Please, I'll Do Anything

What was the Clear Sky Sect?

If it had been the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm from its past life, it probably would not have had the slightest idea what that was.

It had either spent its time sleeping or being chased by soul beasts. Its last ten thousand years had been spent being absorbed. It had no time at all to learn what kind of organizations soul masters belonged to.

But as the reborn Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, having experienced the great calamity of the God Realm and faced the God King Tang San directly, if it had to name three places it would never dare visit, they would undoubtedly be Sea God Island, the Clear Sky Sect, and Universe Love Questioning Valley!

Moreover, there was no ranking among those three places. Any one of them was a subject it did not even dare touch.

The reason was simple: those three places could connect directly to the God King's perspective. In other words, the moment the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm entered any of them, the God King would immediately notice it.

It did not even dare imagine how terrifying Tang San would become if it truly reached the Clear Sky Sect, was caught on the spot by the God King, refined in an instant, and had its Divine Sense memories extracted—granting Tang San all the information from those ten thousand years.

Perhaps Little Huo would have her memories erased outright and be used by the God King through her fortune. Electrolux might be dragged out and obliterated as he had been before. And it... it would probably be seized by that man's hand around its pale, plump body, squeezed slowly, until—Pop!—flesh juices splattered everywhere.

At the thought of such a fate, even the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, which called itself the strongest among soul beasts and a Million Year Soul Beast, could not help but shudder once, then again, cold sweat pouring down its body.

"Croak! Brother doesn't want that! Please, as long as we don't go to the Clear Sky Sect, I'll do anything!"

Brother Sky Dream had never expected that he would be thoroughly grasped by the throat by two children whose ages combined barely exceeded twenty.

What was even more tragic was that he had personally chosen Huo Yuhao as his master. In other words, not only did she stand above him, but so did her brother, who seemed to possess exceptionally twisted methods and had pinpointed his weakness at a glance.

No wonder Lin You had managed to bring Huo Yun'er and Huo Yuhao safely out of that man-eating White Tiger Duke Residence. Neither of them even had a soul ring. He had originally thought they had merely been lucky, but it turned out they really had something. His future was probably doomed now.

For a moment, imagining the miserable future whose end he could practically see, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm shut down.

"Ahem, but Brother Sky Dream, since you chose to trust my sister, I'm willing to trust you too. After all, you sealed all the power of your life inside her body. Surely it wasn't to make Body Snatching more convenient, was it? For Yuhao to have a Million Year Soul Beast as an Intelligence Soul Ring is her good fortune. So please don't hold this elder brother's petty suspicions against me. I only did it for her sake." Lin You chuckled softly, though an imperceptible tremor lingered in his voice.

Something was off. There was something wrong with this Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. Why was its reaction to the Clear Sky Sect so intense?

It had been perfectly normal in the original novel.

He did not dare think too much, lest the other party peer into his thoughts. Spiritual Power was a mysterious thing and could not be underestimated.

"..."

At that moment, Brother Sky Dream, who possessed extremely powerful Spiritual Power, came to his senses as well. Seeing Lin You's smiling face and Huo Yuhao pursing her lips while covering her face, he could not help snapping, "Fine! You two joined forces to bully Brother because I'm all alone! Damn it, meeting you really has brought me eight lifetimes' worth of rotten luck."

"Ahem, Brother Sky Dream, I want to obtain a soul ring. Could you give me some advice and guidance? Let me show you my Martial Soul."

Lin You spread his hands and smiled. Naturally, he did not want to make their relationship too strained. The occasional joke could easily bring both sides closer.

Besides, judging from the original novel's descriptions all along, Tian Meng had undoubtedly been Yuhao's greatest help and most important foundation.

Without him, Electrolux would never have been drawn in. Even when the Ice Empress later wanted to leave Yuhao, Tian Meng had firmly stood on Yuhao's side.

That was why he was willing to trust him.

Brother Sky Dream's Spiritual Power swept across Lin You's body. He gave a surprised sound. "Strange. Your Martial Soul is quite peculiar. Your physical condition and Spiritual Power are at the level of an ordinary soul master in the teens, but your Martial Soul... I can't see through it. Why does it feel like my scan found nothing at all?"

