After observing for a while the enormous vertical pupil that had replaced the original Spirit of Life Gold and now resided in his spiritual sea, Huo Yuhao stopped thinking about it further.
Whatever abilities the Eye of Truth possessed after its second awakening, he could experiment later and naturally discover its effects.
Meanwhile, after fully merging with the Devouring Spirit Knife, the current Spirit of Life Gold was still subtly influencing every aspect of Huo Yuhao's body.
The vast life force contained within it constantly nourished his flesh, but with his current cultivation level, he could not withstand any stronger life force for the moment.
Therefore, the nourishment to his body would enter a very slow and almost imperceptible phase.
Unless Huo Yuhao dedicated a large amount of time to compressing his life force, allowing his body to undergo another transformation on its existing foundation.
Only then could he withstand even stronger life force. But in reality, there was no need for that.
After all, once his soul power improved, the limit of life energy his body could endure would naturally rise as well. There was no need to spend time on specialized training.
Moreover, due to the existence of the Spirit of Life Gold, before its life energy was fully absorbed, any injury Huo Yuhao suffered could be rapidly repaired. Even limb regeneration would not be difficult.
Opening his eyes, Huo Yuhao's consciousness left his spiritual sea and returned to his physical body.
He immediately sensed that his vision and perception had become far sharper than before. The movement of air and the mixture of various scents were now extremely clear.
His physical strength had already reached a completely new level. Along with the second awakening of his martial soul, Huo Yuhao's soul power had also advanced.
When the second awakening occurred, the remnants of alien soul power within his soul rings,those that originated from soul beasts and held residual beast consciousness,were completely shattered.
They were converted into unowned soul energy and integrated into the flow of his soul power.
At the same time, the structure of the soul skills had fused into his body and became part of his martial soul.
This was something only a Body Martial Soul awakened to the golden level or higher could achieve. Though if the second awakening was of a lower grade…
The lower the level, the less control the soul master had over their soul rings. Silver-level awakenings could also absorb the power within soul rings.
But perfect control, the seamless unity achieved by golden-level awakeners, could not be obtained without long periods of training.
Of course, the power of the first million-year soul ring bestowed by the Skydream Iceworm was far too vast, and its consciousness as a wisdom-type ring was too complete.
Huo Yuhao could not completely absorb it, so most of the soul power within the first ring remained sealed.
Even so, the complete absorption of the second soul ring's power allowed his soul power to break through the bottleneck of level 30.
Afterward, even without consuming the Skydream Iceworm's origin energy, he could still strengthen his second ring gradually as his soul power and martial soul evolved.
Externally, this meant the color of his second soul ring would deepen over time as his strength grew.
However, golden-level second awakening already left little room for further advancement. Any higher and his martial soul would approach a god-level.
Without anyone in the God Realm, evolving his martial soul into a god-level one could only be discussed after reaching level 99.
Thus, his second ring's age would mainly rise as a result of his soul power increase.
But this would still be quantitative rather than qualitative change. Rings increased to thousand-year, ten-thousand-year, or hundred-thousand-year levels like this would not provide dual soul skills like innate hundred-thousand-year rings.
For Huo Yuhao, who possessed the Eye of Truth, a soul ring was merely an additional reservoir and source of energy.
Regardless of soul skills or spells, he could construct them himself using his spiritual power and the Eye of Truth.
Compared to soul skills gained from soul rings, the pure essence cultivated by soul beasts through their entire lifetime was far more valuable to him.
Ordinary soul masters could only absorb about a tenth of the accumulated cultivation of a thousand-year or ten-thousand-year beast.
If others gained around two levels from absorbing a limit-age ring…
Then after the second awakening of his body-type martial soul, Huo Yuhao could gain at least fifty percent more benefit by fully absorbing the ring's power.
This dramatically shortened the time required to increase his soul power.
This was why, in the original story, the geniuses of the Body Sect far surpassed the Shrek Seven Monsters in both soul power and physical strength.
Though much of the absorbed energy was used to temper their bodies, a stronger body in turn accelerated cultivation.
Thus, even without focusing purely on increasing soul power, they never lagged behind.
Unlike members of the Body Sect who achieved only a silver-level second awakening at best…
Because of the Spirit of Life Gold and the Eye of Truth he gained through transmigration, Huo Yuhao's second awakening reached golden level directly.
And due to the Spirit of Life Gold, all soul power absorbed from rings could go entirely into strengthening his cultivation.
