Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Twisted Love; Plotting Snow Empress's Fortuitous Opportunity!

Amid the snow-covered mountains.

"Why? Why did it turn out like this? It shouldn't be like this!!!" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could not accept reality. He kept questioning himself, questioning the world, and gradually descended into madness.

He seemed to have lost his mind.

Huo Yuhao found Sky Dream Ice Silkworm rather annoying. Entering the Spiritual Sea, he raised his hand and gave Sky Dream Ice Silkworm two hard slaps.

"Brother Sky Dream, stop obsessing over that damn Ice Empress of yours. Haven't you noticed that she never treated you as an equal? You're finished! It's impossible now!"

"I..."

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm gradually stopped going mad.

It was not that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had come to understand anything. Rather, Huo Yuhao sent two Buddha Light Crowns straight into Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's forehead.

Forcing Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to calm down.

Then Huo Yuhao circulated the Demon Buddha Method and released Buddha Sound. His voice became layered with echoes, capable of reaching directly into Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's heart.

"Brother Sky Dream, think about Pudu Cihang's memories. You've fallen into an obsession. If this continues, you'll fall to demonic corruption!"

This time, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm finally calmed down completely and gradually fell asleep.

Reality had shaken him too deeply, so he chose sleep as an escape.

Looking at the sleeping Sky Dream Ice Silkworm within the Spiritual Sea, Huo Yuhao shook his head.

Did Sky Dream Ice Silkworm truly love Ice Empress?

Perhaps he did. Perhaps he did not.

The Ice Jade Scorpion Clan was the natural enemy of the Ice Silkworm Clan. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm should not have loved Ice Empress. Yet the things Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had experienced made it impossible for him not to love her. Otherwise, he might have collapsed long ago.

If Sky Dream Ice Silkworm truly loved Ice Empress, then when he crawled out of that ice crevice, he would not have left the Far North Land. He would have remained there, waiting for a chance to pursue Ice Empress.

When Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was imprisoned by the Ferocious Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest and absorbed as nourishment, how had he endured such torment?

Being forcibly drained of Soul Power was no pleasant experience. Even soul masters and soul beasts who voluntarily expended large amounts of Soul Power would suffer for a while, let alone someone forced to have their Soul Power extracted.

And Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was not a soul beast with an especially firm will.

Then the only reason he could endure without suffering a mental collapse was that he had placed his spirit elsewhere.

And it could not have been placed in some ordinary thing.

The spirit he had entrusted elsewhere transformed into emotion, supporting Sky Dream Ice Silkworm all this time.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had not chosen hatred toward the Ferocious Beasts as his emotional anchor, because he believed he could not defeat them and did not want to die. Even after Sky Dream Ice Silkworm grew stronger in the original story, he never spoke of returning to the Star Dou Great Forest to take revenge.

That was clearly abnormal.

If Sky Dream Ice Silkworm truly did not harbor even a trace of hatred, even the Buddha would have to surrender his lotus throne to him.

The only possibility was that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had chosen another emotion as his anchor and voluntarily abandoned all his other emotions.

That feeling needed to originate from an unforgettable event.

It was probably the incident when he was thirteen, when Ice Empress pursued him and he fell into an ice crevice in his panic.

That perilous encounter changed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's fate and left an indelible mark on him.

The pounding of one's heart in danger could be mistaken for the pounding of one's heart in love.

That corrupted emotion transformed into twisted love.

Thus, Ice Empress became the White Moonlight in Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's heart.

All of this was Huo Yuhao's conjecture.

But it was not a baseless conjecture born from nothing.

Such things had happened before in history.

The last person to experience something similar was named Bibi Dong.

She had likewise encountered darkness and pain, likewise entrusted her emotions to love, and likewise carried a White Moonlight she should not have loved.

The difference was that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm endured darkness and pain for far longer. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had been forced into his choice, while Bibi Dong had brainlessly chosen the wrong answer of her own accord.

Their endings were different as well. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who followed the protagonist, found fulfillment in love, while Bibi Dong, who opposed the protagonist, loved but could not obtain it.

It was rather interesting.

But no matter what feelings Sky Dream Ice Silkworm might continue to harbor for Ice Empress, Huo Yuhao knew that after today, he would stand against the Ice and Snow Two Emperors.

However, even if they were to stand on opposing sides, Huo Yuhao would not simply let the Ice and Snow Two Emperors go.

There was no reason to spare two soul beasts whose lifespans were nearing their end.

