God-Making Plan (Christmas Bonus Chapter—Merry Christmas!)

".Sigh~"

Brother Sky Dream fell silent for a while, then sighed. He had known that his eagerness to fuse back then could not possibly be hidden from this kid.

What was worse, Huo Yu Chan valued this kid even more than her own life. If he did not come clean, this kid would probably keep harboring suspicions and, by extension, stop trusting Huo Yu Chan as well.

Besides, he could not keep hiding it forever. Once they reached the Far North, he would still need to be honest with Huo Yu Chan. In fact, if this little girl remained wary of him, then what might have succeeded last time would most likely end with him and the Ice Empress dying together in the Far North this time.

To be honest, he was worried too. Huo Yu Chan was different from Huo Yuhao. She had not lost her parents, nor was she driven by hatred, so she had not forged a sufficiently resilient heart. She was like a little girl who had grown up under Lin You's protection. Could she endure the Ice Empress's soul bone and soul ring?

If this rift ended up causing this dignified Million Year Soul Beast, reborn for a second life, to die in his own homeland, it would be better to lay everything out in the open now and avoid getting killed.

"Kid Lin You, do you know what happened ten thousand years ago?" Brother Sky Dream's tone grew heavy.

"I don't." Lin You answered with complete confidence.

That single sentence choked Brother Sky Dream. Even his grand speech about the heavens and earth changing color and becoming gods in an instant was blocked in his throat.

"Then Brother will give you the simple version. Ten thousand years ago, four divine auras appeared in the world. After a great battle, the victors ascended to the God Realm and gained immortality. That immortality is what I seek. But Brother cannot achieve it alone. I need a human host—someone with extraordinary talent and an unyielding mind. At the cost of turning myself into an Intelligence Soul Ring, I will help her ascend and become a god!"

Brother Sky Dream spoke from the heart. Although he had already experienced the great calamity of the God Realm and the God King's schemes in his previous life, becoming a god was still his goal.

Otherwise, he would have no way to convince the other soul beasts to join this insane plan and raise its chances of success.

"In other words, Yu Chan's future is to become a god. But what about the process? Surely she can't safely become a god just by sleeping and cultivating every day, can she?" Lin You guided him step by step.

"Shrek Academy. Only the strongest academy on the continent can protect her as she grows safely. That is your goal. We're almost there, yet you haven't changed your mind and told us to alter course. Brother Sky Dream, you tacitly agreed, didn't you?"

Lin You, who knew the script well, found it effortless to activate his conversational cheat. With just a few casual remarks, his words became sharp blades that seemed to see through people's hearts, leaving Brother Sky Dream drenched in cold sweat.

"You've guessed everything already, so what do you still want Brother to say? What are you trying to get at?" Brother Sky Dream snapped.

"What I mean is, Brother Sky Dream, with your strength, if you can come and go freely even before a Limit Douluo, why don't we share the God-Making Plan? As far as I know, although you are a soul beast, you are ultimately a soul ring now. Yu Chan needs a force that will stand behind her unconditionally and shield her from the wind and rain. In exchange, they would receive a god's promise. I don't think the people at the top of Shrek Academy could possibly remain unmoved by such a plan."

After all, Dragon God Douluo Mu En was someone who valued Shrek's five-hundred-year legacy even more than his own life, Lin You silently added.

The instant Lin You finished speaking, Brother Sky Dream fell into dead silence. It was the first time he had felt that someone was even crazier than himself.

As a soul beast, he had divided up the very source of his power and offered it to Huo Yu Chan, surviving as an Intelligence Soul Ring. To ordinary humans, that was like slicing himself up, arranging himself on a platter for someone else to eat, then asking them to judge whether his flesh and Spiritual Power tasted good and smelled fragrant. It was utterly perverse.

Ten thousand years of torment in the Star Dou Great Forest had driven him a little mad. Perhaps even he had failed to notice it.

But this man before him had actually kept up with his train of thought, even going a step further by wanting to draw human forces into the plan as well—and offering terms they could not refuse.

With such earth-shaking wisdom, coupled with his own heaven-defying ability to return from rebirth and understand the personalities of Shrek's upper ranks, could they become gods? The answer was yes. Absolutely yes!

Perfect. That old man Mu En placed enormous importance on Shrek's glory and continuation, and he had treated Yuhao with complete sincerity. The Dragon Pill was also key to condensing a Soul Core. He could be called Yuhao's best teacher, second only to Electrolux. Brother Sky Dream understood someone like him very well, so he could work with that!

At the same time, the man and the silkworm both set their sights on the same person.

"Brother Sky Dream, what do you think? Should we go to Shrek first and scout the place, see what their strength is really like? I hear the Sun Moon Empire is powerful too. They should also have experts willing to cooperate." Lin You spoke as if it were nothing.

"There's no need for the Sun Moon Empire. Brother has been there before. None of them are good people." Brother Sky Dream blurted out. He had not gone there in this life, but he had in his last one. Besides, no one could verify his past. He was a Million Year Soul Beast—what was wrong with traveling the continent?

"..."

This time, it was Lin You's turn to fall silent.

He had already felt a faint unease toward this strange Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. Something about him seemed off, though Lin You could not tell exactly what. His manner of speaking was almost no different from the original story.

But the moment he heard the other party casually claim that he had been to the Sun Moon Empire, Lin You immediately felt like something was seriously wrong.

Damn it, did you even have a Sun Moon Empire episode in your life?

Weren't you just eating all day, waking up midway to get chased by the Ice Empress, then falling into another feeding spot and eating your way through it?

After eating your fill of Ice Marrow, you thought your wings had grown strong enough and went fooling around in the sea. Then you realized you had gone too far, tried to run home, got lost, and were caught by a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast from the Star Dou Great Forest. You were eaten for ten thousand years after that. When exactly did you have time to visit the Sun Moon Empire?

It would make more sense if you had met the Evil Emperor. After all, the Evil Emperor had originally come to the Star Dou Great Forest merely to challenge for the title of strongest soul beast. Only after unexpectedly seeing a Sky Dream Ice Silkworm there did he become greedy.

These tiny details in his words could be ignored once, but twice in a row had completely put Lin You on guard.

Could this Sky Dream Ice Silkworm have been subjected to Body Snatching? Or...

Rebirth?

Although it seemed unlikely, Lin You had read plenty of fan novels. Some had Huo Gua reborn, some had Huo Gua reborn into the first Douluo world to pursue Xiao Wu, and some had Huo Gua return with the power of a God King and dominate everything. What was so strange about a reborn Sky Dream Ice Silkworm?

In other words, once every impossibility had been ruled out, whatever remained—no matter how bizarre—could be the correct answer.

"Still, your idea is pretty good. Brother thinks there's plenty of room to work with it. Once we get to Shrek, leave everything to Brother!" Brother Sky Dream said confidently.