I Am the Child of Fortune?

On the boundless snowy plains, a young man stood between heaven and earth with his upper body bare.

The young man's back was exposed to the frigid wind, a massive emerald-green tattoo spreading across his skin.

It was a scorpion, stretching from his lumbar spine to his shoulder blades. Its six long legs wrapped around his ribs, while its tail hook ran up along his spine to the back of his neck.

The tattoo's lines were delicate and fluid, faintly glimmering beneath the snow's reflection.

Suddenly, a startling blood-red light appeared between heaven and earth!

A Soul Ring marked with four golden patterns flashed into existence around the young man.

"I succeeded?"

"I succeeded?!"

The young man's voice echoed across the empty snowfield, trembling with disbelief.

This young man was none other than Huo Yuhao, who had perfectly fused with the Ice Empress after enduring unimaginable pain.

"Little Yuhao, you didn't disappoint me."

Brother Sky Dream's slightly weary voice rang out from the Spiritual Sea, though there was a hint of pride and relief in his tone.

"Brother Sky Dream, thank you."

Tears welled up in Huo Yuhao's eyes. He knew that without Tian Meng, he could never have made it this far.

"Why are you crying?"

Tian Meng condensed his spiritual power and patted Huo Yuhao on the head, speaking with satisfaction.

"We're going to become gods! Don't cry."

"Okay!"

Tears filled Huo Yuhao's eyes as he answered firmly.

He had to become a god! He couldn't let down Tian Meng's expectations.

"Alright, let's go get a Soul Ring for your Spirit Eyes. Looking at your current physical condition, you should be able to withstand a three-thousand-year Soul Ring. I'll find you a suitable soul skill."

Tian Meng spoke. The Ice Empress had only just completed her fusion and hadn't fully recovered yet. She was currently asleep, so it wasn't convenient to disturb her.

"Okay, Brother Sky Dream."

Huo Yuhao agreed happily, but as his thoughts stirred, he suddenly sensed that something in the distance seemed to be calling to him.

"What's wrong, Yuhao?"

Tian Meng noticed that something was off with Huo Yuhao.

"I feel like over there..."

Huo Yuhao raised his hand and pointed toward the endless white expanse in the distance.

Tian Meng looked over doubtfully, but he found nothing. All he saw was still blank whiteness.

However, Tian Meng didn't think Huo Yuhao was lying.

"Over there."

Huo Yuhao took a step forward. The next instant, the world spun around him, and he found himself inside a peculiar palace.

"This fortune... is rather interesting."

Hearing that voice, Huo Yuhao immediately came back to his senses and looked toward the figure seated upon the throne ahead.

"Yuhao!"

Tian Meng immediately sensed that something was wrong. Spiritual power erupted around him and pressed down toward the Ice God.

The person ahead was very strong! He had to go all out!

"A million-year ice silkworm? What is this thing?"

The Ice God recognized Tian Meng's true form at a glance from atop his throne.

Rare shock rose in his heart.

What was this thing?

The Ice God wore an incredulous expression. An ice silkworm could cultivate to a hundred thousand years?

No, how had this fellow survived his lightning tribulations? Was he really that formidable?

In the Ice God's understanding, an ice silkworm soul beast wasn't even qualified to undergo lightning tribulation. Any random tribulation could practically blast it into oblivion.

Surprised as he was, the Ice God's gaze sharpened when faced with the incoming Spiritual Shock.

He discovered that beneath Tian Meng's fierce assault, there was also a streak of ultimate green power launching a sneak attack.

"Ice?"

Seeing this, the Ice God smiled faintly. Showing off one's skills before an expert.

Huo Yuhao saw only the blue figure raise a hand and tap lightly. The powerful spiritual force instantly dissipated.

The gap between Divine Sense and mortal spiritual power was anything but small.

Not to mention that the Ice God's Divine Position was still in his own hands.

However, the Ice God merely dispersed the spiritual attack and didn't stop that pure green assault.

Seeing her attack strike the blue figure, the Ice Empress was delighted. Yet after her ice element entered the blue figure, there was no reaction whatsoever.

"This ice is quite good."

The Ice God nodded. This pure ice attribute was already exceptional on the Douluo Continent.

"Old man, get out here and save us!!"

Within the Spiritual Sea, Tian Meng continuously shook the gray bead formed by Electrolux.

He really needed saving. He couldn't hold on anymore!!!

"He bears no ill intent."

Hearing Electrolux's voice beside his ear, Tian Meng froze while holding the bead. He looked at the blue figure ahead, who truly didn't seem to intend to attack.

"May I ask, Senior..."

Huo Yuhao thought to himself that the senior before him truly seemed to have no ill intent. Otherwise, he would probably already be dead.

"I am the Ice God. I am currently looking for an inheritor. Are you interested?"

Hearing the blue figure's answer, Huo Yuhao froze on the spot. Within the Spiritual Sea, the Ice Empress and Tian Meng also heard a crack as the two soul beasts' souls went completely still.

Ice... Ice God above... Pah! No, that wasn't right.

"Greetings, Ice God!"

"Greetings, Ice God!"

Tian Meng and the Ice Empress immediately appeared and bowed toward the blue figure ahead.

In the Far North, the Ice God was everything.

"Rise."

The Ice God waved a hand and looked at the two soul beasts below. A trace of nostalgia flashed through his eyes, but it quickly vanished.

