"Bzz!"
Xu Cheng gently slipped an arm around Tang Ya's slender waist beside him. She went limp without realizing it, slowly leaning into his embrace.
With warm jade in his arms and his hand around her supple waist, Xu Cheng nevertheless kept his eyes fixed on the ground ahead.
He inwardly breathed a sigh of relief.
Brother Sky Dream, whom he had been awaiting for N+1 days, had finally arrived...
"Rumble!"
An enormous fissure opened in the ground ahead.
A round, chubby head poked out, then its body slowly rose until Xu Cheng had to tilt his head back to take in its full appearance.
So this was the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm?
Xu Cheng marveled.
His body was around seven meters long, his skin giving off a faint halo, as pristine and flawless as white porcelain jade. Golden markings began at his head, numbering ten in total along his body to his tail. As Xu Cheng looked up, sunlight spilled through the lush leaves, falling in scattered patches over Tian Meng and lending him an even stronger air of a divine beast.
As expected of a Million-Year Soul Beast, his sheer presence was off the charts.
"Too bad I can't shed tears, or they'd definitely be streaming down my face."
While Xu Cheng studied Tian Meng, Tian Meng was studying him as well.
Both felt a sense of mutual affinity.
*A spiritual-type eye martial soul... No, he seems to have another martial soul too. A fourteen-year-old Soul King with a single martial soul, and his spiritual-type martial soul happens to have reached rank fifty as well, though he hasn't added a soul ring to it yet. Even among all humans, someone with talent like this must be a peerless genius, one in ten thousand. And I just happened to