How Did My Son Become My Daughter?

"What is this?" Tang San froze as he felt the Soul Power draining from his body. Even the Ice Needles he had just formed instantly dissolved into specks of light.

Then he saw the ice-blue and gold soul ring on Huo Yuhao light up. This was clearly the effect of Huo Yuhao's first Soul Skill.

Absolute Control of Ice Elements!

This was the only Soul Skill Huo Yuhao's First Soul Ring had given him: absolute control over ice elements within a certain range. It allowed Huo Yuhao to command all the power of ice elements within that range. The stronger the surrounding ice elements were, the stronger Huo Yuhao would become.

Even more terrifyingly, if an opponent within a certain range of Huo Yuhao also had ice-element Soul Power inside their body, he could control that portion of Soul Power as well.

In other words, with this Soul Skill, any ice-element Soul Master or Soul Beast who encountered Huo Yuhao was finished.

However, this Soul Skill had one weakness. Huo Yuhao could only control an amount of Soul Power equal to his own. In other words, Huo Yuhao was currently at level 20, so he could only control twenty levels' worth of his opponent's Soul Power. Even against multiple opponents, the amount remained the same; it would not increase with their numbers.

But this weakness only applied while Huo Yuhao had little Soul Power. Once he grew stronger in the future, a single glance would be enough to cripple opponents at his level or below.

To resist under these circumstances, one would need ice power on the same level as the Ice God's. But the Ice God was an existence far beyond Ultimate Ice.

One could put it this way: if Ultimate Ice were divided into different grades, then when it came to the ice attribute, only the Ice Dragon King could rival the Ice God.

The other option was to surpass Huo Yuhao's current comprehension of the ice attribute. Someone like the Snow Empress could have relied on her overwhelming strength to resist this absorption.

But Tang San met neither condition. The laws he commanded were not ice-attributed, and the ice attribute of his current body could not match the Ice God within Huo Yuhao either.

Thus, he had no power whatsoever to resist Huo Yuhao absorbing the Soul Power inside him.

And this was merely a secondary effect of Absolute Control of Ice Elements. Its true effect was to let Huo Yuhao control ice elements however he wished.

Just as he did now-with a thought, an ice gauntlet appeared over his fist. Ice spikes protruded from it, looking exceedingly sharp. Taking advantage of Tang San's momentary daze, he strode forward and slammed a fist viciously into his face. The heavy, powerful blow sent Tang San spinning through the air like a rag, scarlet blood splattering everywhere. Huo Yuhao had even knocked his brains out.

There was no need to elaborate on Huo Yuhao's physical fitness. He was unquestionably the best of the three present.

His physical fitness had already surpassed that of an ordinary Soul Elder, and after obtaining the Ice God Martial Soul, it had received another tremendous boost.

With Huo Yuhao's manipulation also throwing the Soul Power within Tang San into disarray, that single punch left him beyond saving.

"Yuhao, you just killed him instantly? Weren't you going to throw a few more punches to vent your anger?" the Ice God could not help asking when she saw Huo Yuhao kill his opponent outright.

She could feel the fury filling Huo Yuhao. With the strength to crush his opponent completely, why not vent a little?

"That would be tormenting a living being. Tang San is a beast, but one punch to kill that beast is enough. Mom said life deserves respect. Besides, this isn't Tang San's body. It belongs to an innocent person. I couldn't save her, so I could only free her this way," Huo Yuhao said. He had firm principles in this regard, and Huo Yun had taught him those as well.

"Very decisive. And fair enough-he was a god, after all. If you didn't kill him and let him react, who knows what tricks he might have?" The Ice God approved of this. He then stopped dwelling on the subject. "Then let's leave it at that. Yuhao, let me borrow your body next. There's something I need to do."

"All right." Huo Yuhao did not refuse and relinquished control of his body.

Huo Yuhao first closed his eyes, then suddenly opened them. His entire bearing underwent a tremendous transformation.

His original easygoing manner became incomparably mature. That change in bearing alone made Huo Yuhao, whose figure was now female, look peerless in her grace, like the most beautiful goddess in the world.

