Wisdom Soul Ring, the Expanding Sea of Consciousness

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm knew a fair amount about human Soul Masters. He understood just how extraordinary it was for a six-year-old human to possess rank fifteen Soul Power, with a physique and Spiritual Power already at the Soul Elder level.

"My luck really does reach the heavens! Heaven still loves me after all! Getting captured by the ferocious beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest was just a little bump in the road!

A genius like this is practically my perfect host. Not only is his Spiritual Power strong, but his physique is formidable too. He'll definitely be able to bear more of my power.

Wonderful, wonderful! My perfect host, here I come!"

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm knew very well that Soul Masters with a mental attribute were exceedingly rare, and one with such astonishing talent was a treasure that could only be stumbled upon, never sought. He immediately stopped hesitating.

The instant the mental fluctuations swept over Zhang Lexuan and Qian Renxue, both briefly fell into a stupor.

This mental shock did not possess much destructive power, but it could temporarily rob every living creature of the ability to think.

At that moment, the northern end of the Star Dou Great Forest's Mixed Zone fell deathly silent. Only Chen An remained conscious.

Or rather, Chen An alone had not been caught in the mental shock.

Just then, the ground beneath Chen An's feet trembled, and a crack abruptly appeared.

Faint golden light could be seen flickering continuously within the crack.

Along with the pale golden light came an icy chill. The surrounding temperature plummeted, and even the trees became coated in frost.

As the air grew colder and colder, the crack in the ground grew larger and larger. In the span of a single breath, the opening had expanded to over five meters across.

A round, plump Silkworm Baby crawled out. His entire body was the translucent color of white jade, and although he had emerged from the earth, not a speck of dirt clung to his smooth skin.

He was seven meters long, with a soft glow flowing beneath his skin. The pair of tiny, glittering golden eyes on his head looked rather comical.

Most peculiar of all, starting half a meter behind his head, golden bands encircled his body at regular intervals. There were ten in total.

With his appearance, the temperature abruptly dropped to freezing.

Every breath Chen An took felt as though it would freeze solid.

He looked at the Silkworm Baby before him and recalled the voice that had suddenly sounded in his mind.

Chen An instantly guessed the Silkworm Baby's identity.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm—the only Million-Year Soul Beast of the Peerless Tang Sect era, the greatest opportunity on the Douluo Continent, and number one on every transmigrator's must-devour list.

Obtaining him meant obtaining a Million-Year Soul Ring and a vast spiritual origin. From then on, one's Spiritual Power could advance all the way to the divine level without any bottlenecks, with an ice-attribute second martial soul thrown in as a bonus.

It could be said that even a good-for-nothing who obtained the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm would gain the potential to become a god.

Chen An's eyes widened. Wait, he had not even gone looking for the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. Why had the silkworm come knocking on his door?

What puzzled Chen An even more was that, judging by Zhang Lexuan's age of eighteen, there were still six years before the original story began. Why would the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm appear here now?

Naturally, Chen An did not know that, because of him, Tian Meng had found a suitable opportunity earlier and escaped the ferocious beasts' watch, bringing forward an event that should have occurred six years later.

Still, although Chen An did not know what had caused the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to appear ahead of time, his brief surprise soon gave way to excitement.

As an ambitious man intent on climbing to the pinnacle of Soul Masters and becoming a god at rank one hundred, Chen An would naturally never refuse an opportunity like the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

How could he let such an opportunity slip past? With the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, he could save at least twenty years of arduous cultivation! His chances of becoming a god at rank one hundred would increase dramatically.

Had his martial soul not been True Self, granting him exceptionally powerful control over his body, his heart would surely have been pounding wildly with excitement.

Chen An stared at the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and exclaimed, "So powerful! Such vast Spiritual Power!"

Chen An was not lying. Although the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm belonged to a weak species, once his cultivation had broken through to a million years, his combat strength was no longer inferior to that of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.

Leaving aside the quality of his Spiritual Power, in sheer quantity alone, he was practically the number one beast on the Douluo Continent.

In the original story, even after becoming a Wisdom Soul Ring, he was still no soft persimmon anyone could squeeze.

He had frozen the out-of-control Ma Xiaotao with one finger, and with his million-year-old shed skin, he had even restrained the Ice Empress, whose cultivation approached four hundred thousand years.

