With every step Xu Sanshi took with his heavy footsteps, the entire Sea God Mountain seemed to tremble along with it. Three hundred and one, three hundred and two...
There were only the last ten steps left to the goal.
The scenery before Xu Sanshi's eyes had become blurred, and the Black Tortoise Domain had shrunk back to a range of one meter around his body.
The ten steps, at this moment in front of him, had become an insurmountable chasm. His body was so heavy, and in that solidified pressure, breathing had become extremely difficult.
Streaks of blood constantly seeped out from the surface of his skin, turning into spots of red solid in the air, then shattering into powder and scattering.
"Third Brother, hold on..." Tang Wutong gritted her teeth. Her situation was slightly better, but she was also approaching her limit.
"Continue, I can still do it." Xu Sanshi gritted his teeth and said.
...
Divine Realm.
"Nngh!"
Amidst a somewhat dissatisfied groan of pain from Xiao Wu, Tang San slowly climbed up.
"They are about to pass the first trial!" Tang San suddenly showed a look of pleasant surprise and shouted.
The comprehensive strength of soul masters on the Douluo Continent was undoubtedly a level higher than ten thousand years ago, so the time limit for the first trial of the Sea God Nine Trials he set was a full half shorter than what he needed back then.
The hidden resentment deep in Xiao Wu's beautiful eyes flashed and disappeared. Thinking of her precious daughter, a look of expectation appeared on her face.
"Really? That means Little Qi has good taste!"
Tang San rolled over and lay flat, looking at the ceiling: "I can feel that the Child of Fortune is already level eighty, even more powerful than I was back then."
"Then, the difficulty of the subsequent assessments won't be small, right?" Xiao Wu rolled her eyes at him and scolded playfully.
"If he just wants to be my son-in-law, it's enough. But my expectations for him are not just that simple. Moreover, to be my son-in-law, there are prerequisites. Have you forgotten?" Tang San said leisurely.
"It's really not easy for people to be your son-in-law! Why do I feel that you have been seeking personal revenge from the beginning? Do all fathers have this mentality when watching their daughters get together with someone? Did you enjoy the torment?" Xiao Wu said snappily.
"Cough cough! Don't slander me, I am selfless. How can one see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain? When I let that girl Little Qi go to the lower realm, I had already decided. If this kid can't make Little Qi... then, just pretend that nothing happened before."
"You are too cruel!" Xiao Wu was speechless.
"Is it really that easy to want to be my son-in-law? Hmph! That is our most beloved treasure."
"But you also treated Little Qi..."
"How can one see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain? Without experiencing setbacks, how can one know the value of everything?"
"You, you win..."
"How can one see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain?"
"Shut up! By the way, does Boss Dai know you are treating his descendant like this?"
"I forgot to tell him..."
"You did it on purpose, right?"
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Dragon Realm.
Huo Yuhao sat quietly cross-legged on the stone platform, his eyes closed, organizing the thoughts in his mind.
Behind him stood a silver-haired old man, his eyes full of desolation and helplessness.
This old man was shockingly the number one soul engineer in the world today, the Chief Consecrator of the Sun Moon Imperial Family who enjoyed the reputation of "Father of Soul Tools," Kong Deming.
He had been forgotten in a corner after being captured by Gu Yuena and brought to the Dragon Realm. Fortunately, Huo Yuhao remembered him in time. Facing the current Huo Yuhao and the Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena, Kong Deming knew he had no means to contend anymore and chose to surrender.
Huo Yuhao did not openly use King's Power or Kotoamatsukami on him. With his current spiritual power realm, he could completely plant a spiritual brand on someone unknowingly, and Kong Deming wouldn't notice it at all.
After accepting his surrender, Huo Yuhao didn't forget to take an alchemy furnace from him.
Why were there so many soul engineers in the Sun Moon Empire? It was because they could refine a large number of pills for those soul masters who had talent for soul power awakening but not very good talent, to take and accelerate their cultivation speed.
In this aspect, the Sun Moon Empire was also an authority. In the original timeline, Xuan Ziwen, who defected to the Tang Sect, also had poor talent in martial souls. Back in the Sun Moon Empire, he also continuously improved by taking pills.
regarding medicine, although the things taken out by Shrek Academy were all good things, they were all unrefined medicines taken directly. In this way, there was undoubtedly a lot of unnecessary waste of medicinal properties.
To refine drugs at the level of heavenly treasures and earthly treasures, the alchemy furnace used must also be a high-level soul tool. The higher the level of the drug refined, the higher the requirement for the alchemy furnace.
The things on Kong Deming naturally wouldn't be bad. This alchemy furnace of his was one of the top Class 9 soul tools on the continent. Even the pills he used to consolidate his own realm were almost all refined using this furnace.
Huo Yuhao suffered from not being a soul engineer himself, and even if he purchased one, he might not be able to buy those top-quality alchemy furnaces of the Sun Moon Empire, so he simply fleeced Kong Deming.
