Chapter 41: Emperor of Ice and Jade Scorpion (Part 2)

  "Plop——" Huo Yu Hao heavily fell into the thick snow, but no matter what he said, he couldn't get up.

  His physical strength was overdrawn, causing him to fall into a state of near collapse. Fortunately, in the outer reaches of the extremely cold region, the temperature rose relatively, and at least it became easier to replenish water by eating snow.

  "It's no use, Tianmeng. I really can't run anymore. I need to rest, or else I'll starve to death." Huo Yuhao muttered to himself.

  Huoyue Hao was breathing heavily, mouthful by mouthful. A continuous stream of white mist spewed out, and he felt his vision blurring, with dizziness constantly assaulting his brain. He was now so weak that he couldn't even muster a single spiritual probe. All he wanted to do was sink into a deep sleep. Even during the most arduous training at Shrek Academy, he had never felt this way.

  "Let's do it here. I've just scouted the area, and within a hundred miles, it's relatively quiet, with no soul beasts lurking about. Yu Hao, you can't rest yet. The real test for you is only just beginning."

  "What? Still want to test me? Let me die already." Since that day, after He Tianmeng and Bing Xue opened up to each other, their relationship became much closer, to the point where Huo Yu Hao was less restrained when talking to He Tianmeng.

  "He really didn't want this test anymore?"

  "What's the test for?" Huo Yu Hao asked helplessly.

  Tian Meng Bing Can smiled mysteriously and said, "What did we come to the extreme north for?"

  "Give me the awakening of Wu Soul! Are you saying, you want to deal with Emperor Bing?" Ho Yu Hao finally reacted, but he was really out of energy and wanted to sit up. His strength was used halfway, and he fell back again.

  "I'm right. First, I used my own lingering aura to restrain the Ice Emperor. Then, I used my spiritual power to create a spiritual prison, temporarily imprisoning it. But even with my original source power, I won't be able to hold on for much longer. The Ice Emperor's strength is too great, and I'm already at my limit."

  "What is a spiritual prison?" Huo Yuhao asked curiously.

  "It's a spiritual force skill. After I abandoned my body and merged with you, my spiritual origin became independent, allowing me to use some skills. Unfortunately, after I separated from your body, my spiritual imprint further merged with yours, so I won't be able to use it again. I can only become your subordinate. You need to prepare yourself, wanting to merge with the Ice Emperor to make it your martial soul has a prerequisite - it must be voluntary. However, even if it's voluntary, the pressure you'll face will still be enormous. It's not like me back then, when my energy was almost depleted by the Starry Forest's soul beasts, leaving only my spiritual origin. The Ice Emperor is a genuine 30 million-year-grade soul beast, with cultivation of 39 million, 9 thousand and 900 years. Such terrifying power will definitely be impossible for you to absorb. We must seal this part of its power as well, lest it explodes you, but even the process of sealing it will be a huge impact on you. So, no matter what, you must hold on. Otherwise, we three will be done for together. Do you understand?"

  Huo Yu Hao nodded and said: "I understand, but will Bing Di agree?"

  Tian Meng's icy silkworm smiled mysteriously and said, "Don't look at us having lived for so many years, in fact, we are more afraid of death than you humans. Who can bear the end of their long life? It doesn't matter if it looks down on me or not, nor does it have its own important life! The reason I brought her here is to force her, and also because those generations of ice jade scorpions won't find her. Just look at your brother, just lie there and don't move."

  Huo Yu's eyes slowly lit up, and a thick golden light flickered. Immediately afterwards, he felt the chill, although not as intense as the extreme cold land, but it still made him shiver, his body subconsciously curling up. It was clear that Tian Meng Ice Silkworm had withdrawn its legacy.

  A cluster of golden light emerged from the center of Huo Yu's eyebrows and slowly floated into the air. At first, it was just a golden light spot, but gradually, this light spot expanded and turned into a light disc with a diameter of about one meter in an instant.

  The golden light disc in the center began to become illusory, and if you looked at it with your eyes, even your line of sight would be sucked into that seemingly bottomless abyss.

  A flash of light, a figure emerged from the golden disc. In the next instant, the gold in the air also disappeared. A fist-sized golden light ball burst out from Hao Yu's forehead and floated in mid-air. And wasn't that figure none other than Emperor Scorpion Bingbi?

  At this time, it was once again trapped by the remnants of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and could not struggle free no matter how hard it tried. The remnants of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm were the crystallization of its hundred million years of cultivation. Although the energy it had accumulated over the years was constantly drained by the powerful soul beasts in the Starry Sky Forest, until it was exhausted. But during the process of being drained, it deliberately mobilized its own energy to nourish its body continuously. If not for the tenacity of its body, it would have died countless times already.

