bookbashuk Chapter 3 The New Dai Youheng
Chapter 3 The New Dai Youheng
The arrow was on the bowstring, and she had no choice but to release it. With her soul on the verge of disintegration, she had no other option.
"Fine, I'll lend you a hand!"
Xue Di gritted her teeth and forcibly poured a portion of her already dwindling primal power into the boy's body to activate the dormant potential gate for him!
Normally, awakening a martial soul requires a special awakening stone to set up an array, but with her nearly 700,000 years of cultivation and understanding of the nature of energy, she can forcibly awaken her martial soul without an awakening stone!
The light gathered in the boy's palm, and what it ultimately formed surprised the Snow Emperor once again.
It wasn't the powerful beast or weapon spirit she had imagined, but rather a pill the size of a longan, completely black, emitting a faint glow.
"A food-type spirit?" A bitter taste rose in the Snow Empress's lingering regret. She, the ruler of the far north, was ultimately to be sacrificed to a food-type spirit master? This was simply…
Food-type soul masters aren't bad, but she still prefers to sacrifice herself to a soul master skilled in combat.
But immediately, she sensed an extremely subtle yet soul-stirring aura emanating from that seemingly inconspicuous black pill.
It was an unfathomable, sinister, and ominous aura, yet it contained some indescribable dark power. Although it was a pill, the aura it contained made her feel more oppressed than that of Di Tian, and its soul power fluctuations were also extremely strong.
"Tenth level of innate soul power! This is the highest level of innate soul power among humans! This is definitely not an ordinary food-type martial soul..." Xue Di thought with a chill.
Without further hesitation, the sacrificial red light completely enveloped the boy. Just as when the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm sacrificed itself to Huo Yuhao, the Snow Empress sealed away most of her cultivation and primordial power layer by layer.
However, Tianmeng relied on her million-year-old spiritual power, while Xuedi relied on the divine power of the hundred-thousand-year-old snow lotus. It was this snow lotus that protected her soul during the sacrifice. Her power merged deep into the boy's body, waiting for him to gradually unseal it as his strength increased in the future.
The wind and snow of the far north remain, but they have witnessed the passing of a ruler and the quiet arrival of another unknown being.
The sacrifice quickly reached its most intense stage. Xue Di's soul ring was completely attached to the pill, but her power was greatly depleted. Just like Tian Meng, she was unable to give birth to a soul bone or truly become a martial soul. All she gave the boy was a 700,000-year soul ring.
About two days later, the sleeping boy finally woke up. In the icy and snowy land of the far north, he should have been frozen stiff, but because of the Snow Emperor's soul ring protecting him, he was fine.
Moreover, Xue Di discovered something very strange: in the past few days, when the boy was asleep, soul beasts would pass by from time to time.
But these soul beasts seemed to be unable to see him; even the carnivorous and ferocious soul beasts would instinctively swoop past him.
Xue Di couldn't help but wonder, "Is this child's flesh really that smelly? The corpse next door has been gnawed to a pulp, yet no soul beasts want it?"
"Where...is this?" the boy murmured.
"This is the far north of Douluo Continent. Young man, what is your name?" Xue Di's voice echoed in the young man's mind.
"The far north of Douluo Continent?" The young man was startled. He sensed a power, raised his palm, and a black pill appeared, surrounded by a red spirit ring with seven golden patterns. "A seven-hundred-thousand-year spirit ring, so you are... the Snow Empress?"
"You seem very calm, yet you were able to guess my identity?" Xue Di exclaimed in shock.
"I've read a lot of novels with similar plots, so I can probably guess the formula." Dai Youheng's tone was flat and emotionless, as if she were talking about something trivial that had nothing to do with her. "My name is Dai Youheng. As for my origins... you might not believe it, but I was grabbed from another world by a giant hand that I couldn't see the whole picture of, and then thrown here and crushed that guy to death."
He pointed to the pile of frozen meat, his tone even carrying a hint of sarcasm, as if to say, "This delivery was really rough."
He remembered that he was walking down the street when he suddenly heard an explosion on one floor of an apartment building. The entire floor was blown apart. Immediately afterward, a computer tower fell from the sky and hit him on the head, causing him to bleed profusely. He then became a vegetable and lay in the hospital for a long time. In a daze, he was grabbed by that hand and brought here. His current body must have been healed by the guy who brought him here.
Although he was unconscious, he had vaguely heard a voice: "Within five years, Old Six, cultivation technique..."
"..." Xue Di was completely speechless. Another world? Being dragged here by a giant hand? This was beyond her comprehension.
But the boy's outrageous appearance, the meteorite that killed the Title Douluo, and his unusual calmness at this moment forced her to try to accept this unbelievable explanation.
After a long silence, she slowly said, "Remaining calm in the face of danger, with a heart as clear as ice. Your character is quite admirable. It seems that my choice in this desperate situation may not have been the worst."
Dai Youheng stood up and stretched his limbs, which were somewhat stiff but full of new strength. He carefully sensed the soul power flowing through his body, which was around level fifteen. The Snow Empress's sacrifice had greatly increased his soul power. If the Snow Empress hadn't had so little power left and hadn't sealed a large part of it, her 700,000 years of cultivation shouldn't have increased by so little.
Although the soul power was weak, it was exceptionally pure and resonated perfectly with the black pill and the blood-red soul ring. He strode towards the gruesome corpse, like a seasoned hunter, and began to carefully search for his spoils, completely ignoring the extremely disturbing scene.
"What...are you doing?" Xue Di couldn't help but ask again.
"Looting." Dai Youheng uttered two words that Xue Di couldn't understand at all, but his actions made the meaning clear. "This guy is a level nine Soul Master from the Sun Moon Empire, he definitely has good stuff on him. A Title Douluo-level powerhouse, he might even have a Soul Bone."
His movements were swift and efficient, without the slightest hesitation or disgust, and unaffected by the smell of rotting flesh, as if the remains of his own kind were not before him, but a treasure chest waiting to be opened.
Soon, he laboriously removed an antique-style silver ring that shimmered with faint spatial fluctuations from a finger that was frozen stiff and black.
He then pulled out three palm-sized metal blocks, each engraved with an extremely complex core magic array and icy to the touch, from the lining of the tattered clothes. Judging from the energy fluctuations they contained, they were at least level seven or higher, disposable defensive or offensive soul tools.
"A storage soul tool ring, and a high-level trigger-type soul tool..." Dai Youheng tried to inject a wisp of soul power into the ring.
As his consciousness probed into the ring, he found that the space inside was far more expansive than he had imagined, about thirty cubic meters in size, and filled with many things: a large quantity of high-purity rare metals shimmering with different lusters, seven or eight exquisitely crafted soul tools, at least level seven, and some even suspected to be level eight, a thick stack of design drawings and experimental notes, as well as some compressed food, water, and a gold soul coin card.
There was indeed a soul bone, its age unknown, it was a left arm soul bone. The reason this person didn't absorb it was either because its age was too low, or because it wasn't suitable for his attributes.
"A very fruitful harvest." A hint of satisfaction appeared on Dai Youheng's face as he put the precious storage ring on the middle finger of his left hand. The size adjusted automatically, fitting perfectly. "These resources, technologies, and knowledge are exactly the starting capital I urgently need right now."