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Chapter 330 Sacrifice Me! I'll Preserve Your Soul! [Please Subscribe! Please Vote!]

"A demonic killer whale?"

Suddenly, just as the demonic orca's will gradually cleared and it silently watched its own death, a very friendly voice appeared in its consciousness.

"Who are you?" the consciousness of the evil orca asked in confusion.

Standing atop the demonic orca's white belly, Chen Hong looked down at the orca beneath him and said calmly, "The human on your body, you've lost. You're going to become my soul ring."

"Oh." There was no anger or resistance as expected. The demonic orca simply gave a faint "oh." Its indifferent attitude made even itself feel a little unfamiliar with itself.

'Perhaps it's a dog-eat-dog world, and I can't blame anyone but myself,' the demonic orca thought to itself.

However, the Demon Orca seemed to feel that its answer was not accurate enough, so it added: "If you can withstand my soul impact, then in the law of the jungle, the Demon Orca race has been prepared to be devoured from the day it is born."

"Oh? Do you have a name?" Chen Hong suddenly became curious.

The demonic killer whale seems to be more intelligent than I imagined. Indeed, it lives up to its reputation as a social creature? A street urchin of the ocean?

"..." The demonic orca seemed to be thinking, and finally replied to Chen Hong with some hesitation using its mental power: "Bai Xie. This is my name, because my belly is the whitest. You are the first human to ask me my name, you are very different."

Names, as identifiers used by intelligent beings to anchor "I" after they develop self-awareness, clearly suggest that the demonic killer whale pod possesses a higher level of intelligence.

"Huh?" This time it was Chen Hong's turn to be surprised.

"Senior, I've discovered something amazing." Chen Hong looked up at Qian Daoliu, who was idly playing with the belly of the demonic orca.

Qian Daoliu asked in confusion, "Oh? What?"

Chen Hong said, "The intelligence of the Demon Orca clan is much higher than that of the Black Realm Soul Beasts we have seen before. They even seem to have started to have their own names."

"Huh? Is that so? That's amazing!" Upon hearing this, Qian Daoliu couldn't help but show a hint of astonishment on his face. Then he looked at the heavily injured demonic orca at his feet, and for some reason, at this moment, a slight change seemed to occur in his heart.

"You seem to be a little confused," Chen Hong said softly.

"..." Qian Daoliu looked at the heavily injured demonic orca at his feet with a complicated expression, and sighed, "When you casually step on a large group of ants, do you feel empathy for them? No, because in your subconscious, they are just a group of creatures that act on instinct, without their own consciousness. All their life activities are just for survival. Life has no other meaning for them."

"But now you're suddenly telling me that these creatures that fight based on instinct actually have their own names, and that they have their own families and relatives. For a moment, I feel a little lost."

Having fought his way up, Qian Daoliu wasn't feeling sympathy for anyone. Rather, it was the fact that Chen Hong had ruthlessly shattered his lifelong belief that "soul beasts are all idiots and walking corpses," leaving Qian Daoliu momentarily dazed.

He could accept that soul beasts were intelligent beings. However, he couldn't accept that soul beasts also had their own names.

Having wisdom and having one's own name are two completely different concepts.

Having its own name means that it also has its own life, its own family, and its own life trajectory.

"If you can feel a sense of disorientation, then congratulations, senior, for taking another step forward on the path of humanity." Chen Hong's eyes flashed with an inexplicable light as he softly said to Qian Daoliu, whose expression was somewhat complicated, "What makes humans more valuable than other intelligent beings is our ability to empathize. Just like thousands of years ago, in that dark age when the Soul Master system had just emerged and humanity faced a severe threat to its survival from the Soul Beast race, amidst everyone's prayers, the Angel God brought light, tore open the dark veil covering humanity's head, and created the Spirit Hall and the Soul Master civilization."

"The reason why the Angel God brings light to the world, or rather, the reason why His authority and power are filled with so much light, is perhaps precisely because that era needed something precious?"

Personally speaking, Chen Hong felt much better about the angel god than the sea god.

If the angel gods were created by the power of countless wishes to tear open the veil of darkness, then the sea god is more like a lucky one with extraordinary talents.

Although he had never met the Sea God, Chen Hong sensed from the legends about the Angel God and the Sea God that he had seen in the internal documents of the Spirit Hall that the Angel God was more like a hero of the times with boundless love, while the Sea God was like a spirited and triumphant individual hero.

Although he had never met either of them, Chen Hong roughly estimated that the Angel God would be much easier to approach. As for the Sea God, based on behavioral psychology, he might be a bit petty and, in some cases, even quite arrogant.

"Senior, it is human nature that makes people complex and noble," Chen Hong sighed softly, having already made up his mind.

Qian Daoliu nodded silently: "Understood."

Chen Hong smiled slightly, looked down at the Demonic Tiger Whale at his feet, and whispered in the Demonic Tiger Whale's consciousness, "I am very happy to know your name. You are the first ten-thousand-year-old soul beast that I know has its own name."

"Hello, Bai Xie, my name is Chen Hong."

The Demon Orca paused for a moment, then said calmly, "You're quite different. Your mental ability seems to make me very calm. This ability is extremely rare for our Demon Orca race."

"Chen Hongyao? You are the first human whose name I know. You are very different. The person beside you is very powerful. I am powerless to resist. If you want to hunt me for a soul ring, then I don't mind, as long as you can withstand my power."

The demonic orca seemed easier to talk to than expected. Of course, soul masters and humans who are in a state of enlightenment are generally easy to talk to.

"Rumor has it that the Demon Orca has the ability to crystallize soul power and seawater. I am very curious about this ability, and naturally I want to absorb your soul ring."

The outermost black light patterns in Chen Hong's eyes began to slowly rotate, indicating that he was in an activated state.

"But we can try something: you offer me as a sacrifice, and I'll try to use my abilities to save you."

(End of this chapter)