuhao through mental sharing.

Because of the mutation of his martial soul, Huo Yuhao can only communicate with Tianmeng Ice Silkworm through mental sharing when he agrees.

"This is just the beginning. Much more to shock you is yet to come, and this technique isn't even that powerful. There are far more powerful ones waiting for you."

"And Tianmeng, you should know that humanity's greatest strength lies in standing on the shoulders of giants to reach even greater goals."

"Inheritance, intellect, and wisdom—these are the reasons why humanity has been able to dominate the world."

Even though soul beasts possess intelligence and wisdom, they can never learn to inherit their skills because their lifespans are simply too long.

"Furthermore, there are too few peers with whom they can engage in equal communication, and their thinking is too simplistic and naive."

"Your lifespans are so long that you only think about what to do for your descendants when you are on your deathbed."

"And this also means that you soul beasts are absolutely incapable of forming a decent civilization."

Even if a powerful individual temporarily controls all the soul beasts and unites them into a tribe using their immense strength, once that most powerful individual falls, the remaining beasts will scatter like birds and beasts, ultimately disintegrating and facing utter destruction.

"And these other 'people' now, in my opinion, have also lost the true pride that belongs to humanity. Brother Tianmeng, just you wait and see, I'll make them understand that knowledge is power!"

Hearing Huo Yuhao's words, although it was hard to understand, the unwavering conviction and arrogant superiority in his belief made Tianmeng Ice Silkworm examine this little person for the first time.

Perhaps if Huo Yuhao were to reach the pinnacle one day, it wouldn't be because of his own choices that Huo Yuhao achieved his success, but rather because of Huo Yuhao's existence that he was able to realize the crazy plan he had devised when he was on the verge of death.

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