Douluo: The True Eye

Huo Yuhao shook his head, not delving further. With his current Spirit Eyes' capabilities, he couldn't fully discern the soul bone within Wang Dong's body.

Besides its demonstrated ability to passively enhance the body, he couldn't discern the specific effects and other abilities of this soul bone. As for asking Illex, it couldn't be explained clearly in just a few words.

"Alright, stop fooling around," Huo Yuhao said, suppressing Wang Dong beside him with one hand. "Don't forget that Du Weilun just deducted ten points from your technique score."

"Ah, right, right, right," Huo Yuhao nodded. However, this time he wasn't just being perfunctory, but genuinely felt that Wang Dong's tactic was correct.

After all, in close combat, the power of Wang Dong's third soul skill, Butterfly God Slash, had completely disemboweled that Bloodthirsty Demon Bear. Although the Bloodthirsty Demon Bear still had the strength to fight, Wang Dong was clearly handling it with ease.

Compared to the original work's timeline, Wang Dong's physical fitness and soul power reserves had greatly improved under the blessing of that unknown torso bone.

Moreover, Wang Dong's tactical thinking had also increased under Huo Yuhao's guidance, although not by much.

Huo Yuhao didn't think Wang Dong's words were unfounded. However, Du Weilun's reason for deducting points from Wang Dong was probably just to temper Wang Dong's personality.

As the students took turns, in Huo Yuhao's eyes, most of their performances weren't particularly outstanding. Few could fully utilize the advantages of their own martial souls or soul skills to target the weaknesses of the assessment soul beasts.

Therefore, these students' combat performances were naturally not very good, and the scores they obtained were not very high.

Apart from Wang Dong, the highest score was Dai Huabin, with the same one hundred and forty-five points as Wang Dong, cleanly tearing apart the thousand-year soul beast that was his opponent. However, Huo Yuhao believed this should be the result of Du Weilun's consideration.

After all, Wang Dong was still the class monitor of Class One. Although Dai Huabin's cultivation and cultivation talent were higher, and he was more valued by the Martial Soul Department.

Moreover, due to his personality, it wasn't easy to control Dai Huabin through suppression, but they wouldn't let Dai Huabin surpass Wang Dong, the class monitor, on the surface.

After all, Wang Dong's previous combat performance could be considered almost perfect. As core disciples of the Martial Soul Department, they naturally had to treat both sides equally.

"Next, Class One of the Second Grade, Huo Yuhao," the referee teacher took Huo Yuhao's assessment form and nodded to Huo Yuhao.

"Um, what level of soul beast do you choose as your assessment target?"

"Thousand-year."

"Hmm? Thousand-year, have you considered it carefully? You are only a two-ring Great Soul Master. I hope you face the strength of a thousand-year soul beast squarely. Although there are teachers responsible for providing rescue, accidents may still happen."

"Yes, thousand-year."

Seeing this, the referee teacher didn't continue to persuade him.

This also aroused some interest in the other teachers. After all, for second-grade students, a thousand-year soul beast was still quite powerful. This was also the third thousand-year soul beast in this assessment.

'I wonder if the mental strength and wisdom of a thousand-year soul beast can withstand it.'

Walking into the arena, after the referee finished instructing a series of safety matters, Huo Yuhao's assessment, or rather, experiment, finally began.

As the soul rings flickered, one yellow and one purple, a soul ring configuration that surpassed the common knowledge of soul masters, surprised everyone.

At the same time, there was an elder who wasn't present in front of everyone who was also surprised, Dragon God Douluo, Mu En.

That's right, Mu En also came to watch the second-grade students' upgrade assessment. After all, he was indeed very bored on weekdays.

Moreover, he was somewhat concerned. Huo Yuhao, this kid, had been holed up in the dormitory for more than half a month. He didn't know what new tricks he could come up with.

Compared to Huo Yuhao's own unique ideas, for soul masters, for this world, what truly determines the right to speak is still strength and combat talent.

Mu En came this time to confirm Huo Yuhao's combat talent.

'Isn't this little guy from a commoner background? Without natural treasures as accumulation to lay a solid foundation for his physical body, he can still absorb a thousand-year soul ring at the two-ring level?'

'It's also possible that it's the effect of his main martial soul plus the Tang Sect's Mysterious Heaven Skill. After all, ancestor Tang San also had a situation where he absorbed a third soul ring beyond his level, although no one in the Tang Sect has tried it since.'

