Although Huo Yuhao usually appeared gentle and refined, easygoing with others, and always wore a faint smile that made people feel as if they were bathed in a spring breeze.
But under the personal teaching and influence of Leng Yaozhu, he definitely could not be called a "pushover" in his bones.
Leng Yaozhu's way of teaching him was never to make him blindly endure or yield, but to make him understand that in this World where the strong are respected, true respect is always won through strength, not exchanged for through compromise and concession.
Therefore, facing the so-called "test" in Youyou's words, Huo Yuhao didn't even ask an extra question.
Huo Yuhao turned his head slightly and secretly transmitted his voice to Jin Li: "Stay further away."
Jin Li did not know what Huo Yuhao was about to do, but she just glanced at Huo Yuhao, then retreated rapidly without hesitation, withdrawing dozens of zhang away in the blink of an eye.
Subsequently, the aura on Huo Yuhao's body, which had always been deliberately suppressed and restrained, erupted violently like a volcano whose stopper had been suddenly pulled.
The tyrannical Spirit Power turned into a tangible gale that raged in all directions, blowing the surrounding rare Immortal Herbs until they almost all bowed, their petals and leaves trembling violently in the gale.
Youyou bore the brunt of it, and she couldn't help but sway her huge petals, clearly not expecting that this human youth, who looked gentle and harmless, actually contained such terrifying power within his body.
Immediately following, a dazzling silver light suddenly bloomed from Huo Yuhao's body, and a gorgeous suit of armor, completely silver-white and dotted with gorgeous purple patterns, instantly covered his entire body.
Every plate of that armor fit his body in a streamlined fashion, and the purple patterns slowly flowed on the surface of the silver armor as if they possessed life, emitting a dazzling halo that made one feel as if their mind would be sucked into that flowing purple galaxy just by taking a glance.
This was the Two-Word Battle Armor that Huo Yuhao had crafted with his own hands, named "Ling Tian."
If it weren't to hide his second Spirit of Ultimate Ice, he actually wanted to name this set of battle armor "Spirit Ice."
As the battle armor attached to him, Huo Yuhao's figure instantly shot up to about three meters.
A pair of metal wings of the same color as the battle armor unfolded behind him with a boom, with a wingspan of several meters wide, and the smooth and sharp wing blades shimmered with a piercing cold light under the dual-colored light of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
With a flap of his wings, his whole body soared into the sky, steadily hovering above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Meanwhile, the aura on his body once again surged wildly at a jaw-dropping speed.
Although the boost the Two-Word Battle Armor provided to an ordinary Spirit Saint was considerable, it could only make their cultivation barely approach the threshold of a Titled Douluo.
But Huo Yuhao had long since condensed the Yin Yang complementary dual Spirit cores, and the Spirit Power within his body was already several times more refined than that of a Spirit Master of the same level.
Therefore, at this moment, under the boost of the battle armor, the majesty and terror of the aura radiating from his body even exceeded the level that many ordinary Titled Douluo could achieve.
Feeling that majestic pressure on Huo Yuhao, the petals of Youyou's large pink flower trembled slightly, visible to the naked eye.
She retracted her petals slightly, and there was a hint of irrepressible fear in that crisp female voice, and her speaking speed was even faster than before: "You... what are you doing?"
It wasn't just Youyou; from the distinct lake water of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well behind her, two huge Immortal Herbs suddenly emerged.
One was scarlet red like flames, shaped like a giant cabbage magnified dozens of times, with layers of leaves rising from the lake water, and flame patterns like magma flowing on the surface; it was Infernal Delicate Apricot.
The other presented a standard octagonal shape, each leaf like it was carved from Ten Thousand Years of cold ice, crystalline and transparent, emitting a bone-chilling cold; it was the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.
These two top-tier Immortal Herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well were clearly startled by the unmasked, tyrannical aura on Huo Yuhao.
They guarded Youyou on both the left and right, and the intertwined aura of ice and fire rose, confronting the majestic pressure radiating from Huo Yuhao from afar.
Huo Yuhao hovered in mid-air, looking down at these Immortal Herbs below that were acting as if facing a great enemy.
His voice carried a deliberate, unquestionable coldness: "I do not wish to use force, but as long as I want to, you cannot stop me."
In his eyes, this Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well would belong to the Spirit Pagoda from now on.
Since it was his territory, the Immortal Herbs here were naturally his Immortal Herbs; it was just that these Immortal Herbs hadn't recognized the situation yet.
Among these Immortal Herbs, Infernal Delicate Apricot had the most explosive temper, igniting at the slightest provocation.
She had just woken up from the bottom of the Extreme Heat Yang Spring and hadn't figured out what was happening before her when she heard Huo Yuhao's unceremonious "You cannot stop me."
Immediately, a nameless fire surged from between her layers of scarlet red leaves, and she snorted coldly: "Boastful! If you want to act wildly here, beat us first!"
Before her words fell, Infernal Delicate Apricot had already struck fiercely.