  Choosing to abandon his physical body and merge with Huo Yu Hao, this remnant is even more precious. With the terrifying power of Bing Di and soul force, it cannot be shaken off, showing its tenacity to what extent. However, Huo Yu Hao's current cultivation is still far from enough, only Tian Meng Ice Silkworm itself can control this remnant, and each time controlling it consumes a lot of spiritual energy, so it will only be used at the most critical moment.

  "Bingdi, stop struggling, you've tried many times, you should know it's useless." Tian Meng Bingcan said in its uniquely lazy tone.

  The Ice Emperor said coldly: "What do you want?"

  "I just want to be with the one I love forever."

  "Is this the way you love me?" After a long time of contemplation, Bingdi finally understood that he had been deceived. If he hadn't been so close to Tianmeng Ice Silkworm at the time, it would have been impossible for him to get his hands on it. Unfortunately, it was too late now, and having fallen into Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's hands, this strange power was something he couldn't shake off. This powerful existence that had survived for nearly 400,000 years wouldn't give up easily, so things that couldn't be resisted with strength could only rely on other abilities.

  Tian Meng Ice Silkworm smiled slightly and said, "Don't be impatient, listen to me."

  "Bing Di's cold voice said: 'What are you talking about? Are you saying that you love me? If you really loved me, wouldn't you have released your true form by now? I'm already a prisoner of yours, what else do you have to fear?'"

  Tian Meng Bing Can let out a sigh and said, "Of course I'm not afraid, it's just that I simply have no way to let you see my true body! My true body has long ceased to exist. Don't you think that what you've been seeing all along is merely the source of my spirit, rather than a spiritual simulation? Having controlled one side for too long, you've lost your caution; otherwise, it wouldn't have been so easy for me to succeed."

  Bingdi was taken aback, exclaiming in surprise: "What? You only have your spiritual origin left, what about your body?" It wasn't until now that he noticed Huo Yu Hao lying on the ground. Due to the cold, Huo Yu Hao's face had already turned somewhat pale, but fortunately, after his experience in the Extreme North Core Region, his resistance to cold had increased greatly.

  "Can it be this human? Although you have confined me, just by looking at him with your eyes, his insignificance is apparent. Is he your puppet?"

  "No, no, of course not. He is my host, or rather, my master. And I am his soul ring now. You should know what a human soul ring is. And I am the unprecedented first intelligent soul ring on this continent."

  "Bing Di's voice trembled with rage: 'What?! You've actually become a human Soul Ring?! How is this possible?! Although you're a useless piece of trash, at least you've managed to live long enough. With that fragile human body, how could it possibly withstand the enormous energy within you?!'"

  "Let's not mention it. When I think of my miserable experience, everything still has to be attributed to you. At that time, you were pressing hard and wouldn't let go, wanting to swallow me up. I had no choice but to run away! I wanted to keep a useful body to love you with. So, I drifted down the sea and arrived at a more southern place..."

  Tian Meng Bing Cang used what he thought was his most miserable voice to recount his experiences of the past 100,000 years. However, when he told it to Bing Di, his tone was even more sorrowful and he described himself as even more pitiful. He brought out all sorts of descriptions like being covered in wounds and living a life worse than death.

  “……, you also know how terrifying the deadline is for us. You also know that there is no soul beast in this world that has lived longer than me. Even if I'm just a waste of space in your heart, I'm still an old waste of space who's managed to live long enough. My energy has been almost completely drained by them, and I won't be able to make it past the next deadline. But having lived for so long, I don't want to die! I believe you're the same way, I can sense it because your deadline is approaching again in less than a hundred years, which makes your emotions extremely anxious.”

  "Whether it's you or me, neither of us wants to die. We've lived for so long, how can we be willing to become a pile of dust? So, I thought of the best method."

  The story of Tian Meng Bing Can finally caught the attention of Emperor Bingshan, who almost subconsciously asked: "What method?"

  "Tian Meng Bing Can said in a low voice: 'Create a god.'"

  "Creating a god?" Ice Emperor was taken aback, and suddenly became even more curious, "What creating a god?"

  "Tian Meng Bingshang said in a low voice: 'Dear, I ask you, on our continent, which race has the most potential?'"

  Bingdi, having already been drawn into the rhythm of Tianmeng Bichan's words, subconsciously followed its train of thought and even neglected to address it properly, "You mean, humans?"

  Haha, seeing Tianmeng and Bingdi chatting, what's the feeling? When I wrote this passage at first, two words appeared in my mind, familiar to friends from Northeast China, "hulajie"... Of course, it's reasonable hulajie!!