"There's something to him after all. I didn't see that coming!" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said in surprise. "This kid's body is far more remarkable than I expected!"
"Looks like I can use a few fewer seals."
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said with some relief, "I thought he was a total waste of space, but it turns out he's got a bit of talent after all."
"Looks like I'm pretty lucky. Not only did I find a Mental Attribute Soul Master, but he's a promising one, too."
All the negative conditions in Huo Yuhao's body had been cleared away.
The poor talent caused by malnutrition and other factors was a thing of the past.
His Innate Soul Power was still only Level One, though. It hadn't increased.
Even so, his body could clearly hold more Soul Power than before.
And the cultivation technique that had just activated on its own had also given Huo Yuhao a substantial boost.
That was what made Sky Dream Ice Silkworm think Huo Yuhao had good talent.
"Looks like being his Wisdom Soul Ring will be a piece of cake for me."
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm spread its immense spiritual power to the limit, covering almost every corner within a hundred-mile radius. Even Tang Ya and Beibei, who were heading toward the Star Dou Great Forest, were caught in its range.
The two of them fell into a brief stupor. It was another way Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could use its spiritual power, though it wasn't very damaging.
It could only make living beings lose the ability to think for a short time.
At that moment, an eerie silence fell over the Star Dou Great Forest!
Just as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm finished spreading its spiritual power across the area, the sky darkened.
An immensely powerful pressure descended!
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was badly startled by the pressure, thinking something had come to claim its life.
When it came to its senses, it saw a stream of grey air flying toward Huo Yuhao.
It clearly had no idea what it was, but it knew it couldn't be anything good. It immediately tried to stop the stream of grey air.
But its spiritual power had no effect on it at all!
Before Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could try again, the stream of grey air slipped between Huo Yuhao's brows and entered his Sea of Consciousness.
Huo Yuhao had only temporarily lost control of his body. He was still aware of what was happening around him.
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm didn't know what the stream of grey air was, but that didn't mean Huo Yuhao didn't.
It was a fragment of Electrolux's divine sense.
It had been drawn in by the suction created when Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness fused with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's origin.
"Outrageous! You entered the Sea of Consciousness of the person I chose without my permission!"
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was furious, but its spiritual power had no effect on Electrolux.
All it could do was get angry—then just be angry.
"You no-name thing! Just give me a chance, and I'll kill you!"
But after the stream of grey air entered Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness, it fell silent.
It didn't even bother putting on airs anymore. Nothing like this had happened in the original story.
Just as Huo Yuhao was starting to feel confused, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm began wailing, "Waaah, I'm so miserable! I finally found a good prospect, and now someone else is trying to take him..."
"Is this what fate has in store for me?"
"I finally broke through to a million years, but I'm running out of time..."
Even as it complained, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm didn't slow down. If anything, it moved faster.
Its true body was rapidly shrinking, a clear reminder that it didn't have much time left.
Just as Huo Yuhao had expected, once Sky Dream Ice Silkworm fused its origin with him, there was no turning back. It couldn't return to its true body.
In other words, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had no choice but to see this through to the bitter end.
Once the fusion was complete, Huo Yuhao's body turned a pure, gleaming white, just like Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's had been when it first emerged from the ground.
Huo Yuhao's body was strengthened at that very moment, too.
Inside the Sea of Consciousness, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm also saw the grey bead, no bigger than a soybean, formed from the stream of grey air.
Once it confirmed that the bead didn't conflict with its origin, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ha ha ha ha..." As Sky Dream Ice Silkworm laughed, it suddenly decided that the laugh didn't sound fierce enough.
So it immediately changed it. "Heh heh heh heh!!!"
"I'm finally free from this living hell!"
"You bastards who used me as a mobile power source—you'll never get another chance!"
"Heh heh heh heh!!!"
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's sinister laughter grew fainter and fainter until it disappeared completely.
The enormous amount of spiritual power it had spread earlier was also fully withdrawn.
A bright golden Soul Ring appeared around Huo Yuhao.
That brilliant gold was the very color that symbolized a Million-Year Soul Ring!
But in the blink of an eye, the bright gold faded until only a golden rim remained. Then the rim vanished, leaving only a gleaming white.
The white color symbolized a Ten-Year Soul Beast.
After the Soul Ring disappeared, Huo Yuhao's body returned to its normal color.
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's discarded shell also slipped into Huo Yuhao's body and vanished.
Only then did Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's presence disappear completely.
The huge pit where Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had burst out of the ground had somehow returned to normal.
Apart from the Wind Baboon that had killed itself, all that remained was Huo Yuhao, lying on the ground.
If anyone happened to pass by, they would only assume that Huo Yuhao had killed the Wind Baboon and absorbed its Soul Ring.
Inside Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness.
Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm were sizing each other up.
Huo Yuhao stared blankly at Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm looked at Huo Yuhao with furrowed brows, as if it couldn't figure something out.
It simply couldn't understand why it couldn't read Huo Yuhao's memories!
It was the only million-year Mental Attribute Soul Beast on the Douluo Continent!
Sure, it was a little weak in a fight, but spiritual power was its specialty!
And yet it couldn't read the memories of Huo Yuhao, who was only at Soul Power Level ten-something and had a mere 100 points of spiritual power!
Huo Yuhao was staring blankly for a much simpler reason: he was thinking about how to make Sky Dream Ice Silkworm surrender obediently.
Then he could complete Option Three and gain control over fifty percent of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm!
"What's your name?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm finally couldn't hold back and asked.
Huo Yuhao answered without thinking, "My name is Huo Yuhao. I was born in the White Tiger Duke Mansion..."
"Now I'm an orphan with no one to rely on..."
"Stop, stop, stop. I didn't ask you all that." Seeing that Huo Yuhao was about to go on, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm cut him off.
"Oh." Huo Yuhao nodded and said earnestly, "Brother Sky Dream, don't worry. Once I've grown stronger, I'll make sure you get the best of everything."
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm: "..."
You've already said all my lines. So what am I supposed to say?
The two stared at each other in silence. After quite a while, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was just about to speak when Huo Yuhao said something that shocked it:
"Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, I have to say, you've still got quite a bit of charm..."
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