The Road Ahead

As the two chatted idly, a stream of gray airflow descended from the sky as if drawn by an immense suction force. In an instant, it landed on the back of Huo Yuhao's head and silently burrowed inside.

"What dares steal someone from me?"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm flew into a rage. A massive wave of spiritual power surged forth, attempting to drive the gray airflow out of Huo Yuhao's body.

An extremely blurry figure emerged behind Huo Yuhao. An aged voice, carrying an indescribable majesty, rang out. "With sun and moon in hand, I pluck the stars; there has never been another like me in this world. I never thought this old man would still be able to preserve a trace of his remnant soul."

Faced with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's immense spiritual assault, the vague phantom seemed utterly unaffected. With a whoosh, it drilled into the back of Huo Yuhao's head and vanished.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm did not dare intensify its spiritual attack any further, because blood had already begun seeping from Huo Yuhao's seven orifices.

It discovered that after entering Huo Yuhao's mind, the gray airflow immediately transformed into a gray bead no larger than a soybean, then fell silent.

It neither conflicted with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's power nor was affected by it.

"Could you take it easy?"

Knowing who the old man was, Lin Wan'er raised her hand and drew away the excessively vigorous life force from the Blue Silver Grass on the ground, feeding it back into Huo Yuhao's body after Tian Meng had turned him into neither man nor ghost.

The replenishment of life force returned Huo Yuhao's bleeding seven orifices to normal. His thin, small body gradually grew into what it should have been at his age, and he even shot up quite a bit in height.

Lin Wan'er estimated that Huo Yuhao was now roughly five centimeters taller than before.

Not only that, but his entire bearing had become more refined. Nourished by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's icy aura and Soul Power, his skin, which had grown somewhat rough from days of wind and rain, had become much fairer and more tender.

If Huo Yuhao changed into a new set of clothes now, his small frame would be no less impressive than Bei Bei's, who possessed a top-tier beast martial soul.

After applying the seal, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's dimmed and shrunken body fell to the ground. Its soul floated out of its flesh and temporarily bid Lin Wan'er farewell.

"I'll go in and have a proper chat with that little thief who invaded my home. I'll leave everything outside to you."

With that, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm transformed into a streak of light and rushed into the Spiritual Sea to fight the owner of the aged voice for territory and assert its sovereignty. At the same time, it told Huo Yuhao how he should make excuses later when dealing with Lin Wan'er, who "didn't know" what had happened.

After putting away Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's corpse, Lin Wan'er covered up the abnormalities here with wind and sand, then thoughtfully dragged the Wind Baboon that had nearly slain a god over to Huo Yuhao.

Once she had ensured there were no problems, she returned behind Huo Yuhao and pretended to be restrained and unaware of what had happened.

Life was like a play—everything depended on acting!

After standing in place for roughly five minutes, the world around them, which Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had frozen by burning its spiritual origin, began operating normally again. The colors of the world returned to Huo Yuhao's eyes.

Hearing movement behind him, he hurriedly pretended to absorb the spirit ring that had burst out of the Wind Baboon's corpse. Though he appeared calm and at ease on the surface, his Spiritual Body within his inner world was already panicking beyond belief.

It's over, it's over! If I pretend to absorb the Wind Baboon's spirit ring like this, will Sister Wan'er hate me later?

Huo Yuhao scratched his hair, looking both agitated and uneasy.

Short-haired Tian Meng, who could now take the form of a little boy in the Spiritual Sea and wore a set of pajamas, yawned. After watching Huo Yuhao for a while, he shook his head and said with certainty, "Just do as I told you later. Show Lin Wan'er the soul skill I gave you. I believe that any soul master who has experienced a soul skill born from a million-year spirit ring won't blame you for choosing to absorb a Ten Thousand Year spirit ring."

Hearing that, Huo Yuhao seemed to find his anchor, but the unease on his face did not fade. He merely put on a dazed, innocent expression that looked both pure and foolish, the kind that made him seem incredibly easy to deceive.

"But Brother Sky Dream, I don't really want to lie to Sister Wan'er..."

Ever since he had run away from home, he had met all kinds of soul masters. To varying degrees, they had all looked at him with arrogance or pity. He had never met a soul master like Sister Wan'er, who was a Sect Holy Maiden yet had even less of an air about her than Tang Ya, the Tang Sect Leader.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm rolled his eyes, muttering inwardly that it was only because Huo Yuhao did not know Lin Wan'er was a deceptively sweet, thoroughly rotten Little Witch.

Outwardly, it remained Huo Yuhao's good big brother, his one and only Wisdom Spirit Ring.

"Trust me. Don't reveal yourself too early, or do you think you and Sister Wan'er can still have a pure friendship? What if she turns around and sells your information to her sect?"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm patted Huo Yuhao's shoulder with the air of someone speaking from experience. "Back then, I also believed that love between soul beasts could grow stronger with time, but in the end, I still didn't dare see her, nor was I willing to become her..."

Realizing these were not things Huo Yuhao should know, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm hurriedly took back the words that had slipped out and kicked Huo Yuhao out of the Spiritual Sea, making him face Lin Wan'er's "concerned" gaze.

Huo Yuhao's sudden awakening startled the soul masters lurking nearby, who had come running to watch the show. It also startled Lin Wan'er, who had been chatting with the Agility Sect's Half-human Half-soul Beast, a Core Disciple.

As Huo Gua adjusted to the light, he only felt that there were suddenly many people before him. Then, in the blink of an eye, they vanished, leaving only Lin Wan'er with a cold expression—the spitting image of his mother when he came home late.

"Mom... Sister Wan'er."

Huo Yuhao lowered his head to admit his mistake, but after saying the wrong thing and preparing to lie again, his ears had already turned so red they looked ready to bleed.

This made Lin Wan'er, who had liked puppies in her previous life, unable to resist reaching out to pet this neglected Huo Gua puppy.

Mm, his fur still needed some care. It was a little prickly.

A head pat was a head pat, but the proper business still had to follow procedure.

"It's one thing that you killed the Wind Baboon, but why did you absorb a spirit ring with only a Ten Thousand Year cultivation without telling me?"

There it was! The sharp question had arrived!

Holding his breath, Huo Yuhao poured out all the lines Tian Meng had fed him to Lin Wan'er in one go: how the Wind Baboon had mutated, how it was actually a soul beast inclined toward developing spiritual power, and how it was better suited to the physique of a spiritual-type soul master baby from the Douluo Continent.

If Lin Wan'er had not already held the script in her hands, she might really have believed Huo Yuhao's explanation.

So Bei Bei and Tang Ya had believed this false explanation because of Huo Gua's outrageously unfair Blue Eyes? Whenever those Blue Eyes became serious, they sparkled like pearls in the deep sea! "Don't do this again. At the very least, don't absorb this type of soul beast in front of me anymore. I'll help you find better soul beasts to serve as your spirit rings."

Though she said that, Lin Wan'er was not Huo Gua's nanny. At most, she wanted to see what kind of brilliance Huo Yuhao of the Peerless Tang Sect era could display under her influence.

Therefore, she would not interfere with Huo Yuhao's future path, nor did she have any complaints about his plan for revenge.

After all, the scumbag culture that had started in Dai Mubai's era should have been curbed.

With her around, after Huo Yuhao ascended to the God Realm in the future, he absolutely could not call that guy Ancestor.

Otherwise, wouldn't her seniority compared to Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts become much lower? "I understand. Thank you, Sister Wan'er."