Peerless: I Became Huo Yuhao's Dark Personality

Chapter 134 Devouring Upgrade? Oh no! I've become an Evil Soul Master! (Two-in-One)

Huo Yumiao knew it clearly, but the original work only mentioned it briefly and never actually described Meng Hongchen suffering a backlash from the cold poison, which is why he didn't recognize it immediately.

Now that we know the cause, we won't be completely clueless about how to deal with it. Besides, Xiao Hongchen has already explained the solution. The only question is, how do we consume soul power?

"Brother, I only know that the ultimate ice can suppress ice attributes, I've never heard of it being able to actively melt other people's soul power!" Huo Yuhao looked at Huo Yumiao, somewhat at a loss.

"Hyotei, do you have a solution?"

Huo Yumiao used her mental power to inform Bingdi of everything that had just happened. In just an instant, Bingdi understood the cause and effect. This speed of information transmission was incomparable to words.

"It can be done. The power of Ultimate Ice is not only that its purity of ice attribute surpasses other ice attributes, but it also has unique control over ice."

Extreme Ice can achieve this kind of active dissolving of ice-attribute soul power. It's not just Extreme Ice; it can be done as long as one side is weaker in ice attribute than the other.

However, it's too early for you to get involved in this right now. It requires not only a certain level of mental strength but also a high degree of self-control; otherwise, you could easily injure yourself.

Hyotei's cool voice rang out, and through the transmission of mental energy, the conversation between the two didn't even take a second.

Give me control.

Outside, Huo Yumiao's clear, icy blue eyes instantly turned emerald green, and an extremely oppressive aura emanated from him.

Huo Yuhao's face immediately lit up with joy. This aura was all too familiar to him; he had truly felt what this aura looked like in its complete form before.

At this moment, Huo Yuhao was completely relieved, and he had absolute confidence in Ice Emperor.

When it comes to anything related to ice, if even the Hyotei (Ice Emperor) can't solve it, then probably no one else in the world can.

As the aura of the Ice Overlord spread, Meng Hongchen, who was originally just stiff and unable to move due to the suppression of the extreme ice, trembled all over.

This was entirely out of instinctive fear, a fear etched into the bones at the level of martial spirit. Ice Emperor stepped forward, his index finger, shimmering with emerald light, gently touching Meng Hongchen's chest.

A turquoise ripple spread across Meng Hongchen's chest, and a large amount of soul power swirled outward from Meng Hongchen's chest, transforming into strands of soul power tentacles shrouded in white mist that connected to Huo Yumiao's body.

It was clear that soul power was flowing from Meng Hongchen's body along his tentacles into Huo Yumiao's body.

Visibly, Meng Hongchen's fair, jade-like skin and bright, blood-red eyes, which were due to the possession of a martial spirit, were dimming at an alarming rate.

After a few breaths, all the soul power in Meng Hongchen's body disappeared, and her martial soul automatically dissipated due to the lack of soul power support, and her azure eyes returned.

"Alright, the Zhu Qing Ice Toad is also quite skilled in ice attributes. If it weren't for the restrictions of fire attributes, they wouldn't have ended up living on the outskirts of the far north."

"Once you've digested the soul power you absorbed from this girl's body, you should be able to increase your soul power by about one level."

Hyotei spoke in a calm tone, as if he were talking about a trivial matter, which shocked Huo Yumiao.

"Digest her soul power? Wasn't it just consuming her soul power just now?"

Ice Emperor's words were very straightforward, and Huo Yumiao couldn't understand any other meaning. In other words, he was improving his own cultivation by absorbing Meng Hongchen's soul power...

Oh no, he's become an evil spirit master!
"It's consuming her soul power," Ice Emperor replied, somewhat confused, not understanding Huo Yumiao's meaning.

"What I mean is, am I absorbing her soul power? Didn't you just say I would increase my soul power by one level?"

"Devour? That's all?" Upon hearing this, Ice Emperor's voice clearly faltered for a moment. Huo Yumiao seemed to sense a hint of amusement in Ice Emperor's tone, though she wasn't sure if it was just her imagination.

"This is just a side effect of being the ultimate ice element on lower-level ice attributes. You'll understand when your mental strength reaches a point where you can use it like this."

If I truly wanted to devour her, it wouldn't just be a matter of her soul power being exhausted. If I wanted, I could easily cause her foundation to collapse.

She was just suffering from a backlash of cold poison, and it wasn't the normal fire devouring ice, but ice devouring fire. This couldn't be resolved simply by consuming soul power.

Although she lost some of her soul power, she actually has to thank me. If I hadn't stepped in to boost her ice attribute, her life would have been in danger at any moment.

"Fire devours ice? Ice devours fire? What does this mean?" Huo Yumiao caught a few unusual terms.

