"Well now, someone with a Mental Attribute Martial Soul! My luck is that good? I found a mental-type human this quickly! If I could cry, tears would definitely be streaming down my face right now."
Huo Yuhao had only just entered the Star Dou Great Forest and taken fewer than fifty steps when a voice suddenly rang out in his mind. He jumped in fright and immediately grew wary.
"Don't worry. The Soul Beast we're looking for has come to find us," Huo Yun reassured him.
The moment she finished speaking, the ground five meters away from Huo Yuhao suddenly began to shake without warning. Cracks appeared in the earth, gradually widening until they formed a two-meter-long fissure.
He could vaguely make out a faint golden-white light shining from within.
Is that him?
Huo Yuhao swallowed. He knew their target this time was the legendary Million-Year Soul Beast, and he was finally going to see its true appearance.
What appeared before the Million-Year Soul Beast he had imagined was a trace of cold air. The surrounding temperature dropped at a visible rate, layers of frost spreading outward from the edges of the fissure. The fissure continued to widen until it reached over five meters.
Only then did a large, round head slowly emerge, wriggling as it crawled slowly out of the ground. Its body was over seven meters long.
Yet although the surrounding temperature had plummeted, Huo Yuhao did not feel the slightest chill. In fact, he felt rather warm.
Before the fissure appeared, the temperature around Huo Yuhao had already risen a little, just enough to counteract the cold.
Huo Yun: Don't freeze my child.
Huo Yuhao did not notice the change in the surrounding temperature. His attention was entirely drawn to the Soul Beast emerging from the ground.
It was a silkworm that looked enormous at first glance. Its entire body was the color of white jade, crystal clear, with a halo of light flowing beneath its skin. There was even a pair of glittering golden eyes on its head. Most peculiar of all, starting half a meter from its head, a golden band encircled its body at regular intervals. From head to tail, there were ten golden bands in total.
"Little fellow, you don't seem afraid of me?" The earlier voice rang out in Huo Yuhao's mind again as the silkworm before him studied him curiously.
He had thought Huo Yuhao would be frightened by his appearance, yet not only was the boy unafraid, he was studying him curiously instead.
"Maybe because I already knew you wouldn't hurt me," Huo Yuhao said honestly.
"Where did you hear that?" This made Sky Dream Ice Silkworm very curious.
"From my mom." Huo Yuhao thought they would be partners from now on, and Huo Yun had explained what a Wisdom Soul Ring was on the way here.
It meant that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm before him would seal all his energy inside Huo Yuhao, become his Martial Soul's First Soul Ring, and live in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness as a soul from then on.
Huo Yuhao would still be the owner of the body. It was like having a guest living inside him, and this guest would provide him with his First Soul Ring and the energy stored over a million years of cultivation.
Although the Million-Year Soul Beast before him had long since exhausted his energy and only his origin remained, even that would be enough for Huo Yuhao to use for a very, very long time.
And since the other party would effectively become his partner, Huo Yuhao naturally chose to be more straightforward with him.
"Who is your mom?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm tilted his head. The flesh on his head swayed gently with the movement, looking particularly springy and as though it would be very satisfying to pinch.
It even made Huo Yun want to poke him, but before that, she felt that taking care of business was more important.
"Stop chatting for now. Let him in, and I'll have a good talk with him afterward. Do you know where this is? The Star Dou Great Forest. This big bug is very weak. If the Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest discover him, we'll be in trouble."
"All right." Huo Yuhao nodded and looked at Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. "Um, should you start your plan? It's really unsafe to talk here."
"Right, you're absolutely right." Only upon hearing this did Sky Dream Ice Silkworm snap to his senses. It really was unsafe here, and he needed to get this over with quickly.
"I'm starting now. Don't be scared. I'll be quick, and I definitely won't hurt you."
As soon as he finished speaking, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's body began to change.
The ten bands of light on his body seemed to come alive, pulsing before leaving his body and wrapping directly around Huo Yuhao.
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm pressed his forehead against Huo Yuhao's. Soon, powerful mental fluctuations spread from him, and his entire body gradually began turning into faint white light that flowed into Huo Yuhao.
