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

Chapter 276 Sudden Change
"Yes, senior."

"Do you know what you need to be careful about once you go inside?"

"Please enlighten me, senior." Lin Xiao cupped his hands in greeting.

"I don't have much to teach you. The ritual will start naturally after the soul beast's blood is added. You just need to pay attention to one thing."

Long Xiaoyao's gaze changed slightly. "Those outside the ceremony must not get too close to the Holy Emperor's statue."

"Yes."

"Alright, go ahead." As soon as Long Xiaoyao finished speaking, he waved his sleeve, and his powerful soul force caused the surrounding space to fluctuate continuously.

Last time, Lin Xiao only saw the gate appear out of thin air, but this time, he clearly sensed how the space fluctuated and where the gate had been hidden before.

However, he quickly looked away, pulled Nana behind him, and stepped into the stone chamber.

The candlelight in the air continued to flicker, and remnant souls groaned within, their gray light illuminating the entire stone chamber.

Behind Lin Xiao, Nana had stopped. She could also sense the presence of the soul and had also realized what was stored here.

Although she had long known that the Holy Spirit Cult imprisoned souls, the atmosphere she felt here still sent chills down her spine, and an inexplicable fear rose from the bottom of her heart. It was as if the nightmares she had experienced before were about to become reality in the next instant.

There was nothing else in the stone chamber except for a tall statue standing there. The "Eighth Elder" beside her had already stepped towards the statue. Nana's mind went blank. She didn't know what would happen next and only hoped that the next moment would come later.

After waiting for a moment, she suddenly felt that what she hoped for had happened. The "Eighth Elder" did not take any further action, but just stood in front of the statue, seemingly in a daze.

Just as the stone chamber door closed, Lin Xiao took the bag containing the soul beast in his hand and kept moving closer to the statue. However, he did not intend to open the bag; he simply called out to it softly in his mind as he got closer.

"Teacher, can you sense the existence of the fragments of divine consciousness?"

“I can sense that the layout here is indeed my style, but I can’t sense where the fragments of divine consciousness are.” Electrox was also observing the outside world through Lin Xiao’s perception.

"Perhaps it's inside this statue. This statue is probably not only a container for storing fragments of divine consciousness, but also a cage that imprisons it." Lin Xiao narrowed his eyes, his gaze sweeping over the statue.

Although I had seen similar statues in the far north before, this was the first time I had observed one so close.

"Teacher, what is your weapon?" The gaze fell on the weapon in the statue's hand. Like all the other statues, the top of the weapon was not clearly carved, and it was impossible to see what it was.

"You mean that staff, right? It's a wand that I made myself. Although I'm not very good at making these things, that staff is the result of a lot of my hard work."

"When I die, it will probably lose its power over time and disappear from my original world."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiao frowned slightly, sensing something strange.

The statue in front of me holds a weapon in its right hand, but the indistinct tip is in front and the long handle is behind. It doesn't look like a staff, but rather a spear, as if it is about to throw the weapon at any time.

"Elder..."

Nana, who was standing to the side, spoke softly, her voice trembling slightly.

Although she hoped that what followed would happen more slowly, Lin Xiao remained silent, and this silence only intensified her fear.

Lin Xiao snapped out of his reverie upon hearing this, recalling the feelings he had experienced during the Spirit Ascension Ceremony. "Teacher, we probably need to wait until the ceremony begins and triggers changes in the statue before we can discover the secrets it holds."

“Alright.” Electrox didn’t hesitate for long. “I can’t quite remember anymore, and I’d like to see what kind of magic has been set up here.”

"Ah."

Lin Xiao suddenly turned to look at Nana, "Come closer."

Upon hearing this, Nana approached with stiff steps, and then she heard something rather strange.

"No matter what happens in a moment, don't make a sound, just do as I say."

Nana's eyes widened slightly. Even though she had never been to the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters and didn't know the specifics of the Ascension Ritual Lin Xiao mentioned, she vaguely sensed that Lin Xiao's purpose was probably not simple.

Lin Xiao didn't care about Nana's thoughts. Since he came here under the pretext of helping her with the ascension ceremony, she would naturally notice some things.

If we can successfully obtain the fragments of divine consciousness here, there are many ways to keep her from speaking afterward.

Having made his decision, Lin Xiao no longer hesitated. He opened the bag at his feet, and a metallic silver-gray luster flashed across his left arm. A hideous wound appeared on the neck of a soul beast inside the bag, from which blood flowed continuously.

As the soul beast's blood flowed out, its remnant soul also floated up, swaying and drifting into the statue, from which a strange fluctuation emanated.

coming.

Lin Xiao's expression changed slightly.

Just like when he performed the Ascension Ceremony, the blood of a single soul beast was not enough to fill the blood pool in the stone chamber, but some blood-like liquid overflowed from the statue, filling the gaps in the blood pool.

Moreover, when he himself performed the ascension ceremony, immense pain instantly overwhelmed him, leaving him no time to think much. But now, he clearly felt a familiar yet strange sensation rising from within the statue.

It was familiar because it was Electrolux's aura, but unfamiliar because that power was different from the power Electrolux currently possessed.

Lin Xiao's soul power fluctuated slightly, and a layer of pale gray light emanated from his body, as if resonating with the statue.

However, at that moment, a dragon's roar suddenly rang in Lin Xiao's ears.

Before Lin Xiao could react, darkness instantly severed the connection between him and the statue.

Then, a powerful surge of soul energy slammed into him.

Lin Xiao's expression suddenly changed, and he instinctively flew out. Six black and three red soul rings rose up around him, and seemingly endless soul power was generated from the boundless soul core, filling his palms along the meridians.

"boom--"

With a deafening roar, the entire stone chamber trembled violently, and Lin Xiao's body flew backward uncontrollably.

Looking up, one could see a figure had appeared in the stone chamber at some point; it was none other than Long Xiaoyao, who was in charge of guarding the stone chamber.

Long Xiaoyao looked down at his right palm, let out a dragon's roar, and his entire right arm was covered with layers of dragon scales.

(End of this chapter)