Gu Yuena quietly gently. Her figure flickered and landed beside Huo Yuhao.
She did not begin immediately. Instead, she first quietly felt the residual lightning tribulation aura around her. Although the seven colored lightning had already dissipated, a faint pressure still lingered in the air. It was the unique aura of heavenly tribulation, a blend of Destruction and Life.
"Yuhao, the Seven Elements Lightning Tribulation." Gu Yuena murmured softly. "How much have you comprehended?"
Huo Yuhao thought for a moment. "Thirty or forty percent. To go further, I will need more time. Perhaps in the end, you will be the one to get ahead."
A flicker of amusement passed through Gu Yuena's eyes. "If you were not here, Yuhao, I might not have this opportunity."
A strange look passed through Huo Yuhao's eyes. He said somewhat reluctantly, "As long as you want it, it will definitely be fine."
Yes, if you have the motivation, your potential for improvement is certainly great. If not, that is another matter.
After a pause, Huo Yuhao's expression became more serious. "Let me confirm once more. I can now backtrack your state three times. If the third attempt is not successful, we will temporarily stop."
The Reincarnation Domain's backtracking of another person's state consumed a great deal of power. Although Gu Yuena would not resist his domain, she herself was very special. Even if she had not recovered to her peak, her essence was still not something that could be described by the Limit level. The consumption of backtracking her was naturally considerable.
Seeing his serious expression, Gu Yuena felt a warmth in her heart. She did not say much. She simply nodded slightly, closed her eyes, and began to mobilize the elemental power.
Water, fire, earth, wind. The four elements appeared around her. They were purer and more docile than the elemental storm Huo Yuhao had condensed earlier.
The elemental power in the heavenly and earthly origin energy seemed to be gently stirred by an invisible hand, converging from all directions.
It was not turbulent, but continuous. Like a hundred rivers flowing to the sea, or like ten thousand birds returning to the forest. Those free elemental particles in the air joyfully surged toward Gu Yuena, forming a faint halo around her.
Huo Yuhao watched her enter her state. While preparing for the backtracking, he also used Spiritual Detection to cover a radius of dozens of li, Protecting the Path for her.
Although experts from the Spirit Transmission Tower had already set up a perimeter outside to prevent anyone from accidentally wandering in and being injured by his lightning tribulation. And on the surface, no one was foolish enough to disturb the cultivation of two reincarnated deities, the necessary vigilance was still required.
After learning the ins and outs from Le Zhengyu, Sima Jinchi thought for a moment and arrived at the periphery of the mountain range where Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena were cultivating.
He was not here to challenge them.
After witnessing the power of that seven colored lightning tribulation, even if Sima Jinchi was arrogant, he knew that rushing in now would simply be asking for a beating. He had come only to take a distant look and see the demeanor of an existence that could attract such lightning tribulation. At least, that was what he told Le Zhengyu.
Le Zhengyu followed behind him, looking at the landscape in the distance, already deformed by lightning strikes, and reminded him, "Stop here. The area ahead has already been warded by experts from the Spirit Transmission Tower to prevent accidental intrusion. You would not be thinking of forcing your way through, would you?"
Sima Jinchi raised an eyebrow slightly, casually found a protruding boulder, sat down with a commanding posture, and silently waited.
Seeing this, Le Zhengyu breathed a sigh of relief. Then he heard Sima Jinchi ask, "You said His Majesty Huo Yuhao will finish his cultivation soon?"
"Usually around this time. Every time that one attracts the heavenly tribulation, the cultivation session ends not long after."
Le Zhengyu tilted his chin, indicating for Sima Jinchi to look at the other people who had also come here. "However, I suggest you go back. Many people want to see that one, but recently, aside from a member of the Body Sect, I have not heard of that one meeting anyone on this occasion."
Besides them, quite a few people had also arrived here now. There were reclusive experts and members of great families.
Some of these people were simply curious, coming as spectators to watch the excitement. Others wanted to try their luck and see if they could befriend a reincarnated deity.
It was also human nature. After all, for the people of the Douluo Continent, deities were legends. If one could befriend them, there would be many benefits. Especially for those experts, a single word of guidance from a divine level existence might allow them to reach a higher level.
