The Million-Year Soul Beast, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Has Arrived!

The scene shifts.

From the attic to a desolate trail outside the city.

Huo Yuhao walks alone with difficulty along the rugged path, observing his surroundings with vigilance.

And hundreds of meters away from him.

Having changed into dark, form-fitting attire suitable for movement and applied simple camouflage, White Tiger Lin Qing moves silently like the most seasoned stalker.

His gaze remains firmly locked on the thin, small figure ahead.

The distance is kept just right.

It allows him to grasp the other's movements at any time while ensuring he remains undetected.

[I have been following him, traversing the wilderness and crossing rivers. Like a shadow, I silently trail behind the trajectory of his fate.]

The environment of the dense forest begins to grow familiar.

Towering trees, humid air, and the faint roar of beasts.

[After a long journey, Huo Yuhao enters the Star Dou Great Forest.]

Huo Yuhao steps into the edge of the forest, looking slightly nervous, and begins to explore with even greater caution.

White Tiger Lin Qing hides in the shadows of a large tree's canopy, waiting patiently like an Owlman before a hunt.

He knows that an important "plot point" is about to arrive.

Just as expected.

Huo Yuhao encounters a minor problem in the forest, but soon he meets two people.

A silver-haired youth with a gentle, scholarly temperament and bright eyes.

A black-haired girl, lively and spirited, with an infectious smile.

Tang Ya.

Bei Bei.

[I witnessed with my own eyes those "famous scenes" that would become popular in later legends: "Grilled Fish Immortal Huo Yuhao," "It's great to be carefree, Sister Tang Ya"... and so on.]

Seeing this in reality, Lin Qing cannot help but smile knowingly.

These scenes felt merely interesting when read in the original work.

But now, seeing them again through the eyes of another version of himself from the perspective of an "invisible bystander," the feeling is exceptionally strange.

There is an absurd yet intimate sense of breaking the fourth wall.

At the same time, he becomes serious.

Because the climax and turning point of the story are approaching soon.

White Tiger Lin Qing has waited so long, prepared so long, and trailed for so long...

He certainly did not do it just to be a quiet spectator.

How exactly did he "intercept" it? Did he succeed?

If he succeeded, why did it eventually become a "relic" that appeared here?

Lin Qing holds his breath, staring intently at the light screen, anticipating the developments to come.

[Not long after, Huo Yuhao parts ways with them, as Bei Bei needs to hunt a soul ring for Tang Ya.]

On the light screen, the figures of Tang Ya and Bei Bei disappear together into the other side of the forest.

Only Huo Yuhao remains, looking somewhat lost before quickly and firmly packing away his grilling tools to continue exploring deeper into the forest.

His goal is also a soul ring—his first soul ring.

The tall trees around him cast heavy shadows, making his small figure appear even more lonely.

[I know that the critical turning point is about to arrive.]

The narrator's voice lowers, carrying a focused, breathless intensity.

[According to the "plot," Huo Yuhao will soon encounter the first soul beast of his destiny—that ten-year Wind Baboon that nearly achieved the legend of "God-Slaying."]

Sure enough.

Huo Yuhao has not gone far when the bushes ahead shake violently.

Accompanied by a sharp screech, a grey, baboon-like soul beast, small in size but exceptionally agile, lunges out!

A faint ripple of soul power emanates from its body.

Its age is very low, only about ten years or so.

For any prepared soul master, this kind of soul beast would not pose much of a threat.

But Huo Yuhao at that time was just a thin, weak boy who had just reached level ten, had no combat experience, and was even malnourished.

He is terrified and afraid.

[A ten-year Wind Baboon; even as weak as this, for the Huo Yuhao of that time, it was a life-or-death struggle that required him to give his all.]

Huo Yuhao's face turned pale, but he did not turn to flee.

Instead, he gritted his teeth, forcing himself to calm down as he mobilized his meager soul power, his eyes locked firmly onto the lunging Wind Baboon.

The battle was simple, yet intense—or perhaps, it was truly brutal.

Huo Yuhao used the most clumsy, energy-draining methods possible, relying on a flash of wit and a stubborn refusal to fall to hold his own and grapple with the Wind Baboon.

He fell and climbed back up, his clothes shredded by sharp claws, with several bloody gashes appearing on his face and arms.

Finally, he seized an opportunity and used every ounce of his remaining strength to drive the White Tiger Dagger deep into the Wind Baboon's body.

The Wind Baboon let out a shrill, mournful howl, twitched a few times, and finally went still.

A white soul ring, representing a ten-year cultivation, slowly drifted up from its corpse.

As for Huo Yuhao, he felt as if his last shred of strength had been drained away; his vision went black, and he collapsed straight backward, hitting the ground hard and falling into a dead faint.

[Huo Yuhao has won.]

[He killed the Wind Baboon, later jokingly referred to as the 'near god-slayer,' but exhausted all his strength in the process.]

[The white soul ring emerges, and he has passed out.]

The scene froze on the unconscious Huo Yuhao and the hovering white soul ring.

The forest returned to silence, save for the rustling of leaves in the wind.

Then, a figure emerged silently from the shadows behind a large tree.

It was the White Tiger Lin Qing.

[I have arrived at his side.]

White Tiger Lin Qing's footsteps were light, making little sound as he trod upon the soft, decaying leaves.

He walked to the side of the unconscious Huo Yuhao and stopped.

He looked down quietly at this future "cheat-user" lying on the ground, his face covered in blood and exhaustion.

His gaze was complex.

There was scrutiny, evaluation, and perhaps a trace of pity so faint that even he might not have noticed it.

But more than anything, there was a rationality so calm it bordered on cold.

He knew what was about to happen.

He had spent five full years preparing for this.

Just as he stood still, ready to take the next step—

A sudden change occurred!

"BOOM!!!"

The ground beneath their feet shook violently without warning!

It was as if an ancient beast sleeping deep underground was struggling frantically, trying to break through the surface!

"CRACK! CRACK-CRACK!"

On the open ground not far from Huo Yuhao, the earth suddenly split open with hideous fissures.

Soil churned and stones flew!

Following that, a white, meatball-shaped figure forcibly squeezed its way out of the cracks!

It was a... silkworm!

A giant ice silkworm, its body as white as jade and translucent, as thick as a tree trunk, and over several meters in length!

Its ice-blue eyes, like two bottomless cold pools, flickered with a human-like, intelligent light.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm!

A million-year soul beast!

The starting point of Huo Yuhao's legendary path, and one of his most important cheats!

[It is here!]

Even the narrator's voice could not help but carry an irrepressible excitement and tension at this moment.

[One of Huo Yuhao's cheats, the million-year soul beast Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, has finally arrived!!!]