Chapter 74: Huo Yutong's Rebirth and Transformation

As for Huo Yutong, the sense of unreality she feels now is not much lower than Tang Wulin's.

Twenty days ago, Ilex reached a cooperation with the Snow Emperor in the far north, and to raise the success rate of the God‑making Project they decided to directly alter Tianmeng's original plan, letting the Snow Emperor serve as Huo Yutong's martial soul.

It was a painful and lengthy fusion process; under Ilex's guidance, the Snow Emperor not only gave Huo Yutong a blood‑red soul ring, but also gave her a skull.

And before she could catch her breath, the Ice Emperor also merged in as a soul spirit.

That excruciating feeling remains fresh in memory; Huo Yutong, even thinking about it, feels her whole body go limp and never wants to experience it a second time.

The intense pain and fatigue even caused her to faint to death after the fusion ended; she slept for a full three days before waking up.

Fortunately, after gaining the Ice Snow Girl martial soul she already had a strong resistance to cold, which prevented her from freezing to death on the far‑north ice plain.

And after completing the fusion with the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, her Ice Snow Girl martial soul already possessed three blood‑red soul rings.

Indeed, three, not two, as Tang Wulin told her: a single soul spirit can provide multiple soul rings; after she reached level thirty, the Ice Emperor automatically gave her the third soul ring for the Ice Snow Girl martial soul.

Even though the two great ice‑and‑snow overlords, the Ice Emperor and the Snow Emperor, sealed their powers layer by layer, the energy they brought was still enormous, causing Huo Yutong's level to jump straight to thirty, entering the Soul Elder tier.

According to her perception, her first soul skill was bestowed by the Snow Emperor, consisting of the Imperial Sword and Imperial Palm; the second soul skill was granted by the Ice Emperor, comprising the Ice Emperor's Ao and Ice Emperor's Guard; the third soul skill, jointly provided by both, is named Pride of the Two Ice‑Snow Emperors. She can currently only employ the first two soul skills, while the third is not yet usable.

These soul skills gave her tremendous attack power, greatly compensating for her lack of front‑line combat ability; with these soul skills and the help of the Snow Emperor and Tianmeng, she successfully hunted a soul beast and obtained the second and third soul skills of the Spirit Eye.

At the same time, besides the skull brought by the Snow Emperor, the Ice Emperor also gave her a torso bone and an external scorpion‑tail soul bone.

Without exaggeration, after this month Huo Yutong has grown to a degree that can be called a complete transformation compared to a month ago.

If she now stood before ordinary peers without any concealment, the sheer pressure from the three ferocious‑beast‑level soul rings would scare them into wetting themselves and completely strip them of combat ability.

She finally caught up with Tang Wulin's pace.

However, the price was the huge amount of time she spent; when she left the far north, she learned she was about to be late, and despite hurrying, she still missed the start date of school.

Now she must not only face the expulsion risk from breaking school rules, but also find a way to explain the changes in her body to Mu En and Tang Wulin.

"Hmm… shortly after leaving the Academy, I felt a call from the north, then traveled all the way to the far north, slept, and after waking up I acquired a Second Martial Soul…"

Repeating Huo Yutong's words softly, Mu En's complexion was unusually odd.

He had long known that Huo Yutong concealed ice‑attribute power, but he hadn't expected that this power actually originated from the Ice Snow Girl.

According to his knowledge, there is only one soul beast in the world that can be called Ice Snow Girl, namely the Snow Emperor, the chief of the three great northern kings; while humans could theoretically possess the Ice Snow Girl martial soul, the probability is astronomically low, essentially approaching zero.

Recalling that a few months earlier he had gone to the far north and spoken with the Snow Emperor, Mu En's expression grew increasingly puzzled.

What on earth is happening? Should he go back to the far‑north ice plain to talk with the Snow Emperor after a while? If Mu En's expression was merely odd, Tang Wulin's could only be described as dumbfounded.

He didn't know Huo Yutong already had ice‑attribute power, so unlike Mu En, he had no mental preparation at all.

A single sleep to obtain a third martial soul? Since when are martial souls so easy to get? Although Tang Wulin also acquired three powers later in life, the Golden Dragon King's power comes from the eighteen seals, the Natural Son's power originates from the Golden Ancient Tree—at least each has a clear source. In contrast, the Necromancer and Ice Snow Girl that Huo Yutong currently possesses are just a baffling, completely inexplicable acquisition.

Honestly, it leaves one at a loss for words.

Mu En looked at the three purple soul rings floating around Huo Yutong, massaged his forehead in a headache, and asked:

"What are the names of your three soul skills?"

Huo Yutong answered with a well‑behaved expression:

"The first soul skill is called Imperial Sword, Ice‑Extreme Unparalleled; the second soul skill is called Imperial Palm, Great Cold No Snow; the third soul skill is called Ice Emperor's Ao."

She was obviously lying; the Imperial Sword and Imperial Palm are both the Snow Emperor's first soul skill, while Ice Emperor's Ao is the Ice Emperor's second soul skill, which is completely different from what she said.

But she had no choice; she couldn't tell Mu En that her Soul Elder's three soul rings are all ten‑thousand‑year grades and that she also has three ferocious‑beast‑level soul bones, could she?

Mu En said thoughtfully:

"Hmm, the first two are the Snow Emperor's signature techniques, the third is the Ice Jade Scorpion's racial talent… Did you encounter the Ice Jade Scorpion?"

"Yes, although the process was extremely difficult, I ultimately barely defeated it, and after absorbing its soul ring I obtained an external soul bone."

As she spoke, a slender scorpion tail emerged from behind Huo Yutong, reflecting a turquoise light, looking very beautiful.

"..."

Even the well‑versed Mu En was at a loss; the Second Martial Soul was one thing, but she also picked up an external soul bone? Soul bones are not as easy to obtain as soul rings—currently, soul bones on the market can fetch sky‑high prices, and external soul bones that evolve with their owner's growth are even more priceless and virtually never seen.

Moreover, external soul bones come in grades; for example, the external soul bone of the Dark‑Gold Terror Claw Bear is far more elite than those of other soul beasts, and the Ice Jade Scorpion, as the ultimate ice‑attribute holder, produces external soul bones of such quality that it's needless to say they rank among the top‑tier of external soul bones.

This vacation was practically a rebirth; if before the break the most striking thing about Huo Yutong was her fusion of martial souls with Tang Wulin, after this vacation she has leapt to become a top‑tier prodigy not far behind Tang Wulin.

If she now tells the Senior Elders of the Sea God Pavilion that she wants to live there, they certainly wouldn't waste a word.

Off‑topic: In the original, Huo was just at level twenty before the break, having absorbed the Ice Emperor's twenty‑six; Huo Yutong was at twenty‑five or twenty‑six before the break, and after absorbing the two ice‑snow Emperors she reached thirty, which I think is reasonable; the time to return to the Academy was also delayed because she absorbed two at once.

As for why the Ice Emperor directly dropped two soul bones, I can only say the scorpion tail really hit my XP; I advise you not to meddle (not serious).

(End of Chapter)