Is This How the Child of Destiny Gets Treated?

When Huo Yuhao approached the mountaintop, he found it shrouded in wind and snow.

Huo Yuhao could sense that the wind and snow were laced with an power of extreme cold.

Clearly, this was no naturally formed blizzard.

Even in the core region of the Far North Land, the blowing wind and snow could not possibly carry Ultimate Ice.

And the one who could have set up such a measure here was, without question, the Snow Empress.

The Ice Lotus was being protected inside the storm!

If someone else had come, even an ordinary Titled Douluo would surely have struggled to advance a single step. Anyone below Titled Douluo would be frozen into an ice sculpture the instant they touched the wind and snow.

Yet such a storm could not stop Huo Yuhao.

"Your Ultimate Ice is certainly powerful, but if I put on the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Molted Skin, how will you deal with that?" Huo Yuhao smiled faintly and stepped forward without the slightest hesitation.

If he were facing Ultimate Ice released personally by the Snow Empress, Huo Yuhao would undoubtedly be dead ten times over.

But this was only an arrangement the Snow Empress had made using the Ultimate Ice attribute. Once Huo Yuhao put on the Molted Skin, he could easily ignore it.

Although the million-year Soul Beast aura of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was not exactly lofty, it still had at least some weight to it.

The moment he entered the wind and snow, visibility dropped to within half a meter around him, but Huo Yuhao could still rely on Mental Detection to find his way forward.

And with the Molted Skin protecting him, Huo Yuhao did not feel any cold at all.

During the climb, Huo Yuhao also cautiously used Mental Detection to check the surroundings and confirmed that there were no Soul Beasts guarding the storm.

Perhaps the only one the Snow Empress could truly trust completely was the Ice Empress.

In the original work, before the Snow Empress transformed, she had searched for the Ice Empress but failed to find her. Therefore, afterward, when the Snow Empress transformed, she did not have any other Soul Beast protect her.

If the Snow Empress had asked any other Soul Beast to stand guard, such as the Ice Bear King Xiao Bai, she could not possibly have been so easily captured by a Titled Douluo who had ventured deep into the Far North Land.

Of course, if she had other Soul Beasts protect her, the Snow Empress would also have had to bear the risk that they could not withstand the temptation and devoured her instead.

Speaking of which, in the original work, was the Snow Empress being captured during her transformation really just a simple accident?

But what did any of that have to do with the current Huo Yuhao?

Right now, Huo Yuhao and the Ice and Snow Two Emperors could only be enemies!

As Huo Yuhao walked on, he truly reached the summit. With one step forward, the wind and snow suddenly stopped, as if he had entered another world.

At the summit in the center of the storm, there was shockingly a vacuum-like area within the wind and snow. Not the slightest disturbance existed here, as if it feared harming that Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus.

When Huo Yuhao looked toward the highest point, he could not help showing an astonished expression.

Huo Yuhao finally understood why, when describing certain women, people used phrases like Flower on High Peak or Ice Mountain Snow Lotus.

Golden sunlight fell upon the ice-blue snow lotus, reflecting a sacred radiance. Coupled with the lotus's own cold and noble aura, it perfectly explained what it meant to be something that could only be admired from afar and not profaned.

Such a beautiful sight made Huo Yuhao feel as if his heart had skipped a beat, and he actually developed a feeling of being moved.

"What the hell." Huo Yuhao hurriedly shook his head.

When he had seen the Snow Empress's figure earlier, Huo Yuhao had not felt this way.

Perhaps it was because the Snow Empress could only be looked at, while this Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus was about to belong to Huo Yuhao.

Although the snow lotus had grown into a Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus, it did not possess intelligence itself. Plant-type Soul Beasts were already extremely difficult to awaken intelligence in, and it seemed the higher-grade the plant-type Soul Beast, the more this was the case.

Of course, that was assuming there was no external help.

Those plant-type Soul Beasts in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could awaken intelligence very easily.

After looking over the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus, Huo Yuhao turned his gaze to the side.

He discovered that there was actually a Soul Beast lying there.

However, Huo Yuhao was not frightened.

Because no matter how lifelike that Soul Beast appeared, Huo Yuhao could not sense any aura of life from it.

The Snow Empress could not possibly be bored enough to place a fake Soul Beast model here to scare people, so there was only one answer.

It was the corpse of a Soul Beast!

The Soul Beast coiled there was over three meters long, resembling an enormous bighorn sheep. It looked as if it were sleeping, yet it had already lost all vitality.

Just now, the beauty of the snow lotus had drawn all of Huo Yuhao's attention and also concealed this sight of death.

Huo Yuhao went forward to examine it and found that on the horns of the Bighorn Sheep Soul Beast, there were nine rings of black patterns. A tenth ring of black patterns was already on the verge of taking shape.

According to the statistical laws of Soul Beasts on the Douluo Continent, the age of a Soul Beast usually had an intuitive manifestation. The number of certain characteristics could always correspond to its age.

It could be guessed that this Bighorn Sheep Soul Beast was already ninety thousand years old, nearing one hundred thousand years.

The injury that had caused the Bighorn Sheep Soul Beast's death was a piercing wound through the center of its brow, killing it in one blow. At the same time, its body had been frozen by Ultimate Ice, so it maintained a sleeping appearance. Its expression showed no pain at all, and it had died very peacefully.

