Free Web NovelChapter 319: Chapter 46: The Order of Evil
’The Beast God Realm is a legacy left behind by the Immortal Gods?’ ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm
Su Zhou casually killed an Evil Beast that was roaring at him, then arranged its corpse into the shape of a stool and sat down, taking the opportunity to monitor the situation at the Beast God Realm’s Space-Time Passage.
To be honest, this attitude of treating life—even an enemy’s life—as a mere tool was truly befitting of a Demon Lord.
"You know, your casual actions are actually wickedly impressive..."
Yara blinked but didn’t say anything more. Su Zhou, who also saw nothing wrong with his actions, sat on the corpse and thought seriously for a moment, concluding that this theory was indeed quite plausible.
For the Immortal Gods, who could travel between worlds, it shouldn’t have been difficult to seal a Space-Time Passage. The very fact that they left one open to the Beast God Realm meant they intended to leave it there.
And based on the little information available, the Beast God Realm might contain many Divine Beast Bloodlines. ’Could it be a living repository for the Immortal Gods’ bloodlines from back then?’ Although Su Zhou knew this guess was probably wrong, it still felt like it was basically the truth.
’Let me take a look at the information inside the Peacock Evil Soul first.’
With this thought, Su Zhou took out the Peacock Evil Soul he had stored in his Soul Space.
[Evil Soul of the Five-Colored Divine Bird: Peacock]
[A Beast Soul forged from the power of a bloodline passed down from ancient times, aspiring to become an Overlord]
[The soul of a Beast King that would climb at any cost]
[Consume directly to increase affinity with Five Elements Spiritual Power, enhance Spiritual Power control, and moderately increase affinity for objects of the Five Elements.]
[Undergo Spiritual Refining to transform it into an Attaching Spirit of the ’Five Spirits and Five Colors,’ which can be attached to any equipment or item.]
[Forge using a special method to create the Soul Weapon ’Divine Light·Five-Colored Feathers’.]
[Concoct using a special method and consume to obtain the legacy of the ’Five Elements Reincarnation Spirit Technique’.]
[A Divine Bird that knew from birth it was merely the descendant of a loser, its proud Soul Spirit filled with indignant rage.]
[Should it obey the ancient decree, transform into a human, and accept that condescending enlightenment? Or should it persist on its own path and never yield?]
[The path has long been chosen. The cage must be broken, the shackles shattered. For this purpose, everything can be trampled underfoot.]
Su Zhou raised an eyebrow, a little surprised. ’I didn’t expect the Peacock to actually have a legacy.’
From the moment he awakened the Divine Techniques of the Evil-Devouring Demon Lord until now, Su Zhou had only ever encountered one Evil Soul with a legacy: the National Preceptor’s. For most ordinary Evil Souls, it was already impressive if they could coalesce into a Soul Weapon.
According to Su Zhou’s own analysis, to form an Evil Soul, the enemy’s strength couldn’t be too much lower than his own. If they were roughly half a major realm weaker, an Evil Soul wouldn’t form at all.
Enhancement of Attributes and creating an Attaching Spirit were the basics, the standard for most Evil Souls. But this didn’t mean Su Zhou could just kill anyone of a similar level to get an Evil Soul. That wouldn’t work. It had to be someone that Su Zhou himself (or rather, his Evil-Devouring Demon Lord Divine Technique) considered to be one of the Evil People, and who truly carried the ’Curse and Vengeance’ of others, for one to coalesce.
The greater this curse and resentment, the higher the quality of the Evil Soul. If it surpassed a certain threshold, the bonuses from the Evil Soul would be even better, perhaps even forming a ’Soul Weapon.’ A Soul Weapon itself was similar to the weapon the original owner favored in life or one of their own innate traits.
Of course, this so-called ’evil’ wasn’t necessarily just about pure murder. It could be that their very existence influenced the fates of many, shifting them in a direction Su Zhou deemed ’bad.’
In fact, Su Zhou guessed that the essence of an Evil Soul was actually the curse and evil thoughts entwined around a soul. The number of people who despised the original owner, or whose fates were being influenced by them, determined the strength of this curse and these evil thoughts, which would then become a force in the unseen world. By ’slaying the original owner,’ Su Zhou’s Evil-Devouring Demon Lord Divine Technique could become the agent of this unseen force, converting it for his own use and condensing it into the Evil Soul he consumed.
In other words, the Evil-Devouring Demon Lord’s Divine Technique essentially turned Su Zhou into a humanoid Celestial Tribulation who accepted his own missions. His actions, and the very existence of the Evil Souls, were the ’retribution’ for the Evil One.
This was the essence of his Divine Technique, as Su Zhou had conjectured from his own ponderings. Although asking Yara yielded no answer, he felt his current understanding shouldn’t be too far off the mark.
’Extreme evil can form a Soul Weapon, but a legacy is different. A legacy means the original owner was not only sufficiently evil but had also achieved a breakthrough on a certain path!’
Legacies were a matter of luck, not something one could actively seek out. Even if an enemy was terrifyingly strong, if they were merely powerful without having made a unique breakthrough of their own, their Evil Soul wouldn’t contain a legacy. It was nearly impossible to obtain something like a bloodline-based Divine Technique, unless the Evil One’s breakthrough was specifically in their bloodline-based Divine Technique.
To be honest, unlike with the National Preceptor, Su Zhou didn’t know much about the Peacock Divine Bird. It had probably been less than ten minutes after it emerged from the Space-Time Passage before he killed it. Since one of them spoke human language and the other spoke bird language, communication was impossible anyway. The entire process of their encounter and battle was like a shooting game, highlighting one core principle: if you run into them, you fight. It’s either you die or I die.
As for the fight itself, Su Zhou had taken advantage of the Peacock’s carelessness, hitting it with a single blow that gave it a concussion. The Divine Bird was killed before it even had a chance to take flight, so it didn’t feel like much of a challenge.
Who would have thought that it was actually a pioneer who had made a breakthrough in the Five Elements Technique? This made Su Zhou feel rather emotional. "You never know how hard the boss you just defeated was working behind the scenes!"
