The white flame hesitated, then flew over, retreating three steps for every step it advanced. It circled Huo Yuhao's body, then sensed his aura again and let out several delighted hums.
"Are you willing to enter a master-servant contract with him, serve him faithfully from this day forth, and never leave him in life or death?" Electrolux asked again.
This time, without the slightest hesitation, the white flame bobbed up and down as though nodding like a human.
"Very good. Since you were born from the boundless cold power within the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cave, where yin reached its extreme and gave rise to yang, your name from this day onward shall be Profound Ice Cold Flame!" Electrolux spoke the names Huo Yuhao and Profound Ice Cold Flame while chanting an incomprehensible incantation.
Suddenly, Electrolux's voice rose to an unusually high pitch. With his staff raised overhead, he began tracing golden runes, slowly but resolutely.
The golden symbols drifted toward the Profound Ice Cold Flame one after another and swiftly merged into it. Its size gradually began to shrink.
"Yuhao, blood!" Electrolux commanded in a deep voice.
Huo Yuhao's eyes flew wide open, and he spat out a mouthful of blood that landed squarely on the Profound Ice Cold Flame. The Profound Ice Cold Flame instantly turned into a small white flame, floated slowly toward Huo Yuhao, and merged into his eyes.
At the same time, every piece of clothing on Huo Yuhao's body was instantly burned to ashes.
Although the Profound Ice Cold Flame had already entered a master-servant contract with Huo Yuhao, heavenly flames were, after all, wild and violent things born of heaven and earth. Even a sliver of their power was more than Huo Yuhao could withstand in his current state.
"Yuhao, take the Blood Lotus