Electrolux Awakens

Xiao Yin had already reached an age of eight thousand years before this. This time, Huo Yuhao had taken only one day to officially evolve him into a ten-thousand-year Spirit Soul!

However, afterward, Huo Yuhao neither cultivated his Soul Power nor improved his combat skills. Instead, he went to the Spirit Ascension Platform almost every day.

Xiao Yin no longer needed energy to increase his Spirit Soul age, but the Grey Bead in his Spirit Sea did.

Yet this mysterious bead seemed like a bottomless abyss that could never be filled. Over the past half month, the energy Huo Yuhao had gained from hunting soul beasts in the Spirit Ascension Platform was probably enough to forcibly raise a hundred-year Spirit Soul to the hundred-thousand-year level!

And yet, the bead remained completely still.

Not a single Ripple stirred across its dull grey surface. It merely devoured everything in silence, miserly with any response.

But Huo Yuhao was not discouraged in the slightest. He had already made up his mind: until his next journey through time and space, his daily trips to the Spirit Ascension Platform would not cease, rain or shine.

He wanted to see just how great this mysterious Grey Bead's appetite truly was.

Heaven did not disappoint the determined. Under Huo Yuhao's persistence, there really was a result.

On the nineteenth day.

After a roaring thousand-year Purple Shadow Leopard was slain by Huo Yuhao and crashed to the ground, transforming into pure violet energy that entered his Spirit Sea and was swallowed by the grey bead—

The grey bead, which had remained like a lifeless object, faintly lit up with a milky-white glow.

Then, an aged yet gentle voice rang out clearly within Huo Yuhao's Spirit Sea.

"Good child... it is enough!"

Huo Yuhao, who had just been about to seek his next target, abruptly froze and halted.

He instantly withdrew all the aura he had released, and his consciousness sank directly into his Spirit Sea.

The scene at the center of his spiritual world had already changed.

The grey bead that had been silent for so long now gave off a gentle radiance, like an awakening star.

Above the bead, Light and Shadow intertwined as a figure gradually solidified from illusion into reality.

It was an elder clad in a plain white robe. His form was somewhat illusory, yet he possessed an innately calm and imposing bearing.

His face was lean, his gaze profound, as though he had witnessed the rise and fall of countless civilizations and the turning of stellar rivers.

A peaceful smile rested on his face, carrying the wisdom of one who had seen through the ways of the world, as well as undisguised gratification toward the youth before him.

He watched Huo Yuhao and nodded slightly. His voice was gentle and clear, echoing through every corner of the spiritual world.

"Child, thank you."

"If not for your uninterrupted infusion of energy over these past twenty days, this remnant soul of mine would likely have slept for much longer."

Xiao Yin did not cause trouble this time. His enormous silver eyes held unprecedented solemnity and a trace of reverence as he floated quietly nearby.

After all, this elder gave off an air of mystery and power at a glance, appearing far stronger than Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, a Million-year Soul Beast.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm also remained obediently to the side. He knew that Huo Yuhao's Spirit Sea had long ceased to be a place where he could run wild without restraint.

Suppressing the turmoil in his heart, Huo Yuhao looked at the figure and respectfully asked, "Senior, this junior is Huo Yuhao. May I ask... how should I address you?"

This elder was very likely the "mysterious teacher" vaguely mentioned in the History Book, the one who had taught him his necromantic abilities.

The white-robed elder's smile deepened slightly, and his gaze grew even gentler.

He slowly said, "My name... is Electrolux."

"You may call me Elder Yi."

Just as Huo Yuhao was still gathering his thoughts and wondering what to say next, Electrolux spoke first.

"To cross through ten thousand years of time and space—such power belongs to the gods!"

Electrolux also commanded time Magic, so he naturally understood how tremendous a power was required to send someone across ten thousand years of time and space. This was absolutely not something human strength could accomplish.

Huo Yuhao was deeply shaken. He had not expected Electrolux to reveal his greatest secret the moment he spoke.

