Sky Dream... Is Dead?

"Sky Dream Iceworm, Huo Yuhao, leave your lives here today!"

Though Ling Xiao's voice was calm, that calm concealed an ultimate killing intent.

The moment his words fell, an intent of ultimate annihilation erupted.

This was the core law he had comprehended through three heavenly tribulations: the Ultimate Annihilation Law.

A killing intent pure to the extreme, killing solely for the sake of killing, leaving absolutely no room for mercy.

Lightning gathered in Ling Xiao's hand, and the lightning pattern between his brows suddenly lit up.

His five hundred thousand years of cultivation fully erupted, pressing directly down upon Sky Dream Iceworm and Huo Yuhao.

Under the impact of that killing intent, the temperature on the ice plain suddenly dropped by dozens of degrees. Even the air seemed to freeze.

Under that killing intent, Sky Dream Iceworm's fat body began to tremble violently.

Sky Dream's million-year origin surged madly within the sea of consciousness, trying to resist that annihilating intent, but the effect was negligible.

Ling Xiao's ultimate annihilation intent originated from lightning laws at the level of the Heavenly Dao.

Its very nature was annihilation.

Though Sky Dream's origin was immense, under the suppression of laws, it was like an ant facing a flood beast, utterly incapable of resistance.

"Y-you, who exactly are you?!"

Sky Dream's voice had completely changed pitch as he trembled inside the sea of consciousness.

He said shakily, "Why are you trying to kill me?! What did I do wrong?!"

Sky Dream Iceworm could not understand it. He merely wanted to find a host and see Ice Empress one more time. Why did this person want to kill him?

Ling Xiao looked at him coldly.

"What did you do wrong? I can't be bothered to reason with you. You're not worthy of hearing it!"

"Annihilation Thunder Spear!"

Huo Yuhao crouched on the ground.

After sensing Ling Xiao's killing intent, his entire body seemed frozen, trembling beyond his control.

It was fear from the depths of his heart.

The killing intent emanating from the mysterious man before him was simply too terrifying.

Huo Yuhao had never felt such pure killing intent, utterly untainted by any impurity.

It was not anger, not hatred, not revenge. Everything existed solely to kill him.

Pure, ultimate killing intent.

Like heavenly lightning punishment descending from above, unreasonable and merciless, concerned only with the inevitable result of death.

"I... I don't want to die..."

Huo Yuhao's voice trembled as tears gradually welled up in his eyes.

"Don't... don't kill me. I just... want to become stronger... want to avenge my mother..."

His voice grew softer and softer.

Ling Xiao watched Huo Yuhao's appearance, without the slightest trace of pity in his violet lightning-colored eyes.

Avenge his mother?

Become stronger?

Ling Xiao thought, If you could keep your original heart, I might let you go.

But you are destined to become Tang God-King's lackey. You might as well die here now!

The two Ice and Snow Empresses stood beside Ling Xiao, calmly watching everything before them.

"Little Ling Xiao."

Ice Empress spoke faintly.

"Make it quick."

Ling Xiao nodded slightly.

The Annihilation Thunder Spear gathered in his hand crackled with increasingly dense and dazzling arcs of lightning.

Sky Dream looked at the thunder spear in Ling Xiao's hand, his body swaying like a candle flame in the wind.

"No... don't..."

Sky Dream's voice was filled with pleading.

"I'm still so young. I don't want to die like this. Please, let me go."

Sky Dream Iceworm directly dropped to his knees, because he knew that if he did not kneel now, he would have no chance left.

He cast aside all dignity and all pride, all for the sake of surviving.

Ling Xiao looked at the kneeling Sky Dream, without the slightest wavering in his violet lightning-colored eyes.

"Kill!"

Ling Xiao threw his hand forward. The lightning transformed into a thunder dragon, carrying ultimate annihilation intent as it blasted straight toward Sky Dream Iceworm.

"Boom~!"

Lightning exploded across the ice plain, and thunderlight instantly swallowed Sky Dream Iceworm's figure whole.

Under the baptism of lightning, Sky Dream's figure began to twist, before completely collapsing in the end.

"Ah—!"

Sky Dream Iceworm let out a miserable scream, and then everything slowly returned to silence.

Had the only million-year soul beast, Sky Dream Iceworm, truly fallen just like that?

At any rate, Ling Xiao did not believe it, because Sky Dream Iceworm was an exceedingly crafty bug.

Since he had escaped from beneath the Lake of Life, Ling Xiao did not believe he had died so quickly.

Unless he was playing dead now, attempting to deceive the three of them with a fake death.

Even if Sky Dream really had died, Huo Yuhao's sea of consciousness still contained his origin.

That was something he could not afford to miss.

Huo Yuhao stared blankly at everything, his mind instantly going completely blank.

Brother Sky Dream... was dead?

Brother Sky Dream, whom he had always trusted and regarded as his only companion, had been completely erased by a bolt of heavenly lightning right before his eyes?

"B-Brother Sky Dream!"

Huo Yuhao's voice trembled as tears uncontrollably spilled from his eyes.

Ling Xiao withdrew the lightning in his hand and looked at Huo Yuhao, who was still lying there crying.

"Huo Yuhao."

Huo Yuhao slowly raised his head, looking through tear-blurred eyes at Ling Xiao in the sky.

"Y-you... are you going to kill me?"

"That's right. Now it's your turn."

The moment Ling Xiao's words fell, a hundred-meter Thunder Domain instantly covered the entire ice plain.

Centered on Ling Xiao, the Thunder Domain enveloped the space within a hundred-meter radius.

Countless bolts of lightning coursed through the Thunder Domain, and space subtly warped along its edges.

When Sky Dream Iceworm saw that the surroundings had been covered by the Thunder Domain, he instantly felt as though the sky had collapsed.

Within Huo Yuhao's sea of consciousness, Sky Dream Iceworm's face was filled with terror.

His original plan had been to pretend that Ling Xiao had killed him, then swiftly abandon Huo Yuhao and escape once Ling Xiao let his guard down.

Sky Dream had voluntarily dispersed his body, creating the illusion that he had already been erased.

Sky Dream Iceworm had even fooled Di Tian with this method of escaping through fake death.

Back when he was at the Lake of Life, he had used this method to deceive several great ferocious beasts.

When Huo Yuhao believed he was dead, Sky Dream Iceworm did not even make a sound.

Compared to his own life, what did that little grief amount to? What did that little trust amount to? What did that little dependence amount to?

In Sky Dream Iceworm's eyes, Huo Yuhao was merely a container. A broken container could be replaced, but he only had one life.

However, what Sky Dream Iceworm did not know was that, besides Ling Xiao, there was another remnant soul who knew of his thoughts.

That was the Necromancer God of Death, Calamity of the Undead, Electrolux, within the sea of consciousness.

Electrolux remained in a corner of the sea of consciousness, coldly watching Sky Dream Iceworm's figure.

Sky Dream's fake death, his utter disregard for Huo Yuhao, and his selfishness and hypocrisy brought a trace of disappointment to Electrolux's face.

But it was only disappointment. Electrolux did not become angry because of it.

He had originally intended to take Huo Yuhao as his final disciple after awakening.

He would teach him his undead magic and help Huo Yuhao walk a longer path.

Now that this had happened, Electrolux could no longer remain asleep.

If he did not reveal himself now, Huo Yuhao would certainly die.