Without needing to think much, Huo Yuhao already knew who had done it.

"This Bighorn Sheep Soul Beast might have been the original owner of the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus. It protected the snow lotus until it grew to one hundred thousand years, perhaps wanting to use the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus to break through the one-hundred-thousand-year bottleneck. But it never expected to be ambushed by that old schemer, the Snow Empress, and have the treasure it had painstakingly nurtured stolen by her."

What accidental discovery? It was nothing but plunder by the law of the jungle.

It was only because the Snow Empress did not eat meat. Otherwise, the Bighorn Sheep Soul Beast would not even have left a corpse behind. The Snow Empress also could not possibly have let the Bighorn Sheep Soul Beast leave. If the news leaked, risks and accidents might arise.

A Soul Beast approaching one hundred thousand years already possessed considerable intelligence. Knowing to take revenge was a given.

Huo Yuhao carefully examined the Bighorn Sheep Soul Beast's corpse again. His expression changed slightly, then revealed a look of surprise.

"There are actually Soul Power fluctuations inside this Soul Beast's body. In other words... an Exploding Soul Bone?!"

A Soul Beast capable of guarding the snow lotus until it grew to one hundred thousand years could not possibly be weak no matter how one thought about it. Added to the fact that it was about to break through to one hundred thousand years of cultivation, producing a Soul Bone after being killed seemed quite normal.

The Snow Empress had not taken out the Soul Bone. Perhaps it was because of some boring pity, granting the Bighorn Sheep Soul Beast its last bit of dignity, or perhaps she had some other plan.

Of course, to the Snow Empress, a Soul Bone was merely something that could serve as a collectible.

But in any case, no matter what the Snow Empress had been thinking, Huo Yuhao wanted to say one thing to her: "Thanks, ow"~

After finishing his observation, he acted directly.

Huo Yuhao raised his hand and stored the entire Bighorn Sheep Soul Beast into his Storage Soul Tool.

Then Huo Yuhao came beside the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus, preparing to pick it.

The Snow Empress had not used the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus yet. She probably had not finished preparing to recultivate. But she would absolutely never imagine that after one old schemer came another.

"Heh heh, then I won't stand on ceremony."

After approaching the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus, Huo Yuhao could more clearly observe the veins running across the leaves, like blood vessels beneath a young girl's fair skin; smell the delicate fragrance of the stamen, stirring the heart and mind; and see the dew dotted across the petals, like the autumn ripples in a young girl's eyes, making it all the more stunning.

"Wait, dew? Where did dew come from?"

In this world of ice and snow, the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus was still an ice-and-snow-attribute plant-type Soul Beast. Dew could still cling to it? Was he sure it had not frozen?

It could not be that the Snow Empress had done something and sprayed water onto the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus, right?

Huo Yuhao carefully extended his perception toward a droplet of dew on a petal and discovered that the dew actually contained a dense vitality, which made Huo Yuhao even more pleasantly surprised.

"This, this dew is actually a kind of treasure too?!"

"Sure enough, surviving a great disaster brings good fortune. Is this how the Child of Destiny gets treated?"

As if it had searched for a keyword, some content from Pudu Cihang's memories suddenly surfaced in Huo Yuhao's mind.

Pudu Cihang, who had risen from the wild mountains, naturally knew a great deal about herbs, including a portion concerning snow lotuses.

The Ice Mountain Snow Lotus grew only on snowy peaks above five thousand meters. It was a sacred item for healing injuries. After consumption, it could bring the dead back to life, regrow flesh on bones, increase cultivation, and allow one to be reborn. The droplets condensed on its petals and leaves were called Snow Lotus Dew, and could dispel evil, cure disease, prolong life, and recover from injuries.

Although they were not from the same world, the effects of herbs of the same type were not very different.

In the original work, there was someone who possessed the Snow Lotus Martial Soul, and that was the Heaven Dou Empire princess, the Body Sect disciple Wei Na, whose Twin Martial Souls were the Snow Lotus and the brain.

Her Snow Lotus Martial Soul followed the Healing System path.

Having discovered something good again, Huo Yuhao hurriedly rummaged through the Storage Soul Tool and took out a jade bottle, then began carefully collecting the dew on the snow lotus without letting a single drop go.

In order to gather herbs, Bei Bei had prepared quite a few herb-picking tools and storage vessels inside the Storage Soul Tool, which just happened to make things convenient for Huo Yuhao.

Moreover, although Bei Bei's Storage Soul Tool could not store living things, Bei Bei had prepared a special Soul Tool Box that could ensure the vitality of herbs.

After collecting the dew and confirming that nothing else had been missed, Huo Yuhao took out the Soul Tool Box, uprooted the snow lotus, and placed it into the box.

The Snow Empress had not left any warning measures on the snow lotus, so nothing unexpected happened. Perhaps it was because the Snow Empress had great confidence in the ice and snow arrangement outside.

As for leaving behind roots and seeds?

Don't joke around.

He would not leave the Snow Empress even a scrap of leftovers!

"Snow Empress, you only deserve to eat your Brother Hao's fart! I'm out~"

With the benefits in hand, Huo Yuhao turned and ran, quickly disappearing into the wind and snow.