12: Chapter 12: Let Brother Tian Meng Suffer a Bit,
Spirit Beasts are active, please be careful.]
Looking at this sign, which was both extremely familiar and deeply etched in his memory, Baili Du spoke with great emotion: “I truly miss this place.”
Inside his spiritual sea, the cheeky voice of [Divine Spirit Tian Meng] sounded in his ear: “That’s right, that’s right!
We two brothers met here, and then this brother carried you all the way…”
[Divine Spirit Ice Empress] angrily slammed a pincer onto [Divine Spirit Tian Meng]’s big head: “Do you, a guy who won by lying down, have the right to say that?”
Ignoring [Divine Spirit Tian Meng]’s deliberately loud wails, [Divine Spirit Xiao Bai] chimed in agreement: “Exactly, exactly…”
Snow Empress and Li Ya merely watched their squabble with a smile.
Feeling the lively atmosphere inside his spiritual sea, [Baili Du]’s face broke into a happy smile.
In the end, they were the ones who had always stayed by his side.
Little Huo Yuhao tugged on the hem of [Baili Du]’s shirt and asked curiously, “Uncle Baili, have you been to the Star Dou Great Forest before?”
[Baili Du] smiled at Little Huo Yuhao: “Of course.
I am also a Spirit Master.
How could a Spirit Master not come to the Star Dou Great Forest?”
“Then…
Uncle, what is your Cultivation level exactly?”
This was what Little Huo Yuhao wanted to ask the most.
[Baili Du] fell silent for a moment, exhaled a mouthful of turbid Qi, and shook his head regretfully: “I am very strong, and also very weak.
So strong that almost no one is my opponent; yet so weak that I haven’t even achieved the goal of why I Cultivate…”
When people walk too far, they often forget why they started walking.
The avenger Huo Yuhao ultimately lived as a joke named Dai Yuhao…
He quickly changed the subject: “Let’s not talk about this.
I can sense that the spirit ring suitable for you is just ahead.
Go on your own!”
…A certain snow-white great silkworm was continuously wriggling underground toward the outskirts of the forest.
“Ah, …
that place…
as long as I can reach that place…”
This was the Tian Meng Ice Silkworm of this era.
As a Million-Year Soul Beast—one that achieved its million years through sleep, possessing no stats, no mechanics, and relying entirely on luck—its perception was undoubtedly extremely strong.
Its intuition told it that great fortune awaited it ahead.
Sure enough!
He found a Little fellow, and a Little fellow with very strong mental force at that.
Just like the original course of history, Little Huo Yuhao walked until he encountered a Wind Baboon with a Cultivation of a hundred years.
Little Yuhao saw this Wind Baboon jumping left and right in front of him, constantly provoking him while throwing monkey punches.
For some unknown reason, an indescribable surge of frustration and anger rushed into his heart, as if this monkey were his mortal enemy.
After delivering a heavy blow to the monkey using mental force, the Deep Blue Glazed Dragon Martial Soul attached itself to him.
He grabbed the stinking monkey’s neck and snapped it clean off.
Frankly, even he didn’t know why he had struck so harshly; he clearly wasn’t such a brutal person…
Just then, a voice suddenly rang out in Little Yuhao’s mind.
“I finally encountered a human with the mental attribute!
It’s a pity this brother can’t cry, or I’d be weeping tears of joy!”
Then the Million-Year Soul Beast began its self-praise.
Still without waiting for Huo Yuhao to respond, an aura of Extreme Cold instantly caused him to lose consciousness, forcing a forceful Fusion through coercion.
“What powerful physical constitution and mental force!
Hahaha!
This brother has truly struck gold this time!”
After entering Little Huo Yuhao’s spiritual sea, the Tian Meng Ice Silkworm, which had been dreaming of Huo Yuhao growing up to punch Di Tian and step on Xiong Jun, was instantly dumbfounded.
“…What kind of person did this brother choose as a host?”
What did it see?
In the not-too-small mental space hung a golden vertical eye, surrounded by nine-colored ripples, as if the Heavens had opened their eye to gaze upon the World; a deep blue gigantic Dragon with four pairs of eight wings roamed around the vertical eye, and there was also an ominous gray-gold figure, faint as a firefly, yet seemingly containing all the inauspiciousness in the World.
“Th-th-this…
What is going on?
It’s actually twin spirits!
And this Spirit is…
Heavens!”
After seeing the massive Deep Blue Glazed Dragon phantom, the throbbing sensation originating from the deep Origin of its Spirit Beast Bloodline stunned the Tian Meng Ice Silkworm on the spot.
“Oh dear, then the Ice Attribute Spirit that this brother painstakingly prepared must be…
Holy sh*t, what is happening!!!”