This time, the pill Huo Yuhao planned to refine was naturally the Living Bone Blood Fusing Pill for which he had prepared the materials long ago. This pill was known as the peak of the seventh grade, but Huo Yuhao didn't understand what the so-called pill grades were about. With his current ability, he thought he should be able to refine it.
After many twists and turns, he had finally basically achieved the conditions needed to resurrect Bibi Dong back then—
Huo Yuhao glanced faintly at the alchemy furnace in front of him, and a smile slowly appeared on his face. He grasped his palm lightly, and three flames of different forms flashed out abruptly, turning into three fire snakes. Even from a distance, one could feel the temperature between heaven and earth rise significantly!
Kong Deming looked at the three flames Huo Yuhao produced and clicked his tongue in wonder. These strange-colored flames contained extremely terrifying energy.
"As expected of the Demon King, these three flames of yours are presumably not ordinary items, right? However, the method of alchemy is a field of study. Since it is your first time refining pills, why not listen to this old man's advice?" Kong Deming was naturally convinced of Huo Yuhao's strength, but when it came to soul tool research and alchemy, if he said he was second on the continent today, no one dared to say they were first.
Huo Yuhao knew that this old fellow wanted to regain some confidence in front of him, but thinking that he would also need to learn some soul tool knowledge from this old guy in the future, he didn't mind listening to him talk a bit more now.
"Please speak, Elder. This junior is all ears." Huo Yuhao rarely put on the appearance of an obedient baby, giving this Father of Soul Tools enough face.
"The so-called Way of Pills, in our Sun Moon Empire..." Kong Deming began his long-winded speech.
He originally thought that with Huo Yuhao's proud nature, he wouldn't listen to his advice. Unexpectedly, Huo Yuhao really listened to him for half a day by his side, and even drew inferences and raised several questions during the process, figuring out some theories he had deliberately not finished teaching.
One had to know that the current Huo Yuhao, known as the number one prodigy on the continent, was only in his early seventeen. It was the best age for learning and research. If not for the hostile relationship, Kong Deming really wouldn't mind taking this number one prodigy of the continent as his closed-door disciple.
After his spiritual power reached the God King realm, Huo Yuhao's learning ability had exceeded the scope of humans. He quickly understood the alchemy methods proposed by Kong Deming and derived his own path.
In fact, Huo Yuhao could totally use Spiritual Link to forcibly obtain Kong Deming's memories and knowledge, but that would undoubtedly form stereotypes in his own consciousness, which would not be a good thing instead.
He was not Kong Deming. He possessed a spiritual realm beyond the limits of humans, and held a super carving knife like the Blade of Life's Guardian in his hand. Even if he had to learn soul tool knowledge, his starting point was not comparable to normal humans.
After Kong Deming taught for a while, Huo Yuhao began to prepare for alchemy.
The medicinal materials for the Living Bone Blood Fusing Pill were too precious. He didn't want to use them for practice.
So he turned his gaze to another pill formula in his spiritual sea.
"Green Underworld Longevity Pill, a sixth-grade pill. It can increase a person's lifespan by nearly ten years. A person can only take one in their lifetime. Refining materials: Green Underworld Fruit, Longevity King Jelly, Ten-Thousand-Year Green Vine..."
Seeing him start trying right away, Kong Deming didn't stop him. He also wanted to see what kind of talent this so-called number one prodigy of the continent had in the path of alchemy.
Huo Yuhao had quite a few of the medicinal materials required for this pill formula, all gathered near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but definitely not too many. It was just that they weren't of much use to him.
Moreover, his direct choice of a relatively difficult pill formula also had his own plans.
Huo Yuhao flipped his hand, and the Seven-Colored Lotus Fire, the Fire of Purification, and the Scarlet Gold Profound Flame rose one after another. After Huo Yuhao's Necromancer Holy Spirit God martial soul signed a contract with Jialin, the Fire of Purification had successfully evolved into an extremely powerful flame.
After a little thought, he finally chose to use the Scarlet Gold Profound Flame to refine the Green Underworld Longevity Pill. After all, he hadn't completely mastered this Scarlet Gold Profound Flame yet. Rashly using it to refine the Living Bone Blood Fusing Pill would probably result in the destruction of medicinal materials, a consequence he found hard to accept.
Just as Huo Yuhao carefully put the medicinal materials into the alchemy furnace, his spiritual power seeped into the pill formula of the Green Underworld Longevity Pill. A soul fluctuation that made even his spiritual sea tremble appeared in his consciousness like an awakened colossal beast.
"Green Underworld Longevity Pill, a sixth-grade pill. I will only demonstrate its refinement for you once. Little Friend Huo, watch carefully..."
Huo Yuhao's mind trembled. Undoubtedly, that was the voice of Senior Xiao Huohuo, whom he had met once before.