The Arrival of the Fart God

"A-Tai, we can't interrupt when Grandma and Uncle are talking."

"We just need to stay in this little space most of the time."

"Grandma specially opened it up for us."

Within the Spirit Sea,

the Ice Bear King, who had always been at odds with the Titan Snow Ape King, cheekily dragged him into the small space where he lived.

"Who wants to live in your damn... What? Grandma opened this up? Fine, fine. I'll live here from now on."

The Titan Snow Ape King had been about to fly into a rage.

But after hearing that the Ice Dragon King had opened this little space,

his attitude took an immediate one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.

And since the Ice Bear King called Gu Yuan Uncle, he also called Gu Yuan Uncle, naturally addressing the Ice Dragon King as Grandma.

There was none of their former hostility left.

They looked just like a pair of close brothers.

"Oh, right. Where's the Ice Empress?"

The Titan Snow Ape King suddenly asked.

"Aunt Bing'er lives with Grandma in the big space outside," the Ice Bear King said.

"Wasn't the Ice Empress on terrible terms with Uncle?" the Titan Snow Ape King asked in surprise.

"Do they look like they're on bad terms?" The Ice Bear King opened a tiny gap in the passage to the small space.

Through that gap, the bear and ape happened to see the Ice Empress being held in Gu Yuan's arms as he spanked her butt.

The smacks rang out sharply.

But judging by the blissful expression on the Ice Empress's face, she did not seem unwilling in the slightest.

Noticing the two beasts' gazes, the Ice Dragon King shot them a glare, as though saying, Don't disturb my son while he flirts with my youngest daughter-in-law.

The Ice Bear King did not even need to say anything.

The Titan Snow Ape King beside him immediately sealed the space shut in fright.

The trip to the Far North came to a perfect end.

Gu Yuan bid farewell to the Snow Empress and set off for Shrek.

His only trouble now was that he had accumulated twenty-seven exchange attempts, yet lacked sufficiently good treasures to exchange.

"Actually, you don't need to fixate on treasures. Precious treasures are not necessarily the best."

"What suits you and benefits you in your current state is the best."

"Haven't you noticed? The more precious an item is, the more limited the things it can be exchanged for become."

"On the contrary, lower-value items are more likely to yield treasures suited to you."

The Ice Dragon King seemed to have seen through Gu Yuan's worries and reminded him.

"So that's how it is. It seems I was too fixated on an item's value."

Without further delay, Gu Yuan took out a Soul Tool belt he had seized from a human trafficker.

"System, exchange this Soul Tool belt."

[Ding! Exchange successful. Congratulations, Host. You have obtained the Four Symbols Coiled Dragon Belt of Wen Tianren, inheritor of the Six Paths from the world of A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality.]

As the system's voice fell, a blue-green belt inlaid with four strange pearls appeared in Gu Yuan's hand.

System description:

[Four Symbols Coiled Dragon Belt,

Core abilities—

Protection: Wards against wind, fire, water, and dust, resisting environmental damage.

Soul Stabilization: Stabilizes the mind, prevents interference from inner demons, and keeps the wearer's soul lucid at all times.]

"It actually dropped a golden legend." Gu Yuan's eyes lit up.

The Four Symbols Coiling Dragon Belt might not have been an especially powerful magic treasure in the world of A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality.

But in the Douluo world, it would be enough to use until the very end.

The key was that this magic treasure could protect its owner on its own, without requiring spiritual power to maintain it.

In the original A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, Wen Tianren relied on this belt to climb Storm Mountain in the Yin Underworld even after losing his spiritual power.

That was a fine example.

After fastening the Four Symbols Coiling Dragon Belt around his waist, Gu Yuan continued exchanging.

Over the next dozen or so exchanges, although he did not obtain anything especially precious,

he acquired quite a few useful items.

For instance, the Youth-Preserving Pill from the world of A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality.

For instance, "Food God Oscar's Egg: True."

For instance, Jin Renfeng's "heart" from the world of Fox Spirit Matchmaker.

