Electrolux, the Sea of Consciousness

Huo Yuhao nodded and gave a bitter smile. "My talent isn't very good. I've only come here to obtain my first soul ring."

Tang Ya spoke indistinctly through a mouthful of grilled fish. "You came to get a soul ring alone? What about your family?"

Huo Yuhao's expression dimmed with sorrow. He shook his head. "There's no one left in my family. It's just me."

"That's wonderful!" Tang Ya blurted out happily.

Although Chen Tianyuan had already known how outrageous Tang Ya could be, he still couldn't keep a straight face when he actually heard her say that.

Huo Yuhao looked utterly stunned. Even his hands stopped grilling the fish.

Bei Bei immediately rapped Tang Ya on the head. Realizing she had said the wrong thing, she hurriedly apologized. "Yuhao, don't misunderstand. That's not what I meant."

After a brief moment of shock, Huo Yuhao regained his composure and waved a hand. "It's all right."

After lunch, Huo Yuhao said goodbye to the three of them and headed straight into the forest.

Seeing this, Chen Tianyuan hurriedly stood up and beckoned the other two to follow.

According to how events were supposed to unfold, Huo Yuhao would kill a Wind Baboon, then encounter the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who would sacrifice himself to him, beginning his rise from adversity...

Chen Tianyuan had no intention of taking the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm for himself. It wasn't that he lacked the qualifications. His second martial soul was his entire body, including mental-attribute organs such as his eyes and brain. If he wanted, he could even pursue the mental system path.

Of course, there was another issue: his second martial soul didn't have a single soul ring attached to it. His spiritual power only surpassed Huo Yuhao's current level because he possessed a transmigrator's soul.

After chasing him for two minutes, Chen Tianyuan and the other two caught up with Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao was panting heavily and looked miserable. His clothes were torn in numerous places, and blood kept seeping from a palm-length gash on his left shoulder.

On the ground two meters in front of him lay a motionless Wind Baboon. A white Soul Ring floated quietly above its corpse, indicating its age. The blade of the White Tiger Dagger was buried completely in its abdomen, leaving only the handle exposed.

Looking at the calf-sized Wind Baboon, Chen Tianyuan couldn't help sighing inwardly. Huo Yuhao really does live up to being the Child of Fortune. An ordinary person who encountered such an ill-tempered soul beast would probably have already been handed their boxed lunch.

Tang Ya stared, dumbfounded. She had never expected an eleven- or twelve-year-old boy to kill a Wind Baboon entirely on his own...

Bei Bei hurried forward, rummaging through his Storage Soul Tool for healing pills.

Huo Yuhao's attention, however, was focused entirely on the Wind Baboon's corpse-or, more precisely, the ten-year soul ring above it, which shone with a faint white glow.

Though he still felt shaken, excitement and exhilaration outweighed his lingering fear. He cried out inwardly, Mother, can your spirit in heaven see this? I'm about to become a Soul Master!

Chen Tianyuan patted his right shoulder. Only then did Huo Yuhao notice that the three of them had followed him. His voice brimmed with excitement he couldn't hide. "Brother Chen, what brings you here?"

"We were worried you'd run into danger, of course, so we followed you." As he spoke, Chen Tianyuan looked at the Wind Baboon again.

"This Wind Baboon is only a ten-year soul beast, and its attribute doesn't match yours. If you're willing..."

Before Chen Tianyuan could finish, an incomparably vast surge of spiritual power erupted from the ground nearby and rapidly spread across a radius of fifty li, like a pebble falling into water and stirring up ripple after ripple.

Under these extraordinarily pure fluctuations of spiritual power, Huo Yuhao alone remained unaffected. Chen Tianyuan, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya instantly grew dizzy, as though someone had struck the backs of their heads with a wooden club.

Bei Bei and Tang Ya had weaker spiritual power and passed out instantly.

Chen Tianyuan wasn't much better off. He swayed, on the verge of collapsing. Before he lost consciousness, he saw a plump, snow-white silkworm covered in golden markings emerge from the ground...

Suddenly, the winds and clouds between heaven and earth changed. A huge, pitch-black vortex appeared out of thin air, and a gray ball of light descended from the sky too quickly for the naked eye to follow, falling into the Star Dou Great Forest.

"Huh? What's that? You actually dare fight me for him?"

"You've got some fat, plump courage!"

"Let me show you what I can do!"

Spiritual power erupted again, actually forcing the gray ball of light out of Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness.

The gray ball of light abruptly dimmed. After hovering between Chen Tianyuan, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya for several seconds, it plunged straight into Chen Tianyuan's head.

Inside the Sea of Consciousness, Huo Yuhao looked at the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in confusion. "Brother Sky Dream, what was that just now?"

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm snorted. "How would I know? Whatever he was, he came to steal my territory."

"Oh," Huo Yuhao replied, inexplicably feeling an emptiness in his heart.

Seeing this, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm knocked him on the head. "You've already got me, yet you're still thinking about someone else."

As he spoke, he put on a wounded expression. "Yuhao, you've really disappointed me."

Huo Yuhao hurriedly apologized. "Brother Sky Dream, that's not what I meant..."

Chen Tianyuan opened his eyes and found himself in a pure white space. It was extremely cramped, not even fifty square meters in size.

At the center of this space, a gray ball of light floated quietly. Its glow was dim, as though it might go out at any moment.

A faint but steady voice rang out.

"With sun and moon in hand, I pluck the stars; none in this world compares to me!"

"To think that a wisp of this old man's divine sense has survived."

With that, the ball of light fell silent, leaving only a faint glow.

Chen Tianyuan's pupils trembled violently, and towering waves of shock surged through his heart.

"Hey, wake up!"

Chen Tianyuan groggily opened his eyes, feeling a faint sting on his face. Bei Bei was straddling him, preparing to give him mouth-to-mouth.

The sight scared Chen Tianyuan half to death. He hurriedly pulled away and sprang to his feet with a kip-up, while Bei Bei lost his balance and fell straight to the ground.

Bei Bei rubbed his backside and stood up. "You wouldn't wake up. I thought you were dead."

Chen Tianyuan ignored Bei Bei. Instead, he focused his mind inward and returned to that space-his Sea of Consciousness.

Normally, Soul Masters outside the mental system could only open a Sea of Consciousness once they reached the Soul Saint level, and even then it would be extremely small.

The larger the Sea of Consciousness, the stronger one's spiritual power. But even though Chen Tianyuan was a transmigrator whose spiritual power exceeded that of his peers, he shouldn't have been able to open a Sea of Consciousness ahead of time.

He looked at the gray ball of light, which had fallen completely dormant, countless thoughts racing through his mind. Electrolux had actually chosen him and even helped him open his Sea of Consciousness. He had never imagined this could happen.

Leaving his Sea of Consciousness, Chen Tianyuan looked at Bei Bei and asked, "How long was I unconscious?"

Bei Bei thought for a moment. "An hour."

Chen Tianyuan looked to the side. Tang Ya was applying medicine to Huo Yuhao's shoulder. As the powder fell onto the wound, an ordinary person would surely have grimaced in pain, but Huo Yuhao remained perfectly calm.

Noticing Chen Tianyuan's gaze, he smiled back.