Star Dou Great Forest

Star Dou Great Forest.

As dusk settled, a cold wind swept through the depths of the dense woods, carrying the fresh scent of grass and trees.

Huo Yuhao was covered in wounds, his steps unsteady. Every step was a struggle.

He had only recently escaped from the Duke Mansion, and his chest churned with resentment and unyielding determination.

"Why does the Spirit Eye Martial Soul have no attacking ability at all..."

He clenched his teeth, forcing the words out between them, as if the pain could make him pull himself together.

To obtain the first Soul Ring of his life, he had ventured alone into the perilous Star Dou Great Forest.

On the way, he had been ambushed by a Soul Beast.

Now, the corpse of a Wind Baboon lay beside him, with a gleaming white Ten-Year Soul Ring floating above it.

Defeating this Ten-Year Soul Beast had drained every last bit of his strength.

Blood kept seeping from his wounds, and his consciousness began to fade.

At any moment, he could collapse in these woods and be eaten by a Soul Beast.

But he had to absorb a Soul Ring and become a Soul Master. Only then could he avenge his mother!

Just then—

"Rumble!"

The earth trembled and split open.

A several-meter-long white worm burrowed out.

An excited voice rang out: "A Martial Soul with a Mental Attribute! I've finally found one!!!"

A gentle yet irresistible mental force suddenly enveloped Huo Yuhao.

Before he could fight back, he was dragged into a boundless spiritual world.

A gigantic silkworm, its body gleaming white and patterned with gold, floated in midair.

"Little one, do you want to become stronger?"

The mental voice boomed through Huo Yuhao's sea of consciousness, its final notes laced with careless, teasing amusement.

"Do you want the power to change your fate?"

Huo Yuhao trembled slightly, unspeakable terror surging through his mind.

But when he remembered his dead mother—

He clenched his fists tight, bit down until blood welled between his teeth, and spoke the deepest desire in his heart, one word at a time.

"I do."

"I want to become strong!"

"I'll make everyone who ever bullied me pay in blood!"

The gigantic silkworm gave a low laugh, and its mental voice swept out again.

"Good. With determination like that, you're worthy of my gift."

"My name is Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. I'm the first million-year Soul Beast in the history of Douluo Continent!"

Huo Yuhao's breath caught.

"A m-million-year Soul Beast?!"

A hundred thousand years already made a Soul Beast one of the world's most powerful. A million years...

His voice trembled. "That's just a legend!"

"..."

Only Sky Dream Ice Silkworm knew it wasn't a legend. He was a million-year Soul Beast himself.

But that million years of cultivation had brought him no benefit.

He had relied entirely on devouring Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow to cultivate his peerless power.

Yet in the end, all that power had earned him was thousands of years of imprisonment.

The Ten Great Beast Kings of Star Dou had trapped him deep in a forbidden area, using him as a battery that endlessly supplied them with power.

For thousands of years, he had seen no sunlight as they slowly devoured his source.

Now that he had escaped, his lifespan had already reached its end.

He refused to simply vanish into nothing!

And Huo Yuhao before him was the one he had chosen.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's mental power suddenly tightened, locking firmly onto Huo Yuhao's sea of consciousness.

"Kid, I'll become your Soul Ring—the first million-year Wisdom Spirit Ring in Douluo Continent's history!"

"!!!"

Huo Yuhao's heart pounded wildly, his fear already replaced by overwhelming excitement.

"This isn't a Soul Ring formed after a Soul Master kills a Soul Beast. Nor is it a Soul Beast's passive sacrifice at the brink of death."

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's voice grew serious. Each word sounded like the proclamation of some grand plan's beginning.

"This is a God-Making Project, with my entire source as the wager."

"I'll help you reach the pinnacle of the continent and become a true god."

Without the slightest hesitation, Huo Yuhao opened his sea of consciousness.

"I'll take that bet."

His voice was hoarse, but firm as iron.

"Even if it means ten thousand calamities, that's still better than being trampled like an ant."

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's eyes lit up. "Ha ha ha! I'll take you straight to the peak of life!"

The God-Making Project officially began!

