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

Chapter 448 Blood Sacrifice

"How could this be?"

Upon arriving near the former settlement of the mermaid clan, Liya exclaimed in surprise and rushed forward.

Lin Xiao glanced in the direction Liya had left, sighed softly, and slowly followed after her.

He didn't need to get close to guess what had happened here, because he could sense a familiar presence even from a distance.

It was the same thing they had encountered on their way here, with the same dense aura of bloodlust, even clearer than what they had just encountered.

Upon closer inspection, the place where the mermaids once lived had long since become a ruin, and even the original mermaid palace was now just a pile of broken walls and rubble.

Not all sea spirit beasts in the mermaid race possess the cultivation levels of the Sea Princess and Liya.

Although sea spirit beasts are not as easily disturbed as those on land, and the mermaid race is protected by the sea princess, the cultivation of spirit masters is limited by their bloodline, and there are not many who can break through 100,000 years of cultivation like Liya.

There are even quite a few mermaids whose cultivation level is less than ten thousand years.

When the enemy attacked, Liya was able to escape despite her serious injuries, but the other mermaids with even lower cultivation levels didn't even have a chance to run away.

Lin Xiao sighed inwardly.

There's probably no need to search for the Sea Princess anymore. After all, if she had really managed to stop the attacking sea spirit beast, this place wouldn't be in such a state now.

Liya had already plunged into the ruins, searching for her people and looking for traces of the sea princess, but unfortunately, not even a mermaid's corpse was left here.

Lin Xiao observed his surroundings but did not find any trace of the soul beast that Liya had mentioned. He watched her from a distance and did not go forward to disturb her.

"Blood sacrifice?"

Just as Lin Xiao was silent, a cry of surprise suddenly rang out from the bottom of his heart.

With a thought, Lin Xiao circulated his soul power, causing the plane of the dead to churn slightly. In the next instant, a semi-transparent phantom of ten thousand souls appeared beside him.

Since the death of the Fifth Elder, Wan Hun Douluo, his soul has stayed by Lin Xiao's side and has never spoken a word.

The Soul Douluo was not strong in life, and Lin Xiao was too lazy to pay much attention to him. However, he did not expect that he would speak at this time.

"what did you just say?"

Lin Xiao stared at Wan Hun in front of him, his eyes widening in surprise, as if he were about to search through Wan Hun's memories at the slightest provocation.

"No, no, no, I think I've seen this scene before," Wan Hun waved his hands repeatedly.

"When?"

“It’s just…it’s just…” Wan Hun hesitated slightly.

"Forget it, I'll just find it myself."

"No, it's the one where Sixth Brother and I promised the First Elder to help her."

Lin Xiao frowned slightly, glanced at Liya who was still in the ruins, and seeing that there were no other signs around, turned to Wan Hun and said, "Tell me in detail."

Seeing this, Wan Hun no longer hid anything, "You know my and Lao Liu's preferences. My martial soul, the Myriad Soul Banner, needs various powerful souls to unleash its full power, so I have been searching for all kinds of souls."

"Later, the Grand Elder told me that there was a kind of sea spirit beast in the sea, whose soul was born powerful. He said that my strength would definitely increase after being controlled by my martial soul." "After that, I realized that the Grand Elder was talking about the mermaid race. In order to obtain the soul of the mermaid race, I promised the Grand Elder to do something for her. That thing... you were also involved."

At this point, Lin Xiao realized what Wan Hun was referring to.

The Grand Elder had asked him to help steal the Heart of the Ocean, the treasure of the Merfolk, and the two people who came to the Ice Sea with them were Wan Hun and Zang E.

What he needed to do was bring the Grand Elder's scales to the vicinity of the Heart of the Ocean. He really didn't know what Wanhun and Zange had done back then.

Thinking of this, he looked at the myriad souls again.

"Sigh." Wan Hun sighed softly, "Back then, the Grand Elder set up a blood sacrifice array in a certain sea area. After the Grand Elder lured the Sea Princess into the array, the Sixth Brother and I activated it."

"A blood sacrifice formation?" Lin Xiao frowned in thought. "What is its purpose?"

"I'm not too sure either, and I didn't ask in detail. It's probably used to improve one's cultivation level."

Lin Xiao suddenly realized why the Grand Elder had faced her tribulation immediately after obtaining the Heart of the Ocean. She had initially thought it was just a coincidence, but now it seemed it was all part of the Grand Elder's pre-planned scheme.

Not only do they want to obtain the mermaid clan's most precious treasure, but they also want to perform a blood sacrifice on the mermaid clan to help her improve her cultivation...

"The scene was huge, and when Lao Liu and I saw that things were not going well, we immediately ran away." Wan Hun was still recalling the situation at the time, "but I couldn't let go of so many mermaid souls in my heart."

"At the time, I thought that even if the body was sacrificed, at least a few souls would be left behind."

"When I secretly returned there alone, there was nothing but dense bloodlust. Not to mention a soul, not even a fragment of a soul was left."

Lin Xiao sighed softly, "So that great formation sacrificed not only flesh and blood, but also souls, right?"

“Yes, yes.” Wan Hun nodded repeatedly. “That’s exactly what I meant.”

Lin Xiao closed her eyes slightly, recalling her several encounters with the Grand Elder.

He did hear the word "master" in the elder's words, and now it seemed that the sea spirit beast that attacked the mermaid clan was probably the elder's "master".

The formations they used were truly of the same lineage... That makes sense, it's reasonable that the one who could command the Grand Elder, a sea spirit beast, was another sea spirit beast.

It's no wonder they targeted the merfolk, since that formation could even absorb the power of souls, and there are probably no souls in the entire ocean more powerful than those of the merfolk.

"Disciple, the fragments of divine consciousness have been roughly located."

Just as Lin Xiao was pondering, Electrolux suddenly spoke up.

"Teacher," Lin Xiao immediately reacted, "You mean?"

"Hmm, but I'm not entirely sure. However, this method of sacrificing even the soul is quite similar to the methods of sacrifice in necromancy."

“When some necromancers are not strong enough, they can use sacrifices to reduce the requirements for casting necromancy. This power can also be used to enhance their own abilities after some modifications.”

"However, in my world, most powerful necromancers possess the means to become liches and don't use this method to enhance their strength."

Lin Xiao's eyes flickered slightly upon hearing this. "Teacher, no matter what the outcome, it's worth going to see."

"If that's the case, then the sea spirit beast we encountered back then, which carried the aura of your divine consciousness fragments, was probably somehow tainted by the aura of the sacrifice."

(End of this chapter)