The first thing the Ice God did upon taking control of the body was not anything else, but to completely tear apart Huo Yuhao's clothes, which had already ripped as his body grew larger. As the scraps fluttered through the air, the distant Divine Statue of the Ice God erupted with dazzling white light. Then strips of gauze glowing white flew out of the statue and surrounded Huo Yuhao.

The gauze wound around Huo Yuhao, gradually forming a blue-and-white outfit that outlined what could now be called his utterly perfect figure. It was close-fitting, yet instead of an ordinary long dress, it was a combination of trousers and a long coat.

This made him, whose bearing was already cool and aloof, look even more striking and gallant.

Then the Ice God raised a hand, and the treasured sword hovering above the Divine Statue instantly became a streak of light and flew into his hand.

"Old friend, accompany me on one last journey." The Ice God gently stroked the blade. This was her weapon, and also her divine artifact.

The Ice Frost Sword!

"Lord Ice God!" Hearing those words, the Snow Empress immediately felt an ominous premonition and hurriedly called out.

The Ice God raised a hand to interrupt what the Snow Empress was about to say and smiled. "I've been dead for many years. The remnant soul left now was only preserved with the Divine Seat's help. After sleeping for so many years and finally waking up, I want to see this world and do one last thing for my homeland. It's worth it. From now on, I'll leave the Far North in your care.

"And another thing-I already told you to call me big sister."

As she spoke, the Ice God reached out and pinched the Snow Empress's cheek.

"..." For a moment, the Snow Empress did not know what to say. She wanted to resist, but the person before her was the Ice God in her heart, the object of her faith. Yet if she did not resist-who had dared pinch her face all these years? Anyone who dared say they wanted to court her had been beaten half to death.

"You... ice isn't only cold. It can be gentle too. Don't always be so icy. Go out more, look around, make some friends. Don't leave yourself all alone. Sometimes, when cold reaches its utmost extreme, misfortune turns to fortune, and warmth follows. Make a few more friends when you have time. Try letting go of the cold in your heart and going out to see the world."

With that, the Ice God released the Snow Empress's cheek. Carrying Tang San's-or rather, Bing'er's-remains in one hand and her divine artifact, the Ice Frost Sword, in the other, she walked slowly outside.

Meanwhile, outside in the Far North, the earth suddenly shook in the basin where the Divine Seat was located.

"What's happening?" The people waiting nearby stared at the suddenly trembling ground in confusion.

Some reacted swiftly and hurriedly brought their disciples out of the basin.

The white light that had originally occupied the center of the basin began expanding rapidly.

From its original two meters, it soon reached a mysterious place, and it still did not stop, continuing to twenty meters, then thirty.

An enormous silhouette gradually emerged within the white light.

Under countless shocked gazes, an ice-blue castle slowly appeared before everyone.

The entire castle covered an area of at least three thousand meters and stood around three hundred meters tall. It gradually floated into the air, majestic and magnificent, looking as a whole like a castle suspended in the sky.

At its very top was a six-pointed snowflake emblem, rotating steadily and continuously shedding pure white snowflakes.

The entire castle was shrouded in this thin veil of snowflakes. Sunlight fell upon them, making them glitter like countless stars and lending the castle an especially sacred appearance as it continued to rise.

Seeing this, everyone below who could fly immediately took to the air. Every one of them understood that this castle was probably where the Divine Seat had truly been hidden.

Such a thing could only mean someone had obtained the Divine Seat. But who? Someone from the Sea God Family, the Snow Empress, or the person Di Tian had brought?

"Who succeeded?" Even Di Tian was intensely curious now.

"How would I know? The realm of gods isn't under my jurisdiction," Huo Yun said. She was curious too, but what could he do? He could oversee everything below godhood, but anything above it was truly beyond her reach.

Especially within the Ice God's Divine Temple-that was somewhere she could not probe at all.

The castle did not rise too high, stopping at only around two thousand meters in the air. But very few people could fly even that high.

Of the at least ten thousand figures originally gathered around the perimeter, only a dozen or so remained when they flew up into the sky.

Their gazes fixed on the main entrance at the front of the castle. As the castle stopped at around two thousand meters, its great doors slowly opened. An exquisitely beautiful figure walked out, likewise carrying another figure whose face was indistinct.

The instant they saw that figure, everyone had only one thought: who was she?

