Douluo: The True Eye

Chapter 157: Blasphemous Ritual

The vast memory accumulated by the Sea Princess over hundreds of thousands of years was being rapidly perused by Huo Yuhao through his spiritual power.

Although the Sea Princess's spiritual power was extremely vast, it was fast-forwarded countless times in Huo Yuhao's Eye of Truth perspective.

Feeling the constant throbbing pain coming from his own spiritual sea,

and the pain as if all his spiritual power was being cut open and crushed bit by bit,

the Sea Princess stubbornly held back her screams, but to avoid any conditioned responses under such painful circumstances,

Huo Yuhao had already controlled her with a sealing technique beforehand.

Even though his spiritual power was still less than the Sea Princess's in terms of quantity, Huo Yuhao had long surpassed her in terms of controlling spiritual power.

However, it was not Huo Yuhao deliberately torturing the Sea Princess.

It was just that within the long lives of soul beasts,

a large amount of useless memories constantly accumulated in their spiritual seas,

making it difficult for them to accurately remember every single event in detail.

And to prevent any omissions, Huo Yuhao needed to unearth those dusty memories one by one.

Therefore, to find these memories completely intact and ultimately replicate them all, it still required considerable effort.

After all, the Demon Spirit Great White Shark that Huo Yuhao had directly killed was different.

For Huo Yuhao, the Sea Princess could not be allowed to die just yet.

Otherwise, after refining her into an undead and then extracting her memories through necromantic magic, it would be much more convenient.

Therefore, while preserving the Sea Princess's life force and ensuring that her own strength was not significantly damaged,

wanting to fully read and obtain her memories was this troublesome.

However, even so, it only took Huo Yuhao six days.

He had sorted out all of the Sea Princess's memories.

As the Eye of Truth gradually analyzed them, Huo Yuhao's analysis speed became faster and faster.

And within the Sea Princess's long life of hundreds of thousands of years, there really weren't many things worth noting.

This was also the normal situation for soul beasts. For them, who possessed long lives,

every day they spent could be described as monotonous, boring to the extreme from a human perspective.

Moreover, soul masters and humans had fundamentally different worldviews and concepts of time.

In the Sea Princess's memories, there were only a few things that Huo Yuhao found noteworthy.

The first thing was the Sea Princess's encounter with the first generation Sea God.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the Sea Princess was just a young mermaid with only 100,000 years of cultivation, not yet the leader of the mermaid race.

And the mermaid race at that time was just a slightly stronger ordinary sea soul beast race in the ocean.

The turning point was when she met the first generation Sea God, who was still a Limit Douluo at that time.

At that time, Douluo Star was still in the late era of soul beast rule.

But that human soul master possessed terrifying strength that surpassed even ferocious beasts.

According to the Sea Princess's memory records,

that Limit Douluo, who was close to the god-level realm, spent nearly a thousand years before and after.

Conquering the various sea soul beast races and sea soul master forces in the ocean with absolute strength.

Afterwards, he appointed the mermaid race, which possessed a long lifespan and, unlike ordinary sea soul beasts,

possessed intelligence no weaker than humans at birth, as his priests.

And from this moment on, the mermaid race came into contact with the existence known as the Power of Faith.

that Limit Douluo completed his transformation and officially ascended to become the first generation Sea God.

And the mermaid race was not treated unfairly. After the first generation Sea God ascended to the God Realm, he bestowed the Sea God's protection upon the mermaid race.

Allowing the mermaid race's innately powerful spiritual power to exert even more powerful power in the ocean environment.

At the same time, through faith and sacrificial rituals as a medium, the spiritual power of the mermaid race could be connected to each other.

This was an ability that the earliest mermaid race did not possess.

Although they now regarded it as a talent, it was actually the Sea God's blessing.

It was from this time that the mermaid race, as the Sea God's favored clan, truly became a top-tier soul beast race.

And in this memory, the most important thing for Huo Yuhao was naturally the first generation Sea God's process of becoming a god.

'The Power of Faith, in the Douluo God Realm, should be called the Power of Thought.'

'According to specific rituals, the prayers of these mermaids will shape a fixed Sea God image.'

