Chapter 167: The Departure

Chapter 167: The Departure

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"As I stated previously. If you successfully kill Slaughter King, I will open your eyes to the path of spirit cultivation and all its necessities."

"May I know who you are?" Ja Sun finally inquired.

"No, you may not," the figure frowned. He looked a little impatient but as if blind, Ja Sun traced his chin and continued, "What did you mean by calling the Slaughter King your successor?"

"It is as the terms state. He is my successor."

"Successor to what? Wealth? Knowledge? Land? Spirit?" Ja Sun frowned.

The figure turned silent and continued to gaze at Ja Sun.

Seeing this, he smiled, "I wish to know the consequences of rejecting the job. And I want to know in detail what this 'opening my eyes to the road of cultivation' really means."

"Rejecting the job comes with no consequences but simply the loss of knowledge of the future path that you would gain by accepting the task and successfully executing it." The figure's wavy form turned a bit translucent.

"As a show of good faith, please first tell me what really is considered a divine quality for spirit energy?"

Ja Sun's sea of spirit is constantly refined by the Final Buddha Array and the Myriad Step Refining Array. He also felt that the concentration of his spirit energy, its intensity, and its purity is unrivaled among his teammates. So, he hoped to gain some information and then use his trait to find as much as possible.

"How did you know about Spirit Souls? It has been forbidden since the war," the figure replied with a question, too.

After a few short seconds of silence, Ja Sun couldn't help but sigh deep down. He was impatient. If he had the chance to make a mission now, he would have had the chance to gain a few pieces of information that could solve his confusion. Seeing that the supposed 'Ancestor' to Slaughter King wished to keep a tight lid on the matter and even send him to a thankless job with only his words being the assurance, Ja Sun closed his eyes, feigning a ponderous look.

But the gold of his third eye sharpened instantly and a strange pressure escaped Ja Sun's body.

In his life, Ja Sun admitted to sometimes underestimating his opponents, but he had never once overestimated or undermined his own abilities.

Whatever it is beyond the realm of Titled Douluo, using the three-fold enhancement of the Fiery Golden Pupils, it should be possible to forcefully alleviate his mental energy to that level. Not to mention his Vajra Gauntlets. They have faced many problems alongside Ja Sun and have been literally baptized with every single treasure Ja Sun has absorbed.

This pair of gauntlets is one of his greatest treasures.

Since Ja Sun was interested in the Slaughter Egg and there was a party trying to stand in the way, Ja Sun considered his options and chose to strike. Anyway, the figure was ghostly at best. Whoever or whatever this red-eyed individual is, he should be a temporary measure.

"You dare!"

The figure spat coldly. Boundless killing intent escaped his form but what stunned the two of them was...

'Too similar!'

Ja Sun's killing intent was similar. Boundless and silent. Just that his nature by itself wasn't cold and he wasn't on edge every moment of his life to constantly leak it.

Ja Sun's mental energy had already collected in a single point and in the form of one needle. To the misty figure's size, however, this might as well be a sword. Half of Ja Sun's mental energy was occupied within the clone so Ja Sun only lacked in quantity. Not quality. The needle instantly pierced the figure while Ja Sun himself felt a sharp pain. It wasn't a mental attack as Ja Sun had hoped. After all, the third realm of Fiery Golden Pupils also allows him to counterattack the mental strikes passively.

The dissipating figure simply snorted coldly and waved his hand. A strand of pure white Slaughter energy entered Ja Sun's system but this time, instead of being broken into basic units of energy and get absorbed by his physical core, the strand of energy seemed to possess an overbearing intent and struck against his spirit sea.

This was a level of attack that Ja Sun simply wasn't equipped to deal with but his mental energy had worked its charm. Whoever this being was, it had already lost most of its form and only one eye remained which had gotten quite dull, too.

Ja Sun was pale, too. His spirit energy rushed out of his control, constantly dissipating.

"Your spirit energy will continue to escape from the tear in the sea of spirit. It's not something a mortal can heal."

The figure spoke as a matter of fact but Ja Sun didn't think much of it at the moment. He was already at rank 63 but this form of strange attack had begun to forcefully deplete his foundation. It was a slow effect but a lasting one and from the opponent's tone, Ja Sun understood that the figure was counting on this fact.

"And you can heal it?" Ja Sun inquired calmly. His mental energy was severely deprived but there was no reason to show it on his face. This kind of pain was simply... too low to be shown and wasn't delivered by Ah Yin, too. Since there was no individual to entertain, Ja Sun smiled instead. New novel chapters are published on

"I can," the figure nodded. It was as if the two individuals had not attacked each other a few seconds ago.

"A strike to a god comes with consequences. That doesn't mean this offense is permanent and can be chalked up to your ignorance. It's also a surprise that you have pulled your pupils' technique to the third realm... but it doesn't compare to his. It is still within the confines of mortal. The quality of your mental energy, I mean."

It was clear that after witnessing Ja Sun's strength, the figure appreciated him instead. And he was more talkative as if meeting an old acquaintance.

"What do I have to do to get this tear in my sea of spirit healed?" Ja Sun sighed softly.

