"Is there anything else?" Wang Nan asked knowingly.
Looking at Huo Yuhao's hesitant expression, he glanced back at Ma Xiaotao and Beibei, then led Huo Yuhao to the side.
Ma Xiaotao and Beibei, understanding that Wang Nan had something to discuss with Huo Yuhao, voluntarily stepped away.
"Wang Dage, what's in your pouch? I feel its aura is quite special."
"This?" Wang Nan held up the life blade. "It's just an engraving knife. Although I don't know what materials it's made of, keeping it by my side seems to enhance my physical strength, so I haven't put it away."
"It is indeed life gold," Iliex's aged voice echoed in Huo Yuhao's mental force sea.
"Elder Iliex, what is life gold?"
"Life gold is condensed from vast life force. It's not wrong for your Senior Brother to keep it by his side to strengthen his body, but he hasn't fully utilized its power."
At this point, Iliex paused. "Yuhao, ask your Senior Brother if he can sell this engraving knife to you."
Huo Yuhao paused for a moment, then looked up at Wang Nan. "Wang Dage, can you sell this engraving knife to me?"
"Do you need an engraving knife? I…"
"No, Wang Dage," Huo Yuhao interrupted, "It's because the materials of this engraving knife are quite special and very important to me."
Wang Nan looked at Huo Yuhao's clear eyes and was slightly stunned.
Before this, he had anticipated some of Huo Yuhao's reactions, but he hadn't expected Huo Yuhao to be so straightforward.
"Yuhao…"
In Huo Yuhao's mental force sea, Tianmeng Iceworm suddenly perked up and spoke with some unease, "Your Senior Brother is superior to you in both cultivation and knowledge. Saying that will arouse his suspicion."
As Spirit Beasts, Tianmeng Iceworm and Ice Empress naturally harbored hostility toward humans. Over their long lives, they had witnessed humans harming each other for profit. Hearing Huo Yuhao speak so openly, they both became tense.
Huo Yuhao was silent for a moment, then gently shook his head. "Wang Dage isn't that kind of person. Tianmeng Ge, Wang Dage is like you, like Ice Empress, and like Elder Iliex to me. I don't want to deceive him, just as I wouldn't hide anything from you all."
Huo Yuhao's mental force sea fell silent. After a moment, Iliex spoke again, "Trust Yuhao's judgment. I understand humans better than you. Your concerns are valid, but not everyone possesses such greedy intentions."
Wang Nan suddenly smiled. "So, you recognize the materials used to make this engraving knife, right? Then, Yuhao, do you know how to use it?"
Wang Nan looked at Huo Yuhao, his gaze piercing deep into his eyes.
Since Huo Yuhao was so honest, Wang Nan decided not to beat around the bush. He no longer asked how Huo Yuhao had recognized it but spoke directly.
"Elder Iliex…"
Huo Yuhao called out to Iliex in his mental force sea.
"Yuhao, the consciousness of us few resides in your mental force sea. Although the big worm and the others have other intentions, it's not to control you. Although you are the youngest, you are truly the one in charge."
"Since I've decided to pass on some of my knowledge from another world to you, what you use this knowledge for, and whether you teach it to others, are matters for you to decide."
Huo Yuhao nodded. "Wang Dage, the materials used to make this engraving knife are called life gold, which is condensed from life force. To utilize its power, a special method is required."
As he spoke, Huo Yuhao's eyes lit up, and a wave of mental force emanated from him.
Wang Nan already knew what he was going to do and actively reined in his mental force.
However, just as Huo Yuhao's mental sharing fell upon Wang Nan, passing through his glabella, his mental force seemed to be attracted by something.
"How is that possible?" Ice Empress spoke with some disbelief.
"What's wrong?"
Ice Empress "looked" at Tianmeng Iceworm. "As a million-year Spirit Beast, haven't you noticed something strange about this human?"
Speaking of this, Tianmeng Iceworm became a bit flustered. "You know that my million years of cultivation were spent sleeping, and my cultivation method is different not only from humans but even from most Spirit Beasts…"
Ice Empress rolled her eyes at it in annoyance.
"Indeed, they are humans favored by heaven and earth. They possess three Dantian from birth, which allows them to condense a Soul Core even before becoming a Titled Douluo like this."
"You mean that was the fluctuation of a Soul Core?" Tianmeng Iceworm asked in surprise.
"I'm not like you. All my cultivation was achieved through my own efforts, so my senses are absolutely correct. That was indeed the fluctuation of a Soul Core."
"Tianmeng Ge, Ice Empress, what is a Soul Core?" Although Huo Yuhao was sharing some things with Wang Nan, he still heard the conversation between Tianmeng Iceworm and Ice Empress.
"That's still too early for you. You can only consider it when your cultivation is close to that of a Titled Douluo," Ice Empress said. "I'm not very clear about your human cultivation matters either. If you're curious, you can ask those few humans in your academy's Inner Courtyard."
"Then doesn't that mean Wang Dage's strength is close to a Titled Douluo?"
Ice Empress was silent for a moment, then finally nodded. "You're right. He is the most talented human I've ever seen."
After saying this, Ice Empress stopped speaking, lost in thought.
On the other side, Wang Nan was carefully sensing what Huo Yuhao was sharing with him through mental sharing.
It wasn't something simple, but a completely new method of utilizing mental force, which also included a large number of obscure and difficult-to-understand incantations—like a completely different language, yet much more complex.
Is this the magic inherited from Iliex?
Before even uttering it aloud, just by constantly pondering those incantations in his mental force sea, his mental force underwent some mysterious changes. Wang Nan seemed to step into a completely different world for a moment.
"Wang Dage, utilizing the power within life gold is not simple. It requires another method of mental force application. What I just shared with you contains the foundation of this power."
"After mastering this method of using mental force, combined with specific incantations, you can then utilize the power within life gold."
Wang Nan looked sharply at Huo Yuhao upon hearing this.
He hadn't expected that just by asking about the usage of life gold, Huo Yuhao would tell him a complete system about "magic."