Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 512 Snow Empress: You're not interested in me? (Daily 10,000 words)

Huo Yuhao pursed his lips in disappointment. Tsk, he thought his mental strength was really that strong, enough to subdue even a 100,000-year-old soul beast.

However, judging from the other party's excited and somewhat irrational tone, it seemed that the other party knew Hyotei.

Frowning, he withdrew his mental probe. The opponent's mental energy fluctuations kept forcibly intruding into his detection range, affecting his normal exploration work.

"Hyotei, this unlucky thing in the embryo seems to know you. Talk to her and tell her to behave so she doesn't interfere with my work. Also, help me ask if there are any soul bones of 100,000 years or more in her nest. Three or five soul bones? Five 100,000-year soul bones in exchange for a life isn't too much to ask, is it?"

"No."

Ice Empress's somewhat languid voice rang out from Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea. More than half a month ago, she and the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had activated the primal power within the seal, and she was still very weak and needed to recover through slumber.

However, since Huo Yuhao said that the embryo inside the Conferred God Platform recognized him, he couldn't very well not go and meet it.

Within the sea of ​​consciousness, the emerald green scorpion tail, transformed from the Ice Emperor's essence, flicked back and forth, slowly attempting to temporarily detach itself from Huo Yuhao's sea of ​​consciousness and condense its form in the outside world. Soon, a small scorpion, beautiful as if carved from gemstones, appeared beside Huo Yuhao.

Tianmeng Bingcan was also out for some fresh air. He mainly came out to admire Bingdi's beautiful body, so much so that as soon as he came out and saw Bingdi's graceful tail hook, his eyes were already filled with infatuation.

Huo Yuhao didn't waste any time. He didn't have time to argue with this 100,000-year-old soul beast embryo. His time was so precious that he didn't even have time to go back to Shrek Academy. How could he waste time on this other party?

Learning as much knowledge as possible while making the most of every minute is of utmost importance.

By connecting Ice Emperor and Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm to the shared mental detection system, Huo Yuhao's mental detection once again entered the Investiture Platform.

However, in the next moment, Hyotei lost her composure and let out a sharp explosion in the mental communication channel.

"Yuki-onna, Yuki-onna, what are you doing here?!"

"Bing'er? You, how did you get here? How did you get in?"

Another sharp explosion rang out, causing Huo Yuhao to fall silent.

It seems his research progress will have to be put on hold again. But thankfully, the other party knows Hyotei and must be very wealthy. It shouldn't be difficult for them to redeem him with a few 100,000-year-old soul bones.

Wait, what did Hyotei call the other party just now?

Huo Yuhao belatedly realized something was wrong. The only being who could be called Snow Maiden by the Ice Emperor and call her Bing'er seemed to be the Ice Emperor, the leader of the three great kings of the far north, a 690,000-year-old being, and the third-ranked of the ten great beasts!

"Don't speak yet, let me ask," Hyotei asked anxiously, "Yuki-onna, what exactly happened? Why were you captured by humans, and why are you in the human's consecration platform?"

The reunion with an old friend, only to be met in such a disheveled state, left Hyotei with a mix of emotions.

"This...is this really the Snow Empress?"

Huo Yuhao's lips twitched. When the Mother of All Spirits was distributing things to people, did she not consider at all whether his heart could handle it?

Tianmeng Bingcan nodded in shock. Clearly, he hadn't expected that the "old friend" Huo Yuhao mentioned who might know the Ice Emperor would actually be the Ice Snow Maiden, the leader of the three Heavenly Kings of the far north.

With Huo Yuhao's luck in this situation, his once-proud record of eating a piece of ten-thousand-year-old Xuanbing marrow in three bites and a dozen pieces at once is nothing to mention.

Xue Di sighed and gave a wry smile: "Aren't we in the same boat? If I remember correctly, you should also be facing another bottleneck in the next few years."

"Before I chose to reincarnate as a human, I specifically went to find you, hoping to lend you a hand. But you had disappeared at that time, and even your people did not know where you had gone."

Hyotei's mental energy fluctuations showed a mixture of agitation and shame: "Even if you help me, I still won't be able to get through that hurdle."

"I know my own situation. Once my body's potential reaches its limit, external help can no longer play a significant role. So when I sensed Tianmeng's presence, I immediately left the far north, hoping to secure a future for myself one last time."

"But Tianmeng's aura dissipated too quickly. I had only run a short distance when the aura fluctuations he emitted from the Star Dou Forest had already disappeared. I searched the Star Dou Forest several times, thinking he had been captured by some ferocious beast, but I never expected that he would choose to merge with a human."

"And that's precisely why, later on, thanks to Tianmeng, I ended up on a completely different path."

Listening to their conversation, Huo Yuhao and Tianmeng Ice Silkworm both felt a chill run down their spines. It turned out that besides the ferocious beasts deep in the Star Dou Forest, the Ice Emperor had also come to hunt them down. It was just that Huo Yuhao left early and returned to Shrek Academy, which is why he wasn't caught.

"Hello, Snow Empress. Do you still remember me? Those few strands of Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Mystic Ice Marrow under your lair were quite delicious."

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm spouted nothing but nonsense, leaving Huo Yuhao speechless. Fortunately, the Snow Empress didn't hold it against him.

"You are... a vast but not powerful spiritual force. You are the Ice Silkworm that Bing'er mentioned, whose luck is so enviable. By the way, why are you here as well? And that human, Bing'er, what is this completely different path you spoke of?"

Snow Empress was filled with confusion. Ice Empress's appearance and words raised all sorts of questions in her mind, and she didn't even know which one to ask.

"I seem to sense that a part of your soul is fused with this human's? How is that possible? And the Ice Silkworm, its soul is also partially fused with this human's."

Xue Di was momentarily speechless.

Huo Yuhao's mental fluctuations slowly rose at this moment: "To put it simply, Bingdi and I plan to rebel together. If you still want to live, you'd better not ask too many questions. For Bingdi's sake, I'll let you go after you pay the money for four 100,000-year-level soul bones."

"You, you, you're not interested in my spirit rings and spirit bones?"

Xue Di looked at Huo Yuhao's spiritual energy fluctuations with shock. She could sense that after saying those words, Huo Yuhao was busy exploring the internal structure of the Conferred God Platform again. It seemed that Huo Yuhao really didn't have any particular feelings for her.

"Snow Woman, is that so?"

Ice Emperor began to tell Snow Emperor about how she was persuaded by Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm and many other things that happened afterward, but Ice Emperor chose to conceal some of the secrets surrounding her existence.

This is good for her and also good for Xue Di.

(End of this chapter)