Chapter 123: Who in their right mind keeps a diary?!
Could Huo Yuhao help Gu Yuena recover from her injuries?
The answer is yes!
Although the Living Gold beneath the Lake of Life was considered a supreme treasure, its effect on Gu Yuena's recovery was limited.
Gu Yuena's injuries stemmed from the split that occurred when the Dragon God was slain by the Old Asura God. While this split allowed her to inherit the Dragon God's Divine Spark of Creation and elemental control abilities, her fundamental power and Divine Spark suffered severe fragmentation.
The cost of the Divine Spark's fragmentation was irreversible damage to both the Silver Dragon King's divine soul and physical body. Her power retained less than fifty percent of the original Dragon God's strength. Moreover, due to the loss of the destruction attribute represented by the Golden Dragon King, the balance between creation and destruction within her body was gone.
In summary, her injuries can be divided into three parts: divine soul damage, bloodline fragmentation, and bodily disintegration.
- The divine soul damage led to a fragmented divine soul due to the split.
- Bloodline fragmentation, lacking the Golden Dragon King's origin, caused the Divine Spark of Creation to remain in a long-term unstable state.
- Bodily disintegration resulted from the impact of spatial turbulence when she escaped the God Realm, severely reducing her body's strength. Although she had recovered some, it was negligible.
Therefore, healing these three types of injuries was not impossible.
The first step is to use Shrek's Tree of Life for life energy infusion—using the tens of thousands of years of life energy accumulated by the Tree of Life to stabilize her injuries and repair her disintegrating body. Rather than letting that little scoundrel's mother seize the life core, it would be better to benefit the Silver Dragon King.
The second step is to utilize the energy of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for attribute harmonization. As one of the three great treasure lands of the plane and the fallen place of the Water and Fire Dragon Kings, the springs of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well possess both extreme Yin and extreme Yang attributes. This is sufficient to harmonize the energy conflicts within her body and enhance the stability of her elemental control. The Yang Spring and Yin Spring can balance Gu Yuena's bloodline conflicts, improving her recovery efficiency.
The third step is to find Dragon Valley. Even if she can't fuse with the Golden Dragon King's bloodline, she must first obtain the Dragon God's Heart. Furthermore, Dragon Valley contains extremely strong liquid energy essence, dragon marrow, dragon qi, and many other resources, which can resolve her bodily collapse and unstable Divine Spark.
Of course, these processes sound easy, but in reality, they are very difficult to implement.
The life core cannot bypass Shrek. Even if there is an issue with that Blue Silver Grass, the little scoundrel might act without regard for propriety. The third step, Dragon Valley, is also very difficult because it is located in a special space independent of Douluo Star, an independent small plane.
The easiest to obtain is the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and this is Huo Yuhao's goal after reaching rank forty.
The countless immortal herb resources within are enough to elevate his aptitude to another level. Even his two teachers, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, and people like him, can advance further, increasing their soul power and improving their aptitude.
As for the trials of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and the surrounding Seven Absolutes Jade Phosphorus Flowers, Huo Yuhao had never paid them much mind.
He even plans to rearrange the Seven Absolutes Jade Phosphorus Flowers that the little scoundrel set up after obtaining the immortal herbs, returning peace to the Sunset Forest. What a mess the Sunset Forest has become—deserted and with Soul Beasts extinct.
He even gave it a grand name, saying that heaven and earth treasures are hard to come by, and future generations can only understand the rarity of supreme treasures through hardships. This is why he set up a poisonous array to test future explorers.
To this, Huo Yuhao only wanted to curse. When you tore up the ground back then, you practically wanted to pull up the roots of the immortal herbs. Who believes these words? And he even wrote it in his diary. Who in their right mind keeps a diary?!
Do you write one? He, Old Huo, certainly doesn't!
Getting off-topic, Huo Yuhao did not tell Gu Yuena about these matters, as there was still a lack of unreserved trust between them. He couldn't guarantee that after telling her, she wouldn't hastily allow Di Tian and others to act on their own, or perhaps she knew some things but didn't act due to certain scruples.
After all, astonishing wisdom is too terrifying; keeping a trump card is always wise.
The two sat by the lake, the evening breeze cool. Afterwards, Gu Yuena basically talked about her current situation.
For example, her human incarnation's strength can change at any time. Her Martial Soul is an Elementalist, capable of controlling four elements. Her registered age at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy is fourteen, as a special recruit. Her soul power level is not yet recorded because she is unsure what level a human Soul Master should be at this age.
