Huo Yuhao had been startled at first.
The Ice Serpent's body looked so lifelike that it seemed ready to open its cavernous, blood-red maw the next instant and swallow him whole.
Only after the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned him in time did Huo Yuhao realize it had long since died. The ice cavern's unique terrain, combined with the preserving effects of the Far North's extremely low temperatures, had kept its flesh from decaying all year round.
According to the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's assessment, the Ice Serpent had possessed at least two hundred thousand years of cultivation while alive. It had been immensely powerful.
After a brief investigation, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was positively overjoyed. He told Huo Yuhao that this Ice Serpent was the main reason no ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow had formed here.
All the ice-attribute energy of heaven and earth that would have produced ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow had instead gone into preserving its soul.
In other words... Huo Yuhao's blank, ice-attribute second martial soul could finally possess a real soul!
He had lost the Ice Empress, only to find a way out of certain doom just when the mountains and rivers seemed to leave him with nowhere to turn.
After the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm paid the price of three sealed portions of his origin power, Huo Yuhao successfully fused with the Ice Serpent's remnant soul with its help, turning it into his own martial soul. In the process, he learned the snake's name.
The Yincha Cold Snake.
This kind of soul beast did not inherently possess an ultimate attribute, but after being nurtured by this unique terrain for countless years, its soul, which had been on the verge of dissipating, had acquired a trace of one.
It was not truly ultimate, but it