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

Chapter 264 Nine Rings
How much time has passed?
Lin Xiao had long forgotten; he had even forgotten what he was doing, and was just walking forward aimlessly.

There was an unfamiliar atmosphere around me, but upon closer inspection, it felt quite comfortable.

A soft sensation came from beneath my feet. Looking down, I saw flowers with unusual shapes. Their petals were not as full as those of other flowers, but rather long and narrow.

He bent down slightly to pick a flower, but before he could even reach out, one of the flowers seemed to come alive and leaped into his palm, slowly rotating in his hand.

Is this the afterlife?
For some reason, this thought suddenly came to his mind, but it was destined that no one would respond to him.

A breeze seemed to blow by, lifting strands of his hair that tickled his face. Lin Xiao raised his hand to touch it, wondering when his hair had grown so long.

But before he could figure it out, he felt a chill on the back of his hand. Looking up, he saw snowflakes falling from the sky.

Snowing?
Lin Xiao narrowed her eyes and looked around, but there was no snow at all, as if it were just her imagination.

"Where is...where?"

"This is your 'soul core'."

An aged voice suddenly came from behind Lin Xiao. Turning around, he saw an aged figure standing behind him.

"teacher……"

He spoke subconsciously, and countless memories flooded into his mind from who-knows-where.

Lin Xiao frowned in pain, and after a long while, she slowly raised her head.

"Teacher, did we succeed?"

"That's right, it worked."

As Electrolux spoke, he suddenly raised his hand, and a gray mist rose up, with countless indistinct afterimages drifting within it.

The Assassin, the Soul Eater, and the Nightmare—these relatively intact souls also floated in the air, their gazes fixed on him, as if awaiting his command.

Only the Investiture of the Gods has disappeared without a trace, and no one knows where he went.

I shook my head slightly, and many memories came flooding back.

A new way to break through, one's own choices, meditation before losing consciousness...

The breakthrough process seemed to go much more smoothly than he had expected. The fusion of the soul core and the undead plane proceeded almost without incident under his and Ilex's control, except for the Snow Empress who was trapped inside...

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao suddenly turned his head. Behind him, another figure was floating quietly. The girl was in her prime, dressed in white like snow.

Although he had never met her before, Lin Xiao still knew who she was: Xue Di.

This was the first time he had ever seen the Snow Empress in her original form. After all, whether she came out of the Conferred God Platform or later became a soul, the Snow Empress had never shown her original appearance.

More memories surfaced in Lin Xiao's mind, and he vaguely seemed to recall opening the Soul-Gathering Box on the table at the last moment to release the Snow Emperor's soul.

"Thank you."

Xue Di shook her head, then turned to look at Ilex beside her, "I didn't expect you to have a teacher like this by your side."

Lin Xiao clenched her fist slightly upon hearing this, sensing her current state. "This is also my luck." "Hahaha." Electrolux laughed. "Alright, don't rush to say that. Try to see how you feel now."

“I…” Lin Xiao paused for a moment, then nodded, “Yes.”

Several more snowfalls have fallen in the far north, and even the Snow Emperor's ice house is covered with a thick layer of ice and snow. Inside the room, Lin Xiao is sitting cross-legged on an ice bed.

Ice shards mixed with streaks of red clung to his body, as if some terrifying force was about to burst out of his body, tearing him apart and causing streaks of blood to spill out.

Lin Xiao's body suddenly moved, and nine soul rings—black, black, black, black, black, black, red, red, red—pulsated around him.

However, the ninth soul ring was not pure; gray patterns covered its surface, adding a touch of impurity.

As the ice shards fell, Lin Xiao slowly opened his eyes, and by looking down slightly, he could see the streaks of crimson blood on his body.

The idea of ​​accommodating a demiplane as one's soul core sounds tempting, but it's something that ordinary people can't do. If it weren't for the two years of tempering in the far north, his body probably wouldn't have been able to withstand it.

Fortunately, the bloodstains had already dried, but they retained their original color due to the freezing of ice shards.

His body was completely empty; he could not feel any soul power in his meridians, and he could not even feel the soul core in his dantian.

No.

Lin Xiao calmed his mind, and a strange feeling appeared in his dantian, the place where his original soul core was located. At this moment, it seemed to be empty, but upon closer inspection, it seemed as if an entire world existed there.

With a slight shift in his mind, in the next instant, a vast surge of soul power seemed to rush in from another world, filling his meridians in a mere moment.

Lin Xiao could sense that his soul power level was not high, only level 91, but the soul power that his body could hold was definitely not comparable to that of an ordinary soul master.

He stood up, the ice shards falling off his body, his clothes already stained red with blood. He took out another set of clothes from his storage soul tool and changed, before his gaze fell on the Soul-Gathering Vessel on the table.

However, the Soul-Gathering Vessel had long lost its luster, and the Snow Emperor inside had already been released.

Although Xue Di's attitude had changed, Lin Xiao did not expect her to suppress her power in the world of the dead and help him condense this new "soul core".

Judging from what she just said, Electrolux probably said something to her after she lost consciousness.

"teacher."

"How does it feel? This is just my guess. You'll have to get used to it gradually to fully master this power."

"Furthermore, you have already seen what your soul core looks like now. After my undead plane merged with your soul core, it was influenced by your martial soul and became that form."

"Although it can accommodate the remnant souls absorbed by your martial spirit, you yourself will no longer be able to use the undead plane to avoid danger."

"It's alright, teacher." Lin Xiao glanced down at her body. "Compared to a life-saving method, this 'soul core' will be of greater help to me."

"Well, as for how you should cultivate in the future, I need to think about it carefully. But one thing is certain: your soul core is closely related to your own strength. As your strength increases, your soul core will have another chance to grow."

"Similarly, as long as the soul core can grow, one's strength will also change accordingly. Make good use of this power that has never appeared in this world before."

Lin Xiao nodded and stepped out of the room.

(End of this chapter)