Tang San, who had been stuck at Level 24 for a while, finally pushed his cultivation to Level 25 at this very moment!
Over the past month, his mornings were spent enduring Zhou Yi's "devil training" alongside two other teammates she had handpicked for him.
Once the training ended and he received treatment, Tang San would use the excuse of visiting his younger brother to head directly to the outskirts of the Star Constellation Great Forest to hunt soul beasts for cultivation, returning to Shrek Academy in the early hours of the next morning.
Tang San knew his actions might be seen as strange, but he couldn't help it. Ever since he first tried cultivating by hunting "evil soul beasts," he had become deeply addicted to the sensation of his soul power skyrocketing and his body growing progressively stronger.
Besides, with his Divine Consciousness masking his aura and tracks, he wasn't afraid of anyone discovering his method of killing soul beasts to cultivate.
The only issue was... while the life force enhanced his physical toughness, "Little Tang San" seemed unable to bear it. To strengthen his body, he first had to absorb all of the soul beast's life force into his frame. The fragile parts of his body simply couldn't withstand that life force which was tainted with pain and malice.
Of course, these were minor matters to him. He didn't need "that" anyway; his heart belonged only to Xiao Wu, and he would remain chaste for her sake.
Furthermore, once he found an opportunity to enter the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and consume the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot to temper his body with ice and fire, he assumed his body would no longer have such a defect.
Despite this small flaw, he was extremely satisfied with the exchange for such a terrifying cultivation speed.
To put it simply... he could no longer go back to the old way.
Naturally, Tang San didn't feel any distress over killing soul beasts to cultivate. After all, he was killing 'evil' soul beasts!
Take the one he just killed, for instance—it actually dared to use its strength to bully a weak Soft-Boned Rabbit! It truly had a "way to seek death"!
Killing such an evil soul beast was simply acting on behalf of Heaven and upholding justice!
Suppressing his thoughts, Tang San withdrew his Eight Spider Lances. Using his Divine Consciousness as a guide, he suppressed the filth and impurities remaining from the absorbed life force into the lances themselves!
This tainted, impure life force couldn't be absorbed; injecting it into a soul master's body would not only pollute their life force and soul power but also block the circulation of their energy.
To Tang San, these impurities were essentially "poison" in a certain sense! And it worked on all soul masters. The only pity was that he couldn't smear it onto his hidden weapons...
After stretching his limbs, Tang San disposed of the soul beast's corpse and stood up to find his next target.
He had heard that Zhou Yi had prepared several medicinal pills for him that could raise his soul power by three to four levels in a short time.
In other words, as long as he could raise himself from Level 25 to Level 26 or even 27 within these remaining two months, Zhou Yi could boost him directly to Level 30!
An eleven-year-old Soul Elder—attaining such cultivation at this age meant he had even surpassed his past self!
It wasn't impossible for him to surpass his original body!
The excitement fueled one thought after another, and suddenly, a specific notion flashed through his mind:
I can supplant him...
In an instant, Tang San's eyes lit up, and his resolve for cultivation became incredibly firm!
It was decided! Kill evil soul beasts, transform my cultivation!
He, Tang San, would surely become a god!
...
"Hmm, I need to give the 'tool' a bit more motivation..."
A pleasant smile played across Huo Yuhao's lips.
Huo Yuhao hadn't done much; he had merely experimented with the emotional power brought about by the evolution of his Seed of Emotion.
As the most important foundational "One" in Huo Yuhao's "Trinity Balance," every evolution of the Seed of Emotion brought about a comprehensive transformation in his body, spirit, soul power, and soul.
When Huo Yuhao realized that the divine trial of the "Emotion God King" existed within his own emotions, the Seed of Emotion underwent its first evolution.
That evolution allowed his every move to passively trigger the emotions of others, turning him into a living emotional amplifier.
On that night when he chose to no longer suppress himself, Huo Yuhao truly felt his own emotions, and that explosion of feeling triggered the second evolution of the Seed of Emotion.
The passive influence evolved into active influence—setting that ability aside for a moment.
While researching emotional power, Huo Yuhao suddenly discovered that by coordinating with the Eye of Destiny, he could easily pluck the emotional threads of any person, thereby arranging their thoughts.
Just like now: Huo Yuhao wanted Tang San to cultivate hard. Thus, he used the Eye of Destiny to anchor that result.
Then, following the guidance of the power of fate, Huo Yuhao plucked Tang San's emotional threads one by one, gradually stoking his feelings.
Finally, under the "coincidence" of countless emotional collisions, Tang San's own feelings guided him to generate the thought: I must work hard at cultivation.
This little trick—combining emotional power with the Eye of Destiny—could be said to be extremely useful!
Although it couldn't be used against beings whose strength far exceeded his own, he could easily handle the current Tang San.
That is the nature of a tool; Tang San only needs to cultivate, while Huo Yuhao, as the mastermind in control, has much more to consider.
Although Huo Yuhao currently had more than a dozen Titled Douluo level high-grade materials in his hands—even including the Level 99 Long Xiaoyao.
However! Huo Yuhao felt that this group of Titled Douluos was still not as valuable as Tang San.
After all, it's a possession by Divine Consciousness! In a sense, this was a "Little Tang San." Setting aside the uniqueness of possessing Divine Consciousness, he was a very good source of entertainment to pass the time.
Huo Yuhao was very curious: when this "Little Tang San" possessed everything, gained everything, and reached the "pinnacle of his life," only for it all to suddenly shatter...
When he learns that everything he experienced was specifically orchestrated, and even his own emotions were deliberately controlled, what kind of expression will he have?
A light smile appeared on his lips; Huo Yuhao was rarely this happy.
Unfortunately, Huo Yuhao didn't know that while he was plucking Tang San's emotional threads, he had actually caused Tang San to begin resenting his own original body!
This was something even Huo Yuhao couldn't have anticipated.
People often feel their past selves were immature or unreasonable, but that is usually the current self looking back at the past self.
But what about the possessed Tang San before him? In a sense, he was a second "current self" split off from the original Tang San. And yet, he was starting to hold a grudge against his original body!
What did this count as? I know exactly what kind of thing I am, so I hate myself?
Regrettably, Huo Yuhao didn't know about this hilarious development yet.
At this moment, having finished watching the show, he decided to make a trip to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
Just now, he had inexplicably come up with another potentially useful idea.