In principle, a Martial Soul was the symbol of a soul master. Beast Martial Soul masters possessed stronger physiques, and a White Tiger Martial Soul made its owner more domineering. This was the influence brought by Beast Martial Souls. Even a Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul would cause a faint scent of grass and wood to emanate from its owner's body.

As for Tool Martial Soul masters, no matter what kind of weapon they possessed, there would always be rough traces of use somewhere, such as on their hands. Some other Tool Martial Souls would also give their owners an extraordinary bearing. For instance, the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda could nurture an air of noble elegance in its owner, something ordinary people could never imitate.

But Lin You had none of that. He was as plain and simple as an ordinary person.

"Wait, I think I sense something."

Brother Sky Dream was no ordinary being after all. After a moment of hesitation, he said gravely, "Could it be that you have an Air Martial Soul? I seem able to sense an aura unique to you in every direction. It's like a Blue Silver Grass soul master entering a field of Blue Silver Grass, or a Beast Martial Soul master entering a herd of soul beasts. You almost fooled me—you've actually merged into one with it?"

"As expected of a Million Year Soul Beast. Your perception is so sharp that you can even notice an aura at the atomic level. That's right, mine is an Air Martial Soul. More precisely, it's the Hydrogen Element in the air. Of course, that's just the name I gave it. I've always believed that air contains all kinds of elemental units. They gather into streams to form a wisp of air, and streams flow into the sea to form this world. At least, that's how I see it. Strange, right? Haha."

Hearing Lin You's bizarre twisted logic, Brother Sky Dream fell silent for a moment before replying, "Brother doesn't understand."

"...Ahem. Brother has already sensed that you have the rare attributeless Martial Soul. Attributeless soul beasts are scarce in the Star Dou Great Forest, about as rare as Spirit Attribute soul beasts. But fortunately, when Brother escaped, I sensed a few with low cultivation. I knocked them out with Mental Shock. We can try our luck and see whether they're still where they were." To recover his lost dignity, Brother Sky Dream took the initiative to speak.

Upon hearing that there were suitable soul beasts, Lin You's eyes lit up. He no longer hesitated and immediately gestured for Huo Yuhao to get into the carriage.

Then, under Brother Sky Dream's constant guidance, the carriage sped toward a certain direction.

It seemed that the southern end of the Star Dou Great Forest had been swept through by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's enormous Spiritual Power. Soul beasts lay unconscious everywhere, having almost entirely lost the ability to think for the time being.

With its Mental Shock, even a ten-thousand-year soul beast would die on the spot after taking a direct hit, let alone these little nobodies at the forest's outskirts. Before long, the carriage slowly came to a stop before a stone-type soul beast lying on the ground.

Looking at the soul beast before him, which resembled a stone golem and was made entirely of rock, standing a full two people tall with its aura blurred, Lin You frowned. Even a novice like him knew that this was definitely an earth-attribute soul beast. How could it be attributeless?

"Haha, you don't understand, do you? Brother still knows soul beasts better. This soul beast is called a Gathering Dispersing Stone Beast. Don't be fooled by its large size—its combat strength is pitifully weak. Its advantage is its tremendous vitality. Even if you smash it apart, the fragments that fall off still possess life and will flee on their own, trying to gather together again. The way it raises its cultivation is by staying beside a stone, granting it vitality, merging with it, and increasing its strength. Once it reaches ten thousand years, the excess earth element will transform it into an earth-attribute soul beast. Right now, it's perfect for you."

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had lived peacefully in the Star Dou Great Forest for ten thousand years, after all, so it possessed ample knowledge of soul beasts. Its explanation was detailed and convincing.

"It's around three hundred and ninety years old. That should be close enough to your body's limit of four hundred and seventy years. What do you think?" Brother Sky Dream asked.

"That's enough. It'll be this one. The deeper we go into the forest, the more dangerous it becomes. Maybe we could find a soul beast closer to my limit by going farther in, but I'm not confident that my willpower can hold out. So something close enough will do."

Lin You looked helpless. He was no rugged, iron-boned tough guy. If he stubbornly chose a soul ring beyond his own limits and then exploded to death, haha, that would be far too ridiculous.

"Alright, You-ge, I'll stand guard for you!" Huo Yuhao volunteered.