This was definitely a soul beast, yet it unexpectedly resembled a silkworm. However, it was god-knows how many times larger than a normal silkworm.
Its body was the same colour as white jade, sparkled, and was translucent. Although it had dug itself out from the earth, there wasn't any dirt on its brilliant skin at all. Halos of light moved about underneath its epidermis, and it unexpectedly had a small pair of eyes on its head that flickered with a golden light. Strangest of all, golden patterns were engraved on its body at certain intervals, starting half a metre from its head. From head to tail, it had a total of ten golden patterns.
A look of despair appeared on Sai Joshi's already nervous face as he gazed at its enormous body. It has such an enormous body, and it has the power to change the temperature… it's at least a hundred year soul beast. It's over, everything's over.
"Don't be scared, don't be scared. This brother won't harm you!" The voice from before echoed out in Sai Joshi's mind once again, and the enormous silkworm nodded its head. Its huge head then drooped downwards, before stopping a metre away from Sai Joshi. It even emitted a faintly fragrant odor from its body.
Sai Joshi said in a startled tone, "Are you the one that's talking to me?"
The enormous silkworm nodded its head in response, and its voice continued to echo out inside of his mind, "It's obviously this brother that's speaking. Did you get captivated by my beautiful body?"
After realizing that the enormous silkworm didn't have any evil intentions, Sai Joshi's taut heartstrings relaxed a bit.
"What do you want to do?"
The silkworm replied, "First off, let me introduce myself. I am the embodiment of heroism and chivalry! A king of kings amongst soul beasts, who is both equally smart and good-looking! I'm an absolute expert, one who has cultivated for a million years! I'm the Stardream Iceworm who's set the record for the longest lifespan in the Spirit Continent! Yup, you can call me Brother Stardream!"
Sai Joshi's eyes instantly turned lifeless, "Mil-Million year soul beast?" The Stardream Iceworm's age differed from his prediction by a factor of ten thousand times. Furthermore, were there really such existences as million year soul beasts in the world? The strongest soul beast on the Spirit Continent should only be a hundred thousand years old!
The Stardream Iceworm, who was clearly pleased with himself, said, "Aren't you in awe? Aren't you really excited? You're the first human who's seen my almighty figure."
Sai Joshi blankly said, "Then what do you want to do?"
The Stardream Iceworm's voice suddenly became serious, "This brother wants to become your soul ring—the Spirit Continent's first ever intelligent soul ring."
"Ah?" Sai Joshi looked at the Stardream Iceworm in front of him with a dumbstruck expression. He'd momentarily lost his ability to think.
Everything that had occurred so far had simply been too sudden. Admittedly, he did thirst for a soul ring. However, in the past, the soul ring that he'd wanted to obtain was simply a ten year soul ring. He'd never had any extravagant hopes. Yet, at this moment, a massive silkworm that could talk had suddenly dug itself out from beneath the ground, had told him that it was an almighty million year soul beast, and that it wanted to become his soul ring. This made Sai Joshi completely unable to understand what was going on at all. Furthermore, he didn't know whether the Skydream Iceworm was telling the truth or not.
However, the enormous silkworm in front of him wasn't something that he could hope to fight, regardless of whether it was telling the truth or not.
The Stardream Iceworm's enormous head turned in the direction of the Spirit Hunting Forest, and carefully scanned it. Then, it turned back towards Sai Joshi and said, "I'm going to start, okay? Don't worry, I'll be gentle. I won't cause too much pain."
"You…" Before Sai Joshi could even voice any sort of opposition, an extremely cold aura caused him to immediately lose consciousness. He could only faintly see a white object charging towards him. In the next moment, all of his thoughts faded away.
The ten golden patterns on the Stardream Iceworm's body moved rhythmically, almost as if they were alive. The white object that Sai Joshi had seen was actually the Stardream Iceworm's head, which had reached forward to press against his head.
The ten golden patterns rapidly enveloped Sai Joshi's skinny body, and the Stardream Iceworm slowly turned itself halos of white light that unceasingly surged into his body.
"Weak. This is simply good. Ah! Just some seals will I have to put on my body before his body can support me? It's so hard to become an intelligent soul ring."
When the Stardream Iceworm had surged towards Sai Joshi's body, a layer of incorporeal spiritual undulations had spread out from its body. These terrifying spiritual energy undulations almost instantly covered everything within a hundred miles.
When the spiritual energy undulations covered, they immediately fell into a momentarily sluggish state. Although the spiritual attack hadn't been too damaging, it still caused all living beings to lose their ability to think for a short period of time.
At this moment, a large portion of the southern area of the Spirit Hunting Forest had become frighteningly quiet.
Previously, the sky had been extremely clear. However, it had suddenly darkened, and a thunder-like boom resounded out in the air. In that instant, the sun's brilliant rays of light were unexpectedly covered up by the darkness. Then, an enormous pressure that caused one to be unable to even breathe descended from the sky.
When the thunder-like boom resounded in the air, the Stardream Iceworm's enormous body, who was currently trying to merge with Sai Joshi's body, violently shook for a moment. Its small, golden eyes looked upwards into the sky, and a terrified look immediately appeared inside of them. Inside of that terrified expression was also a hint of shock. The pressure in the sky clearly hadn't affected it, but it exceeded its knowledge.