Douluo Dalu: Huo Yuhao Knows the Plot

Chapter 255: Ming Realm Reform, The Method of Condensing Rings

In Tian Dou City, within the Zhou Manor, an experiment was underway. In a secret underground chamber, Huo Yuhao, Zhou Qi, and Xue Di were gathered, along with a middle-aged man in tattered clothing.

This middle-aged man was sitting cross-legged on the ground, with five pitch-black soul rings coiling around him.

Xue Di and Zhou Qi scrutinized the middle-aged man intently, while Huo Yuhao waved his hand, continuously injecting streams of pure white energy into the middle-aged man's fifth soul ring.

As time passed, the color of the middle-aged man's fifth soul ring began to change, from black to dark black, then from dark black to black tinged with red, and finally to bright red.

When the black soul ring transformed into a red one, Huo Yuhao finally stopped. If this scene were witnessed by others, they would be astonished beyond words. No one on the continent had ever heard of someone being able to increase the age of a soul ring. The only ones who could possibly do that would be the legendary gods.

Before long, the middle-aged man opened his eyes. He immediately knelt down towards Huo Yuhao, a full kneeling on both knees, and shouted, "Thank you, Lord, for your gift. I am willing to serve you like a dog or a horse."

"No need for such formalities. You also took a risk. Tell me about your feelings."

Huo Yuhao said indifferently. These past few months, he hadn't been solely focused on cultivation. He, Xue Di, and Tianmeng had been researching soul rings together. Xue Di understood how to condense soul rings, and Tianmeng had a way to increase their age.

Huo Yuhao himself might not care about these things, but others in the soul master world would definitely be very interested. If Huo Yuhao wanted his power to grow rapidly, he had to come up with something different, something that could attract people.

With these three gathered together, it had to be said that after these days of effort, they had indeed researched some things. Soul masters could condense their own soul rings, just like Huo Yuhao had condensed his fifth soul ring using the energy of the Seven-Colored Exquisite Lotus.

The reason why no one had researched this before was primarily because they didn't know where to start. Everyone knew that killing soul beasts resulted in soul rings, but they were completely clueless about how these soul rings were formed.

Many transformed soul beasts of a hundred thousand years also didn't know. They were simply following their instincts, but they could only condense the first six soul rings because condensing soul rings consumed their original power.

And a hundred thousand years of cultivation could only support them in condensing the first six soul rings. After that, without original power, they could only hunt soul beasts like human soul masters to obtain soul rings.

This problem was finally overcome with the participation of these two big shots, Xue Di and Tianmeng. Especially Tianmeng, who could turn himself into a living soul ring to save his life, had an extraordinary and unique understanding of the power of the soul master system.

Through research, the group discovered that the most important thing was energy. Usually, the soul rings absorbed by soul masters came from sources stronger than themselves.

For example, a level 30 Great Soul Master would absorb a third soul ring with an age of about 1,700 years, but soul beasts of the same level were inherently stronger than soul masters, let alone soul masters who hadn't obtained their third soul ring yet.

In other words, even if soul masters had a method to independently condense soul rings, their own soul power would not be enough for them to condense soul rings, at least not enough to condense the best age soul rings suitable for themselves.

But this problem was solved by Huo Yuhao. He lacked everything except soul power. With the Ming Realm, a soul core comparable to a small world in its nascent form, his soul power was inexhaustible and could be drawn upon endlessly.

Moreover, during this time, Huo Yuhao also used formations to classify the spiritual energy in the Ming Realm into different levels. Ordinary spiritual energy was only slightly stronger than a normal person's soul power. Cultivating with this kind of spiritual energy was slightly better than in the outside world, but there were no particularly significant effects. This was named Black Iron Spiritual Energy.

And Silver Spiritual Energy was much better. If the purity of the world's natural energy was ten, then the purity of Silver Spiritual Energy would be fifteen.

First-Class Spiritual Energy was the best. In the future, after Huo Yuhao established his power, it would be a special benefit for the higher-ups and would also be used to cultivate genius soul masters.

It wasn't that Huo Yuhao wanted to create a hierarchy, but rather that resources were limited. First-Class Soul Power was extremely pure and was extracted from a large amount of natural spiritual energy.

For example, fifty cubic meters of ordinary spiritual energy could only extract one cubic meter of First-Class Spiritual Energy. This should make it understandable.

In Huo Yuhao's plan, Black Iron Soul Power was to attract people to join the Ming Realm. These people didn't have to join the sect. They were simply a wave of people that Huo Yuhao could harvest, but they actually didn't lose anything. After all, joining a sect would be restrictive.

But if they were not satisfied with Black Iron Spiritual Energy and wanted Silver Spiritual Energy, then of course they could, as long as they joined the sect.

This was the trap set by Huo Yuhao. As long as they smelled the fragrance, he wasn't afraid that they wouldn't fall into the trap. Even if they only used Black Iron Spiritual Energy, Huo Yuhao would still be the biggest profit maker, with a guaranteed profit and no losses.

In addition to these three types of spiritual power, there was also a most essential spiritual energy, the Origin Power of the Ming Realm. This spiritual energy was pure, flawless, and contained no impurities. It was what Huo Yuhao used for his daily cultivation.

This middle-aged man in tattered clothes was actually a death row prisoner from the Heavenly Soul Empire, named Pang Yu. Zhou Qi had spent money through connections to get him out. Not only death row prisoners, but also slaves bought from the slave market were all used for soul ring experiments.

There were some successful cases, but there were also many failures. In the beginning, some people even exploded and died while absorbing soul rings.

Therefore, Huo Yuhao ordered them to try to find villains who had done all kinds of evil deeds. It wasn't out of some saintly heart, but simply for psychological comfort.

Of course, not all death row inmates were bad people. There were also ordinary civilians who had been wronged or had offended nobles.

Pang Yu was one of them. Once, when a prince's carriage was traveling, this man was traveling with his wife and children. Just because they were a little slow to dodge, his wife was accidentally beaten to death by a soldier.

Seeing that someone had died, the other party simply charged Pang Yu with attacking the prince's carriage. The middle-aged man was imprisoned that day, and this imprisonment lasted for more than twenty years.

It had hardened a young man who was not even twenty years old into a middle-aged uncle. It was not until recently that Zhou Qi bought him out.

After learning about his situation, Zhou Qi deliberately arranged him to be later, because the more experience they had, the lower the experimental risk would be.

Not only soul masters, but Huo Yuhao also captured many soul beasts in the early stages of the experiment, and now they were basically all dead.

When Pang Yu first came out, he was a level 40 Soul Elder. The subsequent two soul rings were condensed by Huo Yuhao for him to absorb. This was not the end. Huo Yuhao also improved Pang Yu's first three soul rings, and with the improvement of several soul rings, coupled with more than twenty years of accumulation, Pang Yu directly jumped to level 57 Soul King.