All done, off to the Sun Moon Empire (1 / 2)

The appearance of this fragment made both Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion lose their composure. After all, both could sense the ethereal aura emanating from it, an aura that did not belong to Douluo Star.

This belonged to the realm of gods.

In the eyes of the Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, this tiny fragment was nothing short of the most precious treasure. It meant that Huo Yuhao truly had a chance to touch the realm of gods. The look in the Ice Empress's eyes changed. Compared with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's slick persuasion and grand promises, this fragment of Huo Yuhao's had given her a pill to settle her heart.

She no longer resisted this sacrifice.

"Everything you said was true? You actually possess a means to become a god? Just what kind of being are you?"

The Ice Empress demanded answers, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm also looked at Huo Yuhao gravely. He realized that he still knew far too little about Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao smiled faintly. "This is a fragment of the Light God's origin. Once I'm strong enough, the Light God's Trial will naturally appear. When that time comes, I'll definitely become a god at rank one hundred."

"And that day won't be far off. With my talent, I'll soon cultivate to the Titled Douluo level, not to mention that I now have Sky Dream Ice Silkworm helping me. Within twenty years, I will become a god."

In any case, Huo Yuhao kept spinning his tale. He held out little hope of becoming a god; he simply had to make the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion cooperate wholeheartedly with this plan.

After all, once they began, there would be no stopping it. His life would truly be in the Ice Empress's hands. Although Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Empress were both highly unlikely to suddenly turn against him, since their lives were already intimately tied to Huo Yuhao's.

Still, nothing in this world was absolute. What if they did?

He had no Thousand-Day Resurrection Powder now, so he had no way to return from the dead. It was still necessary to be cautious.

In short, Huo Yuhao's persuasion was extremely effective. The Angel God's fragment packed far too powerful a punch. It was, after all, a product of a god.

The Ice Empress no longer hesitated in the slightest. She was no fool. If she failed to seize even an opportunity like this, she really would have lived all those years for nothing.

After learning the details from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, the Ice Empress immediately began the sacrifice process: first the Soul Bone, then the Soul Ring, and finally her transformation into Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul.

Huo Yuhao swore that he had never endured pain like this before. The 390,000-year torso bone was simply too powerful. His Indestructible Golden Body was burst open in an instant, and blood streamed out.

After enduring it for half a day, he finally managed to absorb this 390,000-year Soul Bone, though he had nearly passed out.

His Soul Power cultivation soared rapidly, reaching at least rank twenty-five by a conservative estimate.

He had only been at rank ten when he left the Duke's Mansion! In just over a month, his cultivation had skyrocketed, and he would soon even be able to break through to the Soul Elder level.

This cultivation speed held its own even against that of his previous life. All he could say was that sometimes, opportunities mattered more than talent.

Once the Soul Bone had been successfully absorbed, the Soul Ring was naturally taken care of with ease. Under Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's guidance, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, the Ice Empress, soon became Huo Yuhao's Wisdom Soul Ring, just as he had.

Soon, a Soul Ring shimmering with dazzling radiance rose from beneath his feet. It was blood-red, with four golden markings flickering faintly across its surface. The intertwined red and gold made it look extraordinarily bewitching and brilliant.

Even after living two lifetimes, this was Huo Yuhao's first time seeing a Soul Ring of such quality. Those four golden markings meant that this was a 400,000-year Soul Ring.

In other words, after the sacrifice, the Ice Empress's Soul Ring had been elevated, undergoing an astonishing transformation. It had actually crossed the 300,000-year bottleneck and broken through to become a powerful 400,000-year Soul Ring.

Three hundred and ninety thousand years and four hundred thousand years were two entirely different concepts.

After examining the Soul Ring, Huo Yuhao immediately turned his attention to his new Martial Soul. Although he had possessed several god-level Martial Souls before, this was his first encounter with an ice-attribute Ultimate Martial Soul.

Through his spiritual perception, he discovered an enormous tattoo on his back. With its dazzling front pincers and alluring emerald-green tail, it was unmistakably the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.

The tattoo was enormous, covering almost his entire back. Six long legs wrapped around his ribs, its front pincers rested on the backs of his shoulders, and its long tail followed his spine all the way down to his buttocks.

Aside from the tattoo, the greatest change he felt was that both his hands were covered in a layer of diamond granules. They were densely packed, each about the size of a mung bean. His arms shone with a brilliant luster, setting off the tattoo on his back.

This was the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion. This was an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul. It truly was domineering.

However, from this day onward, two people would be living in his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness.

The Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion had become his Wisdom Soul Ring. From now on, she would be an existence like Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, possessing her own consciousness and able to reside within his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness.

After the sacrifice process ended, Huo Yuhao immediately left the Phantom Body's body. He departed from this deserted stretch of sea and returned to the Far North, to the place he had originally left.

A day had already passed, and Ling Luochеn had long since gone. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm scanned the entire area but found no trace of her. She had probably already left the Far North.

Although Huo Yuhao was somewhat disappointed, obtaining a Soul Ring was still his priority. One reason he had returned from the sea was that it was simply too far from the Sun Moon Empire. The Far North, on the other hand, was quite close to it.

The second reason was that the Ice Empress's Soul Ring had been added to her Martial Soul, not to his Spirit Eyes. Thus, Huo Yuhao still needed another Soul Ring, one with a mental attribute.

There happened to be a species in the Far North that possessed not only ice-attribute Soul Power but also spiritual power: Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Ice Silkworm Clan.

The Ice Silkworm Clan was at the very bottom of the hierarchy in the Far North. They were everywhere, and their cultivation was generally low.

However, after a patient search, Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm found an ice silkworm with three thousand years of cultivation in a cave in the Mixed Zone.

Unlike in the mission world, Huo Yuhao took his Soul Rings very seriously in the real world. Besides having a compatible attribute, their age could not be too low.

With his current physical constitution, absorbing a thousand-year Soul Ring as his Second Soul Ring would be more than manageable. That was why he had searched with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm for an ice silkworm with a thousand years of cultivation.

Without wasting any time, Huo Yuhao absorbed this thousand-year Soul Ring, finally bringing his journey through the Far North to an end. He then ran toward the Sun Moon Empire.

Sun Moon Empire, here I come.