After all, the life force from the Spirit of Life Gold alone was enough to reinforce his body beyond even many Limit Douluo.
After washing away the impurities shed during his physical transformation in the luxurious bathroom of Star Emperor Hotel's suite…
Huo Yuhao stepped out, gently touching the nearly invisible line at the center of his forehead. Closing his eyes, he focused on his martial soul, attempting to activate the power gained from its golden second awakening.
Earlier, while absorbing the Spirit of Life Gold, Electrolux and the Skydream Iceworm had helped conceal the energy fluctuations and life force emanations from his room.
Now Elder Yi was using the Spirit of Life Gold's power to repair his divine sense, so the task fell solely to the Skydream Iceworm.
Ignoring the Iceworm's grumbling over losing his nap…
A golden image appeared behind Huo Yuhao , the colossal vertical pupil from his spiritual sea, only more illusory, manifested into reality.
He had no time to sense it before, but now he realized how powerful a golden-level awakening truly was.
Even the Skydream Iceworm was shocked:
"How is this possible? Yuhao, how has your spiritual power already reached the realm of form without substance?
Your total spiritual power shouldn't be anywhere near that level!"
In contrast to the Iceworm's shock, Huo Yuhao remained calm.
"My martial soul is spiritual-type. Specializing in spiritual power upon golden awakening is not strange.
And I can tell this increase in both the quality and quantity of spiritual power is merely the foundation of my new abilities."
As if using his spiritual power for the first time again, Huo Yuhao tried to guide the awakening power and draw out its potential.
In his vision and under his control , with spiritual and life force consumption…
A dark, slender shape like a small "hand" extended from the golden vertical pupil behind him.
The moment it touched a piece of crimson wood he took from his storage device , the heartwood of a hundred-year Scarlet Blood Tree , it shattered silently into dust.
"What happened just now?" The Skydream Iceworm asked, confused.
He had been too focused on concealing the energy fluctuations to notice what Huo Yuhao did.
"It's my new ability from the second awakening. Brother Tianmeng, you didn't sense anything at all? Not even with your spiritual power?"
The Iceworm paused awkwardly before muttering, "Probably didn't notice… Try again! This time, I'll definitely see it clearly!"
Smiling, Huo Yuhao took out a glass cup and placed it further away.
He extended the "hand" again. The cup instantly disassembled into neat one-centimeter glass cubes.
And the spiritual and life energy used was much less than before.
"So? Did you catch anything this time?" Huo Yuhao asked.
The Iceworm stayed silent, but Huo Yuhao could imagine his embarrassment , seeing nothing yet stubbornly trying to maintain dignity.
"Haha, alright Brother Tianmeng, I'll stop teasing you."
Through these tests, Huo Yuhao understood that only he could see the "hand".
Later, he could ask Elder Yi to test whether someone with divine-sense level insight could detect it.
There also seemed to be no range limitation , the further the extension, the greater the cost , but the advantage of being invisible and intangible outweighed that completely.
From observing effects on different materials, Huo Yuhao reached a preliminary conclusion about his new power:
Enhanced structural perception from the Eye of Truth
plus
remote decomposition ability through the martial soul
The items only appeared to shatter instantly , in truth, he analyzed their structure first, and only then could the decomposition take effect.
The degree and form of decomposition were entirely under his control.
The volume, complexity, and refinement of the target dictated how much energy he consumed.
These were just initial tests on inanimate objects. He would need tests on living beings and more complex materials later.
Only after fully understanding his abilities could he control and wield them at one hundred percent effectiveness.
Deactivating the golden awakening form, Huo Yuhao noticed one-third of his spiritual power and a noticeable amount of life force had been consumed.
Fortunately, with the Skydream Iceworm's origin and the continuous life force from the Spirit of Life Gold, both quickly recovered.
This meant that no matter the situation, he could unleash the power of his golden-level second awakening at will.
Even excluding the decomposition ability ,
his spiritual power alone, having stepped into the realm of form without substance, could crush even a Spirit King specialized in mental attacks.
"But something's strange…
Why does this golden form look exactly like that giant eyeball behind the Gate of Truth in Fullmetal Alchemist?"
"And the decomposition ability is so similar too…
But I wasn't rewatching Fullmetal Alchemist before I transmigrated."
He felt a flicker of doubt but buried it deep within.
"In that case, I'll name this ability Eye of Truth. It suits it well."
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