Huo Yuhao's breath slowly began freezing into icy mist.
An enormous silkworm, white as jade from head to tail and over seven meters long, slowly emerged from a crack in the ground in the distance.
He crawled to within a meter of Huo Yuhao and stopped, fixing his glittering golden eyes on him.
"Run! Go on, keep running! Are you a spiritual-type Soul Master or an agility-attack-type Soul Master?"
"I already told you I meant no harm! Why did you keep running?"
Watching a layer of frost gradually cover Huo Yuhao's body, the enormous silkworm sighed, then released his suppression of Huo Yuhao.
"Stop running. Listen to what your big brother has to say."
Whoosh!
Without hesitation, Huo Yuhao gripped the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd and brought it crashing down toward the enormous silkworm's head.
"Heavenly Scale Halberd Art, Fish Scale Halberd!"
Huo Yuhao's face flushed crimson as he roared.
Since he could not escape, even if he died, he would at least strip a layer of hide off this hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast!
What little Soul Power remained in Huo Yuhao's dantian surged out with that roar, pouring madly into the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd.
At that moment, a crimson radiance abruptly erupted from the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd!
With his current Soul Power cultivation, Huo Yuhao could not possibly execute the complete Heavenly Scale Halberd Art.
Managing even this much was already the result of throwing caution to the wind and squeezing out every last drop of his Soul Power.
After all, on the Tianxuan Continent, the Heavenly Scale Halberd Art was a genuine superior martial art, capable of allowing someone in the Origin Pill Realm to clash head-on with a Form Creation Realm expert.
"You even have twin Martial Souls?!"
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's pupils twitched, and he screamed.
He actually sensed an extremely dangerous aura from this great halberd Martial Soul.
He was a million-year Soul Beast, after all. Even if his fighting strength fell short of some ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts, he was still an unprecedented million-year Soul Beast on the Douluo Continent!
Yet this great halberd Martial Soul actually made him feel wary.
What level of Martial Soul was this?
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm dodged in a panic, but Huo Yuhao was simply too fast.
In the blink of an eye, the crimson halberd light had already swept down, like a savage deep-sea beast baring its fangs and claws, cleaving toward the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm with terrifying might.
"What kind of spiritual-type Soul Master are you?! Why are you more bloodthirsty than a Soul Beast?!"
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm shouted, hurriedly using his spiritual power to immobilize Huo Yuhao again.
Huo Yuhao once again lost the ability to move.
The Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd fell to the ground with a clang, its halberd light scattering and blasting a deep crater into the earth.
Then it transformed into dark golden light and returned to Huo Yuhao's body.
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm shook the cold sweat off his head, looking at the immobilized Huo Yuhao with lingering fear.
Something's wrong. There's something wrong with this human Soul Master's Martial Soul.
It's so strong it practically exceeds the limits. If it were a beast Martial Soul, wouldn't it be at the ferocious beast level?
"But this is good, too." The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm let out a long breath. "At least the plan's chances of success have gone up another notch."
"So what if he's bloodthirsty? It means he isn't a coward and has what it takes to make it to the end."
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm wriggled leisurely closer.
He said, "Human, listen carefully. I am the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who has cultivated for a million years and set the record for the longest lifespan on the Douluo Continent! From now on, you can call me Brother Sky Dream."
"The reason I came looking for you today is that I intend to become your Soul Ring, giving you an unprecedented Wisdom Soul Ring on the Douluo Continent!"
At this point, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm smiled slyly. "Now you know what kind of opportunity you nearly missed, don't you? And you still tried to run. If you'd run away, the day would've come when you regretted it."
Huo Yuhao stood frozen in place, his expression contorted, completely unable to speak.
But the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm did not care about Huo Yuhao's current state.
To him, Huo Yuhao was better this way.
Once he released Huo Yuhao's restraints, there was no telling what this bloodthirsty little killer would do.
"Human, get ready. Your big brother is going to sacrifice himself to you!"
As his words fell, the ten golden rings on the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's body began pulsing as though they had come alive.
In an instant, those ten golden rings rapidly enveloped Huo Yuhao's increasingly sturdy body.
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm himself transformed into streams of white radiance that poured ceaselessly into Huo Yuhao's body.
Dong.
Within Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness, the "Martial Scripture" suddenly rang out like a mighty bell.
Under the pressure of that sound, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's entire essence was actually forced back into his body.
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's sacrifice had failed.
At the same time, a pressure far surpassing the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's spiritual power came pouring down as though the celestial river had been overturned, surging against the current into his Sea of Consciousness.
Pop.
A golden thread stretching across the heavens quietly snapped free of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
And in the extremely distant Douluo God Realm, a blue-haired man holding the Golden Trident abruptly spat out a mouthful of blood.
"What happened to the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm?!"
"Could it be Destruction? It must be him! He's practically courting death!"
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had no awareness of everything that had happened to him.
"How could the sacrifice fail?!" the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm shrieked.
This was completely beyond his understanding.
This was a sacrifice, and the sacrifice of a million-year Soul Beast at that. How could it possibly fail?
It was an iron law of the Douluo Continent: a sacrifice could not be interrupted!
Thanks to the "Martial Scripture," Huo Yuhao had now broken free of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's spiritual restraints and regained the ability to move.
Holding the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd in both hands, he watched the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warily.
He really doesn't want to kill me.
Setting aside the sacrifice just now, the mere fact that he had immobilized Huo Yuhao twice without killing him already demonstrated his attitude.
But there was clearly something abnormal about the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, or he would not have provoked a reaction from the "Martial Scripture."
The "Martial Scripture" had stated that, as long as Huo Yuhao did not actively court death, when he faced an enemy whose strength far surpassed his own and who wanted to train him into a dog, the "Martial Scripture" would protect his Sea of Consciousness and prevent a tragedy.
Viewed in that light, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's attempt at sacrifice just now was highly suspicious.
An unprecedented million-year Soul Beast offering himself to Huo Yuhao for no reason whatsoever-Huo Yuhao did not believe such a pie would fall from the sky.
A hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast could already rival a Titled Douluo, so what about a million-year Soul Beast?
How was this any different from Dai Mubai, the Dai Family's ancestor, suddenly killing himself and passing his Godhood Inheritance to Huo Yuhao?
Between the two, Huo Yuhao would sooner believe the latter.
Because, however unwilling he was to admit it, half the blood flowing through his veins truly belonged to the Dai Family.
If Dai Mubai really wanted to kill himself and pass on his godhood, then by both sentiment and reason, Huo Yuhao would have some chance of inheriting it.
But this Sky Dream Ice Silkworm?
This was only their first meeting. Why would he sacrifice himself to Huo Yuhao?
Huo Yuhao lowered the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd with both hands, his Supreme Purity Sky Roaming Steps already poised beneath his feet, ready to flee the next instant.
Yet the outcome caught him by surprise.
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm actually fled in panic.
"There's something wrong with you! I'm not sacrificing myself to you anymore!"