Imagined from Thin Air, Fabricated from Thin Air

A long, long time ago...

All right, Huo Yuhao's story began one day earlier.

Huo Yuhao said he had only woken up a dozen or so hours ago himself.

Then he discovered that he and Bei Bei were lying stark naked in the snow.

Mm, that also explained why Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei were now wearing wolfskin coats, and why Bei Bei's Storage Soul Tool was gone too.

Their clothes and soul tool might have been destroyed by the Titan Snow Demon King's attack, or they might have been stripped away by some human passing by.

Who knew?

If you don't believe it, search him!

In any case, Huo Yuhao could guarantee that Bei Bei would absolutely not be able to find a Storage Soul Tool on him.

In short, being able to survive the Titan Snow Demon King's attack was already truly rare.

However, what shocked Huo Yuhao the most was that he and Bei Bei had not frozen to death, and that he had actually fully awakened his martial soul!

Then Huo Yuhao used the power of the Frost Centipede to kill two ten-year snow wolves, made two wolfskin coats, and ate some snow wolf meat to replenish his strength.

Finally, Huo Yuhao carried Bei Bei on his back and withdrew from the Far North Land until Bei Bei woke up.

The story was over.

Bei Bei sank into thought.

As for the disappearance of the clothes and soul tool on him, Bei Bei did not suspect Huo Yuhao, because in his heart, Little Brother Huo was a good person.

Bei Bei suspected that someone passing by had stripped them of their equipment, then thrown them there to fend for themselves.

Otherwise, how could the Titan Snow Demon King's attack only destroy clothes and soul tools without hurting people?

What kind of obscene attack would do that?

And the moment he thought of his Storage Soul Tool being taken away, anger and a faint killing intent surfaced in Bei Bei's heart.

What enraged Bei Bei was not the lost Storage Soul Tool, nor the Gold Soul Coins and supplies inside it. If those things were lost, then they were lost.

The real reason Bei Bei was furious was that inside the Storage Soul Tool were the Medicinal Herbs they had collected earlier, as well as that special Crystal they had discovered!

That light-attribute Crystal was useful to Bei Bei. It was the hope of his bloodline awakening, so Xuan Zi had naturally handed it to Bei Bei to keep himself.

Yet now it was all gone.

"Such conduct is truly hateful! Don't let me find out who took my Storage Soul Tool, or I'll absolutely make him pay the price! He has already paved his own road to death!" Bei Bei cursed angrily in his heart, his expression changing again and again before he finally swallowed his rage.

What good would anger do here?

It would be better to return to Shrek Academy sooner and have someone investigate this matter.

His Storage Soul Tool was not some common street goods. It bore the mark of the Light Holy Dragon. As long as it had not been destroyed, there was a chance it could be found.

Huo Yuhao watched Bei Bei's face-changing stunt and found it amusing.

After Bei Bei suppressed the anger in his heart, he looked at Huo Yuhao and once again revealed a gentle smile. "Little Brother Huo, the fact that we survived should have something to do with your awakened martial soul, right? I've noticed that in this icy, snowy Far North Land, we don't seem to feel very cold. That probably isn't thanks to these crude wolfskin coats on us, is it?"

Although he was asking, Bei Bei was already certain of his own idea.

Huo Yuhao had nothing to hide either. He nodded. "As expected of Big Brother Bei Bei! That's right, the reason we didn't die was because of my Frost Centipede Martial Soul."

A sharp gleam flashed in Bei Bei's eyes. "Could it be a domain?!"

"Not quite." Huo Yuhao smiled modestly. "The Frost Centipede didn't awaken a domain, but it can affect the temperature within a certain range. With that, the Frost Centipede can greatly slow the loss of our body heat."

Controlling temperature was merely a small trick of Ultimate Ice's power, except it required more refined control.

Of course, because of that, the range of temperature change he could control was very limited.

Moreover, the main direction of temperature change was lowering the temperature. Raising it required more control, and slowing the loss of heat counted as the most effortless operation.

"So that's how it is."

After hearing Huo Yuhao's explanation, Bei Bei nodded slightly, knowing he had overthought it.

But that did not stop Bei Bei from being grateful to Huo Yuhao.

"Little Brother Huo, this life of mine was saved by you. I will never forget this kindness!" Bei Bei said sincerely to Huo Yuhao.

"Haha, Big Brother Bei Bei, you're making it sound too serious. The reason I could come to the Far North Land and obtain this opportunity was also because I had Big Brother Bei Bei's help." Huo Yuhao hurriedly waved his hands.

