Chapter 173: Facing the Ferocious Beast
In fact, Gu Long was also very puzzled. As the grand elder of the Body Sect, no one in the world knew the Body Sect's cultivation methods better than him.

What Huan Ling endured during these forty-nine days was not the ordinary cultivation method of the Body Sect, but one that was several times more difficult. However, he still did not reach his limit.

The Phantom Spirit's physical endurance, especially in terms of potential stimulation, far exceeded Gu Long's judgment, and Tang Wulin was about the same.

According to the records in the Body Sect's historical documents, Tang Wulin's situation had only occurred a few times, and all the powerful warriors of the Body Sect who had experienced similar situations eventually became Ultimate Douluo.

However, Huan Ling's situation was unprecedented. Because of this, Gu Long had always held him to the highest standards and given him the greatest difficulties, making sure to squeeze out all the potential in him each time.

However, according to the records of the Body Sect's scriptures, if one can persist in this kind of training method, generally speaking, after about a dozen times, the second awakening should be completed.

The success rate of the Body Sect's practice method in stimulating the second awakening of the martial soul is as high as 95%. In other words, no matter what martial soul it is, the possibility of a second awakening is very high, provided that one can persist in this practice process on the brink of life and death.

Most people will collapse after just one experience, either physically or mentally.

Therefore, Gu Long originally thought that Huan Ling should have completed the second awakening of his martial soul long ago, but until now, after forty-eight times, he still showed no signs of a second awakening.

This is not normal at all! Generally speaking, those who can endure this kind of training and awaken for a long time are all extremely powerful martial souls. The later they awaken, the stronger their martial souls are.

But forty-nine stimulations is the limit of potential. Once it reaches this limit and still has not awakened, then it is only in the very rare 5%.

This meant that Huan Ling's martial soul was too mediocre, without any genes from the ancient bloodline, and could not awaken a second time, which naturally meant that he could not become a powerful member of the main sect.

Gu Long was unwilling to believe this no matter what. Huan Ling was the young master of the Body Sect, and he possessed the Body Martial Soul that was said to have only appeared once, and he also had a willpower far beyond that of ordinary people. If he could not complete the second awakening of his martial soul, it was simply unscientific!

Today is the last day. In fact, he is more nervous than Phantom. In order for Phantom to awaken successfully and further stimulate his potential, he has prepared a big gift for Phantom today.

Now Gu Long only felt that the failure of Phantom Spirit’s second awakening must be due to the lack of pressure before, so the opponent he chose for Phantom Spirit today was a ferocious beast in the ocean!
Gu Long grabbed Huan Ling's shoulder with one hand and said in a deep voice: "What you have to do today is the same as before, but it is a little different, because I will not save you. I swear on the honor of the Body Sect that even if you are facing a life-and-death crisis, I will not help you at all. Everything depends on you. This is the last day, and it is also the final test for you, so survive!"

After Gu Long disappeared, Huan Ling's pupils trembled slightly. He heard the implication of Gu Long's words, which was that Huan Ling would be in danger of his life today!

Not long after the ancient dragon disappeared, Huan Ling's pupils shrank sharply as he sensed a terrifying aura coming from not far away. Through mental detection, he detected the other party's trace.

It was a human-looking being, but only his upper body looked human-like, while his lower body was made up of twelve octopus-like legs, suspended in mid-air. His aura quickly reverberated and suppressed the phantom spirit.

"Ferocious beast?" Huan Ling blurted out, with a look of horror on his face. He was indeed very strong, but he was only a 59th level Soul King Battle Armor Master. Wasn't it a bit too much for him to deal with a ferocious beast that was more than 200,000 years old?

The beast's body began to grow in size, and in just a short while, it turned into a giant octopus with a diameter of over a thousand meters. As its tentacles waved, the sea instantly became violent.

The beast's angry voice came out, "Human, pay the price for what you have done!"

Huan Ling immediately used the two-word battle armor to amplify it. The race of the ferocious beast in front of him was called Phantom Sea Octopus. It was said that they were sea elves that could control the sea and possessed extremely terrifying power. They were said to be descendants of the Ocean Titan.

Facing the extremely powerful beast, Huan Ling did not dare to be careless. His legs bloomed blood red and he used the Killer Whale Demon Axe of his leg soul bones at the same time. The two beast soul skills were used at the same time. This was also Huan Ling's strongest means of attack at the moment.

The killing power of the Killer Whale Demon Axe was so terrifying that the two arms of the Phantom Sea Octopus were directly cut off, but the Phantom Spirit only cut off his two arms.

When an octopus tentacle lashed at him, Phantom Spirit had no way to dodge. The power of space was controlled by the beast. If he forcibly used the ring of teleportation, he would only be crushed by the power of space.

Even though Phantom Spirit used the Golden Guardian to defend himself, he was still unable to withstand the terrifying power of the Phantom Sea Octopus. Facing the real ferocious beast, he seemed too weak and was directly blown away.

The ancient dragon in the distance was stunned. He didn't quite understand. Even if Huan Ling's soul martial soul needed to wait until his mental power broke through the spiritual realm before it could awaken a second time, what about his golden ice silkworm martial soul?
The probability of breaking out of the cocoon and becoming a butterfly is definitely not low. It can be seen at a glance that Huanling's golden ice silkworm martial soul still has potential that has not yet been tapped. So why hasn't it evolved yet?

The figure of the phantom spirit appeared not far away, and the second soul skill he used was the soul skill of his leg soul bones, the Killer Whale Evil Axe!

He had just avoided a fatal blow by exchanging positions with the Ice Silkworm Phantom, and used his last bit of soul power to perform two powerful beast soul skills.

The Phantom Sea Octopus once again had two tentacles cut off by the Phantom Spirit, but he still had many tentacles left and was even angered by the Phantom Spirit.

"You little bastard, where do you get so many cards?" Gu Long cursed from a distance. He never thought that Huan Ling had so many cards. In the past forty-eight days, he was not close to death even for a single day?
Huan Ling used the Ice Silkworm Metamorphosis, and his condition was restored to its peak in the first time, while all the consumed soul power was restored.

Phantom Spirit was indeed close to death before, but that was when he did not use the soul skill of his fourth soul ring. In other words, that kind of closeness to death could not really give Phantom Spirit the oppressive feeling of impending death.

But now that the trump card has been used, it also means that Huanling is about to reach the end of the road.

The legs glowed red, and Huan Ling used the Killer Whale Tooth Slash, leaving many cuts on the body of the Huanhai Octopus, but the origin was not damaged.

(End of this chapter)