Shocking! Spirit Ice Douluo Was the Ice Empress in Human Form?

In the elevator heading to the tenth floor, Hua Yichen looked at Huo Yuhao beside him and asked:

"Since you want to investigate Soul Spirits, have you heard the legends of the First Generation Tower Master?"

"Do you mean that Spirit Ice Douluo?"

Huo Yuhao's expression did not change. He showed just the right trace of curiosity. "There are too few legends about him. I only know that he founded the Spirit Pagoda and developed the Soul Spirit Method. I'm not clear on anything else."

Forget legends—ten thousand years ago, he had been a hidden Douluo, no less reclusive than the Clear Sky Sect. Aside from moving around a little more after founding the Spirit Pagoda, he had rarely appeared before others in his true appearance.

What the world knew about him was limited to one of his Martial Souls—the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion. They did not even know about his Spirit Eyes.

If not for that, he would never have appeared in the Spirit Pagoda using his original appearance and Spirit Eyes Martial Soul.

Hua Yichen nodded. "The First Generation Tower Master indeed left behind very few legends, but the legacy he left to the Spirit Pagoda has endured to this day. It was also because of him that the current environment, where Soul Beasts and humans coexist peacefully, was created."

At this point, Hua Yichen paused, then said frankly:

"You haven't studied the relevant knowledge yet, so some concepts may be hard to understand. Just treat it as a story for now."

"In truth, with the Federation's current strength, destroying Soul Beast habitats would be effortless. Logically speaking, the relationship between humans and Soul Beasts should be extremely tense. However, the First Generation Tower Master seemed to have foreseen this scene long ago. The Soul Spirit Contract method and the Contract Dissolution Method he left behind eased the conflict between both sides."

As Huo Yuhao listened, he recalled every detail of when he had first created the Soul Spirit system.

The Soul Spirit Method he had left behind was different from the one Huo Yuhao in the original work had left.

After all, his Old Yi was still alive!

With Old Yi's knowledge and experience, his research into Soul Spirits had gone even deeper. He had been capable of making certain improvements and restrictions, and had added the Soul Spirit Contract into the Soul Spirit system!

According to that contract, to absorb a Soul Spirit, one had to sign a Soul Spirit Contract with the Soul Spirit's consent. Otherwise, it would fail.

After signing the contract, the Soul Spirit could grow along with the soul master. If the soul master was strong enough, the Soul Spirit could even evolve on its own. As for the soul master, they could contact the Soul Spirit through the contract, communicate in advance, and choose their own soul skills!

For this Soul Spirit Contract, Huo Yuhao had only referenced the Blood Contract of the Holy Demon Continent. He had not added any forced master-servant contract. It fundamentally eliminated the possibility of raising and enslaving Soul Beasts like in the original work!

Want to force a Soul Spirit to sign a contract?

Sure, but first they would have to crack the twenty-eight security procedures Old Yi had left in the Soul Spirit Contract, then reverse-engineer the cultivation system of the Holy Demon Continent. Otherwise, it was nothing but a pipe dream.

Aside from the Soul Spirit Contract, he had also introduced the Contract Dissolution Method, allowing both parties who had formed a contract to dissolve it with mutual consent.

Ten thousand years ago, when Soul Spirits had just been born, all soul masters could only obtain Soul Spirits according to his method.

In other words, they had to go through two steps—find a Soul Beast willing to become a Soul Spirit—then sign a contract at the Spirit Pagoda.

But how could there be so many Soul Beasts in the world willing to become Soul Spirits?

At that time, Huo Yuhao had given everyone another clear path.

He had reached a partnership with Di Tian and the Snow Empress!

With the leaders of the two great Soul Beast habitats supporting him, it naturally drew in a great deal of backing, and the number of Soul Beasts willing to become Soul Spirits surged.

Then, it was time for the Contract Dissolution Method to play its role.

A Soul Spirit was a life-form that could grow. Then if, before a soul master died, they dissolved the contract and passed the Soul Spirit down to a younger generation, what would happen after several generations?

Hua Yichen gave the answer.

"...Because of the Contract Dissolution Method, the strongest type of Soul Spirit was born. That was—the Inherited Soul Spirit!"

"In some soul master families, powerful Soul Spirits that were continuously inherited and grew stronger had higher and higher cultivation ages. Their relationships with those soul master families became close, and their say increased year by year, until they eventually became part of the soul master families and turned into Guardian Spirits."