Huo Yuhao's opponent also walked out of the beast enclosure, and Huo Yuhao raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect that his opponent this time wouldn't be the Flame Lion King, but it didn't matter.

"Thousand-year Mutated Great Strength Ape, a power-attack type soul beast. This opponent's compatibility with this kid is a bit poor," Du Weilun commented from the high platform.

The Great Strength Ape is known for its strength among soul beasts. It is said to possess the bloodline of the Titan Giant Ape, but it is too diluted. However, this diluted bloodline alone is enough for it to look down on a group of low and mid-level soul beasts.

Especially at the hundred-year and thousand-year levels, physical strength, although crude, is the most useful. Compared to elemental attribute soul beasts, power attributes are often more advantageous in the early stages.

Moreover, this Great Strength Ape seems to have awakened some other bloodlines. Unlike the generally dark red Great Strength Apes, its dark red fur also emits a faint black metallic luster.

Everyone had some understanding of Huo Yuhao's combat style before. The hidden weapons he relied on were basically ineffective against thousand-year soul beasts, let alone that this Great Strength Ape's mutation direction should be inclined towards defense.

The giant ape, reaching two meters in height, walked out of the beast enclosure, its somewhat huge and deformed arms pounding its chest, making muffled thuds. Some students with weaker strength or weaker minds showed fear on their faces.

'This is, an intimidation aura?' Through the Spirit Eyes, Huo Yuhao keenly captured the mental fluctuations mixed in with the soul power fluctuations emanating from this mutated Great Strength Ape.

The intimidation aura can cause some soul masters with weaker mental strength to become timid before the battle when facing the opponent, resulting in a decline in strength and a loss of fighting spirit.

However, for Huo Yuhao, such a method was not enough. 'It seems to be a hybrid of the Great Strength Ape and the Iron Arm Ape, and it incorporates the advantages of both bloodlines.'

Huo Yuhao had already speculated on the origin of the opponent's bloodline through the abilities they used, and had already thought about how to defeat the opponent through normal means.

The Great Strength Ape is known for its strength and excellent explosive power, while the Iron Arm Ape has a body as hard as steel. In addition, its constant aura of intimidation allows it to have a fighting chance in prolonged battles.

Its weaknesses are speed and endurance. Although this mutated Great Strength Ape's defense and attack power are outstanding, that's all it amounts to.

In Huo Yuhao's Eye of Truth, the mutated Great Strength Ape, seemingly radiating a black-red metallic luster and possessing formidable defense, is riddled with flaws. Its weaknesses are fully exposed in Huo Yuhao's eyes. If Huo Yuhao wanted to, he could easily pierce through them at any time.

However, Huo Yuhao did not take out a hidden weapon to end the battle. Instead, he activated his soul skills, as yellow and purple lights alternated on the soul rings beneath his feet.

The mutated Great Strength Ape, which was originally displaying its might and preparing to charge over to attack Huo Yuhao, inexplicably froze in place, motionless.

On the contrary, Huo Yuhao leisurely walked over, sizing up the mutated Great Strength Ape.

And the first and second soul rings under his feet kept flashing with light.

'Highest intensity Spiritual Detection Sharing combined with Spiritual Devouring. Hmm, it's about what I expected.' Huo Yuhao looked at the mutated Great Strength Ape, which remained motionless no matter how close he got, even when he directly reached out and plucked its fur, and was quite satisfied.

Subsequently, Huo Yuhao stood further away from the mutated Great Strength Ape. Immediately afterward, the mutated Great Strength Ape began to punch its own chest repeatedly.

It continued until its ribs were fractured and its heart was damaged. Its massive body could no longer be supported by the heart's blood supply, and only then did it stop.

Immediately, Huo Yuhao nodded to the referee teacher on the side, signaling: "Teacher, I believe this assessment is over."

Seeing this situation, although he was also confused, the referee teacher quickly turned his gaze to Du Weilun, who was responsible for scoring on the high platform.

Although Du Weilun also frowned, not seeing any clues, he nodded and said: "After discussion, Huo Yuhao has completed the highest-level millennium soul beast assessment. Base score is one hundred."

