Let It Go, Let It Go

[Done! Although I don't know why Electrolux chose me without a word, getting his divine consciousness fragment so easily is clearly a good thing. With Electrolux here, I've practically got the Soul Spirit Method in my hands, and some soul beasts nearing the end of their lives will have a chance to live on in another form.]

[For soul beasts, this treats the symptoms rather than the root cause, but it can at least ease their plight. Besides, the Spirit Pagoda Huo Yuhao established and his Soul Spirit Method don't seem entirely perfected. Now that Electrolux is in my Sea of Consciousness, I might be able to master a more refined Soul Spirit Method.]

[In the future, I can absolutely use the Soul Spirit Method to bargain with Di Tian.]

[Oh, right, I nearly forgot that treasure-Tian Meng's shed skin. The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm might be weak, but his shed skin really is good stuff. Never mind anything else; its defensive power alone is no joke. Without that shell, Tian Meng might have died long ago.]

[And this shed skin can even trap the Ice Empress. Even if I have no use for it, I can always use it as material for making a Level 9 Soul Tool in the end. I can't let it go to waste.]

While Huo Yuhao and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had yet to finish merging completely, Aoyao picked up Tian Meng's shed skin, which lay on the ground like a thin white membrane.

At that moment, Huo Yuhao and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm finally completed the last stage of their fusion.

After the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's explanation, Huo Yuhao finally understood just how much good fortune had descended upon him. But before he could react, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in his Sea of Consciousness let out a grief-stricken, furious cry:

"No!"

The voice was as wretched as could be, giving Huo Yuhao quite a fright.

Through Huo Yuhao's eyes, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm clearly saw Aoyao put his shed skin into a Storage Soul Tool. The sight made the previously lounging silkworm wriggle upright.

That's my shed skin!

Is it yours? How can you just brazenly put it away like that?

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm gnashed his teeth in anger-after all, that shed skin played an enormous role in his plans. When Huo Yuhao awakened his second martial soul in the future, he would need it.

But now, someone had actually taken away something so precious!

If I can swallow this, what can't I swallow?!

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm put on a vicious expression and was just about to fight that fellow to the death when his little eyes darted slyly around, and a trace of hesitation appeared on his face.

That terrifying pressure earlier had weighed heavily upon him, and that mysterious being had clearly entered this boy's body. A head-on clash... was definitely not a wise choice.

If that fellow had tried to seize the magpie's nest and steal the little Yuhao he had chosen, he might have summoned the courage to fight to the death. But now...

Let it go, let it go. Nobody has it easy.

Survival above all!

With Huo Yuhao and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's fusion complete, the time freeze ended, and Ning Tian and Wu Feng regained awareness. Though they were a little confused at first, the two girls quickly understood after reading Aoyao's updated diary entries.

Their gazes soon settled on Huo Yuhao. The disdain in their eyes was gone, replaced by curiosity.

This fellow... was the future God of Emotion?

There didn't seem to be anything special about him at all!

His looks were ordinary, his cultivation was ordinary, and they simply could not see why that million-year-old soul beast would choose such a weak fellow.

Hidden in the shadows, Di Tian drew a deep breath and restrained his urge to take Aoyao back.

His lord had ordered him not to act no matter what happened, and that naturally included bringing Aoyao back.

Defying his lord was something Di Tian could not do.

All he needed to do was remember everything that happened and report it truthfully to his lord upon his return.

The fragment of that unknown god's divine consciousness had indeed fallen into Aoyao's hands.

Gu Yuena nodded thoughtfully, though her attention was focused more on the Soul Spirit Method.

Those words had already caught her attention before, and this time, Aoyao had briefly described what the Soul Spirit Method was. Although he had not fully explained it, Gu Yuena had still formed a few guesses from the context.

Unfortunately... not a single soul spirit had been born before this.

And so Gu Yuena's guesses... were completely wrong.

Of course, Gu Yuena herself did not know whether her guesses were correct, but this so-called Soul Spirit Method had nevertheless stirred tremendous curiosity in her.

If the Soul Spirit Method had not yet to be created, she would even have considered having Di Tian find an opportunity to bring Aoyao back to demonstrate it for her.

As for Aoyao's claim that it could change the plight of soul beasts... she would have to see for herself whether the Soul Spirit Method really was as miraculous as he said.

Simply having Di Tian bring him back, without any intention of harming Aoyao, couldn't trigger a punishment, could it?

"Yuhao! Yuhao!"

Along with an urgent voice, three figures came racing toward the group at tremendous speed.

There was one boy and two girls. One of the girls had a lively face and large, expressive eyes, while her curvaceous figure fully displayed her captivating charm.

Her beauty did not pale in the slightest even beside Ning Tian's.

But compared with Ning Tian's noble bearing, this girl was clearly far inferior.

In the middle was a tall, straight-backed boy with a sunny, cheerful air. His short, dark blue hair gleamed like gemstones, and his handsome features carried a touch of refinement.

As for the last person, she was a girl with much more ordinary looks.

These three were Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and a girl in Tang Ya's class named Qin Qin, who happened to need her third Soul Ring.

Ever since learning that Aoyao was about to head to the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang Ya had racked her brains for a way to make contact with him.

From Ning Tian and Wu Feng's repeated appearances in the diary, it was easy to see that with enough interaction, her name would naturally appear in its pages.

But because the diary had taught her a lesson before, Tang Ya had failed to break through her bottleneck, leaving her without an excuse to visit the Star Dou Great Forest.

Fortunately, one of her control-type classmates had reached the three-ring cultivation threshold, giving her an excuse to come to the Star Dou Great Forest with Bei Bei.

Tang Ya had originally hoped to meet Aoyao as soon as possible. She had never expected that the first person she met would instead be Huo Yuhao, whom Aoyao had mentioned in his diary.

Thinking of how Huo Yuhao would eventually become a god, she had chosen to invite him to join the Tang Sect, even though he was currently only a rank-ten Soul Scholar.