In Mu Ye's perception, while inside Huo Yuhao's domain, his entire body was shrouded in an aura of death, making it difficult for him to exert his full strength. Without the protection of his spirit power and spiritual power, he even had a premonition that his vitality and soul would be stripped away.
Moreover, the stripping away of vitality and soul probably wasn't the end these gray mists seemed to want to transform him into another form of life.
"Isn't this an evil spirit master's ability?"
Looking at Huo Yuhao, who was quietly sensing with his eyes closed, Mu Ye was momentarily speechless.
If it weren't for the fact that in this era, evil martial souls could also walk in the outside world, he would want to remind Huo Yuhao not to use this domain in future battles.
While Mu Ye was full of thoughts, Huo Yuhao was sensing the various changes from the secondary awakening.
Having been an undead creature for ten thousand years, he naturally had an undead origin aura and corresponding comprehension of the laws. Before re-cultivating, he and Elder Electrolux had suppressed those origins deep within his body, so they wouldn't affect his two martial souls.
Now, because of the Body Sect's secret method, they had been drawn out in the form of innate energy, assisting him in his secondary awakening.
Only — although the secondary awakening of the Spirit Eyes had been completed, the ensuing changes were beyond Huo Yuhao's expectations.
Perhaps influenced by the secondary awakening method, he had obtained a domain that should not have been possible. Similar to the Killing God domain type — his martial soul's attributes did not change — but this domain had been directly engraved onto his Spirit Eyes martial soul during his secondary awakening.
"Netherworld Rebirth Domain?"
This was the name closest to the essence of this domain that Huo Yuhao could think of.
Life forms within the domain would be continuously eroded by gray death mists, consuming their spirit power and spiritual power until death. Their souls And life force, once utterly devoured by the death mist, would transform into undead creatures under his control, existing within the domain, subject to his will's summoning.
The devoured souls and life force could be converted into spiritual and spirit power, feeding back to him, enhancing himself and also strengthening the undead creatures within the domain.
Bringing minions, suppression, devouring—it was very similar to the Netherworld Rebirth Domain. A standard, textbook evil spirit master's configuration—and a growth-oriented domain at that... among domains, it was also top-tier.
It felt like the best domain skill for dealing with the Abyss. The plane wouldn't interfere, would it?
Otherwise, why would it be so similar to that person's domain...?
"This domain is somewhat like the fusion of various necromancy spells. Blight, necromancy transformation, life drain—you could see it as the crystallization of your own..." comprehension of necromancy and the laws of death."
In the Sea of Spirit, Elder Electrolux heard Huo Yuhao share his gains, thought for a moment, and smiled. "Not surprising. If you hadn't suppressed those undead origins, Yuhao, you could have become the first true Three-Life Martial Soul owner in history."
"But even though you suppressed that origin, it still exists. Now, through the innate energy of your secondary awakening, it is as if you have fused the unawakened undead martial soul origin into your Spirit Eyes, obtaining part of its power while evolving."
With Huo Yuhao's ten thousand years of foundation, if he had truly wanted, he could have given birth to three martial souls — Spirit Eyes, Ice Empress, and Undead. But Huo Yuhao had chosen to keep the undead martial soul origin without awakening it.
After all, Huo Yuhao didn't need a martial soul to use necromancy. Having an extra undead martial soul wouldn't be very useful. He might as well keep it as the foundation for his existing martial souls.
This secondary awakening, in a sense, was like fusing two martial souls together — using the Spirit Eyes martial soul to devour another martial soul origin to advance. That was why, on top of the Body Martial Soul's secondary awakening, a domain had been added.
"However, this type of devouring ability — apart from facing enemies like the Abyss — should not be used lightly in daily life. Don't lose your true heart," Electrolux reminded.
Huo Yuhao smiled. "Since you look down on it, of course, I won't disgrace you."
Life-draining abilities — of course, Elder Electrolux knew them. When necromancy reached a certain level, one naturally figured some things out through analogy. The power that the Death Saint Law God's martial soul could accommodate was limited — far from all that Elder Electrolux had mastered.
Beside them, Skydream asked with interest: "Speaking of which — what should we call this domain? Necromancy Domain? Death God Domain?"
Huo Yuhao thought for a moment, then said: "Let's call it Hades Domain."
After all, it was
too similar to that one's domain. He would just borrow his title. In the future, he might even use this domain to wear his persona.
Speaking of which — the personas he could borrow seemed rather numerous?
Dragon God, Sea God, Hades... he seemed to be able to try posing as all of them.
After sensing for a while, Huo Yuhao thought of Mu Ye, who was enduring the erosion of his domain outside. He quickly withdrew his domain and opened his eyes.
Mu Ye, who had been watching him closely, quickly walked over. He felt that the boy's appearance seemed to have changed. But he didn't pay much mind to it. He directly looked at his gray eyes — and his footsteps suddenly stopped.
What kind of eyes were those!
The once-spirited irises had completely transformed into a deep gray. Something like chaos seemed to flow in the depths of his pupils. With just a single unconscious glance, Mu Ye felt his soul completely pierced, about to be ingest it...
Mu Ye took a deep breath and did not come closer. His gaze was scorching, he asked: "Besides the domain, were there any other changes?"
"Yes."
Huo Yuhao smiled and nodded. Three purple spirit rings appeared around him. Under his control, the Sea of Spirit began to storm. A depressing aura spread outward from him. A illusory vertical eye appeared behind him. His entire aura suddenly rose.
Mu Ye's eyes lit up. He couldn't help letting out a laugh. "Good — I had thought your secondary awakening would be of the non-Body-Martial-Soul type. I didn't expect you to have both. Good, wonderful!"
Seeing that Huo Yuhao's secondary awakening had produced a domain, he had thought that, because of his special innate energy, he had become like the Blue Silver Grass evolving into the Blue Silver Emperor — that type. He hadn't expected both.
Not only had his martial soul sublimated to the super super martial soul level, but he had also obtained a powerful domain and a Silver-Grade secondary awakening of the Body Martial Soul, allowing him to explode his strength temporarily.
This was the most fulfilling secondary awakening in history, wasn't it?
Indeed — taking him on was the greatest gain of his life!
After a moment of surprise, Mu Ye suppressed his excitement. "Now that your secondary awakening is complete, get a good rest tonight. Tomorrow, we'll return to Eastsea City. Your friends have been worried."
"Yes — thank you for your trouble, Teacher."
Huo Yuhao nodded. Thinking of Gu Yuena, Xie Xie, and the others who had been messaging him constantly these days, he smiled slightly and looked toward the Abyssal Deep.
Before going back, he would erect a tombstone here.
The Sea God's divine seat had fallen here. If he placed the Golden Dragon King's tombstone here, he would probably be very happy, wouldn't he?
While Huo Yuhao was undergoing his secondary awakening, Shen Yi had spent a very long time going through the procedures to finally get her two students released.
By this time, of course, the assessment time had long since ended. Looking at Ning Yue, who had her head lowered awaiting her sentence, and Yu Longheng, who was expressionless, Shen Yi sighed inwardly.
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