Chapter 32: When the Snow Empress Reads Her Own Story (2600 words)
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After hearing Tianmeng Ice Silkworm say that being chased is being pursued, Huo Yuhao smiled and said, "What are you so proud of?"
"Brother Tianmeng, you've been thinking about the Ice Empress and fighting against the natural enemy for hundreds of thousands of years. This kind of belief is really beyond the reach of ordinary silkworms."
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was moved by its thoughts in the spiritual sea, looking into the Far North, its eyes full of true love. "What do you know, Yuhao? This is called love across races... True love is often full of challenges, brother, and fearlessness."
In the spiritual sea, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm stood tall, striking a domineering pose.
It felt that it was a very cool thing to run in both directions with the natural enemy leader it liked. If it was not careful, it might easily lead to an accident.
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm had faith in its wisdom. Although it was a licking silkworm, it also depended on who it was licking. After all, could licking an ordinary Ice Jade Scorpion be the same as licking the 400,000-year-old Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion?
Huo Yuhao used his soul power to push the snow sled, gliding quickly toward the core area of the Far North.
"Yuhao, you don't need to deliberately find a route to follow. Just follow the spiritual guidance and head straight to the center of the Far North."
"I understand, Brother Tianmeng."
Huo Yuhao stuffed a soul-restoring pill into his mouth, sparing no soul power at all, and kept moving forward.
The low temperature here did not affect him much. He was an ice martial soul himself, and he also possessed the extremely cold and hot Chilling Bone Flame. He hardly felt the cold; on the contrary, he found sledding in this environment quite comfortable.
The deeper they went into the Far North, the colder it became. The Chilling Bone Flame formed a layer of white icy film on the surface of Huo Yuhao's body.
"Yuhao, you are wearing my remains. I will use my original spiritual power to conceal your aura. When we get there, just call out 'Bingbing,' and she will come to you." Huo Yuhao nodded. It must be said that the remains nurtured by the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm for a million years of cultivation were a treasure. After all, in the original novel, these remains could even restrict the actions of the Ice Empress.
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A few days later, in the Far North, near the center of the core area.
Through the hazy icy fog that filled the sky and earth, Huo Yuhao saw a snow-capped mountain towering into the clouds and exuding a holy aura from afar.
With a light golden halo flowing in his eyes, Huo Yuhao looked at the white snow-capped mountains hidden in the snow mist, feeling a little confused.
"Something's wrong, Brother Tianmeng. Where are we going?" Huo Yuhao looked at the snowflakes flying all around. This environment gave off a fairy-like feeling.
He wondered in his heart: "Is this the place where the Ice Empress Scorpion appeared in the original book?" He remembered that in the original book, Huo Yuhao saw an exaggeratedly huge footprint on the way to the Far North. It was left by the 300,000-year-old Titan Snow Demon King, who had the bloodline of the Ice God and immense racial potential.
Huo Yuhao escaped disaster by hiding under the cover of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's aura.
However, along the way, he hadn't seen any huge footprints or encountered the Titan Snow Demon King.
Just in case, Huo Yuhao used the spiritual essence of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm to weave an illusion light ball specifically for the Ice and Snow Empress along the way.
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm felt that they had gone deep enough. "Yuhao, your spiritual guidance is always correct. How about I come out and give you a shout?"
As he spoke, a stream of golden-white light flashed out, and Tianmeng Ice Silkworm simulated its own spiritual body outside Huo Yuhao's body.
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm exclaimed, "Wow, Bingbing, I, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, have returned! Come out and greet me and throw yourself into my arms!"
As soon as the words fell, all the snowflakes in the surroundings seemed to lose control and flutter violently in the air.
On top of the snow-capped mountain in the distance, a huge sky-blue curtain suddenly covered the sky, spreading toward Huo Yuhao at an extremely fast speed. In an instant, the sky became an endless expanse of blue.
"Humans!!"
The female voice was clear and cold, underscored by an unyielding majesty, and it resonated from all directions simultaneously.
Just from hearing this royal voice, one could imagine the solemn image of an empress who was "dignified without even getting angry."
"Yuhao, run!"
"The plan has changed; she is not the Ice Empress!"
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was immediately terrified. Its series of plans had all been prepared for the Ice Empress. In addition to its past experiences, it had a small bond with Ice Empress, giving it some confidence in succeeding.
But Tianmeng Ice Silkworm never expected this person to come, let alone trap her with its remains and then tell her of its plan to create a god.
That cold and solemn voice of a queen sounded again.
"You will die if you enter the core area of the Far North without permission!"