However, now that she has met Huo Yuhao, she feels her soul power level could be thirty-eight. A similar age and the same soul power level seem very reasonable.
Huo Yuhao could only helplessly explain, for example, that the publicly recorded Martial Soul attributes on the continent can at most be compatible with three. Gu Yuena's four elements were simply too conspicuous.
Also, since her age was already registered, her soul power level naturally couldn't be benchmarked against his; it could only be higher than his. He was accepted by outsiders as a twelve-year-old with a thirty-eight level of soul power due to countless fortuitous encounters and extraordinary talent, but his innate soul power was only level one.
Since Gu Yuena registered as fourteen years old, she could naturally be stronger than him. Benchmarking against Meng Hongchen, her soul power level would be a bit higher; otherwise, her talent wouldn't be as appealing.
Finally, Gu Yuena accepted Huo Yuhao's suggestion and decided to display her soul power level as forty-eight. This was also a small part of her own cunning, feeling she could finally suppress Huo Yuhao in some aspects—a counterattack for Huo Yuhao exposing her past and striking her down earlier.
Uh... an absolute super genius among Soul Masters.
Although there was a two-year age difference, her soul power was outwardly higher than Huo Yuhao's. However, many people on the Sun Moon side were more concerned with soul engineering talent. Soul power levels could be boosted by medicine, but not to such an exaggerated extent.
Of course, having such talent at this age would attract a lot of attention. Huo Yuhao was already thinking about how to arrange for Gu Yuena, since she was determined to stay by his side and witness what destiny was.
Coupled with their alliance just now, he thought he could introduce her to Jing Hongchen. Didn't he want a disciple? Gu Yuena would be very suitable.
Although she doesn't really need a teacher, at least she would have a more legitimate identity on the Sun Moon side in the future. With Jing Hongchen protecting her, it would also reassure the unstable factor that is Di Tian.
The final result of their discussion was that Gu Yuena would present herself as an Elementalist Martial Soul, controlling water, fire, and wind elements, with a soul power level of forty-eight. It must be said, for the Sun Moon Empire, this was an absolute super surprise.
In a word, things were looking up, and they would only get better.
"Huo Yuhao, I still don't know your current situation. Those people outside say you are the Sun Moon Empire's number one genius, and your Martial Soul is the Body Martial Soul Spirit Eye. I think you are definitely not as simple as you appear on the surface."
The matter of Twin Martial Souls was no secret; his teachers and even the higher-ups knew. To show his sincerity, Huo Yuhao presented the End-Time Bell before Gu Yuena.
Seeing this Martial Soul, inscribed with mysterious bell patterns depicting the twelve zodiac animals and the four sacred beasts, and brimming with a sense of destiny, Gu Yuena instantly understood why 'Destiny' was in disarray.
She thought of many things—for example, that this Martial Soul was previously Huo Yuhao's weapon, possibly a divine artifact or even an ultra-divine artifact, and now, for some unknown reason, it had become Huo Yuhao's second Martial Soul.
The bell sound that could disrupt destiny before came from this, and besides that, there was the 'Strong Luck' bell sound she heard.
She felt that Huo Yuhao might have had to restart his cultivation for some reason, just like herself, and each time the bell chimed, it meant Huo Yuhao had recovered some strength.
And 'Destiny' and 'Strong Luck'—perhaps each represents a type of authority...
See, without Huo Yuhao even needing to explain, our astonishingly wise Silver Dragon King had already filled in all the blanks herself.
At the same time that Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena were getting acquainted and conversing, Du Busi and Kong Deming had already begun to make extremely detailed plans for Huo Yuhao's future development.
Du Busi planned to let his disciple rest for a few days first, then teach him a portion of the Body Sect's Meditation Method cultivation technique.
He would first allow him to achieve a 'soul power + physique' dual-enhancement cycle within his body, laying the foundation for cultivating the core inheritance of the Body Sect later on.
During this process, he would also assist with the Spiritual Absorption Secret Method. The resources expended, meaning the spiritual energy from the rare resources to be absorbed, would be provided by Kong Deming and Sun Moon.
At the same time, Du Bu Si planned to use the existing conditions of the Royal Soul Engineer Academy to arrange for his disciple to then combine high-intensity combat with the maximum utilization of those rare resources, such as Heaven and Earth Treasures and Soul Beast essence blood, to impact the Martial Soul's origin and lay a solid foundation for cultivating the secrets of the Body.
As for where the high-intensity combat would come from, aren't there many young Soul Masters at the Imperial Soul Engineer Academy? It's perfect for establishing his disciple's reputation as the Sun Moon Empire's number one genius.
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