Douluo Continent: I am the true master

Chapter 16 The Thousand-Year Ice Silkworm (Part 1) (New author asking for votes!!! TvT)

"Boss, I..." Xiao Lie hesitated, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

Ye Wen, who was even more handsome than a year ago, glanced at him indifferently and said...

"Put away that attitude. All good things must come to an end. All the guidance I can give you is written in that booklet. Just follow the steps in that booklet, and you'll have a good chance of becoming a Soul Master in the future."

As for your father's first wife, you don't need to worry about her. Her family's noble status is not as high as your father's, and she herself is just a nobody with the cultivation level of a White Ring Soul Master.

As long as your father isn't blind, even if you can't inherit the title, he absolutely won't let that poisonous woman harm you. In fact, if your brother unfortunately dies on his path to becoming a Soul Master, you are the most likely person to inherit his title, since your talent surpasses even your father's.

On the Douluo Continent, however, a Soul Master's cultivation level is everything.

Tears welled up in Xiao Lie's eyes. Apart from his mother, he never imagined that Ye Wen would care about him so much and investigate his enemies so thoroughly.

"Thank you, boss. I'm off now, but I'll remember you as my boss for life. If you ever encounter any difficulties in the future, remember to come to me. I will never refuse."

With that, Xiao Lie turned and left.

Meanwhile, the work-study students watched this scene silently. After more than half a year of training, they had accepted Xiao Lie as one of them.

"Go do what you're supposed to do. Instead of wasting time here, you'd be better off cultivating your soul power. Also, you'll be on your own for the next while. I'm going on a long trip."

"Understood, boss!" the work-study students replied respectfully.

Although Ye Wen didn't do anything, his boss-like aura grew stronger and stronger.

At this moment, Ah Yin also walked over. Although she was only nine years old, she had already grown into a graceful young lady, and her elegance was captivating.

She whispered in Ye Wen's ear, "So you're finally going to get a spirit ring, bro? Where are you planning to get it and what kind of spirit ring?"

Hearing the little girl's uniquely clear voice, coupled with that faintly alluring tone, Ye Wen shuddered.

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"I might have to go on a long trip soon, so please remember to take good care of yourself. When you're on vacation, please remember to go back and take good care of Grandpa for me."

"Okay~_~".

With the addition of the composite crossbow, Ah Yin had great confidence in Ye Wen's combat abilities.

Ye Wen clearly didn't want to tell her what kind of spirit ring she was going to hunt, perhaps because she was afraid she would worry, so the gentle and considerate girl didn't intend to ask any further.

A month has passed in the blink of an eye.

This time, Ye Wen did not go to the Dean of Students to ask for the Soul Hunting Token. Instead, he went alone to the northernmost part of the Heaven Dou Empire, to the far north ice plains that few soul masters had yet developed.

Even though they were still hundreds of miles from the far north ice plains, the biting cold wind had already made Ye Wen shiver inside the carriage.

The soul beast he was going to hunt in the far north ice plains was a million-year soul beast with very weak combat power, but it was famous in Douluo II. It was the original form of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, the Ice Silkworm.

Just hearing that their race is silkworms, it's certain that Ice Silkworms have almost no close combat ability. In the original novel, Douyu II, the only offensive soul skill among the four soul skills that Tianmeng provided for Huo Gua was Mental Shock.

Therefore, Ye Wen still doesn't want an attack-type soul skill as his second soul skill. With the composite crossbow, he doesn't need to consider attack power before reaching the fifth ring.

Ye Wen coveted the control ability brought by the Ice Silkworm's mental power attribute, because no matter how much Ye Wen cultivated, his control over Nabu was still limited, and he could not make Nabu move at will.

To go further, the boost from a spirit beast is essential, but spirit beasts are rare, and according to the information Ye Wen found, they only exist in the Star Dou Great Forest.

But what is Ye Wen's identity and what is his strength?

Going to the Star Dou Great Forest would be like throwing yourself into the lion's den.

Therefore, Ye Wen thought of the Ice Silkworm from Douluo Continent II, a soul beast that only had mental detection and simulation capabilities ten thousand years ago, and was weak and easy to kill.

The only drawback is probably the harsh environment of its location, and Ye Wen couldn't find any specific information about the Ice Silkworm in the library.

However, Ye Wen thought that although the far north was undeveloped, there were still several large cities around it, and those cities should contain information about the Ice Silkworm.

Fortunately, perseverance pays off. Because Ice Silkworms are easy to hunt, Ye Wen actually found information about them in this remote northern city.

A one-centimeter-long ice silkworm is a ten-year-old soul beast, and ten times that length would make it a hundred-year-old soul beast.

Once they reach this length, the ice silkworms will stop growing. After that, for every hundred years of cultivation they gain, a blue-white stripe will appear on their backs. Ice silkworms that have surpassed a thousand years will have their stripes gradually turn silver-white. As for ice silkworms that reach ten thousand years in age, there are no records of them.

(P.S.: I specifically looked up the description of the Ice Silkworm in Douluo Continent II, and the only thing I found was that Huo Qubing hunted a three-thousand-year-old Ice Silkworm and obtained the skill Simulation. That Ice Silkworm was about one meter long. After that, Huo Qubing just made things up to deceive himself. So I created a fanfiction about the Ice Silkworm.)

After all, Ice Silkworms are among the lowest-level soul beasts in the far north. Once their simulation skills are broken, it's basically as easy as a honey badger eating spicy snacks.

Furthermore, the book thoughtfully provided Ye Wen with instructions on how to find the Ice Silkworm, saving him a lot of effort.

Based on the intelligence he had gathered, Ye Wen set a rule for himself: he would never venture more than five kilometers into the far north. He would only wander on the outskirts. This was partly because he couldn't bear the cold inside, and partly because the far north was still undeveloped at the time, with real information held by a few families. Even if Ye Wen could ambush and kill the Soul King, he wouldn't dare to act rashly and could only search cautiously, bit by bit.

He stored his dry rations and water in his spirit space to avoid starving when he went inside. Ye Wen finally began his hunt for his second spirit ring.

However, Ye Wen did not notice that on a distant, high mountain, a stunningly beautiful woman with white hair and eyebrows, dressed in white, was silently watching him.

Ye Wen gradually walked deeper and deeper into this vast expanse of white.

It seemed that ever since he entered the far north, an invisible force had been guiding him forward. He silently moved forward, poking at the snow with a specially made chisel. At this moment, Ye Wen was as silent as an ancient ascetic seeking the Tao.

"Click—"

"Click—"

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The process of finding a suitable soul beast is always so tedious.

Because of their weakness, ice silkworms usually hide in underground snow caves. They will never go out unless their habitat runs out of food.

In the past few days, Ye Wen has found several Ice Silkworm nests, but the Ice Silkworms inside are only two hundred years old, and the lowest ones have just broken through the limits of Soul Beasts.

As for the Ice Silkworm, a basically harmless soul beast, Ye Wen, though not a good person himself, wouldn't kill innocent people indiscriminately. After taking one look, he left directly.

(End of this chapter)