Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had not even reacted before Huo Yuhao gently pressed his forehead against her body.
"Sister Tian Meng, don't resist. Hand over all of your spiritual origin for me to control."
A brilliant, dazzling golden light suddenly bloomed from where the two touched.
The golden rings around Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's body pulsed as if they had come alive, turning into streams of white halos that rapidly enveloped Huo Yuhao's body.
Complex, profound white ring patterns began to emerge across Huo Yuhao's body.
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's originally massive body began to shrink continuously. In the end, she transformed into a streak of golden light and merged into the rings, dyeing every white halo a brilliant gold.
As the rings merged into his body, an invisible spiritual ripple began spreading from Huo Yuhao in all directions.
That terrifying spiritual power covered every corner within a hundred-li radius almost instantly.
At that moment, the southern region of the Star Dou Great Forest fell into deathly silence.
At that very moment, a thunderous boom violently rang out in the sky.
In an instant, the sky was completely shrouded in darkness.
A stream of gray air descended from the heavens as though it had encountered an immense suction force.
In the blink of an eye, it burrowed into Huo Yuhao's forehead.
Having returned through rebirth, Huo Yuhao naturally would not let Sky Dream Ice Silkworm continue being some so-called "intelligent Soul Ring."
By manipulating Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's spiritual origin, he completed the Soul Spirit Contract with remarkable ease.
Of course, Huo Yuhao believed it had gone so smoothly mainly because Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had been thoroughly frightened by what he had done earlier.
Her spiritual origin had been completely brought under Huo Yuhao's control. Even the compression and sealing of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's spiritual origin had been carried out entirely by him.
At that moment, within Huo Yuhao's spiritual space, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, now in the form of a golden-haired young girl, stared blankly at herself.
Though she did not understand what exactly had happened, one thing was beyond doubt: her spiritual power had completely transformed into divine sense.
In a sense, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had become a god, albeit a version limited solely to spiritual power.
Yet that was not what shocked her the most. When she looked upward, she saw a golden vertical eye covered in mysterious patterns, silently floating in that vast, boundless void.
It was only a little taller than a person and did not appear imposing, yet it felt as though it had been there since time immemorial.
Within that golden vertical eye, ten thick golden chains tightly bound a golden-red crystal core. Faint, low dragon roars could be heard coming from within the core.
An overwhelmingly powerful pressure spread invisibly through the space.
It forced her, along with the ten massive golden-white spheres of light that had been sealed away and the gray mass of air that had also been drawn in, to retreat far from that mysterious golden vertical eye.
But Sky Dream Ice Silkworm immediately understood what it was.
"Is this... a Divine Artifact?"
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's voice trembled from overwhelming shock.
"That's right. But more accurately, it's a Super Divine Artifact."
A calm, gentle voice suddenly sounded behind Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
Startled, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm turned around and saw that the young man from before had somehow appeared beside her. Moreover, the spiritual body he had condensed was exceptionally solid, glowing with a noble and pure, brilliant golden radiance.
There was no doubt that the young man's spiritual body was also divine sense.
"Brother, are you a Deity from the God Realm?"
After thinking for less than a second and realizing this might be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm decisively dropped to her knees, tightly hugged Huo Yuhao's leg, and looked up at him pitifully.
"I used to be, more or less."
Huo Yuhao looked at the petite girl before him, who was as small as Xiao Xiao had been in his previous life.
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, dressed in loose white one-piece pajamas, clung to him with a shameless grin, giving him a headache.
All he could say was that Sister Tian Meng's personality had not changed much from his previous life.
Although her gender had changed, even her appearance had changed drastically.
Huo Yuhao shook his head with a faint laugh and continued, "But Sister Tian Meng, aren't you curious about your current condition?"
Her condition?
To be honest, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm still had not fully figured out what had happened.
Originally, she had merely planned to find a human who looked rather weak, pitiful, and helpless, yet possessed a spiritual attribute.
Then she would fool him into letting her become the first, and currently the only, intelligent Soul Ring on this continent.
She would also grant him an incomplete second martial soul—an ice-attributed martial soul.
Afterward, she would fool him into going to the Far North, where she could trick Bingbing into joining them and drag her aboard as well.
With Bingbing and herself, they would definitely slaughter their way through everything. Even becoming gods in the end was not impossible.
But now, she had merely happened to run into a young man, only to find that he had once been a god and was carrying a Super Divine Artifact.
Under a series of incomprehensible maneuvers from him, her spiritual power had directly ascended into divine sense.
What kind of dream start was this?
Didn't that mean that as long as she held onto his thigh, she could immediately enter slaughter-everything mode?
At the thought of this, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm felt her blood begin to boil.
However, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who usually only thought along a single track, clearly had not yet realized why the young man opposite her was a Deity only "in the past."
She had not even considered what enemies he might have had in the God Realm.
"Brother, although your spiritual space is quite large right now, the spiritual origin within it is far too little. Why don't I help you replenish it first?"
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm remained immersed in the beautiful dream she had imagined. Naturally, she wanted to demonstrate her value as much as possible.
She added, "Oh, right, I also gave you an ice-attributed martial soul.
"Once you go to the Far North, I'll help you absorb an Ultimate Ice martial soul too. By then, we'll definitely slaughter our way through everything."
Tian Meng clearly still remembered the Ice Empress and wanted to bring her along to become a god and gain eternal life.
Previously, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had not been very confident about whether she could bring the Ice Empress into her God-Making Project.
But now, the person she had encountered had once been a Deity and even carried a Super Divine Artifact with him.
If even he could not become a god, then there was probably no second person on the Douluo Continent capable of doing so.
As Sky Dream Ice Silkworm unsealed a portion of the first sealed source power.
The golden-white sphere of light slowly flowed into Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sea.
The total amount of spiritual power, which had originally been only the size of a small pool, immediately began expanding and overflowing. In the end, it grew to roughly twice its original capacity.
Although Huo Yuhao's spiritual body was now divine sense, cultivation had to proceed step by step, and excess had to be avoided. Thus, he did not let Sky Dream Ice Silkworm inject too much source power into his Spiritual Sea.
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