Douluo: The True Eye

Unlike the others who were still deeply meditating and clarifying their future paths, Huo Yuhao's figure appeared in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Towering trees blocked out large swaths of sunlight, and the Star Dou Great Forest was quite silent at this time, because Huo Yuhao was now approaching the edge of the mixed zone.

However, this time, accompanying Huo Yuhao was not the unreliable Title Douluo Xuan Zi, but another ninety-third ranked Title Douluo appointed by Mu En.

Although this Title Douluo himself didn't understand why he, a Title Douluo, was dispatched to personally bring an outer court Soul Master student to the Star Dou Great Forest just to obtain a third soul ring.

However, this was an order from Mu En, the Sea God Pavilion Master, and this Title Douluo, whose status had not yet reached that of a Sea God Pavilion Elder, naturally dared not neglect it.

Moreover, Mu En had also emphasized the importance of Huo Yuhao and the precautions and suitable soul beasts for his spirit before he came.

However, he didn't tell him Huo Yuhao's exact role and related benefits, after all, the weighing of interests was something that took place at the upper echelons of the Sea God Pavilion.

For these Title Douluos and Shrek members who acted as advanced thugs and decorated the facade, they only needed to do their job as Soul Masters and constantly praise Shrek's glory that had been passed down for ten thousand years.

As for those private exchanges of benefits, perhaps smart people would guess them, but smart people would also pretend to be ignorant, after all, they were too deeply tied to Shrek Academy.

As for whether the Tang Sect, to which Huo Yuhao originally belonged, would have any objections after taking Huo Yuhao to the Body Sect for an exchange of benefits?

It can only be said that even the Sect Master of the Tang Sect, who is now only a Soul Grandmaster, is really not qualified to get involved in the transaction between the Body Sect and Shrek Academy, these two behemoths.

Without asking too much, this Title Douluo went straight to the point and said, "We are almost in the mixed zone now."

"Have you thought about the third soul ring you need, what is the target soul beast, and the age limit?"

"You need to know that spirit attribute soul beasts have always been rare, because in addition to the small number of spirit attribute soul beasts."

"More importantly, the wisdom of spirit attribute soul beasts is generally higher than that of ordinary soul beasts, so they are good at hiding themselves."

"Even though our Shrek Academy has students who train in the Star Dou Great Forest all year round, there is no information on the habitat of spirit attribute soul beasts that can be accurately grasped. This soul hunt mainly depends on luck."

Huo Yuhao nodded and replied, "As for me, I hope that the third soul ring is best a soul beast with a cultivation of more than eight thousand years, which would be the most beneficial to my improvement."

In fact, what Huo Yuhao said just now concealed the limit of the age of the soul ring he could absorb, after all, with the blessing of the Gold of Life, even without the multiple soul bones like in the original book.

But now, the age limit of the soul ring that Huo Yuhao can absorb is definitely over ten thousand years, after all, after experiencing the second awakening of the Body Spirit.

The transformation and strengthening brought to Huo Yuhao's body by the golden level second awakening is definitely not to be underestimated, not to mention the magic potion configured by Iliax that he had absorbed before.

Now Huo Yuhao's physical strength alone is not inferior to that of an ordinary Soul King powerhouse, and his spiritual power level is even better.

And this is still without the help of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm. Through Huo Yuhao's own spiritual power that has entered the tangible and intangible level, he can completely absorb and fuse a soul ring of about 15,000 years.

If you use Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's method to seal the soul ring after absorption, Huo Yuhao should be able to absorb a soul ring of about 20,000 years at most. The soul power brought by the soul ring above that is too huge.

It can't be perfectly tolerated now, it will only accumulate in the body, but even so, it is a bit shocking for a Soul Master who has just reached level 30 soul power.

In order to maintain the tacit understanding reached with Mu En before, Huo Yuhao naturally had to show his talent and value.

But it can't be too much. If Huo Yuhao's talent is too strong, it will make Mu En have other scruples.

