Mo Yuan had heard plenty of people say they could take down a tiger with a slide tackle, but he'd never actually seen it happen. Today, he finally did.
Two words: badass!
Mo Yuan wasn't the only one stunned. Huo Yuhao, the one who'd actually done it, was completely dumbfounded too. It took him a long while to come to his senses.
But just as he hesitated for ages before finally deciding to absorb the Ten-Year Soul Ring, a cheeky voice suddenly rang out in his mind.
"I've finally found a human with a Mental Attribute! What a pity I can't cry. Otherwise, I'd be weeping tears of joy!"
The moment Huo Yuhao heard that voice, the ground beside his feet split open with a sudden crack. A chill poured out from within, and the moisture in the air instantly froze into a cloud of icy mist.
Watching it all unfold, Mo Yuan's breathing grew ragged.
It was happening! Sky Dream Ice Silkworm!
A dark shadow suddenly burst out of the crack and appeared in the forest. It was a white silkworm with ten golden markings running along its back!
"Heh heh! A Spirit Master! Your Brother Sky Dream is coming into your body!"
Along with those irreverent words, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm instantly turned into streams of white light and surged into Huo Yuhao, who stood frozen in place.
Pain! It hurt so much!
That was Huo Yuhao's last thought. Before he could even object, a wave of frigid energy swept over him, knocking him unconscious.
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm began merging with Huo Yuhao. At the same time, an invisible mental force spread outward from its body.
How terrifying was the mental power released by a million-year-old Spirit Soul Beast? In an instant, it covered every corner within a hundred-mile radius. Every intelligent life-form fell into a daze, as if Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had pressed pause on time.
But that wouldn't stop Mo Yuan. If it could, he wouldn't have come here, knowing what was going to happen, to try to intercept Electrolux.
The moment that terrifying mental force covered the forest and Ning Tian and Wu Feng lost consciousness, Mo Yuan's eyes snapped open. Unlike before, crimson flames seemed to burn within his Golden Eyes.
They were filled with brutality and bloodlust!
His body became a furnace as Black King's Blood began to boil! Scales, black as ink, sprouted beneath Mo Yuan's neck. Black bone spurs pierced through his skin and spread across his body!
With a series of explosive cracks, the gaps between Mo Yuan's bones vanished. Hundreds of new bones burst through his flesh and grew wildly, forming a perfect suit of armor inside his body in an instant.
His muscles swelled violently, every fiber distinct and clear, like tightly wound steel cables.
Flesh tore with a wet, ripping sound. His black coat burst apart, and a pair of savage black membrane wings unfurled from Mo Yuan's back, drenched in blood!
Finally, black scales erupted through the skin of his face, forming a cold mask that completely concealed his savage features. Only his crimson-gold Golden Eyes remained visible, as if blood were flowing within them!
Third Degree Bloodlust!
Dragonification!
Mo Yuan had gone straight into Third Degree Bloodlust to draw on Black King Nidhogg within his Sea of Consciousness!
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's million years of mental power could supposedly make even a Titled Douluo's mind explode. So what could it do if Mo Yuan summoned Black King Nidhogg?
Within Mo Yuan's Sea of Consciousness, Black King Nidhogg seemed to regain consciousness under the stimulus of Mo Yuan's bloodlust. Sensing the mental force trying to imprison him, he spread his skull-covered wings and roared at the sky.
In an instant, the sound of shattering glass rang out, and Mo Yuan was no longer affected by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's mental power!
"Roar!"
A low growl rumbled from Mo Yuan's throat. It sounded nothing like a human. The only creature it brought to mind was a dragon.
Under Third Degree Bloodlust, even with Black King Nidhogg protecting him inside his Sea of Consciousness, Mo Yuan's mind began sliding uncontrollably into the abyss.
Three minutes.
He had at most three minutes before he lost his sanity.
Mo Yuan's crimson-gold Golden Eyes, filled with brutality and savagery, fixed on the forest to the north, where a faint golden glow and icy chill lingered. Then he began beating his black wings.
