Through the root vines of the Blue Silver Jade Tree Martial Soul parasitizing the Demonic Charm Body, Ye Yu discovered that inside the Demonic Charm Body, there were no normal human organs—only meridians for channeling Soul Power, and at the heart, a mass of unique energy.
From this energy core, he could sense faint spatial fluctuations, indicating the presence of a space within it. That space presumably housed Xie Yue and Hu Liena, the two Spirit Masters executing the Spirit Fusion Ability together.
Besides that, Ye Yu also sensed that, in addition to the fused Soul Power used to drive the Demonic Charm Body, the energy core was continuously generating streams of life force. This life force circulated along a specific route within the Demonic Charm Body, integrating with it and maintaining its stability.
"Do Xie Yue and Hu Liena need to continuously supply life force to maintain the Demonic Charm Body while using the Spirit Fusion Ability: Demonic Charm?"
Ye Yu was quite curious. Although the stream of life force emerging from the energy core was like a trickle—far from enough to damage either of them—it was the principle behind it that intrigued him.
Thinking of other disembodied or combined-type Spirit Fusion Ability—especially Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong's Spirit Fusion Ability: Golden Holy Dragon—Ye Yu suddenly realized something.
Wait a minute...
All of these Fusion Techniques, whether disembodied or combined, aside from Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu's Drifting Snow, involved a qualitative transformation of the users' Martial Souls.
Whether it was Serpent Dragon Joint Assault of the Serpent Dragon Duo, Golden Holy Dragon, or Hell White Tiger of Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun, or even this very Demonic Charm...
Weren't all of them functionally similar to Yu Xiaogang's Luo Sanpao?
The difference lay in this: Luo Sanpao, once materialized, possessed independent life and intelligence—existing as a separate entity. In contrast, these Spirit Fusion Ability required the fused Spirit Masters to remain in control, and the materialization belonged to the Martial Soul rather than becoming autonomous.
Yet in essence—at least for the combined-type Fusion Techniques—they were very close to the nature of Luo Sanpao!
This realization excited Ye Yu immensely.
Originally, he only intended to study the Demonic Charm Fusion Technique to understand the spatial fusion occurring within the Demonic Charm Body.
But by sheer accident, he'd uncovered a critical link between Spirit Fusion Ability and Luo Sanpao!
Although Ye Yu had already captured Yu Xiaogang and stuffed him into the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch, using the External Spirit Bone: Demon Willow Fluff to heal the Martial Soul backlash caused each time he let the Blue Silver Jade Tree Martial Soul devour Luo Sanpao...
He had already reached the point where Yu Xiaogang could offer Luo Sanpao for devouring up to three times per day.
But even then, Ye Yu estimated that to fully materialize the Blue Silver Jade Tree Martial Soul, endow it with life characteristics, and eventually foster complete sentience—it would still take over a decade.
And while ten-plus years wasn't terribly long, Ye Yu was impatient.
If possible, he hoped to complete this process within five years.
Now, through studying the Fusion Technique: Demonic Charm, Ye Yu had found parallels between combined Fusion Techniques and Luo Sanpao.
With this lead, he was determined to thoroughly research how Demonic Charm was constructed.
If he could grasp that mechanism, maybe he could find a way to accelerate the materialization and awakening of the Blue Silver Jade Tree Martial Soul.
Through his analysis, Ye Yu quickly discovered that the Demonic Charm Body was based primarily on Hu Liena's Demonic Fox Martial Soul.
Xie Yue's Moon Blade Martial Soul mostly served as the weapon portion of the Demonic Charm.
The Demonic Fox acted as the core body of the Demonic Charm, while Xie Yue and Hu Liena remained inside the inner space—like a cockpit—controlling it.
They supplied both Soul Power and life force to sustain its functionality.
The life force flowed through specific channels, merging with the Demonic Fox Martial Soul to keep the Demonic Charm Body stable and corporeal. The Soul Power, meanwhile, fueled the Demonic Charm Body's Spirit Technique-like abilities, such as Demonic Charm Red Mist.
After nearly ten minutes of analysis, Ye Yu determined that the spatial core inside the Demonic Charm was most likely the product of the qualitative fusion between the Demonic Fox and Moon Blade Martial Souls.
Since the exact genesis of that spatial structure was too complex to analyze for now, Ye Yu simply recorded how the supplied life force merged with the Demonic Fox Martial Soul to convert it from an ephemeral Martial Soul into a tangible, material body.
He planned to revisit this topic after the tournament, conducting a deeper comparison with the life-form state of Luo Sanpao, to uncover the key distinctions between the two.
If he could isolate what allowed the Demonic Fox to gain physical form, he might discover a method to accelerate the full materialization and sentience of his Blue Silver Jade Tree Martial Soul.
With that thought, he decided to end the current Spirit Battle.
After all, any further delay and his girlfriends Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing, leading the Heaven Dou Royal Team, wouldn't be able to hold out!
On the battlefield, compared to the Spirit Hall Team, which had Yan, a Rank 52 Spirit King with a top-tier Fire-Earth dual-attribute Martial Soul: Flame Lord, and several Spirit Elders like:
Sun Chuantao (Rank 48, Assault System, Giant Ring Blade Martial Soul)
Li Kai (Rank 47, Assault System, Black Horned Mountain Boar Martial Soul)
Zhang Ping (Rank 47, Agility Attack System, Golden Waisted Swallow Martial Soul)
Xu Yu (Rank 46, Support System, Golden Sceptre Martial Soul)
The Heaven Dou Royal Team was clearly disadvantaged in combat power.
Even with Ning Rongrong and her evolved Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda providing support, twins Shi Mo and Shi Mo still couldn't hold off Sun Chuantao and Li Kai.
Zhu Zhuqing, despite having learned Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track under Ye Yu's guidance and evolving her Martial Soul into the Dark Devilgod Tiger, couldn't land a decisive blow on Yan even when teaming up with Dugu Yan.
Facing Yan's area-of-effect onslaught—flaming pillars, molten waves, and firestorms—Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Yan could only scramble to evade.
As an Agility-Type Spirit Master, Zhu Zhuqing could barely reach Yan, but her attacks lacked the force to seriously harm a Spirit King.
Meanwhile, Dugu Yan's poison-based abilities, while powerful, had visible trajectories and slow speed—and were heavily countered by heat and flames.
Whether it was Magma Surge (Fourth Spirit Ability) or Scorching Sandstorm!" (Fifth Spirit Ability), Yan could easily block her.
Just as the Heaven Dou Royal Team reached its limit—Yu Feng had already been knocked off the stage by Zhang Ping, who was now helping Yan engage Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing—suddenly...
The red mist that had been blanketing half the Spirit Arena dissipated!