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Du Bu Si nodded and said, "If you don't find a suitable soul beast this time in the Xingdou Great Forest, don't go into the forest again. If you need any soul rings in the future, call the elders of the sect and go to the Far North to look for them."
Vina said respectfully, "Yes, Master."
After saying this, the members of the Benti Sect returned to Tiandou City along the same route.
However, they did not fail to find any soul beasts on this trip. Huo Yuhao found a purple spirit wolf, which was currently stored in his frozen plane.
The body of the Purple Spirit Wolf was already frozen stiff, with a black spirit ring floating above it. If the spirit ring was not absorbed, it would disappear on its own soon, but here it could be preserved for a long time.
Huo Yuhao now had no strength to absorb the spirit ring. He just wanted to lie on the snow and do nothing.
Although the Sea of Spirit can be used as a portable space, things entering and exiting must pay spiritual power as an entrance fee. The more energy an object has, the more entrance fee it has to pay.
Just collecting the corpse of the Purple Spirit Wolf consumed a lot of his mental energy.
Having done too many things today with the help of Tian Meng and Bing Di's spiritual power, Huo Yuhao just felt extremely weak.
After a long while, he felt better and asked, "Tian Meng, what happened to that old man? Did he return the auspicious beast?"
Tian Meng nodded and replied: "It's back."
The Ice Emperor snorted softly: "I am really afraid that the human will hurt the auspicious beast, otherwise the guy in the Xingdou Great Forest might go berserk."
“Fortunately, that old madman didn’t do anything stupid, otherwise if he really triggered a beast tide, I feel like I would become a sinner for all eternity.” Huo Yuhao said with some melancholy.
Bingdi asked: "It wasn't you who caused it, why are you blaming yourself?"
“I was the one who summoned the auspicious beast, so I guess I was the one who caused it.” Huo Yuhao said unhappily, “In fact, I really want to take revenge on it, but the consequences of taking revenge on it are hard for me to accept.”
He searched for the figure that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Tian Meng had in common in their memories and asked, "That guy called Di Tian, is he the strongest person on this continent?"
Tianmeng and Bingdi nodded at the same time.
"His strength should be stronger than the human at the door of the dormitory building."
Huo Yuhao looked up at the sky blankly.
He originally thought that Master Xuan’s strength was strong enough, but Du Bu Si was even stronger than him. Above Du Bu Si, there was the dormitory manager, and above that, there was Di Tian.
This was the first time he truly witnessed a fight between the strongest people in the world, and it caused a slight change in his state of mind.
Huo Yuhao had always believed in the power of teamwork and organization, but the strong men in this world told him time and time again that unity was nothing compared to absolute personal strength.
As he was thinking, Huo Yuhao felt that there was some particularly dazzling light. He squinted his eyes and looked up into the sky, only to see that in the originally clear blue sky of the Sea of Spirit, there was a new "sun" emitting dazzling golden light.
"What is that?" he asked puzzledly.
Yin Lex appeared beside him at some point and sighed, "Yuhao, I originally had a trace of light power in my body, but later I passed it on to a brave and kind child."
"Today, during my contact with the auspicious beast, I felt that its extreme light attribute helped me recover some strength."
"Alas, it's a pity that most of my strength has been lost, but the auspicious beast gave you an unexpected reward."
Huo Yuhao asked: "What did you gain?"
"The power of destiny."
Yinlex replied.
"If my guess is correct, this so-called auspicious beast should be a special existence that was born out of necessity, and possesses the power to control part of destiny."
"And when you come into contact with it, the power of destiny in it is transferred to you."
"With this power of destiny, you can improve a person's destiny within a certain period of time."
The more Huo Yuhao listened, the more mysterious it became: "According to what you said, I should tell my own fortune first."
Yin Laikes said: "Yuhao, don't be too happy too soon. Your fate is also connected with the three-eyed golden lion. In the future, you will definitely be entangled with it."
"Isn't it clear that I am already entangled with it..."
Huo Yuhao cursed inwardly.
"Destiny, what a word full of dialectical meaning."
He sighed quietly, "Some people say that life is predetermined by heaven, while others say that people are born to defy fate."
At this point, he paused and said to himself: "If fate says that I am destined to defy it, should I accept it or not?"
Huo Yuhao shook his head, feeling that he had regained some strength, he stood up and walked towards the purple spirit wolf.
Tian Meng asked: "Yuhao, are you going to start absorbing spirit rings?"
Huo Yuhao looked at the black soul ring on the purple spirit wolf and after a moment of silence, he asked a question that he had always been curious about.
"I'm thinking,"
"Why do soul masters have to absorb soul rings to advance?"
Chapter 179: Speculations about Artificial Soul Rings and Soul Bones
When Tian Meng and Bing Di heard Huo Yuhao’s question, they were both stunned.
Bingdi said as a matter of course: "Isn't this natural?"
Huo Yuhao nodded: "It is natural, but there must be principles and explanations behind natural phenomena."
