Does Big Brother Look Handsome Now?

Buzz!

A powerful mental wave appeared, sweeping outward at a terrifying speed.

Huo Yuhao suddenly felt dizzy. His consciousness followed that mental wave as his perception gradually expanded, then expanded further.

Huo Yuhao's eyes turned pale gold, and the only Soul Ring beneath his feet emerged automatically. Its jade-like translucent color gradually began to change, first turning pale gold, then bright gold.

Bright gold—this was the true color of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Million-Year Soul Ring. However, a Golden Soul Ring was simply too shocking, so both Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm tacitly changed it to white, choosing to conceal their strength just as they had in his previous life.

Huo Yuhao's perception continued to expand. It felt as though he were looking down upon the earth from the sky. Even having experienced it once before, Huo Yuhao could not help but marvel. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm truly lived up to its name as a Million-Year Soul Beast. This mental power was genuinely terrifying.

Across the core region of the Extreme North, which spanned more than ten thousand square kilometers, the light suddenly dimmed, as if day had abruptly shifted into night. An invisible majesty instantly spread outward, accompanied by utterly terrifying mental power blossoming from Huo Yuhao's body.

Wisps of golden mental essence drifted from between Huo Yuhao's brows, gradually condensing before him into a mental body. This mental body looked exactly like Huo Yuhao. Once it took shape, it winked at Huo Yuhao. "Does Big Brother look handsome now?"

"..." Huo Yuhao replied without hesitation, "Handsome. Extremely handsome! So handsome it shakes heaven and earth!"

"Hahahaha..." Sky Dream Ice Silkworm laughed. "I never thought you were this narcissistic too, Yuhao..."

After making that joke, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm suddenly looked toward a distant direction and said gravely, "Ice Empress, I know you sensed my presence. I, Tian Meng, have returned. Do you dare meet me?"

At the same time Sky Dream Ice Silkworm spoke, it used its mental power to conceal every trace of Huo Yuhao's aura. Other than Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, no living creature could sense Huo Yuhao.

As soon as its words fell, the originally pitch-black clouds suddenly churned violently. Immediately afterward, a layer of emerald-green light spread over from the distant northern horizon.

The inky sky turned emerald green in an instant—clear, alluring emerald green. That captivating hue made it seem as though the lofty heavens had suddenly become an enormous emerald gemstone.

The oppressive feeling in the air also vanished in that instant, disappearing without a trace.

"Tian Meng, you're actually still alive... You dare show yourself before me? Have you grown tired of living?" A crisp voice rang out from every direction. The moment it appeared, it carried terrifying sound waves. The snow on the ground surged several meters into the air almost instantly, like waves abruptly crashing upward.

Only the area within a hundred meters of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm remained calm, suppressed by the immense mental power emanating from its body.

"I haven't grown tired of living. I came to become one with you." Sky Dream Ice Silkworm chuckled.

At the same time, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm inwardly sighed. As expected, Ice Empress had not transmigrated. This was going to be troublesome.

"You're courting death!!" Ice Empress's crisp voice suddenly brimmed with killing intent, and the emerald sky turned dark green in that instant. Intense killing intent descended from above, and the hundred-meter area Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had originally suppressed instantly shrank to ten meters.

Upon hearing those three words, Huo Yuhao closed his eyes and began adjusting his condition, no longer listening to the conversation between Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress outside.

Ice Empress had not transmigrated. The current Ice Empress still had more than ten thousand years before facing her Heavenly Tribulation. There was no way she could be persuaded by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. Although Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was quite eloquent, Ice Empress clearly had no basis for being persuaded.

Huo Yuhao saw things more clearly than Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm simply refused to give up.

Next, Huo Yuhao needed to prepare to flee.

On the way here, it had taken a full two days to travel from the edge of the Extreme North to the core region. Soon, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm would use its Molted Shell to bind Ice Empress, then turn its mental power into a cage to trap her completely.

However, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm only possessed mental power, after all. It would not be able to trap Ice Empress for long—perhaps half a day, perhaps a day. In any case, it definitely would not last two days.

Huo Yuhao had to use that half day or full day to escape the Extreme North. Otherwise, once Ice Empress broke free, both he and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm would die here.

Huo Yuhao closed his eyes and concentrated, keeping himself in peak condition at all times.

The conversation between Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress grew increasingly heated. Clearly, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's sincerity had failed to persuade Ice Empress. Her attitude was exceptionally firm. Not only did she refuse Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, she even intended to eat it as food.

Even after Sky Dream Ice Silkworm revealed the God Creation Plan, it still failed to persuade Ice Empress. Moreover, it exposed Huo Yuhao's existence.

In the end, the two stopped speaking at the same time, and Ice Empress's beautiful body appeared a hundred meters away.

Ice Empress's body did not quite match her title as a ferocious beast. Her entire body was only one and a half meters long, making her seem quite petite.

Her two foreclaws, each a full meter long, were covered in tiny protrusions that shone as brilliantly as diamonds. Her tail was an alluring emerald green, possessing a bewitching beauty.