The past was the past. The present was the present...

Suddenly, the Ice God seemed to spot something. His eyes fixed intently on Huo Yuhao.

"Asura Godly Thought?"

The Ice God beckoned with one hand, and Huo Yuhao felt as though some impurity within his body had been extracted.

Looking at the dark-red energy fluctuation in his palm, the Ice God narrowed his eyes slightly.

Disgusting thing...

"Is the Asura God really this shameless? He's even plotting against the child of fortune?"

"Senior Ice God, what is that?"

Huo Yuhao looked at the dark-red energy in the Ice God's hand, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart.

This didn't seem like anything good. When had it entered his body? How had he not known?

"This is Asura Godly Thought. The Asura God probably wants to turn you into a dog."

The Ice God answered succinctly, without the slightest attempt to soften his words.

Huo Yuhao: "..."

Tian Meng and the Ice Empress were equally shocked.

"I-Ice God, what exactly is going on with Huo Yuhao?"

Tian Meng gathered his courage and asked. There was no helping it—Huo Yuhao was now his only hope of becoming a god. He couldn't let anything happen to Huo Yuhao.

"He is the child of fortune of the Douluo World, the center of the world itself." The Ice God pointed at Huo Yuhao as he explained.

"Me? The child of fortune?"

Huo Yuhao pointed at himself in disbelief. He was the child of fortune? Was that real? What kind of child of fortune had innate soul power of only one level?

"Yes. Don't doubt my judgment."

The moment the Ice God saw Huo Yuhao, he knew that Huo Yuhao was the child of fortune.

Because he had once been a child of fortune as well. After becoming a god, he naturally knew what the aura of the Douluo Continent's child of fortune was like.

"Little bug, don't question this god."

"I-I wouldn't dare."

Tian Meng laughed awkwardly. How could he possibly dare to question the Ice God?

Beside him, the Ice Empress's eyes were shining. She had actually picked up the child of fortune?! She had struck it rich!

"But, Lord Ice God, what exactly is this Asura Godly Thought?"

Tian Meng continued asking. Asura Godly Thought didn't sound like anything good, and since it involved a god, wasn't this already beyond their ability to handle?

"A power that can influence the minds of living beings. If nothing unexpected happens, little fellow, you'll become the Asura God's dog in the future—the kind that will die if he tells you to die."

Huo Yuhao: "..."

Could this senior not speak a little more tactfully?

"Senior Ice God, is there a way to change this? I don't want to be a dog."

Asura God—Huo Yuhao remembered that he had heard of him before, but he couldn't think about that now.

He didn't want to become a puppet!

"There is, and there isn't. If you become my inheritor, the power I left within my Divine Position can help you resist the Asura Godly Thought."

The Ice God spoke. Inheriting the Ice God's Divine Position could indeed resist the Asura Godly Thought.

"An inheritor? Senior, do you want me to inherit the Ice God's Divine Position?"

Only upon hearing the words "inheritor" did Huo Yuhao understand what it meant. He had thought it referred to a master-disciple relationship, never expecting it to mean inheriting a Divine Position.

"Naturally." The Ice God nodded.

The Ice Empress and Tian Meng beside him were incredibly excited as they looked at Huo Yuhao. Wasn't this getting a god for free?

"However, if you become my inheritor and Asura discovers it, he'll probably immediately force Asura Godly Thought into you and turn you into a puppet."

Huo Yuhao and the two soul beasts: "..."

Wasn't this a dead end?

"But I can alter the rules slightly. The Ice God's Seven Trials. Asura doesn't know I'm alive. With his personality, he'll probably assume that my Divine Position has taken a liking to you."

"Then he'll plot against my Divine Position, leave the inheritance aura on your body, make you abandon the Ice God's Divine Trial, and seek another Divine Position for you to inherit, so that he can keep my Ice God's Divine Position firmly in his grasp."

The Ice God speculated. Asura only cared about his reputation, but if a Divine Position was right in front of him, he wouldn't let it go.

"I'll give you one chance to abandon the Divine Position after the eighth trial. Afterward, if you accept the Divine Position again, you can directly become the Ice God."

"This path is dangerous. I advise you to consider it carefully."

In the end, the Ice God still gave Huo Yuhao the right to choose.

"Senior, why are you helping me?"

Huo Yuhao asked. The person before him was being far too enthusiastic, wasn't he?

"Hmm... I was once Douluo's child of fortune as well, so I should count as your senior. Since I met you before my divine demise, I want to entrust my Divine Position to you."

The Ice God didn't particularly care about his Divine Position. Giving it to someone he found pleasing to the eye wasn't bad either.

"Senior has helped me. I will certainly not disappoint your high expectations." Huo Yuhao clasped his fists and bowed.

"No need to be so polite. I just find Asura rather displeasing as well."

The Ice God waved his hand. They were both children of fortune. Asura had merely become a god before him, and back then, that fellow had even tried to stab him in the back.

He had remembered that grudge for who knew how long. Though he had already gotten revenge, he still felt annoyed whenever he thought about it.

Senior and the Asura God didn't get along? Huo Yuhao caught the crucial information in those words.

"Heh."

Suddenly, the Ice God looked up. He sensed a strand of Divine Sense passing over the Far North.

The Asura God—but why did he feel so much weaker?