Thousand-Forged metal + blood essence guidance + tool martial soul = martial soul evolution?
Huo Yuhao's expression turned slightly strange.
He knew the concept of "blood essence," but as for the application of it, Huo Yuhao was entirely in the dark.
And now, Tang San had inadvertently revealed the use of "blood essence" and its derivative, the "power of blood essence." It was... quite a "coincidence."
An arrangement of fate? Huo Yuhao didn't know; he was still very weak right now, and in his normal state, he could at most trade lives one-for-one with a Limit Douluo.
He was unable to fully exert the power of the Eye of Destiny, a top-tier divine artifact that was only a sliver away from evolving into an ultra-divine artifact. This prevented him from observing fate in its entirety.
However, currently, the only one capable of orchestrating fate was likely the World Will of the Douluo World, right?
Based on what Huo Yuhao currently knew, the World Will had intervened twice. The first time, it condensed a fortune barrier to block the gaze from the God Realm.
The second time, it guided Gu Yuena to obtain the Sea God Trident, allowing Huo Yuhao to successfully acquire the Sea God Divine Position.
And this coincidence before him was clearly the handiwork of the World Will, and its purpose...
"Is it to have me research the 'Path of Blood Essence'?"
Huo Yuhao pondered, and then a smile unconsciously flickered across the corners of his mouth.
In just a moment, Huo Yuhao thought of the paths the "Path of Blood Essence" might develop into in the future.
For example, "blood essence soul ring," "blood essence soul core," or even using blood essence to smelt metal and then gradually merging it into one's own martial soul, continuously modifying and evolving it.
This path—regardless of what kind of martial soul one possessed—could theoretically be walked by anyone!
"'Nine Rings of blood essence to mold a golden body'..."
Huo Yuhao murmured softly, his azure eyes growing brighter and brighter!
Huo Yuhao suddenly realized that the value of Tang San before him was truly getting higher and higher.
The Blue Silver Grass martial soul could be used to research the cultivation and subsequent transformation of the Dark Black Blue Silver King; the forging hammer martial soul could be used as a "tool man" to research "Spirit-Forging"; and the body could be used as an experimental subject for those who had not yet succeeded with artificial soul bones.
Now, with the addition of the "Path of Blood Essence," it was truly wonderful!
"As expected of Lord God King! Setting aside his noble character, I didn't expect his value as experimental material to be this high."
Huo Yuhao praised Tang San with genuine sincerity.
An ordinary evil soul master, or even that Scorpion Tiger Douluo he had captured before, was far inferior to the current Tang San in terms of value! This truly gave Huo Yuhao a pleasant surprise!
"It seems I can't let you strike iron for a full three months, but I can't mistreat a 'hero' either. I'll give you a 'gift' then."
Huo Yuhao looked at Tang San, who was still repeatedly forging, a smile appearing on his face with an exceptionally "kind" expression.
...
Cold, shaking.
The forging had already stopped. Tang San, who had completely lost consciousness since the second day of forging, slowly opened his eyes.
Lying on the cold anvil, Tang San was somewhat dazed. He forced his body—which was twitching and convulsing from time to time—to stand upright, and then tried to recall exactly what had happened.
"I remember I was undergoing a Divine Trial, and then..." Tang San tried to remember, but as soon as he did, a burst of sharp pain struck from the depths of his mind.
The sudden agony made Tang San's face contort; he hurriedly used his Divine Consciousness to lock away and suppress that portion of memory carrying the pain.
"Dammit... these cursed memories..."
Exercising his "peerless wisdom," Tang San roughly guessed what had occurred.
Most likely, this body was too frail to withstand the infusion of infinite soul power and physical strength, causing his body to reach its limit and making him fall unconscious.
Heh, truly frail. If it were the me from ten thousand years ago, I would never have been so pathetic!
But... Tang San slowly raised his left hand and summoned his forging hammer martial soul.
No, this could no longer be called a forging hammer martial soul. The originally wooden-handled forging hammer had now turned into a handle where black and silver colors were intertwined; however, the hammer head was pitifully small, round on one side and pointed on the other, looking like a malnourished bamboo shoot.
Under this strange proportional combination of the handle and the head, it exuded an indefinable sense of absurdity.
However, Tang San directly ignored the change in his martial soul's appearance and instead felt the deeper changes within it.
Don't be fooled by the tiny head of this hammer; the weight of this hammer was already more than four times the weight of the previous forging hammer martial soul!
In terms of weight alone, it already vaguely had the feel of when he used to hold the Clear Sky Hammer!
His martial soul had evolved!
Tang San's memories surged, and certain images in his mind "coincidentally" became clear at this moment. Soon, he found the memory fragments of his martial soul's evolution.
He saw himself in the memory repeatedly forging metal with the hammer, and that piece of forged metal actually fused bit by bit into his forging hammer martial soul, thereby causing it to evolve!
"Forging that kind of metal can make my martial soul evolve... Doesn't that mean I can make this forging hammer martial soul become the real Clear Sky Hammer! No, even surpass the Clear Sky Hammer!"
Tang San's eyes flickered slightly, revealing his peerless wisdom.
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Suppressing the urge to go and try forging right now, Tang San turned his gaze toward the Sea of Consciousness, looking at the Divine Trial that emitted a blue-gold light.
The corners of his mouth turned upward once again, uncontrollably.
His second Sea God Trial was also completed!
The rewards for this Divine Trial were a martial soul evolution and a God-Bestowed soul ring.
Originally, he was still hesitating whether to give this hard-won chance of martial soul evolution to the Blue Silver Grass or the forging hammer. However, he hadn't expected the forging hammer to already have a path for evolution!
Therefore, he no longer needed to hesitate.
"Divine Trial! Evolve my Blue Silver Grass martial soul!"
Tang San made his decision immediately. In the next moment, streaks of life energy—pure yet seemingly mixed with a hint of black—surged out from the blue-gold imprint representing the Sea God Trial!
For a second, Tang San felt mentally dazed, and then he felt as if his entire being was submerged in an ocean of life force!
This feeling was incredibly similar to when his Blue Silver Grass had previously awakened into the Blue Silver Emperor!
The martial soul manifested naturally. Faint, pale-gold stripes appeared bit by bit on the body of the Blue Silver Grass, and the aura of life continued to soar!
Tang San's expression was excited; his intuition told him that if this continued, his martial soul would definitely evolve into the Blue Silver Emperor! However, in the next moment, Tang San's expression suddenly froze.
He saw countless amounts of pure life force pouring into his Blue Silver Grass martial soul, but his martial soul seemed to be under some kind of restriction; after evolving to a certain level, it came to an abrupt halt!
"No... how can this be?!"
As if sensing that restriction, the energy surging from the Divine Trial imprint began to decrease. Finally, the supply of energy stopped completely.
The evolution of the Blue Silver Grass stopped right there!