Titan Profound Ice King and the Second Soul Ring

At that moment, Ice Empress and Snow Empress also sensed the aura of the Titan Snow Demon King on Huo Yuhao undergoing a drastic transformation. They exchanged a glance, both staring intently at Huo Yuhao.

When Huo Yuhao opened his eyes again, the Titan Snow Demon King had vanished from where it stood, and Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eye had turned the blue of the ice element.

Just as he had expected, after the Titan Snow Demon King's ice-attribute spiritual power entered his body, it merged smoothly with his Spirit Eye, causing it to undergo a beneficial mutation.

This was not a second awakening. It merely added a trace of ice-element power to the original concept of the Spirit Eye. It did not affect the purity of the Spirit Eye's spiritual power itself, but gave it an additional effect.

If Huo Yuhao obtained the Body Sect's method for a second awakening in the future, this added effect would take the result of that second awakening to an even higher level.

Seeing that Ice Empress and Snow Empress still looked somewhat confused, Huo Yuhao pressed a finger to his chest, then drew it downward.

The light in Huo Yuhao's eyes gradually faded. Behind him appeared a figure eighty percent similar to a Titan Snow Demon, except its snow-white body had transformed into crystalline blue-gold armor.

"Is that A-Tai?!" Ice Empress looked at the Titan Snow Demon King, whose ice-element aura surpassed even her own, and surprise flashed through her eyes. She immediately stepped forward to sense the ice-element power within it.

Huo Yuhao did not restrain the Titan Snow Demon King's soul at this moment. The phantom behind him looked at Ice Empress, then at the blue-gold crystals growing over its own body, seemingly astonished by its own transformation as well.

"It seems we did not make the wrong choice." After sensing the Titan Snow Demon King's current ice-element power, Snow Empress spoke to Huo Yuhao.

With such a transformation, even if the Titan Snow Demon King were to leave Huo Yuhao in the future and lose part of its origin power, it would still be a thoroughly profitable trade.

Huo Yuhao looked at Snow Empress and said, "Don't celebrate too soon. My smooth fusion with the Titan Snow Demon King is only the first step of the plan. If we truly want to change the fate of your Far North, we must take precautions, so that you or Ice Empress will not be captured in embryo form after taking human shape, like in the previous life."

Huo Yuhao issued the warning with perfect seriousness, as though what he had seen in the original story truly had been a previous life he had personally experienced.

But in truth, this was merely a tactic Huo Yuhao used to persuade Snow Empress and the others to be more cautious.

Soul beasts simply thought too simply. Without warnings and threats like this, they truly would not remember the lesson.

Snow Empress nodded, then turned her gaze to Ice Empress. After a moment of silence, she arranged for two ten-thousand-year snow wolves to escort Huo Yuhao out of the Far North.

At the edge of the Far North, the two snow wolves stopped.

Huo Yuhao glanced back, knowing that Snow Empress and Ice Empress had already begun discussing who should complete her transformation first.

Huo Yuhao had deliberately not mentioned that the Dragon Emperor Sect possessed Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow. Cards had to be played one at a time. If he played them all at once, Huo Yuhao would no longer have any value to the Far North.

With the Void Eye, Huo Yuhao no longer intended to obtain another ice silkworm for his second soul ring in order to gain the Simulation ability.

The Void Eye still had room to evolve. Its conceptual disappearance could even conceal the sense of touch. After further evolution, it would be able to make several people conceptually disappear from others' sight at once, making it more useful than Simulation.

Calculating the date by the passing of day and night, Huo Yuhao worked out how much time this trip had taken. So far, he still had around ten days of leeway.

Although he had not eaten Whale Rubber or anything similar to improve his physical condition, Huo Yuhao was confident that he could absorb a thousand-year soul beast.

The Purple Spirit Wolf became Huo Yuhao's first choice.

The Titan Snow Demon King—now it should be called the Titan Profound Ice King—had granted Huo Yuhao a right-arm soul bone during its fusion with him, giving Huo Yuhao formidable direct offensive power.

The Purple Spirit Wolf's weakening ability would be a useful aid to Huo Yuhao.

After spending several days traveling from the Far North to the Star Dou Great Forest, Huo Yuhao looked around and stopped the Flesh Motorcycle in a relatively safe outer area.

After carefully sensing the situation around him, Huo Yuhao headed deeper into the outer region of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Two days later, Huo Yuhao lay in wait amid shrubs beside a pool of water. Across from him was a Purple Spirit Wolf.

When it came to identifying a soul beast's age, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was far more experienced than Huo Yuhao. After observing it for a while, he said to Huo Yuhao, "It'll do, Yuhao. This soul beast has roughly four thousand years of cultivation. With your current physical abilities, you can completely absorb it."

Huo Yuhao nodded. Then he bent his legs and shot forward in an instant.

As he charged, ice-blue crystals wrapped around Huo Yuhao's right arm.

The crystals covered his entire arm, forming a gauntlet condensed from the ice element.

He threw a punch. The Purple Spirit Wolf had been drinking and was completely unprepared, so it recoiled in fright.

Huo Yuhao's punch landed squarely on one of its forelimbs, which was noticeably shorter than its hind legs.

With a sharp crack, one of the Purple Spirit Wolf's forelimbs twisted at an unnatural angle. It let out a pained howl, then kicked off the ground again and lunged at Huo Yuhao's abdomen.

The instant Huo Yuhao raised his arm to block, a wave of weakness suddenly rose in his heart, while violet halos flickered in the Purple Spirit Wolf's eyes.

Huo Yuhao turned sideways with the momentum, and dazzling light flashed across his right arm.

Ice crystals burst forth from the Purple Spirit Wolf's broken forelimb, freezing its mouth and claws solid.

This was one of the two soul skills attached to the Titan Profound Ice King's right-arm soul bone: Ice Parasite.

It could be used on himself or on the wounds of anyone he had injured.

Huo Yuhao had used Ice Parasite to form a gauntlet. As he broke the Purple Spirit Wolf's forelimb, he had sent an Ice Seed into its wound.

Despair flashed in the Purple Spirit Wolf's eyes, but Huo Yuhao showed no mercy. He seized the Purple Spirit Wolf by the throat.

Moments later, the Purple Spirit Wolf went silent, its head lolling to one side as it collapsed to the ground.

A purple soul ring then appeared before Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao sat down cross-legged. Just as he was about to guide the soul ring into his body, a fierce gust suddenly flashed behind him. A figure appeared out of nowhere and lunged straight for the back of Huo Yuhao's head.

Huo Yuhao turned and raised his hand. Ice crystals spread over his arm, followed by an impact that crashed down from above.

Huo Yuhao was forced backward. Once he steadied himself, he immediately focused on the incoming figure—and froze in surprise.

It was a massive wolf with jet-black fur, its eyes crimson as blood...