boyutpedia Chapter 2: Picking up an ancestor at the start
Chapter 2: Picking up an ancestor at the start
Chapter 2: Picking up an ancestor at the start
The Snow Empress's sacrifice temporarily awakened the fox spirit dormant within Ye Nanxiao's body.
The fox hidden inside Ye Nanxiao's body looked at the Snow Emperor, who had transformed into a soul form, and sensed the gradually dissipating soul fluctuations emanating from her. Its fox eyes stared at the Snow Emperor, and its nine tails stretched out and wrapped around her.
A continuous stream of power rose from the fox's body and entered the Snow Emperor's soul. A point of light lit up on the Snow Emperor's forehead, and strange characters floated up from the fox's body, landing on the point of light on the Snow Emperor's forehead.
"Your soul belongs to me, your power belongs to me. By my soul contract, we shall live together forever, an eternal soul contract. Complete." Ye Nanxiao's voice uttered from the fox's mouth, each word slow and powerful.
As the last word fell, the fox transformed into specks of light and scattered.
In a daze, Ye Nanxiao felt as if something broken within his body had been repaired.
In Ye Nanxiao's spiritual sea.
Ye Nanxiao was watching Xue Di, who was constantly transforming his spiritual sea into her own little nest, with her arms crossed. At first, Ye Nanxiao was very happy to find out that he had found a powerful patron.
Upon seeing Xue Di's exquisite face and knowing that she called herself the Ice and Snow Maiden, Ye Nanxiao immediately realized who the stunningly beautiful woman in front of him was, and couldn't help but feel speechless.
The old ancestor Xue was first hunted down by Mingde Hall, then blacklisted by Haotian Fortress, and most importantly, this ancestor is capable of self-destruction.
Ye Nanxiao suddenly felt that he wouldn't live much longer and began to sigh and reminisce about his life.
Gradually understanding what was happening to him and feeling the immense power hidden within his body, Ye Nanxiao was not excited. Instead, he thought about how to serve this ancestor in front of him.
Ye Nanxiao doesn't like to strategize and plan the continent's development in the starting village, because he prefers to act on his ideas as they come to him.
Seeing Ye Nanxiao staring at her speechlessly, the Snow Empress immediately said, "Human, I am the Ice and Snow Maiden, a 700,000-year-old soul beast. I offer myself to you today, and from now on, our relationship will be one of symbiosis."
Ye Nanxiao snapped out of his daze and asked in confusion, "As a soul beast whose cultivation is approaching 700,000 years, why would you sacrifice yourself to me?"
The Snow Emperor had anticipated that Ye Nanxiao would ask this question, and said, "I've taken a gamble. Cultivation for soul beasts is not easy, and I'm not confident that I can survive the next tribulation. However, I can sense that you possess a very powerful force, a force I've never seen before. I have a premonition that you may reach a realm that all creatures on the continent dream of."
Ye Nanxiao was somewhat speechless. This Snow Empress was a bit different. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that the Snow Empress hadn't yet experienced being sealed inside a special soul tool by the Mingde Hall, and didn't harbor extreme resentment towards humanity. With that in mind, Ye Nanxiao asked, "Snow Empress, have you ever been to the human world?"
Xue Di frowned slightly, not expecting Ye Nanxiao to ask this question. She replied, "No, I've only had contact with humans a few times, and I repelled them all."
They were driven away.
This statement made Ye Nanxiao a little embarrassed, and he continued, "Well, I'm a human being, and we just met today, right?"
"Haven't you figured out your physical condition yet?" Xue Di asked back.
After Xue Di finished speaking, Ye Nanxiao remembered his new body and quickly withdrew from the Sea of Spirit.
Ye Nanxiao checked himself and suddenly found that his soul power was very unstable. He looked down and found a piece of clear ice to use as a mirror. He found that his eyes kept changing between beast eyes and human eyes, and his ears on his head could not be retracted, nor could the nine tails behind his buttocks.
Ye Nanxiao immediately asked Xue Di in his spiritual sea, "What's wrong with me?"
"It must be that your martial soul resonated with my power, causing you to lose control of your own martial soul. And according to human terms, you just awakened your martial soul, right?" the Snow Empress asked.
Ye Nanxiao flew to the sky above his spiritual sea to take a look. A large part of the light blue spiritual sea contained a dark blue light cluster, which almost occupied the entire spiritual sea. This must be the power of the Snow Emperor's seal, Ye Nanxiao thought.
Seeing that Ye Nanxiao did not react, Xue Di asked, "Boy, what's your name?"
"Ye Nanxiao".
"You should digest and adapt to my power these next few days. In this far north, no soul beast will be polite to you."
"Isn't it you I'm here for?"
"You can't even use one-thousandth of my power; you'd have trouble protecting yourself."
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"A martial spirit? How do you use it?" Ye Nanxiao looked down at his right hand, and with a thought, his martial spirit possessed him.
