"The situation at home has improved, and I no longer need to sell grilled fish. I'm planning to do something else from now on."
Huo Yuhao naturally couldn't tell that he would unlock his Gluttony Origin today and that he would rely on selling soul guides to get rich, so he diverted the topic.
"I specially prepared more grilled fish today. Uncle Huang, will you have time to drop by later?"
Seeing this, Huang Yu no longer persuaded him and nodded, "Alright, I'll come by later. It seems you've found another way to make money, so I won't stop you. But you better be ready for a good feast later."
Huo Yuhao nodded in agreement. Just as he was about to turn around, Huang Yu suddenly called out to him, "Yuhao."
"What is it?"
Huang Yu walked over with a serious expression and lowered his voice. "Even though the Soul Master Competition is lucrative, it also means that there are more people around, and the city might be a bit chaotic. You should be careful. I heard that a blacksmith shop in the city was completely…"
Huo Yuhao furrowed his brows and nodded slightly.
"I understand. Thank you, Uncle Huang."
"Yeah, go ahead. I'll find you later."
At the same time.
In the official awakening agency of Tiandou City, a boy was quietly standing in the middle of a formation made of stones. In front of him, a middle-aged man looked visibly impatient and spoke in a lazy tone.
"Feel the power within you and guide it out."
After a moment, the middle-aged man saw a translucent Blue Silver Grass emerge from the boy's palm and couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"Waste martial spirit, Blue Silver Grass. Alright, you can leave now."
Hearing the disdain in the other's voice, Tang San clenched his fists behind his back. Compared to the previous life when Su Yuntao had come to the village to awaken him for free, the awakening in the current Heaven Dou Empire not only charged a fee but also had such a poor attitude.
Moreover, he didn't expect that after ten thousand years, people still had prejudices against Blue Silver Grass!
He suppressed the anger in his heart and asked coldly, "Don't I need to test my soul power?"
In this life, he would once again prove how correct his teacher's words were.
"Hmm?"
The middle-aged man raised an eyebrow in surprise and subconsciously wanted to mock him, but as if remembering something, he finally restrained himself, took out a crystal ball, and placed it in front of Tang San.
"Since you want to struggle a bit, then try it."
Tang San ignored the man's mockery and placed his hand on the crystal ball, slowly injecting his soul power. In an instant, the crystal ball emitted a faint glow, and the middle-aged man's expression changed, muttering.
"Innate soul power is at least level eight or above."
Tang San coldly glanced at the middle-aged man's shocked expression, said nothing further, and turned to leave, eager to return and tell his father the news.
He felt that, just like in his previous life, he still possessed twin martial spirits! And the other martial spirit was, of course, the Haotian Hammer he was very familiar with from his last life.
Blue Silver Grass and Haotian Hammer, the martial spirits that accompanied him to the peak in his last life; in this life, he would similarly use the hammer in his left hand to protect the grass in his right!
So, he planned to cultivate Blue Silver Grass first.
After all, the Haotian Hammer needed to absorb more powerful soul rings to better protect Blue Silver Grass.
"Yuhao, you…"
At a small table, Huang Yu and Tang Ya looked dumbfounded at Huo Yuhao, who was devouring grilled meat.
"What's wrong?"
Huo Yuhao raised an eyebrow, swallowed the food in his mouth, and asked in confusion.
"It's nothing." After a moment of hesitation, Tang Ya finally spoke, looking at Huo Yuhao, who had already eaten three grilled fish and a large amount of grilled meat.
"It's just that your appetite has suddenly increased a lot."
"Haha, it's just that kids are growing and need more food." Huang Yu laughed heartily and patted Huo Yuhao on the shoulder, savoring the grilled fish and shaking his head in sigh.
"Too bad it's work time now; otherwise, it would be better if we could have some drinks."
Huo Yuhao smiled and didn't say much.
The sudden increase in appetite was naturally due to the effect of the recently unlocked Gluttony Origin. After unlocking the Gluttony Source, Huo Yuhao found that his efficiency in absorbing the energy of food had significantly improved. Even eating ordinary grilled fish and meat, his soul power was slowly rising.
