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It was hard to imagine how much his strength would soar once he obtained that practically endless supply of soul bodies.
The most important thing was that as long as he was careful about not exposing himself, stealing souls from Hall of Souls wouldn't earn him any major grudges.
After all, it was Hall of Souls who captured those souls and refined them. As for him, he was just an innocent alchemist.
"First take all the souls here, no need to risk anything dragging on."
Lin Feng muttered in his heart, then shot straight toward the stone platform at the center of the hall.
Because up there were two souls at Spirit Realm. Grabbing even one of them was equivalent to obtaining the value of tens of thousands of other souls, so naturally, they had priority.
Of course, the term "souls" here certainly did not refer to those he collected back in the Northwestern Continent. Those pitiful souls belonged to Dou Zhe, or even to old, weak people with only Dou Qi.
Although their numbers were about the same, the difference in quality was like heaven and earth.
"Save us and we are willing to give you four-colored eighth-tier pills."
The two Spirit Realm souls, seeing someone daring to intrude into a Hall of Souls branch hall, hurriedly braced their extremely weak spiritual bodies and spoke to Lin Feng in trembling voices.
If it were someone else, hearing the promise of four-colored eighth-tier pills for rescuing them, they would surely agree without hesitation. However, Lin Feng's goal wasn't those pills.
What he truly wanted was the souls themselves. So there was no way he would accept that deal. As their eyes shifted from rising hope to crushing disappointment, Lin Feng completely ignored their pleading.
His attention remained fixed on the thick chains binding those two eighth-tier alchemist souls. He noticed that every once in a while, a faint strand of pale yellow light would be stripped from their bodies.
The light followed the chains, quickly drifting toward the ceiling of the hall. Lin Feng's eyes tracked the moving glimmers closely.
After following them for a short while, he discovered that a large number of chains converged onto a much thicker pitch-black chain suspended high above.
Those thick chains then extended toward the wall of the hall. There, all the chains merged into one massive iron chain, as thick as a person's torso. That chain continued downward, piercing straight into the floor.
All those drifting pale yellow lights followed that same path, finally sinking beneath the floor.
"Could it be that what's beneath here… is the Soul Origin condensed from all the souls extracted by this branch hall?"
Lin Feng's gaze locked onto the location where the chain entered the floor, thoughts racing.
The moment that realization struck, a bright and uncontrollable excitement surged across his face. He temporarily ignored the two eighth-tier alchemist souls. His foot tapped lightly, and his figure instantly vanished from where he stood.
A violent gust of wind swept through, and Lin Feng appeared beside that thick chain. With a flick of his sleeve, a terrifying burst of energy erupted. The heavy stone floor and the soil below were forcefully blasted away.
Under Lin Feng's eager excavation, a deep pit appeared almost instantly. At the bottom of the pit, a glowing sphere about ten centimeters across hovered silently. This glowing sphere was mostly transparent, with faint traces of pale yellow.
From within it, Lin Feng could feel an extremely dense soul fluctuation. On its outer surface, the massive chain remained connected.
Obviously, this glowing sphere was the soul origin that Hall of Souls had extracted from those souls using some sort of secret technique.
Judging from the size of this light sphere, it likely required at least two or three hundred thousand souls to refine this much Soul Origin.
This Soul Origin was extremely pure.
However, someone like Lin Feng who had dealt with Soul Origin many times before and possessed immensely strong soul power, still detected something wrong within it.
Lin Feng stretched out his hand and flicked lightly, shattering the thick chain as wide as a person's torso.
His palm curved slightly, releasing a suction force that drew the glowing sphere into his hand. Holding the Soul Origin, Lin Feng slowly caressed its surface and whispered, "Rest in peace, I will avenge all of you."
That soft sentence suddenly caused the glowing sphere to emit a faint luster. It faintly felt like countless information was silently pouring out from within.
Lin Feng quietly accepted all of it.
Perhaps due to imperfections in the Soul Clan's secret method, although they successfully extracted the Soul Origin from the souls, the emotional remnants of the former owners had not been completely erased.
These negative emotions were extremely subtle. They weren't enough to cause any huge noticeable mental backlash to whoever absorbed the soul origin.
However, because this light sphere contained the Soul Origin of far too many deceased souls, all of their hatred, unwillingness, and despair before death had merged together into a terrifyingly strong emotional mass.
Ordinary people would find it extremely difficult to completely refine such emotions. If someone foolishly absorbed it, at best it would distort their mind. At worst, they would turn into a killing-obsessed mad demon.
In that scenario, countless experts across the continent would unite and eliminate them!
Lin Feng's single sentence had struck precisely where their hearts still lingered.
The buried negativity dissolved quietly. After all, these souls had been captured and tormented by Hall of Souls without end. Revenge against Hall of Souls was basically their final dying wish.
Seeing all negative emotions within the Soul Origin completely disappear, Lin Feng carefully stored it inside the cyan spatial ring on his finger. After finishing, he returned to the stone platform in the center of the hall.
"This respected expert, everything is negotiable, as long as you spare us! Whatever we have, we will give you!"
"Yes, the power behind us is quite strong. If you help us escape, they will definitely reward you handsomely!"
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The two eighth-tier alchemist souls hurriedly tried to tempt Lin Feng again as he approached.
Judging from his actions earlier, they feared his objective might be the same as Hall of Souls's. Which was to extract their Soul Origin and strengthen himself. Lin Feng ignored their desperate pleas.
He flicked his fingers and two chains of invisible flame instantly shot out. In a flash, they pierced into the slightly illusory bodies of the two Spirit Realm souls.
At the same time, several fierce strikes of Dou Qi slammed heavily into the chains binding their bodies.
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