"An 'Ultimate Ice' Martial Soul, huh..."
Huo Yuhao murmured softly, his eyes flickering with thought.
This wasn't the "Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion" Martial Soul he possessed in his past life—which merely had the attribute of Ultimate Ice—but something far purer: a Martial Soul that was Ultimate Ice itself!
No matter how an Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion changed, its essence remained that of a Soul Beast. It was just like the Snow Emperor's true form, the Heavenly Snow Woman; she was a Soul Beast first, and her Ultimate Ice and Snow attributes came second.
Even when functioning as a Martial Soul, that fundamental essence would persist.
But a pure "Ultimate Ice" Martial Soul... its potential was something he couldn't even begin to estimate.
Huo Yuhao contemplated.
The idea Electrolux presented was incredibly advanced, but the potential of an "Ultimate Ice" Martial Soul was undeniable. It made Huo Yuhao instinctively analyze the feasibility of the project.
After a brief, intense mental calculation, Huo Yuhao realized... it was entirely possible!
All he needed to do was integrate the Ice Emperor's nearly 400,000 years of cultivation into the Martial Soul, and then use the Soul Ring Condensation Method to let the Martial Soul self-generate an "Ultimate Ice" Soul Ring. This would fix the Martial Soul's form, achieving an unprecedented "Ultimate Ice" Martial Soul!
However...
It was far easier said than done!
The Ice Emperor was an Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion; her 400,000 years of cultivation naturally carried the essence of a Soul Beast.
To give birth to an "Ultimate Ice" Martial Soul, he had to completely strip away the Soul Beast essence from her cultivation. If even a single trace remained, Huo Yuhao's unformed Martial Soul would spontaneously evolve based on that trace...
At that point, not only would the "Ultimate Ice" Martial Soul vanish, but the "Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion" Martial Soul might be lost too. The Martial Soul might even degrade into some random, mediocre Ice-attribute variant.
Huo Yuhao felt a moment of hesitation.
Of course, he wasn't hesitating over whether to do it, but how to do it.
With such a monumental opportunity before him, Huo Yuhao would never give up. The potential of a pure "Ultimate Ice" Martial Soul was visibly terrifying.
How could he possibly abandon a power that could become his greatest future asset?
"Elder Yi, do you have a solution?" Huo Yuhao asked.
Electrolux pondered for a moment before speaking:
"If it were up to me, I would use a formation to strip away the soul, then refine and separate the physical body piece by piece, purging the parts belonging to the 'Soul Beast' to obtain the purest power of 'Ultimate Ice'."
"But... that seems like it would take a lot of time..." Huo Yuhao replied after thinking it over.
He had inherited Elder Yi's entire knowledge base. At Elder Yi's reminder, he naturally thought of the formations within that inheritance.
With the boost from his two silver-glow Soul Rings, Huo Yuhao did a quick calculation and arrived at the time required to complete the process: ten years.
To be honest, that wasn't long. Spending ten years to gain a Martial Soul with infinite potential was a bargain, especially since Huo Yuhao already possessed significant self-defense capabilities and feared no one below the rank of a God.
He could afford the time, but unfortunately, he couldn't wait.
There were eyes watching him from above. He truly could not afford to wait ten years!
A way... I need a way...
To extract the power of Ultimate Ice from the Ice Emperor's body without a single speck of Soul Beast essence...
Extract it... completely separate the two...
Wait...
Huo Yuhao suddenly thought of something and instinctively touched the center of his brow.
—The Eye of Destiny.
By borrowing the power of the Eye of Destiny to see the threads of fate governing all things, he could sever the connection between the Ice Emperor's Ultimate Ice and her Soul Beast essence...
The idea surfaced naturally. His brain worked at high speeds again, calculating the probability. Finally... he reached a conclusion.
Huo Yuhao's eyes brightened. Without hesitation, he immediately explained his method to Elder Yi to check for any oversights.
...
After a brief discussion, the two reached a consensus.
It was feasible! In fact, it was highly feasible!
Using the power of Destiny to prune away the "Soul Beast" essence from her cultivation, leaving only the purest "Ultimate Ice"!
It was entirely possible!
As the two continued their discussion, the Ice Emperor instinctively sat down next to Skydream. Watching the master and disciple pair excitedly discussing her "disposal plan," she found herself at a loss for words.
"Don't worry, Bing Bing, you'll definitely be fine!" Skydream offered comfort from the side.
"Shut up," the Ice Emperor said coldly. She still didn't have much of a favorable impression of this big worm.
However, Skydream persisted:
"Trust me, Yuhao is very powerful. He promised me he'd keep you safe, so just relax!"
"You trust him that much?" The Ice Emperor's expression turned strange. She seemed to hear an unusual tone in Skydream's voice.
"Why wouldn't I?" Skydream countered matter-of-factly.
Ever since witnessing her Yuhao's Life-Bound Divine Artifact and his "Soul Core-Bearing Soul Ring Method," Skydream had decided to cling tightly to his leg!
Since then, she and Huo Yuhao had been inseparable for two years.
Two years... for a Soul Beast, that was but a blink of an eye.
But for Skydream, these two years had been more fulfilling than the previous hundreds of thousands of years of her life combined!
Though a certain "bad woman" appeared from time to time—forcing her to hide in either the Soul Ring or Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness—outside of those unpleasant moments, every second she spent with Yuhao was incredibly relaxed and free of any burden!
It was a sense of security she had never possessed. It felt as though, as long as Yuhao was by her side, she had nothing to fear!
Well... except for that bad woman! That woman even hits Yuhao!
The Ice Emperor fell silent, sitting to the side and watching Skydream, who seemed lost in her memories—smiling foolishly one moment and looking resentful the next. She found it bizarre.
What's wrong with this girl? Has she gone mad?
The Ice Emperor felt that Skydream had become somewhat unrecognizable. In her memory, this creature was just a spineless coward who had lucked her way into 900,000 years of cultivation by sleeping.
But now...
The Ice Emperor fell silent again, her gaze instinctively drifting toward the youth discussing things with the gray-haired elder.
To be honest, the boy's face was indeed youthful, but the temperament he carried and the confidence he showed while explaining his ideas to the elder... it was truly quite dazzling.
Flashes of emotion began to surface, only to be fueled uncontrollably by a certain someone's special constitution.
In this moment, inevitably, the Ice Emperor felt a flicker of curiosity toward her future "partner."
—Just what kind of human are you?