Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 373 The Ice Emperor's Claw, Soon It Won't Be Frozen Anymore

If Huo Yuhao's soul power cultivation were higher, even if it were only at the Soul King level, perhaps he wouldn't have had to go through all this trouble.

After all, Huo Yuhao's first spirit ring wasn't just the Holy Flame Blade from the beginning, but also a Dispel.

[Soul Skill - Dispel: A secret soul skill unique to the Holy Angel race, bestowed by the Mother of All Spirits as a blessing upon the angels. It forcibly removes all special buffs from a designated target within a range.]

The last inheritor of the Holy Angel was a goddess who once used this technique to defend against invading deities. Even so, defeat still befell her. Behind this defeat lurks an air of conspiracy, and seems to conceal a despicable betrayal.

If Huo Yuhao's soul power were deep enough, he might be able to easily remove the black flames inside Ma Xiaotao's body using the "Dispel" soul skill.

Whether it's Huo Yuhao's Holy Flame Sword Blade, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's buffs, or Dai Yueheng's White Tiger Vajra Transformation, they will all dissipate like a gentle breeze under this soul skill.

However, this soul skill is also the most energy-consuming of all the soul skills Huo Yuhao has mastered. Against soul masters of the same level, no enemy can force Huo Yuhao to use this move. Against opponents whose soul power level is far higher than his own, this soul skill consumes too much soul power.

For this reason, apart from the time a few years ago when Ma Xiaotao's evil fire went berserk and she ran out of the inner courtyard, Huo Yuhao has basically never used this soul skill again. In Huo Yuhao's estimation, the soul skill will not be able to truly exert its effect until he reaches level 50, or even level 70.

Moreover, whether it's the Holy Flame Sword Blade, the White Tiger Vajra Transformation, or the Seven Treasures Light, these powers all share a common characteristic: they are all temporary. It is precisely because of this that Huo Yuhao was able to easily remove them using his Soul Dispelling Skill.

However, the Dark Phoenix power flowing through Ma Xiaotao's body now is probably not just a temporary boost.

Taking a deep breath, Huo Yuhao held a baby bottle in his left hand and placed his right hand on Ma Xiaotao's wrist, beginning to slowly guide the power within Ma Xiaotao's body.

Although Ma Xiaotao was in extreme pain from the black flames burning inside her body, she managed to maintain a minimum level of clarity in her mind. She cooperated by releasing the power within her body, allowing Huo Yuhao's soul power to seep into her.

The next moment, the incomparably violent power of the Dark Phoenix seemed to have found an outlet, and surged wildly into Huo Yuhao's meridians. The power was unparalleled in its brutality and madness, as if it wanted to crush Huo Yuhao in an instant.

"laugh--"

Huo Yuhao's right hand and forearm became extremely hard at this moment, as if he were wearing a pair of ice crystal gloves, with each diamond crystal on the gloves refracting dazzling light.

The power surging from Ma Xiaotao's body was immediately met by the first line of defense formed by the Ice Emperor's Claw as soon as it passed through Huo Yuhao's right hand. The originally violent power instantly cooled down, and the fiery power that was originally contained within the power dissipated with a hiss.

When the Dark Phoenix power, which had been forcibly cooled by the Ice Emperor's Claw, had become pure dark power, it encountered a second line of defense as it flowed through Huo Yuhao's right hand and along his meridians to his arm.

A golden flame ignited in Huo Yuhao's left palm and slowly rested on his right arm. The power of the holy flame seeped into the depths of Huo Yuhao's meridians. When the dark power reached this point, an even more piercing sound rang out.

"laugh----"

It was as if a pot of boiling hot oil had been poured directly onto the ice. The dark power, which had already melted away the flames on the Ice Emperor's Claw, was powerless against the second line of defense prepared by Huo Yuhao.

How could a mere surge of dark power possibly contend with Huo Yuhao's dual-attribute Holy Flame?

The melting of ice and snow is Huo Yuhao's best interpretation of the current state of this dark power.

However, it was far from the point where Huo Yuhao could let his guard down. The Dark Phoenix power he had purified was just a tiny, barely perceptible wisp of power within Ma Xiaotao's body.

Soon, even more and more surging Dark Phoenix power found Huo Yuhao as an outlet, and the power, carrying a crazy will, roared and surged towards Huo Yuhao like a river.

Elder Xuan watched Huo Yuhao's movements cautiously. Large wisps of steam rose up from Huo Yuhao's right arm, and streams of black power surged into Huo Yuhao's body through Ma Xiaotao's wrist. The ferocity of this power even made him feel uneasy.

"Master Xuan, the baby bottle."

Huo Yuhao spat out the baby bottle he had been holding in his teeth. In just a few minutes, he had completely drained the soul power stored in that bottle.

Elder Xuan hurriedly took out a brand new baby bottle. Huo Yuhao didn't care about whether it was elegant or not, and directly bit it with his teeth, circulating his soul power to absorb the soul power in the baby bottle.

It would be a pipe dream for Huo Yuhao to purify all the power in Ma Xiaotao's body with his own soul power reserves alone. Even though Ma Xiaotao's soul power was reduced to less than 30% after her battle with Ma Rulong, her total soul power was probably equivalent to that of a high-level Soul King.

Huo Yuhao, on the other hand, was only a level 30, two-ring Soul Master. The difference in their Soul Power reserves was more than tenfold!

Even if Huo Yuhao used a portion of his soul power to purify two portions of Dark Phoenix power, he would never have been able to accomplish this feat without the milk bottle's assistance.

More and more Dark Phoenix power surged into Huo Yuhao's body, and time passed second by second. Huo Yuhao remained motionless, like a statue. Only the steam rising from Huo Yuhao's right arm and the gradual return of color to Ma Xiaotao's face made it clear that time had not actually stopped.

As the dark aura on Ma Xiaotao's pale face gradually faded and a touch of color returned, Elder Xuan finally felt a little relieved.

It seems that Yuhao's method is effective.

However, Huo Yuhao's expression was not good, because he had already discovered that even the ultimate ice had a limit to its resistance to the power of fire.

The temperature of Huo Yuhao's Ice Emperor Claw had slowly risen from over minus 150 degrees Celsius to less than minus 100 degrees Celsius. This temperature was basically equivalent to the temperature of Ling Luochen's most powerful soul skill.

Hyotei's Claw will soon be free of ice!

Sensing this, Huo Yuhao could only smile wryly, but he had no better solution.

(End of this chapter)