In the sky, a huge ice-blue sword instantly condensed amidst the flying snowflakes.
"Emperor Sword: Unparalleled in Ice!" Through the diffuse snowflakes, a blue figure waved her hand faintly.
In the next second, a massive ice-blue sword slashed down toward Huo Yuhao from the sky not far away.
"Yuhao, hurry up! Use my remains!"
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm roared in fear, praying in its heart that its remains, which had trapped the Ice Empress for 400,000 years, could withstand this attack.
Huo Yuhao's mind moved, and he saw a white object surrounded by ten golden patterns, which instantly grew longer and wider, blocking Huo Yuhao from above.
At the same time, the gray beads in the sea of spirit trembled slightly.
Electrolux released an extremely fine stream of air, which flew out from the sea of spirituality and rushed into the remains that had been magnified several times.
"What is this? Divine consciousness?!"
The clear and cold voice of the royal sister seemed to express disbelief as her tone suddenly shifted.
Why does divine consciousness appear in such a weak human being?
When she attempted to retract her move, it was too late.
The Emperor Sword slashed at the remains; the contact surface in the air seemed to form a vacuum for a moment. The next moment, the surrounding snowflakes completely melted, and ripples of bright white, mixed with a bit of gray and ice blue, spread out and continued to ripple farther away.
The noise was huge, but it only lasted for a moment.
The attack of the Emperor Sword was resisted with the help of the remains and a trace of Electrolux's consciousness.
Then, the massive ice-blue sword shattered like ice flowers, turning into countless snowflakes that disappeared into the ether.
"He blocked it; not bad."
In the clear voice, there was a hint of surprise, as if "the boss entered the Novice Village and found someone who was not killed in one move."
Ouch, there is something.
However, she felt that this weak human's possession was a bit powerful—for one, it was strong enough to restrain the remains of a ferocious beast that was three or four hundred thousand years old, and then a trace of spiritual consciousness burst forth from it.
Although the amount of spiritual awareness just now was very small, she could feel the suppression of its quality.
The massive ice-blue curtain in the sky dissipated.
The original owner of the cold and majestic voice descended from the sky.
A graceful woman in a white dress floated over from the air and hovered in front of Huo Yuhao.
She looked like a human, a stunning girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, with long white hair, and ethereal and clear sky-blue eyes, exuding a cold, elegant, and pure temperament.
Her white skirt revealed bare feet, but she was taller than Huo Yuhao, her ethereal aura overwhelming. "Tell me: why did you come here?"
"Also, what happened to your consciousness just now?"
Her voice was very cold, neither happy nor angry, and the innate oppressive power was fully displayed.
If one's mind was not strong enough, one would have been frightened to the ground by her aura, for the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm next to him was already paralyzed with fear.
"Xue, you are the Snow Empress!" Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's voice trembled a little.
"Oh?" Xue Di then turned her eyes to the spiritual mimicry of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm next to her.
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm shivered and said cautiously, "Xue, Xue Di, we met a long time ago. Do you still remember me?"
Xue Di felt the current state of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and frowned slightly. "You are of the Ice Silkworm race, but you have ten golden lines..."
"According to my understanding of the Ice Silkworm clan, one of their golden lines represents 100,000 years, but due to their weak strength, cultivating one golden line is as difficult as ascending to heaven. How did you obtain these ten golden lines of a million years of cultivation?"
Xue Di felt that she had encountered too many strange things today: a one-ring soul master who broke into the center of the Far North, an ice silkworm that had cultivated for a million years, and a divine consciousness that made her incredulous.
"It's a long story." Tianmeng Ice Silkworm briefly recounted, "I was originally from our Far North, an ordinary ice silkworm with a bit of luck, and I was chased by natural enemies and fell into an ice cave."
"I found a large amount of ten-thousand-year-old cold marrow, and then I ate it while sleeping, continuing to advance while sleeping, breaking through bottlenecks one after another…"
Xue Di waved her hand to interrupt. "I have an impression."
"So you are that ice silkworm. Bing'er chased you at the beginning, but she didn't find you. Then she told me that you were missing."
Xue Di looked at Huo Yuhao and again inquired about the wisp of consciousness just now.
At this time, Electrolux's old voice echoed: "You should be a living being formed by the condensation of the energy of heaven and earth."
"Your spiritual consciousness is very strong. Even in the plane where I was alive, with your strength, you could be called a powerful person who dominates one side."
As he spoke, wisps of gray air emerged and condensed into the image of an old man in white outside Huo Yuhao's body.
When Xue Di saw Electrolux appear, she spoke with some respect: "Senior, why do you inhabit the body of a human soul master?"
