"Ding... System starting up. Please wait a moment, host."
The system's voice rang out in Yun Luo's mind, and the corners of his mouth rose wildly. He could barely contain his excitement anymore.
"Haha, you damned worm, today I'm going to show you how your goddess and I flaunt our love."
To further provoke the Skydream Iceworm into going berserk, Yun Luo decided to raise the stakes.
With that, Yun Luo reached out and scooped the Ice Emperor straight into his arms.
Since the Ice Emperor had taken human form, her petite figure stood only around 1.6 meters tall, and he lifted her with ease.
The Ice Emperor went completely rigid in his arms.
"Yun Luo, you..."
Although the Ice Emperor was currently a spiritual body without much of a realistic sense of touch, being held in a man's arms like this still inexplicably unsettled her heart.
After all, despite having lived for tens of thousands of years, this was her first time being held in someone's arms.
Was that still not enough?
Seeing that the Skydream Iceworm still had not burned everything he had, Yun Luo got a little carried away.
Rather than stop, he cast a provocative glance in the Skydream Iceworm's direction and kissed the Ice Emperor directly on the lips.
As Yun Luo drew closer and closer, the Ice Emperor's pupils contracted sharply. She froze completely, even forgetting to struggle free.
The instant their lips touched, it was as though fireworks exploded in the Ice Emperor's mind. She could hear nothing except that unprecedented flutter in her heart.
She leaned limply against Yun Luo, flushed scarlet from her cheeks down to her neck, even her toes curling.
The sensation did not feel real, yet it was etched into her very bones.
"You... you've gone too far!"
At the sight, the Skydream Iceworm panted like an ox, his eyes bloodshot, the fury within them impossible to conceal any longer.
He was still fantasizing about life with Bingbing, while the human before him was only one step away from having already... Bingbing...
The spiritual power gathered around the Skydream Iceworm grew increasingly violent. Silver rings of light expanded layer upon layer, and fine cracks began to appear in the Sea of Spirit, as though it would collapse completely in the next instant.
Just then, a mass of gray energy from the outside world was drawn in by those terrifying spiritual fluctuations, stumbling into Yun Luo's spiritual world by accident.
It was a hazy gray remnant soul, still carrying a hint of bewilderment and aloof pride upon its arrival.
"With sun and moon in hand, I pluck the stars; none in this world compares to me."
The remnant soul had just entered the spiritual world, intending to recite a couple of lines of poetry before finding somewhere to slumber.
But when he looked up, he saw the power of the entire spiritual world surging violently, as though it were about to explode.
Electrolux: "Holy shit, I was just passing through."
Naturally, Yun Luo also noticed the gray remnant soul, along with the words he had just spoken.
Uh, Electrolux really picked a bad time to arrive. He walked straight into such an explosive scene.
Before Yun Luo could think any further, the system's voice rang out in his mind.
"Ding... Charging complete. Eliminating intruders immediately."
The Skydream Iceworm had already finished gathering all his spiritual power and was preparing to destroy this human's Sea of Spirit.
Suddenly, he felt a wave of power ripple outward from Yun Luo's center, beginning to sweep through the entire Sea of Spirit.
The moment those mysterious blue-silver fluctuations touched him, the Skydream Iceworm felt his power being frantically devoured and absorbed.
He struggled in terror, but that power clung to him like a festering sore attached to the bone, continually stripping away his soul and origin.
"No, no, no, what is this?"
"I've spent my whole life treading on thin ice. Why must I die today? I refuse to accept this!"
Yet as he looked at Yun Luo holding the bashful Ice Emperor, the Skydream Iceworm said something that nearly made Yun Luo's jaw drop.
"Take good care of Bingbing. Don't let her get hurt."
Holy fuck, the Skydream Iceworm is the real simp.
I'm truly impressed.
Watching the Skydream Iceworm being erased by the system, Yun Luo's eyes filled with admiration.
Electrolux, who had only just arrived, was also treated as an intruder by the system and erased outright.
Electrolux: "Holy shit, who the hell did I offend? I finally found a host, only to get fucking killed outright."
After the Skydream Iceworm and Electrolux were killed, the Ice Emperor also recovered from her bashfulness and slapped Yun Luo across the cheek.
"Pervert... This empress really sacrificed a lot this time."
Only after the Ice Emperor slapped him did Yun Luo remember he was still holding her. He hurriedly released her and set her down.
"Sorry, I only did that to provoke the Skydream Iceworm..."
Once set down, the Ice Emperor felt as though something was missing. Hearing Yun Luo's explanation, she turned her head away haughtily.
"Forget it. Hurry up and recover. This empress is going to rest."
With that, the Ice Emperor left somewhat awkwardly, her face red.
Watching her retreating figure, Yun Luo could not suppress the smile on his lips.
After repelling the intruders just now, the system had left behind two things before falling dormant again.
After all, the twenty percent of luck remaining from last time had only been enough for it to act once.
After acting this time, the system still had to fall dormant. Only this way could it help conceal Yun Luo's whereabouts.
Otherwise, if someone tracked him down, how would Yun Luo survive?
"Ding... Congratulations, host, on obtaining an opportunity amid catastrophe and stripping thirty percent of the luck value from the Skydream Iceworm, Electrolux, and Huo Yuhao."
Seeing the system display that only thirty percent remained after the luck deduction, Yun Luo was still puzzled.
He had not expected the Skydream Iceworm and Electrolux combined to be worth only thirty percent.
Although he did not understand how the system assessed luck values, Huo Yuhao's luck had already decreased by fifty percent. If he kept at it, he would soon achieve his goal.
"Ding... Congratulations, host, on obtaining two rewards: part of the Skydream Iceworm's origin to help restore and expand your Sea of Spirit, and Electrolux's memories."
With that, Yun Luo's consciousness sank into slumber and began absorbing these two things.
Outside, on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
All around was silent, as though that earth-shaking spiritual catastrophe had never happened.
Elder Wang slowly came around and first shook his head.
He remembered clearly that he had been guarding the Holy Son, but then his consciousness went dark, and he knew nothing more.
"What happened to me? How did I just pass out?"
Before he could figure it out, he saw the Holy Son lying unconscious over there, his face deathly pale and blood flowing from his seven orifices.
"Holy Son, please be all right! Holy Son!"
Seeing the Holy Son unconscious on the ground terrified Elder Wang. If something damned well happened to him, how was Elder Wang supposed to survive?
He immediately went over to Yun Luo and examined him before breathing a sigh of relief. It only looked rather serious; there was actually no particularly major problem.
Still, he was somewhat puzzled. Why had they fallen unconscious?
He then glanced at the three people lying on the ground over there and paid them no further attention, intending to take the Holy Son away first.
After all, if another accident occurred and something happened to the Holy Son, he would not escape responsibility.
Elder Wang picked Yun Luo up and vanished straight from the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
About an hour later, Bei Bei and Tang Ya slowly came around, both thoroughly puzzled as to why they had fainted here.
However, after checking themselves and finding nothing wrong, they went to wake the unconscious Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao slowly opened his eyes, feeling as though his head would split apart. He instinctively raised a hand to his temple and hissed.
"Hiss..."
"Sister Xiao Ya, Brother Bei Bei, what happened to me?"