At the Body Sect, after Huo Yuhao underwent this so-called pseudo-golden Second Awakening, which he considered a platinum-level Second Awakening,
he could finally feel the strange sensation in his body gradually fading.
Relieved, Huo Yuhao also began to ponder something.
Why had he experienced such a strange sensation?
For a transmigrator, this sort of thing seemed like it should never have-had never happened before.
And so Huo Yuhao began to consider a question.
The original Huo Yuhao had been a child of destiny, at the very least. Though he had transmigrated, the good things he had obtained had all been given to him by the system, to be precise.
Where had the system come from? He thought no further about that.
It was just that the strange sensation in his body, that feeling of separation from his soul, had not been there at first, but had suddenly appeared at some point.
Could it be because the original owner's soul had not died?
Thinking about it briefly, Huo Yuhao found the question rather terrifying the more he considered it.
If the other party had not died, was he still alive now, or what was his situation?
Could the strange sensation in his body have been caused by the original soul suddenly being pulled back from the brink of death, or resurrected?
As Huo Yuhao continued to ponder, Tian Meng's timid voice finally rang out.
"Yuhao, now that you've taken care of most of your affairs, would you like to hear my plan?"
Hearing this, Huo Yuhao raised an eyebrow instinctively. He knew Tian Meng's plan amounted to nothing more than luring the Ice Empress over to become his Second Martial Soul.
But although his Double Pupils Martial Soul had not yet fully unleashed all its power, in terms of potential alone, even a divine-level Martial Soul might not be able to compare with it.
Was the Ice Empress still enough to be his Second Martial Soul?
Still, thoughts aside, faced with a cheat in the form of an Ultimate Martial Soul,
he naturally had no reason to refuse.
So he sought out Du Busi and told him he wanted to leave for a while.
Du Busi did not ask many questions. He nodded, but raised an eyebrow as he looked at Huo Yuhao and asked in return.
"You little fellow, you came to see me? Wanting to go out isn't the only thing, is it?"
"Yes, sorry to trouble you, but could you look for someone who resembles me? Investigate Shrek's new students."
"Your younger brother Dai Luoli is in the army camp, though."
Debusi asked instinctively, finding it strange. The only person left who could resemble Huo Yuhao was Dai Luoli, wasn't he? But according to the investigation, at least, Dai Luoli had treated both Huo Yuhao and Huo Yun'er very well.
Faced with Du Busi's confusion, Huo Yuhao did not know how to explain himself. He could hardly say he was a transmigrator who had forcibly taken over someone else's body, and that he did not know whether the other party's soul had now been resurrected or something like that, could he?
Du Busi saw that Huo Yuhao did not speak immediately, but instead looked somewhat conflicted. Though puzzled, he nodded and said softly,
"All right, I understand. I'll send someone to look into it."
The only possibility Du Busi could think of now was that there might be another illegitimate child or something of the sort.
Or perhaps someone from Huo Yun'er's family?
Afterward, following a brief conversation with Electrolux, Huo Yuhao set off for the Far North.
In the core region of the Far North, nothing remained between heaven and earth but snow-white expanses and the occasional bitter, blade-like gust of frigid wind.
The temperature here hovered around a hundred and fifty degrees below zero all year round.
Let alone humans, even Soul Beasts were pitifully scarce.
The two figures entered the area.
At that moment, Electrolux said softly,
"Yuhao, there seem to be traces of human spiritual power nearby."
Huo Yuhao was currently wearing Tian Meng's shed skin.
Although Tian Meng's million-year foundation had made his body strong enough to rival a Soul King's, let alone an ordinary Soul King, even a Soul Emperor without the ice attribute would find the cold unbearable here.
But beneath Tian Meng's silkworm shedding, the chill vanished without a trace.
Hearing Electrolux's words, he instinctively wanted to deny them. How could anyone come to a place like this?
But then he seemed to recall something and looked toward the Far North, and the Snow Empress who had appeared in the original story.
It couldn't be... such a coincidence, could it?
Of course, thoughts aside, Huo Yuhao also knew that if Electrolux wanted to subdue the Snow Empress, the ruler of the Far North, even the two of them joining forces would barely be enough. He naturally had no need to take that risk.
After some discussion with Tian Meng, Electrolux easily concealed himself with his divine sense, while
Huo Yuhao dug a large pit and obediently hid underground.
Tian Meng's nine golden orbs of spiritual power turned into a phantom.
Floating in the air and releasing his presence, he called out to the Ice Empress.
"Bingbing, I'm back! Do you dare fight me?"
Under Tian Meng's deliberate manipulation,
the originally pitch-black clouds suddenly churned violently. Immediately afterward, a layer of emerald-green light spread across the sky from the distant north.
The dark sky turned emerald green in an instant, a clear and alluring green. Its captivating color made it seem as though the lofty heavens had suddenly become a gigantic emerald gemstone.
The oppressive presence in the air also vanished at that instant, reduced to nothing.
"Tian Meng, your body really is as plump as your courage..."
Soon, that emerald-green figure appeared, a being that resembled an almost perfect work of art.
Her entire body looked as though it had been carved from emerald-green diamond ice dust.
The Ice Empress looked at Tian Meng, her tone still mocking and condescending.
"Tian Meng, did you come back just to help me achieve my goal? I have to say, for a lowly worm, your love really is rather great..."
Faced with Ice Droplet's teasing, Tian Meng still spoke in a nearly infatuated tone.
"Bingbing, I only want to be with you. But after all these years, you're not only as beautiful as ever, you're still just as silly as I like you."
Tian Meng's words instantly enraged the Ice Empress, but she soon sensed that something was wrong.
In an instant, Tian Meng finally revealed the terrifying foundation of a million-year Soul Beast. The sheer ocean of his terrifying spiritual power trapped the Ice Empress in an instant.
Not to mention the million years of vitality's imperial fall, though what could be used in battle was, one could say, pitifully little. But that foundation was there, and by sheer pressure alone, he suppressed the Ice Empress on the spot.
"Damn it, Ice Empress, what exactly are you trying to do?"
As the Ice Empress demanded an answer, unwilling to accept this, Huo Yuhao's figure slowly appeared.
"Why don't you obediently become my Martial Soul and Second Soul Ring? That way, you two can enjoy eternal life together."
As his words fell, before the Ice Empress had finished her mockery,
a terrifying gray presence suddenly descended. It was none other than Electrolux.
Upon seeing Electrolux, the Ice Empress spoke in an almost dazed tone.
"Impossible. Even Xue'er-no, even the Evil Emperor's spiritual power hasn't reached the point of a qualitative transformation."
From the perspective of someone at the Ice Empress's level, he could sense that Electrolux's spiritual power had already undergone a qualitative transformation and reached the divine level, becoming condensed divine sense.
"With his help, and now take a look at my potential."
As Huo Yuhao spoke with a smile, his Double Pupils, awakened a second time at the platinum level, suddenly unleashed a terrifying pressure.
At that moment, even the Ice Empress, one of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North, felt a tremor deep in her soul. It was something she could scarcely feel even when facing a being on the level of a true dragon. Just how powerful was Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul?!
Everything that had happened in that short time had completely overturned the Ice Empress's understanding.
Meanwhile, Electrolux and Huo Yuhao were not the only ones who had come to the core region of the Far North.
On a snowy mountain somewhere closer to the core region were several snowdrifts that seemed to have accumulated over many years in the Far North, beneath the icy snowflakes and frigid winds.
Then one of those snowdrifts suddenly trembled...