However, most of those who came here lacked the confidence to formally pay a visit through official channels. The likelihood of gaining the other party's favor was clearly not high.
His grandfather and some Limit Douluo and Super Douluo within the Federation, who would not want to befriend those two and receive some guidance from them?
Even if there was a queue, the people here would not be at the front.
So Le Zhengyu did not really recommend that Sima Jinchi wait here. Rather than doing this, it would be better to directly use connections through the Spirit Transmission Tower to pay a formal visit, or go to the Spirit Transmission Tower itself and see if he could catch that one there.
But Sima Jinchi apparently had no intention of listening to him. He simply sat on the boulder, resting with his eyes closed, waiting quietly.
There was something he had not told Le Zhengyu. The reason he had come here was also related to his cultivation.
His martial soul was different from others. It was the type that could self-produce spirit rings. This had once made him believe he was special, and he had proud himself on it.
However, now, it had been quite some time since he had broken through to Soul Douluo. He had already reached level eighty nine, but there was still no sign of a breakthrough. He clearly now had the ability to condense a second soul core. Logically, he should not be stuck at Soul Douluo.
His love of challenging others was precisely to use combat to temper himself and break through. But it had been largely ineffective.
After arriving in Mingdu and seeing that terrifying lightning tribulation, he had temporarily set aside his idea of challenging Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena. He had suddenly come up with a new idea.
Why be so hardheaded? If he could receive guidance from two deities, would it not be simpler to find the root of his problem?
This thought grew stronger as he approached Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena's cultivation site. Because he had a feeling that the opportunity for his breakthrough was right here.
Seeing Sima Jinchi silent, Le Zhengyu felt somewhat helpless. He thought for a moment and then sat down to wait with him.
What else could he do? He could not just leave him, could he?
But the two waited and waited, and no one came out.
"Could it be that His Majesty Huo Yuhao has already left?"
"It is possible. If that one tore through space and left directly, he naturally would not pass through here."
"But there are still heavenly and earthly origin energy and spirit power fluctuations over there."
Time passed minute by minute.
The onlookers gradually began to whisper among themselves. Some who had already felt their chances were slim left. Only seven or eight people remained.
Among them were reclusive experts who had been in seclusion for many years and had considerable cultivation. They felt they were different and might be favored by a deity. There were also a few young ones, purely out of youthful arrogance, wanting to see if they could become the "exception."
Huo Yuhao observed this scene with his spiritual power. Having seen it many times recently, he was not surprised. But Sima Jinchi among the group caught his attention.
With Le Zhengyu, that sharp sword intent, and the dragon race's aura.
Huo Yuhao's eyes shone with golden light, as if piercing the distance and seeing through Sima Jinchi's background.
It was a majestic blade of enforcement, a divine weapon.
"The Dragon Clan Law Blade. Sima Jinchi?"
Huo Yuhao withdrew his gaze thoughtfully, a faint smile appearing on his face.
Recently, he had met the Body Sect's senior brother A Ruheng. Now he had met Sima Jinchi, the reincarnation of the Dragon Clan Law Blade. Added to Wu Changkong, who he had heard had also registered, the quality of the people the Federation had fished out this time was indeed good.
However, Sima Jinchi was originally a soldier.
Although it was often said that the formidable figures of this era were mostly concentrated among the older generation, Huo Yuhao felt the middle generation was not bad either. There were also many formidable figures.
A Ruheng, whose Body Sect innate secret technique had been perfected and who possessed a divine level physical body. Sima Jinchi, the reincarnation of the Dragon Clan Law Blade. Wu Changkong, who, after recovering from his injuries, had almost broken through from Soul Sage to Super Douluo in ten years. Lan Muzi, whose martial soul was unique.
Oh, and Nanaly, one of the original Holy Spirit Cult's Four Heavenly Kings, now a Four Word Battle Armor Master. These few were roughly of the same generation. All had the potential to reach Limit Douluo, and even possessed Limit level combat power at the Super Douluo stage.
It could be seen that these people were not far behind the formidable figures of the older generation. And among these people, Sima Jinchi was the most special. After all, a weapon spirit reincarnated as a person was truly unprecedented.
"Since he is the Dragon Clan Law Blade, after Na'er completes the Elemental Divine Thunder, I will see how she wants to handle it."
