Huo Yuhao's consciousness entered his spiritual sea. After a year of repairs by Bibi Dong, the entire space had already transformed into a boundless, enormous palace. Looking up, one saw an endless sea of stars with countless points of light, stretching to an unseen horizon. Yet, his vision could extend to every corner of this space.
Just as he was marveling at Bibi Dong's divine, miraculous work, his consciousness was instantly pulled into the palace. Then, he saw the massive ice silkworm prostrating on the ground and a wisp of gray air.
Five bright golden lights converged into a massive golden halo suspended in mid-air. All the structures within the palace became much brighter due to their existence.
The golden halo began to rotate slowly. Inside each halo, a milky-white luminescence appeared. The luminescence grew stronger and stronger, gradually becoming a huge sphere of light suspended there. The height and volume of the palace increased by an unknown number of times.
A wave of emotion flashed through Bibi Dong's beautiful eyes. She had originally thought that the life of Huo Gua in the original world line was too unreal, once even thinking it was Huo Yuhao's fantasy. She never thought that in the blink of an eye, this million-year soul beast and a divine sense from a foreign land would actually arrive here.
If I had these cheats before I became a god back then, why would I have worried about the Spirit Empire not being able to unify the continent? Perhaps, as the Divine Realm described, a Son of Fortune would appear on the Douluo Continent at regular intervals, just like the Sea God Tang San who was once invincible on the continent.
Afterward, Tang San cleverly used the second Son of Fortune, Huo Yuhao, to gather all the fortune into his own family, which is why the legends of Tang Wulin and Lan Xuanyu followed.
If Huo Yuhao hadn't brought her out of the Rakshasa God statue, by the time the Douluo plane was completely controlled by the Tang family, what would have awaited her would perhaps not just be the Asura God Sword and the Sea God's Trident, but also the Asura's Eye and a Dragon God Spear.
Thinking of this, Bibi Dong couldn't help but feel a wave of lingering fear.
Seeing Huo Yuhao approaching the divine seat, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm immediately cast a pleading look at him, which made Huo Yuhao chuckle in spite of himself.
"Big bug, why did you choose this child?" Bibi Dong smoothed the hair on her forehead and asked the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm with an inviolable majesty.
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm let out a long sigh. "You think I wanted to choose him! I had no choice! If I didn't choose, my life would have ended. Once I died, my body would also become food for those fellows in the Star Dou Great Forest. Out of desperation, I could only resort to this, attaching myself to a human. This was also my only way out. If you want to hear my story, we'll be together for a long, long time in the future, so I don't want to hide anything from you."
Huo Yuhao exchanged a glance with Bibi Dong, nodded, and said, "Tianmeng, go ahead and speak."
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm timidly glanced up at Bibi Dong before saying, "Actually... I was originally a very ordinary ice silkworm soul beast, born in the extremely cold lands of the continent's north. We ice silkworms are born as dual-attribute soul beasts of spirit and ice. Our own combat power is severely affected by our slow growth rate, so we can only be considered very ordinary soul beasts. What's more, we have a bunch of natural enemies, so very few of my clansmen can cultivate for more than ten thousand years. Only I am an exception."
Listening to the rhetoric, which was similar to the original novel, Bibi Dong's brow furrowed slightly, but Huo Yuhao gave her a look, letting the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm continue its grievance session.
"When I was thirteen, I accidentally fell into an ice crevice while fleeing from pursuit. It was actually a mass of Ten-Thousand-Year Icy Geode. Because of this, I fell into a deep sleep. At that time, I was still very weak, less than three inches long. This sleep lasted for ten thousand years. And when I woke up, I found myself in an ice cave. The original Ten-Thousand-Year Icy Geode had long since disappeared, all of it having been absorbed by me. So I transformed into a ten-thousand-year soul beast. At that time, I was overjoyed, but tragically, I couldn't find a way out."
Huo Yuhao nodded silently and gave Bibi Dong a look, letting her continue to listen.
