Volume 1: Tian Meng Bing Can Chapter 40: Tian Meng, Emperor of Ice (Part 1)

  Tian Meng said, and Huo Yuhao couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva. "Brother Tianmeng, don't say that anymore. If you continue, the little confidence I've built up will be completely destroyed by you. The three great kings of the Extreme North are really too far away from me. Let's be more practical, when can you add soul rings for me? And awaken my second martial soul."

  "Is it too far from you? No, not at all." Tian Meng Bing Xuan said mysteriously: "Yu Hao! Haven't you heard that saying, 'As big as one's courage is, so is the yield of the land.' Our primary goal this time is to target the second-ranked among the three great heavenly kings of the Extreme North!"

  "What?" Huo Yu Hao was shocked, his mouth twitching as he said seriously: "Tian Meng Ge, don't you think it's a bit of trouble to send food to someone from so far away?"

  "What's the meaning of sending a meal? You useless thing, look at your tiny guts, aren't you one of the three great kings of the Extreme North? What's there to be afraid of?"

  Huo Yu Hao's face was filled with grief and indignation as he said: "What do you mean it's nothing to be afraid of? What were you running from in the first place?"

  "I..." Tian Meng Bing's face turned red with rage: "It's different now, I'm not the same as before. Since I dared to bring you here, of course, I have a way to deal with that guy. What benefit would it be for me to get you killed? Would I be able to live? With your small body, if I don't use some strong medicine, when can I help my brother take revenge and let him proudly raise his head?"

  Huo Yu Hao calmed down after a brief shock, and said somewhat helplessly: "Alright. Anyway, I've already entrusted my life to you, even if you sell me out, I can only count the money for you. Let's go, the sooner we die, the sooner we'll be reborn. How are we going?"

  "Further north, that guy can only live in the core area of this extreme northern land. From now on, you need to slow down, you're almost entering the edge of the core area, it's very cold here, but the strongest part of the soul beasts in the extreme northern land lives here. Like that guy just now. Even my spiritual detection was blinded, and there are some that are especially fast. We must be more careful. Otherwise, as soon as we run into one, we'll both be done for."

  "Hmm." Huo Yu Hao seemed to have understood, Tian Meng Bing Xian should have some confidence in this matter, but this confidence was not 100%, there was a possibility of failure. However, without a doubt, based on his understanding of Tian Meng Bing Xian, if he had risked his life to come here, the gains would be substantial, even shocking.

  In order to better conceal himself, Huo Yu Hao retracted the wooden board under his feet and slowed down his pace, advancing slowly in the snow that was over half a meter thick. He could now be completely certain that without the protection of the Tian Meng Ice Silkworm, he would have been turned into an ice sculpture within ten minutes in this place.

  In this godforsaken place, even the snowflakes are hard and icy. The biting cold wind blows up the snowflakes on the ground, and that layer upon layer of ice powder is simply comparable to a full-range soul technique attack. When the wind is strong, Huo Yu Hao can't help but crawl on the ground. Just because he's not afraid of the cold doesn't mean he's not afraid of the wind.

  Due to the low temperature, he sometimes sees the light on the horizon with a slight distortion. But there are also dazzling seven-color halos that other places do not have.

  Continue on for two more days. Huo Yu Hao was already feeling somewhat exhausted. It wasn't that he lacked physical strength, the problem mainly lay in the aspects of food and water.

  Although he wasn't afraid of the cold, food was a different story! No matter what kind of dry rations they were, as soon as they were taken out from under the Twenty-Four Bridges on a clear moonlit night, they immediately turned into ice blocks. Even chewing them was exhausting, and he could only scrape them with his teeth to eat. Tian Meng also didn't allow him to set up a tent, fearing it would attract the attention of soul beasts.

  Drinking water was even more impossible. The water he brought was completely undrinkable, it was frozen solid as soon as he took it out, and there was no way to pour it out of the canteen. So, he could only eat the snow on the ground that had been accumulated for who knows how long. As soon as he swallowed a mouthful, he felt a chill from his mouth to his heart. His body didn't have any protection. After eating a mouthful of snow, his whole body would shiver for a long time before recovering.

  In this case, he could only eat and drink as little as possible, but the physical strength consumed in the snowy ground was extremely large, and the nutrition supplement was not enough. He gradually couldn't hold on.

  Sitting in the snowy ground, surrounded by high piles of snow, Huo Yu panted and said: "Tian Meng brother, it can't go on like this! I'm already having trouble holding on. Even if we encounter the soul beast you're looking for, where would I have the energy to strike and merge the soul ring? Even if we succeed, I probably won't have the strength to walk out of here. It's really getting a bit unbearable."

