Huo Yuhao first witnessed the ability of a self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill during an assessment after enrolling in Shrek Academy.
In that assessment, there was a young girl named Wu Siduo, whose twin spirits were the White Tiger and the Hell Civet; her talent was among the best of that freshman class.
In fact, looking at her White Tiger Martial Soul, she was likely a branch of the Bloodline that had scattered from the Duke of White Tiger Ten Thousand Years ago.
In a sense, she could even be considered a distant relative of Huo Yuhao.
When Wu Siduo first unleashed the self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill, the Hell White Tiger, it left a profound impression on Huo Yuhao, and from that moment on, he developed a keen interest in self-Martial Soul Fusion Skills.
If Wu Siduo's Spirit could undergo self-Fusion, what about him?
His Spirit Eyes Martial Soul and Ice Jade Scorpion Spirit—one focused on mental force, the other on Ultimate Ice—two seemingly unrelated attributes, could they also find a chance for Fusion?
Later, under the research and deduction of his teacher, Electrolux, he finally gradually figured out the two core conditions for performing a self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
First, one must master the ability to release two Spirits simultaneously.
For a Spirit Master with twin spirits, this was an extremely difficult threshold to cross, but Huo Yuhao had powerful mental force and the help of numerous Spirit Souls in his Spiritual Sea; after countless failures, he finally managed to achieve the true simultaneous release of two Spirits.
Second, the power of the two Spirits must be fused in a specific ratio.
This ratio was not as simple as a fifty-fifty split; it required extremely precise adjustment based on the attributes, quality, and compatibility of the Spirits themselves, as even the slightest deviation would lead to Fusion failure or even a backlash.
Just to find that precise Fusion ratio, Huo Yuhao did not know how many times he had been injured.
It was only because he cultivation the Body Secret Technique that his physique was extremely powerful; otherwise, he would never have been able to persist.
After repeated attempts and adjustments, Huo Yuhao finally successfully unleashed his own self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
At this moment, the mental force and Spirit Power within his body were rapidly fusing at that specific ratio, and an aura far more terrifying than his previous Martial Soul True Body was slowly rising from him.
This was Huo Yuhao's true strongest strike; the previous expenditure of a large amount of Spirit Power to unleash the Ultimate Ice amplification and the Domain of Eternal Frost was all to pave the way for this strike, elevating its power to the ultimate of ultimates.
At this moment, the sky of the entire gray mist space seemed to be suddenly torn apart by an invisible force, and hundreds of openings instantly bloomed.
But those were not spatial rifts; they were eyes.
Those eyes were not the brilliant gold from his Martial Soul True Body, but presented a crystal-clear Ice Jade glaze color, like Ice Jade blue gems embedded in the firmament, coldly looking down at the battlefield covered by the Domain of Eternal Frost below.
Hundreds of eyes simultaneously locked onto the gray figure holding a thin sword below, and then a slender, blue-green ray shot out from each eye.
Hundreds of rays intertwined from all directions into an airtight net of death, sealing off all possible escape routes for the target.
The moment Huo Yuhao's self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill took shape, a true sense of crisis flashed through Pluto Douluo Harosa's heart for the first time.
He instinctively wanted to tear through space and escape, but then he discovered that he simply could not do it.
His pupils suddenly constricted, and he realized that under absolute zero, even space itself was frozen and could not be torn.
In the blink of an eye, hundreds of extremely cold rays, like living tentacles, wrapped around Pluto Douluo Harosa's gray Battle Armor, and the extreme chill seeped into every crevice of the Battle Armor.
Immediately, a layer of crystal-clear ice crystals spread over his body at a speed visible to the naked eye, from his feet to his torso, from his torso to his limbs, and finally covered his handsome, pale face.
This Pluto Douluo, known to the world as the "Gray Terror," was actually frozen into an ice sculpture by a fifteen-year-old Spirit Saint.
If such a thing were to spread, I fear no one on the entire continent would believe it.
But at this moment, this very thing had actually happened!
Huo Yuhao named his self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill "Ice Soul Hell," and its effect was naturally far more than just freezing the opponent into an ice sculpture.
