29: Chapter 29 Hyotei, I Want to Invite You to Godhood! You...you're actually the Chosen One of this Plane?!

"Mother, I really have to go."

"Can't you stay for a few more days? You've only just returned..."

"There are still things to do at the academy, and this training trip is very important for my future cultivation."

"You child... you've always been so independent since you were little. Since you've decided, Mother won't stop you. But you must take care of yourself out there. Don't get hurt, alright?"

"Yes, I know, Mother."

At the entrance of the Huo family courtyard in Heaven Dou City.

The morning sunlight coated this warm little courtyard in a shallow layer of gold.

Huo Yuhao stood at the entrance, bidding a final farewell to his mother, Huo Yuner.

Tang Ya, Jiang Nannan, Wang Qiuer, and Gu Yuena all stood quietly to the side.

After spending the past few days together, Huo Yuner grew more and more pleased with Wang Qiuer, wishing she could arrange their marriage on the spot.

As for Gu Yuena, she maintained a polite yet slightly reverent distance.

"Tang Ya, Nannan, please take care of my mother while I'm away from home." Huo Yuhao turned and said to the two of them.

"Don't worry, benefactor!" Tang Ya patted her chest and promised. "Aunt Yun is just like my own aunt! If anyone dares to bully her, I'll be the first to object!"

Jiang Nannan also nodded gently. "Go with peace of mind, Yuhao. We'll take care of things at home."

Finally, Huo Yuhao's gaze fell upon Wang Qiuer.

Today, the young girl was still wearing her neat, form-fitting outfit. Her long golden hair fluttered gently in the morning breeze, and her golden eyes were filled with reluctance to part.

"I want to go too," Wang Qiuer said, looking at him with a firm tone.

"No," Huo Yuhao shook his head. "The place I'm going to this time is very dangerous. It's not suitable for you."

"I'm not afraid of danger!"

Wang Qiuer took a step forward, her voice rising slightly. "Wherever you go, I go! If there's danger, we face it together!"

Seeing the stubbornness in her eyes, Huo Yuhao's heart softened.

He knew that reasoning with this girl wouldn't work.

He walked forward, and under Wang Qiuer's slightly startled gaze, he raised his hand and gently tidied her wind-blown bangs.

His movements were very gentle, carrying a hint of doting affection that even he hadn't noticed.

"Be good, Qiuer."

Huo Yuhao's voice was extremely low, easily dismantling all of Wang Qiuer's persistence and stubbornness.

"Only Gu Yuena can help me with the place I'm going to this time. Stay here and help me take care of my mother, okay?"

Wang Qiuer's body stiffened slightly.

She could feel the warmth of Huo Yuhao's fingertips, which seemed to carry an electric current that left half of her body somewhat numb.

She opened her mouth, wanting to say something more, but meeting Huo Yuhao's deep and earnest eyes, all her words got stuck in her throat.

"Be good," Huo Yuhao's voice grew even softer. "Gu Yuena and I will be back very soon."

He looked into her eyes and made a solemn promise, word by word.

"Wait for me to return..."

He didn't finish his sentence, but the meaning implied in his unspoken words made Wang Qiuer's heart skip a beat.

She bit her lower lip, an uncontrollable blush rising on her face. In the end, she still nodded reluctantly and gently.

"...Alright. I'll wait for you."

"We should go."

Beside them, Gu Yuena's cold voice rang out at the right moment, breaking the somewhat ambiguous atmosphere.

Huo Yuhao withdrew his hand, nodded to everyone, and then turned to walk toward the alley entrance with Gu Yuena.

Until the figures of the two completely disappeared around the corner, Wang Qiuer still stood blankly in place, her hand unconsciously touching her bangs where he had just touched them, the blush on her face still lingering.

Huo Yuner watched all of this, let out a gratified sigh, and thought to herself: "My silly son has finally opened his eyes to love."

...

Leaving Heaven Dou City, the two headed all the way north.

Only then did Huo Yuhao notice that Gu Yuena had a neatly folded silver cloak in her hands.

The material of the cloak was very peculiar. It looked as if it were woven from some kind of silver thread, with a faint radiance flowing over it in the sunlight, yet it didn't feel heavy at all.

"What is this?" Huo Yuhao asked curiously.

"A cloak," Gu Yuena replied, concise and to the point.

"I know it's a cloak, I mean..."