"Someone from the Sea God Family?" Many guessed that she belonged to the Sea God Family-the person Bo Yunjie and Bo Yunxiu had brought-because that person had worn a black robe from beginning to end, preventing them from seeing her face clearly.

But only Bo Yunjie and Bo Yunxiu knew that this was not Bing'er, whom they had brought. Instead, the person dangling from her hand was.

Only after that figure appeared before everyone did the Snow Empress's figure belatedly emerge from behind the doors.

It was not the Snow Empress, nor was it Bing'er. Of the three people who had entered, only the last remained.

"Holy crap, how did my son become my daughter?" If Huo Yun had a head right now, three enormous question marks would definitely have appeared above it. Why was this a little different from what she had planned?

Huo Yuhao had obtained the Ice God Martial Soul and gotten a sex change along with it?

Still, come to think of it, Huo Yuhao becoming a girl actually seemed better.

Especially in her eyes, Huo Yuhao's personality was absolutely suited to being a daughter.

Did this mean she now had both a son and a daughter?

"I feel like he's so pretty as a girl." Lying on Di Tian, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion gazed at Huo Yuhao, all three of her eyes shining.

"..." Di Tian had been fine at first, but hearing the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's words left him feeling rather conflicted.

He felt as though his family's cabbage was about to root up someone else's pig. No, that was not quite right either. The other party seemed to be a pig that had turned into a cabbage, waiting for another cabbage to root it up.

That was not right either. It seemed his family's cabbage was about to root up someone else's pig that had already turned into a cabbage.

In any case, it was very complicated.

"So this is Douluo now?" Huo Yuhao-no, it should have been the Ice God-gently surveyed the vast white world.

Before looking around, she seemed to sense something, and her gaze settled on an empty spot beside Di Tian. Her eyes gradually shifted from gentleness to longing. "I can feel you once again. How wonderful."

Her voice was very soft, so soft that only Huo Yuhao, Electrolux, and Tian Meng, who were currently inside the body, could hear it.

Huo Yun looked at the current Huo Yuhao. That longing gaze was strange. It was unlike the way Huo Yuhao normally looked at her. Instead, it seemed like...

A memory flashed through Huo Yun's consciousness. In a vast white snowfield, a breathtakingly beautiful woman with white hair and ice-blue eyes sat casually on the ground, five divine rings circling behind her head. Like a little girl, she chattered endlessly to the empty world around her.

"Mom, do you know? This time I went to the distant Far North Star Domain, and the little people there were so interesting. At first, I saw two children in an open space. One child seemed to be learning an activity called opera singing. The little girl beside him watched him, and the things she said sounded so disdainful.

"But when I returned to that place more than a decade later, the little girl from back then had grown up and was practicing that activity called opera singing. As for the little boy from before, he was teaching her from the side.

"I really couldn't tell whether she disliked it or not. If you said she disliked the little boy, the two of them were so close then, and she had already married him.

"If you said she disliked opera singing, she was already learning it herself. She really did say one thing and mean another."

There were countless conversations like this, all of them stories she told about her experiences outside.

And the woman was not telling them to anyone else, but to the World Consciousness. Knowledge of other worlds within those stories was absorbed and transformed into her experience.

"This is..." Huo Yun knew these were memories of the previous Douluo Consciousness. Of course, they could also be called her memories, since there was now no distinction between them.

And the person sitting in the snow, endlessly telling stories to heaven and earth, was none other than the Ice God.

Or rather, the Ice God back when she was still a Second-Level God. Her Divine Seat had risen in rank in the years that followed.

She was a Heavenly Snow Woman. The snow woman race was actually quite interesting: they were beings born of heaven and nurtured by earth.

It could be said that the Snow Empress and the Ice God, both Heavenly Snow Women, were favored children nurtured by the environment of the Far North.

Just as the former Douluo Consciousness had poured everything into creating a Dragon God, other places upon her had also been quietly nurturing heaven and earth's favored children.

And the Ice God was one of them. She had been nurtured by this world and regarded it as her parent. Perhaps outside, she would maintain the dignity of a Deity, but here in her homeland, she would only act like a little girl, sharing what she had gained outside with her parent.

Now, she was gazing longingly at her parent, the existence that had raised her.

"Goodbye."

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