Devouring the Stars: Soul Master

Chapter 375 The Dark Lord's Wondrous Ideas

Reincarnation mainly consists of two processes.

First, the soul is stripped away, leaving only a trace of true spirit, while the rest of the soul's essence is integrated into the River of Souls. Only then is the true spirit sent into the life about to be born.

In the primordial universe, there were billions of races, including many within human territory, such as ferocious beasts, monsters, and even ordinary domestic fowl.

Of the two processes, the first one is easier to handle.

After tens of millions of years of research and exploration, Qin Ming has also summarized a set of highly efficient methods.

In a natural state, the soul dissipates naturally after death.

Without the protection of the outer shell of the soul, even the most essential true spirit will dissipate.

What Qin Ming needs to do is preserve this bit of true spirit even when his soul has disappeared.

With a deeper understanding of the soul, and relying on the unique characteristics of the Myriad Soul Banner and the Netherworld Divine Kingdom, Qin Ming has been able to achieve this.

This actually implies a very important point.

That is, Qin Ming's soul attack can now affect life forms that do not have a 'soul'!

Is the path of the soul really so inconvenient?
Just for now.

It also requires being within the realm of the Netherworld God, and the process is quite complicated, making it unsuitable as a means of attack.

However, Qin Ming estimated that as long as the Myriad Soul Banner advances once more and reaches the ninth rank, truly entering the level of the strongest treasure, it should be able to directly achieve a 'soul attack' that is equal to all life!
Even if the other party is a soulless rock life form, metal life form, or so on.

The ninth-tier Myriad Soul Banner will bring about a qualitative change!
But that’s a story for another day.

Qin Ming's first task is to send his soul into 'reincarnation'!
How can we send that true spirit into the nascent life?

This is very troublesome.

There is a cycle of reincarnation within the cosmic sea. Successfully passing through the cycle of reincarnation naturally opens up a new adventure, but if one fails to pass through the cycle of reincarnation, their soul will be shattered and sent to the Origin Continent.

They will simply have their memories erased and be reincarnated.

Qin Ming had no way of knowing or investigating how this process was accomplished, and therefore it had no reference value.

Needless to say, those who actively reincarnate are even more so.

The Chaos Realm, or the reincarnation of a God-King, allows one to actively choose their identity; such power is beyond Qin Ming's current comprehension.

In Earth's mythology and legends, there exists a special concept called the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

But Qin Ming obviously didn't.

There was only one way he could do.

That is 'manual' reincarnation.

That is, the soul race in the last of the ten halls, the Hall of Reincarnation, will send this wisp of true spirit into the gestating life to complete its reincarnation.

There are two types of Soul Race within the Netherworld God Kingdom.

One type is born from the Netherworld Blood Sea, where the soul and body are united, making it no different from ordinary life.

Irina, the Lord of Sirius, and others are examples of this.

There is another type, which is pure soul life.

Ordinary people can't even see it.

The soul-reaping messengers of the Netherworld God Kingdom are the latter type, namely, pure soul beings.

In fact, Qin Ming could have completely avoided sending these souls into reincarnation.

Just swallow it whole.

After all, nobody knows.

Or perhaps they could take a shortcut and send only a portion of the geniuses into the cycle of reincarnation.

This will greatly reduce the workload.

Human races can also produce a large number of powerful individuals.

However, this changes the nature of the situation.

Entering the underworld, past and present lives are judged. The virtuous are rewarded and reincarnated, while the wicked are punished and sent to the eighteen hells to atone for their sins.

Among them, the fragments of the soul merged into the River of Souls and into the Netherworld God Kingdom.

Having devoured those soul fragments, Qin Ming had no regrets.

But if it's just about devouring souls...

That would become the Devouring Path!

Moreover, it is the most cruel form of soul devouring.

He can do this when dealing with enemies.

But Qin Ming was unwilling to do so with his own people.

His future path may be the path of the soul, or the path of reincarnation, but it will definitely not be the path of soul devouring!
Watching the first batch of souls below complete their trials and be sent into reincarnation, one by one following the path forward to the River of Souls, Qin Ming felt a surge of pride.

Numerous souls flew into the sky above the River of Souls, their souls gradually dissipating until only a wisp of true spirit remained. Then, protected by the power of the River of Souls, this wisp of true spirit flew into the main hall on the other side of the River of Souls.

Hall of Samsara!
This great hall is extremely large, containing hundreds of millions of soul-collecting messengers, each holding a soul banner, who take the soul into their possession and then send them to reincarnation according to their judgment.

These soul-reaping messengers are not particularly strong; many are only at the level of Domain Lord or Realm Lord.

However, given the unique nature of soul life and the teleportation through the Netherworld God Kingdom, it is still possible to send it to reincarnation using a soul-summoning banner.

The soul-summoning banners in their hands are also the lowest-ranking soul-summoning banners.

The range for collecting souls is only a few hundred meters.

However, as they collect souls and send 'true spirits' into reincarnation, they can also accumulate merits, which can be used to enhance their own strength and increase the authority of the Soul-Summoning Banner.