"Without enhancement of spirit energy, you won't be my successor's opponent. Thus, I will retract my energy from your sea of spirit should you accept my mark."

'So... it needs my approval?' Ja Sun thought momentarily, 'Or, my approval plays a pivotal role but isn't the only aspect necessary to whatever this ghostly bitch wants.'

Even now his mental energy was recovering and Ja Sun felt that if he had a spirit core in his sea of spirit then such an attack would have begun to heal by itself, too. But he didn't entertain this thought for long. With an extensive difference between his spirit energy when compared to his physique and mental energy, he already needed more spirit energy than necessary to accomplish each breakthrough. An addition of core will only increase this cost instead.

'Maybe Ah Yin can heal... or at least support the expenditure... we also gained many immortal ginsengs that support spirit energy purely but... the pressure of another immortal herb's effect might be hard to dissipate even with the digestion factor of my Physique's core.

But there was one thing about this martial soul... the first aspect.

Summoning.

Ja Sun could summon creatures of varying strength. This was the truth. And, his Evil Title can only absorb spirit rings with evil attributes so this made it more efficient for Ja Sun. Instead of running around, he can simply summon beasts at will.

'But the domain...'

Ja Sun grinned as he walked over to Xie Xan and slapped his face a few times until the man woke up.

"I'm out?" Xie Xan muttered in confusion. His situation was already better. After gaining her domain, Bibi Dong was wrought with killing intent but Xie Xan revealed no such problems.

Instead, after a short meditation, he opened his eyes. The veins around his eyes bulged and he matched Ja Sun's calm gaze with blood-red pupils.

"I've... attained my realm of self. Not only that..."

Xie Xan gazed at Ja Sun but instead of seeing the natural colors of the word, his view was completely white and all he saw were red lines.

"My Asura Sight Technique is at the third realm, too."

"Oh?" Ja Sun raised his brows.

"What's the enhancement?" Ja Sun inquired. Xie Xan might have finally reached this realm of self-control after taking the dip in the bloody mary, Ja Sun reasoned. Xie Xan was already quite close to reaching this level and the additional resistance towards Slaughter and killing intent drove him over the edge.

"It's a simple boost to the sharpness of my martial soul. Like Erlong's... a 10% increase in sharpness."

Xie Xan replied with a sigh. He felt a bit lacking when compared to Oscar's talents in this regard but...

A white ring of light emerged from Xie Xan's body and his martial soul appeared in front of him. The originally crimson Moon blades now had a pattern of white veins on their surface and his eyes returned to normal.

"Holy shit!" Xie Xan exclaimed. Although he brimmed with killing intent after the activation of his newly acquired innate domain, his expression was one of pure joy.

"Can you feel it?" He looked at Ja Sun who shook his head, "The killing intent doesn't really affect my mind, so the only suppression is a physical one.*

"And now?" Xie Xan inquired again while Ja Sun felt his attributes rise sharply. It was the positive effect of the killing intent that roused the allies with strength and motivation.

Ja Sun nodded and Xie Xan removed his domain.

"What about you?" Xie Xan inquired.

"We came out of the same place, what do you think?" Ja Sun smiled. It was a lie. His domain was...

Better...

A tad too much. And it matched his wildest desires.

The duo explored their regions before packing up and leaving. On the way, Ja Sun and Xie Xan set their tents to rest and the golden-eyed evil incarnate finally completed his mission.

[Objective: Breakthrough the Slaughter City and find an enclosed space privately to pump your fist.

Optional Objectives:

1) Complete the task in 9 months.

2) 2) Complete the task in 6 months.

3) 3) Complete the task in 3 months.

4) 4) Complete the task in 1 month.

Mission Rank: C/B/A/A/A

Mission Rewards: The Ring Scriptures/ Spirit Ring Sublimation Array/Spirit Bestowal Array/Spirit Bestowal Array/Spirit Bestowal Array.

Time Limit: 12/9/6/3/1 Months]

[Status: Completed]

In the dead of the night, the area where the green tattoo of the vertical eye remained flashes and a scroll appeared in front of him. It was dusty and a golden trident seal kept the scroll closed. With an eager expression, Ja Sun dove into another source of knowledge but strangely, the more he read, the weary his expression became.

'This... doesn't make any sense.'

Ja Sun read the formation of the array once again and its uses.

'A formation created over a source of constant collection of soul origin with a divine intent controlling its expense...'

This scroll described Slaughter City perfectly in its key points. The crimson moon was a large source of Soul Origin. There was also a divine intent, or at least, that's what the figure called itself. And there was a reversal trigger that allowed Ja Sun to override the entire requirement of the Slaughter Arena victories itself.

But Ja Sun couldn't understand one thing.

'How the heck do I reach this divine level?'

This formation, after all, was entirely dependent on the application of a higher form of energy controlling a lower form of energy according to the user's wishes.

This formation in itself allowed someone to add years of cultivation to someone's spirit rings! This was an amazing formation and the more Ja Sun studied it, the more he wanted to find the S-ranked version of it!

While Spirit Souls had the same ability blessed to them because they are alive, this formation was simply a divine work of mankind.