Huo Yuhao: We Can Be a Little Bolder

With Xuan Zi protecting them, Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei soon entered the Far North Core Region. It was even colder here. As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but ice and snow, a vast expanse of white without the slightest sign of life.

Yet under Xuan Zi's Soul Power protection, Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei did not feel the slightest chill.

"Woo-hoo~"

Experiencing flight for the first time, Huo Yuhao was extremely excited. Even if he was being carried through the sky by the scruff of fate in Xuan Zi's grip.

This was nothing like riding on an airplane.

Flying was every modern person's dream!

People afraid of heights excluded.

Bei Bei looked at Huo Yuhao with some helplessness and thought to himself, Little Brother Huo really is still a child.

Xuan Zi burst into laughter. He liked Huo Yuhao's bumpkin look best of all.

If he had never seen the world, that proved he was easy to fool... cough, cough, easy to win over!

Little did he know, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had once thought the same thing.

Only, while Huo Yuhao and the others were in good moods, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was not.

"Brother Hao, we're done for!" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm let out a miserable cry inside Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sea.

"I'm not done for," Huo Yuhao replied irritably through his mind.

"I'm not talking about you. I mean, the plan wasn't supposed to go like this!" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm wailed with a mournful face. "With Xuan Zi following us, how am I supposed to trap Bing Bing like in the original work?"

Huo Yuhao smiled faintly. "Brother Sky Dream, why not be a little bolder?"

"Huh?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm froze, then asked carefully, "Brother Hao, do you mean I should confess to Bing Bing directly?"

"Is there nothing in your head except the Ice Empress?" Huo Yuhao rolled his eyes, then narrowed them and explained to Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, "The Far North Core Region is an area with an extreme environment. It gathers vast amounts of Ice Attribute energy. Places like this often give birth to rare treasures of heaven and earth! And almost all of them would be Ice Attribute treasures I can use!"

"Now that we have Xuan Zi's protection, why can't we first sweep through the Far North... cough, cough, I mean explore it first, and pocket whatever treasures we can get our hands on?"

With Xuan Zi alone, it really would not allow Huo Yuhao to recklessly plunder the Far North Core Region, but careful exploration was still possible.

The Far North Core Region did not have as many Ferocious Beasts as the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm really wanted to say that if there were treasures in the Far North Core Region, how could he not know?

But he suddenly realized he truly had nothing to say.

First of all, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had only broken through into a several-hundred-thousand-year "weakest Ferocious Beast" because he had accidentally obtained a large amount of treasures like Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow.

Who knew whether similar treasures were buried elsewhere in the core region?

Even if their quality could not compare to Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow and they were only the next level down, Thousand Year Ice Marrow, they would still be extremely valuable to the current Huo Yuhao.

Second, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had fallen into an ice crevice when he was thirteen, and before that, he had never explored the core region either.

He really did not know just how many treasures were buried in the core region.

What could be confirmed was that the Far North Core Region could not be said to have treasures everywhere, but it absolutely deserved to be called a place where precious things were hidden.

It even had treasures like the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus.

Of course, those especially precious treasures had long since been swept clean by the Three Great Heavenly Kings and the other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

But the treasures they looked down on might not be unprecious.

To put it simply, Huo Yuhao wanted to pick up what others had missed.

For soul masters with ultimate attributes, cultivation speed would slow after rank thirty. Huo Yuhao did not want to walk the same old path as in the original work, so he had to find ways to speed up his cultivation, such as collecting in advance some treasures that could assist cultivation.

In the original work, early on, Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had never explored the Far North. On one hand, it was because they were not strong enough. On the other, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm also did not know where the good things were.

But now, with Xuan Zi's protection, they did not have to worry about safety. On top of that, Huo Yuhao had cultivated the Qi Observation Technique and could see the flow of Fortune, allowing him to estimate where treasures might exist.

Naturally, he now had the confidence to explore.

There was absolutely no need to leave right after coming.

What was this, special forces tourism?