Looking at Huo Yuhao's attitude, Bei Bei felt that Huo Yuhao was a close friend he could entrust his back to and befriend for life.

At this moment, however, Huo Yuhao's gaze drifted toward the top of Bei Bei's head.

Because Huo Yuhao had deceived Bei Bei's feelings and made Bei Bei regard him as a close friend, Bei Bei's Fortune actually took the initiative to begin linking with Huo Yuhao's Fortune.

Huo Yuhao naturally did not stand on ceremony and took another big bite of Bei Bei's Fortune.

So fragrant~

Huo Yuhao smiled even more brightly. He handed Bei Bei another piece of roasted wolf meat and said, "Big Brother Bei Bei, eat another piece of meat, then let's leave the Far North Land as soon as possible."

"All right!" Bei Bei nodded.

While eating the meat, Bei Bei was also thinking about Huo Yuhao's martial soul awakening.

According to Huo Yuhao, after he woke up, he found that his martial soul had awakened. He himself did not know what had caused it.

"Could it be that under the threat of death, he completed his martial soul awakening?" Bei Bei formed a guess in his heart.

This guess was very possible!

Because there were soul masters with similar situations.

According to research in the soul master world, certain extreme emotions or states could cause a martial soul to change.

For example, extreme hatred could make a martial soul degenerate into an evil martial soul. Soul masters with special bloodlines like Bei Bei and Xu San Shi could also awaken their potential for a short time when their rage reached the extreme.

And cases of a martial soul awakening or mutating when one was near death were not nonexistent either.

The most typical example was Ghost Douluo of Spirit Hall ten thousand years ago.

It was said that Ghost Douluo's martial soul was extremely peculiar. In his childhood, he had once died, but by a stroke of fortune, his soul was able to reattach to his body, thereby awakening his martial soul and producing an extremely special martial soul situation. In a sense, his soul was his martial soul, while he himself was a living corpse.

Although Bei Bei did not specialize in theoretical research, he was by no means lacking in the knowledge he ought to have.

After all, he was a good student, one who listened properly in class.

In Shrek Academy's normal teaching, they also taught all kinds of theoretical knowledge to broaden the students' horizons.

After all, if someone went out to duel and did not even understand the opponent's martial soul, then lost the fight, where would Shrek Academy put its face?

Of course, Shrek Academy did not have many culture classes.

The reason Bei Bei knew about Ghost Douluo was because, in the academy's curriculum, the history of how the righteous Sea God led Shrek Academy to defeat the evil Spirit Hall back then was treated as key teaching content.

After all, this was what the founder of Shrek Academy was most proud of, so naturally it had to be written about in grand detail and passed down through the ages.

Among that, the powerful figures of Spirit Hall at the time were naturally all introduced.

Otherwise, how would it highlight the Sea God's power?

"That's right, that's it! Little Brother Huo was on the verge of death in the freezing environment of the Far North Land, thereby stimulating his own potential and fully awakening his martial soul!" Bei Bei confirmed his guess.

"Being near death and an extremely cold environment—neither could be missing!"

At this moment, Bei Bei's ancestors possessed him, and he learned how to imagine from thin air and fabricate from thin air. A wise light appeared in his eyes.

The reasons Huo Yuhao had prepared could not even be used.

It was just that when Bei Bei looked at the Mutated Frost Centipede spinning in circles where it was, he could not help adding another thought in his heart: "But it seems a mutation appeared too. I don't know whether this mutation is good or bad."

As Bei Bei ate the roasted wolf meat in his hand, he suddenly sensed that something seemed off. He looked at the roasted wolf meat in his hand, then raised his head to look at Huo Yuhao and asked doubtfully, "Little Brother Huo, didn't all our things disappear? What did you use to start a fire and roast the wolf meat?"

There was no Fire Attribute soul master among them!

Huo Yuhao had long since prepared for this. He smiled smugly. "Big Brother Bei Bei, just watch carefully."

As he spoke, Huo Yuhao brought his hands together, and cold air gathered in his palms. When Huo Yuhao separated his hands, a convex lens condensed from ice had already appeared in them.

"This is a fire-starting method passed down from my family's ancestors."

As he spoke, Huo Yuhao took a piece of dry bark out from his clothes, then aimed the convex lens at the sun, adjusted its angle, and finally focused the light onto the dry bark.

Before long, the bark was lit.

Starting a fire with a convex lens, complete!

"It really is miraculous!" Bei Bei exclaimed again and again.

Bei Bei asked no more questions.

Next chapter, return to Shrek.