I have added this story to my P@treon.
Noon.
In the sky above the Far North, a white figure streaked through the air, moving so fast that it left a long white trail in the sky.
The Snow Empress wore a white dress, her long hair cascading like a waterfall.
She held Lin Yaoyang by the waist, pulling him into her embrace, and flew south at an incredible speed.
“We will first go to the Star Dou Great Forest to attach your fourth spirit ring.” The Snow Empress’s voice came clearly through the wind.
Lin Yaoyang nodded.
For his fourth spirit ring, he intended to go straight for a ten-thousand-year one.
His physique had already fully met the requirements for absorbing a ten-thousand-year spirit ring.
But there was one problem: Mental Energy.
A ten-thousand-year spirit ring would bring intense mental shock during the absorption process.
If one’s Mental Energy was not strong enough, the best case was absorption failure, and the worst case was the collapse of the Sea of Spirit, turning one into an idiot.
Given Lin Yaoyang’s current Soul Power Rank, his Mental Energy was indeed not yet strong enough to withstand the impact of a ten-thousand-year spirit ring on his own.
But it didn’t matter; he had the Snow Empress.
“At that time, I will use a hundred-thousand-year Snow Lotus to protect your mind,” the Snow Empress had already planned it out, “That Snow Lotus has the effect of concentrating the spirit and stabilizing the soul, which is enough to withstand the mental shock of a ten-thousand-year spirit ring.”
Lin Yaoyang chuckled, “With Sister Xueer here, I am at ease.”
The Snow Empress looked down at him, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, but she said nothing.
…
Star Dou Great Forest.
Deep in the dense jungle, sunlight filtered down through the layers of tree canopies, casting mottled light and shadows on the ground.
The air was filled with the fresh fragrance of vegetation, and occasionally, the chirping of birds drifted from afar.
The Snow Empress circled the forest with Lin Yaoyang for a while and soon found a suitable Spirit Beast, a Dragon Horse.
This Dragon Horse looked quite peculiar; its body was like a horse, but its head was in the shape of a Dragon.
White Dragon scales extended from its forehead to the back of its neck and continued along its entire spine.
Most eye-catching was the diamond-shaped pale golden gem on its forehead, emitting a brilliant radiance.
This Dragon Horse’s cultivation was about twenty thousand years, which was just right for Lin Yaoyang.
The Snow Empress acted cleanly and efficiently, directly freezing the Dragon Horse, which was drinking water by the stream, into an ice sculpture.
Lin Yaoyang stepped forward to deliver the final blow, and a black spirit ring slowly rose.
Ten-thousand-year spirit ring.
Lin Yaoyang sat cross-legged and began to absorb it.
The Snow Empress stood beside him, opening her right palm, and a crystal-clear Snow Lotus bloomed in her palm.
That Snow Lotus was the size of a fist, its petals carved like ice crystals, emitting a faint white halo.
She gave a gentle push, and the Snow Lotus floated above Lin Yaoyang’s head, rotating slowly and casting a milky white curtain of light, enveloping his entire body.
Lin Yaoyang only felt a cool breath pouring in from the top of his head, flowing along his Meridians towards his brain, and his entire consciousness instantly became incomparably clear.
The mental shock brought by the ten-thousand-year spirit ring as it poured into his body was weakened by at least seventy percent under the soothing effect of this cool breath.
The absorption proceeded very smoothly.
…
Meanwhile, dozens of miles away.
In a clearing in the forest, a young man was lying on the ground, covered in blood, on the verge of death.
Huo Yuhao.
He had entered the forest alone to hunt for a spirit ring, and then he encountered that ten-year-old Wind Baboon.
A ten-year Spirit Beast had almost cost him his life.
At this moment, he looked truly miserable.
There were several long bloody marks on both of his shoulders, his upper garment was almost torn to shreds, and he was covered in dust and blood.
The corpse of a ten-year-old Wind Baboon lay not far from him, and a white spirit ring was slowly rising.
Ten-year spirit ring.
Huo Yuhao leaned against a tree trunk, looking at that white spirit ring, his heart filled with unwillingness and confusion.
What he wanted was a hundred-year spirit ring.
Preferably a hundred-year spirit ring with mental attributes.
But this Wind Baboon was neither a mental attribute type, nor did it produce a hundred-year spirit ring.
