Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 266 Flowing Water and Treading the Moon (Daily 10,000 words)

However, Huo Yuhao had no intention of giving Xixi any time to be surprised. He twisted his body in mid-air, stepped into empty space, and plunged down from mid-air. His legs were like scissors, directly wrapping around Xixi's fragile neck.

The next moment, taking advantage of the impact of falling, Huo Yuhao twisted his waist and exerted force with his thigh, slamming Xixi heavily to the ground. His knee was pressed tightly against Xixi's chest, and the blade of his katana was already pointed at Xixi's neck.

Fortunately, at the last moment, Huo Yuhao suddenly realized that the Xixi in front of him was a living person, not the one he could fight to the death with in his battle memories. So he hurriedly put away his katana, stood up, and awkwardly reached out to help the other person up.

"you!"

With a mixture of grief and indignation, Xixi looked at the brat in front of her who had humiliated her and even reached out to pull her away. She slapped Huo Yuhao's hand away, then sprang to her feet and silently returned to her group, a glistening tear in the corner of her eye.

"What a shameless brat who doesn't know how to cherish women."

Elder Xuan, holding his wine gourd, looked at Huo Yuhao, who had a rather embarrassed expression, with a smile.

"Yuhao, is this the 'little' new thing you just came up with?"

Elder Xuan deliberately emphasized the word "a little".

Huo Yuhao scratched his head, looking somewhat lost: "I guess so. It's because Senior Sister Xixi put too much pressure on me in the last Soul Battle, so I entered a deep meditation state. I've been thinking about how to effectively dodge Senior Sister Xixi's unpredictable lightning arrows, and then I figured out something."

Xi Xi rolled her eyes when she heard Huo Yuhao's words. Had she put too much pressure on Huo Yuhao? What a joke! In the last match, weren't you the one who was dominating me the whole time?

Having been bullied by Huo Yuhao twice, Xixi's temper is now showing signs of changing towards Ma Xiaotao's.

"Then I'll have to put more pressure on you from now on, kid. One battle against someone of a higher level, one deep meditation, and you've created a self-made soul skill. I don't even know what to say."

Elder Xuan chuckled upon hearing this. While self-created soul skills cannot take shape naturally like those granted by soul rings, every soul master capable of creating their own is an exceptionally talented individual, achieving this through a combination of their own circumstances. Countless people spend their entire lives without ever possessing a self-created soul skill.

As for Huo Yuhao, this old man already knows of two!

"Since that's the case, Yuhao, why don't you share with everyone the name of your newly created soul skill, and also tell everyone about your thought process in creating this soul skill?"

Elder Xuan, always eager for a good show, pushed Huo Yuhao forward. Fortunately, Huo Yuhao wasn't intimidated and confidently said:

"I currently call this footwork 'Flowing Water Stepping on the Moon.' It is a footwork I created by combining my experience and knowledge with my own needs. It is still very rudimentary. The style of the footwork comes from my Flowing Water Sword Technique, while retaining the characteristic of walking on air."

"In order to find a better way to dodge Senior Sister Xixi's lightning arrows and similar attacks, I have been thinking about how to improve my dodging methods. At this time, I thought of the scene when Dean Qian and Senior Poison Undying were sparring. Dean Qian was sent flying by Senior Poison Undying's palm, but then he stepped into the air and rushed back to fight."

"Then, I thought of the Ghost Shadow Step that Brother Beibei had used during the Soul Battle recently, and drew some inspiration from it. During a period of deep meditation, my mind was clear and my thoughts were smooth. I figured out how to circulate my soul power to temporarily walk on air. Then I combined the three together, and finally it became the Flowing Water Moon Step."

After Huo Yuhao finished speaking, apart from Elder Xuan who kept nodding with a smile to indicate that he understood, the others mainly had two expressions.

The first type of expression, based on Wang Dong, was unclear to them as to what this level of self-created soul skill represented, and their reaction was simply "Aba aba aba aba aba."

They could understand each word Huo Yuhao said individually, but they couldn't understand them when they were put together.

Another expression was one of shock. Ma Xiaotao and the other inner court disciples were the ones whose pupils were practically shaking. It turned out that Huo Yuhao's self-created soul skill was actually a sudden inspiration, a flash of inspiration, not something he had pondered for many years without making any progress, and something he had developed after fighting with Xixi and engaging in deep meditation.

This is a self-created soul skill! And judging from Huo Yuhao's proficiency, it's clearly already incredibly skilled. It's an extremely mature self-created soul skill. Others wouldn't be able to use a self-created soul skill with this level of proficiency without honing it for ten or twenty years!

In just one hour, he created a self-made soul skill that others might never be able to figure out in a lifetime, and he even pushed it to a near-perfect state in one go. The people in the inner courtyard looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

They were truly amazed today – it was like being stabbed in the backside with a small knife.

These so-called geniuses finally know what a true martial arts genius is today. In the face of Huo Yuhao's heaven-defying martial arts talent, they are nothing, and they don't even have the slightest thought of catching up.

Creating a basic, complete self-made soul skill from scratch in just one hour is not a question of difficulty, but rather a question of how to achieve it at all.

To draw an analogy, if someone breaks through to level 60 earlier than them, they can indeed increase their cultivation speed and, compared to others, at least catch up.

However, this person's first spirit ring was 100,000 years old, and all his subsequent spirit rings were also 100,000 years old. So it's not a matter of chasing or not chasing; there's simply no way to catch up.

I can't exactly go back to the drawing board and start all over again, can I?!

If Huo Yuhao created a self-made soul skill in just one hour, they could barely accept it, since most of the self-made soul skills at the beginning were actually quite useless and needed constant polishing to gradually become perfect.

Have you not seen the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique, the legendary martial art of the Haotian Sect? It originally only had nine hammer blows, but after countless generations of disciples perfected it, it became eighty-one hammer blows.

Feng Xiaotian, a Soul Master with the mutated martial soul of the Twin-Headed Gale Wolf with innate full soul power, wasted his innate full soul power aptitude. At just over twenty years old, he was only at level forty-something, and in the end, he could only barely manage to unleash the Gale Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes.

But Huo Yuhao is not!

The Flowing Water Stepping Moon Footwork he created was a near-perfect footwork from the moment it was born. Perhaps it was still rudimentary in Huo Yuhao's eyes, but it could already be perfectly applied to actual combat, which was simply too incredible.

(End of this chapter)