Only, when Huo Yuhao made his move, he would not be as gentle as he had been with his persuasion this time.

"If Ice and Snow will not favor Huo Yuhao, then deep within the Bronze Sparrow, I shall Lock Two Emperors~ Hehe." Huo Yuhao smiled.

After taking one last look at the sleeping Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Huo Yuhao left the Spiritual Sea.

After Huo Yuhao left the Spiritual Sea, a sigh sounded from its depths.

Huo Yuhao controlled Sky Dream Ice Silkworm for the teleportation, so Huo Yuhao chose its destination. The direction he chose was not outside the Far North Land, but deeper within it.

The Ice and Snow Mountain Range where Huo Yuhao now stood was the mountain range he had spotted after entering the Core Region.

He had chosen this place because he had come in search of opportunities.

While Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had been persuading the Ice and Snow Two Emperors, Huo Yuhao had also examined their Fortune.

The Fortune of the Ice and Snow Two Emperors was even more abundant than that of the Titan Snow Demon King.

However, unlike the Titan Snow Demon King, the auspicious clouds above the Ice and Snow Two Emperors' Fortune were mixed with other colors.

The auspicious clouds above the Ice Empress's Fortune were tainted with dense black storm clouds, signifying that she would face a calamity. Whether she could overcome it would depend solely on her own efforts.

The auspicious clouds above the Snow Empress's Fortune were even more terrifying, radiating a blood-red baleful glow. This signified a bloody disaster, a life-and-death crisis, and the risk of her perishing.

There was no doubt that both of their calamities stemmed from lightning tribulations.

The difference was that if the Ice Empress could find some treasures and obtain certain opportunities, she might still be able to survive her lightning tribulation. The Snow Empress, however, had little hope of overcoming hers. Once she faced it, she would almost certainly die.

This perfectly matched their current situations.

But that did not mean they no longer had any chances.

If undergoing the tribulation meant certain death, then they simply did not have to undergo it~

As powerful beings carrying vast Fortune, they ultimately still possessed a sliver of hope.

That hope could be found on the regional maps beneath their Fortune.

Like the Titan Snow Demon King's, the maps beneath their Fortune depicted the Far North Land, representing the extent of their influence.

The illuminated areas on the maps were their respective territories, each different from the others.

When combined with the Titan Snow Demon King's territory, the domains of the Three Great Heavenly Kings covered most of the Core Region, as well as a small portion of the outer regions.

The remaining areas were likely the territories of other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, along with regions the Three Great Heavenly Kings could not be bothered with.

Because the auspicious clouds above the Ice and Snow Two Emperors' Fortune were abnormal, their Fortune responded accordingly, beginning to flow down into the regional maps below as though searching for something.

This was where their sliver of hope lay!

There was no sign of anything on the Ice Empress's regional map for the time being, proving that her opportunity had yet to appear.

However, a change appeared on the Snow Empress's regional map. A lotus-shaped mark emerged within a mountain range in the Core Region.

Without question, that was where the Snow Empress's sliver of hope lay. Judging from the shape of the mark, it was the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus the Snow Empress had discovered!

Perhaps because the Snow Empress had not yet prepared to take human form and cultivate anew, she had not picked the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus.

According to the original timeline, the Snow Empress still had at least another year before she would take human form and cultivate anew.

Thus, Huo Yuhao directly chose the mountain range containing the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus as the teleportation destination!

That was right—Huo Yuhao intended to seize the Snow Empress's opportunity!

Interestingly, the mountain range where the Snow Empress had discovered the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus had been deliberately avoided by all three of the Three Great Heavenly Kings' territories.

For now, Huo Yuhao had no way to investigate the reason.

In any case, he would secure the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus first and worry about everything else afterward.

"The original work said that snow lotuses themselves find it difficult to develop intelligence, but they possess pure essence of heaven and earth. That Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus has no intelligence either, so it can only be considered a heavenly treasure."

"If I use the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus as a catalyst, I can cleanse my bones and marrow, greatly improving my aptitude. The energy contained within it may even allow me to benefit continuously until Level 70, accelerating my cultivation speed!"

"As for my Second Martial Soul... I'll discuss it with Brother Sky Dream once he wakes up."

Huo Yuhao raised his head and looked into the distance, activating the Qi Observation Technique.

At the summit of the ice mountain where Huo Yuhao stood, Fortune gathered and formed the shape of a lotus.

The Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus was at the mountain peak!