Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao, the villain from a parallel world

Seeing that he could think so clearly at such a young age, Xu Tianlin showed a look of genuine satisfaction.

He nodded slightly, his tone softening: "It's good that you understand, but I won't let you suffer this injustice for nothing."

"I have already instructed Mingde Hall to calculate the patent fee for the energy storage array according to the highest standards. You will receive your share, not a single gold coin less."

He then changed the subject and continued, "In addition, after discussing with Master Kong, I have decided to give you an extra reward. This is the Empire's recognition of your contribution."

After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and waved lightly at the waiter standing beside him.

The waiter bowed and accepted the order, then turned around and picked up a brocade box from the table behind him, carrying it with both hands as he walked to Huo Yuhao.

The brocade box was only about a foot long, made entirely of dark purple sandalwood, with delicate cloud patterns carved on the lid and dark gold metal corner protectors at the four corners.

The box itself is quite valuable, not to mention what's inside.

Huo Yuhao did not immediately reach out to take it, but instead turned to look at Kong Deming.

Kong Deming nodded slightly, then reached out and steadily took the brocade box.

The brocade box felt heavy in his hand. Before he could even open the lid, a strong spiritual fluctuation seeped out through the cracks in the wooden box.

The fluctuation was pure and domineering, trembling slightly in his palm like a living thing, and the surrounding air rippled visiblely under the disturbance of this fluctuation.

It is a soul bone, and a soul bone with spiritual attributes.

"Open it and take a look." Xu Tianlin leaned back in his chair, a look of anticipation on his face.

Chapter 65 The Skull of the Fifty-Thousand-Year-Old Evil-Eyed Tyrant (Please continue reading!)

Huo Yuhao opened the brocade box as instructed.

The moment the box was opened, a powerful spiritual wave poured out like an invisible storm, causing the candlelight in the study to dim and the whisk in the servant's hand to shake violently a few times in the process.

The brocade box was lined with deep red velvet, and on it lay a piece of pure silver-white soul bone.

It was a skull, complete and exquisitely shaped, with an outline that closely resembled that of a human skull, but smaller than a real human skull.

The bone has an almost transparent silvery-white color, and it gleams with a faint metallic luster under the light.

The surface of the skull was covered with fine, dark patterns. These patterns were not artificially created, but rather naturally occurring soul power circuits.

Each one emitted a faint, eerie glow, flowing slowly as if it were alive.

At the brow bone of the skull is a thumb-sized dark purple crystal, with light constantly surging within it, as if hiding an eye that is forever open.

Huo Yuhao stared at the skull for a few moments, his face revealing just the right amount of shock.

After all, in the Douluo Continent, soul bones are rare treasures that are hard to come by, and spirit-attribute soul bones are the rarest and most precious of all soul bones.

Among the spirit-attribute soul bones, the skull is the rarest of the six major soul bone parts of the entire body.

It would be unusual for an eleven-year-old boy not to show some shock when he sees a treasure of this caliber for the first time.

Xu Tianlin was very satisfied with his reaction. He smiled slightly and introduced, "This skull came from a 50,000-year-old Evil Eye Tyrant."

"That evil-eyed tyrant wreaked havoc within the territory of the Sun and Moon Empire back then, and Master Kong personally took action to kill it."

"It possesses both dark and spiritual attributes, and its soul bone also contains both of these powers."

"I heard from Master Kong that your martial soul is of the spiritual attribute, and this soul bone is very compatible with you."

Huo Yuhao's heart stirred slightly.

The Evil Eye Tyrant is an anomaly among soul beasts, known for its spiritual power. With 50,000 years of cultivation, it is a force that can give even a Title Douluo a headache.

Soul bones of this caliber would fetch astronomical starting prices at auction houses, and there would be no market for them.

Xu Tianlin's decision to offer it as a reward was certainly motivated by a desire to win people's hearts, but it was probably also due in no small part to Kong Deming's mediation.

He glanced at Kong Deming beside him again. The old man still had that calm and collected look, as if he hadn't done anything.

He withdrew his gaze, closed the brocade box again, and bowed deeply to Xu Tianlin with both hands: "Thank you for your generous gift, Your Majesty. I will certainly study diligently and live up to the expectations of Your Majesty and my master."

Xu Tianlin smiled and waved his hand, then said some words of encouragement, nothing more than telling him to cultivate diligently and continue to contribute his talents to the empire.

Huo Yuhao responded politely to each of them, neither flattering nor distant.

After speaking for a while, Kong Deming glanced at the sky outside the window and interrupted their conversation: "Your Majesty, it's getting late."

"Yuhao will be attending class with me tomorrow, and he needs to go back tonight to fuse with this soul bone. If there's nothing else, I'll take my leave now."

Xu Tianlin nodded and didn't try to stop him: "Go ahead. Elder Kong, I'll leave Yuhao in your care."

Kong Deming responded and led Huo Yuhao out of the side hall.

The two returned along the same route they had taken, passing through numerous palace gates and corridors, without exchanging a word.

Only after walking out of the vermilion gate of the palace and standing once again on the wide streets of Mingdu did Kong Deming stop and turn around to look at Huo Yuhao.

"Yuhao, fuse with this soul bone as soon as you get back."

