Inheritance of the Holy Necromancer

Hearing this, Huo Yuhao felt a little embarrassed.

Although he did not know why Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had suddenly broken down,

he knew that his talent as a Soul Master was mediocre. At eleven years old, he had only barely reached level ten, while his peers had already absorbed their second, or even third, Soul Ring.

After venting for a while, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm also realized that it had no other choice.

Soul Masters with the Mental Attribute were as rare as Mental System Soul Beasts.

Half of its Spiritual Origin remained, and it was already on the verge of collapse. It had no chance to choose another person.

"Sigh, kid, consider yourself lucky. With my million years of cultivation, even a piece of trash can be trained into a peerless genius!"

It quickly recovered its good mood.

Its ten-thousand-year life in captivity had given it a powerful will to survive. Longevity or not, staying alive came first.

"Y-You... what are you doing?"

Huo Yuhao cautiously took several steps back until his back pressed against a tree trunk.

"I'm going to become your Soul Ring—the only Wisdom Soul Ring in the history of Douluo Continent! And the first Million-Year Soul Beast Soul Ring!"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's voice became solemn.

"Huh?"

Huo Yuhao stared dumbfoundedly at the white Ten-Year Soul Ring beside him.

He had originally wanted to absorb the Wind Baboon's Soul Ring, yet now a million-year-old silkworm was willing to become his Soul Ring. It all felt rather unreal.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's body gradually began to dissipate. Realizing this itself, it ignored Huo Yuhao's concerns and said:

"Forget it, I can't hold it in anymore!"

"Hehe, don't worry. I'll be quick. Just bear with it."

The next second, the ten golden rings on its body began to pulse as though they had come alive, encircling Huo Yuhao. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm transformed into a white glow that continuously surged into his body.

An invisible mental wave spread outward, nearly covering every corner within a hundred li. All living things froze in place, including Ice Empress and Zi Yao not far away.

This was the disturbance caused by a Million-Year Soul Beast's sacrifice.

A sacrifice was the strongest power a Soul Beast could unleash. An ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's sacrifice was enough to restrain a Titled Douluo, let alone one that had lived for a million years.

Just then, the sky suddenly darkened. With a thunderous boom, the sun was completely swallowed by darkness, and an overwhelming pressure swept over them, leaving everyone breathless.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, in the midst of its sacrifice, stared in complete confusion.

"Damn, where did this guy come from? His entrance is even flashier than mine?"

After that pressure descended,

the temporal freeze caused by the sacrifice vanished as well.

Zi Yao saw a crack split open between heaven and earth.

His assessment of Electrolux could not help rising another level.

This was merely one of countless fragments of Electrolux's divine consciousness, yet it could already cause such a spectacle. He truly was extraordinary.

He extended his left hand and released pure Life Origin.

A stream of gray air descended from the sky. It had originally been flying straight toward Huo Yuhao, but halfway there, it drifted aside and flew in another direction.

"Thank goodness, it didn't steal my person."

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm heaved a sigh of relief and diligently continued placing seals within Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness.

Huo Yuhao was only level ten and had never consumed any Whale Rubber or precious medicine. Even to bear half of the Spiritual Origin, his body required who knew how many seals.

That gray stream of air then shot directly into Zi Yao's forehead.

"With sun and moon in hand, I pluck the stars; none beneath heaven compares to me. I never expected that a trace of this old man's remnant soul could still survive."

An extremely blurry figure appeared in Zi Yao's Sea of Consciousness, its voice ancient yet powerful.

"Holy Necromancer Electrolux, I have long admired you."

Zi Yao greeted him, his tone relaxed and measured.

"Holy... Necromancer? You know me? I am only a trace of a remnant soul. I have forgotten most things from the past. I only remember roaming through the boundless starry sky."

Electrolux spoke with surprise and wistfulness.

As the foremost figure in the God Realm who had refused godhood, Electrolux had divided his divine consciousness into countless pieces and sent them to various star systems. He had truly achieved a carefree detachment from life and death.

"Rest peacefully in my Sea of Consciousness. I will find an opportunity to help repair your remnant soul."

Zi Yao said with a faint smile, releasing a portion of his Life Origin.

His Life Origin was of a higher order.

However, his cultivation was still too shallow. Completely restoring one ten-millionth of a shattered fragment of divine consciousness was practically impossible, but it could still continuously nourish and replenish the Spiritual Power of the remnant soul as it was being consumed.

"Life? Destruction? Interesting, truly interesting. You actually possess two extreme ultimate powers at once. I truly do not know how you came to be born into this world..."

Electrolux's intrigued voice rang out.

What truly excited him was not that his remnant soul could be preserved, but Zi Yao's peculiar existence.

To him,

matters of life and death had long ceased to matter. Finding amusement was his true purpose.

Actually,

Zi Yao was quite curious about this as well.

By all logic, life and destruction should have been unable to produce a child. Under the power of destruction, no life should be born.

Yet he had been born nonetheless.

And he had not awakened any system divine power.

This could only mean that there was another reason behind his birth—some transcendent factor beyond the original work had interfered with the outcome.

But that question was clearly far too distant. He had no interest in investigating it at the moment.

"I have forgotten many things, but I still remember that I was once regarded as glory and light, only to later fall into darkness with my own hands."

"I refused to become a god because I believed that the value of life could not be reflected within hollow, endless time."

"And now, this remnant soul of mine has found the value it must embody. I believe I can lend you a hand. I want to personally witness how far you can go."

"If you are willing, I am willing to pass down everything I learned in my lifetime to you—the world that lies beyond life and death: Necromancy."

Electrolux spoke calmly, as though he were discussing something utterly ordinary.

"It would be my greatest honor."

Zi Yao said with a smile.

He was very interested in the Necromancy that Electrolux had developed. This ability existed between life and death; perhaps it could become one of the factors balancing the Life Destruction Origin in the future.

Electrolux's entire gray mist-like figure transformed into a dim gray sphere and hid in a corner of the Sea of Consciousness.

Zi Yao returned to reality as well.

"Xiao Yao, are you all right? I think I just saw a stream of gray mist enter your Sea of Consciousness..."

Ice Empress furrowed her delicate brows, her little face taut.

For some reason, she felt instinctively wary of that gray mist. Judging from Spiritual Power alone, the two were not on the same level at all.

"I'm fine, Ice Sister. He is also a Deity, so nothing will happen."

Zi Yao said with a faint smile.

Electrolux could indeed be considered a Deity. Even ordinary Deities who descended to the lower realm were far inferior to him.

Another Deity?

Ice Empress clicked her tongue.

Deities, whom ordinary people rarely encountered even once in their lives, seemed to come in wholesale quantities around Xiao Yao.

Zi Yao looked toward the distant Huo Yuhao, who was slipping into unconsciousness, and walked over alone.