"You don't need to do it yourself."
Julian looked at the woman's expectant eyes in the mirror, gritted his teeth and refused to agree.
Although the woman would help him with all her strength as long as he agreed, and would not snatch the Soul Apostle even if she knew his purpose, he just didn't want to owe her too many favors.
The woman was a little disappointed. After a moment of silence, she smiled again and asked,
"So how do you need me to help you?"
Julian had already thought about it, and whispered,
"I need to borrow your Holy Bottle of Life."
The woman immediately thought of something and asked,
"Did you buy the Spear of Boiling Blood?"
Julian nodded.
"I need to use the Holy Bottle of Life to replace my life force to unleash the maximum power of the Spear of Boiling Blood."
"I'll send someone to bring the holy bottle over."
"Thanks."
"You're welcome, feel free to let me know if you need anything."
Closing the mirror, Julian took a deep breath. If it wasn't necessary, he really didn't want to beg her. But at this moment, the strength of the human descender had far surpassed his own. If nothing unexpected happened, he had become a Soul Apostle and could borrow huge soul power. At this time, he was no longer his opponent. If he still wanted to seize the Soul Apostle, he had to borrow external forces.
The Spear of Boiling Blood is a top-level magic weapon that can consume vitality and cause huge damage to the enemy. The more vitality consumed, the greater the damage. Someone once used this magic weapon to kill a powerful Dawn Wizard across levels.
Originally, Julian was planning to use the powerful vitality of the Crystal King Snake as a sacrifice to kill the human descendant. He didn't expect that it had been so long since he saw his opponent become so strong that even the Crystal King Snake was killed instantly. Without the King Snake, it was impossible for him to sacrifice his own life.
Moreover, even if he really used his own life force to sacrifice the Spear of Boiling Blood, its power would not be enough to kill the target.
In fact, looking at the information he had and combining it with the strength displayed by the human descender, Julian discovered that if he wanted to kill the target with one blow, he must have strong enough vitality to burst out with all his strength and kill it instantly. The vitality contained in the Holy Bottle of Life was enough.
Time passed slowly, and before I knew it, several months had passed.
Lin Xiaote did not hunt monsters that day, but waited in his temporary residence. At noon, soul power poured out of his body uncontrollably. Exactly one hundred thousand souls gathered in the space in front of him, condensing into a black humanoid figure whose face could not be seen. A strange resonance arose in the void, and a voice appeared in this small space:
"According to the contract, the first ten years have arrived, and you will pay me one hundred thousand souls."
Lin Xiao replied very respectfully:
"According to the contract, I have prepared 100,000 souls."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Xiao discovered that the connection between him and these 100,000 souls disappeared instantly, and it had nothing to do with him anymore.
The void shook again, and the voice of the black-robed figure sounded again:
"You have completed the first stage of the contract, and you will receive my reward!"
The black-robed man slowly raised his arm, and Lin Xiao quickly said:
"Wait a mininute."
The black-robed man paused, and a faint voice rang out again:
"Please tell me your doubts?"
Lin Xiao bowed his head respectfully and spoke word by word:
"According to the contract, after completing the first stage of the contract, I will be able to freely choose whether to continue the contract. Is this true?"
This time, the man in black robe paused for a very long time, and Lin Xiao stood quietly waiting.
After more than ten seconds, Lin Xiao suddenly felt that something had changed in the void, as if there was a gaze descending. The man in black robe suddenly became more agile, and a voice that was no different from before sounded:
"You want to terminate the contract?"
"Let me see, well, you haven't devoured a soul yet!"
A gaze that was not concealed but was almost imperceptible to him fell on Lin Xiao. He could even sense the interest in this gaze.
"Can you tell me why you want to terminate the contract?"
The voice seemed to be very interested and asked:
"Is it because you are not strong enough? Or is it because you don't like devouring souls? Perhaps you have not yet tasted the wonderful feeling and powerful power produced by devouring souls."
It was obvious that this was the consciousness of the Lord of the Ghost World. Lin Xiao was very clear that his behavior had aroused the interest of this unknown existence. No matter what the reason was, he must give an answer.
He didn't back down, and answered very seriously and honestly:
"This power is very strong and addictive. Even if it has not devoured my soul, I am amazed by the superficial power. But it is too dangerous. I cannot guarantee that I can always stick to my original intention and not indulge in it. In order not to indulge and fall, I decided to give up this power."
This reason is indeed true, but it is expressed a little more mildly. When facing an unknown powerful being, it is best not to provoke it.
