Reuniting with Liu Yuan, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm Breaks Down

On the battlefield in the Extreme North Core Region, the enormous corpse of the Ten-thousand-year Ice Ape still radiated residual heat, wisps of white smoke rising in the freezing air.

Du Busi crossed several strides to Liu Yuan, his gaze examining him as though he were some monster he had never seen before.

He had originally thought that solo-killing a Ten-thousand-year Soul Beast was already Liu Yuan's limit. Liu Yuan should have exhausted his Soul Power by now and been mentally drained.

Yet the Liu Yuan before him, aside from his tattered clothes and bloodstained body, still had bright, lively Double Pupils. His breathing was so steady that he did not even seem like someone who had just gone through a life-and-death battle.

"Good lad, tell this old man honestly," Du Busi asked solemnly.

"How much Soul Power and spiritual power do you have left?"

Liu Yuan carefully sensed the swirling vortex in his dantian and the strength of the Double Pupil Origin within his Sea of Consciousness before answering truthfully, "Master, I should have around thirty to forty percent left."

"Thirty to forty percent?"

Du Busi was dumbfounded again and could not help sucking in a cold breath.

What did that level of expenditure mean? It meant that in that brutal fight, one that would have drained a Soul King dry, Liu Yuan had not even reached his limit!

"You really are too monstrous, kid." Du Busi shook his head, his tone full of disbelief.

"This old man took you as his disciple because the test showed that your body's potential was Gold Grade. But now, it seems Gold Grade was probably the test's limit, not yours!"

As he spoke, Du Busi handed Liu Yuan a set of clothes, his heart roiling with shock.

"If you can already do this with three rings, then once you break through to Title Douluo, I'm afraid no one in this world will be able to keep you down."

Liu Yuan changed his clothes as he smiled. "That's because Master taught me well, and the sect's secret medicines and Qiangti Pills also did their part."

"Don't give this old man that nonsense." Du Busi waved a hand.

"Medicine is dead, but people are alive. Plenty of people have taken those pills, yet across the entire continent, you're the only one who has achieved this kind of result."

While the two spoke, behind a thick ice slope roughly five to six hundred meters from the battlefield, a small figure lay prone in the snow, carefully concealing his aura.

It was Huo Yuhao.

At that moment, with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's help, Huo Yuhao had just completed the most important turning point of his life—

Not only had he subdued Ice Empress, one of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North, and made her his second Martial Soul, but he had also obtained an immensely powerful four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. His Spirit Eye Martial Soul had found its Second Spirit Ring as well.

Originally, he should have left this dangerous core region immediately after breaking through. But the commotion from that earth-shaking battle had been far too great. Driven by curiosity, he activated Spiritual Detection to see what had happened in the distance.

As the threads of Spiritual Detection extended outward, the scene on the battlefield was clearly relayed into Huo Yuhao's mind.

At first, because he was far away and the blizzard was intense, Huo Yuhao did not clearly see that person's face.

He could only sense the terrifying collision of Soul Power and the sight of flesh and blood flying everywhere through his detection.

He could hardly believe his eyes.

"Three Soul Rings... one yellow, one purple, one black?"

"A three-ring Soul Elder was actually brawling with a Ten-thousand-year Soul Beast? And he snapped that Soul Beast's neck?"

Huo Yuhao felt his scalp go numb.

He had seen quite a few geniuses at Shrek Academy, but those so-called geniuses were as fragile as infants compared to the youth before him.

But soon, when Liu Yuan restrained his aura after the battle ended and turned to face this direction, Huo Yuhao was struck as if by lightning and froze in place.

"Liu... Liu Yuan?"

Huo Yuhao instinctively cried out, then hurriedly covered his mouth.

He had never imagined that this monster, who had slaughtered his way through the Extreme North Core Region, had already reached above Level 30, and even possessed a black Ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, was actually Liu Yuan—the same Liu Yuan he had once met in the Star Dou Great Forest.

"He's already Level 30?"

"No, judging from the strength he displayed when killing that Ten-thousand-year Soul Beast, he's even stronger than some high-level Soul Ancestors."

Huo Yuhao felt an unprecedented sense of frustration.

After all, they both had Spirit Eye Martial Souls, and they were the same age.

More than anyone else, Huo Yuhao knew that if he were sent to fight a Ten-thousand-year Soul Beast alone now, there would be only one outcome: he would die horribly.

In fact, forget a Ten-thousand-year Soul Beast. If he were made to fight a five-thousand-year Soul Beast in a normal one-on-one battle now, could he even win?

Huo Yuhao felt that was impossible too.

Within Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had also fallen into an eerie silence.

To be honest, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm felt even worse than Huo Yuhao.

After all, when he had encountered Liu Yuan in the Star Dou Great Forest, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had already known that Liu Yuan was Huo Yuhao's "superior replacement."

Though they both had eye Martial Souls, if Huo Yuhao's eyes were compared to Liu Yuan's, Huo Yuhao would be utterly crushed in an instant.

That was why Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had already deeply regretted choosing Huo Yuhao before meeting Liu Yuan.

Over this period, Huo Yuhao's growth had been fairly good, and Tian Meng had resigned himself to it, so he had stopped feeling so upset over the matter...

But now, seeing just how outstanding Liu Yuan had become—

Tian Meng's heart ached terribly again.

Really...

If Brother could choose again...

No matter what, Brother would choose him!

What a pity. What an utter pity.

At that moment, Ice Empress also sensed Liu Yuan's condition.

She could not help feeling somewhat shocked. "This human is strange."

"His abilities are exceptionally peculiar, and his combat ability is absurdly strong."

"Wait, Tian Meng. Do you and Yuhao know him?"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recounted what had happened back then.

Ice Empress immediately launched into a furious scolding.

"You idiot, why were you in such a rush?"

"Do you know you missed out on a tremendous opportunity?"

"If you had chosen him, then I dare say our chances of becoming gods would increase by at least another twenty percent!"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm felt awful as well and kept sighing. "Sigh, it's all because I was too hasty, Bingbing."

While Huo Yuhao and the two powerful beings were conversing, back in the battlefield ahead—

Du Busi, who had been speaking with Liu Yuan, suddenly narrowed his dark green eyes slightly and sharply turned toward the direction where Huo Yuhao was hiding.

At the same moment, Liu Yuan's Double Pupils contracted, his gaze piercing through the wind and snow like a blade.

"Who's there?"

The two of them immediately detected Huo Yuhao hiding over there.

Then, one relied purely on the power of his physical body.

The other directly activated the Qilin Precious Technique and rapidly rushed toward Huo Yuhao's location.