In Douluo Continent, his martial soul mutated into Blue Silver Grass.

Chapter 223 A Piece Called Godhood

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm is, after all, a million-year-old soul beast. Apart from its lack of strength, it is still quite good in all aspects.

"You're the big bug, your whole family are big bugs," Tianmeng Ice Silkworm said irritably.

"Ignorant, huh!" Tianmeng Bingcheng's mood improved after uttering a few curses, and she gave a light snort.

"So what exactly are you? A talking bug?" Lin Hai genuinely had no idea what this giant bug in front of him was.

As he himself said, his thinking is still stuck in the Douluo Continent era of ten thousand years ago; in other words, he's confined to that time and hasn't opened up to new possibilities.

He subconsciously believed that things that happened 10,000 years ago would not have happened 10,000 years later.

So although he knew about the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, a million-year-old soul beast, he only knew about it ten thousand years in the future.

"You rude brat!"

"Since you're so curious about my background, then I'll mercifully tell you!"

"Brother? Why does that tone sound so familiar? I vaguely remember it, but I can't quite place it."

Tianmeng Ice Rink ignored Lin Hai's mutterings and floated high in Lin Hai's mind until it felt it had had enough.

He looked down at the forest, which appeared quite imposing thanks to the ten golden halos surrounding it.

"This feeling... is becoming more and more familiar."

"This immense spiritual power easily enters another's sea of ​​consciousness; the hesitant, large insect, the ten golden rings..."

Lin Hai slowly pieced things together in his mind.

Just then, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm looked at Lin Hai, who was somewhat stunned, and said, "Are you captivated by my beautiful body?"

"Hahahaha!" The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm laughed wildly. At this moment, it was not yet the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm that would be tortured beyond recognition ten thousand years later. The title of the first million-year soul beast in the history of the continent brought it a great sense of pride.

"Let me introduce myself first. I am the embodiment of heroism and chivalry, the king of soul beasts who possesses both wisdom and beauty, an unparalleled powerhouse, and the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm who has cultivated for a million years, setting the record for the longest lifespan on the Douluo Continent. Um, you can call me Brother Heavenly Dream!"

After Tianmeng Ice Silkworm introduced itself, Lin Hai thought to himself, "So it's this one! But wasn't this giant insect supposed to have its chance to appear ten thousand years from now? Damn, no wonder I didn't recognize it at first glance, it's appeared ahead of schedule."

Seeing Lin Hai suddenly fall silent, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm assumed he was intimidated by its reputation, so it said smugly, "Aren't you surprised? Aren't you excited? You're the first human to have met me."

"Oh!" Lin Hai responded, giving a calm "oh" on the surface.

"Hey! Me, a million-year-old soul beast! Is this all the reaction you have?" Compared to Lin Hai's indifference, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was not having it and loudly retorted.

"Huh? So what? Big bug!" Now that Lin Hai knew the true identity of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, he wouldn't be like Huo Yuhao from the original timeline ten thousand years later, who was frightened by this big bug.

Lin Hai is a cunning old fox now, not a timid lamb like Huo Yuhao.

"I am indeed a little surprised that you are a million-year-old soul beast, but... what does it have to do with me, a soul king, that you are a million-year-old soul beast?" Lin Hai calmly spread his hands to express his attitude.

"Ah...this...this..." Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was speechless for a moment because of Lin Hai's words.

"I can become your spirit ring! You will obtain the first-ever intelligent spirit ring in the history of Douluo Continent."

"Do you take me for a child?" Lin Hai glanced at Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and said sarcastically without any politeness.

"If you really are a million-year-old soul beast, how can I, a Soul King, bear your soul power? Am I just waiting to be burst apart?"

"Ha, you ignorant brat, your brother has lived for countless years, do you think I have no power?"

"Are you perhaps going to offer yourself as a sacrifice to me?"

"That's not right! How could a mere Soul King like you possibly know about sacrifices?" Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was still out of touch with the times.

Lin Hai gave Tianmeng Ice Silkworm a look, letting it figure it out on its own.

"A soul beast that has finally cultivated to the level of a million years suddenly comes to me and says it wants to become my soul ring. Whether you believe it or not, I don't believe it."

"There's absolutely no way there wouldn't be something fishy going on here."

Tianmeng Bingcan: "." This kid is not easy to fool!

"But if he doesn't tell the truth, he won't go to the place I specified."