The black-robed man was silent for a long time, which made him feel uneasy. Until one moment, the voice sounded again:
"You are not the first chosen one to reject this power. I have always respected your choice and never forced you. If you wish, you can terminate this contract."
Lin Xiao breathed a sigh of relief at this sentence, but before he could even let go, he immediately breathed another sigh of relief:
"I have always advocated fair trade. Since you have completed this contract, you will definitely receive the reward. Please accept it."
The man in black robe suddenly collapsed, and turned into a ball of pitch-black soul power that rolled in front of him, boiling and tumbling like boiling water. As the soul power rolled, he was surprised to find that the various impurities and soul power contained in the 100,000 soul forces were rapidly disappearing, and the color was slowly changing from pitch-black to clear.
"???"
To his surprise, this ball of soul power was quickly purified and soon turned into a ball of light that was transparent and clear like a ball of clear water. It quickly shrank into a crystal ball the size of an egg, flew in front of him, landed on his forehead, and sank directly into it.
In an instant, Lin Xiao felt that his mental power, which had just been promoted, was skyrocketing wildly. It felt like someone used a ladle to scoop a ladle of materialized mental power water and poured it directly into his mind. The surging feeling and the intense growth of mental power stimulated him so much that he couldn't help but let out a long moan.
"No, I don't agree!"
The pleasure disappeared in an instant, everything stopped, Lin Xiao stood still, motionless, a speck of dust floating just 0.1 millimeter away from his pupil, motionless.
After an unknown amount of time, a concrete thought appeared in Lin Xiao's mind:
"as you wish!"
The voice disappeared quickly, and he could feel that the will had really left. However, Lin Xiao was not happy at all, because a strange mark had appeared in his spiritual core at some point, along with a message.
The general meaning is that the Lord of the Strange World is very optimistic about him and decides to give him a chance to regret, leaving this mark so that he can rely on this mark to save his life in the future.
But if he activates the mark in the future, it means that he accepts the new Soul Apostle Contract again and officially becomes a Soul Apostle.
It was very bossy. Lin Xiao wanted to give up, but when he thought that this thing could save his life, he couldn't bear to do so.
It has to be said that this move hit his soft spot directly, and now he lacks a trump card to save his life.
Lin Xiao regained his composure, feeling somewhat complicated. This wave of feedback directly increased his mental power by N times, directly making his mental power ceiling exceed the limit of a third-level wizard, and far exceeded it. In other words, as long as he wanted, he could immediately prepare to be promoted to a third-level wizard and even have more than enough.
Whether or not you can succeed is one thing, but at least your mental strength has reached the standard.
Not only that, there is also excess mental power, and after deducting 100,000, there are still more than 200,000 souls left, which have not been taken away by the Lord of the Strange World.
These souls are a problem now. He has not renewed the contract and has lost the Soul Apostle's ability to detain souls. These souls will soon get out of control one by one, and he has to find a way to deal with them.
There is a way to deal with it, but in the future I will no longer be able to borrow the spiritual power of these souls to stimulate my own spirit, and the growth rate of my spiritual power will have to be greatly reduced.
Fortunately, I have now passed the most difficult stage. With the help of this bonus mental power and the remaining nearly 200,000 souls, it will be almost no problem to be promoted to the fourth-level Dawn Wizard.
A fourth-level wizard is already an upper-middle-class warrior in most worlds and has enough power to protect himself. As the saying goes, as long as he doesn't waste it.
Taking a deep breath, he opened his mouth and inhaled. The souls all over his body flew out and fell into his mouth, pouring in like a torrent and disappearing.
Soon, the two hundred thousand souls were devoured. He closed his eyes and his consciousness fell into the Rubik's Cube of Creation. The two hundred thousand souls had been purified into the purest soul power and were temporarily stored in the Rubik's Cube space.
Yes, it is soul power, not mental power.
The Lord of the Strange World had already devoured the soul power of the 100,000 souls he had just taken away when he gave them to him, and the remaining was the residual spiritual essence as a reward to him.
The main essence of the soul is soul power, and mental power is just a by-product.
Compared with the strength of the soul's essence, the strength of mental power is only a byproduct of the strength of the soul's essence.
He now uses the Fortune Cube to refine and remove all residual distractions and mental imprints, and obtains pure soul power and mental power, which is equivalent to
"Wait! I can completely obtain the status of a soul apostle, and then use the Fortune Cube to refine and obtain soul power."
But he immediately rejected it:
"No, it's easy to be discovered."
The Cube of Creation is his biggest trump card and must not be exposed.
The master of this strange world controls the soul and is very sensitive to it. It is difficult to do anything under the nose of such an expert!
(End of this chapter)