Moments later, the change manifested. With Huo Yuhao's Ice Empress Martial Soul possessing his body, the Ice Empress tattoo across his back began to shift, faintly taking on a touch of silver radiance. Crystal-like scales flickered in and out of view, and an invisible, imposing aura rose from him.
Yet the most striking change was on his arms.
His arms were coated with fine, diamond-like granules. Closely packed and roughly the size of mung beans, each formed a neat hexagon. As Huo Yuhao channeled his soul power, the granules flashed with silver light from time to time, overlaid by transparent scales forged of ice crystal.
"More domineering than I thought. It actually manifested draconic traits... Was the bloodline Gu Yuena gave me through our feedback really that potent?"
Staring at the nearly transparent crystal scales, Huo Yuhao sensed the power within them and inspected his Martial Soul Origin.
Gold and silver light filled the space. The silver radiance held an immense affinity with the Ice Empress Martial Soul's Origin, having completely merged into it, scattered like starry motes across the entirety of the Martial Soul Origin.
Although the golden light had also fused into the Ice Empress Martial Soul Origin, it occupied very little territory, constantly suppressed by the silver glow.
He had not achieved a complete Dragon God bloodline—that was hardly so simple. He had merely used the Silver Dragon King's bloodline to devour the Golden Dragon King's bloodline so that Heavenly Silkworm Transformation could take effect, forcibly drawing both bloodlines into his Martial Soul Origin, where they naturally split once inside.
Ice Empress had been delighted that Huo Yuhao was absorbing bloodline power to lay the groundwork for sublimating her Martial Soul. Seeing him frown, she grew puzzled.
"Yuhao, what is it? Did something go wrong?"
"The strength of the bloodline Gu Yuena gave me through our feedback surpassed my expectations. When her bloodline originally merged into my body, the effect wasn't obvious, showing only in things like elemental affinity.
"Now that it has fused into the Ice Empress Martial Soul alongside the Golden Dragon King's bloodline, the effects are far more pronounced. I can actually channel elemental power through the Martial Soul."
As Huo Yuhao spoke, a tiny flame flickered into being upon his frigid, frost-shrouded palm.
Using fire with the Ice Empress Martial Soul without conflicting with the Ultimate Ice attribute... The sight looked utterly bizarre.
Clearly, the fused bloodline power had fundamentally altered the Ice Empress Martial Soul's innate attributes, yielding astonishing results.
Yet thinking of Wang Jinxi's situation, Huo Yuhao found it was not so strange after all.
Tang Wulin's bloodline right now was completely incomparable to Gu Yuena's, yet merely cultivating alongside him had caused Wang Jinxi's Martial Soul to mutate from the aura Tang Wulin invisibly released.
The Bone Dragon King was already a top-tier darkness-attribute Martial Soul. This alone was enough to reveal just how overbearing the bloodlines of the two great Dragon Kings were!
And he had directly integrated the bloodlines of both Dragon Kings into his Martial Soul. What was more, Gu Yuena's bloodline power was far more complete than Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King bloodline, so such a change was hardly surprising.
At the end of the day, compared to the Dragon King bloodlines, the Ice Empress Martial Soul lagged too far behind in status. It was already fortunate that it hadn't turned from a scorpion into a dragon.
*I was mistaken before. Long Haochen could draw upon the covenant's feedback to directly wield the Power of Wrath. The feedback I received from Gu Yuena is far greater than I imagined—it couldn't possibly be limited to boosting elemental affinity. After all, her fundamental essence is that of a god.*
Huo Yuhao sighed inwardly.
He owed her quite a lot.
This time, too, Gu Yuena had come out of concern for his safety, shielding him from disaster.
Though he and Gu Yuena had put on an impromptu show, using the Golden Dragon King's bloodline and the Dragon God's power as a pretense to temporarily pacify Tang San's divine sense—making him believe he was safe so he wouldn't flip the table and strike at Gu Yuena directly—he couldn't be certain how effective it had truly been.
In the future... how was he going to repay all these debts of gratitude to Gu Yuena?