As Huo Yuhao thought this, his mind suddenly stirred. Gu Yuena's aura had changed.
At this moment, Gu Yuena had once again reached a critical moment. She had taken the elemental storm into her body and was beginning to filter and condense the Elemental Divine Thunder.
Huo Yuhao gazed at her, his expression not daring to relax in the slightest.
This was already the third attempt. If it failed again, they would have to temporarily stop.
However, as the aura within Gu Yuena gradually calmed, Huo Yuhao's expression relaxed.
Gu Yuena's elemental control was ultimately superior to him. After two failures, she had already grasped the knack.
And knowing that Huo Yuhao was right beside her, Protecting the Path for her, she felt at ease. Her cultivation was even more composed.
As the Elemental Divine Thunder condensed in her palm, she suddenly opened her eyes. Light flowed in her gaze. The smile at the corner of her mouth was even more brilliant than the divine thunder.
"Yuhao, I succeeded."
She turned around. The first thing she looked at was not the divine thunder in her palm, but the person beside her.
"Yes."
Huo Yuhao smiled and nodded. "Perhaps you will also gain the title of God of Judgment in the future."
"I have not thought that far ahead."
Gu Yuena shook her head with a smile, stood up, and looked at the lightning in her hand. "With this, practicing Heaven Forging will be much easier for me. And I can also elevate the metal needed for Three Word Battle Armor to a strength comparable to Heaven Forged metal. After completing Four Word Battle Armor, we will have a defensive divine weapon that grows with us."
There was a saying in this world that "nine is the limit of numbers." An alloy made from nine metals, the Divine Alloy, had a quality that was almost impossible for other metals to surpass.
A Three Word Battle Armor forged with Spirit Forged Divine Alloy metal would probably have a strength not inferior to the Four Word Battle Armor nurtured by those Limit Douluo themselves. And now, with the Four Elements Divine Thunder, Gu Yuena could also use divine thunder forging to further elevate the metal's quality, thereby enhancing the Three Word Battle Armor's strength.
Gu Yuena mastering Elemental Divine Thunder forging was strictly already considered Heaven Forging. But the Divine Alloy's strength was too high. Ordinary Elemental Divine Thunder could not fully activate its potential.
In her inference, Heaven Forging the Divine Alloy would require experiencing a divine level lightning tribulation. Manufacturing it would be quite troublesome.
"I leave it to you."
Huo Yuhao smiled slightly. Then he thought of something and asked, "Speaking of which, can the plane's lightning punishment for breaking the limit to the divine level also be used for Heaven Forging the Divine Alloy?"
Gu Yuena was startled, then thought for a moment. "As long as the divine level lightning punishment is used properly, theoretically, it is possible. But during Heaven Forging, the lightning tribulation cannot be interrupted. Otherwise, it will be difficult for the metal to sublimate. If you plan to do this, you will need to continuously face the lightning tribulation until the Heaven Forging is complete."
At this point, she looked at Huo Yuhao. "Yuhao, do you need Heaven Forged Divine Alloy metal right now? Then I."
"No need." Huo Yuhao raised his hand to interrupt her and shook his head slightly. "What I plan to forge is not an ordinary soul tool. It is a Lifebound Soul Tool."
Gu Yuena understood upon hearing this.
With Huo Yuhao around, she had also learned quite a bit about soul tools.
Battle armor and Lifebound Soul Tools seemed very similar, but their essence was different. For a soul master, battle armor was armor worn over their martial soul, so it could amplify their strength.
A Lifebound Soul Tool, on the other hand, completely fused the martial soul and the soul tool together at the life level. If the Lifebound Soul Tool was damaged, the martial soul would also be damaged.
Therefore, to forge a Lifebound Soul Tool, it was best to complete the design, forging, and crafting all by oneself. Only then could the soul tool and martial soul be perfectly compatible.
However.
"Metals and other materials are ultimately external objects. Even if you forge them yourself to make them more compatible with yourself, the effect is actually limited."
Gu Yuena said in confusion, "Moreover, we have a contract between us. We have each other's bloodline and aura, and our connection is deep. It should also be feasible for me to forge it for you, right?"
