Chapter 199
Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm: Eat and sleep, sleep and eat, and you can still become a 90
Chapter 199 Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm: Eat and sleep, sleep and eat, and you can still become a 90-year-old ferocious beast!
The scene on the sky slowly dimmed, and Haiyuan's enormous body twisted disdainfully on the arena, finding the human's anger laughable.
"A bunch of hypocritical ants."
Haiyuan snorted coldly, and his enormous tentacles stirred up a gust of bloody wind.
"When you kill soul beasts to obtain soul rings and soul bones, why don't you talk about cruelty?"
"I ate at a few people's house for a treat, and that made me a heinous criminal?"
On the other side of the Sun and Moon Continent, countless Soul Masters cursed at the sky, wishing they could rush into the screen and turn that giant squid into a teppanyaki grill.
But in any case, Haiyuan at least caused a sensation, unlike Liaoyuan which made people drowsy.
"Next up is the third one—the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm!"
As the emotionless voice from the sky resounded.
A pale white beam of light precisely enveloped the plump, fleshy worm.
Upon seeing his name prominently displayed in the sky, Tianmeng Bingcan felt a sudden darkness engulf his vision.
A sense of despair called "social death" instantly overwhelmed its reason.
Its two small golden eyes no longer held their usual smug gleam, but were filled with a sorrowful indignation that made it feel utterly hopeless.
"It's over...it's all over..."
The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm covered its chubby face with its two short forelegs. If we don't consider species isolation, its face would definitely be deathly pale right now.
"The price of becoming stronger, of becoming a god."
"I'm going to expose every single detail of my most humiliating, shameful, and undignified dark history over the past million years to all the humans and spirit beasts on the continent..."
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm let out a heart-wrenching wail in its heart:
"Then I'd rather not have this divine position!"
"Compared to the shame of being publicly executed, being captured by Di Tian and his gang and kept as a power bank to suck blood is much better."
It seems... not so hard to accept after all!
At least that way only a few ferocious beasts would know about my miserable state; now it's being broadcast live to the whole world!
The light and shadow shift, and the scene changes instantly.
A vast, snow-covered, and bitterly cold ice field in the far north.
The cold wind howled, and the snow fell heavily.
In this forbidden zone of life, the perspective zooms in.
In an inconspicuous snowdrift, a tiny ice silkworm, no thicker than a finger and translucent white, peeked out from under the snow, shivering.
The backtracking process has begun.
At that moment, audiences across the entire mainland held their breath.
Everyone thought this was the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, which was "claimed to have a million years of cultivation" but was only 99 years old.
How earth-shattering one's birth might be.
Or at least like the first two, they were born with a certain fierce aura.
But this little bug in the picture...
Weak, helpless, and even looking a little...appetizing?
The voice, like a narrator's voice, rang out at the right moment, yet carried a strange sense of vicissitude:
"The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm was born on the edge of the far north."
"It is neither an ancient exotic species nor a spiritual object of heaven and earth."
"It is merely the most common, most numerous, and most humble ice silkworm race in the far north."
In the scene, the young Tianmeng Ice Silkworm lives in constant fear in order to survive.
It dared not go to places rich in spiritual energy, because there were powerful ice bears and snow wolves there;
It doesn't even dare to come out to forage during the day; it can only sneak out on nights when the blizzard is at its fiercest to nibble on some low-lying moss and icicles.
In the harsh food chain of the far north, the Ice Silkworm Clan occupies the absolute bottom.
For any predator in the far north, they are walking protein, readily available snacks, and reserves to survive the harsh winter.
Even a slightly stronger Ten-Year Wind Baboon could easily crush the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm into a pulp. "Life was precarious, as worthless as grass."
These eight characters perfectly summarize the first ten thousand years of life of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm.
Looking at myself in the sky, I saw myself, who had to hide in an ice crevice for three days and three nights to escape the pursuit of a century-old snow fox, my body almost frozen stiff.
On the arena, Tianmeng Bingcan slowly lowered her hands that were covering her face.
The shame in its eyes faded somewhat, replaced by a deep sense of感慨 (gǎnkǎi, a feeling of deep emotion) and a hint of barely perceptible relief.
"yes……"
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm sighed, its round body lying limply on the ground, muttering to itself:
"Those days were truly unbearable."
"Back then, my biggest dream was to survive the next winter."
"If it weren't for that sudden accident later, if it weren't for my incredible luck in falling into that place..."
"I'm afraid that hundreds of thousands of years ago, I was already turned into the excrement in the belly of some soul beast, and I've been dead for who knows how many years."
"Where would I have the chance to stand here and compete with you for a divine position..."
The scene on the sky suddenly changed.
The little ice silkworm, still trembling with fear as it tried to escape its predator, slipped and fell during a frantic escape.
"Slurp—"
It was accompanied by a comical thud as someone slipped and fell.
The young Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, like a white glutinous rice ball, rolled down a very hidden ice crevice.
This roll led to an abyss that seemed bottomless.
Just when all the viewers thought the unfortunate little bug was about to be smashed into a pulp and the show was over, a strange, eerie blue light appeared on the screen.
That day, the Dream Ice Silkworm landed at the bottom in a daze. There was no hard rock beneath it, but rather something soft, cool, and exuding an enticing fragrance.
It opened its mouth groggily and tentatively took a bite of the "ground" beneath it.
"Click".
It melts in your mouth, and an unimaginably vast amount of pure primordial energy instantly fills your entire body!
The emotionless narration in the sky now seemed to carry a tremor that even it found absurd:
"The gears of fate have started to turn absurdly at this moment."
"Deep within this ice crevice lies the core of the frigid air that has gathered over millions of years in the far north, nurturing the most supreme ice-attribute treasure in the world—the Ten-Thousand-Year Frost Marrow."
"Moreover, not a drop, nor a piece."
The camera zooms out, revealing the entire ice cave to the world.
That was an entire underground river of millennia-old icy marrow!
The sheer number of them would drive even the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North crazy!
"You...you've struck it rich?"
The little ice silkworm in the picture widened its beady green eyes, then let out a happy scream and plunged headfirst into the ocean of eternally frozen marrow.
The following scene plunged all the Soul Masters and Soul Beasts of the Douluo Continent into a deathly silence.
There were no thrilling battles, no near-death experiences, and no arduous journeys to understand the ways of heaven.
The scene appears to be on fast forward:
eat.
sleep.
I'll continue eating once I wake up.
I'll go back to sleep after I've had enough.
The life of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm is dull and monotonous; it does nothing but eat and sleep.
Its body swelled up like an inflating balloon, and its originally weak aura began to surge wildly at a rocket-like speed!
A hundred years...a thousand years...ten thousand years...
(End of this chapter)