Chapter 2: Tianmeng's Entry
The corner of Huo Yuhao's mouth twitched slightly. This giant ice snot-worm really knows how to brag. If I weren't a transmigrator, I'd probably have been scared stiff by you.
"So powerful. Then, within this Star Dou Great Forest, no Spirit Beast should be your match, right?" Huo Yuhao raised an eyebrow slightly, a hint of barely perceptible mockery in his tone.
"That... that's right! Of course, no Spirit Beast is my match!" Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's confidence wavered a bit as it silently added in its heart: If we're comparing lifespan, then indeed, no Spirit Beast is my match.
"What do you want from me?" Huo Yuhao asked softly.
Although he knew it was his cheat, facing the oppressive presence of this seven-to-eight-meter-long behemoth still stirred some worry within him.
"To become your spirit ring! Surprised, right? My mental force is a bit... substantial. It might be a little uncomfortable when I first enter your Sea of Consciousness, so bear with it."
Sensing the Star Dou Great Forest behind it, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm hastily left these words before its long, white body crashed directly into Huo Yuhao.
If it dallied any longer, it would be caught and dragged back by those Spirit Beasts that wanted to devour it.
A terrifying mental force surged into Huo Yuhao from the golden Heavenly Eye on his forehead. The overflowing mental force covered a range of several hundred kilometers. All living beings within this area felt as if their brains were being crushed by a mountain, making it difficult to control themselves.
Some weaker insects and small beasts died under the impact of this released mental force.
Just as Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was compressing its own mental force, a wisp of gray energy was attracted and followed the Heavenly Eye into Huo Yuhao's spiritual Sea of Consciousness.
"How dare you! What thing dares to come and snatch my person!" Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's voice boomed within the Sea of Consciousness. However, that wisp of gray energy didn't even give it a glance, directly taking root in a corner of the Sea of Consciousness.
"Holding the sun and moon, plucking the stars from the sky! In all the world, there is none like me! Hahahaha!" The gray energy transformed into a small sphere, and an aged voice recited a domineering verse.
"Damn it!" Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was furious and exasperated. Even using all its mental force to drive it away couldn't budge the gray sphere an inch.
By the time Tianmeng Ice Silkworm finished sealing its own mental force, Electrolux had also taken root in the Sea of Consciousness. It was a done deal.
"Such a vast spiritual Sea of Consciousness. This child's talent can truly be called a Prodigy. It's just that his physical constitution is a bit lacking, somewhat malnourished."
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm murmured to itself, its mental force sweeping and inspecting every inch of Huo Yuhao's body, examining him meticulously from head to toe.
"Speaking ill of someone behind their back is not a good thing."
From the highest point of the Sea of Consciousness.
A single golden eye opened, devoid of any emotional fluctuations. Huo Yuhao surveyed the two presences within his Sea of Consciousness.
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm looked up. It saw the golden light from the eye above shining brightly. An intense feeling of dread, an utterly irresistible notion, arose from deep within Tianmeng Ice Silkworm.
This... what kind of existence is this!
That pure Divinity, utterly free of Impurities, actually makes even me feel terrified!
That gray sphere in the corner of the Sea of Consciousness trembled slightly, clearly also bearing the pressure of this gaze.
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm wanted to say something more, but it found itself powerless. Under the illumination of the divine light, it gradually fell into slumber.
Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao himself was within a peculiar space. The vision from his Sea of Consciousness was stripped away.
Golden mist drifted around. Huo Yuhao warily looked in all directions, using his hands to part the fog before him. Visibility was less than a meter in any direction, causing him to lose his bearings.
However, he had a few guesses in his heart about why he appeared here.
It should be because Tianmeng Ice Silkwarm entered his Sea of Consciousness, triggering his Heavenly Eye Martial Soul, causing his consciousness to enter the interior of the Martial Soul.
Huo Yuhao opened his Heavenly Eye, attempting to see through the surrounding mist. Suddenly, boundless golden light shot out from all directions. The golden mist was dispersed, and his vision became clear.
An endless staircase appeared before Huo Yuhao. The staircase's material seemed both metallic and jade-like, engraved with obscure and profound patterns.
A fragmented, incomplete piece of Law, imbued with an ancient Dao aura, drifted down from above the staircase.
Huo Yuhao found his body unable to move. The Law fragment directly submerged into the Heavenly Eye on his forehead.
A majestic Heavenly Eye that could see through the Three Realms. A sharp three-pointed double-edged spear that could slay demons and monsters. A tall, mountain-like figure flashed before Huo Yuhao's eyes.
True Lord Qingyuan Miaodao!
This honorific title resonated within the depths of Huo Yuhao's heart like a great bell.
So the stories passed down in his hometown were all true! His Yang Family Village were all descendants of Yang Jian! Transmigrating to the Douluo Continent, he had actually received the protection and Legacy of his Old Ancestor, the Heavenly God!
He had inherited a portion of the Legacy of the Judicial Heavenly God from Chinese mythology—that iron-faced, impartial, supremely powerful, all-seeing supreme Divinity.
This single fragment of a Divinity not only granted him two Divine Rank Martial Souls, but it itself possessed a divine force and essential nature of Divinity that surpassed the Laws of the Douluo Continent, belonging to the higher God Realm where Tang San resided!
Within the golden light, at the foot of the staircase, Huo Yuhao laughed. "You think you can manipulate everything in this world, yet beyond this realm, there exist powers you cannot even comprehend."
After digesting the information from the Divinity's Legacy, Huo Yuhao was struck by a strange repulsive force. His figure rapidly retreated. The golden long staircase grew smaller and smaller until it disappeared.
Huo Yuhao, who had been lying on the ground without breath, suddenly opened his eyes, gasping for air.
Pushing himself up with his hands on the cold, damp soil beneath him, he surveyed the ground broken open by Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and the Wind Baboon split in two.
With his consciousness returned, Huo Yuhao picked up the white tiger dagger that had fallen nearby and sheathed it back into the brown leather scabbard at the small of his back.
His Heavenly Eye Martial Soul manifested. A white spirit ring adorned with golden bands materialized at his feet. "So this is the spirit ring of the million-year Spirit Beast, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm? It does have a certain majesty to it."
An unprecedented sense of fullness. His mental force was incredibly abundant and condensed. His perception range had expanded more than tenfold. The slightest movement of grass, the chirping of insects, the crawling of ants within a 360-degree radius of a hundred meters around him—all were within the insight of his Heavenly Eye.
Huo Yuhao lowered his head and raised his right hand, a thought stirring within.
An ancient, domineering aura, carrying the meaning of being able to slice through all falsehoods and evil miasmas, appeared in his palm.
A spear with an ancient design, roughly two meters long. The shaft was black, carved with silver Dragon-shaped lines. The spearhead was a three-pointed double-edged shape, gleaming coldly. Merely holding it in his hand, Huo Yuhao felt a surge of boundless confidence, an unshakable belief that nothing could stand in his way.
It's just that, with his own height of 1.3 meters, wielding such a long weapon looked somewhat comical.
Having absorbed Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's spirit ring, his body had grown slightly taller. The already ill-fitting trouser legs now exposed a section of fair, tender skin.
His spirit power hadn't increased much, only reaching Rank 11. What Tianmeng Ice Silkworm had given him was mostly mental force, with little boost to spirit power. Moreover, with two super Martial Souls, it was unrealistic to expect a massive Rank increase all at once.
He swung the three-pointed double-edged spear a few times. There was no technique to speak of. After just a few swings, his spirit power was being rapidly consumed.
Huo Yuhao wanted to play around with it a bit more, but with this rate of spirit power consumption, he would soon be drained dry.