Huo Yuhao looked at Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and Ilex in his sea of consciousness.
"Brother Tianmeng and Elder Ilex, the Snow Empress's sacrifice will definitely cause celestial phenomena."
"There are Title Douluos in Dragon City, and there's also a Title Douluo-level Evil Soul Master at the ferry crossing west of Dragon City."
"If they see the phenomena, they'll definitely come to investigate. To avoid unnecessary trouble, we'll rely on your help to shield it."
Ilex, transformed into a small gray sphere, trembled with the surrounding gray air currents, his aged laughter echoing in the sea of consciousness.
"Little Yuhao, what's so difficult about that?"
"Although I haven't fully recovered, sealing off a place with my mental power is still a piece of cake."
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, hands on hips, sat on the back of the golden tortoiseshell and said,
"No problem!"
"How could I possibly fail in something like this? I'm very reliable!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Ilex's Divine Origin Realm mental power and Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's high-level Spirit Domain Realm mental power began to take over Huo Yuhao's mental shield.
Because they were dependent on Huo Yuhao, although their spiritual power levels were their own, the spiritual power they used came from Huo Yuhao's spiritual source.
These two masters of spiritual power, standing at the pinnacle of this world, jointly set up a spiritual shield around the house,
ensuring that not a single trace of the Snow Empress's sacrifice would leak out!
After completing all preparations, Huo Yuhao took a deep breath. According to the original story's Snow Empress sacrifice process, this time it would be very painful.
His black trench coat moved without wind, tracing a beautiful trajectory in the air, like a black meteor piercing the sky.
He stood before the Conferred God Platform, his supreme spiritual power transformed into immense physical strength through a reversal technique.
The Conferred God Platform was known for its outward softness and inner strength, drawing energy from the sealed being to maintain the seal.
It was an example of using magic to defeat magic, making it extremely difficult for the sealed being to break through from within!
However, the materials that made up the Conferred God Platform were by no means particularly hard. In the original story, Huo Yuhao used the Snow Empress's Claw to smash the Conferred God Platform into the fist of a Body Sect Soul Douluo, directly breaking the seal.
The Soul Douluo of the Body Sect didn't even use any Soul Skills; only Huo Yuhao exerted his power throughout.
With a low hiss as the air was compressed by the terrifying force of Huo Yuhao's hand chop, the Conferred God Platform began to crumble inch by inch from its white tray.
Hundreds of gems of various colors, due to the destruction of the core magic array, experienced an energy imbalance and gradually turned into fine dust, disappearing into the air.
The pale golden light shield binding the Snow Empress lost its luster, torn open by the white airflow. From these cracks, the primordial aura of the 690,000-year-old Ice and Snow Maiden, the third of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, filled the entire space without any concealment.
As one of the strongest Soul Beasts on the continent, how powerful was her primordial aura!
Even a mere trace of this aura caused the surrounding space to tremble violently, emitting a sharp, teeth-grinding wail like glass on the verge of shattering.
If it weren't for the mental blockade imposed by Electrolux and the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm,
this aura would have attracted countless bloodthirsty spectators.
Once the protective barrier completely shattered, white energy surged into the air, transforming into white icy mist above Huo Yuhao. The extreme low temperature caused the entire silver-white room to be covered in frost.
The low temperature increased the air density, and Huo Yuhao's breathing became rapid, as if someone were choking him.
Within the white icy mist, a little girl of about three years old, with long white hair and a chubby body, appeared.
It was the Snow Empress, halfway through her transformation, her sky-blue eyes gazing down at Huo Yuhao.
With a cold, aloof voice completely at odds with his appearance, he said,
"Get ready, I'm about to begin the sacrifice!"
"Following the optimal fusion plan sent to me by the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm."
"Bone first, then soul, then ring!"
"I will use my essence to condense a spine and fuse it with you!"
"The process will be a bit painful, because all my essence will enter your body through the soul bone during this process!"
