A grey stream of air descended from the sky, as if an enormous attractive force had sucked it downwards. After only an instant, it landed on the back of Sai Joshi's head, and quietly entered it.
"Who dares to fight with this brother over a person?" The Stardream Iceworm flew into a rage. Its huge spiritual undulations instantly surged forth in an attempt to expel the grey stream of air from Sai Joshi's body.
An extremely blurry figure appeared behind Sai Joshi, and a majestic voice with a hard-to-describe imposingness echoedout, "The hand grasps the sun and moon, and also plucks the stars; This world has no one like me. I didn't think that this emperor would have a trace of a remnant spirit left that still existed here."
The vague and illusory figure didn't seem to be affected by the Stardream Iceworm's powerful spiritual attack at all. With a whoosh, it disappeared into the back of Sai Joshi's head.
The Stardream Iceworm didn't dare to strengthen his spiritual attack again, as traces of blood had already begun to seep out of Sai Joshi's seven apertures. He discovered that, after the grey stream of air had entered Sai Joshi's mind, it had immediately turned into a base ball-sized grey pearl. Then, it had turned silent. It didn't conflict with his spiritual energy, nor could he affect it with his power.
"I can't be this unlucky. It was so hard to find a spiritual-type human, but a bastard wants to snatch him from me. Are the heavens jealous of a genius like myself? This brother is so pitiful!" Although he was currently voicing his complaints, his movements didn't slow down at all. Dense white light gradually condensed and poured into Sai Joshi's body, while the Stardream Iceworm's body both gradually turned more transparent during the process, and rapidly decreased in volume. There had already been no turning back for him, from the instant he'd started to pour his energy into Sai Joshi's body.
Sai Joshi's body had turned completely jade-white, and resembled the previous appearance of the Stardream Iceworm. His shoulders' wounds were recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Hahaha, no matter what way you put it, this brother is finally free! You bastards who took me as food no longer have any chance, hahaha!" The Stardream Iceworm's voice, who was clearly pleased with himself, gradually turned softer and softer. The huge spiritual energy that had previously covered a hundred miles proceeded to shrink at a frightening speed, then gradually disappeared.
Several terrifying auras from within the depths of the Spirit Hunting Forest simultaneously let out violent undulations, as if they'd sensed something. However, they were fated to to not have any success in their endeavors.
When the Stardream Iceworm's voice had completely disappeared, a jade-white halo soundlessly appeared beneath Sai Joshi's body. After circling around his body three times, its light dimmed, and the entire halo merged into his body, disappearing without a trace.
Sai Joshi didn't know that, while he was unconscious, he'd managed to obtain his first soul ring. Furthermore, this was a soul ring that was truly unrivalled and unique on the Spirit Continent.
The jade-white colour gradually faded from Sai Joshi, and an ice-blue layer started to appear below his skin. This lasted roughly ten seconds, before it gradually dimmed and restored the original colour of his skin. Then, his body tilted, causing him to fall against the tree he'd previously leaned against.
A thin white membrane that had a faint golden sheen to it soundlessly rose into the air, before it rapidly shrunk and formed a ball that disappeared inside of Sai Joshi's heart. There were no more traces of the Stardream Iceworm's aura after that.
The big hole in the road had already closed at an earlier time, and except for the collapsed Sai Joshi, the datata snake that'd been killed by him had had its corpse left on the ground. Everything else also seemed to have recovered to its normal state.
After Sai Joshi fainted, he entered a dream. He dreamt that he'd entered a pure white space. There were many motes of light within the space, and he couldn't see the end of it. However, his gaze still seemed to somehow be able to reach every single corner of the space.
Whilst in the midst of understanding the mysteries of the space, it had suddenly turned turbulent. After that, golden lights had interweaved and entered the space.
Whilst in the midst of understanding the mysteries of the space, it had suddenly turned turbulent. After that, golden lights had interweaved and entered the space.
The golden lights converged into enormous golden rings of light which floated in midair, and the many motes of light within the room started to increase in size due to their appearance.
The ten golden rings of light slowly started to rotate, and a milky white halo appeared within every single one of them. As the halo's strength increased, they gradually gathered together and formed ten enormous balls of light that floated within the space. The height and the volume of the space increased many folds in size in turn.
At that moment, an unremarkable grey ball of light appeared near one of the golden balls of light. The grey ball's size was much smaller than the other ten balls of light. Furthermore, the golden balls of light began releasing a strong golden light, as if they wanted to chase it away. However, the grey ball remained tranquil, and continued to float in midair. No matter how much the golden lights attacked the grey ball, it didn't seem to be affected at all.
In the end, the ten golden lights could only give up on the meaningless task. They turned stable, and flickered with a dim luster.
As Sai Joshi's consciousness gradually cleared, the smaller motes of light that were floating in the space gradually sank downwards, forming a faint golden ocean that supported the ten enormous balls of light. Only the extremely tiny grey light remained midair, unwilling to join the large balls of light.