Time passed. The date of the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition quickly approached. Huo Yuhao's spirit power naturally advanced to Level 40.
At the same time, Huo Yuhao took the opportunity to awaken another Spirit Soul.
It's time to get to work, Evil Emperor!
In the Sea of Spirit, a tall, slender figure appeared, wearing a dark-patterned robe that moved despite the lack of wind. A red mask with a single blood-red vertical eye occupying nearly half of his face was set on his pale face.
The moment he appeared, the little ice silkworm in the corner was startled. Its spiritual form trembled uncontrollably. Even though the other had not released any tangible pressure, the little ice silkworm instinctively wanted to kneel; that was the trembling engraved in the soul of one at the bottom of the food chain when facing an apex predator.
The little ice silkworm instinctively hid behind the Great Skydream Emperor. "Great Emperor who is this big shot? They can take human form they must be a Savage Beast too, right?"
Skydream Iceworm didn't answer. He straightened up slightly and said with a deliberately light laugh: "Oh, isn't this Old Evil? Awake?"
He wasn't afraid of the Evil Emperor. It was just that he felt that with this one awake, his status in the little one's eyes would drop again...
The Evil Emperor's pupils slowly turned. His gaze lingered on Skydream for a moment, then he gave a light snort. His low, majestic, cold voice echoed through the Sea of Spirit. "A few years have passed, and you also call yourself Emperor?"
The Great Skydream Emperor was displeased. "What — only you can be Emperor? Not me? You're only 800,000 years old. I'm a million-year spirit beast!"
Why couldn't he be Emperor? Look at the Sea of Spirit now Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Evil Emperor. If he didn't call himself Emperor, he wouldn't fit in!
He also wanted to be forbidden territory, one of the Emperors of the Sea of Spirit!
Evil Emperor: "A million years? You're just a..."
"Evil Emperor — long time no see."
Huo Yuhao's voice sounded just in time, interrupting their dispute.
The Evil Emperor's gaze shifted from Skydream to the outside world, to Huo Yuhao. He was silent for a moment, but eventually replied: "In my view, this was merely a brief slumber hardly 'long.' But from your human perspective, it indeed has been a long time."
Ten thousand years had passed. The initial grudges were now meaningless. He and Huo Yuhao now shared glory and loss — their fates had long been tightly intertwined.
If he became a god, he would enjoy eternal life as well. Naturally, he would follow Huo Yuhao's lead.
Thinking this, the Evil Emperor observed the Sea of Spirit before him. He frowned.
After a few years of slumber — had the things here increased again?
In the Eye of Life, besides life force, there was now an additional star power.
There were also two more Spirit Souls one weak ice silkworm, and... Snow Empress?
The Evil Emperor's expression shifted slightly. He narrowed his eyes at Snow Empress's divine consciousness. "Your spiritual power has broken through to the Divine Origin realm?"
"Long time no see, Evil Emperor." Snow Empress faintly. "Ten thousand years have passed. One should make some progress."
Evil Emperor: "..."
In the old days, his cultivation had been second among the Ten Great Savage Beasts he could fight Emperor Tian. Now, however, Snow Empress had surpassed him in every way. Her spiritual power had even broken through to the Divine Origin realm naturally, other aspects would not have fallen behind.
And according to Huo Yuhao's arrangements, Snow Empress should have taken that step... That was a realm realm he had once sought!
Taking a deep breath, the Evil Emperor suppressed his various thoughts. He looked at Electrolux, a faint, almost imperceptible ripple appearing on his face. Eventually, he merely gave Electrolux a slight nod. "Elder Electrolux."
Facing this one, he truly couldn't be arrogant.
Ten thousand years ago, it was because of him that he had given up all resistance and willingly became Huo Yuhao's Spirit Soul.
Otherwise... at least he would have put up a little fight, even if it probably would have been futile.
Seeing Electrolux nod, the Evil Emperor suddenly looked up at Huo Yuhao in the outside world. His voice returned to its previous coldness.
"Spare the pointless pleasantries. Just say what you need me to do — the spirit ring, or the spirit bone?"
As he spoke, two spirit bones appeared beside him. The few in the Sea of Spirit all condensed their gazes, focusing on that head spirit bone.
