Sky Dream's Awakening

Time was running out.

Huo Yuhao's ultimatum was meant for Sky Dream, but it was also meant to wind himself up.

He could not risk them both being buried here together!

"[Thought Palace]! Activate 'Resonance Singularity'!"

Boom!

Huo Yuhao stopped resisting. Instead, he actively twisted his spiritual power into a precise "drill" and viciously drove it toward the frequency node he had found earlier!

Enduring the agony of having his spiritual origin torn apart once more, he forcibly guided his spiritual fluctuations into a bizarre synchronization with the operating frequency of the massive formation!

Bzzzz—!

The formation's energy no longer crazily "sheared" at him. Instead, it treated him as part of itself!

He had succeeded! Like a top-tier hacker, he had opened a temporary administrator backdoor through the system's firewall!

"It worked!"

Suppressing the agony of feeling like his head was about to explode, Huo Yuhao immediately began manipulating the energy he could temporarily influence.

But he did not immediately try to destroy the formation. That would only trigger the worst possible energy explosion.

What he needed to do was establish a genuine connection with Sky Dream!

"[Conceptual Armament]! Second Construction!"

"Model Core: Life Pulse!"

This time, what he transmitted was no longer cold rationality, but a concept rooted in modern biology and physics.

A fundamental logic of "resonance" and "heartbeat."

He simulated his spiritual power into the most primitive, purest life signal. Like the heartbeat of a newborn infant, it cautiously reached once more toward that sea of chaotic consciousness.

This signal was no longer communication, but an invitation.

An invitation to "frequency synchronization."

Sure enough!

The violent spiritual storm hesitated for a moment.

Then—

In the real world, the enormous ice cocoon suddenly trembled!

"...Sigh..."

A faint sigh, almost too soft to hear yet ancient enough to seem as though it had crossed the primordial ages, drifted from the deepest part of the ice cocoon.

There was no anger in that voice, no madness—only endless exhaustion and... a trace of curiosity.

Under Huo Yuhao's nearly "textbook-level" operation, Sky Dream Iceworm's consciousness had finally awakened from a million years of chaos with a sliver of true clarity!

"What... exactly... are you?"

A broken, intermittent thought echoed directly through Huo Yuhao's sea of consciousness.

Huo Yuhao's heart stirred.

It worked! They could communicate!

Without hesitation, he immediately laid everything bare!

"I'm coming clean. No more pretending!"

At the spiritual level, Huo Yuhao shouted back in the simplest, most direct manner.

"I'm not from this world! I come from a world without soul power or gods, where everyone can change their fate through knowledge! In your terms, I'm a 'visitor from another world'—a 'transmigrator'!"

Through the [Thought Palace], he bundled unbelievable images of "Earth," "technology," and "spaceships" into an ultra-highly compressed packet of spiritual data and directly "flung" it over!

At the same time, he showed Sky Dream his greatest secret without reservation: his deduction concerning "God King Tang San," that "script of fate" which treated all living beings as chess pieces!

"You've been trapped here for a million years—not by accident! This is a play arranged long ago! You, me, all of us, are merely 'experience packs' prepared by some lofty bastard to raise the heir he chose!"

"Your goal is freedom. Mine is to break this damned script! We have the same enemy!"

The sheer volume of information in Huo Yuhao's "spiritual bombardment" was enough to make any Douluo native's brain crash on the spot.

"..."

Sky Dream Iceworm's freshly awakened consciousness fell completely silent.

It had been trapped here in a muddled haze for a million years. It only knew loneliness, pain, and its instinctive yearning for freedom.

It had never imagined that such a terrifying truth was hidden behind it all!

A... god?

Was... writing the script?

And it was merely a prop in that script?

What this kid called Huo Yuhao said was too absurd—so absurd that it did not want to believe a single word.

But...

That pure spiritual fluctuation, devoid of any deception or desire—the "knowledge structure" from another world, something it had never encountered before—was telling it—

He was telling the truth!

"Interesting..."

"Truly interesting..."

After a long while, Sky Dream Iceworm's thoughts rang out again. This time, they were no longer weary. Instead, they carried a spark of excitement, suppressed for a million years and finally ignited!

"A mortal who wants to defy the gods... a soul from another world..."

"Kid, you succeeded! You've piqued Sky Dream's greatest interest in a million years!"

"Go on, then. What are you going to do?"

Huo Yuhao's spirits soared!

"First, restore your strength!"

He abruptly increased his control over the formation's energy!

Buzzz—!

The silver runes covering the entire plaza suddenly reversed the direction of their flowing light under Huo Yuhao's will!

Originally, the formation had been extracting energy from the ice cocoon to sustain itself.

Now, the formation began frantically absorbing energy from deep underground. Then, like enormous energy conduits, it continuously poured that incomparably pure energy back into the ice cocoon!

"Holy shit! You can do that?!"

Sky Dream Iceworm blurted out a curse.

It felt like a power bank that had been drained dry, only to suddenly be hooked up to the output of a nuclear power plant!

That vast energy was like long-awaited rain upon its spiritual essence, which had been parched for a million years. It began recovering at a terrifying rate!

Crack!

Crack!

In the real world, the first crack on the surface of the ice cocoon suddenly widened!

Then came the second, the third, and countless more. Like a spiderweb, they instantly spread across the entire iceberg!

Within the ice cocoon, that dormant life force surged upward like an erupting volcano!

Stronger and stronger!

More and more vigorous!

Until at last—

BOOM!!!

A deafening explosion shook the heavens and earth!

The massive ice cocoon that had imprisoned Sky Dream Iceworm for a million years shattered with a thunderous blast!

Countless shards of ice crystal, mixed with life energy so dense it had become tangible, shot in every direction!

The light faded.

An enormous beast beyond description appeared at the center of the formation.

Its entire body was crystalline and translucent, as though sculpted from the purest ice crystals. More than ten meters long, its massive body lay coiled across the plaza, radiating a gentle, sacred white glow.

Its aura held no aggression, yet the pressure born from the very level of its life made the entire temple submit before it!

Million-year soul beast, Sky Dream Iceworm!

Awakened!

"W-What is that?!"

"My god! Is this the true form of the 'God's Legacy'?!"

Outside the passageway, Tu Feng and every member of Light of Truth nearly had their eyes pop out of their sockets!

They stared fixedly at the colossal beast radiating endless life force. Their shock and horror eventually transformed entirely into unparalleled greed!

Such immense life energy!

Even a tiny share would be enough to transform them completely and extend their lives by a hundred years!

Several members could no longer hold themselves back and instinctively tried to charge forward!

Just then!

ROAR—!!!

Freshly freed, Sky Dream Iceworm threw back its head and unleashed a roar that had been suppressed for a million years. Its joy and yearning for freedom turned into a tangible spiritual shockwave that was about to sweep outward!

"Don't move!"

Huo Yuhao abruptly opened his eyes, and his furious shout rang throughout the temple!

One hand pressed against the ground, forcibly stabilizing the rampaging Sky Dream. With his other hand, he pointed toward the group of desperate men stirring at the passage entrance.

"Whoever dares take another step forward dies!"