The lake water of the Extreme Heat Yang Spring where she was rooted suddenly churned violently, and under her control, the scarlet red spring water soared into the sky like a roaring fire dragon, carrying a terrifying high temperature capable of melting gold and iron, drawing a scorching arc in mid-air as it shot towards Huo Yuhao, who was suspended in mid-air.
The temperature of that Yang Spring water was comparable to Ultimate Fire; even if an ordinary Spirit Master was touched by just a drop, their flesh would be instantly burned through, and if they were splashed head-on by this whole stream of Yang Spring water, even a Spirit Saint-level powerhouse would definitely not have it easy.
However, Huo Yuhao didn't even blink an eye, and just at the moment when that stream of scarlet red Yang Spring water was about to touch the three-chi distance in front of him, a white-gold light shield appeared around him without warning.
This was one of the innate abilities bestowed upon Huo Yuhao by Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, who was a Million-year Spirit Beast: Life Reflection Shield.
The moment that stream of Yang Spring water, comparable to Ultimate Fire, hit the white-gold light shield, it was as if it had hit an invisible and indestructible mirror, being forcibly rebounded by an irresistible force.
Infernal Delicate Apricot herself would naturally not be hurt by the attack of the Yang Spring water, but that rebounded Yang Spring water poured all over her head and face, and although it didn't cause any substantial damage, it made her look disheveled and rather dejected.
She shook the water droplets off her leaves violently, and turned her head in shock and anger to look at the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, who was still watching from the side, her voice filled with a bit of embarrassment and anger: "Stop watching the show over there, this guy is not easy to deal with!"
The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass hadn't wanted to strike, after all, she hadn't figured out what Huo Yuhao really wanted yet.
But in the current situation, Infernal Delicate Apricot's Yang Spring water had been nonchalantly rebounded by the other party, and Youyou was so scared that her petals were trembling; if she didn't strike now, they, the Immortal Herbs that had been rooted in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for Ten Thousand Years, would really only be at the mercy of others.
She sighed softly, then her mind stirred, and the lake water of the Extreme Cold Ice Spring below suddenly churned.
The ice spring water, emitting a piercing cold, soared into the sky, and the moment it left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, it suddenly solidified, turning into a giant cold ice hand so thick that it would require several people to wrap their arms around it.
The giant cold ice hand opened its five fingers, cold air overflowing, and with a low temperature capable of freezing the Soul to the point of cracking, it grabbed fiercely towards Huo Yuhao in mid-air.
Huo Yuhao had no intention of wasting time here; one spirit ring after another flashed from beneath his feet, and then the seventh spirit ring was fiercely lit up, that blood-red hundred-thousand-year spirit ring blooming with bewitching light in the dim valley.
Behind Huo Yuhao, a huge vertical pupil suddenly appeared, that vertical pupil dozens of meters high, flowing with brilliant golden light, and a circle of rose-gold sun patterns distributed around the vertical pupil.
The comprehensive boost of the Two-Word Battle Armor, the majestic Spirit Power provided by the Yin Yang complementary dual Spirit cores, plus this Martial Soul True Body at the two-hundred-thousand-year level.
With the three superimposed, this could be said to be the most powerful attack Huo Yuhao could launch in his current normal state.
Huo Yuhao's Spirit Ability was drawn but not released, but the terrifying Spirit Power fluctuations and the mental force pressure radiating from it crushed down from mid-air like a blanket, shrouding the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well valley in a suffocating sense of oppression.
Although those Immortal Herbs below had possessed cultivation equivalent to a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast through the nourishment of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, their true age was, after all, only Ten Thousand Years.
Moreover, these plant-type Spirit Beasts were inherently not good at fighting, and at this moment, feeling that terrifying power on Huo Yuhao, almost the same thought rose in their hearts simultaneously—this person cannot be resisted.
These three Immortal Herbs that had been rooted in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for Ten Thousand Years had vastly different temperaments.
Infernal Delicate Apricot was the most explosive and impulsive, Youyou was the most innocent and naive, and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass was the most steady and calm of the three Immortal Herbs.
After realizing they were not his match, the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass did not hesitate at all and decisively made the most rational choice.
Her mind turned sharply, and that giant cold ice hand that was originally grabbing towards Huo Yuhao suddenly changed direction in mid-air, sweeping across with piercing cold air, and actually slapped fiercely towards another stream of scarlet red spring water that Infernal Delicate Apricot had just drawn from the Extreme Heat Yang Spring again.
The two diametrically opposed forces of extreme heat and extreme cold collided violently in mid-air, and the intense conflict between ice and fire instantly triggered a violent energy release, a large amount of white mist rising like a mushroom cloud, instantly filling the entire lake surface.
Infernal Delicate Apricot's layers of fiery red leaves shook violently in anger, making a swish-swish sound, and her angry shout was full of annoyance: "Bingbing, what are you doing?!"
However, the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass didn't even look at her, her crystalline octagonal leaves raised slightly, and she shouted loudly towards Huo Yuhao in mid-air: "Stop!"
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