Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave

The Sky Dream Iceworm's willful ad-libbing made Huo Yuhao's temple throb as he played along.

"Then I'll just go look for other spirit beasts..."

Before Huo Yuhao could finish his sentence, the Sky Dream Iceworm stood upright and clung to his leg.

"Don't! It's only ten thousand years of cultivation, it'll be quick!"

Gu Yuena frowned and pondered for a moment. "This iceworm is quite unique. If it has sufficient heavenly treasures to absorb, it can grow to the million-year level in a very short time."

The Sky Dream Iceworm nodded incessantly.

"In the past, Brother just ate and slept, slept and ate, relying on my body to slowly digest energy, which is why my progress was so slow."

"You have to trust Brother! Once I absorb the energy this time, I guarantee I'll cultivate immediately without wasting a single second!"

Huo Yuhao looked at Gu Yuena, then at Di Tian.

"How about I choose a different spirit ring this time, and once I've increased my strength later..."

The Sky Dream Iceworm twisted its massive silkworm body into a pretzel.

"Your martial soul only has ten slots in total. The chances of the spirit rings you absorb before me increasing your age are not very high!"

"If your first spirit ring choice is our Iceworm clan, since we are the same species, there is a certain chance it could be upgraded for you."

"But for the second spirit ring, if it's me—well, we're both iceworms, and our clan doesn't have that many powerful spirit skills to offer you..."

"You mustn't waste your talent, young man!"

"Don't you want your first spirit ring to be a million-year one? This is a feat unprecedented and likely never to be repeated!"

"Every spirit ring will be guaranteed to be at the hundred-thousand-year level!"

Huo Yuhao silently gave the Sky Dream Iceworm a thumbs-up for its performance.

Whoever said the Tian Meng was a bad actor? Oscar owed it a golden statue!

Huo Yuhao seemed moved by the pitch.

Gu Yuena also realized at this moment that having the Sky Dream Iceworm sacrifice itself to Huo Yuhao would indeed provide him with better growth.

"What kind of heavenly treasures do you need to increase your cultivation?"

"Profound Ice Marrow, preferably ten-thousand-year Profound Ice Marrow; it will allow me to increase my strength much faster."

The spirit power in the Sky Dream Iceworm's body had all been gained from eating Profound Ice Marrow.

"There should still be quite a bit of Profound Ice Marrow left in the underground cave where I slept back then. It should be enough to add another ten thousand years of cultivation."

Di Tian spoke up at this point: "Do you still remember where that cave is?"

Sky Dream Iceworm: "..."

Di Tian, you really are an unpleasant fellow!

"I'll find it eventually. Good things take time!"

"What is Profound Ice Marrow?"

As for things he shouldn't know, Huo Yuhao always asked when he needed to.

As the veteran connoisseur, the Sky Dream Iceworm was the first to explain it to Huo Yuhao. "As long as I find one piece of ten-thousand-year Profound Ice Marrow, Brother will be able to achieve the million-year spirit beast level immediately."

The Sky Dream Iceworm was only a step away from the million-year level.

"If it's the form you're describing, I might know where one is."

As soon as Huo Yuhao said this, not only were Di Tian, Gu Yuena, and the Sky Dream Iceworm surprised, but even the Tian Meng within his sea of consciousness was astonished.

"How could you possibly know that?"

The Sky Dream Iceworm exclaimed in surprise.

That was Profound Ice Marrow! An extremely rare heavenly treasure!

In the entire Far North, it had only managed to stumble into one such Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave by luck, which was how it had seen the Profound Ice Marrow.

"You all know I am a disciple of the Spirit Hall Pope. Some time ago, when an ice-attribute spirit master went to the Far North to look for a suitable spirit beast, he accidentally fell into a spring while fleeing from a beast."

"Below the spring, he saw two caves, and one of them contained ice pillars very similar to what you described."

"It was far too cold there, so he couldn't get close at all, and he left once he was safe."

The benefit of being in Spirit Hall was that there were plenty of spirit masters who could encounter the things you wanted them to encounter.

The Sky Dream Iceworm's eyes lit up.

"That's it, that's it! That must be a Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave that has never been discovered before. With the energy of the Profound Ice Marrow, anyone who isn't an Ultimate Ice spirit master would be frostbitten just by touching it."

Gu Yuena also asked, "Did that spirit master mention the specific location?"

Huo Yuhao nodded. "It's in the northern part of the Heaven Dou Empire, though I don't know the exact location."

He knew that ten thousand years later, this Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave would be located within a sect called the Earth Dragon Sect in Dragon City.

But this was ten thousand years ago; the Earth Dragon Sect hadn't even been established yet.

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter! As long as I know the general area, Brother can find it!"

"In that case, then..." Gu Yuena looked toward Di Tian, "Di Tian."

Di Tian immediately lowered his head, "Please rest assured, My Lord, I will certainly..."

Gu Yuena spoke almost at the same time as Di Tian, "You look after this place; I will take this Iceworm and Yuhao to the Far North."

Di Tian: "???"

Huo Yuhao: "???"

Since you called for Di Tian, shouldn't you be handing this task over to him?

Gu Yuena, however, had her own considerations.

"The environment in the Far North is extremely frigid. With Yuhao's current strength, he may not necessarily be able to withstand it. With me there to protect him, he will suffer less."

Gu Yuena was the Silver Dragon King who governed the elements; going to the Far North was far more useful than relying on Di Tian, who only knew how to destroy.

Huo Yuhao opened his mouth, but in the end, he didn't voice the fact that he wasn't afraid of the cold.

After all, it wasn't as if he and Tian Meng could just rely on their own two legs to travel the ten thousand miles to the Far North.

Since someone had to carry them there, of course, one would choose the powerful, gentle, and beautiful Gu Yuena!

"Yes, My Lord. Leave this place to me."

Upon hearing that he was about to return to his old home, Sky Dream Iceworm was moved to tears.

"Great! Brother finally doesn't have to be food for this bunch of guys anymore!"

Once he sacrificed himself to Huo Yuhao, and Huo Yuhao became a god, he would at least become a divine official!

Huo Yuhao twitched the corner of his mouth as he looked at Gu Yuena beside him, "Did I steal someone's opportunity?"

Gu Yuena smiled slightly, "You don't need to worry too much. Before obtaining this Iceworm, they would have cultivated just the same; it would have just been a bit slower."

However, with the Imperial Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, in the Star Dou Great Forest, it could naturally help them accelerate their cultivation speed.

It mattered a little, but not much.

"Since that's the case, then..."

Huo Yuhao took out the grilled fish and meat he had prepared to lure the Auspicious Beast.

"I grilled these myself. They taste very good; consider it my compensation for taking the Iceworm. If they like them, I will bring more next time I have the chance!"

Since an accident had made it impossible to meet the Imperial Auspicious Beast, he might as well leave a hook to whet its appetite.

Just kidding—no human or beast could remain calm after eating his "drugged" brand of grilled fish and meat!

This way, the next time he came, he wouldn't need to do anything; that foodie Auspicious Beast would deliver itself right to his doorstep.