The Ice Jade Scorpion carried Zhou Sichen aimlessly.
The oppressive aura of the thousand-year beast made the surrounding hundred-year beasts avoid them like the plague, not daring to come close.
This made it impossible for Zhou Sichen to even find the “God-slaying” Wind Baboon.
Another two hours passed.
The sky was gradually turning dark, and the Star Dou Great Forest under the setting sun looked like a beautiful painting.
Zhou Sichen glanced at the sky, thinking that today might be another fruitless day.
However, right at that moment, an unprompted voice echoed in his mind, or rather, his spiritual sea.
“Finally, I’ve met a human with a spiritual attribute.
It’s a pity Brother can’t cry, otherwise, my face would be covered in tears right now!”
The voice appeared very abruptly, but Zhou Sichen instantly felt a surge of joy.
To be able to communicate directly through the mind within the Star Dou Great Forest, aside from those few Savage Beasts, there was only one possibility.
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm!
Those Savage Beasts couldn’t possibly be here right now; otherwise, he would have become their snack already.
So it had to be the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm.
Did that mean…
his interception was successful?
Just as Zhou Sichen was rejoicing, cracks suddenly appeared on the ground five meters in front of him.
A faint white light seeped out from the fissures.
Immediately after, a chilling cold radiated from the cracks.
The surrounding temperature plummeted instantly.
The cracks grew larger, and then a round, chubby head poked out from the earth.
The head looked fleshy and was over a meter in diameter.
It squirmed and slowly crawled out, revealing a massive body a full ten meters long.
Seeing this creature appear, Zhou Sichen had no more doubts.
If not the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, then who?
The silkworm before him was a translucent, pristine white jade color.
Although it had burrowed out of the dirt, its smooth skin didn’t have a single speck of grime.
A faint halo flowed beneath its skin, and it had a pair of glittering golden eyes on its head.
Most strikingly, starting half a meter from its head, there was a golden ring wrapping around its body every meter.
From head to tail, there were exactly ten golden rings.
It looked at Zhou Sichen sitting on the Ice Jade Scorpion, its glittering golden eyes darting around as its voice echoed in his spiritual sea: “I didn’t expect this!
You’re actually a special summoning-type soul master.
This Ice Jade Scorpion must have a thousand years of cultivation, right?
When I sensed it earlier, I thought the Extreme North had invaded the Star Dou Great Forest!”
Zhou Sichen snapped out of his joy and frowned.
“What kind of thing are you?
How can you tell my martial soul type?”
The silkworm’s laughter echoed in his mind.
“Hehe, Brother is not just ‘some thing’.
Brother is the embodiment of heroism and chivalry, the king of soul beasts where wisdom and beauty coexist, a peerless expert who has cultivated for a million years and set the record for the longest lifespan on the Douluo Continent—the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm!
Hmm…
you can also call me Brother Tianmeng!”
Zhou Sichen’s acting was flawless.
He put on a look of absolute disbelief.
“Impossible!
Even the legendary Di Tian, the head of the Ten Great Savage Beasts, doesn’t have a million years of cultivation.
How could there be a million-year soul beast in this world?
If there really was one, shouldn’t you have become a god by now?”
Hearing Zhou Sichen’s rebuttal, a flash of embarrassment crossed the depths of the silkworm’s eyes.
It knew that a human with such exceptional talent wouldn’t be easily fooled.
But it really had no other choice.
“Brother doesn’t lie.
So, aren’t you feeling very surprised?”
Zhou Sichen paused for a moment.
“Heh, so…
why did you stop me?”
The silkworm’s voice suddenly became incredibly solemn.
“Brother wants to become your soul ring!
The very first intelligent soul ring in the history of the Douluo Continent!”
“An intelligent soul ring?” Zhou Sichen feigned ignorance.
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm thought for a moment.
“Anyway, Brother definitely won’t harm you.
Once you feel Brother’s power, you’ll understand what I mean.”
As it spoke, it grew impatient.
Its massive head glanced warily toward the depths of the forest before looking back at Zhou Sichen.
“I’m coming in.
Don’t worry, Brother will be gentle!”
Just as Zhou Sichen was about to say something else, a terrifying spiritual force locked onto him.
He saw the ten golden rings pulse as if they had come alive, flying straight toward him.
Zhou Sichen pretended to resist outwardly, but completely opened up his spiritual power because he knew the silkworm wouldn’t hurt him.
Even though it had a million years of cultivation, it was essentially no different from a naive child.
The only knowledge it had probably learned was eavesdropped while being used as a battery by those Savage Beasts.
The silkworm pressed its head against Zhou Sichen’s forehead.
The ten golden rings instantly enveloped his body, and the silkworm itself dissolved into streams of white halos that surged into him.
As time passed, the silkworm’s excited voice rang out: “Twin martial souls!
And the second one uses the body itself as the martial soul.
No wonder this kid’s spiritual power is so strong!”
“Huh?
I can’t see his memories?
He can actually lock his own memory bank?
Brother is your most loyal partner!
You’re even guarding against Brother?!”
Right at that moment, the previously clear sky suddenly darkened.
A thunderous boom exploded high above.
In that instant, the beautiful sunset seemed to be swallowed by endless darkness, and a suffocating, terrifying pressure descended from the heavens.
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, which was working hard to fuse into Zhou Sichen’s body, shuddered violently at the sound of the thunder.
It rolled its golden eyes upward, a look of sheer terror appearing in them.
Mingled with the terror was confusion; clearly, it didn’t know what was happening either.
Just then, a streak of gray airflow plummeted from the sky and, in a flash, silently drilled into the back of Zhou Sichen’s head.
“What the hell dares to steal my person?!” The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was instantly enraged.
Massive waves of spiritual power surged, attempting to drive the gray airflow away.
Unfortunately, its anger was just that—anger.
Its resistance was entirely futile.
A very blurry figure emerged behind Zhou Sichen, its voice carrying an indescribable majesty: “Holding the sun and moon, plucking the stars!
There is no one like me in this world!
I never expected that a sliver of this old man’s remnant soul would manage to survive.”
“To think this world also possesses such powerful undead summoning magic.
It is truly this old man’s fortune…”
After entering Zhou Sichen’s spiritual sea, the gray light immediately transformed into a gray bead the size of a soybean and fell completely silent.
It didn’t affect the fusion between the silkworm and Zhou Sichen at all; it was as if it didn’t exist.
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm stared blankly at this scene and couldn’t help but complain, “No way!
Brother finally found a human with a spiritual attribute, and another bastard comes to fight me for him?
Is this heaven being jealous of my genius?
Why is Brother so pitiful?!”
At this moment, Zhou Sichen felt like a bystander, observing from a third-person perspective.
He clearly sensed the arrival of the gray light and the ongoing fusion with the silkworm.
He was beyond thrilled.
He had thought that securing either the silkworm or Electrolux would be enough, but he didn’t expect to hit the jackpot and get both at once!
That bead formed by the gray light was a wisp of Electrolux’s divine consciousness.
Judging by his sigh just now, did his Book of Contracts resemble his necromancy magic?
Of course, it could also be that his memory hadn’t fully recovered and he was mistaken.
If it was true, having Electrolux guide his first martial soul and Tianmeng help upgrade his second…
Zhou Sichen had absolute confidence in breaking past his limits.
(END CHAPTER)