Buoyed by the Wind Element, Mo Yuan soared into the sky amid a gale and sped north.
At that moment, he was like an emperor. If anyone tried to stop him from taking what he wanted, he would crush them with overwhelming force!
Huff... huff...
In the silence, where even a pin could be heard dropping, the sudden sound of air being torn apart rang out.
"Hm?" Still merging with Huo Yuhao, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sent out a wisp of consciousness to cautiously survey its surroundings. This fusion determined its life, death, and bright future. It couldn't afford the slightest mistake.
"Why do I suddenly have a bad feeling?"
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warily surveyed the area. The process of becoming a Wisdom Soul Ring was somewhat like a sacrifice; both released a powerful mental domain that even Titled Douluos and Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts couldn't interfere with.
It didn't believe anyone or any Soul Beast on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest could ignore its mental domain. But the foreboding in its heart and the faint sound of wind were impossible to dismiss!
In the blink of an eye, the faint wind grew piercingly loud, like the shriek of countless arrows cutting through the air.
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm looked toward the sound and immediately spotted the source of its unease.
With savage black wings beating and ink-dark scales covering his body, Mo Yuan came bearing certain death and disaster, brutality and bloodlust blazing in his eyes!
"Holy crap! What the hell is that?!"
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm gaped at those crimson-gold Golden Eyes that seemed to devour one's soul. If it had a choice, it would pick returning to the Lake of Life over facing Mo Yuan any day!
Mo Yuan's inhuman appearance alone was terrifying. But the image Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had seen when it probed him with its mental power after spotting him had nearly scared it out of its wits.
On a black snowy mountain, with snow falling all around, a colossal black dragon stood tall. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had never seen a dragon so majestic and terrifying. He was savage yet beautiful, awe-inspiring yet suffocating.
His black membrane wings, covered in skulls, unfurled savagely, and the gust they stirred seemed capable of tearing the heavens apart.
His ink-black scales made him seem the very embodiment of death and disaster. His arrival heralded the end of all things!
Even Di Tian, whose cultivation had reached 890,000 years, couldn't compare to that terrifying might!
So what level did this black dragon belong to, if he dwarfed even Di Tian, the one closest to godhood?
A terrifying idea began to take root in Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's mind, but it didn't dare think any further.
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was on the verge of tears. Without its mental domain to protect it, it and Huo Yuhao were like fish on a chopping board, at Mo Yuan's mercy.
"Heavens above! Earth below! I escaped those Ferocious Beasts with such difficulty, and now that I've finally found a glimmer of hope, am I going to die? No!"
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm began praying again in its mind. "Big brother! No, Dad! I'm begging you, Dad! Don't kill me!"
Unfortunately, Mo Yuan couldn't hear its pleas. And he didn't care what a lump of protein was thinking. He only wanted Electrolux.
When it came to Martial Souls, quality mattered more than quantity. Besides, apart from making it easier to break through bottlenecks, Twin Martial Souls weren't especially useful in high-level battles.
It always came down to the same handful of skills. The more than a hundred incantations he already had were enough. With the Dragon Race's most powerful alchemy and a dragon body that would fully mature later on, he really didn't have time to bother with a Second Martial Soul.
Only Holy Necromancer Electrolux was what he truly wanted.
Of course, there was another, more important reason.
This was the Douluo II timeline. Pure and Innocent Tang San Shao had already become a god. With his "perfect" personality, what if Mo Yuan destroyed a chess piece he had prepared?
What if Tang San set his sights on Mo Yuan afterward? If that happened, he'd be royally screwed.
Mo Yuan's crimson-gold Golden Eyes swept coldly over the unconscious Huo Yuhao. He slowly closed his eyes, suppressing the brutality and bloodlust rapidly growing within him, and quietly waited for Electrolux to arrive.
Seeing that Mo Yuan had only glanced at them without attacking, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm let out a long breath, thinking it had escaped with its life. Then it hastened the fusion and, in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness, struck up a conversation with the newly awakened Huo Yuhao to build their rapport.
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