Douluo Continent: I am the true master

Chapter 19 Dream (Newbie asking for votes OTZ!!! TvT)

"Your Majesty, the Snow Empress, ruler of the far north. Greetings! I know of you because I once read a description of you in a book. It was probably written by a human soul master who saw you from afar but escaped unscathed."

This statement was half true and half false. After all, the novels he read in his previous life were still books, so Ye Wen was not lying and spoke with a clear conscience.

Xue Di didn't speak, but instead gave Ye Wen a deep look. She knew, of course, that the human before her wasn't telling the truth, but she didn't intend to expose him.

With a wave of her hand, Ye Wen's vision blurred. When Ye Wen came to his senses, he had already arrived in a cave. A fat ice silkworm was lying on the ground, seemingly fast asleep. Judging from the five silver-white stripes on its back, the ice silkworm was probably over five thousand years old.

Seemingly startled by Ye Wen's footsteps, the ice silkworm suddenly stood up and looked at the Snow Emperor and Ye Wen who had suddenly appeared before it.

Ye Wen didn't care, because Ye Wen's aura was pitifully small due to the difference in their auras. However, in its eyes, Xue Di's aura was like a demon king from the abyss suddenly appearing before it, making it freeze and dare not move, its eyes filled with fear.

Snow Empress slowly walked up to the ice silkworm and said in a low voice.

"Offer sacrifice for this human, Ice Silkworm."

Hearing Xue Di's words, the Ice Silkworm, whose intelligence was quite high due to its spiritual attribute, subconsciously wanted to refuse. However, when it thought of the survival of the fittest among soul beasts, it knew that if it did not sacrifice itself, it would still face certain death. So it remained silent for a while and then slowly nodded.

Ye Wen, the beneficiary, was also shocked. He didn't recall any thousand-year-old soul beasts having the ability to sacrifice themselves. But considering that the Snow Empress dared to say that, then this ice silkworm in front of him probably really did have the ability to sacrifice itself.

"Go ahead, I'll ask you about the rest after you've absorbed the spirit ring."

Ye Wen sat silently cross-legged in front of the Ice Silkworm. He knew that with the Snow Emperor protecting him, there was absolutely no danger to him.

A hint of sadness appeared in the Ice Silkworm's eyes, and then a silvery-white light slowly emanated from its body, enveloping the two of them.

A purple halo representing a thousand-year-old soul beast condensed in mid-air. When the soul ring was fully formed, the vitality in the Ice Silkworm's eyes dimmed completely, and it collapsed to the ground. The soul ring was then attached to Ye Wen's martial soul.

The familiar heat once again swept over Ye Wen's entire body. His already terrifying physical strength was further enhanced at this moment, and Ye Wen's height gradually increased to 1.7 meters, turning him into a handsome young man, shedding his former immaturity.

Because it was the Ice Silkworm that offered its sacrifice, Ye Wen absorbed the five-thousand-year-old soul ring without any obstruction, and it was completely absorbed in a short while.

The ice cave returned to calm, and Ye Wen summoned his martial spirit once more, its yellow and purple light illuminating the somewhat dark cave.

"Third Soul Skill: Sky Defense".

Based on the ability to remotely summon martial spirits, one can completely control the floating of the summoned martial spirits, forming multiple independent spatial gates.

This is fantastic! With this soul skill, I can not only better control the use of my martial soul, but I can also create derivative soul skills.

Furthermore, the Nabu space has been expanded to ten cubic meters.

"It seems you're quite satisfied with the soul skill you obtained. Now, please answer my question."

The Snow Empress's cold voice rang out, reminding Ye Wen that he was still in grave danger. Who knew what questions this ferocious beast king would ask him, or if it would kill him at the slightest provocation?

Having straightened his posture, Ye Wen opened his eyes, intending to reply to Xue Di.

However, a faint, negligible white light suddenly shone from Xue Di's body and shot towards him. Then, Ye Wen felt a blurring of consciousness and fell asleep on the ground.

Xue Di was also bewildered by this sudden situation. She didn't know why a white light suddenly appeared on her body, nor why Ye Wen suddenly fainted. She quickly went forward to check on Ye Wen's condition and was relieved to find that Ye Wen was just asleep.

Only then did Xue Di have the mind to think about what the white light from earlier was. She felt that the white light gave her a feeling that was both familiar and unfamiliar, and this feeling seemed to be very distant in her long memory.

As the only Ice and Snow Maiden in the entire Douluo Continent, her gestation process is extremely special. While she may be considered a soul beast, she is more accurately described as an elemental life form. The Ice and Snow Maiden was conceived using the pure icy energy and the destiny of the far north, representing both the destiny of the far north and the manifestation of its rules.

In other fantasy and martial arts worlds, the Ice and Snow Maiden would be an extremely noble being, a darling of the world, like an innate deity. But in the Douluo World, a world that is forcibly distorted, the Ice and Snow Maiden's status is immediately distorted and she is reduced to a soul beast.

It is precisely because of this that the Ice and Snow Maiden, who should have existed as the Goddess of Ice and Snow in this world, was born with only ten thousand years of cultivation. However, because she was favored by the fortune of the far north, she became a hundred-thousand-year-old soul beast in a very short time and has been cultivating smoothly all the way to the present. Unfortunately, her status was distorted and she became a soul beast.