His tone remained calm, but it carried a hint of elder's concern compared to when he was in front of the emperor: "The skull of the 50,000-year-old Evil Eye Tyrant, once fused, can greatly enhance your spiritual power."

"It will be of great benefit to your future cultivation as well as to the creation of soul tools."

"The fusion process may be a little painful, but with your strong will, there shouldn't be any problems."

"Thank you, Grandmaster, I understand," Huo Yuhao nodded in response.

Kong Deming nodded slightly and said nothing more.

He raised his hand and gently patted Huo Yuhao on the shoulder before turning and walking towards his residence.

Huo Yuhao watched his figure disappear into the night before turning and walking towards the dormitory.

Back in his dormitory, Huo Yuhao locked the door, took the sandalwood brocade box out of his storage ring, and placed it flat on the table.

As the lid was lifted, that powerful spiritual energy once again emanated, and the silvery-white skull lay quietly on the deep red velvet.

The dark purple crystal between his eyebrows shimmered faintly in the dim light.

"A skull with spiritual attributes from 50,000 years ago, what a pleasant surprise," Huo Yuhao muttered to himself, a slight smile playing on his lips.

Being able to obtain something like this at this stage is indeed a great help.

However, the "help" he referred to was not about fusing with this soul bone.

After all, he was a god-king in his previous life. His 50,000-year-old soul bone was a rare treasure in the eyes of others, but he did not see it that way.

Once his cultivation level recovers to a certain extent, obtaining a 100,000-year-old soul bone will not be impossible.

There's no need to rush to fill one of your six precious soul bone slots with a 50,000-year-old one right now.

What he valued was the power inherent in this soul bone itself.

In essence, soul bones are nothing more than crystals formed from the condensed power within a soul beast at the moment of its death; their nature is pure energy.

Just like the skull in front of us, it is a solid crystal formed by the condensation of a large amount of spiritual energy and some dark energy.

For others on the Douluo Continent, the only way to obtain the power within a soul bone is to fuse it into their own body and make it a part of their physical form.

However, Huo Yuhao had another path: he decomposed the soul bone back into pure energy and then absorbed it directly.

In this way, he could obtain the power without taking up the space of his soul bone, which was undoubtedly the best choice for him.

Huo Yuhao sat cross-legged by the bed, holding the silvery-white skull in his palms.

He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, two dark black flames had ignited deep within his pupils.

A deep and eerie aura slowly emanated from his palm, enveloping the entire skull.

The power of chaos, the power that destroys all order.

Under the erosion of chaotic power, the originally stable energy structure of the soul bone began to disintegrate from its deepest part.

The naturally occurring dark patterns on the skull surface began to flash violently, and the dark purple crystal at the center of the brow emitted a series of low tremors, like a mournful cry.

As the chaotic power continued to seep in, the entire soul bone began to become transparent at a speed visible to the naked eye. The hard bone material began to peel away layer by layer from the edges, turning into silvery-white light spots.

Chapter 66, Level 17, Nine Months

At the same time, wisps of dark mist emanated from the depths of the skull; these were the dark attribute energies contained within the soul bone.

In just a short while, the solidified soul bone completely lost its original form.

It was no longer a bone, but had transformed into a mass of energy floating between Huo Yuhao's palms.

The main body is a silvery-white light that flows slowly like mercury, which is pure spiritual energy; the outer part is surrounded by wisps of black mist, which is the residual power of darkness.

The two energies slowly rotated under the constraint of the chaotic force, like a small nebula.

Huo Yuhao slightly clenched his fingers, and the ball of silvery-white spiritual energy seemed to be drawn in, transforming into a thin stream of light that entered his brow.

At the same time, wisps of black mist slowly seeped into his dantian along the meridians in his arm.

Spiritual energy surged into the sea of ​​spirit, transforming into a silvery-white rain of light that fell upon the ravaged land.

Huo Yuhao controlled this vast and pure spiritual power, guiding it towards the dense cracks deep within his soul.

The Evil Eye Tyrant was a top-tier spirit beast, and the purity of its spiritual power far surpassed that of ordinary spirit beasts. Its repair effect was several times stronger than that of the evil spirit masters' souls it had previously devoured.

Although his soul injury is still severe, the injection of this massive spiritual power has shortened the time to condense the first trace of divine power by at least several months.

He directly refined and absorbed the dark energy, integrating it into his own soul power.

The bottleneck of level sixteen soul power trembled violently under the impact of this energy, and then shattered with a crash.

At level seventeen, even a mere dark remnant of a soul bone propelled his soul power up a level.

It stopped steadily at the initial stage of level seventeen.

Huo Yuhao slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a long breath.

Looking down, he saw that his palm was empty; the 50,000-year-old skull of the Evil Eye Tyrant had now transformed into the surging power within his body.

"Not bad, I'm one step closer to level 20."

The main purpose of absorbing the soul bone this time was to accelerate the recovery of the soul and the condensation of divine power. Being able to break through one level of soul power was already an unexpected joy.

Feeling the abundant power within his body, Huo Yuhao closed his eyes and immersed himself in cultivation once again.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, nine months have passed since Huo Yuhao entered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

For the past nine months, he has been learning from Kong Deming.