"It's cold on the road," Gu Yuena interrupted him, saying in a matter-of-fact tone. "You're too weak."

Huo Yuhao: "..."

Well, although it was the absolute truth, hearing it from her mouth still felt a bit disheartening.

With Gu Yuena's strength, let alone the Extreme North, even if she were thrown into the sun, she would probably remain completely unharmed.

This cloak was obviously not prepared for herself.

A trace of warmth flowed through Huo Yuhao's heart, and he didn't ask any further.

A few days later, the scenery along the way had changed from lush green to desolate yellow, and finally, turned into an endless expanse of pure white.

The temperature in the air also dropped sharply.

When their feet stepped onto the frozen soil of the Extreme North for the first time, a cold current that seemed capable of freezing the soul rushed over them.

This place was a forbidden zone for life.

The sky was grayish-white, and the earth was pure white. Aside from the endless howling of the cold wind, there was no other sound in the entire World.

Huo Yuhao circulated his Soul Power to resist the pervasive cold.

He was now a two-ring Spirit Grandmaster, and with the million-year Spirit Beast Tianmeng Iceworm as his Soul Spirit, his resistance to the ice element far exceeded that of ordinary people.

But even so, he still felt an immense pressure in this World.

The cold here was not just physical low temperature, but also carried a suppression at the level of laws, as if it wanted to completely freeze all vitality.

Looking at Gu Yuena beside him, she was still in her thin silver dress, walking as if taking a leisurely stroll in a courtyard, completely unaffected.

She looked at Huo Yuhao's slightly pale face, and without saying a word, she unfolded the silver cloak in her hand and draped it over his shoulders.

The moment the cloak was put on, a warm aura instantly isolated the extreme cold of the outside World.

Huo Yuhao felt his whole body relax, and even the circulation of his Soul Power became much smoother.

"Thank you," he said softly.

Gu Yuena didn't respond, only walking forward on her own.

The two walked on this endless snowy plain for about another half-day.

Finally, Gu Yuena stopped in her tracks.

"This is the place."

Almost at the same time, the voice of the Tianmeng Iceworm also came from Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sea.

"[Yuhao, this is the place. That fellow Ice Empress is sleeping near here.]"

Huo Yuhao nodded.

In the next moment, a white silhouette of light flew out from his body, condensing into the image of a lovely and cute young girl in the wind and snow.

She had long, snow-white hair that fluttered wildly in the wind and snow.

Her eyes were like the purest stars, flashing with the light of wisdom and antiquity.

She took a deep breath of the cold air, an enjoying expression appearing on her face.

"Ah... the air here is still the most comfortable."

She closed her eyes, and an invisible yet vast, ocean-like wave of spiritual fluctuation rippled outward in all directions from her like water waves!

"Ice Empress..."

"My old friend..."

"Come out and meet me..."

Her voice resounded across this ice plain on a spiritual level.

At first, there was absolute silence between heaven and earth.

But a moment later...

*Rumble rumble!*

In the distance, a massive, earth-shaking roar rang out!

Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena looked up at the same time.

They saw that at the edge of their vision, a massive ice mountain several hundred meters high began to vibrate violently without any warning!

Countless massive blocks of ice peeled off the mountain, kicking up a sky full of snow mist!

*Boom!!!*

Accompanied by a deafening roar, that ice mountain actually collapsed from the middle with a crash!

Amidst the swirling wind, snow, and ice crystals, a jade-green figure slowly walked out.

It was an exquisitely beautiful woman.

She wore a simply tailored jade-green short skirt, revealing a pair of slender, straight, beautiful legs.

Her emerald-like, jade-green hair cascaded down like a waterfall, reaching all the way to her waist.

Her skin was even fairer than the ice and snow of the Extreme North.

Her eyes were of the same jade-green color as her hair, yet they exuded a cold arrogance that kept people thousands of miles away, along with a sharpness that seemed capable of piercing through everything.

And behind her, a similarly jade-green scorpion tail covered in exquisite patterns was gently swaying.

The tip of the scorpion tail, a needle shining with a ghostly green cold light, seemed to tell the World...

Just what kind of lethal poison was hidden beneath this exquisitely beautiful figure.

Ice Jade Empress Scorpion.

One of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North, a peerless savage beast with a cultivation of four hundred thousand years.

Ice Empress!

