Huo Yuhao's Journey to the Far North
While Xu Xingyu was enjoying his beautiful love story at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Huo Yuhao, the male protagonist of the original novel, was having a much harder time.
He was wearing a thick cotton-padded coat and slowly moving forward in the icy snow.
It was a world of heavy snowfall and biting north winds. Gray clouds covered the entire sky, as if brewing a heavy snowfall, preparing for the coming blizzard.
This is the Far North of the three major gathering places of Soul Beast in the Douluo Continent. It is the northernmost region of the entire Douluo Continent and is also known as the harshest and coldest region.
In this harsh environment, only powerful ice-attribute Soul Beast dare to build their own homes in such a place. Other Soul Beast would have long since frozen to death because they could not withstand the extreme cold of the Far North, except for those Soul Beast with strength of 100,000 years.
Therefore, this Far North is, in a sense, a paradise exclusively for ice-attribute Soul Beast, and also the least disturbed gathering place for Soul Beast by humans.
This is mainly due to its inherent environment and the fact that it only provides ice-attribute Soul Beast, which means that only Soul Master who need ice-attribute Soul Beast will venture into the Far North, but they will avoid venturing in if they can avoid it.
After all, who would want to stay in this freezing hell for no reason, just to freeze into an icicle?
The reason Huo Yuhao came to this Far North with nothing to do was to awaken his Second Martial Soul.
When Huo Yuhao absorbed the million- Soul Beast, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, he was also endowed with a soulless ice-attribute Martial Soul by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
This Martial Soul itself symbolizes the ice attribute possessed by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, after all, it is a Soul Beast with both spiritual and ice attributes.
If Huo Yuhao wants to fully awaken this soulless martial Martial Soul, he must give it a Martial Soul. The way to do that is to hunt down an ice-attribute Soul Beast and absorb its corresponding Soul Ring.
Huo Yuhao originally thought that coming to the Far North would be as simple as hunting a powerful Soul Beast, but the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm kept him traveling through the snow.
What made Huo Yuhao somewhat devastated was that, according to the markings on the map, if they continued to follow this route, their final destination would be the Core Circle of Far North!
That place is a gathering place for Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast! It's simply not something he, Soul Master who has just reached level 20 and hasn't even obtained his second ring, can handle!
At first, Huo Yuhao thought they would stop halfway down this road, but they haven't stopped yet. Are they really going to venture into the Core Circle the Far North and hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast?
Therefore, Huo Yuhao specifically asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm if their destination was the Core Circle of Far North, and to his surprise, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm actually said yes!!!
He knew very well how much exaggeration there was in the title of the Million-Year Soul Beast, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, since its age was mostly due to sleeping and eating.
In terms of combat power, even a powerful Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast could kill the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
Taking Huo Yuhao, a level 20 Soul Master, to hunt Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast —isn't that just courting death?
Moreover, don't forget that the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm only has half of its original essence, which makes Huo Yuhao even more uncertain about the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's plan.
Faced with Huo Yuhao's doubts, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm patted its chest and said, "Little Yuhao, don't worry! As Million-Year Soul Beast, I still have some tricks up my sleeve. Although I have lost my original body, it is precisely because I have lost my original body that I can use some methods that I dared not use in my previous life."
"With this method, forcibly sealing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for you to kill is no problem at all. So you don't need to worry about anything."
Just then Sky Dream Ice Silkworm suddenly shouted, "Yuhao, lie down quickly!"
After saying Sky Dream Ice Silkworm covered Huo Yuhao's body with ice and snow, and used its Spiritual Power to firmly suppress Huo Yuhao's aura.
A giant foot stepped on the spot where Huo Yuhao had just been standing, and a humanoid Soul Beast, at least 120 meters tall, suddenly appeared.
It has long arms, long snow-white fur all over its body, and bluish-gray skin. If it weren't for its two huge fangs, an unknown person would think it was a giant.
What's even more peculiar is that the Soul Beast was wearing something resembling a half-body armor. If a Soul Engineer could observe that half-body armor up close, they would surely exclaim in surprise that it had actually reached the level of Level 9 Soul Tool!
It's important to know that Soul Tool are something unique to humans. Soul Beast, due to their laziness and lack of creativity, simply won't create items like Soul Tool unless there are specific circumstances.
Even when making weapons for themselves, they usually use a part of their own body or a part of a powerful enemy they have killed to make the weapon.
It can be described as a very primitive manufacturing method, and only Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast with intelligence comparable to that of humans can create it.
This shows that Soul Beast are not particularly skilled in creation.
Now, a Soul Beast is actually wearing a Soul Tool. What does this signify?
At this moment, the giant standing on Huo Yuhao was holding a large metal object and scratching his head, saying, "Is this detector broken? It was just showing that there were outsiders here. Is it broken? It seems I'll have to talk to the Spirit Contract Pagoda about it later."
After saying this, the giant left the spot and headed towards the Core Circle of Far North.
Not long after the giant left, Huo Yuhao finally crawled out of the snow, panting heavily. He had never been so close to death.
If it weren't for Sky Dream Ice Silkworm reminding him in time and protecting his body with his Soul Power, he would have been trampled to death by that giant and become Yuhao- chan!
At this Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said with a solemn expression, "I didn't expect that guy to appear here. He was clearly still some distance from the Core Circle, so how could he appear here?"
With a curious look on his face, Huo Yuhao asked, "Brother Sky Dream, do you know what that Soul Beast was just now?"
Upon hearing this, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm put on glasses that appeared out of nowhere and began to explain, "In the Far North, there are Three Great Heavenly Kings, each possessing over two hundred thousand years of cultivation. It can be said that even among Soul Beast, they are absolute powerhouses."
"And that one just now was the Titan Snow Demon King, ranked third among the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North, with a cultivation period of about 200,000 years. In addition to possessing the Ultimate Ice attribute, he also possesses the Mental Attribute."
"I just don't know why he suddenly appeared in this place. Usually, the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North stay in the Core Circle and rarely go out to patrol in places like this."
Thinking of this, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recalled the half-body armor on Titan Snow Demon King's body and the large metal box in his hand. Those were not things that Soul Beast could make; they must have been Soul Tool made by humans.
Why would the Titan Snow Demon King possess Soul Tool? Has something major happened in the Far North these past few years? I hope Bingbing is alright, otherwise the chances of my God-Making Plan succeeding will drop by 30%.
Most importantly, the romance I've always longed for will also be ruined.