After receiving the elders' instructions, Huo Yuhao sat in the center of the teleportation array, closed his eyes, and focused his Spiritual Power, preparing to search for a suitable magical beast.
Seeing that Huo Yuhao was ready, the five elders exchanged glances and nodded in unison.
The one-armed elder who had met Huo Yuhao for the first time took out a golden token and held it above his head.
Then, dazzling golden light flashed from the five of them, and their entire bodies seemed to become part of the Light Element.
This was the complete Radiant Body, which only Eighth and Ninth Tier professionals of the Knight Temple could use.
As for the Seventh Tier, they could only use part of the Radiant Body.
Working together, the five of them channeled their Spiritual Energy into the golden token, and a dense halo began to spread.
Wherever the golden light passed, the ancient elven script in the ancient legend and all around the cave was activated.
In an instant, powerful, violent magical fluctuations filled the entire cave.
The moment all the ancient elven script was activated, countless lines of light converged at the very center of the ancient teleportation array.
The golden light passed through Huo Yuhao's body and entered the core of the teleportation array.
As more and more golden light gathered, a golden vortex appeared out of thin air and transformed into a beam of golden light that enveloped Huo Yuhao.
Just then, Huo Yuhao felt his soul begin to separate from his body and enter an unknown world.
This world was filled with points of light in different colors, hundreds of millions of them, too many to estimate.
When Huo Yuhao swept his Spiritual Power over them, he discovered that each point of light represented a magical beast, and light-attribute magical beasts were the most numerous.
There were so many magical beasts, but most had relatively poor talents and bloodlines.
With a single sweep of his Spiritual Power, Huo Yuhao ruled out several thousand points of light.
But eliminating them like this was far too slow.
Just then, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm spoke from within Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness:
"Yuhao, I'll help you find a suitable magical beast. Tell me what you're looking for!"
"All right, Brother Sky Dream."
Huo Yuhao hadn't expected the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to be able to come out in this space, and he couldn't help feeling a little excited.
This was no time for politeness, so Huo Yuhao said directly:
"I need a magical beast with relatively good talent, one that feels close to us and has a fairly compatible attribute."
Hearing this, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said at once:
"All right, Yuhao, I understand. I'll search the left; you look on the right."
Huo Yuhao nodded, then focused on the magical beasts to the left.
In just a few breaths, he ruled out several hundred thousand points of light. Only one in a thousand of those had the ice attribute, and not a single one met his other two requirements.
Huo Yuhao wasn't discouraged. After all, his requirements for a magical beast partner had never been low. He would rather find none than settle.
The demonic beasts selected through the teleportation array would all immediately sign an Equal Contract. If the other party's talent was too poor to be of help to him, he was better off without one.
Just then, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm suddenly sent him a message:
"Yuhao, I just found a strange magical beast. Its aura is weak, but it seems a little different from the others, with a faint trace of destruction. Unfortunately, its cultivation is very low right now, and its attribute isn't suitable for you either."
Huo Yuhao was slightly taken aback.
Given the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's experience, any magical beast that caught his eye had to be extraordinary. But what Huo Yuhao needed wasn't destruction; it was something like creation or resurrection. Destruction was directly at odds with him.
So he said to the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm:
"Brother Sky Dream, it's fine. Give up on it. If you find one with something like the life attribute, though, you can tell me about it."
"All right, Yuhao."
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm knew perfectly well why Huo Yuhao wanted the life attribute. It was mainly for Electrolux.
And so, after that little interruption, the man and the beast continued their search.
"There's a level-six icefield wolf here. It bears me some goodwill, but its bloodline is too weak, so its future achievements will be limited."
"There's a level-five snow eagle over there. Same problem: its bloodline is too weak."
"There's an ice bear over there. Its aura is a little like Xiao Bai's, but unfortunately, its bloodline is still too weak."
"Hm? That's actually a level-nine ice dragon, but it seems a little proud and looks down on me, huh!"
"..."
Huo Yuhao tried them one after another, only to give up on each in turn.
There were still too few ice-attribute magical beasts, and fewer than one in ten thousand met his requirements.
As time gradually passed, Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Power was rapidly depleted. Before he knew it, half an incense stick's worth of time had gone by.
Beads of sweat appeared on the forehead of his body in the teleportation array.
The expressions of the five elders presiding over the array around him gradually grew grave.
They had noticed that Huo Yuhao's spiritual fluctuations were not pronounced, which meant that in all the time that had passed, not a single magical beast had met his requirements.
Normally, the most magical beasts would surely be encountered at the beginning, when the chances of success were greatest.
The longer the search went on, the more effort it would take to find other magical beasts, and the fewer he would encounter. It would become a vicious cycle.
But they didn't speak up to warn him, because in their hearts, they too believed it was better to have nothing than to settle for less.
As time continued to pass, Huo Yuhao encountered fewer and fewer magical beasts. His Spiritual Power had to cross vast distances just to find one.
Just as his Spiritual Power was nearly exhausted, he suddenly detected a strange fluctuation.
At that moment, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm also spoke up in surprise:
"Yuhao, straight ahead of you, I think I can sense a familiar aura."
Hm?
A familiar aura?
Huo Yuhao paused. Although the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was a Million-Year Soul Beast, he had spent most of his time asleep. The auras he was most familiar with were those of the Far North and the Star Dou Great Forest on the Douluo Continent.
The Far North was his homeland, so it was only natural that he was familiar with it.
But the Star Dou Great Forest had been the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's prison. He had lost most of his origin there, nourishing the cultivation of the Soul Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
So who exactly did the familiar aura the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had mentioned belong to?
And the direction straight ahead that the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had mentioned seemed to be the same direction from which Huo Yuhao had just sensed the unusual fluctuation.
Could that aura have something to do with me too?
As he pondered, Huo Yuhao quickly extended his Spiritual Power straight ahead.
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, meanwhile, directed him from the side.
A moment later, Huo Yuhao found his target.
It was a point of light that looked murky yet radiated a multitude of colors.
The point of light was profound and powerful, and it actually gave him a sense of familiarity too, as though he had encountered it before.
More importantly, besides possessing the ice attribute, this point of light also had immensely powerful Spiritual Power. Its origin was only a shade weaker than his own at the God King realm in his previous life.
Is this an old acquaintance or an enemy? Forget it, I'll try making contact first!
With that thought, Huo Yuhao directed his Spiritual Power to collide with the point of light.