At this moment, only dozens of meters away from the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, Huo Yuhao's meager aura of a mere three-ring spirit elder was simply as insignificant as a candle in the wind. In the face of the Ice Empress's overwhelming vicious beast pressure and ultimate cold, he was as weak as silent falling snow.
Standing there, he failed entirely to enter the Ice Empress's proud field of vision. From beginning to end, the Ice Empress's gaze was deathly binding to the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's body.
She no longer had any interest in wasting more words. For the Ice Empress, this sudden reunion was merely the beginning of a meal.
An extremely faint sound of breaking air rang out, yet it caused the surrounding temperature to plummet once more. The Ice Empress's slender body, covered in jade and diamond-like ice crystals, leaned forward slightly.
The tail hook behind her rose high, its tip aimed directly at the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm across from her, and a pure white beam of light shot toward it. Facing the Ice Empress's attack, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's translucent white body remained motionless, and not a trace of panic could be seen on its round little face.
A warm yet exceptionally tough platinum-gold light shield emerged out of thin air without warning, blocking right in front of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm. The Ice Empress's attack was like a clay ox entering the sea, silently absorbed by the light shield.
What caused the Ice Empress's pupils to shrink even more was that a surge of extreme cold energy, originating from the same source as her own attack attribute, actually surged back toward her! Caught off guard, she had to immediately withdraw her attack and drift back several feet, a thicker layer of ice crystals instantly condensing on her emerald shell as defense.
"You...?!" The Ice Empress's crisp voice was filled with unbelievable shock.
An ice silkworm? An ice silkworm that was useless for anything other than running away?
To actually be able to display such sophisticated and powerful defensive and counter-attacking abilities? This completely overturned her inherent perception of the ice silkworm clan and even of the waste named Tianmeng over the past hundreds of thousands of years!
What she was shocked by was precisely the powerful defensive spirit ability bestowed by the million-year life origin after the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm became Huo Yuhao's spirit soul—the life reflection shield! This moment of the Ice Empress's daze was also the fleeting opportunity the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm had been waiting for!
"Now is the time!" The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm roared in its heart, and the origin light sphere within its body, which had temporarily returned, burned fiercely at the same time!
An unprecedentedly majestic mental force turned into a substantive golden torrent and directly invaded the Ice Empress's mental core! "Ugh!" The Ice Empress's body suddenly stiffened.
At the same time, the translucent white molted skin originally covering the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's body suddenly peeled off and expanded. It turned into a giant jade-colored light membrane as thin as a cicada's wing, which, as if possessing a life of its own, shrouded the temporarily frozen Ice Empress!
Whoosh! The light membrane instantly closed, completely wrapping the Ice Empress's jade-like ice crystal body and imprisoning her within!
"What?!" The Ice Empress only felt her whole body tighten; that seemingly soft jade-colored light membrane actually contained unimaginable binding and isolation power!
Her proud ultimate ice spirit power was instantly cut off from its connection with the outside world. Her peerlessly powerful physical strength was like falling into an invisible quagmire, making it impossible to break free!
At this moment, even as a 390,000-year vicious beast, the Ice Empress could not help but feel a strange sense of panic rise in her heart. "How is this possible?!"
Through the semi-transparent light membrane, she stared fixedly at the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm outside, which appeared weak but had continuously displayed incredible methods, her voice trembling slightly with shock and fury. "You waste... how could you possibly possess such an ability?!"
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm said nothing more; being in the Far North core circle, the pressure the Ice Empress had released earlier had likely already alerted other powerful spirit beasts. Controlling the Ice Empress was only the first step; next, they had to move their position.
"Yuhao!" The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm returned to Huo Yuhao's side and said, "This place is not for staying long, let's go quickly!"
Huo Yuhao did not hesitate for a second and nodded heavily. The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's performance just now had indeed far exceeded his previous imagination.
Not just him, but inside the spiritual sea, Little Silver's giant silver eye was also wide open at this moment, with mental tentacles curling unconsciously, showing its inner shock. Although it had known before that the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was a million-year spirit beast, its estimation of its combat strength had been extremely low.