With strength like that, he absolutely deserved to be called a powerhouse.

Hearing this, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm felt as though he were floating on air.

He had spent most of his life eating and sleeping, and a small portion being hunted or imprisoned by the ferocious beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest. When had anyone ever praised him for being powerful?

Delighted, he proudly lifted his round head.

That's right. My mighty appearance has won you over, hasn't it?

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's expressive little eyes regarded Chen An, his prospective host, with growing approval.

But soon, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm remembered that the human before him was only a child, with limited mental resilience. He might not appreciate such a mighty appearance and could even be frightened out of his wits.

It would be bad if he scared the boy. This was his host, a man destined to become a god.

He could not leave his host with a psychological scar.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said gently, "Were you stunned by my mighty appearance and strength?

But don't be afraid. I mean you no harm and won't hurt you.

Not only will I not hurt you, I'm going to give you a tremendous opportunity.

Let me introduce myself briefly first. I am the embodiment of heroism and chivalry, the king of kings among soul beasts, blessed with both wisdom and beauty, an unrivaled powerhouse who has cultivated for a million years and set the Douluo Continent's record for the longest lifespan—the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm!

Mm, you can call me Brother Sky Dream! Oh, right, what's your name?"

"My name is Chen An." Then Chen An said in surprise, "You're a Million-Year Soul Beast?"

"That's right. Surprised? Excited?" the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said smugly.

"But don't get excited just yet, because there's something even more exciting!

I'm going to become your soul ring—the first Wisdom Soul Ring in the history of the Douluo Continent!"

Looking at the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's cheeky expression, Chen An could not help feeling amused.

Tian Meng really did have one bizarre personality.

Still... a Million-Year Soul Ring was genuinely irresistible.

Just then, terrifying Soul Power fluctuations suddenly erupted from the Great Ferocious Land in the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest.

That terrifying might changed the very face of heaven and earth. Five enormous dark-golden, sky-rending claws tore five scars straight through the once-clear blue sky.

The horrifying sight immediately made the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm shudder.

One look at those five claw marks was enough for the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to know they were Xiong Jun's handiwork. Clearly, his escape had been discovered.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm knew time was running short. He could not waste any more of it. If the ferocious beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest caught him, he would be done for.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm cast a wary glance toward the Great Ferocious Land, then looked solemnly at Chen An. "Chen An, time is short. I'm going to begin. Bear with it."

With that, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm lowered his enormous head and pressed it against Chen An's forehead.

The next moment, the ten golden rings on the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's body pulsed as though they had come alive.

Finally, a mass of brilliant golden light abruptly emerged from the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's body, leaving only a thin, pale-golden membrane behind.

This mass of brilliant golden light was the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's most fundamental power. It contained the power of two attributes and a spiritual origin as vast as the sea.

The golden light formed from the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's origin surged rapidly toward Chen An's body.

The instant that mass of golden light collided with Chen An, an intensely cold aura spread throughout his body.

Chen An felt as though his entire body were about to freeze solid. He knew this was caused by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's ice-attribute origin merging into him.

From this day onward, he was a Soul Master with twin martial souls.

After the ice-attribute origin merged into his body, the sea-like spiritual origin followed.

As the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's vast spiritual origin merged into him, Chen An's Sea of Consciousness underwent an earth-shaking transformation.

His once-cramped Sea of Consciousness became spacious and bright, extending so far that its boundaries could not be seen.

Countless points of light now appeared within the Sea of Consciousness.

Then those golden points of light gathered into ten enormous golden spheres suspended in midair.

Each enormous golden sphere contained a tremendous amount of spiritual origin.

This spiritual origin was the essence of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's million years of cultivation, enough to push any Soul Master's mental cultivation to an unimaginable realm.

At the same time, these ten spheres were also ten seals the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had established to prevent his immense spiritual origin from bursting Chen An's body apart.

This sealing method came from the experience the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had gained after bursting a Titled Douluo powerhouse apart in the past.

Without the seals, Chen An's current cultivation and physique would be utterly incapable of bearing the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's sea-like spiritual origin.

Along with his origin, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's soul entered Chen An's Sea of Consciousness.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm surveyed his surroundings, estimated the strength of Chen An's body, and nodded.

"Not bad, not bad. A physique like this can bear a portion of the spiritual origin within the first seal."