A surge of power erupted within him. Ye Nanxiao felt as if the power within him was inexhaustible. He clenched his fist tightly, pulled it to his waist, gathered his strength, and unleashed a powerful punch!
A small shockwave blasted out from Ye Nanxiao's fist, shattering the snowdrift in front of him.
After delivering the powerful punch, Ye Nanxiao maintained his stance, carefully sensing the power flowing within his body and feeling its trajectory, much like a train moving along the tracks.
"Is this about circulating power?" Ye Nanxiao wondered, his mind silently immersing itself in the process, slowly pushing his soul power to circulate.
Cultivation seemed to be an instinct of the body, and Ye Nanxiao naturally entered a state of cultivation after a while.
"There are so many 'paths,' which one should we push our forces to follow? Or should we push them all to the same direction?" Ye Nanxiao pondered.
"When I open my eyes, I'll be in another world. I wonder how A-Yu and the others are doing. In any case, this is a new life, and I will live it well! With a new identity." Ye Nanxiao made up his mind.
Ye Nanxiao guided his own power and began to circulate it. At first, he ran around like a headless fly. He didn't know how long he circulated his power, but he didn't feel tired at all. Instead, he became more and more excited.
Only after several of the "paths" had finished operating and he felt his power growing stronger did Ye Nanxiao allocate most of his power to operate along those "paths".
Ye Nanxiao, engrossed in circulating his own power, did not immediately touch the power brought by the Snow Emperor. This was purely out of curiosity about himself, and also because Ye Nanxiao understood what kind of world this was. To be on the safe side, strengthening his own power was the most important thing.
Seeing that Ye Nanxiao did not use his soul power to cultivate, the Snow Empress couldn't help but glance at him a few more times. Over hundreds of thousands of years, the Snow Empress had witnessed far too many people resorting to any means to gain power.
"This kid has a unique understanding of power; he's a promising talent. Tianmeng's idea about the ice silkworm might actually come true."
"It's just a pity that the far north will no longer have a Snow Emperor, and I am no longer the Snow Emperor who rules the far north," the Snow Emperor sighed softly.
As the saying goes, time passes without end in the mountains, and years are not measured in cultivation.
Ye Nanxiao's first attempt at cultivation took three months. After his martial soul awakened, Ye Nanxiao's innate soul power was at the perfect level of ten. After accepting the Snow Emperor's symbiotic sacrifice, the power in his body soared. This made Ye Nanxiao spend a lot of time sorting out the power in his body. After finding that there was hope for cultivation, he began to cultivate like crazy.
Ye Nanxiao was unaware that while he was cultivating, Xue Di was constantly guiding his soul power to compress and refine its quality.
Feeling the soul power flowing like a surging river within Ye Nanxiao's body, Xue Di was somewhat puzzled.
"How can this kid's soul power circulation speed be so fast? Is this human talent? Or is it Ye Nanxiao's talent? Too fast doesn't seem to be a good thing. It's better to compress the soul power." Xue Di thought to herself.
Under the intervention of the Snow Emperor, the surging river of soul power was constantly compressed and overlapped.
After satisfying his curiosity about his first cultivation session, Ye Nanxiao began to slow down and gradually exit his cultivation state.
"How much has it improved? It's about ten levels of soul power. How long have I been cultivating?" Although Ye Nanxiao didn't know how long he had been cultivating, it was definitely not a short time.
"There are still many 'paths' in my body that are blocked or even impassable, and even more that are not functioning. It seems that there is a proper way to cultivate. I'm quite lucky." Ye Nanxiao said with some emotion, having encountered good fortune and discovered a few correct cultivation paths.
"Seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune? Why did this phrase suddenly pop into my head?" Ye Nanxiao asked, somewhat puzzled.
Then, with a thought, two red spirit rings rose from beneath his feet. Looking at the spirit rings before him, Ye Nanxiao felt as if he were dreaming, and murmured as if in a dream, "Isn't this the treatment of a protagonist?"
As expected, Ye Nanxiao discovered two skills from the red spirit ring of the Snow Empress. The Ice Empress had given Huo Gua two skills back then. Ye Nanxiao didn't know if the Snow Empress, as a 700,000-year-old spirit beast, would have one more skill, but she definitely had two.
He communicated with the spirit rings floating around his body, examining and understanding the information contained within them.
"The first one is an attack skill, controlling ice blocks to move and impact? A large-scale attack? Like a downpour? Let's call it Bird Icicles, after all, I'm a die-hard Toshiro fan. The second one is an ice cage? That's fine too, control skills are all good. What's the third one? Wait, I can't find it?"
Ye Nanxiao suddenly opened his eyes, then closed them again as if he had thought of something.
"If I don't have any extra soul skills, do I have other great gifts, like soul bones?"
Opening his eyes, Ye Nanxiao was met with a vast expanse of white, and his heart was filled with confusion.
Where is my soul bone? I'm such a big Snow Empress, where is my soul bone?
