Sky Dream Ice Silkworm? Eat My Ball!

"No... you!"

Tang Ya widened her eyes, pointing a finger at Jiang Yi, momentarily at a loss for words.

How could there be someone with such low emotional intelligence in this world?

I am the Sect Master, and you're doing this right in front of me... But then she felt a wave of dejection; what he said was, in fact, the truth.

Jiang Yi blinked, his face devoid of any embarrassment. He had merely been testing little Tang's loyalty.

You know, I have always admired Third Brother!!!

"I... hm?"

Just as Jiang Yi was about to speak, a sudden mental fluctuation swept in from afar, blanketing the forest for dozens of miles.

Every living creature touched by this mental wave suffered an instant impact, and Tang Ya and the others were left frozen in place.

But the next instant, that mental fluctuation receded as quickly as a receding tide.

"Tian Meng!!!"

Jiang Yi's heart tightened. With no time to greet the others, his figure flickered, transforming into a bolt of lightning as he vanished from the spot.

A few breaths later.

Tang Ya and Bei Bei finally shook off the sense of chaos, but Jiang Yi was already gone.

"Eh? Why did he run off... even if he didn't want to join, he didn't have to act like he'd seen a ghost, did he?"

Tang Ya rubbed her forehead, looking at the empty forest, and rolled her eyes with a hint of resentment.

She subconsciously assumed the mental daze from moments ago was some special trick Jiang Yi had used, and didn't think much more of it.

"Xiao Ya, you should absorb the soul ring first!"

Bei Bei took one last deep look in the direction Jiang Yi had vanished, then withdrew his gaze and pointed to the Mandala Snake nearby.

That fellow hadn't killed the Mandala Snake outright, but had specifically left it with a breath of life; he was quite an interesting character.

"Mm!"

Tang Ya nodded and walked forward.

She arrived before the unconscious Mandala Snake, pulled out her ancestral dagger, and finished it off. A bewitching purple soul ring rose from the corpse.

Tang Ya sat cross-legged and began to absorb the soul ring, while Bei Bei stood guard nearby.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Somewhere in the forest, a legendary Wind Baboon collapsed.

"I did it!"

The young girl pulled the White Tiger Dagger from the Wind Baboon's body and slumped to the ground, trembling with excitement.

Before her, a ten-year Wind Baboon had lost its chance to kill a god forever, and a white soul ring hovered above its corpse.

"So this is a soul ring? It's truly miraculous... as long as I absorb it, I will be a true Soul Master."

Huo Yutong endured the pain in her body, crawled up from the ground, and limped toward the Wind Baboon.

She looked at the fallen beast and the white soul ring, a sincere smile blooming on her face.

A ten-year soul beast was the lowest of the low, but to a little girl like her, it had been nearly insurmountable.

"However... it's a pity the attributes don't match!"

Huo Yutong sighed suddenly, a look of hesitation crossing her small face.

From the battle just now, she could clearly feel that this Wind Baboon was a wind-attribute soul beast, which didn't quite suit her martial soul.

Although she was born to a maid of Duke White Tiger, her mother had taught her some knowledge about Soul Masters in the past.

Soul rings were essential for a Soul Master's advancement, but not every ring was suitable; a good soul ring could provide a massive boost.

Yet, just this single ten-year Wind Baboon had nearly sent her to meet her mother. Huo Yutong couldn't guarantee she would be this lucky next time.

"Sigh..."

Huo Yutong struggled for a long time, but finally sighed and slowly walked forward, preparing to absorb the ring.

There was no other way; she was just an illegitimate daughter cast out of the Duke's Mansion, and being able to obtain a soul ring by sheer luck was already a blessing from the heavens.

She had to survive first to have any right to talk about the future; Huo Yutong understood this clearly, and she felt no great resentment.

"Mother..."

Huo Yutong bit her lip and reached out toward the ten-year soul ring.

However, at that very moment, a majestic voice suddenly echoed in her mind.

"Holding the sun and moon in my hands, plucking the stars... I never expected that I, this old man, would still have a wisp of a remnant soul remaining."

A gray stream of energy darted directly into the center of her brow, and the next moment, a figure radiating a golden halo condensed within her mental world.

"Who are you?"

Huo Yutong felt that terrifying figure within her mind, and her heart trembled as a sense of dread welled up from the depths of her soul.

That was not merely fear of an unknown existence, but the instinctive terror of a lower-level being facing a higher-order life form.

"Little girl, there is no need for concern."

Electrolux looked at the two intertwined powers within Huo Yutong's soul, a hint of a smile flashing in his eyes.

The power of light and darkness, is it?

"You and I are fated; this old man is merely borrowing this precious land for a time..."

Having said this, the figure of Electrolux gradually faded, transforming into a gray seed that submerged deep into the recesses of her spiritual world.

