Refining Sky Dream! (Please Keep Reading)

The beautiful woman gritted her pearly teeth. Her phoenix eyes shimmered, and for some reason, the more she recalled the boy's cold, domineering gaze as he looked her over, the faster her heart beat—a heart that had lain still for years.

After standing there for a long while, Zhou Yi took a deep breath, her full, pale breasts rising and falling sharply.

As though she had made some inexplicable decision, she turned and hurried to the elegant wardrobe in her bedroom. She hesitated for ages before, cheeks flushed and hands trembling, she pulled a pair of black, gauzy stockings from a hidden compartment—stockings so sheer that even Fan Yu had never seen them...

"You little troublemaker... When you come back in two days, I'd like to see if you can tear those eyes of yours away!"

High above, the sky was a spotless blue, with the blazing sun overhead.

Boom!

A violent surge of white air exploded across the heavens. A piercing sonic boom tore through the clouds as a black afterimage hurtled onward at a terrifying speed.

It was Xiao Dong, who had come roaring out of Shrek City.

As he raced along, dark red light churned like fire deep within Xiao Dong's black eyes. He pushed his super vision and X-ray sight to their limits.

His gaze pierced layers of open sky and cloud. Mountains, rivers, trees, and grass flashed past beneath him like fleeting reflections.

"According to Zhou Yi, there are still three full days before registration at Shrek Academy closes. In the original story, Huo Yuhao traveled all the way from the Duke's Mansion to the Star Dou Great Forest on foot, then joined the Tang Sect and headed for Shrek. He wasn't late."

A cold curve touched Xiao Dong's lips as he worked through the timing in his mind.

"That means the brat could reach the Star Dou Great Forest today—even right now!"

With that thought, Xiao Dong accelerated sharply. Like a black meteor skimming the earth, he crossed the remaining distance in mere minutes, until a vast sea of deep-green forest appeared before him.

The Star Dou Great Forest was the oldest and most dangerous Soul Beast habitat on the Douluo Continent.

The moment he reached its outer edge, Xiao Dong stopped abruptly in midair, shedding his terrifying momentum by force. He looked down over the boundless forest, his piercing gaze sweeping every inch of ground below like an inescapable net.

"Found you!"

In less than two breaths, Xiao Dong's eyes narrowed and locked onto a clearing several miles away.

His sight pierced the dense layers of canopy, revealing a scene of utter disarray.

A ragged boy of eleven or twelve lay sprawled on the grass, his chest heaving like a bellows. Not far in front of him, a Wind Baboon lay in a pool of blood, dead.

The boy still clutched a short blade that gleamed with an icy white light.

The White Tiger Dagger. Huo Yuhao!

But what quietly set Xiao Dong's blood boiling lay deep underground, beneath Huo Yuhao.

A blazing golden glow as large as a small hill, carrying an immense surge of mental energy, was rushing up through the earth at a frantic pace!

It was a giant silkworm, its body seemingly carved from white jade and blazing with golden light. Ten brilliant golden patterns encircled it.

The million-year Soul Beast, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm!

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had clearly sensed Huo Yuhao's rare Mental Attribute through instinct. Overjoyed, he was about to burst from the earth and forcibly sacrifice himself to the boy.

"Heh, Brother Sky Dream, I'll gladly help myself to this million-year gift package!"

Xiao Dong gave a cold laugh and dropped from the sky without warning!

Boom!

In the clearing below, Huo Yuhao had only just struggled to prop himself up when the ground began to shake violently. Great cracks spread like a spiderweb, and dazzling golden light erupted from beneath the earth.

"Hahaha! Brother Sky Dream finally caught himself a human with a Mental Attribute! The heavens haven't forsaken me!"

A comically smug shout rang through the air as a huge white head burst from the ground.

But before Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could bring his plump face close to the stunned Huo Yuhao, a black-clad figure descended between them like a god from heaven, trailing a heavy shock wave as he slammed into the ground!

A violent gust swept outward, hurling Huo Yuhao several yards away. His head struck a tree, and he passed out on the spot.

Amid the billowing dust, Xiao Dong stood with his hands behind his back, looking down at the enormous white silkworm frozen before him.

"Where did you come from, you little brat? How dare you ruin Brother Sky Dream's plans?!"

With his plans cut short, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm flew into a rage. His delight turned instantly to towering fury.

Without thinking, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm gathered his vast, oceanlike million-year mental energy into a golden mental storm and sent it crashing toward Xiao Dong's brow!

The blow was powerful enough to shatter the sea of consciousness of an ordinary Soul Saint—or even a Soul Douluo—and leave them an idiot!

"You have a death wish, fat worm."

Faced with a mental assault capable of tearing apart a high-level Soul Master's soul, Xiao Dong remained perfectly calm. Only a trace of mockery showed in his eyes, as though he were looking at a fool.

With a thought, the wisp of pure, milky-white flame deep within his sea of consciousness flickered.

Boom!

A small, sacred flame, lustrous as white jade, sprang up from Xiao Dong's fingertip.

The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame!

The instant the wisp of flame appeared, the air throughout the forest twisted violently.

The golden mental storm met the white flame and failed to last even half a second. With a hissing sound, it dissolved before Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's horrified eyes, burned into nothingness by the domineering purifying fire!

"Wh-what is that thing?! How can fire burn away mental energy?!"

All smugness and anger vanished from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's plump face. His shrill scream rang out.

His entire body trembled as terror surged from the depths of his soul.

He had lived for a million years and seen countless ferocious hundred-thousand-year Ferocious Beasts, yet he had never seen a flame so domineering and strange. Its heat alone, reaching him from a distance, nearly made his soul collapse!

Run! I have to get away now!

Scared out of his wits, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm forgot all about finding a host. He yanked his massive body back toward the depths of the earth, desperate to burrow away.

"Did you think I'd let a fat worm escape once he'd landed in my bowl?"

Xiao Dong's lips curved into an icy smile. He flipped his palm.

"Go!"

The wisp of milky-white Purifying Lotus Demon Flame swelled in the wind, instantly becoming a seamless net of pure white fire. It dropped like lightning and tore Sky Dream Ice Silkworm back out of the ground when half his body had already disappeared into the soil!

Screech!

A shrill cry burst from within the fiery net. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm frantically drew on his core power to struggle free, but nothing could withstand the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame. The muddled consciousness and impurities within him were stripped away and refined by the demon flame, leaving only the purest, most concentrated essence and a vast reserve of mental energy!