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

Chapter 320 A Generous Death
Seeing Dai Hao rushing towards her, Lin Xiao's eyes flickered slightly, and she let out a soft breath.

After entering the Mingdou Mountains, he arrived at this valley without much delay.

Finding where the White Tiger Guards had ended up might be difficult for others, but for him, the remnant souls along the way were the best guide.

Upon reaching the bottom of the cliff, what they saw was Dai Hao mourning the other White Tiger Guards.

At this moment, Dai Hao's voice rang in Lin Xiao's ears, causing him to sigh softly.

It has to be said that, no matter the time, someone like Dai Hao seems to be able to touch Lin Xiao in some way, but unfortunately...

Seeing that Dai Hao's tiger claws were almost within reach, Lin Xiao's eyes flashed, and he quickly stepped back a large distance. With a light lift of his right hand, a sea of ​​blood-red spider lilies bloomed throughout the entire valley.

A gentle breeze blew along the valley, and after passing over the sea of ​​flowers, even the wind seemed to carry a sense of deathly stillness.

Lin Xiao's first and second spirit rings lit up, and a large amount of blood-red light radiated outward from him. Dai Hao reacted quickly, and his tiger claws struck out one after another in an attempt to disperse the Seed of the Other Shore that Lin Xiao had released.

However, those seeds of the other shore were under Lin Xiao's control. Although some were knocked off by Dai Hao, most of them still managed to land on Dai Hao in arcs as he dodged.

Then, countless branches and leaves grew from Dai Hao's body, and Lin Xiaosheng stopped his leaping figure in mid-air.

After falling from the mountain path, Dai Hao had been unconscious until now. He didn't have much soul power left, and Lin Xiao's second soul skill, Sprout, was meant to grow by absorbing the opponent's soul power. With one strike, Dai Hao's soul power was instantly depleted.

Although the Soul Core was still continuously absorbing the surrounding天地元力 (heaven and earth elemental energy), it was far from enough to make up for the rate at which it was being consumed.

"Marshal Dai, come back with me." Lin Xiao stopped attacking and looked at Dai Hao, who had fallen to the ground.

Dai Hao's legs were pinned to the ground by the branches and leaves of the spider lily. He clutched his chest with one hand and used the other to barely prop himself up, looking up at Lin Xiao with some difficulty.

"Why are you so insistent on taking me back, instead of killing me here?"

Lin Xiao paused slightly, "If you're asking me for my personal reasons... it's probably because I feel it's a real shame that someone like Marshal Dai died like this."

"Although we have different positions, I have to say that I have rarely met someone like Marshal Dai since I came into this world."

“Heh—” Dai Hao lowered his head and chuckled softly, “I didn’t expect to receive such praise from you, but I think even in the Sun Moon Empire, there should be no shortage of people like me.”

"However, you probably don't know why I'm doing this, otherwise you should understand—"

As Dai Hao spoke, his tone suddenly changed, his muscles bulged, and a white light flickered on his body. He had broken free of the branches binding him with his physical strength alone.

"I, Dai Hao, would rather die than surrender!"

"Roar--"

A whooshing sound brought with it gusts of wind, causing Lin Xiao's cloak to flutter loudly.

Dai Hao's figure had disappeared from sight, and only a giant tiger with black and white stripes pounced towards Lin Xiao, its eyes shining brightly. Even though it knew it was no match for Lin Xiao, it showed no fear.

Dai Hao did not use any soul skills. He knew that in his current state, it was already beyond his expectations that he could use the Martial Soul True Body. The soul power in his body could no longer support him to release even the weakest hundred-year soul skill.

Therefore, he has only one goal.

As the distance drew closer, Lin Xiao raised his right hand once more. Suddenly, a trickle of blood spilled from Dai Hao's mouth, his soul power stagnated, then surged back, rushing straight to his dantian. The rapidly spinning soul core was suddenly subjected to this impact, its stable operation instantly shattered, and terrifying power erupted rapidly from Dai Hao's dantian.

Before his consciousness faded, Dai Hao only saw that the person in front of him was not flustered at all, but his ninth spirit ring shone with a bright blood-red light.

When the soul core within Dai Hao's body began to become unstable, the chaotic spatial power made Lin Xiao instantly understand what he was about to do.

Knowing that he had no chance of winning, Dai Hao was fearless and only thought about self-destructing his soul core to perish together with his opponent.

Sensing the chaotic aura before the soul core self-destructed, Lin Xiao finally stopped holding back. His ninth soul ring shone brightly, and the entire valley instantly became deathly silent.

There was no sound of wind, and the shadows cast by the sunlight on the ground also froze in that instant, as if the flow of time had come to its end. The soul core on Dai Hao's body also stopped its explosive momentum.

He gently pressed his palm against the giant tiger's forehead, and in an instant, the tiger's massive body seemed to lose all weight, or as if all the colors it left in the world had been wiped away, leaving only a patch of tattered gray spreading from its head to its entire body.

The giant tiger dissipated, and Dai Hao's figure slowly emerged. However, he, like the giant tiger, was completely silent, and even the soul core within his body, which was about to explode, had completely returned to death.

In the valley, the flowers covering the mountains swayed gently, as if welcoming another new soul to the other side.

Dai Hao's consciousness had fallen into a state of chaos.

Did you make it?

He himself didn't know, he just felt as if he had been walking in a daze for a long time, and the silence around him made him feel a little lonely.

Memories of his past life flooded his mind, and familiar or unfamiliar faces flashed before him. After a moment, he suddenly sighed softly.

"I wonder how she and her child are doing now..."

Just as memories were flooding back, he suddenly felt a gentle breeze coming from who-knows-where.

The wind carried a chill, making him slightly uncomfortable, but in this chaos, it seemed to guide him.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, a glimmer of light finally appeared before us. The sun in the sky was not bright, but rather an eerie gray, yet upon closer inspection, there was a hint of warmth within that gray.

Before me lay a desolate world, yet it was not deserted; figures drifted by, seemingly busy with something.

Dai Hao's expression suddenly changed. "Zhang Biao, what are you doing here?"

However, the figure in front of him did not respond to his calls.

Just as he was about to reach out to pull him, another voice sounded softly from behind him.

"Don't bother. His cultivation is not as good as yours, and his soul is now incomplete. He can't remember much about his past life."

Dai Hao turned around abruptly and saw a figure that had appeared behind him at some point.

"Who are you, and where is this place?"

"This place, this is the world of the dead."

(End of this chapter)