After all, although Mu En really wants to take Huo Yuhao to exchange benefits with the Body Sect, he certainly will not allow the Body Sect to become too powerful.

Therefore, the talent that Huo Yuhao can show must have a limit, and it must be within Mu En's tolerance.

After all, if the future Huo Yuhao is not a disciple of Shrek Academy, then naturally he cannot show his sharpness like the original protagonist in the original book who pretends to be a pig to eat a tiger.

As for the age limit of this soul ring, Huo Yuhao used the Eye of Truth to understand Mu En's thoughts, and then determined it with reference to this, stepping on the red line in Mu En's heart below 13,000 years.

Moreover, for Huo Yuhao, the age of the soul ring and the soul skill effect brought by the soul ring are really not important.

After all, for a time traveler, especially a time traveler who has traveled through Huo Yuhao, there are too many ways to improve.

As for soul skills, Huo Yuhao now has a lot of soul skills that he can create and combine, but he has never had the opportunity to use and show them.

"Dream Eating Demon Bird and Big Head Spirit Ape are my first choices, but Dream Eating Demon Birds have always been alone and their whereabouts are secretive."

"This kind of soul beast is good at using spiritual power to trick lost people and soul beasts into entering illusions and sucking their brains, but they rarely provoke multiple Soul Masters and soul beast groups."

"Although the Big Head Spirit Apes live in groups, the race itself is not strong, and very few can reach my ideal age."

"Moreover, if it is a Big Head Spirit Ape group that can produce a cultivation base of more than 8,000 years, in addition to the fact that their combined methods are quite troublesome, there is likely to be a more powerful soul beast shelter, which is not the best choice."

"Secondly, my goal is the Thousand-Eyed Spirit Butterfly and the Hundred-Eyed Centipede. Although the innate soul skills of these two soul beasts are less compatible with my future development path."

"But after all, these two soul beasts are also spirit attributes, and the number is relatively large compared to other spirit attribute soul beasts, making them easy to find."

"As for other rarer spirit attribute soul beasts, if I am lucky enough to encounter them here, it will not be too late to make a decision."

In reality, there was another ideal soul beast in Huo Yuhao's mind that he hadn't mentioned: the Demon Eye Tree. This was a species related to the ferocious beast, the Myriad Demon King, and was an extremely rare plant-type soul beast with spiritual attributes.

However, although the Myriad Demon King had been secretly controlling the plant-type soul beasts on the periphery of the Star Dou Great Forest, incurring Emperor Tian's suspicion, it was still under Emperor Tian's watchful eye.

But one couldn't rule out the possibility that some Demon Eye Trees were pawns of the Myriad Demon King. Therefore, although the Demon Eye Tree's soul ring would be suitable for Huo Yuhao, it was best not to court trouble for safety's sake.

The Title Douluo nodded after hearing Huo Yuhao's request.

"Alright, then you should also pay more attention. As a spiritual attribute soul master, your intuition may be more acute than my observation ability when searching for spiritual attribute soul beasts."

Afterward, the two continued to advance deeper into the mixed zone.

Meanwhile, in the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest.

A golden-haired lion, who should have been sunbathing by the Lake of Life and sleeping comfortably until night, shook its fluffy mane and opened its three eyes.

"What's going on? I just ate something yesterday, so why am I hungry again?" The Three-Eyed Golden Lion muttered in confusion.

Then, it directly unleashed its claws and ran towards the outer edges of the Star Dou Great Forest's core area, while another fiery red figure helplessly followed this little ancestor, leaving the Lake of Life.

Living in the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest were ferocious beasts and hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, as well as their direct blood relatives, all with powerful bloodlines. At the very least, they were high-level soul beasts, and there were quite a few super soul beasts as well.

Although the Emperor Ruishou was nominally the king of soul beasts, it was usually impossible for her to attack those direct descendants belonging to the hundred-thousand-year soul beasts and ferocious beasts.

After all, starting from the hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, these soul beasts were the top forces of the Star Dou Great Forest, and losing one was a significant loss.

Even with the protection of the Emperor Ruishou, their numbers were extremely scarce in the Star Dou Great Forest.

