Douluo Continent: Reborn as Yuhao, they all have ulterior motives.

Chapter 53 Original Sin: Greed

As time passed, Huo Yuhao's spine and ribs emitted a bright green light, which meant that the fusion of the soul bone was about to be completed. At this moment, the dark golden light in Huo Yuhao's spiritual space finally stirred.

"Um?"

The sudden turn of events immediately caught Huo Yuhao's attention. He had fully unlocked the original sin of greed more than a month ago, but had not yet discovered its effects.

The next second, a ball of energy of the same color separated from the dark golden light and rushed towards the soul bone that was being fused, after emerging from Huo Yuhao's mental space.

From Xue Di's perspective, one would see Huo Yuhao's forehead suddenly light up with a dark golden light, which then surged towards his torso bones at a relatively slow speed.

"Is this... fusion?"

Huo Yuhao frowned. Through his inner vision, he clearly saw that after the addition of the original sin of greed, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's body bone, which was originally emerald green, began to alternate between emerald green and dark gold light, as if breathing.

During this process, the two kinds of light began to slowly merge, just like water and milk blending together.

About a minute later, the entire torso bone had taken on a deep green-gold hue. Realizing that the fusion was complete, Huo Yuhao subconsciously checked it using his mental power.

Seeing Huo Yuhao's eyes widen and the look of surprise in them, the other soul beasts beside him couldn't contain their curiosity and asked questions.

"Yuhao, what happened?"

"This is a bit complicated to explain. Let's start with the soul ritual, and I'll explain it to you slowly."

While quickly setting up the soul ritual, Huo Yuhao said that the Ice Emperor had already fused his soul bone with him, and dragging it out would be dangerous for the Ice Emperor.

Huo Yuhao easily withstood the fusion of soul bones, so the soul ritual naturally went without much trouble. With his explanation, everyone understood the function of the dark golden energy from earlier.

Simply put, after being modified by the source of greed, the torso bones bestowed by Ice Emperor, like the ice-attribute martial soul, also possess the potential for evolution.

Huo Yuhao can increase the lifespan of the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's torso bones by absorbing other torso bones or energy.

If an ordinary person can only attach one soul bone to a part of their body, then this torso bone, which has been modified by the source of greed, allows Huo Yuhao to attach other soul bones to this location.

However, compared to the evolution of a martial soul, the evolution of a soul bone can only increase its lifespan. But from this point of view, the martial soul that can evolve is still more powerful, since the evolution of a martial soul is a qualitative leap.

"That"

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm hesitated for a moment, subconsciously wanting to voice the bold idea that had come to mind, but Huo Yuhao shook his head first.

"No, I sensed it and found that there are two restrictions for soul bone evolution: first, the attributes must be the same, and second, the quality of the absorbed soul bone must be stronger than the one already absorbed; otherwise, it is impossible to absorb it."

"How come your inherently greedy nature isn't greedy at all? You even look down on low-level soul bones!"

After understanding Huo Yuhao's meaning, Tianmeng Ice Silk couldn't help but make a sarcastic remark.

Be content.

Huo Yuhao rolled his eyes. "This thing is much more effective than you imagine, Brother Tianmeng."

If the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's torso bone is to be evolved beyond its current age, it can probably only be achieved by absorbing the torso bone provided by the Snow Emperor.

After all, apart from the Snow Empress, there is no other ice-attribute soul beast on the entire continent that can provide a soul bone of higher quality than the Ice Empress's. This means that it will be extremely difficult for the torso bone to evolve.

However, Huo Yuhao did not find the effect of Greed to be useless. Although he could not find higher quality soul bones, he might not be able to find higher quality energy.

Moreover, the source of greed doesn't only affect the torso bones; it can also evolve by absorbing soul bones from other parts of the body.

The purpose of this thing is not to excel, but to make up for deficiencies. When Huo Yuhao realized the role of the source of greed, the first thing he thought of was actually the left arm bone of the Ice Jade Scorpion who possessed the Ice Explosion Technique in his previous life.

The reason why the Ice Explosion Technique was so powerful in the previous life was largely because when Huo Yuhao absorbed it, the Ice Emperor modified it through his torso bones, giving it the quality of a 100,000-year-old soul bone, which made its power even greater.

Otherwise, it's just a ten-thousand-year-old soul bone, and no matter how strong it is, it won't be that powerful.

With the power of greed, he could even make this soul bone stronger than in his previous life. When that time came, the power of the Ice Blast spell would be unimaginable.

Shrek Academy.

Inner courtyard.

"Hey, look, there's a new task."

As they passed the bulletin board, a sharp-eyed inner court disciple instinctively pulled his companion aside, whose eyes lit up upon hearing this.

"Let's go take a look."

One of the requirements for inner court disciples of Shrek Academy to graduate from the inner court is to complete thirty missions issued by the Shrek Inspection Team. These missions are registered daily on a special notice board by a designated teacher for inner court disciples to check and accept.

So much so that every time the inner court disciples passed by, they would subconsciously glance at the bulletin board to see if there were any suitable tasks for them. After all, besides being a graduation requirement, this was also a way for them to earn money, so they couldn't help but be proactive.

Although the missions are entirely voluntary and the academy does not provide compensation, there are still objectives for those missions!

Especially those missions involving officials from various countries are highly sought after, and they can even cause a scramble among the inner court disciples as soon as they appear.

Compared to those Soul Masters, many officials are ordinary people, making their missions easier and allowing them to reap greater rewards.

Even though the Shrek Academy's inspection team has always touted themselves as the guardians of the continent, they still need money to better protect it, right?

Moreover, those officials often seize a large amount of money by killing just one person, which shows that they have been exploiting the common people and making money against their conscience.

Such ill-gotten gains can serve as a reward for their acts of righteousness and good deeds.

"Several people have recently gone missing in Ruixue City, suspected to be due to the appearance of evil spirit masters. The number is unknown, and you need to investigate and resolve the situation yourself. I think it's a small city north of Tiandou City?"

"Tsk, a demonic spirit master, huh?"

The disciple couldn't help but curl his lip. "Not only is it dangerous, but there's also no reward. Should we take it?"

His companion hesitated for a moment before speaking slowly.

"I think it's alright. Judging from the mission description, the missing people are all ordinary people, and there aren't many of them. Even if they are evil spirit masters, their strength shouldn't be very strong. We still have to do thirty missions, and this mission is relatively simple."

"Sigh, that's all we can do. How come Dai Yueheng is so lucky? We come here all the time and never run into any official missions, but that kid's last two missions were with officials. I even heard that he found over 100,000 gold soul coins in that official's ring during his last mission."

"Alright, stop complaining and hurry up and take the call to register."

Just as the two inner court disciples were discussing, a voice came from behind them.

"Excuse me, could I take this task?"

The two instinctively turned around and were startled when they saw who it was.

"Hello, Senior Sister!"

Hello.

Zhang Lexuan nodded slightly, as if she hadn't heard their discussion, and calmly pointed to the papers in their hands.

"Can I take on this task?"

(End of this chapter)