Million-Year Soul Beast, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm

What the hell was that noise?

Huo Yuhao turned, intending to ask Sister Wan'er for help, only to discover that everything had been frozen in place. He could not even turn his body.

Immediately afterward, threads of icy cold seeped out from cracks in the ground. The surrounding temperature began to drop noticeably, while the cracks spread wider and wider, reaching over five meters in diameter in mere moments.

At last, the golden-white radiance revealed its true form.

It was a plump, round head that looked soft and fleshy, over a meter in diameter. It wriggled as it slowly crawled out, its body stretching more than seven meters long.

As it emerged, frost began to form with Huo Yuhao's breath, and the frigid chill made him shudder several times in succession.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, whose Soul Power had not been devoured by Di Tian and the others, was far more powerful than described in the original story!

Its entire body was jade-white and crystal clear. Although it had crawled out of the dirt, its smooth skin bore not a speck of grime.

Halos flowed beneath its skin, and it even had a pair of tiny, glittering golden eyes on its head. Most peculiar of all, beginning half a meter below its head, a golden band encircled its body at regular intervals. From head to tail, there were ten such golden bands in total.

Having been infused with the Soul Power of Emperor Willow and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was now filled with the trinity of soul, destiny, and spiritual power.

Looking at its enormous body, Huo Yuhao's face had already turned despairing. Such a gigantic body, along with the ability to alter the temperature—this had to be at least a hundred-year soul beast, right?

It was over. Everything was over.

"Please spare Sister Wan'er. I'm willing to become your food."

Under Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's probing pressure, Huo Yuhao suppressed the sorrow in his heart and spoke haltingly.

"Hm? A weak little human dares to negotiate with me?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said smugly. "I'm going to eat both of you!"

"You!"

As Huo Yuhao stared at the smug giant bug before him, before he could speak again, Lin Wan'er, who had been hiding in the shadows, could no longer stand it. She threatened Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in Di Tian's name.

"If you don't hurry up, I'll send you to Shrek Academy's Inner Courtyard and have Bai Chenxiang's great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter roast your true body with Ultimate Fire. Then I'll bring it back here and distribute it among the meritorious souls of the Star Dou Great Forest."

Upon receiving Lin Wan'er's voice transmission, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's tone abruptly turned solemn. Casting aside its playful attitude, it began feeding the young and easily fooled Huo Yuhao its prepared pitch about becoming a god through a Wisdom Spirit Ring.

"I'm going to become your spirit ring—the first Wisdom Spirit Ring in the history of Douluo Continent."

"Huh?"

Huo Yuhao stared dumbfoundedly at Sky Dream Ice Silkworm before him, his mind temporarily losing the ability to think.

He could not understand why the soul beast that had just been preparing to eat him and Sister Wan'er had suddenly changed its attitude and, as if changing faces, now wanted to become his Wisdom Spirit Ring. Everything had happened far too suddenly. He did long for a spirit ring, but all he had ever wanted was an ordinary one. He had never dared to hope for anything more.

And now, not only had he met Sister Wan'er in the Star Dou Great Forest, someone willing to help him, but this huge, talking silkworm that had crawled out of the ground was telling Huo Yuhao that it was a great million-year soul beast and that it was willing to become his spirit ring.

Huo Yuhao had no idea what was going on, much less whether Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was telling the truth.

But whether it was true or not, this massive silkworm before him was not something he could contend against.

Seeing that Huo Yuhao, the Spirit Eye martial soul master, clearly doubted it, Tian Meng quickly recited the script it had memorized in advance—the Heaven Soul Sect's Soul Spirit Project.

The Wisdom Spirit Ring it wanted to become was a plan more advanced than the Soul Spirit Project. It was also one of the few kinds of soul spirit that could preserve its own power, reside within a soul master's Spiritual Sea, and retain its complete self-awareness.

And the reason it wanted to become Huo Yuhao's soul spirit was not because of his decent background or because he was the Soul Beast Saintess's soul spirit, but simply because Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eye martial soul specialized in spiritual power and was sufficient to contain all of it.

At the same time, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm emphasized that its ability to freeze the surrounding area was limited. If Huo Yuhao wanted to obtain investment from the Heaven Soul Sect or join Shrek Academy and become a Core Disciple, then he could not resist the temptation of having a million-year spirit ring as his first spirit ring.

Furthermore, after becoming Huo Yuhao's spirit ring, it could not only provide a million-year spirit ring as his first spirit ring, but could even serve as an instructor in his Spiritual Sea, answering knowledge that soul masters needed to grasp and acting as a free encyclopedia.

Hearing this, Huo Yuhao agreed to Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's request. His beautiful Blue Eyes immediately became incomparably clear.

He stopped using Soul Power to protect his head, causing his Spirit Eye martial soul to cease operating. This allowed the million-year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to smoothly pour pure Soul Power into his body, laying the groundwork for transforming into a spirit ring and entering him.

"I knew I hadn't misjudged you, kid. You'll definitely take me to ascend to the God Realm and become a god."

The next second, an extremely cold aura instantly made him lose consciousness.

He only vaguely saw a white blur rushing toward him. The next moment, all ability to think left him.

The ten golden rings on Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's body pulsed as though they had come alive. The white blur Huo Yuhao had seen was actually Sky Dream Ice Silkworm extending its head and pressing it against his forehead.

The ten golden rings swiftly enveloped Huo Yuhao's thin body, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm itself transformed into streams of white radiance that continuously surged into him.

"Too weak, too weak. This is just miserable. I'm so pitiful! How many seals do I have to place on myself before his weak body can bear it? Being a Wisdom Spirit Ring really isn't easy."

An invisible spiritual ripple spread outward from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm as it poured itself into Huo Yuhao's body. That terrifying spiritual power almost instantly covered every corner within a hundred-li radius.

Lin Wan'er, who had already stepped out from hiding, said disdainfully, "You're a million-year soul beast, yet you still don't have any ability to attack others. How do you have the nerve to look down on Huo Gua?"

"That may be true, but I'm still a million-year soul beast! Wan'er, why didn't you stuff him with more supplements these past years? I've already diagnosed him as malnourished! I don't dare force Soul Power into him when he has nowhere to release it."

Tian Meng sounded deeply aggrieved—aggrieved that it had to place more than a dozen seals on Huo Yuhao to prevent its immense spiritual power from damaging Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sea and turning a perfectly fine young man into an idiot.

"Say whatever you want. The White Tiger Duke's residence is the kind of place that draws attention. It was already good enough that I could secretly arrange for a plant soul beast to remain there. Unless you want soul masters under the Heaven Soul Sect to interfere and bring Huo Yun'er and Huo Yuhao back to live in the Star Dou Great Forest, then put up with the seals."

Lin Wan'er snapped at Tian Meng irritably. After all, she was the Soul Beast Saintess who wielded a portion of destiny's power. She naturally held deep awe for the karmic flames that would arise from casually disrupting predetermined fate.

Besides, in the future she and the Auspicious Beast had deduced, Huo Gua would be unable to inherit the position of Emotion God, unleash the Hao Dong Three Absolutes that would leave all gods and readers of the original work utterly embarrassed, and defeat Tang God King unless he had hatred as his early motivation to strive and suffered hardship early on.

I won't be merging three chapters anymore! The pacing will speed up later! The things that need explaining will also be glossed over quickly, so please keep contributing your reads, dear readers! I'll also be proofreading over the next few days and correcting mistakes in the earlier chapters, so don't worry too much about them!