Ye Nanxiao carefully sensed it for a while, but still found nothing, which made him a little frustrated. However, he quickly let it go, as he had already received enough opportunities. He was an optimistic person by nature.
Throughout the entire process, Xue Di silently sensed the changes in Ye Nanxiao's mindset. Upon learning of Ye Nanxiao's optimism, a hint of satisfaction appeared in her eyes. Xue Di naturally possessed a soul bone; she would absorb its essence after Ye Nanxiao's strength improved.
"It's too early now," Xue Di murmured, while gazing into the depths of Ye Nanxiao's spiritual sea.
Deep within, Xue Di could feel herself being watched, as if being stared at by a powerful being.
When they first merged, Xue Di sensed a very powerful force within Ye Nanxiao's body, but it vanished in an instant.
The Snow Empress couldn't fully grasp just how powerful it was, but the feeling before her far surpassed the pressure Di Tian had previously exerted. This led the Snow Empress to only slightly modify Ye Nanxiao's spiritual sea, sealing away all the remaining power except for the condensation of the soul ring, preventing the energy from leaking out.
Before fully understanding the situation, the Snow Emperor dared not act rashly, not even when it came to condensing her soul bone.
The Snow Empress withdrew her gaze and sighed softly, "Let's nurture another one when the time comes."
Ye Nanxiao entered deep meditation on his first attempt. When Ye Nanxiao woke up, Xue Di had already transformed Ye Nanxiao's spiritual sea. Ye Nanxiao looked at it and saw that his spiritual sea was now truly a vast ocean.
After Ye Nanxiao fully accepted Xue Di, Xue Di could clearly feel Ye Nanxiao's growing affection for her. After all, they had a symbiotic relationship, and Xue Di did not resist Ye Nanxiao. Ye Nanxiao completely handed over control of his body to Xue Di.
"Xiao'er, I didn't expect your spiritual power to be so naturally strong. No wonder my soul power could be sealed so smoothly." Xue Di said to Ye Nanxiao's spiritual body while floating above the sea of spiritual energy.
Xiao'er was a little annoyed. Powerful mental strength? A cheat system? Well, I'm not sleepy anymore!
Thinking about the "golden finger" (a cheat system), several applications of mental power flashed through Ye Nanxiao's mind, and he grasped one of them.
After trying to control it, Ye Nanxiao discovered that he could freely control the movement of his mental energy, and even to the point of projecting it outwards.
"As expected, you are related to European royalty! This is a golden finger that is even more golden than gold!" Ye Nanxiao was very excited, controlling his mental power to change in countless ways, as if he were molding clay.
Having had his fill of fun, Ye Nanxiao said to Xue Di, "I've noticed that too, so I have an idea. What do you think of its feasibility?"
Ye Nanxiao told Xue Di that he was controlling his outward mental energy to achieve a kind of energy feedback perception, so that anyone carrying energy could be perceived.
As Xue Di listened, she nodded, her eyes filled with immense surprise. She hadn't expected Ye Nanxiao to be so talented, already able to release his spiritual power at will. For the first time, Xue Di felt that the idea of becoming a god through symbiosis was achievable.
After obtaining Xue Di's consent, Ye Nanxiao immediately began cultivating. He attempted to continuously project his mental energy outward, forming a circular area that could be covered, to receive feedback information. He gradually expanded his perspective from a point where he could easily observe, while maintaining the duration of the area. He was cultivating under two conditions simultaneously. Fortunately, Ye Nanxiao had lived two lives and possessed strong mental energy; otherwise, the pain of his mind being torn apart would have caused him to fall into a coma for several months.
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Dividing line
A dense aura of death filled the entire hall. The figure sitting on the throne in the center of the hall suddenly unleashed a terrifying aura of death. The tangible death intent caused dark clouds to gather in the sky above the hall, and the hall was filled with the screams of souls. A giant soul tool sat in the center of the hall, frantically absorbing the screaming souls around it.
"Mother, you're awake." A man with effeminate features walked into the main hall, and the deathly aura and souls within the hall all made way for him.
The shadowy figure on the throne opened its eyes. In an instant, the screams of the souls in the hall stopped, and the deathly aura ceased to spread. The man quickly lowered his head, knelt on one knee, and dared not meet the gaze of the shadowy figure on the throne.
"I sensed an astonishing evil aura, very pure and captivating, but still very weak. It won't be of much help to the plan yet. Have people keep an eye on it and nurture it for now. Now, focus all your efforts on advancing the 'Grim Reaper's' progress." The shadowy figure's voice was clear and crisp, like a young girl's, but the aura it exuded was like that of a demon from the abyss.
The man was surprised. He wanted to look up but didn't dare. He raised his hands above his head, knelt down in front of the dark figure, and loudly replied, "I obey Mother."
New author, new book, written for a past dream. Please refrain from criticism if you don't like it.
(End of this chapter)