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Chapter 3 - Fusion

As Xue Mo was now in soul form, he regained what might be considered consciousness. He calmly started to examine and analyze his condition.

If someone else were in his position, he would be panicking and losing his calm. Even if it were an old monster who lived for thousands of years, it would still be the same. After all, it was a known fact that when one achieved the Celestial Blood-stage, they got a grasp of their destiny and were ejected from reincarnation. And that is just the Celestial Blood-stage.

Xue Mo attained an even higher cultivation realm, the highest in his world- the Divine Celestial stage.

In this stage, once someone died, their Soul would disintegrate and cease to exist.

When he checked his present self (soul form), he discovered that his Soul was purer than when it was first purified, using various treasures. It was so pure that he could even see his true nature and individuality. Putting that aside, what he saw next made him speechless. His entire Soul had changed.

Ordinary souls were supposed to be translucent. His Soul also used to be like this. It was now a sphere as black as darkness itself, with a golden layer and grey dots surrounding it. It was enveloped in a shadow-like fog.

What's even more peculiar is that it kept expanding.

Looking more closely into what he now called 'Dark Soul', he noticed something peculiar. A kind of energy he never saw before was being absorbed by his Soul. When he wanted to stop the process, the energy accelerated the fusion, as if it sensed his attempt.

As soon as it did, Xue Mo received information about what was happening to him.

It turned out that Primordial Origin left information on what happened to itself. The knowledge that only its true successor could receive. What this information contained was a description of the battle it had with Heaven and Earth. It explained how it lost the fight by not paying attention to Heaven and Earth's trickery.

As soon as Primordial Origin had noticed what was happening to itself, it sent what remained of its power to seek a place to recuperate and survive.

Sadly, it was too late by then. Heaven and Earth wouldn't allow it to escape and live as it may become an obstacle in the future. Seeing its inevitable and bleak path, Primordial Origin took control of a portion of its former Soul and severed a chunk from itself. It fused this chunk with a part of its, now old, soul, and the Chaos Harmony Scripture came to be in the process.

That way, it linked itself with the shard that now contained its essence. After splitting them into two, Primordial Origin sent the shard and the Chaos Harmony Scripture away, leaving with them this message for whoever finds them later on.

It put a small amount of its soul that not even Heaven and Earth had noticed, into the message. It was now part of Xue Mo, and as repayment for saving its remains, Primordial Origin would give the person the Chaos Harmony Scripture and purify his soul.

This caused his soul to be purified to the highest level possible. Coincidentally, that small amount of what's left of Primordial Origin was precisely enough.

What Primordial Origin and Xue Mo didn't know was that he had an innate control and attraction for every kind of dark and evil type of energy. It was precisely this dormant power that awoke when Primordial Origin fused with Xue Mo. The Primordial Origin wanted to survive and appear like a holy and virtuous existence. The piece of its soul that it sent was its uncontaminated and positive side.

It believed that if it managed to survive, it might have a chance to take over its host and regrow into its former powerful state. But what it didn't take into account was that it would run into Xue Mo, someone with a dormant power of evil.

This killed its remnant and allowed Xue Mo to absorb the last part of its soul, which wasn't a part of Heaven and Earth.

Xue Mo and Primordial Origin's fusion caused a reaction that should have obliterated Xue Mo. Their souls were of opposite characteristics. But what happened next would have stupefied Primordial Origin and left it rooted in its place thinking 'How can that be '- if it were still alive, that is. The Chaos Harmony Scripture was created when Primordial Origin fused the shard with the part extracted from Heaven and Earth, by mistake.

When Primordial Origin did this, it took into account that it could cultivate back to its previous level when it survived. The move that it did on a whim ended up saving Xue Mo and creating the new him.

Chaos Harmony Scripture, as its name entailed, was a cultivation technique that could balance and fuse two opposite attributes. Whatever they may be, it would make them compatible and usable for the user.

Through this extraordinary cultivation technique, Xue Mo's Soul, which was able to use it instinctively, fused the two souls, with Xue Mo's soul being the main body. As it assimilated Primordial Origin's soul fragment, it received a qualitative change that created the abomination that was now known as Xue Mo.

Using Xue Mo's original soul as the base, and the Primordial Origin as the supplement, Xue Mo's new soul was forged. With the mix of God and Devil, the new Xue Mo had retained both souls' characteristics.

The grey spots that surrounded the soul were the only evidence that confirmed the successful fusion between two opposites.

Having understood what happened, Xue Mo started to further check his new soul and see what abilities it may have gained from the fusion.

What surprised Xue Mo was that he discovered that he got too many benefits from soul fusion. So many that he cannot even count them. Yet, he learned that the fusion instinctively sealed the soul so Heaven and Earth wouldn't detect it. In total, 13 seals were locking Xue Mo's soul.

But as Xue Mo was thinking about his soul's capabilities, a bright dark light suddenly shone from his soul's centre.