After demonstrating it for a while, Huo Yuhao slowly withdrew his mental force.
Immediately after, a large, silver-white eyeball appeared beside Huo Yuhao; it was his Spirit Soul, Xiao Yin the Evil Eye.
Subsequently, the figures of the Spirit Soul Rebirth Butterfly and Tian Meng Ice Silkworm appeared one after another.
Several Spirit Souls surrounded Huo Yuhao, their gazes all converging on the crystal-like little spider.
The Phantom Heart Demon Spider raised its head, its pair of crystalline eyes sweeping across the several Spirit Souls one by one.
Its expression remained calm, without any particular change.
Possessing a few Ten Thousand Years Spirit Souls with Spirit Domain Realm mental force was not something too worthy of surprise.
However, when its gaze swept past the Tian Meng Ice Silkworm, it paused slightly.
That silver-white Big Bug gave it a somewhat different feeling.
But before it could think it over, a purple figure appeared.
Qiluo Tulip slowly condensed into form, his entire body glowing with a deep purple halo, his exquisite petal-like skirt hem draped in layers, carrying an elegant and composed demeanor.
Subsequently, Qiluo Tulip's original form dissipated, replaced by the figure of a man in purple robes.
This time, the Phantom Heart Demon Spider was finally no longer calm.
Its originally loose eight legs retracted slightly, and the layer of nonchalance in its eyes finally wavered.
It saw through Qiluo Tulip's background at a glance; this was a two-hundred-thousand-year Spirit Soul.
Even with Spirit Domain Realm mental force, obtaining a Vicious Beast-level Spirit Soul required far more than just talent; it also depended on luck and opportunity.
Clearly, this youth named Huo Yuhao was not lacking in any of these.
But before it could digest this surprise, two figures holding arms appeared one after another.
One woman wore a white dress, her figure tall and slender, her temperament noble and cold, a head of snow-white long hair cascading down to her waist like a waterfall.
The other was dressed in green, her figure relatively petite, her cold pride tinged with a touch of liveliness, two green twin tails swaying slightly at her sides.
With the appearance of these two figures, the temperature in the Spirit Soul Fusion Room dropped sharply, as if instantly arriving at midwinter from the height of summer!
The two figures appearing at this moment were naturally the two Spirit Souls, Ice Empress and Snow Empress!
The moment Snow Empress and Ice Empress released their auras without reservation, the Phantom Heart Demon Spider could finally no longer maintain that nonchalant calmness from just before.
Its eight crystal-like spider legs braced suddenly, and its entire body sprang up like a streak of light, landing lightly on the edge of the hemispherical metal shell.
Those crystal-clear eyes stared fixedly in the direction of Snow Empress and Ice Empress, its gaze moving back and forth between the two figures, as if it wanted to repeatedly confirm every wisp of their aura.
With its mental force, how could it not judge that the age of these two Spirit Souls was above its own?
After a long while, the Phantom Heart Demon Spider finally spoke, its milky, young boyish voice carrying unprecedented seriousness and confusion: "You are so powerful, how did you also become a human's Spirit Soul?"
In its view, with Ice Empress and Snow Empress's cultivation, they were fully qualified to remain independent in the Spirit Beast World.
It could not figure out why such powerful existences would become Spirit Souls, and could not understand why they would choose to fuse with a human.
Ice Empress released the arm she had been holding of Snow Empress, her figure flashed, and she drifted lightly in front of the Phantom Heart Demon Spider.
She leaned down slightly, tilted her head to examine it for a moment, and then extended a finger, curiously tapping lightly on the Phantom Heart Demon Spider's crystal-bright head.
Perhaps because Ice Empress was also a Spirit Soul, or perhaps this Phantom Heart Demon Spider was indeed as Leng Yaozhu had said, "having no aggressiveness."
It only retracted its head slightly and did not dodge, letting Ice Empress's finger land on its head, which confirmed from the side that it indeed had a good temper.
Feeling the warm and moist touch from her fingertip, Ice Empress withdrew her finger, straightened up, and said: "No matter how powerful a Spirit Beast is, there will always come a day when its life reaches its end; after all, Spirit Beasts cannot become gods."
This sentence made the Phantom Heart Demon Spider fall silent; it, of course, understood this principle.
Back then, it was precisely because it perceived that it could not safely pass its next Heavenly Tribulation that it took the initiative to contact the Spirit Pagoda, choosing to continue its existence in the form of a Spirit Soul; that was the most clear-headed yet most helpless decision it had made in its long life.
After becoming a Spirit Soul, it had always refused to fuse with any Spirit Master.
Facing this three-hundred-thousand-year rare Spirit Soul, the Spirit Pagoda was also unwilling to forcibly damage or waste it, so they could only keep it "well-fed and well-cared for," and they had been doing so for over a thousand years.
Why else would it be said that it is a Mental-type Spirit Beast? It just has many tricks up its sleeve.
Looking across the entire continent, there are probably not many Spirit Beasts that can make the Spirit Pagoda suffer in silence.
Looking at the Phantom Heart Demon Spider's well-behaved appearance, Ice Empress put her hands on her hips, lifted her chin slightly, and said again: "We became Yuhao's Spirit Souls naturally for eternal life!"
