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

Chapter 262 A New Path
In the far north, Lin Xiao stood before the gate of the dead, slowly exhaling as he put away his soul rings and his soul power gradually calmed down.

"Teacher, what exactly happened inside?"

“I’m not entirely sure either,” Electrox said slowly, “but I have a guess.”

"The plane of the dead is filled with the aura of the dead, which constantly erodes any living being that enters it."

"Staying inside for a short time will naturally be fine, but staying inside for a long time will inevitably have an impact, and every attempt to restore soul power only intensifies this erosion."

"Similarly, this demiplane was created by me after all, and it is not a real world. It is also inevitably affected by other forces."

"Does the teacher mean that the interaction between Xue Di's power and the world of the dead allowed her to learn how to restore her soul power in the world of the dead?" Lin Xiao wondered, but he couldn't explain the underlying principle for the time being.

“No, if it were just a simple mutual influence, that would be easy to handle.” Electrox’s voice was somewhat low. “If the Snow Empress had the power to physically restrain her, that would be fine.”

"But unfortunately, she no longer has a physical body, so the binding force of her power source on her soul power isn't very strong. Moreover, she's still constantly releasing her own power. I'm afraid that her relationship with the undead plane is more than just mutual influence..."

"Judging from what they just did, their powers have probably begun to merge."

"How is this possible?" Lin Xiao paused slightly. "The power of the Snow Empress is completely different from death. How could it possibly merge with the power of the Netherworld?"

"That's generally true, but the Snow Empress has no body and her soul has been stripped away. To be precise, she is no longer the Snow Empress, but an aggregate of power source and soul power."

"The Necropolis is a fairly suitable container for this aggregate, only it's a little too large."

"As their forces influence each other, it's as if a powerful force has found a body that it can barely adapt to, and instinctively and gradually evolves into a whole."

Lin Xiao had already understood Electrolux's words. The Snow Empress was not whole after escaping from the Conferred God Platform.

Although she is gradually regaining her former power, she was ultimately sealed away after transforming into an embryo and can no longer return to her original form.

Her body was incomplete, so she instinctively wanted to seek wholeness, and this instinct became even stronger after her soul was stripped away by Lin Xiao.

The Necropolis was the "body" she found that could barely contain her power. Although this body was not a perfect match, she couldn't care less after feeling the pressure during her fight with Lin Xiao.

"Teacher, is it impossible to separate them?"

"Yes, but you can only do it after you defeat her."

Lin Xiao shook his head slightly upon hearing this. If he possessed the power to defeat Xue Di head-on, he wouldn't have considered wasting her time in the Undead Plane.

Even in the realm of the dead, she is no longer afraid of the depletion of her soul power; in fact, her strength has even increased compared to before. Defeating her head-on is even more impossible.

"So, to obtain the Snow Empress's soul ring again, we have to destroy the entire Undead Plane?"

"good."

Upon hearing Electrolux's affirmative reply, Lin Xiao fell silent for a moment.

"I only thought about leaving her here, which is why I asked you to send her here..."

"It's alright, teacher." Lin Xiao shook his head, interrupting Ilex's self-blaming words, "None of us could have foreseen this." As he spoke, he suddenly looked up into the distance, "Since we can't get the Snow Empress's spirit ring, we'll just have to look for others."

Electrolux did not respond, seemingly deep in thought. After a moment, he spoke again slowly, "But perhaps there is another way to solve this."

Lin Xiao was about to leave the far north when he heard Electrolux's words and suddenly stopped.

"But no one has tried this method before, and the future may be a completely unknown path. No one can say for sure whether it will be good or bad. It all depends on whether you are willing to give it a try."

"teacher……"

Listening to Electrolux's words and recalling the Snow Emperor, this extremely familiar figure involuntarily brought to mind something.

“Teacher, I will find another spirit ring. You don’t need to blame yourself for this. To me, you are much more important than a spirit ring.”

Lin Xiao hurriedly spoke up. Back then, Huo Yuhao was able to transform Xue Di into the first soul spirit different from the soul rings because Ilex burned his divine consciousness. Lin Xiao didn't want to see Ilex go through that again.

Electrolux seemed to pause for a moment, then suddenly chuckled, "You little rascal, what are you thinking about?"

Lin Xiao paused for a moment upon hearing this, but still breathed a slight sigh of relief. "Then what is the other method you mentioned, teacher?"

"Before you explain this method, tell me what a soul core is, and why you want to condense a second soul core?" Ilex gradually stopped smiling, and his tone became serious.

"The Soul Core is formed by the extreme compression of Soul Power, combined with the power of space in order to accommodate the Soul Power of a Title Douluo."

Although no one had ever taught him this, Lin Xiao, who possessed memories of his past life, was no stranger to it: "The purpose of condensing a second soul core is naturally to accommodate more soul power in order to break through to a higher realm."

“Yes, a place that contains soul power.” Electrox sighed softly. “Through your perspective, I have seen many things in this world.”

"This world has its own original rules, but it can also accommodate the power of other worlds, just like the necromancy I taught you, it still applies in this world."

“I know you have your own plans for your cultivation path, but have you ever thought that there is more than one way to cultivate and break through?”

"Teacher, what do you mean?"

"If the goal is to accommodate more soul power, why condense a second soul core instead of making the first soul core more expansive?"

Electrolux's words made Lin Xiao pause slightly, but before he could speak, he heard Electrolux continue.

“If it were someone else, I might not have let him try this, but with you, there must be other possibilities.”

"The soul core inherently contains spatial power. If you want to accommodate more soul power, you may not need to condense a second soul core. You can expand the first soul core to be more expansive."

“Even transform it into a real world capable of accommodating more soul power…”

Lin Xiao didn't speak, but he had already figured out Electrolux's thoughts.

Just like when Electrolux created the demiplane, he might not need to condense a second soul core, but rather, like Electrolux, create another world based on the first soul core.

(End of this chapter)