Chapter 195: Do You Think Death is the End?
Outside World
The sky was dominated by a deep purple sun, casting eerie purple rays across the landscape. The flames of life burning on the Sea Princess leader's body appeared extraordinarily bizarre under this sinister sunlight.
Normally, on the Douluo Continent, if a soul beast sacrifices itself to a human soul master, the soul beast's body would also be consumed by the flames of life. However, in the Necrotic Half-Plane, the fundamental rules here made this law ineffective. The flames of life ignited not on the Sea Princess leader's body but on her soul.
Her soul gradually detached from her body, drifting towards Du QianJue, while her body remained unscathed in its original place. If one ignored her ceased breaths, no one would think she had been sacrificed.
As the Sea Princess leader's soul approached Du QianJue, a grey-white dragon phantom emerged behind him, opening its mouth wide to swallow the soul. Subsequently, a blood-red soul ring with six golden stripes appeared above Du QianJue's head, settling into the position of his third soul ring.
Du QianJue's soul power fluctuations remained steady, but now he radiated a formidable psychic wave. The vibrant spirit sea within him stirred up towering waves, and his intangible psychic power began to climb.
The Sea Princess leader's body and soul core remained within her original form; the soul ring did not enhance Du C QianJue's soul power but provided him with pure psychic power.
As Du QianJue 's psychic realm ascended, Dream Ice Silkworm also took action. One of the few remaining seals on him suddenly shattered, releasing a vast origin of psychic power, enveloping the sleeping soul of the Sea Princess leader within Du QianJue's spirit sea.
Du Qianjue also split off a sliver of his soul, appearing in the spirit sea. Looking at the ethereal soul of the Sea Princess leader, he sneered coldly.
"Did you think death was the end? No, death is just the beginning of another nightmare for you!" Du QianJue's eyes narrowed as he reached out and grasped at nothing.
The origin power released from Dream Ice Silkworm converged in his hand, forming a majestic golden scepter—the signature move of Electrolux!
When Electrolux helped him create the Soul-Mate Rings, Du QianJue promised to spend more time studying necromancy. The spell he was casting now was one of the high-level spells he had learned—Soul Enslavement!
Using the origin power from Dream Ice Silkworm, Du QianJue began his incantation, the arcane syllables echoing from his lips. Mysterious black runes sketched themselves around his fingers, aligning orderly in the air to form chains of runes.
Once the incantation was complete, eighteen black chains formed from the runes, floating around Du QianJue.
"Go!" Du QianJue raised the scepter, its sharp end piercing through the soul of the Sea Princess leader, coating her soul in radiant golden light.
The pierced Sea Princess leader showed a look of agony but lacked the strength to resist, passively enduring the pain. The eighteen black chains acted at this moment, entering her soul through the holes made by the scepter, securely locking her in place and gradually disappearing into her soul.
"Tang San's dog? No, when you wake up, you will no longer be Tang San's dog but my slave, ready to stab Tang San if I command it!" Du QianJue chuckled darkly.
The scepter in his hand gradually dissipated, and Du QianJue looked at the sleeping soul of the Sea Princess leader with a villainous grin.
"All set?" Dream Ice Silkworm approached, its golden eyes trying to locate the chains Du QianJue released on the Sea Princess leader's soul.
However, the chains were now deeply embedded in her soul, invisible to even Dream Ice Silkworm's probing.
"Yes, it's done. Once she wakes up, we'll have another strong fighter," Du QianJue chuckled.
"Alright, then I'll go back to sleep!" Dream Ice Silkworm smacked its lips enviously, looking around at Du QianJue's vibrant spirit sea.
"Form and substance! Even with my million years of accumulation, I've never reached this realm. Otherwise, how could I have fallen prey to those scoundrels in Star Dou Forest?"
"But you, at only sixteen, have already achieved this. I'm truly envious."
"I owe it to your help, Dream Brother. Without you, I wouldn't have reached where I am today," Du QianJue said, patting him.
"Humph, of course! I am a unique million-year soul beast!" Dream Ice Silkworm proudly raised its head.
Du QianJue smiled knowingly, and his soul avatar dissolved back into the spirit sea.
Back in the outside world, Du QianJue opened his eyes and retracted the three soul rings and his Chaos Dragon King martial soul, standing up from the ground.
"Hm? Xue'er, what are you looking at?" Du QianJue asked curiously, noticing Xue Linglong examining something.
At that moment, Xue Linglong was circling the body left by the Sea Princess leader, her face filled with curiosity.
"After you absorbed the soul ring, this body seemed lifeless, but just a moment ago, it seemed to have birthed a new soul. I can even sense this faint soul growing stronger!" Xue Linglong exclaimed in awe.
"Isn't it amazing! Is this the rule of this world?"
"Yes, in the Necrotic Half-Plane, death is not the end. Strong corpses in this half-plane can rebirth a new soul, and this new soul can even connect with the former one," Du QianJue nodded.
In the original story, the Ice Bear King Xiao Bai became Huo Yuhao's soul spirit in the Necrotic Half-Plane. Although he didn't provide a soul bone, Xiao Bai's body remained and became a strong force.
The Sea Princess leader's six-hundred-thousand-year cultivation was much stronger than the three-hundred-thousand-year-old Xiao Bai. If handled properly, Du QianJue could even gain an extreme Douluo level Banshee.
Soul bones, something Du QianJue never lacked, especially since he intended to visit the Dragon Valley mini-world, abundant in dragon-related soul bones.
Rather than keeping a six-hundred-thousand-year useless soul bone, it's better to convert it into tangible strength!
Having controlled the Sea Princess leader's soul and converted her body into a Banshee, Du QianJue would soon gain another powerful subordinate!
Thus, the Sea Princess leader's acceptance of her fate seemed like a joke—she couldn't even become a ghost!
(End of Chapter 195)