Douluo Jueshi: I Don't Want to Be an Evil Soul Master

Chapter 253 A Statue

The clothes on his body were almost useless. Lin Xiao's soul power surged up and spread all over his body. The closer he got to the far north, the colder the surrounding air became.

Fortunately, the few wisps of remnant souls in the air were not moving fast, allowing Lin Xiao to follow them at a distance.

In the vast snowfield, there was not a single piece of debris. In the distance, where the sky and earth met, there was only a vast expanse of white. Lin Xiao suddenly thought that the Douluo Continent was actually located on a planet. Could there be something like a pole?

Before he could clear his mind of his wild thoughts, the wisps of souls in the air gradually descended. Lin Xiao's expression shifted, and he looked toward where they were falling.

He still couldn't sense any living beings here; there might really be some rare and precious treasures here that could attract souls.

Without stopping, Lin Xiao continued walking forward. In the distance, a white protrusion vaguely appeared in his field of vision.

The snow kept falling from the sky, obscuring the view and making it impossible to see what it was.

After a moment's thought, he looked down at his waist. With such a good guide by his side, it would be a shame not to ask.

“I don’t know either. During the 700,000 years I lived in the far north, I left my footprints in every place here, but I never saw that thing before I left.”

Xue Di's answer left Lin Xiao speechless. If it really was something that had only appeared in recent years, even if it was a rare and precious treasure, it probably wouldn't be very old.

Various guesses arose in Lin Xiao's mind, but he continued to move forward. The closer he got, the more a strange sense of familiarity lingered in his heart.

Could it be that this place has attracted too many souls, making it feel somewhat familiar to me?

With a sense of doubt, the white protrusion she had seen earlier was getting closer and closer. Lin Xiao gradually realized that it looked like a small igloo that had been built by someone. She didn't know when it was built, and it was covered with a thick layer of snow. From a distance, it might not be easy to spot it.

Lin Xiao frowned slightly, her heart already filled with vigilance.

This thing definitely wasn't left behind by a soul beast.

Even though some soul beasts possess human intelligence, they do not have the habit of building structures or making tools like humans do. Although this place was covered by snow, Lin Xiao could still clearly see the traces of human creation.

Moreover, upon getting closer, he could faintly sense a flow of soul power within it.

It seems that some kind of magic array has been set up here, blocking the perception of other people or soul beasts.

Just as Lin Xiao was pondering, several more remnant souls drifted over from afar, but they did not originate from soul masters; rather, they were soul beasts that had died in the far north.

The magic array here did nothing to stop the remnant souls, allowing them to drift towards the ice house.

Lin Xiao stood in front of the igloo, took a few steps back, and then, with a wave of his right hand, the assassin's soul floated up and flew towards the igloo in front of him.

The next moment, just as the assassin disappeared into the ice house, Lin Xiao suddenly sprang up, tapping his feet repeatedly, and his body retreated sharply.

He subconsciously unleashed his spatial power, but for some reason, the surrounding space shattered simply by using his soul power to activate some spatial power.

Black cracks appeared all around him, and the turbulent currents emanating from them seemed to connect to another world, threatening to completely engulf him.

Lin Xiao's expression suddenly changed, but he had no time to think about what had happened. The light from the soul-guided thruster burst forth, carrying him backward.

Lin Xiao steadied himself and gradually came to a stop when the igloo began to blur.

His chest rose and fell slightly, and the large gulps of steam in front of him had already condensed into ice shards. "What did you see?" In his sea of ​​consciousness, Electrox sensed something was wrong and asked.

Listening to Electrolux's words, Lin Xiao slowly looked up at the igloo in the distance.

“I saw a statue in there.”

"The statue of the Holy Emperor".

Lin Xiao's face was already solemn, and his mind was filled with turbulent thoughts.

He originally thought it was some rare and precious material that could resonate with his martial spirit, which is why it kept attracting the remnant souls from the far north.

But Lin Xiao never expected that the first thing he saw when the assassin's soul entered the ice house was a stone statue. There seemed to be a strange power around the statue, constantly tearing at the assassin's soul.

Lin Xiao was very familiar with that statue; he had seen similar things more than once in the Holy Spirit Cult.

His face was blurry, and he held a long-handled weapon in his hand. Only the tip was not carved with a specific shape, making it impossible to see what it was.

He had considered many possibilities, but he never expected that the familiar feeling would actually come from the Holy Emperor, and this was something that had never happened before in his memory.

Lin Xiao also knew that there were many people in the Holy Spirit Cult who did not exist in his memory.

In his memory, the original Huo Yuhao successfully destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters, but at that time, some people had already moved out of the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters, and even some elders and worshippers had all disappeared.

However, Huo Yuhao was in a hurry to go to the God Realm because of Tang Wutong's misunderstanding, and the matter of the Holy Spirit Cult was left unresolved.

Lin Xiao hadn't expected that the Holy Spirit Cult's reach would extend so far, even into the depths of the far north.

Lin Xiao suddenly looked up at the distance and realized something.

Even if the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress are not in the far north, the fact that such rumors could spread so quickly is probably not only because there are many Soul Masters who want to hunt for Soul Rings, but also because someone is secretly stirring things up.

As for who left the statue of the Holy Emperor here, who realized that the Snow Emperor and the Ice Emperor were no longer in the far north, and who spread this news... Lin Xiao couldn't think of anyone else but Zhongli Wu.

Just as he was pondering, several more souls drifted from afar and landed in the ice house.

Lin Xiao narrowed his eyes slightly. Without the intervention of the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress, the entire far north had, at some point, become a place for the Holy Spirit Cult to accumulate souls.

Zhongli Wu's public announcement of this information was likely intended to lure soul masters into the far north, so that he could harvest their souls.

The entire far north seemed to be holding a long-standing and extensive sacrificial ceremony for that holy emperor without anyone realizing it.

and……

Lin Xiao slightly raised his hand, his soul power guiding the spatial power to flow slowly at his fingertips.

Perhaps it's due to the special environment here, or perhaps there are other reasons, but the space here seems to be thinner than in other places. Therefore, just a little bit of spatial power was used, which caused the space to shatter.

Was the placement of the Holy Emperor's statue here truly intended only to attract the lingering souls within? Or was there another purpose?
These are things that only Zhongliwu himself probably knows.

(End of this chapter)