She stood suspended in midair just like that, her gaze piercing through layers of wind and snow, landing precisely on Tianmeng Iceworm.

An indescribable, terrifying pressure descended instantly!

Huo Yuhao only felt his breath hitch!

This pressure was more terrifying than any Spirit Beast he had ever faced before!

It was an absolute suppression!

Right at this moment, Gu Yuena quietly took half a step forward, blocking most of Huo Yuhao's body behind her.

That terrifying pressure instantly dissipated into nothingness.

Ice Empress's gaze paused slightly on Gu Yuena, a hard-to-detect trace of surprise and suspicion flashing through her green pupils.

But her attention quickly returned to Tianmeng Iceworm.

She spoke slowly, her voice cold and clear, carrying unconcealed contempt and disgust.

"Tianmeng."

"A useless trash like you, who knows nothing but how to sleep, actually dares to disturb my slumber?"

Faced with this practically vicious mockery, Tianmeng Iceworm didn't care at all, instead letting out a charming laugh.

"Oh, Ice Empress, don't be like that. We haven't seen each other for tens of thousands of years, and your temper is still so foul."

She pointed a finger at Huo Yuhao beside her, a hint of a smug smile on her face.

"I didn't come empty-handed this time. Haven't I brought a sky-high opportunity for our Yuhao?"

Ice Empress's gaze finally landed on Huo Yuhao.

When she saw clearly that Huo Yuhao was just a human, her jade-green pupils suddenly contracted.

"A human?"

Her voice instantly dropped to freezing point.

"Tianmeng, are you crazy? You actually chose a human? Concluding a contract with a human... are you treating your million-year cultivation as a joke?!"

"I'm not crazy," Tianmeng Iceworm put away her smile, her expression turning serious.

Without waiting for her to explain further, Huo Yuhao had already taken a step forward from behind Gu Yuena on his own initiative, meeting Ice Empress's sharp gaze.

He knew that at this moment, he had to face it himself.

"Hello, Ice Empress."

His voice was calm and clear, without the slightest tremor due to the other party's terrifying pressure.

"My name is Huo Yuhao. I didn't come here because Sister Tianmeng brought me, but because I want to invite you to create a future together with me."

He uttered the sentence that was enough to drive any Spirit Beast crazy.

"I want to invite you to... become a god with me."

The air seemed to freeze at this moment.

Ice Empress was stunned.

She felt as if she had just heard the funniest joke in the World.

After a brief moment of shock, she let out a crisp sneer filled with mockery.

"Giggle giggle... Become a god?"

She looked at Huo Yuhao as if looking at an ignorant fool who didn't know the immensity of heaven and earth.

"Just with you? A mere two-ring little human?"

"Yes."

Huo Yuhao's answer was only a single word.

But his straight spine and his unshrinking eyes, flashing with the light of self-confidence, made this simple word full of infinite power.

"I have confidence."

Ice Empress's laughter stopped abruptly.

She stared dead at Huo Yuhao, as if trying to find even a trace of pretense or guilt on this human's face.

But she failed.

All she saw was calmness, and that absolute confidence that seemed to originate from the depths of his soul.

Silence.

A long silence.

Even the wind and snow seemed to die down in this bizarre confrontation.

Finally, Ice Empress spoke slowly, the scorpion tail behind her trembling slightly.

"Based on... what?"

Huo Yuhao smiled.

He stretched out his right hand, palm facing up.

He didn't summon his Spirit, nor did he release his Soul Power.

However, deep within his Spiritual Sea, in that vast and boundless space co-constructed by Tianmeng Iceworm and Electrolux...

A tiny golden imprint that exuded a supreme aura quietly emerged.

The light of that imprint penetrated the barrier between Spirit and reality, though no physical light appeared.

Yet that supreme will belonging solely to the plane was clearly perceived by Ice Empress!

"Based on... this."

Huo Yuhao's voice rang out calmly.

Ice Empress's gaze was nailed to Huo Yuhao, or rather, nailed to that aura originating from the core of the plane that she could clearly perceive!

The expression on her face underwent an earth-shattering change in just a brief instant.

From her initial contempt to unconcealable shock, and finally, turning into an unbelief that almost overflowed from her eyes!

Her body trembled slightly, out of her control.

She muttered to herself, her voice carrying a trace of a tremor that even she hadn't noticed.

"This is... the imprint of the Son of the Plane..."

"You... you're actually..."