'And this is equivalent to directionally filtering the Power of Thought, thereby becoming the foundation for shaping a godhood.'

'Otherwise, apart from those innate gods, anyone else who dares to absorb redundant and chaotic Power of Thought should have major problems.'

'Although I don't have as much time as the first generation Sea God to gather the Power of Faith, this can also serve as a reference direction.'

'There are still endless undead in the Undead Demiplane, if it is... let's keep it on file for now.'

'However, this ritual that the first generation Sea God has the mermaid race perform for generations seems a bit interesting, more like some kind of magic than a self-created soul skill.'

'Perhaps by chance, this first generation Sea God also obtained inheritance from other worlds.'

'But with this set of rituals as a reference, the Eye of Truth can continue to analyze it.'

'Among the magic that Teacher Illyas taught me, there are also many similar rituals that can be used as a reference.'

'Perhaps, after the analysis is completed, it may be possible to use it in reverse.'

While thinking, a meaningful light flashed in Huo Yuhao's eyes.

Although most of the magical rituals taught by Illyas for praying to gods were used as representations of the elements themselves,

it was not completely ineffective after changing to another world, only the object of prayer was changed from the gods themselves to the godhoods.

After all, the strength level of the gods of Douluo Star was far inferior to that of the gods of the Holy Magic Continent, but they retained their self-thinking ability instead.

At the same time, the reason why the first generation Sea God could rank among the top-tier first-level gods in the Douluo God Realm was precisely because he was the first to become a god and create his own godhood.

After the Dragon God Rebellion, the Douluo God Realm, apart from the five great god-kings and a few first-level gods, could almost be considered a major reshuffle.

Those who inherited the positions of the previous generation gods and those whose foundations were damaged due to the battle with the Dragon Clan lost the possibility of progress.

Over time, they would naturally be inferior to the first generation Sea God, who could constantly improve himself and slowly become stronger.

And as for the current second generation Sea God Tang San, hehe.

Apart from this matter, due to the existence of the Sea God's protection and the mermaid race becoming increasingly powerful.

For the Sea Princess, there were fewer and fewer things worth paying attention to in the entire ocean.

And that was until ten thousand years ago.

In the Sea Princess's memory, most of it was the uneventful scenery of the icy sea.

Ten thousand years ago, the Sea God was replaced.

Tang San inherited the Sea God's position and became the new Sea God, and also issued several new divine decrees.

However, unlike the previous Sea God who issued divine decrees directly through the power of faith for contact.

Tang San almost always used the method of divine consciousness descending to the lower realm every time he issued a divine decree.

It seemed to be because he was not proficient in controlling the divine position, or perhaps he had other ideas.

In short, as the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan, which provided a lot of help when Tang San achieved the Sea God position, its status has also risen in the past ten thousand years.

The Mermaid clan was somewhat neglected instead, but the Sea Princess didn't care about it.

After all, as long as the Sea God doesn't withdraw the blessing to the Mermaid clan for a day, then the Mermaid clan's position in the ocean will be difficult to shake.

Through the Sea Princess's memory, Huo Yuhao also learned about the various arrangements made by Tang San through the Mermaid clan and the sea soul beasts.

'It seems that Tang San discovered a small world of another continent on Douluo Star when he was monitoring Douluo Star for the past ten thousand years.'

‘But there was no time for actual exploration, so he just arranged for sea soul beasts to guard it?’

Huo Yuhao roughly sorted out the progress of Tang San's plan.

However, the Mermaid clan's inability to receive feedback from the Sea God through prayer also confirmed a guess of Huo Yuhao's.

‘It seems that there are indeed some problems in the God Realm, otherwise Tang San should have used some other means to control and influence me.’

‘I just don’t know when the God Realm will recover, it seems I have to hurry up too.’

“Cough cough, is it… alright?” The Sea Princess groaned weakly.

At this time, her face was pale, and drops of golden tears rolled onto the ground.

Huo Yuhao waved his hand, and the Sea Princess's collapsing and restless spiritual sea suddenly calmed down.

At the same time, those mermaid tears rolling on the ground were also transformed back into spiritual origin by Huo Yuhao and injected into the Sea Princess's spiritual sea.

Afterwards, Huo Yuhao lifted the control over the Sea Princess.

