Everything around them was constantly changing as if the world was spinning. Although Xie Huanyue and the others had to close their eyes, they still felt waves of dizziness. The stronger one's spiritual power, the greater the stimulation seemed to be.
Finally, when the feeling of dizziness gradually disappeared, everyone opened their eyes again.
They seemed to have arrived in a transparent world. Everything around them looked as if it was made of gold and silver two-colored crystals. They were still in those bubbles, but their footing was a huge circular platform.
This platform appeared faint gold as a whole, with a diameter of about fifty meters. There were dozens of circles with a diameter of one meter evenly arranged around the edge. Everyone's footing at this time was one of these circular platforms.
Looking up, above was the light of the Golden Sun and Silver Moon, and around was a blurry light and shadow. Except for this platform, they couldn't see anything.
At this time, the dozens of positions on this circular platform were already full of people. Except for Huo Yuhao and the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings, almost everyone was here.
Each of them was in a gold and silver two-colored bubble. Xie Huanyue tried to shout, but found that his voice couldn't be transmitted at all. Others were carefully observing the surrounding situation, and some were shouting. But everything here was terrifyingly quiet.
Calm, must be calm. There must be something profound here. Everyone believed that Huo Yuhao would not bring them to a desperate situation for no reason.
After a little thought, Ju Zi immediately gestured to her companions. Soon, her gestures attracted everyone's attention. Ju Zi's gesture was very simple: let everyone do as Huo Yuhao had said before.
Just at this moment, the golden circular platform beneath their feet emitted a misty light. Suddenly, a long and narrow golden light shot out from the center of the circular platform, rotating rapidly around the circular platform at the same time. The end of the beam pointed to these dozens of small circular platforms around.
"Yin Yang Love Query, sincere adventure. Start." The same voice sounded in the ears of the dozens of them. Everyone immediately quieted down. The scene before their eyes also turned into a gold and silver light screen, and they could no longer see their previous companions.
Immediately after, the beam of light in the center of the circular platform began to rotate rapidly, constantly sweeping past the bubble where everyone was. The moment the beam of light swept past, their bubble would light up, and return to its original state after sweeping past.
Suddenly, the golden light steadied and stopped. That beam of light pointed exactly at a small circular platform. The person on this small circular platform was shockingly Ju Zi, who had just gestured to her companions.
Ju Zi was slightly stunned when pointed at by the golden light. The bubble she was in lit up as a whole. Immediately after, the bubble on her body disappeared. A golden light rose from the circular platform under her feet, covering her body. In the golden light, her body rose slowly, stopping only when she was three feet off the ground.
Ju Zi felt the changes in her body with surprise. She found that she didn't feel any discomfort, only that her body couldn't move.
Just then, the emotionless voice from before suddenly sounded, and this time, only she could hear it.
"Do you have a lover?"
Ju Zi's heart trembled, and she couldn't help but think of Huo Yuhao's previous instructions. There seemed to be a will left by an ancient power here, and the memories of her and the others seemed unable to escape the other party's prying.
"Yes." Ju Zi nodded and said softly. From the concerned yet somewhat bewildered expressions of the others, she could tell that only she should be able to hear this voice right now.
"Who is your lover?" The voice asked again.
"Huo Yuhao." Ju Zi's pretty face turned slightly red, but she didn't hesitate or pause.
"..." That voice fell silent, because an accident had occurred on the other side—
"My lovers are few, but my harem is large."
"Smack!" A golden light flashed from somewhere unknown and struck heavily on Huo Yuhao's body. Huo Yuhao was prepared for this. In the place where he was hit, a corner of the Gate of the Undead faintly appeared.
"Huh?" That voice uttered a sound of surprise.
Soul power didn't work here, but necromancy did?
"Teasing this seat, punishment one lash. Answer the question. Repeat again, and die." The voice suddenly turned cold.
"Do you have a lover?"
"Yes." Huo Yuhao wasn't afraid of her getting angry. The main thing was that he didn't have that much time to play games with the God of Love here.
"Who is she?"
Seeing that Huo Yuhao was finally behaving, the voice seemed to restrain some of its emotions.
"Aphrodite." Huo Yuhao replied quickly without blushing or skipping a beat.
"...You dare to tease this seat, you're courting death!"
The other party finally couldn't control her emotions and was about to strike. Huo Yuhao didn't mind at all and said directly, "God of Love Aphrodite, I came here to ask for help."