"That ice cave was filled with myriad-year-old ice everywhere, which was extremely hard. Our ice silkworm clan has always been weak in combat, so it was impossible to break out by force. Fortunately, there were many holes in the ice cave for me to crawl through. So I crawled around inside, looking for a way out. As a result... I didn't find a way out, but I found an even larger mass of Ten-Thousand-Year Icy Geode... Having the icy geode meant I had food again. As I ate, I fell into a deep sleep again. This sleep lasted for tens of thousands of years..."
Listening to the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's account, Bibi Dong suddenly had a strange feeling. This Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's luck was probably no less than that of the Son of Fortune of the Douluo Continent for the past ten thousand years, right?
"Later, I simply stopped looking for a way out and just crawled around inside, looking for Ten-Thousand-Year Icy Geode to eat. When I found a large mass, I would sleep after eating it. Eventually, I myself didn't know how long I had slept, until the first golden ring appeared on my body."
Ten thousand years ago, Bibi Dong had some understanding of the soul beast world from her time in Spirit Hall. The golden ring held extremely important significance for the ice silkworm clan; it symbolized that the ice silkworm's cultivation had entered the hundred-thousand-year level.
"In my memory, I am the first unprecedented existence with a hundred-thousand-year cultivation! At that time, I had evolved into a Golden-Ringed Ice Silkworm and already had enough strength to break the ice and leave. But I didn't understand back then that becoming a hundred-thousand-year soul beast came with great restrictions, making it difficult to improve my cultivation further. Maybe it was my good luck, plus the lack of combat power of our ice silkworm clan, that miraculously didn't attract any heavenly scourge... I slept a lot, so I got lazy and didn't bother to go out. I just continued to sleep and sleep in the ice cave. As my cultivation got higher, I could break the hard ice and enter places I couldn't go before. Just like that, I discovered more top-quality icy geodes in the depths of the ice cave, and they also became my food," the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm recounted the events of the past.
"Just like that, I ate and slept, slept and ate. I don't know how much time passed. Only the golden rings on my body could calculate the time I had existed on this continent."
"Eventually, I ate all the icy geodes in the ice cave, and I had to drill out from the bottom of the cave, arriving in the great sea. I drifted along the sea, following the edge of the continent southwards. And it was during this process that I encountered an enemy for the first time..."
"At that time, I already had nine golden rings on my body. I was an unprecedented nine-hundred-thousand-year soul beast. I thought I should be invincible in this world, but..."
Speaking of this, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm cautiously glanced at Bibi Dong, clearly a little embarrassed. "As we fought, I discovered that besides sleeping, I didn't seem to know how to do anything else, and I wasn't very good at fighting either. In the end, I had to rely on the vastness of my spiritual power to scare away the enemy. This finally alerted me. I tried to cultivate my offensive abilities, but for our ice silkworm clan, a long cultivation period doesn't mean great strength. I am indeed a million-year soul beast, but my combat power is actually not as good as some ordinary ten-thousand-year soul beasts. And I definitely can't beat those hundred-thousand-year soul beasts with powerful bloodlines who are good at fighting."
When it said this, Bibi Dong's beautiful eyes were almost filled with contempt.
"The deep sea is a forbidden zone for humans. The age of soul beasts there is relatively higher, and it's more dangerous. At that time, I thought that the land might be safer. So, I went onto the land. However, the land didn't seem to be peaceful either. Perhaps because I had absorbed too much icy geode, my body had a scent that could attract the attention of all soul beasts, causing them to treat me as an excellent supplement," the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm continued to recount its history of blood and tears.
Huo Yuhao put a hand to his forehead. Although the wording was different from the original world line, it was clear that this guy was truly a weakling!
"In the end, I was captured by the Scarlet King in this Star Dou Great Forest. But he didn't kill me immediately. Instead, he took me to the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest. He said that I possessed too much worldly qi, and as long as he could absorb and transform these powers from my body, then any soul beast could become a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, and a hundred-thousand-year soul beast could even break free from the limits of its cultivation age. However, precisely because my power, cultivated for a million years, was too vast, it would take a very long time for him to absorb it. That's why he brought me back to his lair."
"However, that guy underestimated me. Although I'm not very good at fighting, I can amplify my own aura. So, I attracted all the hundred-thousand-year soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, and even those few rulers, hehe..."
Listening to this, even with Bibi Dong's composure, her eyelids couldn't help but twitch wildly. This big bug was too good at causing trouble, wasn't it?