Next time, he might not get such a good chance. It was not as if he could find an idle Super Douluo to act as a bodyguard and take him to explore the Far North whenever he wanted.

Even if this bodyguard was extremely unreliable.

"Will Xuan Zi give you the treasures you find?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm asked with concern.

"No need to worry about that. As long as Shrek Academy still wants me to join and wants me to work for Shrek Academy in the future, then there will definitely be a share of whatever treasures we find for me."

Huo Yuhao continued, "At most, Shrek Academy will use these treasures as conditions to brainwash me, make me owe Shrek Academy a favor, and try to make me loyal to Shrek Academy."

"I get it!" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm suddenly understood. "But Brother Hao, you already know Shrek Academy's true face, so you won't talk about morality with Shrek Academy. Right?"

"No! From then on, I'll be a member of Shrek Academy!" Huo Yuhao said with deep sincerity.

"Huh?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was dumbfounded.

"Otherwise, how would I get Shrek Academy to increase its investment in me? Before Pudu Cihang revealed his true form, didn't everyone also think he was a good National Preceptor who worried about the nation and the people? Why can't I, Huo Yuhao, be Shrek Academy's good~ dis~ci~ple?"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm: "Brother Hao, it really has to be you!"

In truth, it was also because Huo Yuhao was weak. If Huo Yuhao had enough methods and strength, he guaranteed he would monopolize every treasure himself.

He would not share even a single hair with anyone else.

Huo Yuhao spoke faintly, "Right now, I only need to help Xuan Zi point the way. I don't have to personally take any risks at all. Rounding that off, it's basically me freeloading off Shrek Academy!"

"As for Bei Bei, I only need to give him some unimportant herbs. Anyway, what's needed to treat Tang Ya, and how much of it is needed, is all up to me, the attending physician!"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm felt reassured, but he still asked the question he was most worried about. "Then how do we get in touch with Bing Bing right under Xuan Zi's nose?"

"Simple. It's not as complicated as you think. All we need is one storm, and it will trigger Xuan Zi's 'disciple in trouble' passive. Even if it fails to trigger, I'll take the initiative to get lost."

"Brother Hao, how do you know a storm is going to blow through the Far North?"

"I'm not talking about the weather. I'm talking about something about to go wrong. Because... Bei Bei's Death Star is flickering!" Huo Yuhao looked toward Bei Bei.

"Huh?"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm followed Huo Yuhao's gaze and shared Huo Yuhao's Qi Observation Technique.

They both clearly saw that as they went deeper into the core region, Bei Bei's glabella began to darken.

The Fortune above Bei Bei's head, which had originally had a huge bite taken out of it by the Godly Taotie Bull phantom, was currently being replenished.

It was the auspicious clouds of Shrek Academy's influence protecting Bei Bei and replenishing his Fortune.

However, the Godly Taotie Bull phantom above Xuan Zi's head at the side was drooling over Bei Bei's Fortune, watching it like a tiger eyeing its prey.

"Big Brother Bei Bei, be careful," Huo Yuhao kindly reminded Bei Bei.

My little sheep number one, you have to hold on!

"Little Brother Huo, thank you for your concern. I will!" Bei Bei gave Huo Yuhao a gentle smile and sighed even more that Huo Yuhao was a good child.

"Hmph! With this old man here, you're still worried about safety? Are you looking down on this old man?" Xuan Zi said unhappily from the side.

Huo Yuhao: "...Of course not. How could I? I trust Elder Xuan the most."

Xuan Zi brought Bei Bei and Huo Yuhao to a hover in midair. "Little Huo, did the elders in your family leave behind any records about the core circle of the Far North? Do you know where we have to go to find the Ice Empress's clan?"

Although Xuan Zi's brain was not sharp, he had not reached the point where he would bring two children and brazenly run all over the Far North Core Region.

"I don't know." Huo Yuhao blinked his large, innocent eyes.

Xuan Zi: "..."

Bei Bei: "..."

Huo Yuhao: If I automatically guided you there, how would I get you to explore the map?