"..."

Huo Yutong fell into silence, and the next moment, her consciousness was kicked out of her spiritual world, returning to reality.

What was going on?

Her heart felt somewhat dazed.

An unidentified glowing object had suddenly moved into her brain, which couldn't help but remind her of stories from folklore.

"Senior?"

Huo Yutong blinked, calling out cautiously within her heart.

But no matter how she called, that voice never appeared again, and she had no choice but to give up in resignation.

After all, given the methods the other party had displayed, she had no ability to resist whatsoever; she could only hope that the entity harbored no malice.

"I should continue absorbing the spirit ring!"

Huo Yutong shook her head, adjusted her mood, and prepared to resume the absorption.

In any case, she had nothing to lose.

Those with nothing to lose fear nothing; if it could help her take revenge, she would not be unwilling to risk her very life.

She once again turned her gaze toward the white spirit ring before her, yet at that very moment, an accident occurred—again and again.

Rumble!

Suddenly, the ground trembled, and the earth in front of her split open—literally split open.

Cracks expanded across the ground, gradually forming a deep fissure, and countless golden-white rays of light began to shine from within that gap.

"Hehe! Little sister, big sister is here! Finally, I've encountered someone infused with spiritual attributes..."

A voice, carrying a slightly lecherous tone, rang out beside Huo Yutong's ear.

"Who is it?"

Huo Yutong gripped the White Tiger Dagger in her hand, two rays of light igniting in her eyes—one gold, one dark. Her heterochromatic eyes stared fixedly at the fissure.

This was her martial soul, the Eye, which was also a mutated martial soul.

Under her gaze, the crack continued to widen, and a round, chubby head crawled out from within.

It looked like a silkworm baby, its entire body wreathed in a faint layer of icy mist. The moment this ice silkworm appeared, the surrounding temperature plummeted significantly.

"A... a hundred-year spirit beast!"

Huo Yutong's heart skipped a beat, and her suspended heart finally sank to the bottom.

With such a massive body and the power to manipulate ice, it could only be a legendary hundred-year spirit beast.

Senior... save, save, save me!

Huo Yutong felt a touch of despair, calling out incessantly in her heart to the figure she had just encountered.

Under the pressure of the spirit beast before her, she couldn't even take a single step, let alone run away.

"What hundred-year spirit beast? Big sister is a legendary... divine beast! I punch Di Tian and kick the Snow Empress!"

Hearing Huo Yutong's exclamation, the silkworm baby tilted its head in a human-like fashion, its tone filled with pride.

"Forget it, it's impossible to explain to you mortals. Just obediently become big sister's human pet! Hehehe!!!"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm didn't waste any more words; its massive body began to wriggle, approaching bit by bit as Huo Yutong watched in despair.

It dared not delay any longer; if Di Tian and the others sensed it and dragged it back, it would suffer a miserable fate.

"No! Don't come over!!!"

Huo Yutong screamed in terror, but her struggles before a million-year spirit beast were like a little girl acting spoiled.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm lunged with a savage charge, like a two-hundred-pound white wild boar rushing toward her.

It's over!

Huo Yutong watched the expanding white shadow in despair, her delicate body trembling instinctively with fear.

Something this big... it's going to break me, isn't it?

"I'm sorry, Mother! Yutong cannot seek justice for you."

A gentle shadow appeared in Huo Yutong's mind, and two lines of clear tears could not help but stream from the corners of her eyes.

An extreme chill enveloped Huo Yutong, causing her to lose consciousness in an instant.

But just then, the grey seed that had been dormant in her mind trembled slightly, and the mental suppression Tian Meng had cast over the vicinity was shattered in an instant.

"What is that?"

Tian Meng's figure faltered, and she looked at Huo Yutong with suspicion and uncertainty.

Just now, from this little girl, she had actually sensed a mental power that made even her feel terrified.

Just as she hesitated over whether to strike, a purple sphere suddenly flew out from the forest, heading straight for her forehead.

"Hmm?"

Tian Meng glanced at it dismissively, flicking out a mental shockwave to swat it away.

Just a human brat...

However, the next moment, her eyes widened; the purple sphere had passed directly through her mental shockwave.

"Something's wrong!"

Tian Meng felt a jolt of alarm, but it was too late; the purple sphere had already descended, landing squarely on her forehead.

CLANG!!!

A crisp sound rang out. The purple sphere erupted with white light, acting like a vortex as it began to pull at Tian Meng's body.

"No--!!!"

Tian Meng let out a shriek, her mental power erupting with full force, but no matter how she resisted, she was ultimately swallowed by the white light.

The purple sphere bounced three times on the ground before finally settling into stillness.

Only then did Jiang Yi slowly emerge from the bushes nearby to pick up the Master Ball from the ground.

Little Tian Meng, captured!!!