Electrolux laughed and gave Huo Yuhao a look.
Huo Yuhao understood and took out a light ball, handing it over. "Xue Di, you will know when you look at this."
Xue Di took the light ball, and her eyes narrowed slightly. "Is this... a memory light ball?"
"I guess so," Huo Yuhao replied, not denying it.
Immediately, Xue Di began to check through her mental power.
"So your name is Huo Yuhao."
Soon, she witnessed the scene where the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm became Huo Yuhao's wisdom soul ring.
"I was confused just now. Why did you practice for a million years, yet I only felt the breath of the spiritual origin? So that's how it is."
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm stammered, "It doesn't matter, Xue Di, you can continue to watch."
Huo Yuhao took out a grill and commenced grilling fish.
Grilled fish using a strange fire.
Xue Di noticed the white flame he released and suddenly gave him an incredulous look. "Huo Yuhao, is this your martial soul?"
"It feels like the extreme cold attribute contained within it is higher than all the creatures in the Far North, including this Empress."
Huo Yuhao smiled. "Slightly higher, slightly higher."
"Xue Di, continue to look at the memory light ball; don't pay attention to me."
Xue Di nodded slightly, focusing on the scene contained within the light ball.
As night fell, the surroundings grew quiet; snowflakes slowly fell from the sky, and the sky appeared as clear as if washed, dotted with stars. Xue Di faced the ball of light while Huo Yuhao grilled fish. It was a peaceful and beautiful picture.
After a while, Xue Di watched the scene of Huo Yuhao obtaining his second martial soul in the Far North.
"Tian Meng, I didn't expect you to be so sincere with Bing'er. You knew she would most likely not survive the next catastrophe, yet you came to the Far North to find her."
Xue Di considered thoughtfully and continued, "Your plan to create a god is not unfeasible, but the 'Huo Yuhao' in this light ball seems too weak."
She felt that if it was the Huo Yuhao in the light ball, she might as well follow her original plan, using the 100,000-year-old snow lotus as a guide to rebuild into a human, and then practice with the Xue Di martial soul.
Then Xue Di looked at Huo Yuhao, who was grilling fish. If it was him, he would indeed have a higher probability of becoming a god.
"Embryo..." When Xue Di saw the scene that followed, her brows furrowed. "Why did a ninth-level soul master find me in the Far North with the Conferred God Platform when I transformed?"
Huo Yuhao shrugged. "It was randomly refreshed by a flash of Buddha's light."
"The embryo appeared in the Xing Luo Empire, while all the ninth-level soul masters on the continent are in the Sun Moon Empire. The original three kingdoms had no ninth-level soul masters. The identity of this ninth-level soul master who suddenly appeared is unknown."
Xue Di frowned slightly, realizing that something was wrong, and continued to look back.
The next scene showed her self-destruction, where she was sealed with the help of Electrolux. Afterward, due to the Haotian Sect's ice jade bed, the original power of the seal was ignited.
To save everyone, Electrolux sacrificed himself and ignited the fragments of his spiritual consciousness.
"Senior." Xue Di looked at Electrolux, feeling an indescribable emotion stirring in her heart.
Electrolux laughed and said, "In that situation, what teacher wouldn't do their best to assist their students?"
Xue Di felt deeply moved, but when she saw the scene of her transformation into a soul, her sky-blue eyes suddenly widened in surprise and confusion, ultimately morphing into disbelief. For the first time, she lost the demeanor of a northern overlord.
She, the Empress of the Far North, the Snow Empress, became a soul—
Not only did her body transform into that of a little girl to act cute, but she even called out to someone...
Huo Yuhao was eating grilled fish nearby.
The Snow Empress stared at Huo Yuhao, her lips moving, but for a moment she didn't know what to say.
Huo Yuhao certainly noticed Xue Di's gaze, but he pretended not to notice. He would not say a word until Xue Di finished looking at the light ball.
Finally, Xue Di finished viewing all the scenes contained within.
Huo Yuhao was on high alert.
"What? Are you coming to the Far North this time to obtain souls? Whose soul do you seek?" a cold voice inquired.
Huo Yuhao handed Xue Di a grilled fish and smiled like a little boy next door again: "Do you want to eat it?"
Xue Di conjured an ice-blue chair from thin air, lying casually on it with her legs crossed, adopting a lazy expression and a somewhat sarcastic tone:
"Tsk tsk tsk, Daddy's grilled fish is so delicious; if I don't eat it, Daddy won't be unhappy."
Huo Yuhao's scalp tingles at hearing this.
(End of this chapter)