For instance, Yan Dan's "Pillar of Heaven" from the world of The Legend of Qin.

For instance, "Momonosuke" from the world of One Piece.

And so on...

There was no need to say much about the Youth-Preserving Pill. It could preserve youth forever, and Gu Yuan could save it for himself and his future wives.

"Food God Oscar's Egg: True," the Pillar of Heaven, and Jin Renfeng's "heart" were immediately tossed by Gu Yuan to one of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts guarding the Ice Dragon Statue.

As a result, that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's cultivation directly soared to two hundred thousand years.

It attracted a heavenly tribulation.

Fortunately, the Snow Empress intervened at the crucial moment.

Otherwise, that two-hundred-thousand-year soul beast would have been struck to death by lightning.

After that, the soul beast's cultivation continued rising until it reached two hundred and sixty thousand years before finally stopping.

In a single leap, it became the greatest overlord of the Far North beneath the Snow Empress.

As for Momonosuke, the instant he appeared, Gu Yuan threw him into the mouth of another Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Its cultivation did not increase in the slightest.

That left the soul beast deeply disappointed.

It wanted to become stronger too.

"Only two chances remain. System, exchange this copy of Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul."

During his year in the Far North,

aside from training every day and hunting down human traffickers everywhere, Gu Yuan had also deliberately learned the written language of this world.

Well, he had learned it from a human trafficker.

At the time, he had captured the man and brought him to the Snow Empress's Ice Snow Palace. Gu Yuan had used Element Control to transform the place into a paradise where spring lasted all year round, promising that he would release the man if he taught him this world's writing.

As it happened, that fellow was actually a fan of Yu Gang.

He even took out a brand-new copy of Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul for Gu Yuan to study.

For the sake of learning the language, Gu Yuan gritted his teeth and finished studying it.

Afterward, he kept his promise and released the man.

But the man himself no longer wanted to leave.

He said it was cold outside.

How could Gu Yuan tolerate that? They were not even acquainted.

Why would he let the man disturb his private time with the Snow Empress?

So he threw him straight out.

The moment the man left the Ice Snow Palace, the extreme cold froze him into an ice sculpture.

A biting wind blew through.

The ice sculpture shattered.

The human trafficker broke into countless ice crystals and became nourishment for the Far North.

He made an important contribution to the Far North's development.

[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained Yu Gang's remnant soul.]

"What the hell am I supposed to do with this useless thing?"

If it had been a living Yu Gang, Gu Yuan might have been interested in playing with him, giving him the whole Brother Scar, Tube Apartment, Brother Jie package and the like.

But what use was this lousy remnant soul?

It would probably disperse the instant it appeared.

"System, exchange Yu Gang's remnant soul."

[Ding! Exchange successful. Congratulations, Host. You have obtained the remnant soul of Electrolux, the Holy Necromancer and Scourge of the Undead.]

As the words fell, a wisp of grayish-white air appeared before Gu Yuan.

The grayish-white air paused for a moment, then almost without hesitation drilled into the back of Gu Yuan's head.

"Who dares set their sights on my son?"

The Ice Dragon King flew into a rage. A vast spiritual fluctuation surged forth in an instant, ready to drive the gray airflow out of Gu Yuan's body.

An extremely blurry figure emerged behind Gu Yuan.

An aged voice carried an indescribable desolation and majesty, like the contradiction between ice and fire.

"With sun and moon in hand, I pluck stars from the heavens; there has never been another like me in this world. I never thought that a trace of this old man's remnant soul could still survive. Unfortunately, it seems it cannot be preserved now."

The blurry figure grew increasingly dim. At the critical moment, Gu Yuan shouted, "Little Mother, don't hurt him!"

Hearing this, the Ice Dragon King hesitated. Out of trust in her son,

she ultimately held back.

She also absorbed Electrolux's nearly shattered divine consciousness into Gu Yuan's Spirit Sea.

And helped stabilize his soul.

Only then did Electrolux avoid the fate of having his soul scattered.