"The inheritors of those families all had to be chosen by them. After all, a Soul Spirit Contract requires the Soul Spirit's consent before it can be signed, and only a Soul Spirit that has signed a Soul Spirit Contract can dissolve the contract and avoid vanishing along with the soul master."

The Soul Guiding Elevator doors opened. Hua Yichen walked out first, then said to Huo Yuhao, who followed him out:

"With Inherited Soul Spirits standing on the Soul Beasts' side, the Radical Faction that wanted to raise Soul Beasts in captivity and research Soul Spirits completely lost their chance. That is why some people slander the First Generation Tower Master by saying he was a transformed Soul Beast. Since you have joined the Spirit Pagoda, you will inevitably hear these rumors. When the time comes, do not let them affect you."

"Also, when researching Soul Spirits, you must not act too recklessly. Harming Soul Spirits would have a bad impact."

Huo Yuhao nodded, then asked curiously, "In the rumors, what kind of Soul Beast was Spirit Ice Douluo transformed from?"

"The Ice Empress."

"The Ice... Empress?"

Huo Yuhao's expression turned a little strange.

Hua Yichen nodded slightly and sighed:

"That's right. The Ice Empress, ranked seventh among the Ten Great Fierce Beasts ten thousand years ago—the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion! After all, Spirit Ice Douluo's Martial Soul was the Ice Jade Scorpion!"

In the era when Spirit Ice Douluo appeared, the Ice Empress of the Extreme North had also disappeared. She had vanished for many years, with no news of her at all.

A reasonable deduction was that during that time, the Ice Empress had completed her recultivation and ultimately appeared in the form of Spirit Ice Douluo.

Because during her recultivation, she had seen the strength of the human world and sensed that Soul Beasts would one day be eliminated, she had used her advantage of being a Soul Beast herself to create the Soul Spirit Contract, deeply binding humans and Soul Spirits together.

That was what those who slandered the First Generation Tower Master said.

Not to mention, it was fairly reasonable, so much so that even Huo Yuhao himself revealed an indescribable expression.

What could he say?

If the Snow Empress were not still around, would Su Tong have become the Snow Empress in human form? Was the Spirit Pagoda actually a private reserve created by the Extreme North?

Future generations really had wild imaginations...

In silence, the two of them walked into a room together.

The room covered nearly a hundred square meters and was filled with all kinds of large instruments. Inside were yellow clusters of light—clearly all sorts of soul spirits.

However, those were not Hua Yichen's goal.

He dismissed the staff here, went to the instrument in the center of the room, and operated it for a moment. Three pillars rose ahead of him, each bearing a yellow cluster of light.

"These soul spirits are a seven-hundred-year Ice Silkworm, a six-hundred-year Purple Spirit Wolf, and a seven-hundred-year Silver Hero Beast. According to the Spirit Pagoda's research, the soul skills they can provide are all quite good."

Hua Yichen pointed at the row of yellow light clusters and smiled faintly at Huo Yuhao.

"Which one do you want to choose?"

Without hesitating for long, Huo Yuhao, who understood the three Soul Beasts quite well, walked straight up to the Ice Silkworm soul spirit. "This one."

Hua Yichen was somewhat surprised, and the corners of his mouth lifted slightly.

"Why?"

"Of the three soul spirits, only the Ice Silkworm looks completely ordinary, yet it can be placed alongside the other two. Clearly, it has something exceptional about it."

This child is quite clever.

Faced with Huo Yuhao's answer, Hua Yichen nodded in satisfaction. "Not bad. This is the first lesson I want to teach you. In the Soul Spirit Era, you can choose soul skills according to your own wishes, so you can't choose Soul Beasts with the perspective of the past."

"For example, this Ice Silkworm. Although it's a Soul Beast with very weak attack power, it can provide Spiritual Attribute soul masters with a Divine Skill—Simulation."

"Through spiritual fluctuations, it can distort space and simulate all kinds of forms based on oneself. It has no offensive ability, but it is an excellent soul skill for support, tricking people, and escaping."

As Hua Yichen spoke of tricking people and escaping, his expression did not change in the slightest.

Pure combat strength alone was useless. Only a genius who survived could become a true expert!

He did not want the genius he had dug up to die halfway.

Huo Yuhao's expression likewise remained unchanged.

There was no crime in tricking people, and there was reason in running away.

Who didn't have enemies? Who didn't have times when they needed to make a strategic retreat?

A genius who grew up became an expert. One who failed to grow was nothing but a pile of yellow earth!

On this point, his thoughts were the same as Hua Yichen's.