"The power of the Zhu Qing Ice Toad lies in the cold poison formed by the combination of ice and fire attributes. This has both made them powerful and made them a time bomb that could explode at any time."

The backlash from the Zhu Qing Ice Toad's cold poison comes in two forms: one is fire devouring ice, and the other is ice devouring fire.

In most cases, the backlash from the cold poison they suffer is actually fire devouring ice. This is because the ice attribute dominates in their bodies, and the fire attribute interferes with the operation of the ice attribute.

This situation is quite simple; all you need to do is suppress the fire attribute with ice attribute, and that will be fine. For Zhu Qingbing Toad, whose ice attribute is dominant, this is not a difficult task.

However, the backlash from Zhu Qingbingchan's cold poison can sometimes lead to another, more troublesome situation, namely, ice devouring fire.

This situation is extremely rare because it is the opposite of Fire Devouring Ice, which means that the fire attribute energy in their bodies exceeds the ice attribute energy, making it extremely troublesome.

In this situation, they also need to use ice attributes to suppress fire attributes, because Zhu Qing Ice Toad is naturally ice-dominant and fire-subordinate.

However, when ice devours fire, the fire attribute energy within the body becomes dominant, making it extremely difficult to regain the initiative by relying on the suppressed ice attribute.

The chance of encountering Ice Devouring Fire is extremely low, but once it occurs, it basically means death. This girl doesn't know why she encountered this situation; unless she actively triggers it, I find it hard to think of an answer.

"Isn't the Ice Devouring Fire associated with death? How could it be activated on its own?" Huo Yumiao asked in surprise.

"As the saying goes, things will turn into their opposites when they reach their extremes. The fire attribute energy in Zhu Qingbingchan's body has been firmly suppressed since birth."

Zhu Qingbingchan's strength will drop drastically when she enters the state of backlash from the Fire Devouring Ice poison.

However, when they enter the Ice-Burning-Fire state and suffer a backlash from the icy poison, the concentration of fire-attribute energy within their bodies reaches its peak, and their strength actually increases significantly. The only downside is that they are unlikely to survive afterward.

After listening to Ice Emperor's explanation, Huo Yumiao was somewhat moved. Such secrets are probably something humans would never come into contact with in their entire lives. Without Ice Emperor, he would never have known them either.

Huo Yumiao also understood why the Ice-Fire Poison Dragon Drill still possessed such formidable power after breaking through Xiao Hongchen's resilient barrier; it made sense that it was bought with a life.

"Alright, I'm going to rest now." (From the outside)

Meng Hongchen slowly opened her eyes, her gaze initially blank. Then she felt a wave of exhaustion wash over her. Without soul power to regulate her balance, Meng Hongchen immediately rolled her eyes and fainted.

Meng Hongchen fell backward, but Huo Yumiao caught her in time, preventing her right hand, which was piercing through Xiao Hongchen's chest, from slipping and causing further injury to Xiao Hongchen.

Huo Yumiao quickly realized that his step was completely unnecessary. The wound that the Ice and Fire Poison Dragon Drill had created on Xiao Hongchen's chest and abdomen was three times as thick as Meng Hongchen's arm.

Now that Meng Hongchen's soul power is exhausted, he can no longer maintain the Ice-Fire Poison Dragon Drill, and his arm can be freely withdrawn.

As the Ice and Fire Poison Dragon Drill dissipated, the wounds that had already been damaged by the clash of ice and fire energies worsened once again.

The remaining fire elemental energy sizzled and burned within Xiao Hongchen's body, while the parts affected by the ice elemental energy were covered with a layer of frost, resembling a large block of ice.

Huo Yuhao reacted quickly, catching Xiao Hongchen, who was too weak to stand any longer.

Xiao Hongchen's lips moved, and with great difficulty, he managed to squeeze out the words "secret wound medicine" before his eyes rolled back and he fell into a coma.

Huo Yumiao hurriedly put Meng Hongchen on the ground, tore off all the rings on Xiao Hongchen's fingers, and scanned them with her full mental power, taking out a black and gold glass bottle with the words "Secret Injury Medicine" engraved on its surface.

Upon removing the stopper, a refreshing fragrance instantly wafted from the bottle, spreading throughout the entire testing area.

"Yuhao, go and inform Director Lin quickly." Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao immediately used one hand to support Xiao Hongchen, while using the other hand to pick up the soul-guided communication device.

Huo Yumiao tilted the bottle, and a bright green pill the size of a longan slid from the bottle opening into her palm, its surface covered with dense, strange patterns.

Huo Yumiao immediately pried open Xiao Hongchen's mouth and sent the emerald green pill inside. The next second, a faint green light emanated from inside Xiao Hongchen's body.

