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

Chapter 461 Regaining Memories
Just as the Spirit Emperor was about to reach Lin Xiao, and his power was about to invade Lin Xiao's body, Lin Xiao, who had been completely unaware, suddenly opened his eyes.

A gaze fell upon the Spirit Emperor, and Lin Xiao's eyes had completely turned gray.

With just one glance, Emperor Ling was inexplicably a beat slower in his movements.

This fleeting opening was precisely seized by Lin Xiao, who suddenly retreated, causing the surrounding seawater to become somewhat turbid.

Once the seabed calmed down again, "Lin Xiao" had completely changed her appearance.

The red and blue light of the Styx Embrace on his body completely disappeared, replaced by gray patterns. These patterns did not look like a soul guidance array at all, but rather resembled some kind of ancient script.

With his right hand clenched loosely, a faint gray mist rose up and formed a long staff in Lin Xiao's palm.

He held his left hand out to the side, a cloud of gray mist gathering in his palm. The mist drifted around, making it impossible to see what was inside.

"You..." Emperor Ling paused for a moment, then spoke uncertainly, "You are not... no, what exactly are you?"

Lin Xiao seemed to smile slightly, opening his mouth a little, but what came out of his mouth was a voice full of vicissitudes.

“My disciple is in trouble, so naturally I, as his teacher, must step in to help.”

As he spoke, he tapped his long staff lightly, "Come out. I can't command you like my disciple, but you all exist because of my disciple. Now is the time to make your move."

The Spirit Emperor could not possibly know that the one who had just blocked his attack, and the one who was now in front of him, was Ilex, who had always existed deep within Lin Xiao's spiritual sea.

“Your strength is indeed remarkable.” Electrox recognized the Spirit Emperor’s strength at a glance. “In my current state, if your true form were here, I might have to give way.”

"But unfortunately, what appears here is merely a projection of yourself. Even if the power of the body you are inhabiting has some similarities to your own, allowing you to display some abilities, it is ultimately not yourself."

“My disciple is at a crucial moment right now. Before that, let me spar with you. Come to think of it, it’s been a long time since I’ve fought anyone.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Electrox tapped his long staff, and several souls, imperceptible to ordinary people, appeared beside him.

Snow Empress, God of Deification, White Tiger, Nether Thunder... those are complete souls who possessed the cultivation level of a Title Douluo in their previous lives.

Electrolux couldn't communicate with these souls through consciousness like Lin Xiao, nor could he command them in the same way. But as a necromancer, he also possessed another way of commanding souls that Lin Xiao almost never used or employed.

"because--"

"Oh--"

"Pa……"

One incantation after another came from Elex's mouth. The Spirit Emperor did not know what kind of power this was, but he could feel that there seemed to be auras surrounding the person in front of him, and that these incantations were becoming clearer and stronger with each appearance.

At that moment, Xue Di and the others who were enshrined as gods also felt a strange power arise spontaneously, which was a direct amplification that acted on their souls.

Lin Xiao himself possesses formidable strength, so the souls around him have always served as his assistants rather than the main force in battle, thus he rarely uses such necromancy.

As for Electrox, being a necromancer, he naturally has countless ways to use souls in combat.

Caught between life and death, Lin Xiao was unaware that his body had already begun to move, commanding several souls in battle. At this moment, he was quietly gazing at the face reflected in the water. "Why did you refuse me?"

Lin Xiao's own voice resonated from the depths of her heart, "If you try to escape death, how can you control death itself?"

"Come on, only by experiencing true death like I have will you know what kind of power death truly is."

His own voice still echoed in his heart, and for a moment Lin Xiao couldn't tell whether this was another temptation to die or his true thoughts.

Am I rejecting death?

Perhaps. Even though his martial soul possesses the ultimate death attribute and he has mastered the use of this power, he is ultimately a living, breathing human being. His instincts and everything about him are resisting death from falling upon him.

He has been deliberately avoiding recalling even the terrifying feeling he experienced when he was on the verge of death in his previous life.

Nobody likes that feeling.

It was precisely because of his resistance to death and his unwillingness to lose his life that he pursued power and has come this far.

If the way to truly control death is to relinquish life and accept death itself...

Lin Xiao couldn't make a decision. The other side was right in front of him, and it seemed that as long as he took a small step, his consciousness would return to his body, just like the previous times.

But what happens after that?
He was about to face a powerful being from the Abyss Plane, an opponent who could easily send his consciousness here by using the body of the Evil Emperor.

And this was merely one powerful being from the Abyss Plane.

Once the abyss descends, how should we defend ourselves when we truly face external enemies?
God?

Ordinary people can certainly rely on his power, but Lin Xiao cannot.

He was doing something unspeakable for the god. In order to maintain the god's image, regardless of whether he could complete it or how well he did it, in the end, only by making him completely shut up could the god be at ease.

Lin Xiao made this decision because she had no other choice at the time, and she knew from the beginning that this was never a path that could be walked peacefully.

His gaze remained fixed on the reflection on the water's surface, his mind churning. Suddenly, the reflection changed; its appearance grew increasingly grim until it gradually decayed and finally vanished completely.

As he watched his face gradually decay and he slowly approach death, a strange feeling rose in Lin Xiao's heart.

Looking back at the sea of ​​flowers behind him, Lin Xiao suddenly took a step forward, but his body did not land on the opposite bank, but instead fell into the river in front of him.

Not a single drop of water splashed on the surface; Lin Xiao's figure seemed to blend into the water, becoming one with its reflection.

Suffocation, cold, fear... The feelings he had when he was on the verge of death in his previous life gradually engulfed him, and even memories of death began to surface in his mind.

Lin Xiao suddenly realized that the reason he possessed such a unique martial soul and the other shore flower that connects the two worlds of life and death was because he himself had personally crossed the two worlds of life and death.

Although he himself may not have realized it, these things have always been around him and have influenced him at all times.

(End of this chapter)