Chapter 199 Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm: Eat and Sleep, Sleep and Eat, Still a 900,000-Year-Old Ferocious Beast!
The scene on the screen slowly dimmed. Haiyuan's enormous body twisted disdainfully on the arena, finding the humans' anger laughable.
"A bunch of hypocritical ants."
Haiyuan sneered, its massive tentacles whipping up a stench.
"When you kill soul beasts for soul rings and soul bones, why don't you talk about cruelty? I eat a few people for a treat, and you're considered utterly wicked?"
On the Sun Moon Continent, countless soul masters cursed at the screen, wishing they could jump into the screen and turn this giant squid into a teppanyaki grill.
But no matter what, Haiyuan at least caused a sensation, unlike Liaoyuan, which made people drowsy.
"Next, the third one—Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm!"
As the emotionless voice of the screen rang out, a pale white beam of light precisely enveloped the plump, fleshy worm.
Seeing its name appear in the sky, Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm felt a wave of darkness wash over it.
A sense of despair called "social death" instantly overwhelmed its reason.
Its two small golden eyes, no longer holding their usual smug gleam, were now filled with a lifeless, indignant grief.
"It's over...it's all over..."
The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm covered its chubby face with its two short forelegs; if species isolation weren't a factor, its face would be deathly pale.
"If the price of becoming stronger, of becoming a god, is to have my most humiliating, shameful, and undignified history of the past million years laid bare for all the humans and soul beasts on the continent to see..."
The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm let out a heart-wrenching wail in its heart:
"Then I'd rather not have this godhood!"
"Compared to the shame of being publicly executed, being captured by those guys from Di Tian and used as a blood-sucking power bank..."
"It seems... not so unacceptable after all! At least then only a few ferocious beasts knew about my miserable state, but now it's being broadcast live to the whole world!"
The light and shadow shifted, and the scene instantly changed.
A vast, snow-covered, and frigid Arctic plain.
The wind howled, and snow fell heavily.
In this forbidden zone of life, the perspective zoomed in.
In an inconspicuous snowdrift, a tiny ice silkworm, no thicker than a finger and translucent white, shivered as it peeked out from under the snow.
The flashback had begun.
At this moment, the entire continent's audience held their breath.
Everyone had expected that this Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, which was 'claimed' to have 'millions of years of cultivation' but was only 990,000 years old, would have an earth-shattering origin.
Or at least, like the previous two, it would be born with some kind of ferocious aura.
But this little insect in the scene... was weak, helpless, and even looked a bit... appetizing?
The voice of the narrator rang out at the right time, but it carried a strange sense of vicissitude:
"The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm was born on the edge of the far north."
"It is neither an ancient, exotic species nor a rare deity."
"It is merely the most common, numerous, and humble ice silkworm race in the far north."
In the scene, the young Tianmeng Ice Silkworm lives in constant fear for its survival.
It dares not venture into places rich in spiritual energy, for there dwell powerful ice bears and snow wolves; it even dares not forage during the day, only sneaking out on nights when blizzards rage fiercely to nibble on low-lying moss and icicles.
In the harsh food chain of the far north, the ice silkworm race occupies the absolute bottom.
To any predator in the far north, they are walking protein, readily available snacks, and reserves for surviving the harsh winter.
Even a slightly stronger ten-year-old wind baboon could easily crush the young Tianmeng Ice Silkworm into a pulp.
"Living a life of constant uncertainty, as fragile as grass."
These eight words perfectly encapsulate the life of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm for the first ten thousand years.
Looking at the image on the sky—a creature forced to hide in an ice crevice for three days and three nights to escape the pursuit of a hundred-year-old snow fox, its body nearly frozen stiff—the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm on the arena slowly lowered its paws from its face.
The shame in its eyes faded somewhat, replaced by a deep sense of deep emotion and a barely perceptible hint of relief.
"Yes..." the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm sighed, its round body collapsing weakly to the ground, muttering to itself, "Those days were truly unbearable for an insect."
"Back then, my biggest dream was to survive the next winter."
"If it weren't for that sudden accident, if it weren't for my incredible luck in falling into that place..."
"I'd probably have become some soul beast's excrement hundreds of thousands of years ago, dead for who knows how long. How could I possibly have the chance to stand here, competing with you for a divine position..."
The scene on the sky suddenly shifted.
The tiny ice silkworm, trembling with fear as it fled from its predator, slipped during a frantic escape.
"Swoosh—"
Accompanied by a comical thud, the young Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, like a white glutinous rice ball, tumbled down a very hidden ice crevice.
And that tumble led to an unfathomable abyss.
Just when all the viewers thought the unfortunate little insect was about to be smashed to pieces and the story was over, a strange, eerie blue light appeared on the screen.
The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, disoriented, landed at the bottom. There was no hard rock beneath it, but rather something soft, cool, and exuding an enticing fragrance.
It groggily opened its mouth and tentatively took a bite of the "ground" beneath it.
"Crunch."
It melted instantly in its mouth, and an unimaginably vast amount of pure primordial energy instantly filled its entire body!
The emotionless narration on the screen now seemed to tremble with a tremor that even it found absurd:
"The gears of fate have turned absurdly at this moment."
"Deep within this icy crevice lies the core of the frigid air that has gathered over millions of years in the far north, nurturing the most supreme ice-attribute treasure in the world—Ten-Thousand-Year Frost Marrow."
"And not just a drop, not just a piece."
The scene zoomed out, revealing the entire ice cave to the world.
It was an entire underground river of Ten-Thousand-Year Frost Marrow!
The sheer quantity was enough to drive even the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North mad!
"We're...we're rich?"
The little ice silkworm in the scene widened its beady green eyes, then let out a blissful scream, plunging headfirst into the ocean of Ten-Thousand-Year Frost Marrow.
The following scene plunged all the Soul Masters and Soul Beasts of the Douluo Continent into a deathly silence.
There were no thrilling battles, no near-death experiences, no arduous journeys to comprehend the Dao.
The scene was as if fast-forwarded:
Eat.
Sleep.
Wake up and continue eating.
It held on and went back to sleep.
The life of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm was monotonous and dull; it did nothing but eat and sleep.
Its body swelled up like an inflating balloon, and its originally weak aura began to surge at a rocket-like speed!
A hundred years… a thousand years… ten thousand years…
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