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

Lin Xiao's eyes looked even more strange. "You can't even bear the current temperature, and you still want to rest at the beach?"

"It should be better on the ground." Orange completely ignored Lin Xiao's gaze and looked at the ground with a hint of excitement. "I heard that there are ordinary people living near the coast of the Ice Sea. Even they can live here. We just need to rest for a night, so it should be fine."

"Oh right, let's find out if there are other people living nearby. The fact that people here can live nearby must be related to where they live. We won't be afraid of the cold if we live where they live, right? We are soul guides after all."

If Lin Xiao hadn't been able to communicate with Electrolux in his mind, he would have suspected that he had fallen into some kind of illusion.

Although Orange had a complicated expression when she came to see him a few days ago, she was no different from the Orange he knew.

However, since she went out this time, she seemed like a different person. Sometimes I could feel that she was hiding something, and sometimes I felt that she was a little too optimistic, making her completely unpredictable.

After flying along the coastline for a distance, the two actually saw a small fishing village. Although the population was small, each house was built quite solidly.

Lin Xiao didn't know much about architecture, and couldn't figure out the specific mysteries behind it, but the buildings that could adapt to such places were probably the result of the accumulated experience of countless generations.

The two did not land directly near the village. They found a secluded place to land and then walked towards the village. Before they got close, some people looked over curiously.

Lin Xiao glanced around and found no trace of other soul masters. Instead, Orange came forward to greet them in a very familiar manner.

"Excuse me, we are from far away. It's getting late. Can we rest here for one night?"

When the villagers heard what Orange said, they all looked at the people around them, but no one stood up to respond.

"Forget it, let's go." Lin Xiao stepped forward and spoke softly.

"Stay." Lin Xiao's words seemed to be heard by the villagers, and finally a deep voice came out, "You will freeze to death if you go out so late."

As the voice fell, a tall man pushed his way through the crowd and walked out. He was wrapped tightly in clothes, so his appearance and age could not be seen clearly. However, judging from his figure, he should be a native of the Sun-Moon Empire.

"There aren't many people at my house. If you don't mind, you can come and stay at my house."

"Thank you." Orange looked back at Lin Xiao and walked towards the village first.

Lin Xiao really couldn't figure out what Orange was trying to do, so he followed with a frown.

The wind in the village was much weaker, but still not very warm. The man walking in front suddenly sighed, "You two should be soul guides, right?"

"Is it obvious?" Orange took a look at his clothes.

"With the average person's strength, if you had come here on foot, I would have been able to spot you from a distance in the village. As for those who have the money to buy mounts, they wouldn't come to our place. I just saw a flying soul guide flying over in the sky, so it must be you."

"Although our place is remote, it's not completely cut off from the outside world. Soul guides have come here before." Seeing Orange's somewhat surprised expression, the man quickly looked away and explained, "Watch your step. This is my home."

As the man spoke, he led Lin Xiao and the other man into the courtyard. The courtyard was not very large, and only one room looked relatively intact. The other rooms were missing doors and windows. Through the gaps, you could see miscellaneous items piled up inside and some frozen sea fish.

As soon as he entered the house, Lin Xiao saw a painting hanging on the wall opposite the door. There was no light in the room, so he could only make out someone fighting a sea soul beast.

There was a long table right below the painting, and there seemed to be some offerings on it, but they had become hard after not being there for long.

"Who is this?"

Lin Xiao suddenly asked.

After returning to the house, the man, or rather the young man, no longer protected his face. He didn't look that old, at most about the same age as Lin Xiao.

Following Lin Xiao's gaze, he also looked at the painting on the wall.

"This is what my grandmother hung here. She said it was for the sea god to bless me with safe voyages. But it never works."

"Don't talk nonsense." A voice suddenly shouted from the inner room, "You will be punished for saying this in front of the Sea God. Why don't you apologize to the Sea God right away?"

"I'm sorry, my grandma is in poor health and can't catch a cold." The young man said, and shouted to the inner room, "I know."

Sighing helplessly, he still bowed as the old man instructed.

Poseidon?

Lin Xiao took another careful look at the picture on the wall. The man called "Sea God" only occupied a small part of the picture, while the huge body of the soul beast occupied most of the picture.

"Where did this painting come from?"

"I don't know about that. My grandma said this painting is older than she is."

Lin Xiao didn't ask any more questions, just nodded.

"I'm sorry, you two are soul masters, and we don't have anything worth showing off at home."

"It's okay, we already ate when we came here, and we don't need to sleep. Just give us a place to shelter from the wind." Orange responded while looking around.

"Excuse me, both of you." The young man felt a little embarrassed after hearing this. "If you don't mind, you two can rest here. I'll go and squeeze in with grandma."

"We are the ones who disturbed them." Lin Xiao smiled and nodded, watching the man enter the inner room. Soon, a whisper came from inside, as if explaining something to his grandmother.

Lin Xiao's expression turned serious again and he turned around to look at Orange who was already sitting next to him.

"What exactly are you going to do?"

"Do you think I'm a little willful?"

Lin Xiao did not respond, but silence was also a kind of answer.

"I just want to be willful like an ordinary girl for once." The happiness in Orange's eyes had completely disappeared, as if she had become the Orange that Lin Xiao was familiar with again.

"I've always wanted to see what the sea looks like. I also want to experience the lives of ordinary people and imagine what life would be like if my parents hadn't died."

