Each Other's Personal Hand Warmers (Please Keep Reading) (1 / 2)

The Far North was a forbidden zone for humans. Apart from powerful ice-attribute soul masters, no one would set foot here.

Because the Far North had only ice-attribute soul beasts, no soul master would come to such a remote and dangerous place to hunt.

The Far North was divided into the core region, the mixed region, and the outermost region. The outermost region contained hundred-year and thousand-year soul beasts, while those in the mixed region were somewhat stronger. Thousand-year soul beasts made up the majority there, and the number of ten-thousand-year soul beasts gradually increased.

As for the core region, there were practically no thousand-year soul beasts here. Even the weakest soul beasts had at least ten thousand years of cultivation.

Moreover, the core region was home to the Far North's Three Great Heavenly Kings: the six-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year Snow Empress, the three-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, and the two-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon King.

These three were the towering behemoths of the Far North, ruling over its lands.

And Huo Yuhao's target on this trip was none other than the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, an ice-attribute soul beast with a staggering three hundred and ninety thousand years of cultivation.

"Tian Meng, you've been searching for a whole month already. Is this going to work?"

Huo Yuhao and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm were currently at the boundary between the Far North's core region and mixed region. This was the safest area.

It was a place where they could lure the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion over, where he could barely withstand the power of the extreme cold, and where he could quickly retreat unscathed.

Yet even here, even with his naked body wrapped entirely in the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's million-year-old shed skin, Huo Yuhao still felt cold.

If this had been that other world, his cultivation would have let him withstand it easily. Unfortunately, he was now only a weak One-Ring Soul Master.

Although consuming the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum had forged his body into an Invincible Golden Body, even that could not withstand the passage of time.

After an entire month, his soul power was almost exhausted. He could hold out for three more days at most. Once those three days were up, he could no longer keep indulging the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's antics.

He would not hesitate to teleport away from this godforsaken place and descend into his Phantom Body.

"Don't worry. The Ice Empress probably isn't hunting in this area. Otherwise, she would definitely come as soon as she sensed my aura. But no matter how far she's gone, she should be back by now."

"Let's hope so!"

Although the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm made it sound easy, Huo Yuhao's heart was far from calm. Blizzards had frequently erupted in the mixed region lately, and there had even been several massive wolf tides, scattering multiple groups of soul masters who had come to hunt soul beasts in the Far North.

Then the blizzards swept through them. Even in this part of the mixed region near the core, he saw several human corpses every day. Sometimes, as he walked, the wind and snow would whirl a few bodies frozen into ice pops through the sky.

Nature's cruelty was laid bare at that moment.

Could human strength truly conquer heaven?

Huo Yuhao believed that saying, but it still depended on who you were!

After another dull day came to an end, Huo Yuhao dug a hole and buried himself inside.

Although he could instantly teleport into his Phantom Body and then return to his original location, he had never tested whether it would still work over such a vast distance.

If he went back and could not return, this entire month would have been wasted. So Huo Yuhao decided to try it when he had time. For now, he would leave it alone.

All he had to do was dig an ice hole and bury himself. It was no big deal. He could treat it as an early taste of life underground.

Boom-

Just as Huo Yuhao was about to close his eyes, he suddenly felt a rumble pass through the ground, as though something had crashed heavily onto it.

Huo Yuhao's heart leaped into his throat. In an area like this, almost all the soul beasts were powerful. He had already confirmed that the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had no great fighting strength, and because he was plotting against the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, his million-year-old shed skin could not be used indiscriminately either.

After all, it could only be used at full power once.

If there was a powerful ice-attribute soul beast outside, his trip to the Far North would probably end here. But just then, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's voice slowly sounded beside his ear.

"Huo Yuhao, relax. I've scanned the area with my spiritual power. There aren't any powerful soul beasts within several miles. What's outside is a person."

"A person?"

Hearing this, Huo Yuhao immediately breathed a sigh of relief and paid it no further attention. He had encountered plenty of human corpses over the past few days. One more lying above his head was no big deal.

But the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's next words caught him completely off guard, stirring a trace of disbelief in his heart!

"Huo Yuhao, that person is still alive. But the treasure protecting her from this extreme cold is about to break."

Huo Yuhao caught the implication in the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's words: was he going to save her?

He hesitated too.

For someone to survive in a place this bitterly cold, even with a powerful treasure that defended against ice, they surely needed considerable strength.

What if he saved her, only for her to harm him afterward? Huo Yuhao was deeply torn.

But after a moment's hesitation, a battle raged within him, and in the end, his conscience defeated his darker thoughts.

His bottom line would not allow him to watch a life fade away right before his eyes. So regardless of whether the person was a man or a woman, or who they were, he would save them first.

Wrapped in the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's million-year-old shed skin, Huo Yuhao crawled out of the underground ice hole. Then he caught sight of that battered figure.

Before him lay a breathtakingly beautiful woman. Her splendid dress was already in tatters, clearly slashed apart by the wind and snow. A layer of solid ice covered her body, and the only thing keeping her alive was an ice bead at her chest that was on the verge of shattering.

Although it was an ice bead, it kept absorbing the cold around her, preserving her final breath.

Huo Yuhao hurriedly dragged the woman into the ice hole and sealed the entrance. But when he prepared to save her, he found himself at a loss.

She had only one last breath remaining. Now, it seemed that only that method would work.

"Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, avert your eyes."

Tian Meng scoffed at Huo Yuhao's words. "You humans look no different from ants to me. I don't want to watch anyway. In my eyes, only Bingbing is the most beautiful."

With that, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm withdrew into the spiritual sea of consciousness and began snoring away.

Only then did Huo Yuhao begin his next move.

He removed the beautiful woman's top and skirt, then took off all her undergarments as well, revealing her perfectly formed, delicate body. Afterward, Huo Yuhao draped the million-year-old shed skin from his own body directly over her.

The instant he took it off, Huo Yuhao felt a rush of icy cold. Completely naked, he hurriedly took thick clothes from his Storage Soul Tool and put them on, but even that was not enough. How could these clothes possibly withstand the terrifying cold of the core region?

Huo Yuhao had no choice but to hold the beautiful woman tightly against him, using the warmth of their bodies to fend off the bitter cold.