However, when he went to the Soul Tool Department in the evening to study with Fan Yu, he finally received good news. This time, the core disciples of the Martial and Soul Tool Departments would jointly participate in the test. In other words, the two departments wouldn't be separated. In the Soul Tool Department, the number of core disciples under the age of fifteen was scarce. The only ones that could participate and had some hope of being selected were He Caitou and Huo Yuhao. Thus, Fan Yu had directly removed all those students that didn't have any chance of passing the preliminary round. With that, the number of participants had dropped even more. And since he was a core disciple of both departments, Huo Yuhao could use soul tools during the test! This was a great boost to his fighting capability.
After consulting with the professors and receiving some pointers from Fan Yu, Huo Yuhao started to create a Class 2 soul tool that would suit him. He had only twenty days to improve his equipment, And try to get break though in his Soul Engineer Class and take his step closer to Class 3 Soul Engineer.
For the sake of saving time, as soon as he finished his class, he decided to bring all the parts back to the dormitory. He was planning to assemble his soul tool while acting as a protector for Wang Dong, who would absorb the soul bone from the auction in the meantime.
As soon as he opened the dormitory door, he was welcomed by a burst of warm and comfortable golden light that almost made him jump out of his skin. He quickly closed the door behind him.
In the middle of their dorm room, Wang Dong was earnestly inspecting the Golden Light Left Arm Bone, which was hovering in mid-air. He seemed completely engrossed by it and didn't even spare any attention to Huo Yuhao's return.
Huo Yuhao sat beside him and also carefully observed the bone. Without the barrier of the stall, one could completely experience the awesomeness of this bone just by being near it.
It hadn't been priced at 9.5 million Gold Soul Coins for nothing! It looked like an artificial sun as it hovered in the middle of the room. It's warmth filled light had spread to every corner of the room and dispersed every shadow from every corner and nook. Apart from it's warmth, the golden halo also radiated a faint pressure.
The most eye-catching parts were the fingertips. They was a pulsating strange reddish-gold light surrounding them which was continuously emitting a sharp 'chi chi' sound.
Huo Yuhao arrived behind Wang Dong and placed his hands on his vest. After that, he slowly poured his soul power into Wang Dong, activating their Haodong Power.
Wang Dong's whole body shook as he finally came back to his senses.
"I'm here. You can start." Huo Yuhao whispered.
"Fine." Wang Dong didn't waste time. He raised his left arm and activated the Haodong Power.
He had already examined the Golden Light Left Arm Bone for more than two hours. The more he looked at it, the more incredible it felt. The bone also seemed to have felt his gaze. The energy within it had started to rhythmically pulse in sync with Wang Dong's breath. This made Wang Dong slowly enter a strange meditative state.
If he had to describe his relationship with this soul bone, the most apt description would be 'like attracts like'.
When the soul power of his left arm came in contact the left arm bone, the reddish-gold light rushed toward him and started to twine around his arm.
Immediately, Wang Dong's entire body was covered with the shining reddish-gold light. A rich, dense aura of warmth rose and surged about while Wang Dong exhaled deeply. Following which, he closed his eyes and stood there calmly, enjoying the fusion.
At this point in the fusion process, the Haodong Power was irrelevant. Therefore, Huo Yuhao slowly stopped pouring his soul power into him. After stepping around in front of Wang Dong, he looked at his satisfied face and felt that it was somewhat unfair.
They had both fused with a soul bone. But why was the difference so big?
"Idiot. This is called compatibility. This soul bone has a very high compatibility with his body. Therefore, the fusion will also be very simple and quick. On the other hand, what was your cultivation level when you merged with me? Moreover, I was still alive when we combined. It's already a miracle that you succeeded at all." The Ice Impress said in a dissatisfied manner, On the side Snow Empress also snorted him .
Huo Yuhao was startled, "Ice Impress! Skydream! Snow Empress! Grey Elder! Where did the all of you go?! Didn't you hear me when I was calling you earlier? Why did the all of you keep ignoring me?"
Be it when he and Wang Dong were in danger or when he was in that awkward situation with Ma Xiaotao, these five intelligent soul rings had acted as if they didn't exist.
The Skydream Iceworm said lazily, "If you rely on us for everything, how are you ever going to become strong? We can help you raise your strength but at the end of the day, the one that has to make the breakthroughs is you. Moreover, the more your cultivation rises, the more you'll need to rely on yourself. If you can resolve the situation on your own, we're unlikely to intervene. And you have to remember that we're only soul rings, not your bodyguards. Our strength has long since merged inside your body. If you encounter a dangerous situation, we're as powerless as you in dealing with it. In the worst case, we'll die together with you! That's why you have to rely on your own power, and not on us."
