Did the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm Offer Himself as a Sacrifice? Could Tang Qi Be a Good Person?

Tang Ya froze. After a long moment, she broke into a smile through her tears and nodded hard.

"Thank you, Teacher Tang Qi."

"It's no big deal." Tang Qi waved a hand casually.

"Then would you be willing to join..."

Tang Ya took a deep breath and mustered her courage, just about to ask.

But before she could finish,

an invisible mental wave swept in from every direction, rippling outward like rings across a lake and striking them all.

In an instant, the expectant look on Tang Ya's face went blank.

Bei Bei's head lolled to one side, and he passed out.

Tang Qi's Sea God Martial Soul, however, moved to protect him on its own. A cool tide washed through his body, and he snapped awake.

Finally found you, Huo Yutong.

Tang Qi's lips curled. He activated Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and vanished into the sea of trees in a few bounds.

After who knew how long, an inexplicable throb of unease seized Tang Ya. She came to with a start and looked around. Where had Tang Qi gone?

"Wait... where did that whole living person go?"

If he ran off, how was the Tang Sect supposed to rise again?!

The girl looked toward the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Could he have gone in there?

Tang Ya bit her lip. After a moment's hesitation, resolve filled her eyes, and she started after him.

But as soon as she took a step, she remembered Bei Bei behind her.

Tang Ya frowned and turned back. Bei Bei was slumped against a tree stump, still unconscious.

Smack!

A strand of Blue Silver Grass burst from the ground and whipped Bei Bei hard across the backside.

Bei Bei sprang upright like a carp flipping out of water. Clutching his backside, he looked around in bewilderment.

"Bei Bei, did you see where Tang Qi went?" Tang Ya hurried over and asked anxiously.

"Huh?"

Bei Bei rubbed his backside. "No idea?"

"Ugh, forget it. I'll find him myself. You should hurry out of the Star Dou Great Forest too."

Watching Tang Ya grow so frantic over a boy she had only just met left Bei Bei feeling sour and bitter inside.

Even so, he forced a gentle smile and spoke softly.

"Xiaoya, don't worry. I'll help you look around here."

"Thank you, Bei Bei. You're such a good person."

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Star Dou Great Forest,

Huo Yutong, the daughter of fortune of Douluo Continent, was locked in a battle of life and death for the ages against her fated foe: the King of the Forest, the Beast God, the legendary godslayer—the Wind Baboon.

The outcome was plain to see.

The Wind Baboon fought with everything it had, but it was no match for Huo Yutong and her White Tiger Dagger. It died on the spot.

"I really... survived."

Huo Yutong collapsed to the ground, drenched in sweat. Her chest heaved, and disbelief filled her small face.

At the same time, a faint white light rose from the fallen Wind Baboon's corpse. A Ten-Year Soul Ring slowly floated into the air.

"Just a Ten-Year Soul Ring... and it took everything I had..." The girl gave a bitter smile.

Huo Yutong shook her head. She drew a deep breath and declared firmly, "For Mom, I have to become a Soul Master!"

She slowly rose and dragged her limp, exhausted body toward the Wind Baboon's corpse.

Even without formal Soul Master training, she knew the attributes of her Spiritual Eyes Martial Soul were incompatible with this Wind Baboon.

Just as the girl wondered what to do,

Rumble!

The earth shook, a huge fissure split the ground, and the temperature around her plunged.

Huo Yutong's pupils contracted. Before she could make sense of it, a plump, white-jade silkworm wriggled out of the fissure.

"Ohoho~ So you're a little girl with the Mental Attribute. I finally got my hands on one!"

"A... A Hundred-Year Soul Beast?!" Huo Yutong went pale with fright. The heart that had just begun to hope sank again.

"Huh? Are you blind?"

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm wiggled her plump body indignantly. "I'll pretend you just left out the word 'ten thousand'~"

It could talk?!

Was it reasonable for a delicate girl alone in the Star Dou Great Forest to run into a Soul Beast that spoke human language?

Huo Yutong: Is this how normal matchmaking works?

"Wh-what are you going to do?" Huo Yutong trembled, her voice thick with tears.

"Don't be afraid. I won't hurt you."

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm spoke as though coaxing a child. "Down underground, I heard the deep bond between you and your mother. It moved me. So I've decided to help you!"

"Help me?" Huo Yutong stared.

"You have two choices."

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm coaxed her on. "First, you can absorb that lousy Ten-Year Wind Baboon Soul Ring."

"Or second, you can absorb my Million-Year Mental Attribute Soul Ring, the likes of which the world hasn't seen in ages! Which will you choose? Tell me loud and clear!"

Huo Yutong pointed shakily at the faint white Soul Ring on the ground. She swallowed and asked cautiously, "Can I... choose that one?"

"Oh, little girl, that's not very obedient of you."

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm shook her head in feigned heartbreak, though her voice grew more excited by the word. "To keep you from regretting it later, I'll have to choose for you! Hehehe, don't worry. I'll be gentle~"

The moment she finished speaking, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm ignored Huo Yutong's desperate protests and wriggled her enormous body straight at her.

So big...

It's going to burst me open~

"Waaah, I haven't avenged Mom yet."

Huo Yutong broke down in despair. Her sobs were so pitiful that even the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, already turning into white light, was moved.

Then an icy chill flooded Huo Yutong's mind. Her eyes rolled back, and she instantly lost consciousness.

"Oh my, is this really a normal Soul Master's body? It's so frail~"

Just as the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm clicked her tongue in disdain,

a furious shout rang out from afar like a thunderclap.

"What evil Soul Beast dares offer itself as a sacrifice without permission?! Do you take me, the Sea God's successor, for nothing? You've already earned yourself a path to death!"

Hmm?

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm froze. When her senses swept over the figure racing toward them, she was so frightened she nearly cried.

In the boy's hand, a Clear Sky Hammer threaded with purplish-black and blood-red patterns radiated a terrifying aura.

"Stop!"

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was scared out of her wits. She could only speed up the sacrifice, wriggling desperately into Huo Yutong's body.

White light swallowed the girl completely.

Damn, I was still one step too late.

Tang Qi sighed softly. But when he looked at the figure on the ground, he paused.

Was Huo Yutong this petite as a kid? She looks like a femboy.

Tang Qi crouched beside her. Blood seeped from her seven orifices. He extended his palm, drawing countless blue-green motes of light from the Blue Silver Grass all around them and channeling them into Huo Yutong with the Mystical Palm Technique.

Meanwhile, inside Huo Yutong's Sea of Consciousness,

the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was scrambling to cast the Great Transfer Technique and flee when she suddenly felt life force pouring in. She froze.

Tian Meng: Could he actually be a good person?