The instant Ice Empress's body appeared, the previously infatuated-looking Sky Dream Ice Silkworm suddenly moved.

Almost instantly, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's condensed mental body lunged before Ice Empress. Just as Ice Empress was about to react, she suddenly felt herself slow down. Everything around her became viscous, and terrifying mental power was like a vast ocean, leaving her deeply trapped within it.

"Tian Meng, you really are courting death!!" Ice Empress shouted furiously. "How long do you think your mental power can trap me?"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said calmly, "It doesn't need to be long. One second is enough."

At the same time, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's relaxed voice sounded beside Huo Yuhao's ear. "Yuhao, Big Brother is about to begin. Remember to protect your little brother... Hehe..."

Huo Yuhao: "..."

The next moment, a layer of white membrane flew out from Huo Yuhao's body. Huo Yuhao instantly felt the temperature around him drop, as though he were naked in a world of ice and snow. He hurriedly circulated his Soul Power and activated his heating Soul Tool.

Even so, Huo Yuhao still trembled all over, his body temperature slowly dropping.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Molted Shell instantly wrapped around Ice Empress. Under Ice Empress's disbelieving gaze, it bound her bit by bit. In only a few breaths, Ice Empress was completely restrained within the Molted Shell, unable to move at all!

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm did not give Ice Empress time to speak. It constructed a cage with mental power and trapped Ice Empress within it, while the Molted Shell flew back onto Huo Yuhao's body.

Huo Yuhao had only just felt warmth return when Sky Dream Ice Silkworm instantly burrowed back into his mind. It then said, "Yuhao, hurry and leave. We don't need to try persuading Ice Empress anymore. She's too stubborn!"

As Huo Yuhao hurried out of the ice house, he jokingly asked, "Brother Sky Dream, didn't you say Ice Empress was devoted?"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said irritably, "Why aren't you leaving already? I can only trap Ice Empress for half a day. If you can't get out of the Extreme North within that half day and her kin discover us, then the two of us can just wait to become Ice Empress's rations."

Hearing this, Huo Yuhao's heart tightened, and he quickly began running across the snow.

Thud!

Huo Yuhao's legs gave out beneath him, and he collapsed to the ground.

In half a day, Huo Yuhao had run from the Extreme North to its outer reaches, his strength nearly exhausted.

Once he got here, Huo Yuhao could not run another step. He desperately needed water and energy.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had been watching Huo Yuhao the entire time. Now, he asked, "Yuhao, we still haven't left the Extreme North. Should we try again?"

Although Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had said he would no longer try to persuade Ice Empress, those were ultimately words spoken in anger. He still hoped to ascend to the God Realm together with her.

Huo Yuhao shook his head. "Do as you like. You're the one trying to persuade her. I'm just here to make up the numbers."

"Alright." Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said, "Then I'll release Ice Empress now and persuade her one last time."

The moment Sky Dream Ice Silkworm finished speaking, Huo Yuhao felt a chill run through his entire body, and he could not help shuddering.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had taken back his Molted Shell again. Once he released Ice Empress, he would need to use it to restrain her again.

However, Huo Yuhao had expected this and immediately activated his heating Soul Tool.

A ball of golden light emerged from between Huo Yuhao's brows and slowly floated into the air. At first, it was only a tiny speck of golden light, but it gradually expanded. In the blink of an eye, it became a disc of light roughly one meter in diameter.

The light at the center of the golden disc began to turn illusory. If one looked at it directly, even their gaze seemed as though it would be sucked into that seemingly bottomless abyss.

With a flash of light, a figure emerged from the golden disc. It was Ice Empress, the Ice Empress Scorpion.

But the instant Ice Empress emerged, a thin membrane wrapped around her, binding her in place.

Ice Empress cried out in shock and anger, "Tian Meng, what exactly did you do to me? How can you restrain me now?"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm chuckled. "I only have my spiritual body left now. The Molted Shell is just an item of mine, so of course I can use it however I want. It doesn't matter even if it breaks."

Ice Empress grew even more puzzled. "Then where is your body?"

Then, Ice Empress noticed Huo Yuhao lying on the ground and asked, "And who is this human?"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sighed. "Do you remember the God Creation Plan I told you about before? This human can become a god in the future. As long as you, Bingbing, agree to become Yuhao's second Wisdom Soul Ring, then once Yuhao becomes a god, you can ascend to the God Realm with him. You'll have an endless lifespan and never need to worry about Heavenly Tribulations again."

"The God Creation Plan... So everything you said was true. You weren't joking with me..." Ice Empress's expression calmed as she spoke with a sigh.

No matter how wretched or cowardly Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had been before, the resolve he showed at this moment left Ice Empress with no choice but to admire him. At the very least, she would never dare make such a desperate, all-or-nothing choice.

To become a human's soul ring—even if one retained their consciousness—meant a lifespan of no more than a few hundred or thousand years.

Yet she still had at least ten thousand years before her Heavenly Tribulation. Anyone, even a fool, could tell which was more and which was less.