Chapter 7

In a core district of Donghai City stood a five-story small building covering one hundred square meters; its appearance was unremarkable, but to be built in a place where every inch of land was worth its weight in gold showed that the owner's identity was far from simple.

On the third floor of the small building, Huo Yuhao sat in the spacious interior, looking at the furnishings around him, secretly sighing.

Since Awakening Day ended, two days had already passed.

He had received the highest level of attention from the Donghai Spirit Pagoda; Hua Yichen kept his promise, assigning him this building, delivering various books about soul beasts and spirit souls, and specially installing a laboratory on the second floor, appearing to fully meet his requirements.

Even so, Hua Yichen wanted to send tutors and housekeepers to take care of him, but Huo Yuhao found excuses to turn them away.

With outsiders present, there were too many inconveniences.

"The situation is better than I imagined."

Huo Yuhao picked up a book about spirit souls, flipped through several pages, and looked thoughtful.

Beside Huo Yuhao was a huge bookshelf, filled with books about Soul Masters, soul beasts, and soul power, as well as some manuscripts and notes recording the history of the Spirit Pagoda and some secrets known only to internal personnel.

Through these books, Huo Yuhao gained a more comprehensive understanding of the current Spirit Pagoda, and therefore breathed a sigh of relief.

Compared to the worst-case scenario he had assumed, the current situation was dozens of times better. The Spirit Pagoda had failed to crack I Lao's "Security Program," and still respected the will of soul beasts; only soul beasts that voluntarily became spirit souls would be made into spirit souls.

However, the appearance of hereditary spirit souls surprised Huo Yuhao somewhat, but upon careful thought, he felt it was quite normal.

Those with descendants—who wouldn't hope to pass down their powerful spirit soul to them through the method of contract dissolution? Thousand-year spirits could still resist temptation, but what about ten-thousand-year, hundred-thousand-year, and fierce beast level spirit souls?

You must know that although the Spirit Pagoda had launched the Spirit Ascension Platform, which could raise the age of spirit souls, it was not something ordinary people were qualified to use.

And hereditary spirit souls, as long as the descendants worked hard, would eventually grow to a higher age!

For example, the book Huo Yuhao was reading now had such a case.

A father's martial soul was poor, and his first spirit soul was only ten years old, but as he cultivated, the spirit soul received feedback and eventually grew to a hundred years; then, passed down, the descendants had a higher starting point, and finally their soul power was fifteen levels higher than their father's.

It didn't seem like much, but to a Soul Master of commoner origin, it was their hope of turning their lives around.

And hereditary spirit souls in Soul Master families...

"Heritable, able to fight, long-lived—no matter how you look at it, they resemble the guardian beasts of sects in xuanhuan novels."

Huo Yuhao shook his head with a smile, then turned to learn about the situation at the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters.

The current ruler of the Spirit Pagoda was still the Qian Gu Clan, but it was no longer a situation where one family dominated everything.

After all, Huo Yuhao knew there was a pit ahead—how could he not fill it?

Looking at the photo in the book, Huo Yuhao revealed a trace of a smile.

"This Di Tian is doing quite well for himself."

Looking at the photo of the man in the book along with Huo Yuhao, the Tianmeng Ice Worm felt some resentment.

That was Di Tian wearing a black robe, a photo taken when he was interviewed; one could see his habitual expression on his face, as if he had already grown accustomed to this sort of thing.

That was only natural, after all Di Tian was one of the three Vice Tower Masters of the Spirit Pagoda and a lifetime Councilor of the Spirit Pagoda Council; it would be strange if he weren't used to it after so many years... The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this guy had gotten off easy; back then, he should have let Huo Yuhao ruthlessly slaughter Di Tian.

"What's wrong, Tianmeng Ge, thinking of old grudges again?" Huo Yuhao noticed Tianmeng's little movement and asked.

Tianmeng: "Hmph, that little Di Tian—if it weren't for my momentary carelessness back then, how would he have had the chance to control this Emperor? If we do it all over again, I must suppress him!"

Huo Yuhao: "......"

What are you talking about? Right now in the Spiritual Sea there's only me, I Lao, and you—who are you showing off to...

Oh, and there's also a little Ice Worm.

Since Tianmeng occupied the contract position, that little Ice Worm had temporarily remained in Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sea.

Thinking of the new resident in the Spiritual Sea, Huo Yuhao roughly understood Tianmeng's thoughts, speechlessly closed a book, put it on the bookshelf, then took out another book about Soul Tools, activated Spiritual Detection, and quickly read through it.

Using Spiritual Detection to read could fastest engrave the content into his mind; for books that didn't require deep understanding, this could save a lot of time.

Speaking of Spiritual Detection, one had to mention Huo Yuhao's current soul skills; he and Tianmeng had also signed an improved Spirit Soul Contract, and could likewise choose their own soul skills.

The Spiritual Eyes first soul ring provided by the Tianmeng Ice Worm had a total of four soul skills.

Spiritual Interference Domain, Spiritual Detection, Spiritual Sharing, and... Simulation!

Among them, Huo Yuhao knew that the essence of Spiritual Interference Domain was combining Simulation and Spiritual Interference, two soul skills; it had also been researched ten thousand years ago, and was not affected by re-cultivation.