"If he doesn't go, how am I supposed to escape his clutches?" Tianmeng Bingcan thought to herself.

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm has now made a thorough observation and determined that Lin Hai is indeed the best choice. Moreover, because of Qian Renxue, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm is even more confident in Lin Hai's ability to become a god.

However, if it wants to truly escape, it still needs Lin Hai's help. If it chooses to escape, as mentioned before, once those ferocious beasts sense that they can no longer absorb life energy, they will immediately wake up.

Therefore, we need to make a good plan.

"Kid, do you want to become a god?" Tianmeng Ice Silkworm said to Lin Hai.

"In the Douluo Continent, gods are not just a legend. I've lived for so many years, and I clearly felt it when someone in the Douluo Continent became a god."

"So, do you want to become a god?"

"With Brother's help, the first million-year soul beast in the history of Douluo Continent, becoming a god will no longer be a dream."

"So, are you tempted?"

"God certainly wants to, but I'm still a little curious."

"Hmm? Go ahead and ask! As long as I know the answer, I can answer any of your questions."

"Are you really a million-year-old soul beast? A giant worm, pfft. Sorry, I couldn't help it."

Upon hearing Lin Hai's questioning, followed by his almost mocking words, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm couldn't help but show a hint of displeasure on her face.

"I'm not a giant worm. I'm the embodiment of heroism and chivalry, a combination of wisdom and beauty. I'm a noble million-year-old soul beast, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm." The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm emphasizes the million-year age.

"Hmph! When I became a million-year soul beast, I had a premonition that I was the first million-year soul beast on the Douluo Continent."

"Even that big black worm down there, and that ugly whale in the sea, are not it."

"Kid, seeing how clueless you look, I'll take pity on you and give you a little lesson!" Although Lin Hai didn't show any cluelessness.

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was simply trying to save face in front of Lin Hai.

"Breaking through to 100,000 years is not the end for a soul beast. If it wants to continue to cultivate further, it needs to overcome the Heavenly Tribulation."

"The giant green caterpillar and the stupid monkey in the core area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest have both reached the age of 100,000, but have not yet survived the Heavenly Tribulation."

"Once a 100,000-year-old soul beast survives the Heavenly Tribulation, its strength will increase greatly, and the soul rings produced by such a 100,000-year-old soul beast will have a special golden pattern."

"And this kind of 100,000-year-old soul beast is the real 100,000-year-old soul beast. A long time ago, some people called this kind of soul beast a ferocious beast."

"Once upon a time, there were many ferocious beasts on this continent. At that time, I was also very weak, only about 100,000 years old."

As for how it grew, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm wasn't going to talk about it. Those weren't exactly good stories, more like embarrassing tales! A soul beast growing into a million-year soul beast by eating—it doesn't sound good no matter how you talk about it, right?

"But at that time, a god appeared, a true god, and I clearly felt the terrifying power of the god while I was asleep."

"When I woke up, I could no longer sense the aura of those ferocious beasts outside. You should know that you can vaguely sense the presence of high-level soul beasts."

Listening to Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's explanation, Lin Hai secretly wondered, "There are many ferocious beasts, and then I can't sense them anymore. Could it be the first generation of Angel God, the great Angel Martial Soul Master who transformed humanity's status from food for soul beasts to masters of the continent?"

"That should be right. When the first Angel God became a god, there were too many ferocious beasts. He had just become a god and his power had increased, but he did not have the strength to completely overwhelm everything. So, while he still had time to stay in the Douluo Realm, he sealed away those evil ferocious beasts."

Once a human becomes a god, creating or inheriting a divine position, they can only stay on their planet for ten years. If they exceed this period, they will be forcibly ascended to the divine realm. This is to ensure that these gods cannot arbitrarily interfere with the order of the lower realms.

In fact, according to the rules, gods cannot interfere in the mortal realm, which is indeed a rule of the divine realm. However, in the original timeline, gods interfered in mortal affairs more than once. Otherwise, how could someone like Tang San turn defeat into victory? It was only because the Asura God and the Sea God knowingly broke the law.

"However, I don't know when it was, but those familiar ferocious beast auras woke me up from my slumber for the second time."

"It's strange, they appeared suddenly and disappeared just as suddenly. Within a hundred years after their aura vanished, two more gods appeared one after another." Tianmeng Ice Silkworm said, even it was a little confused. It was truly worthy of being a million-year-old intelligent spirit-type soul beast! It remembered all these things so clearly.