As a soul beast, the tribulations it faces are ultimately unavoidable, which is why the storyline of Douluo Continent 2 exists. Otherwise, if the Ice and Snow Maiden had cultivated smoothly for a million years, she would definitely have been able to break through the world's limitations and become the Ice and Snow Goddess of the Douluo world.

At this moment, Xue Di finally remembered that white light and why it gave her a very familiar feeling. It was the feeling of being protected and nurtured by the world when she existed as a crystallization of primordial energy before she was born.

"Is this child the chosen one of the world? Does that mean my future lies in him? I will protect him, [the world]. Just as you protected me when you conceived me and brought me into this world," Xue Di murmured to herself.

At this moment, Ye Wen is experiencing a bizarre and fantastical dream.

He dreamt of his past life, where he stayed up all night to finish his thesis and then died suddenly. His soul was swept into a tiny spacetime turbulence that appeared out of nowhere, and after drifting for an unknown amount of time, it finally arrived at the outer edge of Douluo Star.

As a soul, he was incapable of self-reflection and lived in a daze. However, after the Douluo Continent captured his soul, it reviewed his memories, understood his future, and prepared to save himself.

Then, seemingly through some mysterious process, he was reincarnated into this world, and under the manipulation of the plane's master, he possessed twin martial souls, namely the Time Pearl and the Cloth of Space, two god-level martial souls representing the origin of time and space.

Furthermore, because of their extreme purity, these two martial souls are considered ultimate martial souls, even more terrifying than the renowned divine-level martial soul, the Angel Martial Soul, on the continent. And since they were bestowed upon them by the world itself, they do not suffer from the slow cultivation experienced by other ultimate martial soul possessors.

But precisely because they represent the origin, these two martial souls are unassuming and unadorned, their divine power hidden in their own shadow. Only when one cultivates to the Soul Saint realm can their true power be revealed.

But that's not the point. The point is the skills that these two martial souls come with by nature.

Nabu, also known as the Cloth of the Void, possesses its own space, and its further development depends entirely on itself. The Orb of Time, however, is even more extraordinary. The feeling of scanning the body each time it is filled with soul power is because the Orb of Time saves the body's condition. Once the body enters a near-death or death state, the soul power within can be passively or actively used to rewrite the body's condition, essentially providing a built-in resurrection skill.

However, because this skill is too overpowered, the plane's ruler cannot make any further settings. Under the world's distorted rules, the Time Orb can only possess this one unique ability. However, as the number of Soul Rings acquired in the future increases, each additional Soul Ring can bind to another person for resurrection.

However, the number of soul rings that can be obtained is limited depending on the cultivation level of the person being bound to the soul ring.

To revive a Title Douluo-level powerhouse, the bound resurrection slot must be a 10-year soul ring, and it must be pre-recorded and bound.

Each subsequent Soul Master rank corresponds to a reduction of 1 years in the Soul Ring age limit.

Even so, this martial soul is still incredibly powerful. Compared to the Void Cloth, which could only be used as a spatial ring, if Ye Wen were to release this ability, all the forces would probably rush to recruit him.

After all, the strongest and most cherished support skill in Douluo Continent is resurrection.

At this moment, Ye Wen truly understood why he had come to this world and why he possessed such a powerful martial soul.

"Every drink and every bite is a cause and effect," Ye Wen murmured.

The dream seemed to be ending soon, and Ye Wen's consciousness grew stronger. At that moment, Ye Wen seemed to hear a tiny voice, indistinguishable between male and female, speaking softly.

"I'm counting on you now~"

In order to erase your traces of being an outsider and to endow you with a powerful martial spirit, I have consumed too much power. The world rules, which are distorted by the gods, are constantly oppressing me, and I am about to fall into a deep sleep.

Please, you must save this world, the lost souls of the higher dimensions!

The increasingly weak voice gradually faded away, and Ye Wen opened his eyes.

Looking at the gleaming ice dome, Ye Wen knew it was already broad daylight. He rubbed his slightly groggy head and surveyed his surroundings.

"Where is Xue Di?" Ye Wen asked curiously.

Ye Wen had originally thought that Xue Di would ask him about his relationship with this world, but now she had simply disappeared, leaving him somewhat speechless.

However, considering the significance of the Snow Emperor, it seemed reasonable for her not to stay by his side to avoid exposing him. After all, it would be abnormal for an ordinary human to be followed by a ferocious beast with 60 years of cultivation, and it would be bad if it attracted the attention of the gods.

Stretching, Ye Wen stepped out of the ice cave and began his journey home.

But what he didn't know was that Xue Di was following him from afar, protecting him.

Contrary to Ye Wen's expectations, Xue Di believed that it was perfectly normal for a ferocious beast capable of freely transforming into human form to enter the human world and play around.

Moreover, the gods have been extinct for nearly ten thousand years, and her wariness of them has long since reached rock bottom.

The reason she didn't appear in front of Ye Wen was that she felt that even if Ye Wen was the chosen one of the world, he would still need to go through countless battles to grow up. All she could do was save him when he was on the verge of death.

Only such a chosen one of the world, in her view, is what the world needs.

Because that's how she grew up too.

(End of this chapter)