And their descendants also had the potential to reach the hundred-thousand-year mark, although the proportion was not high.

Therefore, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion mostly consumed the brains of those soul beasts living outside the core area, not valued by the Star Dou Great Forest, and with limited potential to satisfy its hunger.

After all, if they couldn't break through to a hundred thousand years, ordinary soul beasts would rarely develop advanced intelligence. And without this intelligence, those soul beasts above a hundred thousand years old would generally not consider them as their 'soul beast kin'.

According to Ilias's description in the original work, the Emperor Ruishou was born in response to destiny, a darling of fate, and inherently possessed demigod-level potential, but required a long time to nurture.

At the same time, in addition to the long growth time, the gifts of fate had long been marked with their price.

The so-called darling of fate was actually just a pawn needed by 'fate' at a critical turning point in destiny.

Therefore, every darling of fate had their own mission, large or small, and the first turning point in the destiny of the Emperor Ruishou, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, was meeting…

Meeting Huo Yuhao, meeting that other child of destiny favored by fate, and forming an intersection with him.

The predetermined destiny existed from the beginning. Perhaps some people believed that destiny was nonsense, but eating, drinking, acting, sitting, and lying—everything might be predetermined.

From the beginning, destiny determined the starting point of all living beings, and what could be traced and continuously climbed upward from the starting point was destiny.

But similarly, destiny existed but was not predetermined. Destiny could determine the starting point but could not determine the ending point. Perhaps the general direction of the world's trends was subject to the arrangement of destiny.

However, in a world with extraordinary power, every step forward and every increase in strength would cause one's original destiny, which was influenced by the general direction of the world, to deviate. And along with the deviation of destiny…

One influenced two, and two influenced three. As one grew stronger and as time passed, more and more people would be contacted. And as they contacted and influenced each other, the destinies of both sides, or multiple parties, would begin to entwine and overlap, eventually converging into a new destiny and opening up a new future.

All destiny could do was to decide which limited number of living beings would appear at the turning points of destiny it needed in order to stabilize the general direction of destiny.

And this contact was not stable. Just like in the original work, because of the intervention of the stronger God King, the Asura God Tang San, neither Huo Yuhao nor the Emperor Ruishou, these two favorites of destiny, ended up well.

Inviting guests for beheading, accepting them as dogs, the one who was killed was the Emperor Three-Eyed Golden Lion of the soul beasts, and the one who became a dog of the God King was the son of destiny, Dai Yuhao.

Therefore, the destiny guidance that occurred between Huo Yuhao and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion in the original work was both what happened under Tang San's interference and the initial encounter that originally belonged to these two chosen ones and the beast of destiny.

And now, the gears of destiny had begun to turn, but both sides who had stepped onto the crossroads of destiny were completely unaware of this.

Because destiny could not be investigated, even if the Eye of Truth could discern deeper-level trajectories, Huo Yuhao found it difficult to understand because he was 'illiterate'. He could not interpret the 'words' of 'destiny'.

Having never directly contacted destiny, he could not understand what those traces presented in the Eye of Truth, those deeper-level trajectories, which were similar to the movement of living beings' muscles, bones, and cells, but were completely different, represented and symbolized.

Moreover, the Eye of Truth, and even the Eye of Truth, could only help Huo Yuhao see the underlying logic that ordinary people could not discern.

It was extremely difficult to understand them. After all, unlike the activities of bones and muscles, and the arrangement of molecules, which he had not studied but had a certain concept of in his mind…

Destiny was an even more mysterious existence than the soul. Even if Huo Yuhao could see it clearly one day, if his strength was insufficient…

Then Huo Yuhao could only allow himself to interpret it through the Eye of Truth, to understand a fraction of its myriad possibilities, but could not completely understand the veins of destiny and control the direction of destiny for his own use.

The appearance of the Eye of Truth brought Huo Yuhao an admission ticket to become stronger, but to redeem it, he still needed a lot of time to accumulate, and he needed his own strength to be strong enough.