"Through control-type soul skills, he influenced the Great Strength Ape itself at the beginning of the battle, ultimately causing it to severely injure itself. The performance is perfect, and the combat skills score can get a full fifty."

"However, there were too many superfluous actions. As a soul master, everything in battle should be done with caution. As a control-type soul master, you did not seize the opportunity immediately, but instead stepped forward to make unnecessary actions, creating unforeseen circumstances. Therefore, deduct twenty points from the final score as a warning."

"Huo Yuhao, the final score of the assessment is one hundred and thirty points. You have passed the upgrade assessment."

Huo Yuhao shrugged, not paying much attention. After all, he only chose the millennium soul beast here to experiment with his soul skills. Otherwise, he wouldn't bother fighting for these exam scores that meant little to him.

"Wow, what soul skill did you just use?" After Huo Yuhao left the arena, Wang Dong immediately came up to him.

"How did that Great Strength Ape beat itself up? Is it your second soul skill? Is it really that perverted!"

"What, do you want to try it?" Huo Yuhao smiled slightly and said to Wang Dong, "I just conceived it during the holidays and haven't used it on a soul master yet."

Hearing this, Wang Dong quickly shook his head: "I don't want to. But the academy's deductions are too strict! Your performance just now was clearly perfect, why did they deduct twenty points directly?"

"Who cares, I don't care anyway. It doesn't matter even if they deduct points until I get expelled. Getting twenty more points won't give me an extra gold soul coin." Huo Yuhao yawned: "Finally, the exam is over. I'm going back to sleep."

After speaking, Huo Yuhao turned around and left the Great Spirit Arena directly, and Wang Dong naturally followed, after all, she had nothing else to do here.

Along the way, Huo Yuhao was thinking about the battle between himself and the mutated Great Strength Ape.

Through the combination of Spiritual Detection Sharing and Spiritual Devouring, Huo Yuhao first inconspicuously invaded the mutated Great Strength Ape's Sea of ​​Spirit, and then influenced its pitifully small Sea of ​​Spirit with a deep level of Spiritual Detection.

Immediately afterward, because the spiritual power was occupied by the massive amount of information retrieved by the Spiritual Detection, the mutated Great Strength Ape's own spiritual consciousness instinctively mobilized all of its spiritual power back to the Sea of ​​Spirit in order to avoid being overwhelmed.

With all of its spiritual power, it tried its best to sort out the large amount of useless information obtained through Spiritual Detection, while Huo Yuhao himself directly shielded the effect of Spiritual Detection, using the Eye of Truth to observe.

After the mutated Great Strength Ape's spiritual power was fully mobilized back to the Sea of ​​Spirit, its Sea of ​​Spirit gradually shrank and closed due to the devouring effect of Spiritual Devouring. Huo Yuhao also separated the mutated Great Strength Ape's own spiritual consciousness from its physical body.

In the spiritual world, because this mutated Great Strength Ape could not release its spiritual power from it, there was naturally no question of regaining control of its body.

In the end, the reason why that mutated Great Strength Ape could disregard the body's self-protection mechanism and beat itself into serious injuries was entirely because Huo Yuhao directly controlled its body through his spiritual power.

A body without spiritual consciousness control can only be regarded as an empty shell. For Huo Yuhao, controlling it could be said to be extremely simple.

Moreover, due to the continuous influence of Spiritual Devouring, in fact, now this mutated Great Strength Ape seems to be able to be saved, but its spiritual consciousness has almost completely become a part of Spiritual Devouring.

When its spiritual power is completely swallowed by Spiritual Devouring, then this mutated Great Strength Ape will completely lose its self-awareness, and because of the existence of Spiritual Devouring, its spiritual power can no longer be regenerated.

So, in this case, even if a lot of resources are spent to heal it, eventually, accompanied by the physical body losing the control of spiritual will, it will eventually usher in death and decay.

'This trick really has no resistance method for soul beasts. The performance of ordinary soul masters of the same level should be similar. The spiritual power of millennium-level soul beasts should be comparable to four rings.'

"But it's a bit of a pity that the spiritual power devoured by Spiritual Devouring cannot be recovered. Otherwise, the pure spiritual power that constitutes the soul skill of Spiritual Devouring would also be a good tonic. Maybe I can try to construct a recovery method later."

Huo Yuhao currently calls this method Spiritual Annihilation, although this method is likely to be updated soon.