Chapter 53: “tang San, You’re The Challenger!”
“Mother left………”
Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm was firmly pinned down by Golden Tortoise in the Sea of Consciousness, tearfully watching the spot where Planet Will disappeared.
Then, Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm viciously turned his head toward Golden Tortoise and said:
“Dead tortoise, you better remember this. You’d best pray Bro never learns Alchemy.”
“Otherwise, Bro will definitely make you experience the feeling of being pinned underneath too!”
Golden Tortoise looked aggrieved at Ilex and Huo Yuhao and said:
“Tian Meng Ge, isn’t this for your own good?”
“Doesn’t Old Tortoise hope you can recover quickly?”
Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm looked at its innocent expression, his face flushing red.
He had lived for several hundred thousand years, but the number of times he’d blushed didn’t add up to this past month!
“I………”
“Forget it, get off me!”
“Bro senses that Mother left something for us too!”
Golden Tortoise tilted its head in doubt, but still slowly climbed off Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm.
Heavenly Dream straightened his clothes, put the white hood back on, and used Spiritual Power to mimic a small mirror to check himself:
“That was close, almost got Bro’s spirit body seams popped open.”
Then Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm released his Spiritual Power in the starry sky-like Sea of Consciousness, finding three light spheres in a corner of the Sea of Consciousness.
Heavenly Dream limped over dragging the three light spheres; from the way he walked, it was clear Golden Tortoise had trained him pretty harshly.
The three light spheres emitted brilliant golden light, with countless energy lines intertwining inside the golden light, even reflecting inverted images of mountains and rivers on their surfaces.
Before Ilex could scan them with Divine Sense, one light sphere rushed into his body.
The other two entered Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm and Golden Tortoise respectively.
Ilex instinctively wanted to expel this unknown object, but discovered the light sphere was mending his remnant soul.
When he first arrived in this world, he only had a fragment of Divine Sense left—no memories, no form, only able to maintain Gray Ball state.
Only after being nurtured by Huo Yuhao’s extreme spirit-level Spiritual Power and Life Gold did he barely recover his memories.
Now this light sphere directly acted on his damaged soul, gradually repairing the cracks on his body.
It didn’t take long before Ilex no longer maintained the energy-saving Gray Ball state and reformed into human shape.
A youth with silver-gray long hair, wearing a black-gold long robe, appeared in the sky above the Sea of Consciousness.
It was unmistakably Ilex in human form.
Ilex stretched out his hands, clenched them, a smile appeared on his face, and he spoke in an aged voice mismatched with his appearance:
“My Divine Sense has stabilized? No, now it can be called a complete soul.”
“This time, I really owe this world a huge favor!”
Ilex didn’t maintain human form, felt his soul state, then reformed into Gray Ball.
During this time, he had grown accustomed to this state instead.
Below, Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had at some point transformed into beast form.
The light sphere turned into a large cocoon wrapping his body, with silver-white light constantly leaking out like sharp swords from within the cocoon.
After sensing the commotion in the Sea of Consciousness, Huo Yuhao projected his consciousness body in and said joyfully upon seeing the extremely stable Ilex:
“Elder Ilex, your soul has stabilized!”
“And Tian Meng Ge, are you about to metamorphose into a butterfly?”
Ilex chuckled and said: “Yeah, owe Planet Will a huge favor.”
“What butterfly can Big Bug turn into? Just a silkworm moth!”
As Ilex’s words fell, the large cocoon was torn open by silver light, and a strange moth with golden patterns and blue patterns interwoven appeared before the two.
“Alright, it really is a moth.”
Heavenly Dream was unhappy, reformed into a golden-haired child wearing a hood, and said to Huo Yuhao:
“What moth!”
“Bro is Heavenly Dream Golden Moth!”
Huo Yuhao showed an old man, subway, and phone expression.
“What a mouthful name, and isn’t that still a moth?”
Heavenly Dream’s face flushed red as he muttered some hard-to-understand words like “million year soul beast stuff is none of your business” and “this is evolution.”
But soon, Heavenly Dream shook his head and confidently looked at Huo Yuhao:
“Alright, never mind that. This golden light sphere from Mother evolved and supplemented my Origin!”
“Bro’s Spiritual Power level has now reached high-level Spirit Domain Realm as you call it.”
“I can vaguely sense a Mental Domain has been born.”
“I’ll transfer this domain to your first Soul Ring right away; Bro doesn’t need it at all now.”
Though Heavenly Dream sounded regretful, his hands didn’t slow down at all—he swiftly grafted the newborn Mental Domain onto the first Soul Ring.
Huo Yuhao quickly learned the effect of this Mental Domain.
Then his mouth twitched fiercely, barely holding it together.
Mental Domains are pretty esoteric; their effects might have nothing to do with spirit at all.
For example, Tang Wulin’s time reversal domain, Gu Yue Na’s space lockdown domain, Enci’s black hole domain, Five Elements Qilin Tong Yu’s five elements rotation domain.
This Tong Yu is interesting; his Martial Soul was originally an earth-attribute dog type, but due to love, he took poison and activated Kirin bloodline, turning his Martial Soul into Kirin.
Huo Yuhao could only say bloodline is truly unpredictable; even a dog can turn into Kirin—who knows what similarities they have.
Four legs? One head? Or both have tails?
This stuff can’t be overthought; you just don’t know how strong your Martial Soul is until you push it.
And the Mental Domain awakened by Heavenly Dream is purely spirit-related.
