Douluo: Ice Demon Yuhao (Patreon)

Chapter 13: Memories End

The illusion in front of him disappeared, but it wasn't over yet. Another golden-white light flew towards his hand, and the scene changed once again.

Huo Yuhao saw the Skydream Ice Worm Baby shivering under the pitch-black ice layer that had not seen the world for tens of millions of years. It used its weak spiritual power to sense everything around it.

In the dark ice cave, there seemed to be some danger lurking, and it hesitated for a long time before moving its body.

Suddenly, a faint blue light appeared not far ahead. The Skydream Ice Worm Baby seemed to see hope in its eyes and crawled with all its strength towards the direction of the light.

Finally, it saw the source of the light.

It was a cold and frigid spring emitting a blue-white fluorescent light, filled with countless precious treasures that countless spirit beasts had fought for over tens of thousands of years—the Ten Thousand Years Icy Marrow covered this ice cave.

However, the Skydream Ice Worm Baby didn't know any of this; it only knew that these were its food.

So, it decided to stay here.

"Eat and sleep, sleep and eat, you're really living the life..." Huo Yuhao couldn't help but chuckle.

Now he understood; the scene before him was the memory of the Skydream Ice Worm Dream.

There was no danger in the ice cave, and there were abundant treasures. The Skydream Ice Worm Baby grew up slowly here, enduring the tribulations of time—hundreds of years, thousands of years, ten thousand years, it survived them all.

The scene fast-forwarded, and its size grew larger and larger, with more and more golden patterns on its body, finally turning into the current appearance of the Skydream Ice Worm Dream.

Until one day, all the Ten Thousand Years Icy Marrow here had been eaten.

The Skydream Ice Worm Dream hesitated but was unwilling to leave this safe haven, as the outside world was full of dangers. However, it made up its mind, mustered its courage, and used its hundreds of thousands of years of spiritual power to break through the ice layer and return to the surface.

Finally, it met the sky that had been separated for hundreds of thousands of years. Clear skies were rare in the far north, but the Skydream Ice Worm Dream didn't feel joy because there was a long-awaited murderous aura around it.

The owner of the murderous aura was a scorpion emitting a mesmerizing green light.

The escape of the Skydream Ice Worm Dream began...

From the far north to the ocean.

The light orbs kept falling into Huo Yuhao's hands, and the memories of the Skydream Ice Worm Dream played out before him like a movie.

The temptation of the Ten Thousand Years Beast's Heaven and Earth Elemental Energy was enough to attract all greedy beings. Huo Yuhao had never seen so many strange and bizarre spirit beasts, nor had he imagined that there were so many ten-thousand-year spirit beasts in this world.

Finally, the Skydream Ice Worm Dream's escape reached its final stop—

Star Dou Great Forest.

Is it going to end now?

Huo Yuhao raised an eyebrow; only one light orb was left in front of him.

"Please, just that one... don't watch it..." The headache of the Skydream Ice Worm Dream had subsided, but she didn't forcibly stop Huo Yuhao and could only beg with a voice full of suffering.

Huo Yuhao fell silent for a moment and decided to retract his hand, but the light orb stubbornly landed in his palm.

The scene changed again.

However, this time, Huo Yuhao's expression wasn't indifferent like before; instead, his brow furrowed, and his eyes turned cold.

He saw the Skydream Ice Worm Dream's huge body being constantly torn apart by other spirit beasts, and they were absorbing the scattered Heaven and Earth Elemental Energy.

He saw the Skydream Ice Worm Dream's body being continuously cut by other spirit beasts, and they were licking its white jade-like blood, which was comparable to precious treasures.

He saw...

The powerful spirit beasts that should have been enemies were momentarily pausing their battle and gathering together to eat its power.

But they didn't care about the Skydream Ice Worm Dream's wails of pain. To them, it was nothing more than a lamb waiting to be slaughtered on the cutting board.

The broken wounds quickly healed, but new ones immediately appeared. The Skydream Ice Worm Dream's body was never intact for a moment.

For a full ten thousand years...

"Please... don't watch it..." The Skydream Ice Worm Dream knew that Huo Yuhao now knew everything, but her tearful pleas continued.

She felt that she had lost all dignity.

So what if she was a Ten Thousand Years Beast?

She was just a piece of meat to be devoured.

The memories ended.