The deep blue gigantic Dragon opened its Dragon mouth, full of fangs, toward the Tian Meng Ice Silkworm…
“Brother Tian Meng, we just need the Tian Meng of this era to suffer a bit.”
The group of Divine Spirits inside the spiritual sea were all stunned.
[Divine Spirit Tian Meng] also asked curiously, “Huh?
What do you mean?
Don’t you already have a second Spirit?”
“Hmm…
how to put it?
The [Soulless Ice Spirit] you gave ‘me’ back then needs to undergo a change.
During this period, the ‘you’ of this era might have to…
well, suffer a little.”
Then Baili Du ignored the ‘weeping’ [Divine Spirit Tian Meng] in the spiritual sea, turned, and walked to where Little Huo Yuhao was sitting cross-legged.
He raised his hand and patted Little Huo Yuhao’s forehead, injecting Divine Sense and divine force into Little Huo Yuhao’s body like threads…
Inside Little Yuhao’s spiritual sea, the Tian Meng Ice Silkworm was shrieking wildly, its snow-white silkworm body twisting: “Ahhh…
Stop, stop quickly!
Noooooo—!”
The biggest difference between a Million-Year Soul Beast and a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast sacrificing themselves is the ability to transform themselves into a Spirit for the host to absorb, essentially granting the Spirit Master a Martial Spirit out of thin air.
As a genuine Million-Year Soul Beast, Tian Meng naturally possessed this special ability.
However, just as the Spirit granting was about to be completed, the predetermined Ice Attribute instantly shattered and disintegrated, being entirely absorbed by the Deep Blue Glazed Dragon Martial Soul within the spiritual sea.
At this moment, the Deep Blue Glazed Dragon not only possessed the [Extreme Water] but also gained control capabilities over the [Ice Attribute].
After all, [Water] and [Ice] are fundamentally the same thing, merely different states caused by different temperatures.
With its most fundamental Origin power being forcibly seized, Tian Meng was naturally in agonizing pain.
However, both [Baili Du] and Electrolux ignored the screaming Tian Meng and quickly got down to business.
The shattered light mist reassembled, forming a formless Blank Spirit, which would no longer be limited to the Ice Attribute nor restricted by being a Beast Spirit.
This was the vacant spot prepared for Electrolux.
To prevent Tang San from using any despicable means to harm Electrolux again, the method [Baili Du] and Electrolux devised was this: allowing Electrolux’s power to truly transform into one of Huo Yuhao’s Spirits, thereby securely nurturing his remnant Soul.
It was also a contingency plan, a countermeasure against Tang San’s Ten Thousand Year Grand Plan…
Outside.
Baili Du slightly narrowed his eyes.
Although the [Blank Spirit] had been created using Brother Tian Meng’s power, Electrolux’s Divine Sense was currently still too weak; it was insufficient to form a new Spirit on its own.
So…
what should be used to supplement it?
Ideally, something similar to Elder Yi’s attributes and abilities.
Thinking this, Baili Du’s gaze swept toward a certain forbidden forest in the distance.
That place was also where the Buddhist Ancestor Tang’s Ten Thousand Year Grand Plan had targeted.
“Teacher, what do you think of this power?
Although it is the Dark Attribute, it is at least of the Extreme level and possesses the Ability to traverse space.”
Aided by Baili Du’s Divine Sense detection, Electrolux carefully examined it, stroking his beard contentedly: “This is good, let’s choose it.
But don’t interfere with this matter; let the Little fellow handle it himself.”
“…Fine, anyway, with you here, Elder, there won’t be any issues.”
After finishing his communication with Baili Du outside, Electrolux stroked his beard and chuckled, speaking to the unhappy Tian Meng Ice Silkworm: “Hehe…
Big worm, this old man’s actions were a bit rough just now.
I apologize to you here.”
The Tian Meng Ice Silkworm wasn’t buying it.
That was the power of the Seal he had been contemplating for thousands of years!
“Hey, old man!
You destroyed this brother’s Ice Attribute Origin!
That was the power that could grant my host a Spirit!
How are you going to compensate this brother?!”
Electrolux smiled, raised his hand, and clapped toward the Tian Meng Ice Silkworm in the Void Realm, then began chanting an incantation.
Immediately, a golden Hexagram Formation completely enveloped the Tian Meng Ice Silkworm.
“Heh heh, then let this old man compensate you with this first.”
“Ah?
This is…
Divine Sense!
Old man, you…” The Tian Meng Ice Silkworm, which had been extremely displeased, instantly burst into expressions of pleasant surprise from its two small golden eyes.
Only then did the Tian Meng Ice Silkworm discover the marvelous use of this golden Hexagram Formation.