Barely straightening up, the Sea Princess couldn't help but become speechless as she looked at the human soul master in front of her.

‘This kind of exquisite control over mental power is far beyond me, how did he do it? His cultivation is clearly far inferior to mine.’

“Alright, let’s sign the soul contract now.”

“Then, your Mermaid clan, according to the ritual I imprinted in your spiritual sea, continue to pray to the Sea God.”

Feeling the extra information in her spiritual sea, the Sea Princess was silent.

If she really took this step, I'm afraid the Mermaid clan would not only be disgusted by the Sea God.

I'm afraid they might even be completely erased from the ocean by the Sea God.

Different from simple betrayal, Huo Yuhao analyzed the Mermaid clan's prayer ritual through the Eye of Truth.

On this basis, it was reversed and tampered with.

If the power of thought originally provided by the Mermaid clan.

Was through praying to the image of the Sea God in their imagination.

In order to stabilize and deepen the divine power properties of the Sea God's position, such as inclusiveness and order.

Then the prayer ritual modified by Huo Yuhao is based on the original.

It is mixed with many ideas such as chaos and change that conflict with the Sea God's position constructed by the first generation Sea God.

And prayers mixed with this kind of thinking can naturally form the power of thought to supply the corresponding divine position.

However, the nature of the divine position will also affect the god himself. If impurities are mixed in on the original basis.

Even if the Sea God's divine power can continue to increase normally through the total amount of thought power, it will inevitably bury hidden dangers.

If this method is aimed at the first generation Sea God, the effect may not be very good.

According to the talent of the person who created the divine position, he is fully capable of reintegrating it into his own divine duties.

But for Tang San, who inherited the Sea God's position as the second-in-command, if his divine power is mixed with alien thought power, it will at least be enough for him to be busy for a while.

After a long silence, the Sea Princess finally chose to sign the soul contract.

In any case, her clansmen have now been wiped out by Huo Yuhao.

Even if the Sea God pursues responsibility and brings about the disaster of extermination due to the blasphemy of the ritual.

But at least now, if they don't cooperate with Huo Yuhao, I'm afraid their entire clan will ascend to heaven on the spot.

Now the Sea Princess can only pray in her heart that Lord Sea God will be lenient and spare her other clansmen after discovering it in the future.

After the soul contract was completed, Huo Yuhao took the Sea Princess back to the Ice Palace to reunite with her clansmen.

“Snow Empress.” Huo Yuhao handed the other party an ice crystal engraved with his soul power and mental power.

“Keep an eye on these mermaids and let them, under the leadership of the Sea Princess, follow the image I engraved.”

“Complete a total of seven rituals according to the requirements, and then you can release them back to the ice sea.”

Afterwards, Huo Yuhao looked at the Sea Princess again: “After returning to the ice sea, according to the requirements of the previous soul contract.”

“You will re-gather and control other sea soul beasts, and let them also pray and sacrifice according to the content of this ritual.”

Then, accompanied by the condensation of pure ice elemental energy, cold runes appeared in the air.

Immediately afterwards, under Huo Yuhao's will control, they were planted into the bodies of every mermaid present.

“After completing everything, come to the Far North to find the Snow Empress.”

“She will help you lift this restriction on my behalf.”

“One year, your Mermaid clan only has a maximum of one year.”

Listening to Huo Yuhao's series of words, many mermaids' expressions changed drastically, and they looked at their patriarch in confusion.

The Sea Princess just nodded numbly and did not resist any further.

The Snow Empress put away the ice crystal Huo Yuhao gave her: “Is there anything else we need to complete?”

Huo Yuhao shook his head: “Currently, these are the only things I need the Far North to do.”

“The Devouring Sea Plan remains unchanged, continue to expand the elemental tide and execute it normally.”

“Waiting for the time to be ripe in the future, I will come back to command the continuation of the second phase of the plan.”

After handling everything, Huo Yuhao did not continue to stay.

Now the ice elemental energy accumulated in the Far North still needs to be used on the edge.

It seems that his original plan to attach a self-condensing soul ring to his second martial soul will have to be postponed a bit.

Next, it's time to go to the Star Dou Great Forest!