Chapter 36: Mirror Image Beast
"Ice Empress, Snow Empress, search for Mirror Image Beasts in this snow forest!"
Huo Yuhao had checked Shrek's records and found that a small number of Mirror Image Beasts lived in the Frozen Forest of the Far North.
Mirror Image Beasts are an extremely rare Soul Beast, with special and powerful abilities.
Both the Ice Empress and Snow Empress could unleash the power of a Super Douluo. This Frozen Forest was actually the outer region of the Far North, so their home field advantage still existed.
Huo Yuhao also followed. Don't forget, the Ice Empress and Snow Empress couldn't leave his ten-kilometer radius.
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm also emerged from the Soul Ring to assist Huo Yuhao with Spiritual Detection, searching for Mirror Image Beasts.
Huo Yuhao's total Spiritual Power had reached the quasi-Soul King level, and he believed that obtaining the second Soul Ring for his Spirit Eyes would allow him to smoothly reach the Soul King level.
After all, the Ice Extreme Divine Form was not a Spiritual-attribute Martial Soul, and the increase in Spiritual Power from Soul Sect to quasi-Soul King was mainly due to the Ice and Snow Crown.
As a head External Soul Bone, even if the Ice and Snow Crown was not a Spiritual-attribute Soul Bone, it still had a certain stabilizing effect on the sea of consciousness, indirectly increasing the total Spiritual Power.
Currently, Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection had a diameter of five hundred meters, and a straight-line detection range of over one thousand meters.
For two consecutive days, they searched for Mirror Image Beasts in the Frozen Forest.
"Yuhao, I found Mirror Image Beasts. It's a pack, with more than ten of them."
It was the Snow Empress's voice, transmitting information through her master-servant contract with Huo Yuhao.
"Good, I'll be right there!"
After speaking, Huo Yuhao contacted the Ice Empress, who was searching in another direction, and together they headed towards the Snow Empress's location.
In a canyon deep within the Frozen Forest.
The Snow Empress stood in mid-air, surrounded by snowflakes, like an elf of the snow.
On the ground were more than ten Mirror Image Beasts, large and small.
The Mirror Image Beasts' bodies were covered in mirror-like scales, emitting a magnificent glow.
Originally, Mirror Image Beasts had few rivals in this Frozen Forest. If not for their low reproductive rate, they would have long become a famous Soul Beast race on the continent. But facing the Snow Empress, the emperor of ice and snow, they had no room to resist.
"Oh, I didn't expect there to be so many Mirror Image Beasts here."
The Ice Empress, who had arrived with Huo Yuhao, said in surprise.
As a Ferocious beast who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, there were few Soul Beasts on the continent the Ice Empress didn't recognize. Of course, she had seen Mirror Image Beasts, and even eaten quite a few.
It was just that in recent tens of thousands of years, Mirror Image Beasts had been seen less often.
She didn't expect to encounter so many in the Frozen Forest.
"I'm afraid Mirror Image Beasts are not abundant across the entire continent anymore."
Huo Yuhao sighed.
In Shrek's ancient texts, Mirror Image Beasts had only appeared in the Frozen Forest north of the Heavenly Soul Empire, and not frequently.
In the past two days, Huo Yuhao, with his three Soul Spirits, had searched almost half of the Frozen Forest before finding this Mirror Image Beast pack.
Of course, Huo Yuhao wasn't overflowing with a saintly heart; he just felt that the extinction of such a rare Soul Beast was a regrettable thing.
It was imaginable that the decreasing variety of Soul Beasts and the dwindling number of high-quality, high-year-limit Soul Beasts would have a huge impact on the entire Soul Master system.
Therefore, in the original work, when Di Tian learned of the existence of Soul Spirits, he chose to spare Huo Yuhao. Di Tian certainly knew that Soul Spirits couldn't solve the problem of dwindling Soul Beasts, but it was a hope. For this hope, Di Tian would choose to believe Huo Yuhao.
Hmm, thinking of a Titled Douluo who might have nine ten-thousand-year Soul Rings in the future, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but want to laugh.
