Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 160 The Soul-Devouring Fierce Blade (Daily 10,000 words)

Huo Yuhao released his mental probe, his mental energy slowly landing on the carving knife. The next moment, his body trembled, and he covered his eyes with his hands in a somewhat disheveled manner.

"Yuhao, what's wrong?"

Ning Ge nervously placed his hand on Huo Yuhao's shoulder.

It took Huo Yuhao several seconds to recover, but when he lowered his hands, Ning Tian clearly saw tears welling up in his eyes.

"It's too sharp, too fast. I used my mental detection to examine this carving knife, but it even managed to cut through my mental energy."

Huo Yuhao looked shocked. Just as his mental probe landed on the carving knife, he felt an indescribable sharpness.

That sharpness pierced through his mental detection almost instantly, startling Huo Yuhao into quickly withdrawing his mental energy.

"I've never seen anything so sharp as to be able to slice through someone's mental energy. I've really learned something new today."

Huo Yuhao took a deep breath, still feeling a bit shaken. This was the first time his mental detection had failed him in all this time.

"I've really overexerted myself. Last time I woke up, I saw a powerful, nourishing force flying into my mouth. This time, I even saw the Gold of Life. No, I need to sleep a little longer."

In Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea, the gray sphere that had been dormant suddenly awoke and coalesced into the form of an old man, muttering to himself.

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had been sleeping peacefully for several months without showing its face. However, it was instantly awakened after sensing that Huo Yuhao's mental energy had been sliced ​​open by an extremely sharp entity. This thing was much more effective than the brain.

"Who? Who the hell came knocking on our door? Another bastard trying to steal our territory? I'm not afraid of you!"

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm leaps three feet high.

Qian Daoliu also woke up from his nap, comforted Tianmeng, and then looked up at the old man who came out of the gray sphere before saying, "It seems that Yuhao has seen something new. Don't panic."

"Master Qian, Brother Tianmeng, and senior, you're awake too?"

Huo Yuhao's spiritual form slowly condensed in the sea of ​​consciousness, greeted the others one by one, and then looked at the illusory old man's form.

"Yes, I'm awake. I have to thank you for the divine power you gave me. Although the quantity was small, the quality was extremely high. I won't fall back into a deep sleep for a while."

The old man nodded and slowly said, "I don't remember much, but I seem to have been called the Necromancer Saint, the Undead Calamity, or something like that. As for my real name, I think it was Ilex?"

Electrolux looked thoughtful; that was all the memories he could recall about himself.

"Then, Elder Yi," Huo Yuhao looked at Electrolux and, finding that the other party didn't seem to mind being addressed that way, continued, "Elder Yi, I heard you say that the carving knife in front of me is made of the Gold of Life?"

"Hmm, not bad. Just like a pearl covered in dust is still a pearl, although this living gold in front of me seems to have been tainted, it can still be a treasure with a little treatment. At least with this treasure by your side, I don't have to worry about my wisp of divine consciousness dissipating."

Elder Yi spoke slowly, glancing at Qian Daoliu and Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, who were also listening attentively:

"For the two of you, this is also a treasure for nurturing your souls. I just casually browsed through this child's spiritual sea and learned a lot of interesting things. However, I apologize for browsing through your memories, little one. I seem to have done this kind of thing often before; it's become a habit."

At this point, Electrolux slowly nodded to Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao could only shrug helplessly. It seemed that the tenants who moved into his spiritual sea all had the habit of looking through his memories first, but before his spiritual power level improved, there really wasn't a good way to manage them.

"Don't be too discouraged, little guy. It's just a method to encrypt the Sea of ​​Spirit. I still have some memories about this. I'll give it to you when the time comes, as compensation for my free access to your memories."

Electrolux smiled and said, "But you'd better use your first soul skill to purify that carving knife forged from the gold of life. It's a real treasure. As for me, I'll have a chat with my two 'comrades' in your sea of ​​consciousness first."

At this point, Electrolux winked at Huo Yuhao with a strange look, quite like a mischievous old man.

Huo Yuhao looked at Qian Daoliu and Tianmeng Bingcan. They were also inclined to talk to each other first, so they nodded to Huo Yuhao.

After pulling himself out of the sea of ​​consciousness, Huo Yuhao turned his gaze back to the 'Soul-Devouring Blade'. Although the group had held a short meeting in the sea of ​​consciousness, the speed of spiritual energy transmission was extremely fast. Despite their long conversation, only a brief moment had passed in the real world.

He slowly reached for the 'Soul-Devouring Blade', and as soon as he grasped it, Huo Yuhao's body trembled violently.

The Soul-Devouring Blade seemed to have become an endless black hole, attempting to devour his soul power. Moreover, an extremely cold and sinister aura, accompanied by a terrifyingly fierce energy, was drilling into his body along his arm.

When that extremely ferocious aura swept over, Huo Yuhao felt as if his soul power had been ripped open and split in two. This feeling was extremely uncomfortable, as if his head had been forcibly cut open.

In response, Huo Yuhao simply released his spirit ring. His first spirit ring, which was originally pale yellow, turned golden at this moment. Huo Yuhao's spirit power first circulated through the spirit ring before flowing back to his arm.

In an instant, the ferocious aura that could have easily split Huo Yuhao's soul power in two retreated frantically like a mouse seeing a cat. As a result, the ferocious blade itself emitted a somewhat mournful hum, and its body trembled slightly as it released a wisp of azure energy.

"Hmph? Trying to escape!"

A smile appeared on Huo Yuhao's lips, and the golden soul ring beneath his feet shone with an extremely dazzling golden light. A ball of golden flame rose from Huo Yuhao's palm and slowly crawled towards the hilt of the Soul Devouring Blade.

The moment the golden flame in Huo Yuhao's palm landed on the Soul-Devouring Carving Blade, the blade trembled violently. A series of humming sounds, like mournful screams, emanated from the blade. Anyone with a weak will would likely be severely affected by such a sound.

At this moment, the three tenants in the Sea of ​​Spirit seemed to have finished their conversation, and Elder Yi even transmitted a trace of spiritual fluctuation to Huo Yuhao with great interest.

"To inject evil thoughts and curses into the gold of life, how could the instigator even think of such a thing?"

Qian Daoliu glanced at the screaming creature, Jin, and offered his own sharp critique.

"It feels inferior to the Rakshasa lineage. That smell is truly repulsive. These evil thoughts and curses are nothing compared to the malice that woman cultivates in her heart every day."

(End of this chapter)