"Blue Star!"
Huo Tian's voice grew emphatic as he stared at the Bridal Gown Female Ghost before him in disbelief. He had never expected to meet someone from his own world.
Only then did Huo Tian realize that this might be the Blue Star of a parallel world. No supernatural resurgence had occurred on the Blue Star where he had lived in his previous life.
"Blue Star?"
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Huo Yutong, and the others voiced their confusion in unison. Huo Yutong turned to look at Huo Tian, scratching her cheek.
"Little Yutong, it's hard for your master to explain. I'll explain it to you later."
Huo Tian raised a hand and pinched Huo Yutong's fair, tender cheek. He looked at the Bridal Gown Female Ghost again. Since she could come to the Douluo Continent, perhaps he had arrived at the same time as her.
"What's your name?"
"My name is Liu Ruyan."
Liu Ruyan trembled all over as she prostrated herself on the ground. She truly did not dare lift her head for even a moment.
But Liu Ruyan had not expected the red-haired youth before her to know about Blue Star either. Could he have transmigrated along with her?
"How did you come to the Douluo Continent?"
"When I first gained sentience, I encountered a spacetime rift and was sucked into it. Afterward, I somehow fell onto this island."
Liu Ruyan immediately gave a detailed answer. She did not want to die; she hoped she could cling to life.
"All right, enter Huo Yutong's Sea of Consciousness."
Huo Tian pointed at Huo Yutong beside him. Huo Yutong then released her soul power, trying to draw in Liu Ruyan, the Bridal Gown Female Ghost.
With her life firmly in Huo Tian's grasp, Liu Ruyan did not dare harbor any ulterior thoughts. She transformed into a mass of pure energy and merged into Huo Yutong's Sea of Consciousness.
There were now enough occupants in Huo Yutong's Sea of Consciousness to fill a mahjong table. With a few more Soul Spirits in the future, they could even play Werewolf.
"Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"
Huo Tian stroked Huo Yutong dotingly while she sensed the Mental Power the Bridal Gown Female Ghost had brought her.
Although the Bridal Gown Female Ghost had yet to become Huo Yutong's Soul Spirit, she could lend Huo Yutong the powerful mental attribute within her.
Huo Yutong abruptly opened her eyes. Her Martial Soul, the Holy Light Spirit Eyes, unleashed intense mental confusion. She wanted to try hypnotizing Huo Tian.
The mental magnetic field permeated the space around Huo Yutong. Huo Tian could clearly sense the changes brought about by her subduing the Bridal Gown Female Ghost.
The three attributes of Huo Yutong's Martial Soul, the Holy Light Spirit Eyes, could now more or less reach a balance.
Seeing that Huo Tian had not been affected by her hypnosis, Huo Yutong looked dejected.
"Let's go."
Huo Tian stood up and continued deeper into the Flame Mountain Range. Huo Yutong stamped her feet twice where she stood.
"I refuse to believe I can't control you."
With her hands on her hips, Huo Yutong followed closely behind Huo Tian. Because she was influenced by evil fire and the Bridal Gown Female Ghost, her personality sometimes underwent drastic changes.
"Little Yutong, have you..."
The seductive voice of Liu Ruyan, the Bridal Gown Female Ghost, echoed through Huo Yutong's Sea of Consciousness, making her heart jolt.
"No, I haven't..."
Huo Yutong immediately stepped forward and tightly gripped the cuff of Huo Tian's red robe, following silently behind him.
As a Bridal Gown Female Ghost, Liu Ruyan had a profound sensitivity to people's seven emotions and six desires. She could clearly sense the possessiveness toward Huo Tian deep within Huo Yutong's heart.
The two followed the path downward and encountered nothing else strange along the way.
Huo Tian tracked the fiery aura given off by the Nirvana Divine Bird, and before long, they reached a corner.
Walls of flame blocked off the area around the corner. Huo Tian could tell it was a dead end, but he was certain the Nirvana Divine Bird was behind it.
"Little Yutong, stand farther back."
Huo Tian took a step back. His Vermilion Bird Martial Soul automatically possessed him, and a gauntlet appeared over his right hand. Evil fire gathered over it as he struck head-on at the wall of flame.
Under the powerful devastation of that blow, cracks began spreading across the entire wall. As Huo Tian's attacks surged like a tide, the wall finally gave way and collapsed.
As the wall collapsed, a warmer surge of fire elements washed toward them. Huo Tian immediately released his soul power to block it. He could distinctly sense that these fire elements were even purer than ultimate fire.
Huo Tian instructed Huo Yutong to activate her Class 8 Defensive Soul Tool immediately. She did so at once, and a membrane of energy enclosed her protectively.
Holding Huo Yutong's hand, Huo Tian pressed forward into the onslaught. No matter how many fire elements blew out of the opening, he absorbed as much as he could.
The two finally entered a vast space. Several towering fire trees grew there, and cries rang out from their surroundings from time to time.
"Little Yutong, stay here and be good. I'm going to hunt the Nirvana Divine Bird."
"Mm-hmm."
Huo Yutong curled herself up and hid behind a large rock to one side. Without another word, Huo Tian swiftly equipped the Vermilion Bird Bone Armor.
Huo Tian flew toward the upper reaches of the cavern, searching constantly for traces of the Nirvana Divine Bird. At last, his soul power probing pinpointed it inside a towering fire tree.
Huo Tian gazed toward the tree hollow. Inside, a divine bird roughly twenty meters long, its entire body wreathed in flames, nestled in its own nest.
The Nirvana Divine Bird's feathers were divided between fiery hues and gold, and three golden feathers grew from its forehead.
For every fifty thousand years of cultivation the Nirvana Divine Bird attained, it would grow another golden feather. These golden feathers were precisely where its fire elements gathered.
"Damn, the Vermilion Bird bloodline within this Nirvana Divine Bird is actually purer than the bloodline inside the Blazing Fire Sparrow."
Huo Tian's Martial Soul was the Vermilion Bird, so naturally, he was intimately familiar with its bloodline. He unleashed his first soul skill into the hollow.
The Vermilion Bird Fire Wings behind Huo Tian immediately released hundreds upon thousands of golden-red feathers. Bearing evil fire, the feathers shot into the tree hollow.
Under the searing evil fire, the entire towering fire tree began to burn. Attacked within its hollow, the Nirvana Divine Bird immediately unleashed a wave of fire elements to block the feathers.
Even as the tree continued burning, the Nirvana Divine Bird showed no intention of leaving. It seemed to be guarding something.
The Nirvana Divine Bird immediately rose into a half crouch, its sharp gaze fixed on the distant enemy. Probing with his soul power, Huo Tian actually discovered two red bird eggs hidden beneath it.
"I didn't expect an extra windfall."
Huo Tian stopped attacking and hovered quietly in midair. Just like that, man and bird began a standoff.
Huo Tian released his mental power and began negotiating with the Nirvana Divine Bird, hoping it could become his Soul Spirit.
For a Soul Beast to become a Soul Spirit, it usually needed to complete a contract ritual through an array. Even a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast could become a Soul Spirit directly, provided it was willing.
Huo Tian released his Vermilion Bird Martial Soul, and the Nirvana Divine Bird clearly sensed the formidable aura of its Vermilion Bird bloodline.
"As long as you become my Soul Spirit, I can help you look after your children and help you become a god in the future."
If the Nirvana Divine Bird could become Huo Tian's Soul Spirit, he would gain another powerful helper.