Although Huo Yuhao had already left them very satisfied, nonetheless the Skydream Iceworm, Snow Empress, Grey Elder, and the Ice Empress knew that he would have to do way better if he wanted to become stronger and shock even them.
Huo Yuhao hadn't really blamed them for their actions. Therefore, he immediately said in a somewhat ashamed manner, "I'm sorry. I didn't think that someone would ambush us. I'll be more careful from now on."
The Skydream Iceworm said, "We have good news for you. You didn't suffer in vain yesterday. Although that girl's phoenix flames weren't very pure, their temperature was still quite good. In addition, the benefits your body received from that Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber were greater than what we had imagined. Therefore, we unsealed some more of our power and merged it with our soul rings and soul bones. Your soul power also increased a bit thanks to the Ice Impress and Snow Empress giving you a part of there power. According to our calculations, all of your soul rings can now put out around 8200 years of power. The power of your skills has also increased. However, you'll need to train even more now. The stronger the soul skill, the larger its consumption of soul power. If you don't have enough soul power, it will all be for naught."
As expected, it was very good news. Huo Yuhao was very happy. It was also the greatest benefit that these two sentient soul rings had brought him. Maybe, if he kept cultivating like this… one day, he wouldn't need to use his imitation skill to have red soul rings! No one else could raise the strength of their soul rings, but he could!
"Awesome, thank you very much. I won't slack off. However, I can't cultivate tonight since I need to act as a protector for Wang Dong."
At this time Snow Empress and Grey Elder speak to Yuhao we have a idea that may help you to rise your soul power and make your foundation more solid with no much hard work, Do you want it. Yuhao without hesitation speak off course yes what it was?
Snow Empress spoke with hesitate to form yin and yang with the girl with evil fire that you meet before, Yuhao did not understand and ask what was it mean Grey Elder spoke this time the girl with evil frame has yang attribute in her martial soul and your second and third martial soul was yin attribute so if you can form yin and yang with each other without side effect, both of you get only benefited like your case your soul power increase and soul force become clear not only that your physic also develop inn good direction as for girl her evil fire problem will be definitely solve, not only that her martial soul because of you will become more powerful and her soul force also become clear and her physic also develop in good direction.
Yuhao was loss for the moment and speak with red face it was impossible between us, They all know that that was happen so, they did not speak further Yuhao also did not blame them because he knew that that was for his own good that they are speak of this matter because what are them two of them are the most powerful spirit beast of the world one was first million year spirit beast and other was power that this continent can bear if he was released at his full power of hey day,so why they are willing to come to this point because they have to make him strong that he can protect himself from others without there help. But then also he just cannot accept this.
The fusion between Wang Dong and the Gold Light Left Arm Bone went more smoothly than he had imagined. The entire process from start to finish was completed in less than six hours. The process came to an end as the last thread of reddish-gold light merged into his left arm.
Huo Yuhao didn't sleep for the whole night. While acting as a protector for Wang Dong, he had also been assembling his Class 2 soul tool. Since acting as a protector was distracting, he didn't engrave the formation arrays. However, he still made a few accessories.
"Huuuu" After a long exhale, Wang Dong slowly opened his eyes. The reddish-gold light wasn't flickering through his eyes anymore.
Huo Yuhao felt that Wang Dong's disposition had changed a bit. Before, he had given off a gentle and refined feeling. But now, he seemed somewhat aggressive. It was rather similar to the feeling Ma Xiaotao gave off.
"How is it?" Huo Yuhao asked quickly.
Wang Dong nodded and replied, "I've succeeded."
"Why don't you try out your soul skill?" Huo Yuhao asked curiously.
Wang Dong said, "First, tell me about your soul skill. I'll try mine afterward."
"You still remember!" Huo Yuhao said with a smile, "Fine, I'll tell you. The name of this skill is Domain of Perpetual Ice. It can reduce the temperature within a certain range. That day, those guys were frozen and fell from the sky as a consequence of this skill. What about yours?"
Wang Dong glared at him and responded, "It's better if you look." With that, he excitedly raised his left arm. The wings of the Radiant Butterfly Goddess tore the back of his shirt and slowly spread out. Then, his left arm was completely covered in a reddish-gold radiance.
The reddish-gold light was accompanied by a dragon's roar as it pushed forwards. Afterwards, a layer of reddish-gold flames started to cover his wings. It seemed as if those already beautiful wings now had an additional outer garment, making them look even bigger. The entire room was filled with the aura of the Radiant Butterfly Goddess.
"It's called 'Golden Light', and it's an auxiliary-type skill. It can be used with any of my soul skills. I'm also unaware of its concrete ability. I'll need to test it out. But it should have the ability to increase the destructive power of my light element."