But just now, it had actually imprisoned a vicious beast, which also completely reorganized Little Silver's understanding. This time, it truly looked at this seemingly unreliable big bug in a new light.
Huo Yuhao paused, and the Class 4 soul tool thruster already prepared at the bottom of his boots suddenly erupted with a strong pale blue light. He no longer hid his speed, his figure turning into a blurred afterimage as he retreated at full speed in the direction they had come from.
Two hours later, the suffocating ultimate cold around them had weakened considerably; they had already left the range of the core circle and returned to a relatively safe area. Only then did the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm breathe a slight sigh of relief.
It carefully took out the seal of the Ice Empress and began its earnest persuasion. The Ice Empress was about to face her 400,000-year heavenly tribulation; she had not found a way to transform and recultivate like the Snow Empress and could only endure it head-on.
The key was that she had no confidence at all regarding this heavenly tribulation; when the time came, she feared there would only be the outcome of death. Therefore, facing Tianmeng's so-called god-making rhetoric, although she didn't have much confidence in her heart, it seemed that this was her only way out now.
Looking at the contemplative Ice Empress, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm did not continue speaking but instead turned its gaze toward Huo Yuhao. Huo Yuhao understood and nodded slightly.
With a slight thought, a flash of silver light appeared, and the spirit soul Little Silver quietly appeared on his shoulder. Huo Yuhao's voice then rang out: "Ice Empress, this evil eye and Brother Tianmeng have both established a contract with me now and are my spirit souls. A spirit soul is a brand-new form that far surpasses a spirit ring; it is an epoch-making achievement. If you agree to become my second spirit, you will also retain all your consciousness and wisdom in the form of a spirit soul, and you can come with me to experience the magnificent human world."
After he finished speaking, the spirit power around Huo Yuhao's body rippled gently. Two black and one white, three spirit rings rose sequentially from beneath his feet.
"I am nine years old this year, with a spirit power rank of thirty-two; among human spirit masters, I can be considered a genius." Although the imprisoned Ice Empress did not say a word at this moment, a stormy wave was surging in her heart.
Having lived in the Far North for hundreds of thousands of years, she was well aware of the human cultivation system and the age rules of spirit rings. Nine years old! Rank thirty-two! Two ten thousand year spirit rings! One never-before-seen million-year spirit ring!
How could the word genius summarize this? This was clearly a prodigy's posture that broke all common sense and overturned cognition!
If the previous empty promise of god-making from the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm had only stirred three parts of doubt and the helplessness of treating a dead horse as a living one in her heart... then, witnessing Huo Yuhao's talent with her own eyes now, she felt that the possibility of success had already risen to five parts!
Just as the Ice Empress was shocked by Huo Yuhao's talent, a surge of strange energy fluctuation, not particularly majestic or vast but of extremely high quality, diffused from above Huo Yuhao's head without warning. Above Huo Yuhao's head, light and shadow intertwined, and the image of an old man wearing a simple white robe with a slightly illusory figure slowly emerged.
His face was peaceful, his eyes as deep as a vast sea of stars, and he had no outward powerful aura, merely floating there quietly. However, the moment the Ice Empress's gaze came into contact with him, her entire soul seemed to be struck by invisible lightning, and her whole body shook violently!
It was not a suppression of power, but a tremor and awe originating from instinct brought about by an absolute gap in the level of life! Huo Yuhao spoke at the right time, his voice remaining calm: "This is Electrolux, Elder Yi. He is a supreme existence from another world whose cultivation has already reached the pseudo-god realm."
"Pseudo... god?!" In the seal, these two words echoed almost silently in the Ice Empress's mind.
On the Saint Magic Continent where Electrolux was from, there were no titles such as pseudo-god or demi-god. So Huo Yuhao used the evaluation standards of the Douluo Continent ten thousand years after; his teacher was indeed the powerhouse closest to the divine rank, and calling him a pseudo-god was not an exaggeration.
The Ice Empress's mind was blank at this moment, with only one word remaining: "God"! A moment later, the Ice Empress recovered from her shock.
She moved her gaze away from Electrolux and looked at Huo Yuhao seriously: "I... am willing to become your second spirit!"
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