"Then my soul will fuse with the ice-attribute martial soul that Heavenly Dream bestowed upon you, giving it form and bloodline!"
"Finally, the easiest part is the soul ring."
Huo Yuhao grinned, sitting cross-legged on the ground, his black trench coat scattering across the ground like blooming black flowers.
"Come on, Snow Empress! Let me see your limits!"
Snow Empress nodded with her chubby little face. As the ruler of the far north, she was always decisive and efficient; once she made a decision, she would execute it resolutely!
The sacrifice began! Unlike the blood-red light of the Golden Tortoiseshell's sacrifice, Snow Empress emanated a white icy glow!
Bone first, then soul—the most efficient method, but also the most dangerous.
This danger was immense for Xue Di. If the first step failed, she would have no way out, and everything she possessed would vanish into this world.
With Xue Di's relentless dedication, a sky-blue vertebra appeared before Huo Yuhao.
This vertebra contained a sternum and ribs; the sternum was extremely unique, resembling a small, ice-blue sword, seemingly corresponding to Xue Di's three ultimate techniques.
The soul bone only hovered in the air for a short time before radiating light and merging into Huo Yuhao's chest like liquid.
This was completely different from the feeling when fusing with the golden tortoiseshell skull! Huo Yuhao clearly felt his vertebrae, sternum, and ribs being removed and replaced one by one.
The extreme pain tried to transmit to his brain through his nervous system, but fortunately, mental power was a panacea, directly blocking the pain signals.
Therefore, Huo Yuhao could now feel his bones being replaced, but he felt no pain.
The fusion of the soul bone took a long time, probably about two hours.
Next was the fusion of Xue Di's essence, a fusion where Huo Yuhao couldn't cheat with his mental power.
Six milky-white Snow Emperor primordial essences pierced Huo Yuhao's chest like sharp swords, merging into his soul bones.
The pain of primordial essence fusion directly affected his soul, not his body; the immense energy nearly burst Huo Yuhao's internal organs!
If these primordial essences had entered his spiritual sea, his spiritual eye would have intervened, subduing them.
Unfortunately, these essences were impacting Huo Yuhao's internal organs!
"Damn it, a mere 690,000-year-old essence! Power, I command you to emerge from my body!"
Huo Yuhao gritted his teeth, his spiritual eye automatically opening, the intricate diamond-shaped pattern in his left eye beginning to spin rapidly!
"The Land of Roots!"
This was the first time Huo Yuhao had used this eye technique belonging to his left eye, a technique capable of eliminating all negative effects! It
was essentially a beneficiary version of Izanagi.
Huo Yuhao felt his eye power suddenly diminish significantly! His current eye power was only enough to unleash the Land of Roots three times in a short period!
However, the effect was extremely powerful. Huo Yuhao's depleted soul power and mental energy were instantly restored to their peak!
The frost that had condensed from his primordial energy in his internal organs vanished without a trace, like ink marks erased by an eraser.
Even his soul, which had been distorted by the impact of his primordial energy, returned to normal!
The negative effects described in the Root Country's eye technique were not wordplay; they were simply and directly all concepts related to "negative."
Just like Izanagi, it was an eye technique that could negate reality, except that Izanagi could affect the outside world, while the Root Country could only affect Huo Yuhao himself.
Izanagi had a higher priority in modifying reality than the Root Country, and its side effects were also stronger.
In any case, it was at least stronger than Amaterasu.
Xue Di was initially quite worried about Huo Yuhao's condition, after all, the 690,000-year-old primordial energy was too powerful, and she had been prepared to sacrifice a part of it.
Unexpectedly, Huo Yuhao suddenly regenerated with full strength; this guy's cheat code had never been turned off!
"Huo Yuhao, how many times can you use this peculiar soul skill?"
Hearing Xue Di's question, Huo Yuhao, with his left eye half-closed, replied,
"Two more times!"