That spirit bone was like a dark golden crown — a half-hollow, half-hollow crown, with a dark blue vertical eye embedded in the center, resembling the Evil Emperor's eye.
Among Huo Yuhao's spirit bones, this one had the highest quality!
Generally speaking, except for External Spirit Bones, spirit bones could not evolve. But occasionally, there were exceptions.
Tang San's head spirit bone had evolved because of the Sea God's heart.
The Auspicious Beast's spirit bone, possessing the power of fate, could evolve due to that power.
Bai Xiuxiu's ten-thousand-year Hell Demon Dragon torso bone, which had strong activity, could also evolve.
And Huo Yuhao's head spirit bone, produced by the Evil Emperor, could also evolve!
Because this spirit bone was, strictly speaking, similar to the spirit bone Ice Empress had given him — it was the type that was an External Spirit Bone combined with a head spirit bone. The vertical eye pattern embedded in the spirit bone was the eye External Spirit Bone — the Evil Eye.
After ten thousand years of Huo Yuhao's nourishment, this spirit bone had now reached a limit of 990,000 years — only one final,ultimate leap away from becoming a million-year spirit bone!
And the birth of such a spirit bone had to do with the Evil Emperor himself.
Ten thousand years ago, after entering the Sea of Spirit and seeing Elder Electrolux and the Snow Empress Token left by Snow Empress, he had known he had no chance. So he had very compliantly signed the Spirit Soul contract and had used his spiritual foundation to form this special special spirit bone.
The Evil Emperor's character was like this he focused more on his own benefit. Since possession could no longer be achieved, he would settle for helping Huo Yuhao become a god and earn the greatest benefit.
Huo Yuhao glanced at the two spirit bones in the Sea of Spirit and shook his head. "Until the blood and energy soul core forms, I won't absorb the spirit bones. Just help me condense the spirit ring."
He now needed a period of precipitation to compress his spirit power and his blood and energy soul core. Absorbing a spirit bone to quickly lift his spirit power would only interfere with this process. He would wait until the soul core condensed before proceeding.
"Good." The Evil Emperor nodded. "What spirit ability do you want?"
The head spirit bone he had provided to Huo Yuhao contained two of his strongest spirit abilities — Destruction Light and Spacetime Light.
Those two would certainly be excluded.
"A spacetime-type spirit ability."
Huo Yuhao thought for a moment, then smiled. "You've gained quite a lot of insights over these ten thousand years, haven't you?"
Joking aside having spent ten thousand years together, his relationship with the Evil Emperor was not so bad that he would use him as a shield.
"You don't have a worse grasp of spatial power than I do. Once your spiritual power restores to the Spirit Domain realm, an additional added spirit ability will be meaningless. As for time, while communicating with you has indeed brought me some gains, some of those insights overlap with your Great Dream of Ten Thousand Ages..."
At this point, the Evil Emperor frowned. "Enough. I will blend into the time laws I have comprehended into your fourth spirit ring, to help you better comprehend the power of the laws. What specific spirit ability is born — that's up to you. Anyway, for you, these spirit abilities are just a transition."
Huo Yuhao nodded. "Alright. I've had some gains recently. I'll share some insights with you."
With that, a spiritual imprint in the Sea of Spirit landed on the Evil Emperor. Huo Yuhao shared his recent insights into White Clouds for a Thousand Years and Unsettled Storm.
Not only the Evil Emperor — Snow Empress and Electrolux's divine consciousness also received these insights.
As for Ice Empress and Skydream... Huo Yuhao gave them to them equally.
Whether useful or not was another matter — at least no harm done. Consider it a gesture.
"The Sea God's divine skills?"
The Evil Emperor was somewhat surprised and taken aback. Then he smiled with interest. "Not bad. Thoroughly comprehending them would also be an improvement for me."
In his view, Huo Yuhao was like the Auspicious Beast among humans. It wasn't very surprising that he had obtained such an opportunity.
But he didn't immediately feel them. Instead, he first attached the spirit ring for Huo Yuhao.
Helping Huo Yuhao become a god — he was serious about that.
Outside, above Huo Yuhao's three spirit rings, a fourth orange-gold spirit ring gradually appeared.
Sensing the spirit ability within, Huo Yuhao raised an eyebrow.
Better than he had anticipated.
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