Huo Yuhao's eyes lit up. "This soul bone skill can give you an overall power up. I think I've heard Teacher Wang say that an ability like this was very rare!"
Wang Dong, who was releasing the golden light, had an even more surprised look right now. "The restoration rate of my soul power seems to have increased as well. Just like you can feel your soul power slowly reducing when you release your martial soul, right now, I can feel my soul power slowly increasing. Although it's not very clear, I can still feel it."
Huo Yuhao grabbed Wang Dong's hand. Their soul power mixed, transforming into Haodong Power. Immediately, Huo Yuhao also felt a dense light aura entering Wang Dong's body, slowly helping him recover his soul power. At this time, his soul power was abundant. Therefore, it was difficult to feel the recovering soul power clearly.
Huo Yuhao manipulated his soul power and released several skills, such as Spiritual Detection, Spiritual Sharing, Spiritual Shock, and Spiritual Interference, to consume their Haodong Power.
Under these circumstances, the feeling became clearer. That dense light aura started to quickly pour into Wang Dong's body. What made them even more surprised was that after once this light energy had poured into his body, no matter what skill it was, they all had an overall increase in power. The soul power of Huo Yuhao's Mysterious Heaven Technique was fairly calm and didn't cause any trouble either. Moreover, after mixing his power with Wang Dong's and activating the Haodong Power, Wang Dong was also able to directly make use of this power. And now, under the effect of the Golden Light, they could even recover their Haodong Power.
This surprise was simply too pleasant for them. Regardless of how much the Golden Light amplified Wang Dong's offensive capabilities, the simple fact that it could simultaneously restore their soul power was an enormous gain for them! Their combat strength in a prolonged battle would drastically increase now that they had this. Coincidentally, the Skydream Iceworm had brought up the issue of his soul power consumption in battle earlier.
"This is great news!" Huo Yuhao cheered, then immediately gave Wang Dong a big hug.
Wang Dong was dumbstruck when Huo Yuhao hugged him. His face reddened, but he didn't resist, nor did he hug Huo Yuhao back.
Huo Yuhao didn't feel that it was strange at all and smiled mischievously. "Quick, let's cultivate together to see if this golden light has any effect on our cultivation."
However, the facts proved that they hadn't been possessed by the God of Luck. The golden light was only capable of helping them restore their soul power; it didn't benefit their cultivation whatsoever. Despite this, their excitement didn't diminish in the slightest. The core disciples' qualification match would begin in nineteen days, thus any increase to Wang Dong's strength would be incredibly helpful.
The following two days were undoubtedly both tense and busy for Huo Yuhao. Besides his daily cultivation and studies, he also had to dedicate all of his energy to soul tool creation. For the sake of helping him progress faster, Fan Yu personally helped him create a few simple yet time-consuming components for a few of his soul tools. However, the formation arrays of the soul tools would still have to be personally done by Huo Yuhao. Fan Yu was very specific on this point. Even though he favored Huo Yuhao, he was still a strict teacher.
After completing all this he also get permission of Fan Yu for leave and tell goodbye to Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao at waited at the gate of Shrek Academy for senior Ma Xiatao. After some time red dot was seen from distance and there was without anything he knew it was senior Ma Xiotao. They both say hello at the same time both look exited because the stronger the Yuhao the stronger the suppression on her evil fire and promoted to Soul Elder was also the line with so many Soul Master not able to cross on there life. Yuhao recall that before he come to Academy one year at this gate he never dream that he able to become spirit Elder in just one year his dream was just to pass the Academy exam and able to live in Academy But now not only he was in Academy but also one of the core disciple of both department that never happen in Shrek before.
Only after one had overcome the barrier at Rank 30 would they be considered to have advanced from the beginner stage to the intermediate stage of cultivation.
Then they both decided to go from south gate of Academy by flying with lower attitude and stop at 1 mile before Star Duo Forest and then they run on leg and no happen what was the result on the fifteen day they both return to Academy if they did not find the suitable soul beast for Yuhao .They both fly towards Star Duo Forest that was located to the south of Shrek Academy.
Shrek Academy was quite close to Star Dou Forest. Otherwise, the wave of soul beasts from the Star Dou Forest wouldn't have swept over Shrek City first back then.
They arrived outside Star Dou Forest in less than one days.
The air along the way had become much fresher, and their breathing had in turn become smoother as they'd neared the forest. The two of them were feeling quite good even though they'd rushed along the road for all day.