He didn't like being indebted to others...
"Yuhao, how strong are these elemental powers?" Tianmeng's eyes lit up. He hadn't expected them to reap rewards right at the start.
"The strength of the other elements I can channel right now can't compare to Ultimate Ice. They aren't suited for direct combat—except for... space."
Setting his thoughts aside for the moment, Huo Yuhao radiated silver light. In the next instant, his body vanished into the void, and when he reappeared, he was twenty meters away.
"Is it because of your comprehension of spatial power?"
Seeing this, Tianmeng seemed to understand.
Spatial power was typically something Soul Masters only touched upon after reaching rank ninety. Take their Holy Spirit Cult Grand Elder—Taotie Douluo—for instance; at rank ninety-eight, he had grasped a fraction of spatial power, yet he could only attach a portion of it to his attacks.
Di Tian, on the other hand, could use spatial power to directly transmit his strength across vast distances to whoever held his inverted scale. Ten thousand years ago, Snow Empress's protection of Huo Yuhao was a similar matter, likewise utilizing spatial power.
As one could see, to master and skillfully wield spatial power, only those at the Ultimate Douluo level could manage it. Or rather, ten thousand years ago, to become an Ultimate Douluo, one had to possess sufficient comprehension of spatial power to condense a second soul core.
Under these circumstances, having once been an Ultimate Douluo, Huo Yuhao's mastery over the spatial element naturally far outstripped the other elements. Not to mention that he was also a Soul Engineer who had crafted space-attribute Soul Tools, so his understanding of the spatial element was readily apparent.
Huo Yuhao nodded. "That's right. Because of my study of spatial power, aside from ice, space is the element I understand most deeply among them all. Although I can't wield it as freely as I did at my peak, basic teleportation and imbuing attacks with spatial elements are no problem."
Simply relying on Soul Skills could not make one truly powerful; comprehension of rules and elements was just as crucial.
Without that comprehension of spatial power, it would be difficult for him to leverage spatial elements to wield spatial power right now.
"So the Ice Empress Martial Soul now has the blessing of a spatial attribute? Once it sublimates in the future, might it even be able to fully command multiple elements?"
Ice Empress asked with great interest, "Then what about the boost from the Golden Dragon King's bloodline?"
"No noticeable effect," Huo Yuhao said, shaking his head. "Compared to the formidable Silver Dragon King bloodline Gu Yuena gave me through our covenant's feedback, that trace of bloodline is still very weak and doesn't do much. After all, my physical strength is hardly frail."
"I see," Ice Empress said, feeling a bit disappointed.
Yet upon second thought, she let it go.
After all, this was only the beginning. The Ice Empress Martial Soul could only be considered half-sublimated at present. If it already offered this many benefits before even completing its sublimation, there would only be more to come.
"Hehe, Yuhao, now that the bloodlines are fused, shouldn't we try that? With the bloodline power of two Dragon Kings and the Simulation I gave you, you should be able to pull it off now, right?" Tianmeng said with a grin.
"Mm, I can now." The corners of Huo Yuhao's mouth lifted slightly. His eyes glinted, and his first platinum Spirit Ring blazed with light.
He had experienced the auras of both the Golden Dragon King and the Silver Dragon King up close, and had just felt the aura of the two bloodlines being forcibly merged. While it still differed greatly from the true Dragon God's bloodline aura, he could now attempt to imitate it...
A rainbow-colored projection of a colossal dragon materialized behind Huo Yuhao, exuding a suffocating majesty. Its massive frame seemed capable of ripping open the heavens and earth, every single dragon scale shimmering with chilling brilliance as a terrifying pressure rippled out in an instant.
Within the demiplane, all the Soul Beasts that Huo Yuhao had turned into Undead Creatures ten thousand years ago sensed the pressure stemming from the depths of their bloodlines and dropped to the ground, prostrating one after another.
Under this tremendous pressure, they felt their own insignificance, powerless to resist like mere ants, leaving them no choice but to submit beneath this supreme majesty.
Simulation—Dragon God's Might!
Chapter 79