After briefly talking with Dugu Bo for a few words, Shen Hanyu returned to the edge of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well pool and began to regulate his breathing and nurse his injuries.
The injuries inside his body were currently very severe, so he planned to take some time to properly recuperate and heal. The matter of obtaining his eighth soul ring was not urgent. If nothing unexpected happened, his eighth soul ring would similarly require another trip to the Extreme North. That 200,000-year-old Ice Frost Snake Demon was one of his most perfect targets.
A ferocious beast whose origin had been damaged and whose lifespan was no more than a thousand years, her full strength would be greatly reduced. Compared to ordinary ferocious beasts, she was undoubtedly Shen Hanyu's best target.
If the other party were sensible and willing to choose sacrifice, Shen Hanyu naturally wouldn't need to go through extra trouble. Of course, if she preferred death over submission, Shen Hanyu didn't mind letting her become a punching bag to test his strength.
However, he wouldn't consider these matters in the short term. Right now, his main priority was to properly recover from his injuries; he didn't care much about anything else.
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Half a month later.
Shen Hanyu sat cross-legged beside the spring eye, the ground covered with the remnants of various medicinal herbs.
The two extreme energies of extreme heat and extreme cold slowly flowed through Shen Hanyu's body. The energy from the surrounding heaven and earth was gradually drawn into his body, turning into nourishment that continuously healed his injuries.
During this half month, with Dugu Bo's help, he had swallowed quite a few herbs that consolidated the foundation and cultivated vitality. These herbs had undergone considerable transformation in the special environment of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well; their medicinal effects multiplied several times over. Yet on Shen Hanyu, their effect was extremely minimal, almost having no substantial impact.
During this period, Shen Hanyu thought of another extremely serious problem.
According to the Fire Dragon King's words, his second martial soul needed to absorb three soul rings from soul beasts of extreme ice attribute and three from extreme fire attribute. This was specifically to prevent the two extreme attribute energies in his body from losing balance and going berserk. But the problem lay precisely here.
His first martial soul, the Cold Heaven Spear, still needed two ice-attribute soul rings, and the attribute was also extreme ice. The soul rings he needed to absorb could only be ice-attribute. He couldn't possibly sacrifice the last two most important soul rings by absorbing ordinary ones just to balance the second martial soul. Naturally, his eighth and ninth soul rings also required soul beasts of over 100,000 years with ice attributes.
With such an approach, there was a high chance that the energies in his body would lose that fragile balance.
Regarding this, Shen Hanyu pondered bitterly for a long time and finally decided to take a gamble.
The energies from the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings were all stored in his second martial soul and the two god-level soul bones. What Shen Hanyu was betting on was that the Fire Dragon King's statement about balance referred to balancing the energies within the second martial soul, not requiring him to balance all the energies in his entire body to accommodate the second martial soul and the two soul bones. That would undoubtedly greatly hinder his progress. He could think of these things, so with the wisdom of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, how could they not have considered it? After some self-convincing, Shen Hanyu felt his idea was very reliable and just waited for the final practice to prove it.
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After briefly explaining the situation to Dugu Bo, Shen Hanyu once again set off on his journey.
This time, it wouldn't take very long, so Shen Hanyu didn't choose to return to Element City first and instead headed directly toward the Extreme North.
The temperature in the Extreme North was too low, which was very unfriendly to a soul master like Dugu Bo, who used poison as his attack method; his combat power would be greatly reduced. After thinking it over repeatedly, Shen Hanyu gave up the idea of asking him to help.
After all, his own strength wasn't bad either. Even if he couldn't confront directly, he could fight while retreating. After all, the remnant husk left by Tian Meng, combined with his full mental power, had, in the original story, controlled the Ice Emperor, who was just one step away from 400,000 years. As long as he didn't encounter the Snow Emperor, few existences in the Extreme North could pose a life-threatening danger to him.
According to Shen Hanyu's thinking, with his current strength, not to mention casually suppressing Dugu Bo, but at the very least, within twenty moves, he could steadily suppress Dugu Bo.
If facing a Super Douluo-level expert, not to mention confronting head-on, at least he could preserve himself under the opponent's onslaught.
But if it were a Super Douluo renowned for attack power like Sword Douluo, he might get injured, but there would absolutely be no danger to his life—unless the opponent fought desperately.
Thinking of these things, Shen Hanyu finally remembered the fellow who was probably still hammering away in the blacksmith shop while going to school, Tang San. He had been in this world for too long, to the point where he had somewhat forgotten this world's Child of Destiny and the so-called plot.
As his own strength grew stronger and the level of things he came into contact with grew higher, he increasingly looked down on the so-called Shrek Seven Devils from the original story.
Tang San's twin martial souls, Blue Silver Emperor and Clear Sky Hammer, were both top-tier martial souls, but unfortunately, Shen Hanyu wouldn't let him smoothly evolve the Blue Silver Grass into Blue Silver Emperor. If possible, he would even go so far as to kill. The only issue with this was Tang Hao and the Sea God and Shura God in the God Realm.
He wouldn't allow a Child of Destiny with infinite possibilities to become his enemy. As for becoming friends with the other party, Shen Hanyu had neither the idea nor the interest.
As soon as Xiao Wu's identity as a 100,000-year transformed soul beast was exposed, there would no longer be a place for her on the continent. All forces would exhaust every means to hunt her down. In fact, she had long been prepared by Tang Hao as a soul ring for Tang San.
Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing had average talent, and they were destined to have a life-and-death battle with their older siblings. Without immortal herbs, they were doomed to be no match for Davis and Zhu Zhuyun.
Oscar was a rare top-tier food-system martial soul with innate full soul power genius, but no matter how high a food system's level was, when facing a battle soul master, they could only be instantly killed. Shen Hanyu didn't have much malice toward him and even had thoughts of recruiting him.
Ma Hongjun's talent and martial soul weren't bad, but unfortunately, as long as the evil fire in his martial soul wasn't cleared one day, he couldn't cultivate with peace of mind one day. This indirectly doomed his upper limit not to be very high.
And finally, Ning Rongrong. Regarding this future possible Nine-Colored Goddess, what Shen Hanyu valued was the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Clan behind her and the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
The auxiliary ability of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda was unmatched in the world. Every battle soul master, without exception, hoped to have a Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda soul master's assistance; this sentence had almost become a consensus on the continent.
As the world's number one auxiliary system martial soul, the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda was still a famously top-tier auxiliary martial soul on the continent even in the Douluo III era. One must know that between Douluo I and Douluo III, a full twenty thousand years had passed; this was no different from the vicissitudes of life for humans.
Yet the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda still stood firm. From this, one could see just how high the value of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda's martial soul truly was.
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