"One of those two Dragon Kings next to us is on my side. If you don't want this place to be turned upside down by us, please answer some of my questions..." Huo Yuhao drew his Ice Wheel Blade and held it horizontally in front of him. Judging from the other party's current performance, the Yin Yang Love Query Valley should not be controlled by the original Shrek Seven Devils of the Divine Realm, but by its true master, the God of Love, Aphrodite.
After Huo Yuhao finished speaking like this, the other party suddenly fell into silence for some reason.
"Rakshasa Scythe?"
After a long while, a light and shadow gradually materialized in front of Huo Yuhao. From the outline of this light and shadow, it was shockingly a slender woman.
However, as soon as she opened her mouth, she uttered the original name of the divine tool in Huo Yuhao's hand.
Huo Yuhao was not surprised. The years of existence of the gods in the Divine Realm could be traced back to who knows how many tens of thousands of years ago. It was within acceptable reason that the God of Love could recognize the Rakshasa Scythe at a glance.
"Are you the inheritor of the Rakshasa God?" The light and shadow of the God of Love showed no joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness, and her tone did not sound like it had any special emotions.
"I guess... so?" Huo Yuhao scratched his head. To be honest, up until now, he didn't know which deity he should inherit, or whether he should become a god at all.
After these days of life-and-death struggles, the compression degree of his soul power had long gone off the charts. If not for the difficulty in condensing a spiritual soul core, his actual soul power reaching the Titled Douluo level shouldn't be a problem.
He had stayed in the Soul Emperor realm for quite a while. Although reaching Soul Emperor at his age was already considered a genius among geniuses, who was he? The number one prodigy of the Douluo Continent in tens of thousands of years, a six-ring Soul Emperor who fought to a draw with the original soul of Tang San, that pseudo-true god.
So the problem arose. If he couldn't condense a spiritual soul core before becoming a Soul Sage, he wouldn't be able to condense the Yin-Yang Complementary Three Soul Cores when his cultivation reached the Ultimate Douluo level in the future.
The Martial Soul True Body that could only be used with Soul Sage cultivation was the strongest amplification of a soul master's martial soul. If he could condense a soul core when his cultivation reached Soul Sage, then Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul True Body could receive maximum amplification.
Soul masters above the Soul Sage level could use their Martial Soul True Body. The martial soul itself would help the soul master store a certain amount of soul power. Soul power compressed from liquid to solid would be stored in the soul master's dantian, becoming a soul core. In the process of continuous rotation, the soul core would absorb external soul power through the soul master for the soul master's use, greatly enhancing the soul master's combat power and recovery ability compared to before. Therefore, among soul masters, there was a saying that achieving a Titled Douluo was reaching the sky in a single step.
After soul power solidified, it was much harder to continue improving than when it was liquid or gaseous. Because the human body couldn't circulate solid soul power, it could only decompose solid soul power into particles, and then control its own soul power to drive them in a gaseous or liquid state. This process was not only difficult but also dangerous.
Therefore, some soul masters who considered their talent poor would even give up on further improvement after becoming a Titled Douluo, only stabilizing at the state of a level ninety-one Titled Douluo. This would undoubtedly be very safe.
Huo Yuhao's current drawback was that his spiritual power intensity was too exaggerated. With Half-Step God King realm spiritual power, he might not be able to smoothly absorb the condensed spiritual soul core.
Of course, his first choice could also be a Qi and Blood Soul Core. possessing an immortal physique, absorbing a Qi and Blood Soul Core would undoubtedly be much easier. But in that case, when he reached Titled Douluo, absorbing the second soul core, the spiritual soul core, would undoubtedly be even more difficult.
In the process of obtaining the second soul core, it would inevitably involve the first soul core. At the beginning, the second soul core couldn't be stabilized, and even a soul power vortex couldn't be formed. Later, his control improved, but the soul power vortex couldn't maintain stability each time and was quickly destroyed.
To obtain a second soul core, the biggest problem was actually not one's own cultivation. The key problem was control—control over one's own soul power, control over spiritual power, and control over the first soul core. Successfully condensing the first soul core could greatly compress one's own soul power, thereby allowing one to possess even more massive soul power and achieve a qualitative leap. Whether it was the intensity, quantity, power, or recovery of soul power, all would be greatly improved.