Even a ten-year Spirit Beast had almost killed him; how was he supposed to hunt a hundred-year Spirit Beast?
But…
if he didn’t have powerful strength, how could he seek justice for his mother?
Just when his heart was filled with confusion and helplessness, suddenly, without any warning, a voice rang out in his mind.
“Finally, I have encountered a human with mental attributes!
It’s a pity that Bro cannot cry, otherwise I would definitely be weeping!”
Huo Yuhao was startled and sat up straight abruptly.
“Who?
Who is speaking?”
He looked around, but there was no one there.
Just then, the ground suddenly trembled.
About two meters in front of him, a large crack opened in the ground, and a golden-white light faintly spread out from the crack.
Immediately after, a round, chubby head poked out from the crack.
It was a fleshy, large head, over a meter in diameter, with the color of white jade throughout.
It climbed out of the crack with great effort, its body wriggling segment by segment, each segment being a round meter long.
Finally, a giant silkworm over seven meters long appeared in front of Huo Yuhao.
“This…
what kind of Spirit Beast is this?” Huo Yuhao hurriedly raised the White Tiger Dagger in his hand, his face full of panic.
Tianmeng Iceworm raised its head and looked at Huo Yuhao with an almost obsessive gaze.
“Aba aba…
Aba aba…”
Huo Yuhao, “Aba aba…”
“…”
Tianmeng Iceworm’s voice suddenly became solemn.
“Bro is going to become your spirit ring.
The first intelligent spirit ring in the history of the Douluo Continent.”
“Ah?”
Before Huo Yuhao could react, Tianmeng Iceworm had already rushed towards him.
It did not harm him, but instead wrapped him with its own body and began the sacrifice.
A Mental Energy and Soul Power so vast it was unimaginable poured into Huo Yuhao’s body like a flood.
Before he could even scream, he was washed out and passed out.
Just then!!
The sky, which had been clear for miles just a moment ago, suddenly darkened.
A thunderous roar resounded in the high sky.
In that instant, the light of the sun was completely obscured by darkness.
A tremendous pressure that made it hard to breathe descended from the sky, as if some indescribable existence was watching this forest.
Tianmeng Iceworm inside Huo Yuhao’s body trembled violently; that pressure made even it, a million-year Spirit Beast, feel a trace of instinctive fear.
A gray stream of Qi seeped out from the space and drifted towards Huo Yuhao’s direction.
That stream of Qi contained a trace of an extremely weak remnant soul, yet it carried a domineering air of looking down on the World and reigning supreme.
“With hands grasping the sun and moon, picking the stars, there is no one in the World like me…”
An old sigh came from the remnant soul, the voice filled with endless vicissitudes and regret.
“I did not expect that I would still have a trace of a remnant soul left behind.”
The gray stream of Qi was about to fly towards Huo Yuhao but suddenly stopped.
It turned in another direction.
In that direction, there was an extremely pure force of light.
It was so pure that even this trace of a remnant soul felt a hint of surprise.
“Oh?” The old voice added a hint of interest, “In this World, there is actually such pure force of light?”
The gray stream of Qi hesitated for a moment, then changed direction and drifted towards the source of that force of light.
…
Dozens of miles away.
Lin Yaoyang was sitting cross-legged under a large tree, and the ten-thousand-year Dragon Horse spirit ring had already been mostly absorbed.
The Snow Lotus’s curtain of light enveloped him, and everything seemed to be going smoothly.
Just then, a gray, illusory figure appeared behind him without any warning.
The figure was blurry and indistinct, and one could only vaguely make out the outline of a person.
He floated in mid-air, looking down at Lin Yaoyang who was absorbing the spirit ring, a flash of surprise in his eyes.
“This is…
force of the sun?”
His voice was very soft, but another existence present heard it.
“Who is it?!”
The Snow Empress turned around abruptly, erupting with a powerful Aura and pressure.
The Aura of a nearly seven-hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast pressed down like a mountain, enough to make any ten-thousand-year Spirit Beast collapse on the spot.
But that gray illusory figure seemed completely unaffected, not even glancing at the Snow Empress.
He just kept staring at Lin Yaoyang, staring at this young man whose body radiated the force of the sun.
“Sun…
Light…” He muttered to himself, his voice filled with an indescribable complex emotion, “In my life of traversing the World, I have never seen such pure force of light…”
“Stop!”