Huo Yuhao chuckled softly, took Gu Yuena's hand, and led her out of the mountains while explaining, "You can handle the earlier stages. But when facing the lightning tribulation, that is my best opportunity to deeply integrate laws and various insights into the soul tool. It is best for me to do it myself. So I plan to first forge the Lifebound Soul Tool's prototype with spirit forged metal, then temper it with lightning tribulation, integrating laws into the forging process to take full shape."
In the words of Shading the Heavens, he wanted to forge an Ultimate Dao Imperial Armament, inscribing his own Dao Fruit and laws into it, making this Lifebound Soul Tool truly a part of himself. Naturally, this step could not be entrusted to another.
Understanding dawned on Gu Yuena. A flicker of strangeness passed through her eyes.
Forging a divine weapon in the midst of lightning tribulation. Even in the divine realm, that was a rare forging method.
Yes, a divine weapon.
Although Huo Yuhao had not yet forged it, Gu Yuena was certain that a Lifebound Soul Tool born under a divine level lightning tribulation would definitely be a divine weapon.
And not an ordinary divine weapon, because an ordinary divine weapon would not be able to help Yuhao.
Thinking this, Gu Yuena frowned. "Yuhao, you want to forge a super divine weapon yourself? The resources required for that are immense. Although you have ten thousand years of accumulated faith power, relying on faith power alone is not enough to manufacture a super divine weapon."
Faith power was not omnipotent. Back then, the Divine Dragon Realm had ten galaxies beneath it. The existences who believed in the gods were countless. And the Divine Dragon Realm had ruled over many subordinate planes for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years. The accumulation of faith power was simply incalculable.
If ten thousand years of faith from a single plane could manufacture a super divine weapon, the Divine Dragon Realm's super divine weapons would have been everywhere.
To this, Huo Yuhao did not refute.
He did indeed plan to forge a super divine weapon. He also knew that relying solely on faith power to forge a super divine weapon was very difficult.
After all, the setting for super divine weapons was rather strange.
You could say they were not rare and not difficult to forge. But many first class gods did not have them. Even the God of Destruction, passed down from God King to God King, did not have a super divine weapon. There was even a God King who said that a divine realm having one super divine weapon was a sign of deep foundations.
You could say they were rare and difficult to forge. But Elder Electrolux, without becoming a god, had forged one. The Abyss Saint Lord had one in his hand. The Crimson Mother, the Abyss Saint Lord's mother, had two. Some first class gods also had them, such as Rong Nianbing and Zhou Weiqing.
As for the Sea God.
That depended on the situation.
After all, there were two theories about why the Sea God's Trident had become a super divine weapon. One was that it had become a super divine weapon during the first generation Sea God's time. The other was that Tang San, after becoming a God King, had used Immortal Energy to nurture the Sea God's Trident from a divine weapon into a super divine weapon. It depended on which version one believed. (The latter was the version from Soul Land V.)
Besides these cases, there were even creatures on the Saint Demon Continent that could transform into temporary super divine weapons. It was absurd.
However, since super divine weapons also varied in level, with some even becoming pseudo super divine weapons in Soul Land IV, Huo Yuhao would not complain too much.
But there was still one thing Huo Yuhao did not understand.
It was known that the super divine weapon, the Heavenly Saint Split Abyss Halberd, belonging to the Crimson Mother's child, the Abyss Saint Lord. And it was explicitly stated to be not inferior to the Sea God's Trident, a top tier super divine weapon. super divine weapon to be weaker?
It did not seem that way.
In any case.
Huo Yuhao understood quite a bit about super divine weapons. He knew the origins of various super divine weapons. But he understood that this was not a reason to underestimate the difficulty of forging a super divine weapon.
He had also discussed the forging insights of super divine weapons with Elder Electrolux. Although Elder Electrolux had not become a god when he forged his super divine weapon, he had almost conquered an era. And because on the Saint Demon Continent, becoming a god meant death, the divine level items accumulated there were considerable.
Since he planned to do something similar to Elder Electrolux, in Huo Yuhao's eyes, the preparation of faith power alone was still not enough.
So, facing Gu Yuena's reminder, Huo Yuhao smiled lightly and said, "What if it is a Plane Weapon?"
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