An opening abruptly cracked through the first of the ten golden spheres suspended in the Sea of Consciousness.

A portion of the spiritual origin within flowed down, filling Chen An's newly expanded Sea of Consciousness.

Now, the scene within Chen An's Sea of Consciousness resembled ten suns hanging across the sky, with a pale-golden torrent beneath them.

Chen An's soul stood at the center of the Sea of Consciousness, overseeing everything.

Looking at the earth-shaking transformation of his Sea of Consciousness, he could not help wanting to throw back his head and let out a long howl.

His Spiritual Power was probably no weaker than a Soul King's now. How astonishing was that? After all, Chen An's cultivation was still only rank fifteen.

Looking at the other ten spheres in his Sea of Consciousness, Chen An could not help marveling at the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's vast spiritual origin.

Just a portion of the spiritual origin in a single sphere had raised his Spiritual Power cultivation to the Soul King level. If he merged with all the spiritual origin in all ten spheres, what realm would his Spiritual Power reach?

For a moment, Chen An's imagination soared.

Still, Chen An knew that his body was not strong enough yet, and his Sea of Consciousness was not resilient enough to bear too much.

To quickly improve the resilience of his Sea of Consciousness, he would either have to strengthen his physique or fuse with a high-quality Head Soul Bone.

While Chen An was considering how to merge with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's spiritual origin more quickly,

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's soul looked at Chen An's soul, torn with hesitation.

I really want to look at my host's memories!

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had originally intended to sneak a look at his host's memories while his spiritual origin merged in, to learn more about him. Who could have expected his host's soul to remain so clearheaded? He could not find any opportunity to peek.

If he forcibly pried into them, he might damage his host's soul.

After thinking for a moment, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm decided not to pry into Chen An's memories.

After all, Chen An was his host. If his soul truly suffered damage and he lost all hope of becoming a god, that would be a monumental loss for him.

Besides, in the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's view, a six-year-old child was bound to be innocent at heart. No matter how naughty or mischievous he might be, how bad could he really get?

With his guidance and corrections, Chen An would surely become an outstanding young man with balanced moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and practical development.

And even in the worst-case scenario, if Chen An grew up to be an ungrateful wretch, he would still have a second chance to choose.

After rattling his little abacus in his mind for a while, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm immediately moved closer to Chen An's soul.

"See these ten spheres? They're the crystallization of my million years of cultivation.

Although those damned ferocious beasts sucked all my Soul Power dry, the energy left over can still raise ten of your soul rings to the hundred-thousand-year level. It can also make your Spiritual Power the strongest in the world!

Not only that, I've given you an ice-attribute second martial soul, making you a peerless genius with twin martial souls, one in ten thousand!"

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm proudly lifted his head, wearing an expression that practically asked whether he was impressive.

Chen An blinked. "Brother Sky Dream, you're so amazing!"

But then Chen An changed tack. "Still, how did those ferocious beasts manage to suck all your Soul Power dry, Brother Sky Dream?"

Uh...

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm coughed twice. Feeling that his aura as an unrivaled powerhouse had been punctured, he grew somewhat embarrassed.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm hurriedly changed the subject. "I got careless and didn't dodge. Those ferocious beasts joined forces and caught me.

All right, all right, let me tell you something important.

Now I've become your soul ring, the first million-year Wisdom Soul Ring in the history of the Douluo Continent.

Let me tell you, once my soul ring is attached to your martial soul, it can give you a full four soul skills. Four soul skills!" (Later in this book, Tian Meng's soul ring is planned to be the Seventh Soul Ring.)

Chen An looked at the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and asked curiously, "Brother Sky Dream, I'm a little curious. If you're so powerful, why do you want to become my soul ring?"

Seeing Chen An keep asking questions like an inquisitive child, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had no choice but to recount his miserable past.

As he spoke, tears began streaming down the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's face.

"Those animals! After catching me, they sucked me dry for ten thousand years. Ten thousand years!

If I hadn't broken through the million-year bottleneck at the very last moment, they would have sucked me to death.

Boohoo, little Chen An, once you become powerful, you must avenge me! Slaughter those hateful ferocious beasts and absorb their soul rings and soul bones!"

The grievances and bitterness the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had accumulated over ten thousand years poured out like a raging river, flowing without end.

They echoed on and on within Chen An's Sea of Consciousness...