Gu Yuena had sealed this place exceptionally thoroughly.
Beyond just the space itself, every immortal herb here had been sealed along with it.
Looking at the immortal herbs frozen by powerful spatial force, Huo Yuhao did not hesitate. The Eye of Destiny manifested at his brow, and he directly wiped out the spiritual sentience of each herb before him.
Next, he layered on a secondary seal—a synthesis of magic and soul tool technology—before tossing the herbs one by one into the Spectral Demiplane.
These immortal herbs were precious experimental materials; Huo Yuhao would not let them go to waste.
"Ice Emperor, help me absorb this."
Huo Yuhao handed the desensitized Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass to the Ice Emperor.
The immortal herbs here were essentially all 100,000-year-old Soul Beasts. Beyond their inherent medicinal effects, they provided a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, a hundred-thousand-year soul bone, and the concentrated plant essence nurtured by the herb itself.
One could say these hundred-thousand-year quality immortal herbs could be "eaten" four ways!
Among these, the medicinal effects and the soul bones were of little use to Huo Yuhao. What he needed most was the energy within the plant essence and the soul rings to condense his external pseudo-dantian soul rings.
Unfortunately, in Huo Yuhao's view, this energy wasn't yet pure enough. It needed to be absorbed and filtered by the Ice Emperor first; only after Huo Yuhao performed a secondary absorption would it meet his requirements.
The original effects of the immortal herb and other residual energies would be used to stabilize the Ice Emperor's physical body, while the soul bone would be used for researching "man-made soul bones."
Mm... talk about full utilization of an immortal herb!
The Ice Emperor nodded and began absorbing according to Huo Yuhao's method. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao didn't let Skydream stay idle, giving her the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to enhance her mental power.
Taking a full hour, Huo Yuhao finished packing up all the immortal herbs. He then began contemplating how to take the entire Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with him.
Since Huo Yuhao had not yet developed a design for a "soul power generator," he placed great value on this treasure land that naturally and rapidly gathered heaven-and-earth primordial energy.
Aside from using it as a cultivation base, his other idea was to leverage the well's gathering ability to convert the area into a massive "energy supply station." This would resolve the potential energy shortages as more Spirit Transmission Pagoda branches were established in the future.
"Well, no need to rush this. I'll go consult Elder Electrolux."
With that thought, Huo Yuhao turned his gaze to the grass beneath his feet. He reached out and plucked a blade to examine it closely.
Blue Silver Grass—a common weed found everywhere on the Douluo Continent. One only needed to scatter seeds, and a crop could be harvested in just a few days.
Normally, Blue Silver Grass was useless. However, based on the energy contained within this specific stalk in Huo Yuhao's hand, it could be considered a ten-year soul beast. And yet...
Huo Yuhao applied a slight pressure, crushing the plucked blade. The lingering vitality vanished, and the energy—roughly equivalent to a ten-year soul beast—dissipated into the surrounding world.
No soul ring appeared.
Logically, in such a blessed land, almost every plant should become a soul beast. Yet this Blue Silver Grass seemed unable to become one for some reason. Perhaps it was the suppression from the other sentient immortal herbs, combined with its own inherent deficiencies?
Huo Yuhao pondered, his thoughts branching out. Could such Blue Silver Grass be utilized? Could its internal energy be harnessed?
But the energy provided by a single blade was too meager... Unless the grass could evolve or possessed the ability to naturally absorb heaven-and-earth primordial energy, it wouldn't be worth the effort.
Wait—absorb? Could that be interpreted as "devour"? So... Ms. Tang Ya?
Huo Yuhao blinked. After a moment's hesitation, he placed Ms. Tang Ya on his list of alternative solutions.
Shrek Academy had just started its break. According to Ms. Jiang Nannan, Ms. Tang Ya had already gone home for the holidays, and her specific whereabouts were unknown. He would wait until next semester.
Thinking thus, Huo Yuhao looked ahead.
There, Skydream and the Ice Emperor had finished their absorption. Appearance-wise, Skydream looked a bit more spirited, while the Ice Emperor's body was visibly more substantial.
Leading Skydream and the Ice Emperor, Huo Yuhao opened a portal and used the Spectral Demiplane as a transit point to quickly return to the Spirit Transmission Pagoda.
Though the trip to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well was brief, the harvest was excellent.
Originally, the energy Skydream possessed was only enough for Huo Yuhao to construct about four soul rings—four external pseudo-dantians. Now, after absorbing the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, it was enough for him to condense a fifth.
Even though Huo Yuhao's cultivation had only just reached rank 24, it didn't stop him from planning for the future.
According to his calculations, three silver-glow soul rings equipped with a spiritual soul core would possess soul power quality roughly equivalent to an ordinary rank 97 or 98 Super Douluo—ignoring total soul power volume, of course.
Once he reached four silver-glow rings with full spiritual soul cores, he would be equivalent to a rank 99 Limit Douluo.
Five rings would correspond to a Divine Officer.
Six rings to a Third-rank God.
Seven rings to a Second-rank God.
Eight rings to a First-rank God.
Nine rings to a God King.
This was Huo Yuhao's hypothesis and calculation for his future realm. Every time he added a single-attribute spiritual soul core, it would trigger a metamorphosis, causing all preceding soul rings to evolve to the same tier.
One could say this cultivation path led directly to the level of a God King!
However, the only problem was that while this path targeted the God King level, it only addressed the qualitative change of soul power and spirit. It didn't account for the physical body or the soul...
This made Huo Yuhao slightly troubled as to whether this was the right path. But he wasn't overly worried; if this failed, he could always just inherit a Divine Position.
After years of research, he had nearly figured out the essence of the Seed of Emotion. To put it simply, it was a prototype Divine Position. Once it absorbed enough emotion power, it would transform.
And since this seed was something Huo Yuhao had brought back from his previous life, once it drank its fill of various emotions, it would most likely result in a God King-tier Divine Position of the God of Emotion.
Furthermore, Huo Yuhao currently held another Divine Position: the Sea God Divine Position... Yes, the Sea God Divine Position.
Because the Sea God Trident had already "become his shape," and because Tang San had stripped the Sea God Divine Position and that wisp of Divine Consciousness so cleanly to avoid the pursuit of the World Will, a unique situation had formed:
Tang San completing the first trial of the Sea God = Huo Yuhao completing the first trial. Yet, at the same time: Tang San completing a divine trial ≠ ability to inherit the Divine Position.
It was as if Tang San were participating in the trials on behalf of Huo Yuhao. When, in the future, a joyful Tang San completes the ninth trial and waits to become a god, he will find that the person becoming a god isn't him—it's Huo Yuhao.
Thinking about it was truly quite amusing.