Then Electrolux's gentle voice sounded again.

"There is no need to be surprised, child."

"Though I had fallen into slumber before, my perception of the outside world was not completely sealed off."

Aside from his initial curiosity, Huo Yuhao had never seriously investigated the reason behind his ability to travel through time and space.

He asked, "Elder Yi, do you know why I traveled ten thousand years through time?"

"The reason?"

Electrolux slowly shook his head. But just as a trace of disappointment flashed through Huo Yuhao's eyes, he continued, "Though I do not know the specific reason, the answer lies deep within your Spirit Sea."

He slowly raised his right hand and pointed directly behind Huo Yuhao.

"What?!"

Huo Yuhao's entire body trembled. He abruptly turned around and, following the direction Electrolux pointed, "looked back" into his own spiritual world.

His Spirit Sea had already become extremely vast, but in the far distance along its edges, everything was shrouded in a blanket of white "mist."

That mist was not physical, yet it blocked all attempts at exploration.

Whenever the tendrils of his Mental Power extended toward it, they vanished like clay oxen entering the sea. He could sense no information whatsoever—only emptiness and the unknown.

Although this was Huo Yuhao's own Spirit Sea, his Mental Power had only reached the Spirit Sea Realm.

Even if Electrolux was now merely a wisp of a remnant soul, his Mental Power was still at the level of divine consciousness. Naturally, he could sense far more.

Seeing the contemplative look in Huo Yuhao's eyes, Electrolux smiled. "Don't overthink it. When your Mental Power improves further in the future, perhaps you'll learn the reason behind all this!"

After a moment, Huo Yuhao slowly withdrew his gaze.

He forced down the surging curiosity in his heart, temporarily sealing away these mysteries that lay far beyond the scope of his current understanding.

He refocused his attention on the illusory figure before him and asked respectfully, "Elder Yi, now that you have awakened, will you still need to continue absorbing the energy within this Spirit Ascension Platform?"

Electrolux smiled faintly and waved a hand. "There is no need. Now that I have awakened, this energy is like water to a man whose stomach is already full. It is of no further use to me."

His gaze seemed to pierce through Huo Yuhao's Spirit Sea once more, falling upon the virtual forest outside, constructed through soul-tool technology.

"This place is quite interesting. It is clearly an illusory creation, yet every blade of grass, every tree, and every flow of energy has been built with such exquisite realism that it could almost pass for the real thing... Hmm?"

Electrolux's words paused slightly, and a faint glimmer flashed through those eyes as deep as the starry sky.

"Interesting... There seems to be a trace of magic in its construction principles."

"Elder Yi, the magic you mentioned is?"

Having caught that unfamiliar term, Huo Yuhao could not help but ask.

Electrolux withdrew his attention completely and turned it toward Huo Yuhao. "Child, this old man is not from this world. I come from another world."

Another world?!

Huo Yuhao's mind shook violently, his pupils contracting slightly.

But he was, after all, a young man with some experience. After the brief shock, his expression quickly returned to calm.

Electrolux continued, "Magic is a system that belongs to the world I came from."

"The foundation of your world seems to be this energy called 'Soul Power.'"

"But I never expected to glimpse traces of a magical framework within the constructs here."

Perhaps the speaker had not intended anything by it, but the listener's heart was already in turmoil!

Huo Yuhao's thoughts raced at an unprecedented speed as his mind began to storm with ideas.

Electrolux was very likely that mysterious teacher recorded in history.

He possessed a power system called "magic," originating from another world.

And it seemed that the construction of the present Spirit Ascension Platform had employed the power of this so-called magic.

Thus, Huo Yuhao wondered whether the Spirit Pagoda he had founded ten thousand years ago had been completed with the assistance of his teacher, Electrolux.

Only that seemed capable of explaining why the Spirit Ascension Platform's construction concepts were connected to magic!

Huo Yuhao felt that he had seen the truth!