"Ugh, that's so disgusting..." Huo Yuhao said lightly, not concealing the disgust in his tone.

The Skydream Ice Worm Dream knelt on the ground, her tearful eyes not daring to meet Huo Yuhao's gaze.

Maybe her pitiful and undignified appearance was really disgusting in his eyes.

"I've memorized the appearance of those spirit beasts. Who do you want to take revenge on in the future? I'll help you deal with them when the time comes," Huo Yuhao's voice came softly, "I made a promise to you, and I never break my promises."

"Since you didn't lie to me, then I won't lie to you either."

The Skydream Ice Worm Dream lifted her tearful golden eyes and looked at Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao smiled, and his blue eyes carried a reassuring, confident, and somewhat... contemptuous look.

The Skydream Ice Worm Dream was stunned, feeling something trembling in her heart.

She could feel that Huo Yuhao wasn't just comforting her; he truly intended to do as he said.

He was just a Spirit Master now! Yet, he dared to make such a grand declaration, not putting those powerful savage beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest in his eyes.

He didn't doubt his own future abilities at all!

"Huo... Yuhao..." The Skydream Ice Worm Dream's eyes were moist, and she couldn't help but throw herself into Huo Yuhao's arms.

"Thank you!"

"I promised you that I will help you ascend to godhood," Huo Yuhao didn't reject her embrace and smiled as he said, "The promises made by Big Brother Hao are never broken."

"Since you didn't deceive me, then I won't deceive you either."

The Skydream Ice Worm Dream let go of her arms around him and took a few steps back. The gloom and heaviness on her face were all gone.

"From now on, just call me Skydream."

"Skydream, dreaming every day..." Huo Yuhao couldn't help but smile, "Are you sure you didn't come up with that name after sleeping for so many tens of thousands of years?"

Skydream pouted, "Hmph, you're so mean. It's really hard to come up with a name."

"It's been quite an experience..." Huo Yuhao spoke again, "By the way, those spirit beasts, how many of them looked weird and abnormal? I can't remember clearly. I'll need you to point them out later."

"Hmph, those big bullies who bullied me, I'll make them all regret it and turn them into Spirit rings and Spirit bones!" As if a knot had been untied in her heart, Skydream felt that the connection between her and Huo Yuhao had deepened. At this moment, she revealed her mischievous side like a little girl, "Especially that smelly bear with sharp claws, and that one..."

Skydream chatted recklessly with Huo Yuhao.

She felt a kind of happiness she hadn't experienced in her life—a happiness she had almost forgotten.

"Skydream, speaking of which, where are we?" Huo Yuhao couldn't help but ask.

He remembered being on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest. Why were they now in an ice field?

And it wasn't cold at all.

Skydream replied, "This is your Sea of Consciousness, in your head."

"Sea?" Huo Yuhao looked around, "Then why isn't there a single drop of water? It's all ice. Shouldn't it be called the Sea of Ice?"

He snapped his fingers, and a crisp sound echoed.

"Moreover, the touch feels so real."

Unlike the illusion he experienced earlier, everything here was incredibly real.

This place didn't seem like a Sea of Consciousness but more like an independent space.

"I don't know either; I'm surprised too." Skydream lowered her head in thought, but she couldn't figure out the reason.

"You have too many secrets, and I barely understand anything about you. But one thing's for sure, you're a complete monster!"

"I'm betting my future on you, so don't disappoint me!"

Huo Yuhao's face was filled with nothing but confidence.

"Of course."

Suddenly, he noticed something peculiar in the ice field—a floating grey light sphere.

"What's that..."

"That's the mysterious grey person from earlier. He seems to come from another world, just like you. However, only a wisp of his Spirit remains. I don't know why he fused with your Sea of Consciousness, but he doesn't have any ill intent."

"Oh."

Huo Yuhao seemed to understand but didn't fully grasp it. He asked seriously, "How do you know I'm not from this world?"

"Well... Actually, I just watched your memories," Skydream replied.

"But it's fine; you watched mine too. We're even."

Huo Yuhao didn't mind Skydream knowing about his identity as a transmigrator.

Now he had many questions to ask, but Skydream suddenly said, "Huo Yuhao, it's time to leave. There are two humans approaching from outside."

"Two humans? How do I go out?"

"You are the master here; just think about it, and you'll be out."

"Understood."

Huo Yuhao thought about it, and his consciousness left the Sea of Consciousness.