Under this soft green light, the wounds on Xiao Hongchen's chest and abdomen, where bones, flesh, and internal organs were clearly visible, began to slowly change.

The most obvious sign was that the icy-cold organs gradually regained their color, and the sizzling sound like roasting meat finally disappeared.

The horrifying wound was covered by a faint green light, and under this green light, Xiao Hongchen's blood finally stopped flowing.

Time ticked by, and suddenly a loud bang came from outside the test site. The door opened, and Lin Jiayi rushed in with an anxious look on his face. Beside him were two people that Huo Yumiao did not recognize.

Lin Jiayi immediately saw Xiao Hongchen's chest and abdomen pierced through, and gasped in shock.

Lin Jiayi had rarely seen such severe injuries in his life: broken ribs and a vertebrae with only a few bone fragments still attached.

The liver, kidneys, stomach, and other internal organs were all clearly visible. If this level of injury had occurred to the heart, Xiao Hongchen would not have had the chance to wait here for them to provide assistance.

"Treat them quickly!" Lin Jiayi urged the two medical staff standing beside him urgently, without even asking Huo Yumiao and Xiao Hongchen why they had become like this.

Even without Lin Jiayi's prompting, the two medical staff immediately began treatment upon seeing Xiao Hongchen's injuries.

As the martial spirit possessed him, several uniquely styled soul tools appeared around him, and several soul rings at his feet lit up one after another, with various colored lights and medicinal liquids splashing onto the wounds on Xiao Hongchen's chest and abdomen.

Xiao Hongchen's face gradually regained some color from its initial paleness, and his breathing became more even and powerful. With the support of various soul skills and medicinal liquids, his wounds were healing at an astonishing speed.

This is because Xiao Hongchen is a Soul King with a relatively good physique. If it were an ordinary person, their body would have been cold by now due to such injuries.

Only then did Lin Jiayi notice Meng Hongchen lying on the ground. His previously calmed-down state of mind was jolted awake again. "What happened to Meng Hongchen?"

"She's alright, she's just exhausted and unconscious from overexertion of her soul power."

Hearing Huo Yumiao's explanation, Lin Jiayi's tense mood finally calmed down.

Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen can almost be said to be the future of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. Before Huo Yumiao and Huo Yuhao arrived, it would not be an exaggeration to say that they had the strongest talent.

Heaven knows what he felt when he heard the news that Xiao Hongchen was seriously injured and on the verge of death.

"Has Xiao Hongchen already taken the elixir?" one of the medical staff members who was treating him suddenly asked, her tone somewhat uncertain.

"Yes, he just took a secret wound medicine."

Upon hearing Huo Yumiao's words, the medical teacher had a look of sudden realization. "So it was the effect of the secret wound medicine. No wonder you recovered so quickly."

"Yu Miao, what exactly happened? Why did Xiao Hongchen become like this?" Seeing that Xiao Hongchen's injuries had stabilized, Lin Jiayi immediately asked Huo Yu Miao about the whole story.

He really couldn't understand how Xiao Hongchen, who possessed a considerable number of protective soul tools, all of which were top-tier, could have suffered such severe injuries.

There was also Meng Hongchen, who was exhausted from the depletion of her soul power, and Huo Yumiao and Huo Yuhao standing there.

The only thing Lin Jiayi could think of was that the four of them were fighting, but surely they shouldn't have been injured so badly?

Upon hearing this, Huo Yumiao briefly recounted how Meng Hongchen attacked Xiao Hongchen after losing consciousness due to the backlash of the cold poison.

As for why Meng Hongchen suffered from the backlash of the cold poison, Huo Yumiao did not go into details, but only mentioned it briefly.

Without even thinking, Huo Yumiao knew that the backlash from the cold poison was definitely caused by the extreme stimulation she received in the illusion, which disrupted the flow of her soul power.

"So it was a backlash from the cold poison."

Lin Jiayi's tone was knowing. Although Huo Yumiao didn't elaborate, he had already imagined Xiao Hongchen being attacked by Meng Hongchen without any warning.

"Director, you knew about this too?" Huo Yumiao was somewhat surprised to see Lin Jiayi's expression of realization, as if he had known all along.

It's not that he looks down on Lin Jiayi's experience, but you have to understand that this is the Sun Moon Empire, where even the strength is divided using the Soul Master level instead of the Soul Instructor level.

Information like Zhu Qingbingchan suffering from the backlash of cold poison is something that, unless it's the martial soul owner or their family, he really doesn't think many people in the Sun Moon Empire would know.

“Dean Hongchen mentioned it to me before, and I also witnessed Xiaomeng being attacked by the cold poison once.”

(End of this chapter)