Lin Hai rested his chin on his right hand in a V-shape: Could this be the place where that Third Young Master wrote about the Second Generation Angel God?

Before becoming the second-generation Angel God, his original name was Qian Yuhan. He and Poseidon, whose martial soul was a trident, were the two level 99 peerless Douluo of Qi Ming at that time.

In that era, although humans had become the main players on the continent, evil spirits and soul beasts still wreaked havoc in the human world, plunging the common people into suffering. Poseidon and Qian Yuhan traveled across the continent together, punishing evil and saving humanity.

Qian Yuhan lamented the insignificance of the power of Soul Masters and resolved to pursue greater power, but her ideals clashed with Poseidon's, and the two eventually parted ways.

Qian Yuhan pulled out the divine artifact and gained new power, but also released the high-level ferocious beasts sealed by the first generation of angel gods.

In the end, Qian Yuhan killed all the ferocious beasts that had been released and were wreaking havoc in the human world, established the Spirit Hall, and inherited the position of the Angel God.

On the other side, Poseidon also quelled the war between the soul beasts in the ocean, gathered the power of all living beings on the other side of the ocean, and created his own position as the god of the sea.

"Now that you mention it, it seems that gods do indeed exist." Lin Hai's Oscar-worthy acting was on point. Of course gods exist, but Lin Hai was just fooling Tianmeng Ice Silkworm!

In Lin Hai's view, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm was indeed very helpful to him. He was a martial soul, and he had previously analyzed that after becoming a god, in the short term, a newly-become god's battles would still depend on his own physique and soul ring configuration.

Even with the best spirit rings, he would still be significantly fewer than Bibi Dong in terms of quantity. Without Tang San, he couldn't guarantee he could defeat Bibi Dong after becoming a god.

As the saying goes, if you don't have enough quantity, you can make up for it with quality. Now, a top-tier spirit ring has been delivered right to his doorstep, so how could Lin Hai refuse it?

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm's million-year cultivation is best suited for Lin Hai at the seventh ring level, because the four soul skills produced by the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm—spiritual detection, spiritual sharing, spiritual interference, and soul impact—are effective against Lin Hai, but not very effective.

First, regarding mental detection, let's not even talk about Lin Hai's own mental power. Just the Blue Silver Domain that comes with Lin Hai's martial soul, the Blue Silver Emperor, already satisfies the detection effect. Not to mention that Lin Hai's supernatural mental power also has a certain detection effect after it has been advanced.

Although mental detection has a 3D effect, making it easy to find the opponent's weaknesses during combat, it is still far superior to the powerful amplification effect brought by the million-year soul ring to the seventh soul skill, Martial Soul True Body.

The advantage of discovering weaknesses is no longer as significant as it once was.

Secondly, there's the Spirit Sharing skill, which allows you to share your own spiritual detection abilities. This skill is great in team battles because it helps the team share the enemy's weaknesses. However, Lin Hai is already a Soul Master who is close to becoming a Soul Emperor.

At this point, it depends more on one's own strength, although teamwork is still very effective.

The third soul skill, Mental Interference, conflicts with Lin Hai's existing soul skills, namely the Sea Soul Demon Dragon Beast head soul bone skill - Evil Eye Annihilation Strike.

The Evil Eye Annihilation Strike has two forms: a soul attack that transforms into a ethereal beam of light, which corresponds to the mental interference of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm. The two soul skills have essentially the same effect and are quite similar.

Another form of the Evil Eye Annihilation Strike is a beam attack that combines pure mental power with some mental weakening.

While it may not be quite as powerful as the fourth soul skill, Soul Impact, that the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm can provide, the million-year soul ring still offers a more significant boost to the seventh soul skill, Martial Soul True Body.

Martial Soul True Form: When a Soul Master's cultivation breaks through level 70, regardless of what kind of Soul Ring they acquire, their Martial Soul will undergo a qualitative change, truly becoming one with their body, thus enabling them to unleash the Martial Soul True Form.

Once the Martial Soul True Form is activated, the user completely transforms into the form of the Martial Soul, resulting in a surge in strength. The power of any existing Soul Skills used afterward will nearly double. The age of the Soul Rings also affects the effect.

(End of this chapter)