Chapter 29: Ice Empress
"Heh!"
Huo Yuhao exhaled a breath of warm air, which quickly transformed into an icy mist.
Huo Yuhao had been deep in the Far North for a day; he had already settled the Horned Scale Horse in a small town on the northern border of the Heavenly Soul Empire.
In such freezing weather, without any means to ward off the cold, one would likely turn into an ice sculpture in the Far North.
"Master, I'll leave the rest to you."
Huo Yuhao spoke to Electrolux within his sea of consciousness.
"Don't worry, Yuhao. No matter what happens, your Master will protect you."
Electrolux said calmly.
Ah, this damn sense of security.
Without Electrolux, Huo Yuhao definitely wouldn't have recklessly come to the Far North like in the original story.
In Electrolux's hand, a golden chain was faintly visible.
This was a pseudo-divine artifact that Electrolux had refined using the million-year-old molted skin of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm as the main material, combined with other Materials.
The million-year-old molted skin of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was an absolute Divine Rank material. If Electrolux were in his prime, he could naturally use it as the primary material to refine a true Divine Artifact.
Back then, Electrolux was an existence capable of hand-crafting Super Divine Artifacts.
Now, he was just a remnant soul and could only barely refine a pseudo-divine artifact. However, holding a pseudo-divine artifact, Electrolux could confidently say that below the rank of God, he was invincible.
This wasn't the kind of combat power one only had by burning Divine Sense, but true, solid strength.
"Tianmeng, it's your turn to appear."
"Alright, Brother Hao!"
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was full of confidence. Honestly, with such a big shot by his side, what was there to fear?
The Ice Empress was merely a three-hundred-thousand-year Ferocious beast. Even with the home-field advantage of the Far North, she could only contend with a level ninety-eight Super Douluo.
She couldn't beat Electrolux.
However, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm still hoped the Ice Empress would join his godhood creation plan. In his eyes, Huo Yuhao could definitely become a god!
If she didn't join, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm had made up his mind—if the Ice Empress refused, he would have no choice but to kill her.
Gradually, Tianmeng also realized that he didn't love the Ice Empress that much; at least, compared to the hope of becoming a god, she didn't measure up.
Golden light surged from around Huo Yuhao's body, gradually transforming into a golden humanoid figure identical to Huo Yuhao.
This was formed from the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's Origin power.
"Ice Empress, I, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, have returned! Do you dare to meet me!"
A powerful Spiritual intent spread out, instantly sweeping through a third of the Far North's core region.
Without a Physical Body, the strength the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm could exert had actually increased somewhat.
The current Tianmeng could probably fight an enemy at the Soul Douluo level.
After a long time, the distant horizon suddenly turned a translucent emerald green.
A beautiful and noble scorpion, about 1.5 meters long, appeared within Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection.
Huo Yuhao's own aura was concealed by Electrolux, letting the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm handle the persuasion.
Of course, if persuasion failed, that would be the time for Electrolux to act.
"Tianmeng, you coward, you dare to come back?"
Tianmeng quietly looked at the Ice Empress, whom he had missed for ten thousand years. At this moment, he finally saw clearly.
What love! What longing! None of it compared to Brother Hao leading him to godhood!
"Ice Empress, why wouldn't I dare to return? I, Tianmeng, have never done anything to betray the Far North!"
The Ice Empress's pearl-like scorpion eyes looked at the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, who was floating in the air as a golden humanoid figure.
To be honest, if it weren't for this familiar Spiritual power, she really wouldn't believe this was that coward Tianmeng.
"You ate so much ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow! If that ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow had been given to me and the Snow Empress, our Far North could have become the largest gathering place for Soul Beasts on the continent! The Snow Empress might have even become a god!"
Her tone was angry, but her voice was very pleasant to the ear.
"What a joke! Ice Empress, you have no idea about the depth of the Star Dou Great Forest's heritage! Even if the Snow Empress becomes a seven-hundred-thousand-year, eight-hundred-thousand-year, or nine-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, so what! You know nothing of the horrors of the Star Dou Great Forest!"
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm said disdainfully.
He was a Spiritual-attribute Soul Beast who had been imprisoned in the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest. Even though Ferocious beasts were always guarding him, he could faintly feel other terrifying existences within that Lake of Life.
"Besides, Soul Beasts dreaming of becoming gods? Ice Empress, I, Tianmeng, am already a million-year Soul Beast! But the imagined godhood never arrived; all that came was the Heavenly Tribulation! No, it was more like a heavenly curse! All I felt within it was death!"
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm said angrily.
God knows how much despair was in his heart? From the moment he became a million-year Soul Beast, he knew he was the only million-year Soul Beast on the continent.
The very first one!
How long has the Douluo Continent existed? How could there be only one million-year Soul Beast like him?
What about the other Soul Beasts?
Could not a single one Cultivate to a million years?
"Impossible! Tianmeng, you're lying to me! Originally, when you escaped the Far North, I thought I'd never find you again. Now it's perfect; you've returned on your own. You swallowed so much ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow; eating you will surely have an effect!"
The Ice Empress raised her crystalline pincers.
"Ice Empress, haven't you noticed? I no longer have a Physical Body."
"What?"
The Ice Empress was shocked. She had thought the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was hiding and only appearing before her with Spiritual Power; she never imagined he had no Physical Body.
"Without a Physical Body, how are you alive! Stop lying to me!"
He didn't continue explaining.
Tianmeng said calmly, "Ice Empress, I only came for one thing. Do you want to become a god?"
"Become a god? Of course I do. What Soul Beast doesn't want to become a god?"
"Then the opportunity has come. Ice Empress, I invite you to join the godhood plan."
It wasn't 'creating' a god; in the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's view, Huo Yuhao didn't need his help to become a god.
Whether it was himself or the Ice Empress, they were merely assistants on his path to godhood.
Electrolux was a Divine Rank powerhouse while alive, and even as a wisp of a remnant soul after death, he was still this strong. With his help, how could Huo Yuhao not become a god?
Silence.
Suddenly, the Ice Empress let out a sneer.
"Tianmeng, you're just like before, full of nonsense. I'll take you down now and give you to the Snow Empress as a snack!"
Tianmeng let out a sigh.
"You're really not joining?"
"Stop talking nonsense. Obediently reveal your true form, and I might not torture you!"
"Elder Electrolux, please act."
"What!"
Instantly, several golden chains struck from the sky.
The Ice Empress felt her whole body become unable to move, only barely able to raise her pincers.
"Swish!"
The golden chains bound the Ice Empress's petite body.
The battle was already over.
Electrolux had prepared for a long time, intending to launch a sneak attack; how could the Ice Empress possibly resist?
The golden chains tightly wound around the Ice Empress's body, sealing her Soul Power and making her struggles increasingly futile.
"You... who are you! No, you're not human! You're a god!"
The Ice Empress cried out in terror.
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