It’s like a combined plus version of Mental Sharing and Mental Interference.
Upon activation, it unfolds a space enveloping reality, filled with Spiritual Power that force-feeds massive useless information into the enemy’s brain.
Making the enemy lose thinking ability—yep, it’s the signature domain of legendary 2.5 Gojo: Infinite Void.
Huo Yuhao simply named this domain Infinite Void.
Anyway, no one in this world will demand copyright fees from him; even in his previous life, the author was long gone, probably died in the moon crisis.
That led to strict controls on entertainment later to save resources.
Tons of Golden Age novels and comics were collected as the final mental entertainment solace.
Otherwise, Huo Yuhao wouldn’t even know this comic.
Huo Yuhao thought carefully: if he wore an eyepatch, modified his body with Faceless Mask, plus Reverse Cursed Technique and Alchemy.
He could perfectly cosplay 2.5 Gojo.
Even Infinite Void Technique—after studying Alchemy, Huo Yuhao had some ideas on how to recreate this incantation on Douluo Continent.
Next time he sees Tang San, he could say:
“Tang San, you’re the challenger!”
No sooner said than done; once Huo Yuhao returned to Real World, he discussed this incantation with Elder Ilex and the others.
By the way in the research process, teach them Alchemy—practice plus theory is always the fastest learning path.
And Infinite Void Technique is definitely worth researching; the effect is really good.
Life-saving skill—no one has too many.
Haven’t you seen that Song-named big shot who transcended in one year? He hates not bringing hundreds of resurrection artifacts even for a trip out.
Such big shots are always right; life-saving skills must be plentiful!
Huo Yuhao’s best-case vision: Infinite Void Technique layered outside Golden Armor.
Then Kamui Phasing inside Golden Armor!
Even if everything gets broken through.
Reverse Cursed Technique plus massive Life Gold will definitely give the enemy a huge surprise!
Just wondering if Elder Ilex’s Undead Magic can achieve resurrection.
It didn’t take long for Golden Tortoise to complete its metamorphosis too; its originally triangular head became even closer to Dragon Head.
Golden dragon horns extended upward from the head, the tortoise shell more ferocious, a strange black snake coiled around the tortoise shell, and the two heads seemed to share one mind.
Both pairs of eyes stared joyfully at Huo Yuhao, making him a bit puzzled.
Does Golden Tortoise relate to Xuanwu?
“Old Tortoise, why’d you turn into Xuanwu?”
Seeing Huo Yuhao’s expression, Golden Tortoise proudly raised its head and said:
“As the king of tortoise soul beasts, of course I have Xuanwu bloodline!”
“Back then, you humans hunted Golden Tortoise clan en masse for this Xuanwu bloodline.”
“Of course, Star Dou Great Forest soul beasts’ methods were extremely cruel in the end.”
Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm showed a disdainful expression and said: “And then?”
“You just awakened a bloodline?”
“You can’t go out now anyway; what’s the use of bloodline evolution?”
“Tortoise, we’re Yu Hao’s Soul Rings—think spiritually, don’t lose face!”
Golden Tortoise, as a proud luck clan, couldn’t tolerate this mockery and rumbled:
“Old Tortoise of course has something for Yu Hao!”
“Yu Hao, wait! I’m coming right now!”
Accompanied by Golden Tortoise’s Dragon Roar! Both heads emitted rose-gold light simultaneously.
On Douluo Continent, rose-gold represents Fate!
Then this gorgeous mysterious light surged from Golden Tortoise’s forehead, forming a nebula in the spirit sea.
The nebula compressed continuously until it became a bead.
And Golden Tortoise had burned itself out by then, proudly blowing a raspberry at Heavenly Dream right before fainting.
Heavenly Dream was truly dumbfounded now.
“Bro was just kidding, but you really have it!”
Ilex saw this and instantly understood!
“Yu Hao, quickly open Life Gold Eye!”
After hearing Ilex, Huo Yuhao realized what it was too!
He hurriedly opened Life Gold Eye; a blue-gold eye appeared on his forehead, and this rose-gold little bead rushed out from the Sea of Consciousness.
Then it went straight into the center of Life Gold Eye.
The little bead began connecting to flesh and blood; Huo Yuhao immediately felt tearing pain in his forehead.
Just like the pain of Reverse Cursed Technique regeneration—flesh wriggling and twisting, nerves and senses amplified!
The pain lasted ten minutes; the little bead had fully fused with Life Gold Eye.
The eye on his forehead now had rose-gold pupils, with what seemed like a star burning inside the pupils.
Surrounding the eye were blue-gold light patterns, representing Life Gold’s Vitality.
Huo Yuhao closed Life Gold Eye—no, now it should be called Eye of Fate.
He could sense a second Sea of Consciousness had appeared within Eye of Fate, greatly boosting his Spiritual Power!
If he opened the Panel now, Spiritual Power would probably be at 8000!
The ability gained from Three-Eyed Golden Lion in the original work was now nearly complete via Golden Tortoise too.
Fate is indeed never fair—good thing he’s Fate’s favorite child.
Huo Yuhao mimicked a Spiritual Power small mirror like Heavenly Dream to check his forehead.
Sure enough, there was now a rose-gold Diamond Mark on it.
“Good good good, now I have a tattoo on my head too.”
“Hurry up and serve the front chest and back ones!”
Three thousand words, basically collected all the original Huo cheats and arranged them. Author daily begging for monthly tickets and follow-up reading, go easy folks, OzR