This was the reason why strength would undergo a qualitative change at the Titled Douluo level. And the way to obtain the second soul core was completely different from obtaining the first soul core. This was why breaking through to Ultimate Douluo was so difficult.
After the first soul core was formed, it was equivalent to the core of Huo Yuhao's soul power. All soul power had to revolve around it and be improved. The first soul core had a very strong control and influence over soul power, which was how the compression of soul power could be maximized.
And when Huo Yuhao condensed the second soul core, he would inevitably touch upon the interests of the first soul core. Changing from one center to two centers, the first soul core itself would produce great resistance. Because when obtaining the second soul core, it was equivalent to destroying the rules of the first soul core, so it would be subjected to huge interference, making this process particularly difficult.
In the original timeline, Huo Gua's second soul core operated in reverse within the influence range of the first soul core. Although this absolutely opposite operation encountered huge resistance, Huo Gua achieved it with Mu En's help. The soul core separated from the original rotation and gradually formed its own world within the control range of the first soul core, thus obtaining extremely powerful Yin-Yang balanced dual soul cores.
The problem of the first soul core was the fundamental problem why Huo Yuhao had not yet advanced to Soul Sage.
Of course, all of the above were just reasons why Huo Yuhao was currently stuck at his soul power level. Becoming a god was still far away.
"How do you know the name of this god? Millions of years have passed, the children of Douluo should have long forgotten my real name." The God of Love was very curious. Even among that group of guys in the Divine Realm, probably only those few from the beginning of the Divine Realm's birth still remembered her. How did the young man before her know her real name?
"Just some unofficial history. Although so much time has passed, the history of that year was likely preserved by some people with intentions." Huo Yuhao answered truthfully. Now he almost wanted to praise that brother from the Earth Dragon Gate as the number one historian in the world. He hadn't expected the God of Love who fell here to really have this name.
God of Love, Aphrodite.
Perhaps, the love-brains of most Douluo people were influenced by her divine power to become like that? Huo Yuhao couldn't help but complain inwardly.
Among his people, the ones who could be considered love-brains should be only Bibi Dong and Zhongli Yu? Uh, the former was a madwoman played by illusions, and the latter was a pure yandere.
"Your spiritual power realm is very high. Even the one who ascended ten thousand years ago might not have been better than you before becoming a god." Aphrodite praised sincerely, "No wonder my divine sense cannot pry into your memories. Of course, if it were when I was alive, it might be different."
Yes, yes, yes, you are amazing, you are too strong, you tsundere.
Huo Yuhao rolled his eyes, then remembered the Golden Dragon King who was still nearby, and couldn't help but ask worriedly, "That golden dragon that entered here with us just now, I wonder if you can trap it for a while here?"
The fall of the God of Love should be even more ancient. Huo Yuhao didn't expect Aphrodite to recognize the Golden Dragon King.
The light and shadow of the God of Love shook her head, "That Dragon King's power is too strong. I'm afraid it won't take a quarter of an hour for it to completely break free. Even when I was alive, I'm afraid I wasn't its opponent."
Hearing this, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but make a bitter face. Sure enough, the Yin Yang Love Query Valley couldn't trap that Golden Dragon King for too long either...
"God of Love, I need to obtain some intelligence from you. As the divine sense that has resided on the Douluo plane for the longest time, you should know a lot of intelligence." Huo Yuhao hurriedly requested.
To his surprise, Aphrodite's light and shadow shook her head again, "I have been sleeping here for many years. Every time I wake up, I am interfered with by the Divine Realm, so I cannot provide you with any intelligence."
No way, is your elderly self this useless?
The corner of Huo Yuhao's mouth twitched wildly. He had been counting on Aphrodite to provide him with some important intelligence or treasure lands not mentioned in the original story.
The result was she knew nothing about anything.
This worried Huo Yuhao greatly. Soon, the true body of the Sea God Tang San would descend. If it was just bringing the Golden Dragon King back, that would be fine, but who could guarantee that that guy wouldn't leave a backup plan on the Douluo plane?
"Huo Yuhao, do you know what place this is?"
Seeming to have not chatted with anyone for a long time, Aphrodite began to talk to herself.
Here? Isn't this the Yin Yang Love Query Valley? Where else could it be? Huo Yuhao didn't understand. Are you playing Russian nesting dolls with me?