No wonder she hadn't seen the group of soul beast kings like the Beast God Di Tian ten thousand years ago. It turns out they had long gone to carve up the value of this guy.
"That was a super huge free-for-all, involving almost all the soul beasts over ten thousand years old in the Star Dou Great Forest. The way they fought was so tragic! I thought I had a chance to escape, but who knew, those guys had a deep and unfathomable leader who actually stopped them and started negotiating. As a result, I became the tragedy—they finally agreed to absorb my power together, since the soul power in my body was vast enough. In the end, they trapped me in the center of the Star Dou Great Forest, forcing me to release my own worldly qi for them to absorb. The stronger those beasts were, the closer they were to me, and the more benefits they got..." the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm lamented tearfully.
"Unable to resist, I could only let them do as they pleased. While I was being exploited by them, I was also thinking of a way to escape their control. My primordial power is very pure, enough for them to absorb for tens of thousands of years. After several thousand years of thinking and observation, I discovered that to escape their control, I not only had to run away, but I also had to hide my aura. After that, humans gradually began to appear in my line of sight. A few times, a few batches of particularly powerful humans entered the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest, wanting to hunt those hundred-thousand-year soul beasts. Unfortunately, with my nourishment, the ferocious beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest were definitely the strongest group of soul beasts on the Douluo Continent. Even though those humans had very powerful weapons, they still suffered a great loss."
"I see. So the ferocious beasts of Star Dou are much stronger than they were several thousand years ago. It turns out it's your contribution," Bibi Dong suddenly smiled, but no matter how one looked at it, that smile exuded a dangerous aura.
Ten thousand years ago, when Spirit Hall was hunting for soul rings and soul bones, they had lost no small number of soldiers in the Star Dou Great Forest. Bibi Dong had even heard from Qian Daoliu that somewhere in the Star Dou Great Forest, there was a terrifying existence far surpassing the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python.
"I am a dual-attribute soul beast of spirit and ice. After much thought, I decided to become a human soul master's soul ring. This way, that human would surely become particularly powerful in the future. With my spiritual attribute, I could keep my consciousness from disappearing and become an unprecedented wisdom soul ring for you humans. So, I started trying, but my first attempt failed. The guy I chose seemed to be a Titled Douluo of you humans. His strength was quite strong, and his physical body was extremely powerful, but his spiritual cultivation was too pathetic. He was instantly blown up by me. He didn't even see my true body; he couldn't even withstand the impact of my spiritual power alone. Only then did I discover that it wasn't so easy to become my host. First, one must have the spiritual attribute, and then have the ability to bear my soul power. This was even harder... So, I searched for several thousand years without success. And my primordial power was almost completely drained by those hundred-thousand-year soul beasts. I was on the verge of running out of fuel..."
"Heaven still favored me. Just when I had given up hope, the tenth golden ring appeared on my body, and I became an unprecedented million-year soul beast. When this tenth golden ring appeared, I finally had the strength to contend with the hundred-thousand-year soul beasts and could hide my own aura. So I officially named myself the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm. But I definitely couldn't beat so many hundred-thousand-year soul beasts and ferocious beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest. Moreover, my worldly qi had been almost completely absorbed by them, leaving only my life-source soul power, which was the most nourishing for them. That is, my two major attributes had not been absorbed. I couldn't take revenge myself. So, I found an opportunity and finally managed to hide my aura and escape by burrowing into the ground with the strength from my breakthrough."
"Sigh—" the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm sighed and said, "Unfortunately, I am still a tragedy. Breaking through to a million years was a double-edged sword. Although it allowed me to barely escape their control, my lifespan came to an end due to a sudden heavenly scourge. If I couldn't survive in some other way, I would soon die of life exhaustion. And it was at this time that I met you, little one. Although you are not very strong, I had no other choice! At least you have the spiritual attribute. So, I could only reluctantly merge with you. In any case, those bastards won't get my most precious things..."
Listening to the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's account, which was similar to the one in the original novel, Huo Yuhao smiled and said, "It's alright, Tianmeng. From now on, we are a family. As you can see, a god resides in my spiritual sea. My future will definitely not disappoint you for the choice you made today."