However, the four soul skills did not include Spiritual Blast; Simulation replaced the position of Spiritual Blast. This was also the reason why his soul ring was yellow back then at the Spirit Pagoda.

If ten thousand years ago Spiritual Blast was his only means of defeating enemies in the early stage and was of great use, then now it was different.

A dignified spiritual-attribute Limit Douluo re-cultivating, not even knowing how to attack others with Spiritual Power, and needing soul ring assistance... what was the point of him living?

Wasn't that even worse than the re-cultivated Tang Shen Wang?

Ten thousand years had passed; although Huo Yuhao felt he wasn't a genius, he wasn't as outrageous as a certain God King—Xuan Tian Art as a human, Xuan Tian Art after becoming a god, and Xuan Tian Art again after reincarnation and re-cultivation...

Huo Yuhao gathered intelligence on this era outside, while Tianmeng hoodwinked the little Ice Worm in the Spiritual Sea.

Because Tianmeng had seized the spirit soul position, the little Ice Worm was actually quite angry, but after seeing the bearing of the Tianmeng Ice Worm, it was shocked.

Such a majestic bearing—could it be... the Ancestor of their Ice Worm Clan?

"Who are you?"

The Tianmeng Ice Worm, surrounded by ten golden rings, looked majestically at the little Ice Worm.

"I am the strongest of the Extreme North, the leader of the Four Heavenly Kings, the only Million Year Soul Beast in the world, the supreme one of the Ice Worm Clan, Tianmeng Great Emperor!"

Feeling Tianmeng's surging spiritual pressure, the little Ice Worm followed instinct and bowed in submission.

"Greetings, Great Emperor!"

But it still felt somewhat strange in its heart.

Weren't there only Three Heavenly Kings in the Extreme North? And one of them had already disappeared for a long time.

As if seeing through its doubt, Tianmeng coldly snorted, "Hmph, there are four Three Heavenly Kings—that's common knowledge. If not for the sake of our same clan, you wouldn't be worthy of me appearing before you."

"Please forgive me, Great Emperor!"

Tianmeng nodded in satisfaction.

"Although this Emperor is noble as a Million Year Soul Beast, alas, the Heavenly Tribulation is above, and I no longer have the strength to continue advancing; I can only cooperate with humans and plot the path to godhood. Your strength is too weak; you have no ability to participate. One day we will send you out of the Spiritual Sea; then, do not resist..."

"Your power is far too weak; you lack the Capability to participate. One day we will be Sending you away from the Spiritual Sea — when that time comes, do not Kang Di."

The Hundred-Year Spirit Soul's intelligence wasn't high; Tianmeng Ice Worm hoodwinked the little Ice Worm in a few words until it lost all bearings, successfully raising his own standing in the Spiritual Sea by one.

Mm, rising from second-to-last to third-to-last...

No choice — although his cultivation is highest, Tianmeng isn't good at fighting; among Huo Yuhao's four Spirit Souls, aside from that Mermaid Princess, not one is weaker than him, and Electrolux is even more not someone he can scam.

But ranking fourth among six tenants isn't bad either... even if it's only temporary.

Tianmeng was in a good mood, and couldn't help feeling a bit elated: "Do you know how Snow Empress has been lately? Back when I was teaching her..."

In the little Ice Worm's eyes, a twin-tailed girl suddenly appeared behind Tianmeng, looking over with a faint gaze, instantly scaring the little Ice Worm out of its wits — it had no attention left to listen to Tianmeng's words.

That aura, the little Ice Worm absolutely wouldn't mistake — it's the Ice Silkworm Clan's natural enemy — the Ice Jade Scorpion!

"One would think that as my Disciple, Snow Empress is still guarding the Extreme North? It's just that she's had it hard."

Tianmeng sighed, raised his head to look at the frozen Ice Worm, and suddenly felt something was off.

Is the air a bit cold? Is the atmosphere too quiet?

"Oh, not seeing each other for a while, Xue Er has become your Disciple — then what am I?"

A faint female voice echoed in Tianmeng's ears, making Tianmeng's movements pause, every hair on his body standing on end.

Yuhao, you set me up!!!

Ice Empress woke up and didn't even give me a heads-up!

Tianmeng Ice Worm stiffly turned his head, looking at the "Future Hatsune Miku" version Ice Empress, and said with an embarrassed grin:

"Ice Ice, let's talk this out... ah! Don't hit my face, in front of juniors, leave me some face!"

This day, the Spiritual Sea echoed with Tianmeng's familiar miserable screams.

Note: Huo Yuhao currently only has four Spirit Souls in this book; the three lost ones should all be guessable, but I'll mention them anyway.

Ten thousand years ago, Huo Yuhao couldn't go to the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, so there's no Octagon Profound Ice Grass.

After Snow Empress obtained a large amount of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, she would naturally give Xiao Bai a portion; with this opportunity, breaking through the Hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation wouldn't be too hard, so he wouldn't become a Spirit Soul.

Aside from these three, Evil Emperor, Mermaid, Ice Empress, Tianmeng Ice Worm are all present.

Moreover, because the protagonist didn't participate in many major events ten thousand years ago and didn't follow the original plot, causing power shifts ten thousand years later to be quite large; if you see characters appearing in positions they shouldn't, please don't hurry — reasons will be written later.

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