Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 636 If you don't work hard in your regular cultivation, you'll become brothers in the Ten Thousand Soul Banner (8K)

Soon, an elderly man dressed in yellow walked over and stood behind Huo Yuhao, just like the situation behind the other competition tables.

Three staff members carried trays and presented more than ten kinds of inexpensive rare metal blocks, which were the materials for making soul tools.

Huo Yuhao casually picked up a piece of rare metal, and then his right hand began to move.

Pale blue soul power slowly gathered in his palm.

His fingers trembled slightly, and each fingertip condensed into a crystal-clear frost nail, as sharp as a shard of ice, gleaming with a chilling light.

The fingernails that had gathered in his hands trembled slightly, like extremely sharp carving knives, giving the impression of ripples spreading across a metal table. Metal shavings poured down, but instead of scattering, they dispersed neatly in all directions.

Huo Yuhao's movements were light and elegant, as if he were performing a silent dance. His fingertips traced patterns in the rare metal, and these patterns intertwined to form a complex soul-guiding core array.

Under Huo Yuhao's rhythmic movements, the irregular piece of refined steel quickly transformed into a rectangle. Then, strange patterns began to appear on it, and it was disassembled and engraved. The entire process was as smooth as flowing water.

The seemingly simple trembling of the fingers was so precise that the old man in yellow looked somewhat dazed.

The technique Huo Yuhao used to carve the soul guide core array was something he had never heard of before, and for Huo Yuhao, this was just the beginning.

Soon, after the outer core magic array of this rare metal was completed, Huo Yuhao's movements stopped abruptly.

A pair of hands bathed in pale blue light held the half-drawn soul guide core array in their palms, and clusters of pure, deep-cold energy flowed into the interior of the rare metal under Huo Yuhao's exquisite control.

One minute, two minutes

Five minutes passed, and Huo Yuhao made almost no move, leaving the old man in yellow unsure of what Huo Yuhao was doing.

Was it a design flaw discovered when the soul tool circuitry was being drawn, or...?

Before the old man in yellow could speak, offering to replace the materials for Huo Yuhao, Huo Yuhao finally released his hands, which were clasped together at the center of the rare metal.

"My soul tool is finished."

"what?"

The old man in yellow was stunned. How was it done already? Did the other person even know what he was saying?

Before the old man in yellow could say anything more, Huo Yuhao had already tossed the soul tool over. The old man in yellow carefully caught the soul tool, and the blue soul power that had been flowing on the rare metal suddenly disappeared.

Kara, kara, kara kara kara.

The sound of fine ice shards breaking rang out, and tiny fragments of rare metal powder fell to the ground with a dripping sound.

The old man in yellow widened his eyes and subconsciously shook the rare metal block in his hand. The next moment, large pieces of rare metal fragments fell off, and a metal banner with a hollow interior and an extremely complex structure appeared in front of the old man in yellow without any warning.

What the hell is this soul tool manufacturing method?

The old man in yellow stood frozen in place, as if he had taken a mental shock from Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao simply leaned back in his chair, somewhat bored, and watched the other contestants perform.

The Eternal Frozen Hand, evolved from the Ice and Snow Emperors, is more versatile than the Ice Emperor's Claw in many situations. In addition to normal fighting, the Eternal Frozen Hand can also deform to a certain extent according to Huo Yuhao's needs, which is something the Ice Emperor's Claw cannot do.

That's why Huo Yuhao's carving speed is so fast - using all ten fingers at the same time is like using ten carving knives to carve the core array of the soul tool. How could it not be fast?

Of course, saying that one can use one's mind for ten purposes is a bit of an exaggeration. However, for Huo Yuhao, who has taken the Dew of Longing for Autumn Water and whose mental strength has been enhanced to the point of reaching the Seven Apertures Exquisite Mind realm, using one's mind for seven purposes is not difficult at all.

As for what the old man in yellow saw later, which transformed a soul tool with only a rare metal exterior engraved with a core array into a complete soul tool with a hollow internal structure in an instant, this was also thanks to the Hand of Eternal Freeze.

Under Huo Yuhao's mental scan, as long as Huo Yuhao has a sketch in his mind, the rest is almost effortless. The extremely cold air enters the rare metal, freezing it until it is brittle and deformed. Any part that does not conform to the sketch in Huo Yuhao's mind is frozen.

The next step was to take the rare metal like the old man in yellow, shake it casually to remove the fragments that had long been frozen and lost their metallic properties, and what remained was the soul tool with the core array outlined inside.

Huo Yuhao dared to say that, looking across the Sun Moon Empire, there was probably no one else with the ability to carve inside rare metals using a combination of mental power detection and ultimate ice.

In terms of the production speed of low-level soul tools, especially the production speed of soul tools that require carving soul tool core arrays inside rare metals, even Jing Hongchen would have to follow in his footsteps.

The old man in yellow had not yet fully recovered from his shock. He gripped the handle of the metal banner and waved it gently.

What was originally a solid block of rare metal has now become extremely mechanically beautiful. Under Huo Yuhao's control of the ultimate ice, the originally long strip of rare metal has been transformed into a metal banner with an intricate internal structure, which sways up and down with the old man in yellow.

The old man in yellow carefully infused his soul power into it. The metal banner immediately lit up.

Amidst the old man's low gasp, he felt his soul power being violently absorbed by the soul tool, even becoming somewhat out of his control. Then he sensed the activation of a core soul power compression array within the soul tool.

A captivating power rose from the metal banner, nearly causing the yellow-robed elder, who was only at the Soul Venerable level, to lose his composure. He instinctively severed the power of the metal banner, thus breaking free from that powerful attraction.

The old man in yellow hesitated for a moment, then cautiously asked, "Sir, if I may be so bold as to ask, what exactly is this metal banner?"

"If you don't work hard in your regular cultivation, you'll just be brothers in the Ten Thousand Soul Banner."

Huo Yuhao casually asked, "How did it go? I guess I passed?"

The old man in yellow respectfully handed the metal banner back to Huo Yuhao: "Of course, of course. This metal banner you made has a strong ability to interfere with my mind. It is definitely a rare and excellent spiritual tool."

(End of this chapter)