"I want to be like in the stories my father told me... and feel the sea breeze with him, and cook for him with my own hands."

Orange's voice trembled a little. "But after this time, it will never be possible again. I will become the Crown Princess, I will become the Empress of the Sun and Moon Empire, but I will never become what I imagined as a child."

"And for all this, I don't even know who to hate."

Chapter 166 Singing

"Should I blame the soldiers who brought Dad to the army, or should I blame the Sun-Moon Empire and the Star Luo Empire?"

"It's too much. I can only blame it all on Duke White Tiger, even though I know a war is not the fault of just one or two people."

Lin Xiao sat next to Orange and didn't speak for a long time.

He probably understood why Orange did these strange things. It must be because Xu Tianran told her about his future plans, but she was not really ready to give up everything for revenge as she said.

Perhaps she herself didn't know who her real enemy was, but she just gave herself a goal in her heart that allowed her to persist alone until now.

"Do you know that Xu Tianran wants to unify the Douluo Continent?"

Orange's voice became low again, and there was no longer any respect for Xu Tianran in her tone.

Lin Xiao nodded when he heard this. He was well aware of Xu Tianran's thoughts.

“I want to help him achieve that goal.”

After Orange finished speaking, he was silent for a moment. Seeing that Lin Xiao did not respond, he turned to look at him again, "But I don't know whether this is right or wrong?"

"Although I was always worried following Xu Tianran, he also gave me the opportunity to enter the Sun Moon Royal Soul Guidance Academy. I learned a lot and thought a lot."

"I lost my parents in the war. I don't know who to hate, but I want there to be no more war on this continent."

"Maybe I will create more people like me, but from now on, there will never be anyone like me again." Orange said, clenching his fists slightly.

Lin Xiao turned around in surprise, not expecting such words to come out of Orange's mouth.

After a moment of silence, seeing that Orange was still looking at him, Lin Xiao shook his head gently, "I don't quite understand these things, and I can't give you an answer, but——"

"If this continent can really be unified, it would probably be a good thing." Memories of the previous life came flooding back, and Lin Xiao recalled many things at once.

"Really? So you think so too." Orange murmured, his voice gradually getting lower, as if he was talking to himself, "Then will you help me?"

"This continent is too vast. My power alone won't make a big difference." Lin Xiao shook his head slightly. "And if we really want to unify the continent, we absolutely cannot rely on the power of the Holy Spirit Church."

"Even if there are people like you in the Holy Spirit Church?" Orange suddenly raised his head.

"Heh." Lin Xiao smiled and lowered his head slightly to look at his hands. "It's precisely because there are too many people like me in the Holy Spirit Church."

"Do not……"

Orange shook his head, his voice a little unclear.

She couldn't tell anyone what was in her heart. She only dared to show her true expression in front of Lin Xiao, who had saved her life. But when some words came to her lips, she knew she shouldn't say them.

Until the end, only a dreamlike voice remained, "Will you stay with me?"

Lin Xiao did not respond, but he did not get up and leave either. He just sat quietly by the side without any other movement.

He was not heartless, and he did not completely unresponsive when he heard Orange's confession. It was just that he himself was helpless now, so how could he have the time to care about other people's affairs.

He could hear Orange's gentle breathing, and the warm breath hit the back of his hand. She looked a little tired and had fallen into a deep sleep, just like that night a few years ago.

Lin Xiao stopped disturbing him and closed his eyes.

The house here has good thermal insulation. Although there is still a cold wind outside, it is not too cold inside. With the protection of soul power, he quickly fell into meditation.

I don’t know how much time passed, but the sunlight coming in from the window suddenly woke Lin Xiao up.

The orange beside him was nowhere to be seen, but the door of the room was open, and a figure was standing outside facing the sunlight, with the shadow behind him very long.

"tangerine?"

Lin Xiao stood up and looked outside the door, but Juzi didn't say anything. She just waved at him, motioning him to come over.

She vaguely felt that something was wrong, but yesterday's experience had made Lin Xiao somewhat accustomed to the fact that Orange was not as usual. Perhaps it was because she knew what would happen in the future that she wanted to experience the things she had always wanted to do but had not done.

"Where's the rest of the people in the room?"

Lin Xiao walked up to Orange and looked around.

Orange still didn't speak, but just raised his hand and pointed into the distance, then suddenly ran towards the distant beach.

Frowning, Lin Xiao followed from a distance, but after taking a few steps, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

Looking back, I saw that the village where I had rested last night was completely quiet, without even a single person in sight.

No, it's too quiet.

People in villages like these don’t actually pay much attention to the specific time. Working from sunrise to sunset and resting from sunset to sunrise is their normal routine.

However, the sun had already appeared and the sunlight almost illuminated the entire village. The people here should not have been still and motionless.

"Lin Xiao——"

A faint call came from his ear, and Lin Xiao suddenly turned his head to look at the seaside. He saw that Orange had run to the seaside in just a moment, shouting something with his mouth open, and constantly waving at him to come over.

Raising his head slightly, Lin Xiao frowned even deeper. So much time had passed, but the sun above the sea hadn't changed at all. If there was any difference, it seemed that it had not only not risen, but had actually set a little.

It's as if it's not morning now, but dusk.

A breeze blew from somewhere, causing ripples on the sea surface, and soon formed waves that kept hitting the shore.