Furthermore, once one has accumulated a certain amount of merit, one can choose to reincarnate.

Depending on their achievements, individuals can be reincarnated with better talents, such as being reborn into powerful clans or even as descendants of special life forms. The Soul Palace already has a complete promotion mechanism.

As time went on, this promotion mechanism naturally became more and more perfect, and was transplanted to the Ten Palaces.

Watching the soul-summoning messenger, carrying the soul-summoning banner, step into the gates of the underworld and send streams of true spirit into the bodies of different life forms, completing the most primal gestation of life, Qin Ming finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Although it was a bit complicated, I still managed to do it."

Qin Ming stood with his hands behind his back, but his consciousness traveled among all the soul-reaping messengers, watching each and every true spirit that had merged into life.

There is actually a problem with this.

That means the Soul Reaper isn't that strong.

Some powerful beings can detect them.

For example, immortality!

They could even be killed.

However, this is not a big problem.

Even in Earth's mythology and legends, those gods and immortals can easily discover and even kill ordinary soul-reapers.

But if anyone dares to do that.

Then we'll have to face the underworld and Qin Ming's wrath!

He is the Lord of the Underworld!

His rage was so great that even the Lord of the Universe could not withstand it!

"First, complete the verification in the Milky Way galaxy and surrounding areas. After ensuring that it is correct, then expand it to the entire Qianwu Universe Kingdom and all of humanity."

……

Virtual universe, Thunder Peak.

"Lord of the Underworld! What a title you are, Lord of the Underworld. So this is what your name means."

The Lord of Chaos City looked at Qin Ming with amazement in his eyes.

The Chaos City Lord hadn't thought much about Qin Ming's title; he simply assumed Qin Ming might be skilled in soul attacks, hence the choice of that title.

There are actually quite a few similar titles.

For example, the Lord of the Netherworld, whose soul essence was divided into one hundred parts after being killed by them, was offered up for consumption by the human universe venerables.

The similarity between the two is quite high.

"Don't even mention you, I was shocked when I found out."

The Lord of Darkness looked at Qin Ming with disbelief in his eyes.

They had known about the reforms within the Qianwu Universe for a long time and supported them, but they had only recently learned about Qin Ming's Netherworld and the Transcendent Reincarnation.

After informing the Lord of Qianwu, Qin Ming also greeted them.

Even so, it was still incredibly shocking.

The resurrection of the universe's ruler had already terrified them, but it also made them more confident that the rise of the human race in the primordial universe was unstoppable.

But reincarnation!
The concept still shocked them when it was first introduced.

Reincarnation is still controllable!
What does this mean?
The simplest application.

For the Lord of Darkness, his biggest regret is not having a clone.

But if he wanted to, Qin Ming could definitely help him realize that wish.

For example, one could be reincarnated into the offspring of a golden-horned behemoth and start over as that behemoth.

During this process, Qin Ming can even help him preserve his memory!

If you go to an even higher level, you could choose a powerful special life form and cultivate again, and your strength would be much greater than it is now!
And this is also the most powerful way to infiltrate other groups!
For example, the demon race.

In the form of a wisp of true spirit, the life of a powerful human being was allowed to infiltrate the descendants of the demon royal family.

Whether through bloodline or soul, he is the most normal member of the demon race.

But who could have known that he was a human reincarnated?

When a peerless genius emerges in a race, resources are exhausted to nurture him, and he enters the high-level core, he is actually a human who has infiltrated.

That's absolutely terrifying!
There are just too many areas where we can make a difference.

"These things are not urgent for now. The Netherworld is only in its initial stages of operation and is far from perfect."

Qin Ming smiled but remained silent about the thoughts of the Dark Teacher and Chaos Master.

What they could think of, Qin Ming could naturally think of as well.

Before this large-scale official operation, he had gone through many trials. These reincarnated souls, as well as the Soul Clan, often entered the Demon Clan's territory by taking advantage of the Lord of the Heavenly Wolf.

These are not simple intelligence activities!
However, Qin Ming didn't think these things were very significant; they were just experimental in nature.

The efficiency is too low.

Instead of wasting time on this, you should improve your own skills!

The primordial universe existed for ten thousand years, and the giant axe's microcosm for several thousand years. His strength had reached an astonishing level. He had mastered the strongest talents of the twenty universe lords and used them to create dozens of ultimate secret techniques.

Based on this, it is only natural to create the strongest fusion technique with the "Secret Pattern Record" as the core.

Training spies is nowhere near as fast as his growth.

Not only him, but the power of other universe lords also surged.

He didn't hide the 'Absolute Defense' rune he deduced, and many universe masters also learned it, greatly increasing their strength.

Furthermore, it has only been a little over 100,000 years since the Duan Donghe inheritance was born. Once the Duan Donghe inheritance is obtained, one will be able to become completely invincible!
"That's true! You can operate in the shadows for a while, and we'll provide cover for you."

(End of this chapter)