Before long, a voice tinged with pleasant surprise rang out. "Oh, not bad! Your physical strength is definitely top-notch for your cultivation level. Your Sea of Consciousness is already this big at such a young age! There's enough room for me to live in, though unfortunately, I'll still have to put a few seals in place!
"Wait, hold on, that's not right... how did you open your Sea of Consciousness with such weak cultivation?"
"You talk too much. Get in here." Huo Yun was growing a little annoyed. She took the initiative and pulled Sky Dream Ice Silkworm straight inside, while also inviting in the other cheat that the previous Douluo Will had long since arranged for Huo Yuhao.
"Why is there someone el-holy crap!" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had just been about to complain when he was yanked inside before he could finish.
Originally, the white light Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had become was slowly merging into Huo Yuhao's body, but now it all went in at once.
At the same moment, the previously clear sky suddenly darkened, as though its light had been devoured and the heavens were twisting. Something seemed to pierce through space and arrive in this world.
Boom!
A thunderous roar rang out, and ripples spread across the sky, traces left by the shattering of space. As the sound faded, the surroundings finally sank into complete darkness. A powerful aura that did not belong to Soul Power spread outward-overbearing, frenzied, majestic.
A gray stream of air seemed to be caught by an immense suction force. In an instant, it landed at the back of Huo Yuhao's head and silently slipped inside.
At the same moment, a low voice, steeped in the ravages of time, rang out beside Huo Yuhao's ear.
"With sun and moon in my grasp, I pluck the stars; none in this world can rival me. Never, ever did I imagine that a fragment of this old man's soul could survive."
"No, what is going on? First one, then another-do you think I'm a pushover?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was furious too. Just what sort of candidate had he found? The boy was so popular that one after another was competing with him. Did they really think he was a pushover?
He immediately prepared to mobilize his mental power and strike the gray stream of air and the multicolored orb of light at the very center.
"Seriously, can't you just talk things out?" Seeing this, Huo Yun immediately released her Spiritual Power, forming a huge net that surrounded Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
Although she could not mobilize much energy right now, this was not a clash of origins. It was a clash of wills, a contest of Spiritual Power.
Huo Yun had once been mortal, but after fully merging with the Douluo Consciousness, she was the Douluo Consciousness, an existence that had lived for countless years since its birth. Compared to her, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's million years of Spiritual Power was rather unimpressive.
When Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Spiritual Shock struck, it rebounded instead.
"Fuck! Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!" Struck by the rebound, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm clutched his head and rolled around in pain.
"Serves you right. Let's see whether you blindly attack without checking the situation again." Huo Yun was exasperated too. This Spiritual Shock might not have done anything to her or Electrolux, but Huo Yuhao would definitely have bled from all seven orifices. This fool had attacked blindly without even checking the situation.
After that complaint, Huo Yun left Sky Dream Ice Silkworm alone. She would let him hurt for a while and calm down before explaining things.
As for Electrolux, he was sleeping-no, wait!
"Is he absorbing energy?" Huo Yun saw that the gray orb of light that had entered was not staying obediently in place. Instead, it had flown among the ten golden orbs.
At that moment, the ten golden orbs were constantly emitting faint golden light, which gathered in the vortex above the Sea of Consciousness.
That vortex was a doorway Huo Yun had left behind when upgrading Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul earlier.
In fact, she had only built a model for Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul upgrade at the time. She had not had much energy and could not finish it.
So she had been waiting for Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's origin to complete it in one go.
As soon as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm entered, the Martial Soul automatically began absorbing the parts of his origin beneficial to it to complete its evolution.
And that vortex was like a mouth that converted origin energy. Right now, the gray orb of light was nestled near that mouth, absorbing the origin energy Sky Dream Ice Silkworm released.
"If he's only absorbing a little, then never mind. We're not short of that much. All right, time to find some suitable Soul Skills for my child." Huo Yun watched for a while. Seeing that the gray orb was only absorbing a little rather than taking it all, she chose not to intervene. She had other matters to handle.
This was what she had saved for her child's upgrade. It was effectively stealing her child's milk. As long as her child had enough to eat, she did not mind sharing a mouthful. After all, he would benefit her child in the future too.
But if he dared to snatch it all, he could not blame her for being ruthless.
Since he was not doing that, she busied herself with the next step of her arrangements.