Yuhao been very busy with learning and cultivating ever since they'd entered Shrek Academy; Yuhao hardly had any time to relax. Once their first year had ended, Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao had managed to return home and rest. However, Huo Yuhao had gone to the Extreme North. Even though he'd managed to obtain the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, he'd still undergone tough training and many ordeals. He'd then continued to cultivate effortlessly once he returned to the academy. His mind hadn't been able to calm down since he'd entered Shrek Academy. Same for Ma Xiatao because of her evil flame problem she has to always live with caution and she cannot commutate with others more and more because of her identity as Dean Disciple, and one of the strongest in Inner Court, Also because of her evil flame problem she did not allowed to go outside of academy as she wish, But she was also just a nineteen year girl who love to talk and move around so she was exited because her teacher allowed her to go this time and it was first time she that approval like this. But she did not know that her teacher Dean Yan or Yan Shozhe was following them secretly because both are gems one was her disciple that he train other was Ultimate martial Soul who was unpredicted so without a doubt . He just can not allow them to casually out from academy like this without safety if anyone died who can take the blame for that genius.
Yuhao were extremely excited to finally be getting his third soul rings.They were excited to use their skills in the Star Dou Forest.
That was why they weren't fatigued despite rushing for one days straight. They were both thrilled and in their peak conditions.
As they walked, Ma Xiatao asked Yuhao, "Yuhao, what's your plan for your soul ring?"
It won't be easy to find a soul ring to add to your Spirit Eyes. Spiritual-type soul beasts aren't common. Furthermore, they're good at concealing themselves."
Huo Yuhao concurred and nodded. He replied, "We can only take it step by step and see how our luck plays out. Besides, we're only circling the Star Dou Forest's perimeter. We'll hunt when we find suitable ones. Contrarily, we need to kill as few of them as possible."
Ma Xiatao agreed, "Yes! To a certain extent, soul beasts are resources that soul masters like us need. If we kill too many of the lower-level soul beasts, future generations will find it difficult to obtain soul rings."
Yan Shozhe who secretly listening them creased his brows and said in his heart that after they both go back he teach them properly about it, "they shouldn't put it that way. Soul beasts are also living beings. How could you call them resources? We're already preying on the weak by hunting them."
Huo Yuhao smiled. He didn't know what kind of soul ring he was going to get for his third one, but he wasn't worried that he wouldn't be able to find a soul beast suitable for himself. What kind of soul beast would be able to escape the Skydream Iceworm's gaze?
This was his second expedition into the Great Star Dou Forest. However, his mood was entirely different from the first time he'd entered, when he'd been full of negative emotions.
He'd left the Duke's Mansion over a year ago and ventured into the Great Star Dou Forest by himself. He'd been determined to give his life to succeed, and had been ready to die inside of the Great Star Dou Forest if he didn't find a soul ring for himself; he'd been prepared to fertilize the plants inside. The only two emotions in his heart back then had been extreme resolution and a desire for revenge.
His mentality was completely different now. Even though it had only been a year , he felt like an eternity had passed. Both his personal abilities and his mindset had undergone drastic transformations.
He was fortunate to have met Skydream, and was also fortunate to have met Teacher Xiao Ya and his eldest senior brother. He was fortunate to be part of Shrek Academy, and to have met his many exemplary teachers and excellent partners. He'd probably experience more over the past year than the ten plus years before combined. It had only been a year and he wasn't even twelve years of age, yet he had a conspicuous feeling that he'd somehow matured.
"Don't worry, mother. I will forge a life for myself. I'll accomplish your most cherished desire; the one that you never voiced, and the one that I know you'd rather die than forget about."
Huo Yuhao's eyes were filled with deep longing and nostalgic sentiments when he thought about his mother. If she were alive to witness his accomplishments today, how happy would she be? Huo Yuhao's eyes started to turn red as such thoughts spun around in his head.
Ma Xiatao was sensitive enough to notice the changes in Huo Yuhao's emotions. He didn't knew much more about what Huo Yuhao had experienced than other did, but could vaguely guess that he was thinking about his mother and father because of been orphan and what he go through to come to this stage today , that what Huo Yuhao was thinking. He reached out and gently grasped Huo Yuhao's hand.
Huo Yuhao turned towards Ma Xiotao, who flashed a faint smile at him. There was no pity in his eyes, only encouragement.
Huo Yuhao responded with a smile. The tacit understanding and chemistry between them meant that they could understand each other's thoughts without voicing them.
Yan Shozhe was seeing this has smile on his face ,because one of the reason he allowed Ma Xiatao for this because he want to pair them both and now he was clearly seeing this.
Both Yuhao and Ma Xiatao increase there speed and they finally arrive at thick leaves Star Duo Forest. The air all around was full of vitality, and was full of moisture. As they walked into the forest, and immediately felt as if their bodies were being nourished by some unique force.
Huo Yuhao immediately activated his Spiritual Detection Sharing, which he could perfectly maintain at four hundred meters in diameter with his current cultivation level. Physical images immediately surfaced in their minds. Everything was as detailed as could be, the only exception being that it was colorless.