By the time they reached the end, the Ice Empress and the Snow Empress's eyes lit up. They had never seen anything like it before, and the Soul Spirit Contract, built from the ancient contract and magic from another world, was something they had never even heard of.
This might also mean that there was a possibility for them to survive together.
When the Snow Empress came to her senses, she took a deep breath, looked at Huo Yuhao, and spoke softly.
"Could this wondrous contract be made widely available in the future?"
At that moment, the Snow Empress seemed to see hope. Afterward, he thought of the Soul Beasts of the Far North Ice Plains, and of securing as much dignity for them as possible. Clearly, the contract before them was one way to do so.
A single Soul Beast could provide a human Soul Master with multiple Soul Rings, which would also ease the hostility between Soul Beasts and humans somewhat.
"If there's a chance in the future, yes."
"And most importantly, the cultivation system of this world is fundamentally flawed."
Huo Yuhao laid bare the truth with a single remark.
The very existence of the Douluo Continent's cultivation system was a miracle.
If anyone else had said that, the Snow Empress would only have scoffed.
Even for a god, changing this world's cultivation system probably wouldn't be so simple, would it?
Perhaps one would have to become the strongest among gods, or at least one of their top experts, to accomplish it.
Yet Huo Yuhao's talent left him silent. Perhaps Huo Yuhao had a chance of accomplishing what others could not...
At that thought, the Snow Empress seemed to make up her mind for the moment. Instead of looking at Huo Yuhao, she turned to Electrolux and spoke softly.
"Can you guarantee that Bing'er's consciousness and mine will be completely preserved?"
The Snow Empress was no fool. She knew full well that Huo Yuhao could never have produced something that broke the cultivation system, or the parts of the contract she couldn't understand. That left only Electrolux, whose divine consciousness was so powerful.
Yet the other party had shown no fluctuations of Martial Soul or Soul Power from beginning to end. It could only have come from him. Though she didn't know why, it also seemed that only he could have produced it.
Electrolux nodded indifferently. His air of complete confidence made the Snow Empress breathe a sigh of relief without thinking.
For the Snow Empress as she was now, since there was a reliable path to godhood, why choose the path of taking human form, which was almost certain death?
"Then let me become the Martial Soul. Bing'er, you become the Soul Spirit."
The Snow Empress spoke, and the Ice Empress merely nodded slightly at her request. After all, the Snow Empress's Martial Soul would be of higher quality than her own.
Thus, the Snow Empress attempted to begin the sacrifice.
Huo Yuhao had long since made his preparations, and the Snow Empress's vast power surged into his body.
Some pain was unavoidable at first. After all, the Snow Empress's power was still immense for Huo Yuhao.
More importantly, this was not the Snow Empress after she had self-destructed, but the Snow Empress at full strength.
Moreover, under these circumstances, the Snow Empress had already partially fused with the snow lotus, taking half a step toward assuming human form.
In fact, the total amount of her origin was scarcely any different from that of a seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.
So, unlike the Ice Empress's sacrifice, although the Snow Empress held back and did not mean to, she still caused Huo Yuhao considerable pain.
At that moment, Huo Yuhao could only grit his teeth and endure it.
Under the piercing chill, he could only force himself to use his spiritual power to remind himself again and again that he absolutely must not fall asleep.
This pleased the Snow Empress, while its origin power gradually transformed into a gleaming white torso bone.
For the Snow Empress, he likewise had to use the method of bone first, soul afterward, to ensure that Huo Yuhao could withstand his power.
As the Soul Bone fused with him, Huo Yuhao still felt excruciating pain. Fortunately, he gritted his teeth and endured it without losing his senses.
But just as the Snow Empress was about to take the step of merging another part of her origin with Huo Yuhao's body and becoming a Martial Soul-
An accident finally occurred.
The Snow Empress's origin power actually began to fluctuate.
When Huo Yuhao heard this, his eyes nearly rolled back into his head. Seriously? The moment it's my turn with the Snow Empress, something goes wrong at this step? Is this part of Douluo's underlying code or something?
Haven't we already left the Clear Sky Sect by now? Could the exalted God King really be innocent?
Even the Snow Empress was stunned, but the sharp-eyed Electrolux saw the cause at a glance.
"Your origin power has been mixed with another portion of power. That's somewhat troublesome, but what's truly frightening is that part of your origin has already transformed into another form. Normally, it's of no consequence, but now that you've reached this step, it was bound to manifest."
The Snow Empress understood now. As for that other portion of power, the one from her Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus, he could still suppress it. But the part of his origin that had already begun transforming toward human form was a different matter from his current Soul Beast origin.
Now that she was about to become a Martial Soul, a conflict in the underlying code had naturally emerged.
The Snow Empress fell silent and gritted her teeth, trying to force the process to reverse.
But she found that it was absolutely impossible! If this continued, Huo Yuhao's body would be forcibly blown apart, and he would certainly die as well.
The sight left the Ice Empress dumbfounded. Panic written all over her face, she instinctively looked at Electrolux and urged him anxiously.
"Senior, please act quickly! Help Xue'er."
At that moment, Huo Yuhao felt as though he were about to be frozen solid. The conflict in the underlying code had nearly shattered his meridians outright.
Fortunately, the power of his Gold of Life was mending his body bit by bit.
He had never expected the accident to come so suddenly after all.
Just then, Electrolux frowned slightly, as though he had made some decision.
This made Huo Yuhao wonder instinctively, Is he going to sacrifice his divine consciousness? But what happened instead?
As Electrolux looked at the Ice Empress, he also spoke to Tian Meng.
"For this next step, I'll need help from both of you as well."
"Little scorpion, you must begin the sacrifice process too."
The Ice Empress was utterly dumbfounded.
"What?!"
Huo Yuhao's condition was already chaotic enough. If the Ice Empress's power surged into him as well, there was no doubt his body would be blown apart.
"Under normal circumstances, we indeed couldn't take this step. But I'll find a way to help, and the vast vitality within that big worm also has an ice attribute, so it can serve as a buffer. At this point, we can only use poison to fight poison."
Hearing this, the Snow Empress was still keenly aware of the danger, but the Ice Empress had already begun the process of sacrificing herself to Huo Yuhao without the slightest hesitation.