Outside, Huo Yuhao's body had turned jade-white, making him look like a jade Buddha.
Beneath his feet, intense fluctuations of Soul Power spread continuously. A faint white glow lit up, gradually turning into a jade-white gleam as crystalline as jade.
An unremarkable yet richly lustrous jade-white Soul Ring slowly rose from beneath Huo Yuhao.
And the bottleneck that had held Huo Yuhao back for nearly half a year shattered at that moment. The Soul Power he had accumulated through half a year of cultivation erupted within him.
It raised his cultivation from rank ten to rank eleven, rank twelve, rank thirteen...
As the Soul Power within him continued to rise, a crystal-clear, pale golden vertical eye slowly opened on his forehead. In the end, Huo Yuhao's cultivation stopped at rank fifteen.
The lustrous white gradually faded, and a faint layer of icy blue began to emerge beneath Huo Yuhao's skin. It lasted for a little over ten seconds before gradually fading away, restoring his skin's original color.
A thin white membrane tinged with pale gold silently rose from the ground. It rapidly shrank, condensed into a ball, and slipped into Huo Yuhao's clothes, disappearing.
"All right, done." Having finished everything, Huo Yun clapped her hands, though she had no hands. Now, the cheats the original Douluo Consciousness had prepared for Huo Yuhao were basically all in place, and some of the cheats she had prepared were in place too.
At this point, Huo Yuhao also entered his Sea of Consciousness. He had seen the gray stream of air enter his body earlier and had been somewhat worried that it might harm his mother.
"Mom, what is that?" Seeing that Huo Yun was unharmed, Huo Yuhao breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the gray orb in the air.
Although that orb was smaller than Huo Yun, it was much larger than the mote of light formed from the soul of Huo Yuhao's birth mother, Huo Yun'er.
"He's a powerful expert from another world that I found for you. He was once a supreme expert who could become a god whenever he wished, the Holy Necromancer. But he later perished, and this is only a fragment of his soul," Huo Yun explained.
"A god? You're saying this is an expert who could become a god at any time? As expected of you. You're truly amazing." Hearing this, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm came over. By now, he had mostly recovered.
"You recognized me?" Huo Yun was a little surprised to see Sky Dream Ice Silkworm addressing her so respectfully.
"Please forgive what happened earlier. I attacked recklessly before understanding the situation. That aura of the world you carry-I think no supreme expert born in this world could mistake it," Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said, somewhat embarrassed.
Although he had never seen the Douluo Consciousness or spoken a single word to her, he was still a Million-Year Soul Beast. By Soul Beast rankings, he was actually already equivalent to someone who had reached rank one hundred and become a god.
Even though his strength was very weak, upon reaching that level, he could already faintly sense many things.
The existence of the Douluo Consciousness, for instance. Although he had never seen her or heard anyone speak of her, deep down, he simply knew that such a consciousness definitely existed.
He had merely assumed that the Douluo Consciousness was usually asleep and would only appear if something major happened to the world.
He had never expected to encounter her inside Huo Yuhao. This truly caught him by surprise.
"It's fine. Your attack couldn't hurt me at all. If I hadn't been worried about Yuhao getting hurt, I wouldn't have bothered with your attack." Since Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had apologized, Huo Yun was not the petty sort either.
Besides, given Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's strength, it was just as Huo Yun had said: even if she stood there and let him attack, he might not be able to shake her.
"As expected of you! So magnanimous, loved by everyone, making flowers bloom wherever you go..." Seeing that Huo Yun was not angry, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm immediately took the opportunity to flatter her.
Huo Yuhao listened in a daze. What flattery.
"Listen..." Huo Yun had just been about to tell Sky Dream Ice Silkworm not to be a bad influence on Huo Yuhao, but as soon as she began speaking, she sensed something and abruptly looked outside.
At some point, two sturdily built middle-aged men had appeared near Huo Yuhao.
"Did you feel it? The soul seems to have entered his body."
"Yes. It looks like Xiao San really sensed it correctly. A foreign god-level expert's soul really did enter the Douluo Continent and go into this child's body. Who knows whether it's good or bad?"
"Let's take him back. An unknown god-level expert's soul is a real problem."
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