It was so fast that even Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection failed to catch it.
"Bingbing, listen to me! I came this time to help you become a god!" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was still shouting at the top of his lungs.
Huo Yuhao couldn't take it anymore.
"Enough talking! Do it!" he barked inside the Sea of Consciousness.
If that fat worm kept up the act and Ice Empress realized what was happening and escaped, then all their efforts would truly have come to nothing.
"Right away!"
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's voice changed in an instant. All his usual frivolity vanished, replaced by an absolute air of control.
The golden phantom in midair suddenly burst apart.
There was no earth-shaking explosion, only an invisible storm of spiritual power.
The scattered golden light transformed into a vast net that blotted out the sky, dropping straight over the charging Ice Empress.
"What is this thing?!" Ice Empress cried out in shock and fury, struggling with all her might.
Her emerald Ultimate Ice erupted in a frenzy, trying to freeze the net of spiritual power.
But it was useless.
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm might have been a complete pushover in battle, but when it came to spiritual power, hardly anyone on the entire continent could surpass him.
Except for the one who was still asleep.
Ice Empress, with nearly four hundred thousand years of cultivation, had not the slightest room to resist under the crushing weight of a million years' worth of spiritual power.
The golden net drew tighter and tighter, forcibly suppressing the light around Ice Empress until it retreated back into her body.
"Sky Dream! How dare you trick me!" At last, a hint of panic entered Ice Empress's voice.
"Heh heh, Bingbing, sorry about this. I'm doing it for the