  As he spoke, he lowered his head and buried it in the cotton-padded jacket, taking a bite of the dry rations wrapped inside. He had originally planned to use his body heat to soften the dry rations a bit. But with the layer of frost on his clothes, his body heat wouldn't dissipate at all. The dry rations were still as cold and hard as ever, and he could only barely manage to bite into them and place them in his mouth, waiting for them to dissolve before slowly chewing and swallowing.

  "Alright, alright. Don't complain either, this position should be about the same. Next, we just need to guard the tree and wait for the rabbit." Tian Meng Bing Xian said: "You rest for a while first, then do as I say."

  He didn't need to probe any further, and Huo Yu Hao let out a huge sigh of relief. He had already entered the core area of this extreme northern land. Not only was the temperature extremely low, but he had also encountered several soul beasts along the way. Their strength was such that even from a distance, Huo Yu Hao felt chills all over his body! Although they couldn't be compared to the Titan Snow Demon King he had encountered before, these were at least beings of over 10,000 years. This place was so desolate that not even a thousand-year-old soul beast could be seen.

  After resting for about a quarter of an hour, the place where he was originally located was almost buried in snow. He finally stood up.

  The voice of Tian Meng Bing's Ice Silkworm sounded in his mind, its tone becoming unprecedentedly serious. "Yu Hao, in this low-temperature environment, estimate for me, if it weren't for my Ice Silkworm's protection, how long could you last?"

  Huo Yu Hao was taken aback, thought for a moment and said: "If I fully mobilize my soul power, five minutes should be fine. But no more than ten minutes."

  "I need to lure that guy over, I have to spread my aura out first. Then, whether it can become your core soul ring depends on this piece of inheritance. So after I lure it over, you must be in an unprotected state for a period of time. During this time, not only do we need to trap it, but I also want to negotiate with it. You must hold on, otherwise all our efforts will be wasted."

  Huo Yu Hao said with a bitter face: "Boss, why didn't you say so earlier? If you had said it earlier, I would have brought some warm clothes too!"

  "Think the low temperature here can be blocked by clothes? You're overestimating yourself if you think you can last five minutes. Next, you'll build a temporary shelter under the snow. Then I'll separate out some of my spiritual energy and drain it from inside, and you'll use a fire starter to warm up inside. From now on, no matter what happens, as long as I don't let you leave, you mustn't make any rash moves. This time, we're in this together until the end. You can use your spiritual senses to observe everything happening outside, but don't make any rash moves, got it?"

  Huo Yu Hao hastily nodded his head.

  Building an ice house under the snow is no small project! The snow underneath was icy, but it was as hard as iron. Huo Yu Hao used his White Tiger dagger to infuse soul power, and it took him a whole day to barely manage to create a small ice house that could hold him sitting curled up inside. After finishing all this, he was already exhausted to the point where even breathing was laborious.

  "Next, I'm going to start. Yu Hao, this time whether we can succeed or not depends on you passing three tests. The first test is the brief period of coldness. Then comes luck, whether I have the luck to defeat the enemy and win. Finally, it will depend on your perseverance. You are the one I chose, if we fail, then both of us will be finished. If we succeed, I dare say that you will immediately become the number one genius in the Douluo Continent. Let's go all out for this battle."

  By this time, Tian Meng Bing Xian's voice had a few hints of madness in it.

  What else can Huo Yu Hao say now? Having come this far, he could only follow Tian Meng Bing Xian and go on, there was no other possibility. It would be pointless to say more, so he nodded vigorously, indicating his full support for Tian Meng Bing Xian.

  In his mind, intense spiritual fluctuations began to appear, and Huo Yu Hao only felt a wave of dizziness coming over him, leaning against the wall of the ice house was what kept him from falling down.

  His only soul ring had quietly appeared, a white soul ring emitting a lustrous glow, slowly pulsating around his body.

  The light golden color in Huo Yu's eyes began to change gradually, his consciousness was very clear, but his body had lost control.

  At this moment, he only felt that his thoughts and feelings were rapidly expanding outward, far beyond what they had been before. The sensation was like gazing down at the earth from the sky, completely different from the feeling he got when using his spiritual probing abilities in the past.

  The vast core area of the extreme north, covering an area of over 10,000 square kilometers, suddenly darkened as if it had suddenly transitioned from day to night. An intangible aura instantly expanded, accompanied by a terrifying spiritual force that burst forth from Ho Yu Hao's body.

  Huo Yu Hao was shocked to discover that at this moment, he had a kind of omnipotent pleasure, the earth and ice and snow were completely under his feet. The feeling that everything was in his grasp was really too wonderful. It seemed that with a flick of his wrist, he could destroy everything, and with a glance, he could judge all.

  In the gloomy sky, a low rumble of thunder began to sound, and Hao Yu suddenly found that his body had completely turned into a bright golden color.

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