This meant that his cultivation speed could be greatly increased again, and if the ingredients were better, the speed would be even faster.
However, this increase seemed to only happen when his soul power was not consumed.
For example, if Huo Yuhao's soul power were full, eating would slowly enhance his soul power level. But if he consumed soul power or got injured, the energy gained from food would first replenish the consumed soul power and repair his body.
In addition, it seemed that his body's internal resistance to energy had greatly increased; any energy that entered his body, whether damaging or beneficial, would be gradually absorbed.
Beneficial energy was straightforward, like soul rings, soul bones, and various rare materials suitable for absorption; these were considered beneficial forces, and absorbing them could intuitively increase soul power.
But destructive energy was equivalent to the soul skills used by others consuming soul power. This type of energy would generally cause direct damage to the body, requiring one's own power to resist it, making it impossible to absorb.
However, with the Gluttony Origin, things were different. Huo Yuhao had already witnessed this effect in his past life in the Divine Realm with the God of Gluttony. Almost all types of energy attacks, as long as they were devoured, would significantly reduce the damage.
Normally, devouring such destructive energy would merely replenish some of his consumed soul power, but Huo Yuhao had a second martial spirit that could absorb ice attribute energy!
This meant that any ice attribute energy that would harm him could, as long as he could withstand it and then absorb it, also help his martial spirit evolve. For example, the Ice Extreme Cold Spring of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well; if it weren't for the Snow Empress helping to filter it in his previous life, he would have suffered the same severe injuries as when he had swallowed the extreme hot spring water.
But with the Gluttony Origin, he could not only swallow it directly but also use it to evolve his martial spirit, although the process would be a bit painful.
According to Yu Ming's memories, it seemed that each type of ice attribute energy could only allow this martial spirit to evolve once. For instance, the Ice Emperor Scorpion and the Ice Scorpion had ice attribute energy of the same type and could not make the martial spirit evolve consecutively. Moreover, as the martial spirit evolved to a later stage, due to the higher quality, some low-level ice attribute energy would no longer allow it to evolve.
Huo Yuhao didn't feel too regretful about this; otherwise, he could just dive into the extreme northern lands and get beaten up by different ice attribute soul beasts every day. Within a few years, he would probably be invincible!
Of course, this resistance also depended on his strength. If he tried to swallow spring water with his current power, he would probably die immediately. If the energy's destructive speed exceeded his absorption speed, he would still be in danger.
Not wanting to think too far ahead, the current benefit the Gluttony Origin brought him was the increase in cultivation speed.
It seems that eating will become quite an expense in the future.
Eating grilled meat and fish like this was obviously not sustainable. From the fact that he felt full after eating several grilled fish and some grilled meat, it was clear that Gluttony only allowed him to eat more but didn't mean he could eat infinitely. Therefore, for efficiency, it was essential to focus on high-energy foods.
After finishing the group meal, the two didn't rush home but walked in the opposite direction.
After a year, most of the rare metals remaining in the Tang Sect had already been made into soul guides by Huo Yuhao. Recently, Tang Ya had taken the samples to meet with members of the Tiandou Empire's royal family. The other party quickly sent news, expressing a desire for a detailed discussion, scheduled for that afternoon.
"Do you remember what I taught you to say last night?"
"I know, I know." Tang Ya was visibly nervous. After hesitating for a moment, she voiced her doubts.
"By the way, with your soul guides being so powerful, don't you think they might have some ulterior motives towards us?"
"Of course, they will have thoughts." Huo Yuhao smirked, "But the target is definitely not us. As for whether they will take action against us, there's no benefit for them, and they might attract trouble. They won't be foolish enough to do that."
"Attract trouble?" Tang Ya was taken aback. "Do we have any backing?"
"The key isn't whether we have backing but whether others think we do, and that's enough." Huo Yuhao said mysteriously, then slightly raised his head to look at the building ahead.
"We've arrived."
(End of this chapter)