"I have read many theories related to martial souls and soul power. Those martial soul theorists study day after day which martial soul is more powerful, how to practice it more effectively, and what kind of soul beast will produce what kind of soul ring."
"But they have never thought about where the spirit rings come from."
Tian Meng asked: "Yuhao, why do you suddenly think so?"
Huo Yuhao shook his head: "This is not sudden. I have always been curious about this. Seeing those ferocious beasts today has intensified my doubts."
Bingdi sneered: "Are you scared by those beasts? Didn't you make a bold statement before that you would exterminate the soul beasts?"
Huo Yuhao smiled calmly: "As a human being, we always have some crazy fantasies, but after fantasizing, we have to start thinking about practical problems."
"If a person wants to obtain a spirit ring, the spirit beast must die; if the spirit beast wants to live, the person must die. In fact, neither side is wrong. This is an irreconcilable contradiction."
"Since neither of us is wrong, we can only talk about our stance. I am a staunch human supremacist."
"But now I feel that, putting aside prejudice and analyzing rationally, this process is actually extremely disadvantageous to humans, because the risk of hunting soul beasts is not low, and if the soul beasts are pushed into a corner, they will launch a beast tide, which is not what I want to see."
Tian Meng asked: "Yuhao, what do you mean..."
Huo Yuhao said: “Humans need to obtain spirit rings to advance to the next level, but why must there be a spirit beast as an intermediate link?”
"Why can't humans obtain spirit rings directly?"
Tianmeng and Bingdi both fell silent.
Huo Yuhao looked at Yin Laix and said, "Master Yin, both the terms Martial Soul and Soul Ring contain the word 'soul'. Do you know what this has to do with soul magic?"
Yin Lex shook his head: "I'm sorry, Yuhao, this is just a coincidence. They are two completely different forces."
“Okay.” Huo Yuhao frowned and thought for a moment before saying, “Master Yin, I am going to absorb the spirit ring. Can you please help me observe the process?”
Yin Lex nodded.
Huo Yuhao sat cross-legged in front of the corpse of the Purple Spirit Wolf. The black ten thousand year soul ring, with a hint of purple energy, slowly merged into Huo Yuhao's body and the surrounding ice and snow.
Tianmeng, Bingdi and Yin Lex all observed the process attentively at the same time, feeling the whereabouts of the soul power in the soul ring.
However, the process of absorbing the soul ring was unremarkable. He just felt the energy in the soul ring gradually merge into Huo Yuhao's body, and then allowed Huo Yuhao's accumulated soul power to break through to level thirty-two.
Yin Lex shook his head: "I'm sorry, Yuhao, I didn't notice anything unusual. It seems to be no different from your usual process of absorbing soul power."
Tianmeng and Bingdi also nodded.
Huo Yuhao only slightly felt the group weakness of his third soul skill, and then fell into deep thought again.
He still couldn't understand why soul power, as the same form of energy, had to go through the soul beast as an intermediary before it could condense into a soul ring.
Bingdi was suddenly stunned, and thought of something, and said calmly: "In fact, there is a kind of human who can condense spirit rings by themselves."
"who?"
"The human beings who have transformed from a hundred thousand year old soul beast and rebuilt themselves, the remaining soul power in their bodies is enough to automatically condense the first few soul rings."
Huo Yuhao lowered his head and thought. His intuition told him that since soul beasts could do it, there was no reason why humans couldn't do it either.
After a long while, Huo Yuhao asked again: “Tian Meng, Bing Di, what will happen if the soul ring of a soul beast is not absorbed after its death?”
Tian Meng replied: "Of course it dissipated."
Huo Yuhao asked, "Where did it disappear to?"
Bingdi said: "Of course it is between heaven and earth."
Huo Yuhao asked seriously, "Is this process reversible?"
"I don't know. Maybe no one knows."
Huo Yuhao's face suddenly darkened, and he said calmly, "Actually, I have another crazy idea."
"what?"
"After a person dies, where does his spirit ring go?"
"what?"
Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes grimly: "I guess, if I observe the process of a soul master's death and then study his corpse, can I find something?"
Yin Lex was silent for a moment, then he said softly in an approving tone: "Yuhao, you really have the talent to be a necromancer."
Huo Yuhao said in a deep voice: “Mr. Yin, I think this is just the necessary path for development. I will try my best to resolve the ethical issues that come with it.”
Yin Lex shook his head: "No, Yuhao, I believe you can find something. Compared with others, you have your own unique advantages."
"what?"
"Your spiritual attribute." Yin Lex said, "The huge spiritual power allows you to observe subtle changes that others cannot observe. You can also use your spiritual power to do many things that others cannot do."
"However, soul power is as erratic as the flow of water. All this can only be done after your mental power is strong enough."
Huo Yuhao nodded.
Suddenly, he thought of something: "Since the research on spirit rings is too abstract, let's change to a more concrete object."
"what?"
"Soul bone."
Huo Yuhao pondered, “Soul bones are like spirit rings in that they both carry spirit skills, so research on spirit bones should be easier to carry out, right?”