There were a total of fourteen Mirror Image Beasts. The oldest had a cultivation of fifty thousand years, while the youngest was only seven hundred years old. All were frozen in place by the Snow Empress, unable to move.
He walked directly towards the Mirror Image Beast with the highest cultivation.
"Tianmeng, go communicate with it and see if this Mirror Image Beast is willing to sacrifice itself to me."
"Alright!"
Tianmeng received the order. After becoming a Soul Spirit, he also had his own body, which was the youthful appearance he used in the sea of consciousness.
Ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts already possessed considerable intelligence, and a fifty-thousand-year Mirror Image Beast's intelligence would definitely be no less than that of a normal human.
However, due to the different environments of Soul Beasts and humans, intelligence was one thing, but how much of it could be utilized was uncertain.
Huo Yuhao's task for the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was to try his best to trick that fifty-thousand-year Mirror Image Beast into sacrificing itself to him and becoming his Soul Spirit.
Of course, if this Mirror Image Beast was unwilling, Huo Yuhao was not someone easy to talk to; he would directly kill a Mirror Image Beast of suitable age to serve as a Soul Ring.
It didn't matter if the Soul Ring's age limit was low; the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's vast Spiritual Origin was enough for Huo Yuhao to increase the age limit of every Soul Ring of his Spirit Eyes by one hundred thousand years.
However, the fifty-thousand-year-old Mirror Image Beast looked at the four figures in the air and cursed inwardly.
What a terrible day this was, to encounter such powerful experts hunting Soul Beasts.
And they captured his entire family. It was over, his family was completely doomed.
The extinction of their race was today.
"Hey, little Mirror Image Beast, let me introduce myself first. I am the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, you can call me Brother Tianmeng!"
Mirror Image Beast:?
What was that, talking in its head? It looked at the human in front of it, smiling brightly.
Oh, it was this human.
"Hmph! Human! Do as you please, kill or flay me, my Mirror Image Beast race has no cowards!"
"What human? Brother is not human, Brother is a Soul Beast!"
"Hmph! Sly human, still trying to trick me! I'm very smart!"
"Oh, are you a pig? Your little life is in our hands, is there any need to trick you? Anyway, it's just one sentence: sacrifice yourself to my boss, and I guarantee you'll live a life of luxury. Otherwise, your entire family won't get to live!"
The Mirror Image Beast fell silent.
The Mirror Image Beast asked, "Are you really a Soul Beast? Why do you look human?"
"Tsk, you're ignorant, country bumpkin! High-level Ferocious beasts can freely transform between human and original forms! And, I'm a Soul Spirit, understand? Forget it, you wouldn't understand even if I told you. You just need to know that the three of us are all Soul Beasts, and because of our boss, we're still alive and kicking even as Soul Rings!"
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm said in an old-fashioned tone.
The Mirror Image Beast didn't understand, but it knew that the lives of its entire family were in the hands of these powerful individuals.
"If I sacrifice myself, can my family live?"
"Of course, what use are your family members?"
"Alright, I'll sacrifice myself. I hope you keep your word."
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm immediately flew back to Huo Yuhao's side.
The Ice Empress had long grown impatient, shaking her head, her twin ponytails swaying.
"Tianmeng, have you settled it yet? If you ask me, we should just beat this Mirror Image Beast a few times; that'll make it obedient."
After speaking, the Ice Empress glared at the Mirror Image Beast, which was looking up.
The Mirror Image Beast felt an extreme familiarity. Ah, this feeling, this aura, it was unmistakable!
It remembered that when it was just a ten-thousand-year-old child, their pack lived happily in the Frozen Forest, enjoying a life without natural enemies.
Until one day, disaster struck. A small Soul Beast broke into the pack, directly killed its father, a seventy-thousand-year-old Mirror Image Beast, and dragged him away.
In the following days, every few hundred years, this Soul Beast would come to the pack and take away the strongest one, until it found this hidden canyon during a foraging trip. It brought the surviving members of its pack here, allowing the race to continue.
This familiar aura, this bone-deep fear, like a natural enemy, it really was a Soul Beast!
So, Soul Spirits were real too?
"Brother Huo, mission accomplished! This Tianmeng has convinced the Mirror Image Beast!"
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