"No, the limit is three times!"
Xue Di estimated the progress of the fusion of the origins and said in a cold voice to Huo Yuhao's ears,
"Use it one more time, and my origins will be fully fused!"
"Understood!"
Huo Yuhao concentrated intently on receiving the fusion of Xue Di's origins until his body was once again on the verge of its limit, and the Root Kingdom was triggered again!
This time, blood tears flowed from his left eye, and his vision deteriorated severely, to the point that he could not distinguish between humans and animals beyond ten meters.
Fortunately, Xue Di's estimation was correct. This time, the origins were all incorporated into the soul bone and then stabilized!
Xue Di's soul connected with the second martial soul through the origins and occupied the empty martial soul slot.
The second martial soul—Xue Di—was officially born!
"Very good!"
Because of the soul fusion, Xue Di's consciousness also came to Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea.
She looked at Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea, which resembled a starry sky, with amazement.
"As expected of the future Spirit Master, even his Sea of Spirit is so unique!"
"Yuhao, next is the Soul Ring, this is the easiest part."
"The original energy is all in the Soul Bone, and the Soul Ring doesn't have any extra will, so the absorption difficulty is about the same as a normal thousand-year Soul Ring."
The final Soul Ring fusion process began, and a blood-red, 100,000-year Soul Ring covered with six golden patterns was placed on Huo Yuhao's head.
The Snow Empress Martial Soul automatically possessed him, and Huo Yuhao's body was filled with white mist. His original black trench coat turned into a white robe, with several golden patterns on the back.
His hair turned white, and his eyes looked a bit like the Tenseigan from Naruto.
Of course, it was just a resemblance, without any special effects.
Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul wasn't the Ice and Snow Maiden like Su Tong's, but the Snow Empress!
So it wouldn't change gender after possession.
It was considered an upgrade of her Martial Soul, like the difference between the Blue Silver King and the Blue Silver Emperor.
After completing all the processes, his Soul Power level had reached level thirty-nine.
Ironically, since transmigrating to this point, Huo Yuhao hadn't actually cultivated diligently.
His soul power level was either boosted by taking drugs or pushed up by the sacrifices of Tianmeng and the others.
Moreover, his level wasn't unstable at all; his foundation was as solid as vibranium.
Even if it were unstable, it wouldn't matter; there were plenty of immortal herbs in the Thunderous Hell Vine Canyon. Eating just one would solve everything!
If I don't use cheats, I cultivate; if I do, and I still cultivate, wouldn't that cheat be pointless?!
Wouldn't Huo Yuhao's parents' sacrifices have been in vain? Oh, Dai Hao still has to wait a while.
The Snow Empress Martial Soul was dispelled, and the Spirit Eye Martial Soul re-attached.
Actually, Huo Yuhao knew how to use two Martial Souls simultaneously.
The original work mentioned that you divide your mental power into two parts, one part controlling the first Martial Soul and the other controlling the second.
For Huo Yuhao's high-precision mental power control, this was a piece of cake.
"I'll try using twin Martial Souls simultaneously later; then I can create real twin Martial Souls for my fantasy characters."
"Divine Might!"
Huo Yuhao used the last bit of his pupil power to activate Divine Might, directly teleporting back to the courtyard.
On the warm jade-paved ground, Huo Yuhao felt like he'd forgotten something.
"Hiss?"
"Wait, where's my disciple?!"
Huo Yuhao finally remembered that he seemed to have left one disciple outside!
He slapped his forehead, left the courtyard, and walked to find his cheap disciple.
As for Divine Might? He couldn't use it now; his pupil power was exhausted, and he now saw things using his mental power.
...
In a street alley in Dragon City.
Su Tong stood quietly by the roadside, snowflakes falling from the sky draping a white wool coat over her.
Her icy blue eyes seemed somewhat lifeless.
A bit late, and I was typing on the high-speed train, so don't ask what happened.
(End of Chapter)
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