"Eternal life?!"
The Phantom Heart Demon Spider's milky, young boyish voice rose significantly when saying these two words, carrying a shock it had never experienced before.
Its eight crystal-like spider legs subconsciously tightened a bit; these two words were too distant a luxury for it.
Ice Empress held her head high, her tone carrying an unquestionable certainty: "That's right, it is eternal life!"
"Yuhao is the Child of Destiny of the Douluo Continent and is an existence destined to become a god."
"Having become his Spirit Souls, when the day he becomes a god arrives, we will naturally be able to attain eternal life as well."
Even with the Phantom Heart Demon Spider's intelligence, it was stunned by these few sentences from Ice Empress.
This was not because it had no defenses in its heart and was too easily trusting of other Spirit Beasts.
It looked at Ice Empress's determined face, and couldn't help but glance at the Snow Empress standing quietly not far away.
It really couldn't imagine how a powerful existence like Snow Empress with seven hundred-thousand-years of cultivation could be willing to become a human's Spirit Soul if not for eternal life.
Two "Seniors" stronger than itself had already made their choices, so what more did it have to hesitate about?
In this instant, the principles it had held for over a thousand years began to loosen, and then completely collapsed.
The Phantom Heart Demon Spider slowly cast its gaze toward Huo Yuhao, its milky, young boyish voice carrying unprecedented solemnity: "I am willing to become your Spirit Soul!"
Just as Huo Yuhao began to fuse with the Spirit Soul, thousands of miles away among the mountains, a battle had just come to an end.
Mountain winds poured out from the depths of the canyon, and Na'er's long hair flew wantonly in the wind; the hair color was silver-white like moonlight pouring down, every strand pulled by the wind behind her, rustling loudly.
She flicked her right hand, and the tip of the Silver Dragon Spear traced a clean arc in mid-air; the blood remaining on the spear blade was shaken off by this light flick, scattering a string of fine, dark red spots on the ground.
Beside her, the soul guidance tracks that originally ran straight into the distance had been blown apart in several sections; the rails were twisted and deformed, and the railroad ties were shattered and scattered.
Several carriages of the soul guidance train were crookedly piled together, the carriage shells covered in gaps torn by brute force and scorch marks from Spirit Power bombardments.
Wreaths of unscattered black smoke were still rising from the wreckage, and the air was filled with a mixed scent of scorched metal and blood.
"My Lord!"
A loud shout came from afar, and immediately after, a tall figure descended from the sky, landing a few steps beside Na'er.
The person had a rugged and resolute face, and his entire body exuded an undisguised aura of ferocity, as if he were a beast that had just walked off the battlefield.
He swept a glance at the scattered corpses around, then looked at Na'er and shouted loudly: "These Evil Soul Masters have all been dealt with!"
"Mm."
Na'er nodded and put away the Silver Dragon Spear, feeling a bit depressed in her heart.
This time, she had finally managed to get leave from the Blood God Legion to take the soul guidance train to Heaven Dou City, but she did not expect to encounter an attack by Evil Soul Masters on the way again.
However, fortunately, these Evil Soul Masters were not very strong characters; the one with the highest cultivation was only an eight-ring Spirit Douluo.
With the strength of her and Sima Jinchi, it was not difficult to deal with them, and they resolved the battle in no time.
Sima Jinchi was the burly man standing in front of Na'er at this moment; he was originally from the Southern Legion, with fierce combat power and a straightforward personality.
Later, he accidentally met Na'er on the Star Dou Battle Net, and following a mysterious intuition, he took the initiative to find her.
With Na'er's help, Sima Jinchi successfully broke through the Titled Douluo Bottleneck and finally knew his true identity.
He was the human form of the Dragon Clan Divine Artifact, the Dragon Slaying Saber, with the Legacy memories belonging to the ancient Dragon Clan flowing deep within his Bloodline.
From then on, he acknowledged Na'er as his master and guarded her side without leaving a single step.
Sima Jinchi looked towards the gap in the mountains ahead; the sun had already set below the mountains.
He then suggested: "My Lord, Tian Nan City is not far ahead; shall we go there and take the soul guidance train?"
Upon hearing this, Na'er almost subconsciously shook her head: "No, let's go rent a car."
Sima Jinchi was stunned for a moment, and a trace of confusion appeared on his rugged face.
But in the end, he didn't ask more, just gave a muffled response: "Alright, I'll listen to you, My Lord."
Na'er couldn't help but recall the words Xie Xie had said before: "You people, every time you take the soul guidance train, something happens; it's just plain evil."
At the time, she had scoffed in disapproval, only feeling that Xie Xie's mouth really didn't know how to say anything good.
But now... She lowered her head to look at the bloodstains on the ground, then looked up at the train carriages that had been blown into an unrecognizable state, and the disapproval in her heart had quietly loosened a bit.
Once is a coincidence, twice is an accident, but what about the third time?
She seemed to have no choice but to believe it; she and the soul guidance train seemed to be naturally incompatible; as soon as she took one, something was likely to happen.
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A/N:
I hope all of you are enjoying this story so far. I would appreciate some Power Stones if you can spare any. Leave a review if you like the story. Thank you.