Chapter 63: Saint Attraction... Snow Lotus?

During the previous sacrifice, the Snow Empress had integrated the majority of her origin essence into a snow lotus, storing it within.

On one hand, this caused certain mutations in the soul ring brought about by the sacrifice.

On the other hand, it bestowed upon Huo Yuhao this energy entity rooted deep within his body.

As his cultivation realm progressed, this snow lotus would gradually radiate energy, further accelerating his cultivation speed while simultaneously improving his physical constitution.

By the day Huo Yuhao completely digested it, his bodily strength would reach a degree that peers of the same rank could only look up to in despair.

Of course.

With Huo Yuhao's current strength, he would never dare to rashly tamper with this terrifying mass of energy.

Once something went wrong, let alone himself, probably even the greater half of Shrek Academy would be blasted flat by the explosion.

What he truly cared about was actually the energy slowly released by the snow lotus midway through his cultivation.

"It seems... very suitable to act as a motive force?"

Huo Yuhao stared at the total amount of soul power inside his body, which far exceeded anything he had previously possessed, and cautiously interrupted the Mysterious Heaven Technique. He retrieved the soul power in his meridians one by one, hoarding it within his dantian.

Subsequently.

He manipulated the soul power to rotate slowly.

This time, although the physical pain was slightly lower due to the negligible amount of soul power remaining in his meridians, the psychological and mental pressure abruptly increased.

"Soul power... why has it become so heavy?"

Huo Yuhao's eyes were filled with shock and uncertainty.

Merely driving his whole body's soul power to revolve with difficulty caused cold sweat to seep from his forehead, and the water level of his spiritual sea plummeted rapidly amidst churning billows.

On ordinary days, he basically used the Spirit Eyes martial soul, and casting soul skills was primarily based on spiritual power consumption, so he hadn't felt such a drastic change in soul power.

Yet when he tried it now, he unexpectedly discovered that the soul power inside his body had already become as heavy as a millstone.

It almost failed to move.

"Hmph—how can soul power of Ultimate attributes be mentioned in the same breath as ordinary soul power?"

The Snow Empress in his mind answered his doubts: "The reason soul masters with Ultimate martial souls are powerful, aside from the quality of the martial soul and attribute bonuses, is also thanks to the quality of their soul power."

"Although the quality of soul power within normal soul masters will also slowly rise as their ring count increases, a noticeable qualitative change basically doesn't occur until the realm of the seventh ring and above!"

"—Yet Ultimate attributes lower this threshold to the third ring."

"The advantage of this trait is that Ultimate attribute soul masters maintain an extremely strong cross-rank capability above the second ring and below the ninth ring."

"The cost, however, is that the improvement of realms between the third and seventh rings is extremely difficult. It probably requires two to three times the effort of ordinary people to catch up to them in terms of soul power rank."

A qualitative change at the third ring?

Huo Yuhao clenched his teeth: "But aren't I clearly still a second ring?"

"Even as a second ring, it has to reach the level of an ordinary person's fourth or fifth ring..."

The Snow Empress shook her head: "Moreover, you are not a standard Ultimate attribute. Under the effect of that bizarre martial soul of yours, the Ice-attribute powers from numerous sources have fused perfectly, becoming exceptionally pure, which in turn makes your soul power even more refined."

Right now, without taking action, even she could not be certain what Huo Yuhao's current combat effectiveness actually was.

It was truly because this fellow's soul power quality was somewhat freakishly high.

It had already reached the extent where others were throwing snowballs, while he was wildly hammering away chunks of solid ice.

"Doesn't that mean I am now going to be plagued by the problem of a declining cultivation speed?"

Huo Yuhao was speechless for a moment, finally figuring out why, despite successively absorbing soul rings from the Ice and Snow Emperors and the Ice Silkworm, his own soul power rank had not yet crawled to the twenty-seventh level.

However...

What he was solving right now was precisely the cultivation problem!

His gaze narrowed, and his spiritual power surged forth, pushing the thick, icy-sludge-like heavy soul power within his body to accelerate its rotation.

As the speed gradually increased, the vortex also began to collapse during the revolution, condensing into a star-vortex-like shape.

Compared to the nebula-like vortex resembling mist that he had previously gathered, the vortex lying quietly spinning in his dantian at this moment was clearly much more stable and closer to a perfect fluid form.

And within that vortex, densely packed fragmented stars were faintly visible, radiating an ice-blue light during their operation.

It was almost like a true, brilliant galaxy.

"Hoo... hoo..."

Panting heavily, Huo Yuhao—who had nearly burned out seventy percent of his spiritual power—felt the surrounding heaven and earth energy with excited eyes.

Even though he sat in place without cultivating, those thin external energies would slip through the emptied meridians into the vortex, and after being compressed and condensed, they would be assimilated into his soul power.

As for that snow lotus?

It played a vital role in all these operations.

As the vortex revolved, the snow lotus also continuously radiated more energy, increasing the total amount of soul power in the vortex, barely striking a balance with the energy seeping in from the outside, and maintaining the stability of the entire system.

Before the energy in the snow lotus was completely drained, Huo Yuhao could continuously enjoy the acceleration effect of the soul power vortex.

"The only flaw is probably that this balance is not quite stable..."

Still, it wasn't a major issue.

Anyway, there were no life-or-death battles happening ordinarily, so he could just continue holing up in his dormitory to rest.

He refused to believe anyone would dare to make a move against him in Shrek City.

"Interesting..."

And right after Huo Yuhao's experiment succeeded grandly, Elder Yi—transformed into a gas cluster—also cast his gaze over: "Although the efficiency is a bit poor, it can indeed play a role similar to the Holy Guidance Spirit Furnace."

"Senior?"

Huo Yuhao was slightly stunned: "What is... a Holy Guidance Spirit Furnace?"

"Spirit furnaces are special products of the plane where I lived during my lifetime, all of them being naturally nurtured treasures. Every single kind of spirit furnace comes with unique skills."

Elder Yi carefully examined the vortex at the dantian: "And one of the two major functions of the Holy Guidance Spirit Furnace is to autonomously maintain a spiritual power vortex, continuously accumulating spiritual power to elevate one's realm. From the moment the vortex is activated, this effect will persist indefinitely."

Autonomously maintained.

Persisting indefinitely.

Wasn't that simply a fully automated cultivation cheat device?

Huo Yuhao's eyebrows couldn't help but twitch.

Judging by Elder Yi's implication, the so-called Holy Guidance Spirit Furnace required neither a supreme being like the Snow Empress to sacrifice herself, nor a world-rare treasure like the snow lotus as a primer, nor did it require condensing a super-weakened version of a soul power vortex by imitating the soul core principle...

You absorb it, and then it simply goes to work.

"It seems this world can indeed seamlessly adopt the power system of the Holy Demonic Continent."

Glancing at the soul power vortex once more, a glint gradually emerged in Elder Yi's eyes as well: "The path to godhood should also be able to restart perfectly in this world."

There was no need to convert his power; once he recovered his vitality and successfully resurrected, he could directly proceed with ascension!

Of course~

The most urgent problem to solve right now was still how to nurture and maintain this sole remaining sliver of divine consciousness.

"I still need Life Gold..."

Elder Yi let out a long sigh.

Coming full circle, it remained an inextricable deadlock in the end.

If he couldn't find a similar treasure again, this sliver of divine consciousness of his would probably only last another two to three hundred years.