Just as Pluto Douluo Harosa was firmly frozen by hundreds of extremely cold rays, a vast and unparalleled mental force was surging wildly into his body along those blue-green, freezing threads, ruthlessly invading his Spiritual Sea.
Although Huo Yuhao had already condensed the Yin Yang complementary dual Spirit cores, he was only level 79 after all, and there was still a chasm-like gap in Spirit Power between him and Pluto Douluo Harosa, a Limit Douluo.
His true trump card, strong enough to fight against a Limit Douluo across ranks, had never been Spirit Power, but mental force.
His mental force had long since stepped into the Spirit Domain Realm, a Realm that many Titled Douluo could only hope for but never reach in their entire lives.
Although there was still some distance from the legendary conceptualization of thought, it was definitely not far.
And under the amplification of the self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill "Ice Soul Hell," his mental force was forcibly raised by another level, reaching a terrifying height that would make even a Super Douluo wary.
In the air not far away, Han Tianyi, Nana, and Leng Yulai, who had been fiercely fighting, almost simultaneously stopped, their three gazes turning in unison toward the ice sculpture that had appeared out of thin air.
None of them had expected before that Huo Yuhao, a fifteen-year-old youth, could actually achieve this step.
However, would Pluto Douluo Harosa really be defeated so easily by a Spirit Saint-level youth?
The answer was naturally negative!
The moment Pluto Douluo Harosa was frozen by that extreme chill, he had already judged that the control effect of Huo Yuhao's self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill had Absolute Establishment.
Absolute Establishment meant that as long as one was locked on, one would inevitably be controlled.
This was a forced judgment at the Law level, unrelated to the level of cultivation; even if he were a Limit Douluo, he could not be exempted.
The force that followed, invading his Spiritual Sea, was not an ordinary Spiritual Impact, but a biting chill wrapped in Ultimate Ice, as if it could freeze thought itself.
However, Pluto Douluo Harosa was, after all, Pluto Douluo Harosa; his mental force had already reached the Peak of the Spirit Domain Realm, only half a step away from the legendary Divine Origin Realm.
Although he had indeed been caught off guard by Huo Yuhao earlier due to carelessness, in the critical moment when his Spiritual Sea was being fully invaded, his tenacious will and vast mental force, tempered through countless life-and-death battles, finally played a role, firmly resisting that terrifying Spiritual Impact that was enough to completely crush the Sea of Consciousness of an ordinary Titled Douluo.
A huge and majestic phantom of the Pluto suddenly rose from behind Pluto Douluo Harosa without warning; the phantom was dozens of zhang tall, its whole body wrapped in a rich, gray-black aura of death, its face blurred yet exuding a kind of nirvana majesty that made one's Soul tremble.
With the appearance of this phantom, the layer of ice covering Pluto Douluo Harosa's body was instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks, then with a loud bang, it shattered, turning into countless sparkling ice crystals scattered in the gray space.
Pluto Douluo Harosa reappeared before everyone's eyes; although he had broken free from the control, his appearance at this moment was not relaxed.
That face, which was already as pale as paper, seemed even whiter at this moment; his chest heaved violently several times, and his breathing was obviously disordered for a moment.
Clearly, resolving Huo Yuhao's killer move just now had also consumed a considerable amount of his mental force.
Pluto Douluo Harosa slowly raised his head, his gray eyes locking onto Huo Yuhao again, but this time, there was no longer the casual banter from before in his gaze, replaced instead by an unprecedented seriousness.
He was silent for a moment, and could not help but speak in praise: "I really didn't expect it; a youth with only Spirit Saint cultivation, you were actually able to force me to this point."
"I, Harosa, have roamed the continent for over a hundred years and have seen Geniuses like carp crossing the river, but you are the first one who could achieve this at the Spirit Saint Realm."
"I would like to call you the strongest Spirit Saint; there has been no one before you, and I fear there will be no one after you."
Speaking up to here, his voice suddenly turned cold, and the admiration in his gray eyes was replaced by a biting murderous intent.
The slender Pluto Cross Sword in Pluto Douluo Harosa's hand was slowly raised again, the tip of the sword pointing from afar at the youth opposite who still showed no fear: "However, this is where it ends."
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