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's million-year source surged toward Huo Yuhao's sea of consciousness and meridians.

The million-year mental power sent terrifying waves of mental force and energy rippling in every direction.

This power was too overwhelming. It directly shook the barriers of space.

A tiny crack quietly opened in the void.

A wisp of remnant soul, carrying endless solitude and pride across the planes, drifted through the crack toward the source of the energy.

The Holy Necromancer, Electrolux.

He had once been the Child of Light of the Holy Demon Continent.

Betrayed by those closest to him and left with his homeland in ruins, he had fallen from the pinnacle of holy light into the abyss of the undead, creating the Scourge of the Undead that swept across the entire continent.

After his source was exhausted, the last fragment of his divine consciousness shattered through the void and drifted there for ten thousand years.

At last, in this very moment, he arrived in this new world.

At the same time—

"Ding!"

A pink portal appeared without warning in the empty space beside Huo Yuhao.

Su Hui stepped through it, and the Anywhere Door behind him vanished at once.

"What is this..."

He had meant to use the Anywhere Door to avoid the Ferocious Beasts patrolling the Star Dou core area.

He never expected the exit to drop him straight into the center of this energy storm caused by a million-year Soul Beast's sacrifice.

Before he could make sense of the chaotic energy currents around him, a streak of gray light shot down from the sky and straight into his brain.

Then a voice that shook his soul boomed out.

"Ha ha ha!"

"With the sun and moon in my hands, I pluck the stars from the sky. None in this world can compare to me!"

"Argh!!!"

Su Hui's sea of consciousness shook violently, and his head throbbed.

A searing pulse also came from his palm.

The Silver Dragon Spear burst uncontrollably out of his body.

But he had no time to worry about that. He could only brace himself against the ground with one hand and support his aching, splitting head with the other.

After flying out, the Silver Dragon Spear pointed straight at Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's physical body.

Brilliant silver-white light burst from the spear.

An irresistible force of devouring surged from it, reaching toward Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's million-year source as he layered on seal after seal.

Inside Huo Yuhao's spiritual world, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had been focusing intently on reinforcing the layers of seals.

Suddenly, he sensed his source draining away at a terrifying rate.

"Waaah! Who's secretly sucking away my source?! That's outrageous!!!"

He screamed in fury.

He did everything he could to draw his source back in.

But the devouring force was too overbearing. There was no way to stop it.

"What kind of cursed thing is this?! Even the Ten Great Beast Kings of Star Dou could only nibble away at my source bit by bit. How can it gulp it down like this?!

"Stop! Stop right now! We can talk this out!"

"Don't suck anymore! Waaaah, please, stop sucking!"

His mental voice was full of panic, on the verge of collapse.

Su Hui's headache finally eased.

He raised an eyebrow. He saw what the Silver Dragon Spear was doing and heard Sky Dream Ice Silkworm begging for mercy.

Putting together what had just happened, he more or less understood the situation.

The Silver Dragon Spear had an almost instinctive urge to devour any pure energy in the world.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had happened to land right in its sights.

"Sorry."

Su Hui's voice was calm, tinged with helplessness.

"This spear has a mind of its own. Your source is so pure, it can't help but crave it."

"What do you mean, it craves it?! I'm done! I want to take back my offer!"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's shriek rose another pitch.

But the Silver Dragon Spear's devouring force only grew stronger.

The silver-white light of the spear blazed brighter and brighter, and faint golden patterns began to emerge.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was completely panicked.

He had already begun his sacrifice and cast off his physical body. His soul and source were all he had, the capital for completing this God-Making Project.

If this broken spear sucked away all his power, how was he supposed to make a god?

"Make it stop! I'm begging you!"

"I waited thousands of years for this chance. You can't—"

His mental voice shifted from despair to pleading, until at last only sobs remained.

But the Silver Dragon Spear didn't pause for a moment.

The spear had a spirit, and it followed only Su Hui's will.

If Su Hui didn't tell it to stop, it would keep sucking until it had completely drained its target's source.

After only a few breaths, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's screams began to weaken.

His once-brilliant, gleaming white body visibly dimmed.

His mental voice grew fainter and fainter, until at last it fell completely silent.