A few days later, within the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
At this moment, twelve soul rings in three colors—silvery glow, ice crystal, and ashen radiance—hovered around Huo Yuhao. Within them, the Spiritual Soul Core, the Ultimate Ice Soul Core, and the Holy Spirit Soul Core spun frantically, absorbing the heaven-and-earth primordial energy surrounding the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with the voracity of a whale.
The heaven-and-earth primordial energy was absorbed by the soul cores, converted into soul power to be integrated into the soul rings, and finally funneled bit by bit into Huo Yuhao's body.
Currently, all of Huo Yuhao's bones had undergone a transformation. If translated into soul bones, they were roughly equivalent to a full set of 100,000-year soul bones. However, they had no attached soul skills; they simply amplified his physical body, emphasizing pure strength.
Normally, when a Soul Master practicing Blood Essence Body Cultivation uses the "Soul Ring Bone Nourishing" technique, their soul ring energy is completely exhausted, causing the color of the ring to fade until it becomes transparent.
However, Huo Yuhao's soul rings, which carried soul cores, could naturally absorb heaven-and-earth primordial energy to restore the soul power used to nourish his body.
In simple terms, as long as his physical body did not grow so powerful that it exceeded his mental control, he could strengthen his physique indefinitely.
After the recent days and nights of continuous experience, Huo Yuhao deeply understood the importance of a strong body. If they all came at him at once, he might not struggle so much, but he really couldn't handle a war of attrition.
Slowly opening his eyes, the twelve soul rings around him gradually dissipated. Simultaneously, he ceased the "Soul Ring Bone Nourishing" technique.
One cannot absorb too much heaven-and-earth primordial energy from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well at once, otherwise, the balance would be lost, potentially causing issues for this treasure land.
After all, Huo Yuhao's Blue Silver Grass experimental park was still located here.
Raising his hand, Huo Yuhao clenched his fist. Feeling his physique—which had been strengthened once again—he was very satisfied.
His physical strength was roughly on par with the Bear Lord, and with the support of twelve soul cores, his soul power quality was infinitely close to that of a 3rd Class God, just a tiny step away from the final transformation.
But if one factored in his soul power reserves, physical strength, and mental power control...
Well, put it this way: if the current Di Tian could be considered at the peak of a Demi-God, then if Huo Yuhao did not hold back, he could now fight five or six Di Tians. Even a true 3rd Class God would likely not be his match.
With this level of strength, he could basically sweep across the Douluo Continent without issue. However, it was still not enough to face Tang San of the God Realm.
Huo Yuhao was very clear about Tang San's situation.
Possessing the dual Divine Positions of the Sea God and Asura God, Tang San should theoretically possess strength slightly superior to a normal God King. Yet, what was the reality?
The combat power Tang San displayed was consistently below the standard level of a normal God King.
Why did Tang San almost always maintain his Sea God form under normal circumstances? Why didn't he use his Asura God form to attend God King meetings? Wouldn't that provide more deterrence and give him more of a say?
Why was it that when a dispute occurred with Destruction, Destruction dared to flagrantly reveal his God King aura, while Tang San could only pull out his trident to resist?
Was it because he didn't want to?
No! It was because he couldn't!
If the Sea God Divine Position was like a three-year-old child walking—manageable as long as one was careful—then Tang San could control it perfectly on his own.
But the Asura God Divine Position was like a three-year-old child running. He could get moving, but it was stumbling and clumsy; one wrong move, and he might fall.
Tang San couldn't grasp the Asura God Divine Position. At most, he could use it occasionally, and if he overused it, he had to bring Xiao Wu along to share the erosion caused by the Asura God power.
There was a conflict between the Sea God Divine Position and the Asura God Divine Position. Or rather, as long as one held multiple Divine Positions—especially those obtained through inheritance—there would inevitably be a conflict between them.
For example, Huo Yuhao's Seed of Emotion was the prototype of the Emotion God King Divine Position, and it instinctively felt repulsion toward the Sea God Trident.
If the Seed of Emotion didn't belong to Huo Yuhao and wasn't under his complete control, he probably wouldn't even be able to use the Sea God Trident to leverage the Sea God Divine Position and utilize divine power.
Back to the main topic.
How could Tang San, who inherited both Divine Positions, perfectly control both the Sea God and Asura God powers?
While the Divine Positions conflicted, Tang San himself lacked the ability to balance them. Furthermore, the power of the Asura God far exceeded that of the Sea God, leaving Tang San in a state of total "disequilibrium."
Huo Yuhao had a strange feeling that the previous Asura God simply wanted to retire as quickly as possible, so he looked for anyone and found Tang San.
Perhaps the previous Asura God even saw that Tang San was about to inherit the (weaker) Sea God Divine Position and had a Xiao Wu to share the burden, so he ignored the issue of compatibility entirely and threw his Divine Position to Tang San like it was trash.
In a situation where two Divine Positions conflict within the body, there are generally only two solutions.
The first is to directly gain absolute control over both, isolating them from each other so they don't interfere—or even forcing them to fuse according to one's will to create an entirely new Divine Position.
The second is to choose to give up one of them. Once a Divine Position is discarded, the so-called conflict naturally vanishes, allowing one to focus all efforts on controlling the remaining one.
Regarding the second method of giving up, Tang San naturally wouldn't choose it. He was too "greedy" to give up meat that was already in his bowl; even if the meat was tough and hard to chew, he would grit his teeth and swallow it.
Therefore, before the Barrier of Fate appeared, Tang San had always been attempting the first method.
However, after the Barrier of Fate appeared, the "brilliantly wise" Tang San suddenly thought of a way to have the best of both worlds: casting everything related to the Sea God Divine Position and his own Divine Consciousness into the Douluo World.
Meanwhile, he and Xiao Wu would do their best to master the Asura God Divine Position.
Honestly, the current Tang San, possessing only the Asura God Divine Position, was clearly more threatening than the previous dual-position Tang San.
At the very least, without the conflict between Divine Positions, the Asura God power—which specialized in slaughter—would grant him strength above the God King baseline even with rough control.
Therefore, the conclusion was: before the barrier vanished, he had to possess at least God King level power. Only then could he guarantee that no problems would arise.
Unfortunately, while the Barrier of Fate blocked the gaze of the God Realm, it also prevented the Douluo Planet from absorbing energy from the universe to convert into heaven-and-earth primordial energy.
Although the Douluo Planet possessed a strong balancing capability and could maintain the cultivation of all current Soul Masters...
If the number of Soul Masters increased drastically, or if Huo Yuhao absorbed too much heaven-and-earth primordial energy to convert into soul power for a breakthrough, it might cause an imbalance.
The current Douluo Planet could not sustain a God King. Unless he found a way through other means.
For instance... the power of faith from all living beings.