"How could this be?"
Just by arriving near the original territory of the mermaid clan, Liya let out a cry of alarm and rushed forward.
Lin Xiao glanced in the direction Liya had left and let out a soft sigh, slowly following after her.
He didn't need to get closer to guess what had happened here, because even from afar, he had already sensed a familiar aura.
It was the same as the one they had encountered on their way here, the same thick, bloody, murderous aura, only even clearer and denser than the one they had just met.
As they moved forward, the original living area of the mermaid clan had already turned into ruins. Even the former mermaid Royal Palace was left with nothing but broken walls and rubble.
Not all sea soul beasts in the mermaid clan possessed the same level of cultivation as Sea Princess and Liya.
Although sea soul beasts were not as easily disturbed by humans as those on land, and the mermaid clan had Sea Princess protecting them, the soul masters' cultivation was limited by bloodline. Not many could break through to the hundred-thousand-year level like Liya.
There were still quite a few mermaids whose cultivation was less than ten thousand years.
When the enemy attacked, Liya had been able to escape while heavily injured, but the other mermaid with weaker cultivation didn't even have the chance to flee.
Lin Xiao sighed inwardly.
There was probably no need to search for Sea Princess's whereabouts anymore. After all, if Sea Princess had truly been able to block that invading sea soul beast, this place would not have become like this.
Liya had already rushed into the ruins, searching through them for traces of her clansmen and looking for Sea Princess. Unfortunately, not even a single mermaid corpse remained here.
Lin Xiao observed the surroundings but did not find any traces left by the soul beast Liya had mentioned. Watching her from a distance, he did not step forward to disturb her.
"Blood sacrifice?"
Just as Lin Xiao fell silent, a cry of surprise suddenly rang out from the bottom of his heart.
His mind stirred. Lin Xiao circulated his soul power, causing the plane of the dead to ripple slightly. In the next instant, the semi-transparent phantom of Myriad Soul appeared beside him.
Ever since the fifth elder, Myriad Soul Douluo, died, the soul that followed Lin Xiao had never taken the initiative to speak.
Myriad Soul Douluo had never been particularly strong in life, and Lin Xiao had been too lazy to pay him much attention. He hadn't expected the man to speak up at this moment.
"What did you just say?"
Lin Xiao looked at the soul before him, his eyes narrowing, looking as if he would search the man's memories at the slightest disagreement.
"No, no, no. I said I seem to have seen this scene before." Myriad Soul hurriedly waved his hands.
"When?"
"It was… it was…" Myriad Soul hesitated slightly.
"Forget it, I'll look it up myself."
"No, it was the time when Old Six and I agreed to help the Great Elder."
Lin Xiao frowned slightly. He glanced again at Liya, who was still in the ruins. Seeing no other auras around, he turned back to Myriad Soul. "Tell me in detail."
Seeing this, Myriad Soul no longer hid anything. "You know what Old Six and I like. My martial soul, the Myriad Soul Banner, needs various powerful souls to exert greater power, so I've always been searching for all kinds of souls."
"Later, the Great Elder told me that there is a type of sea soul beast in the ocean with inherently powerful souls. Once they could be driven by my martial soul, their strength would definitely rise to another level."
"Only after that did I learn that what the Great Elder was talking about was the mermaid clan. And to obtain the souls of the mermaid clan, I agreed to help the Great Elder with one thing. That matter… You also participated in."
At this point, Lin Xiao understood what Myriad Soul was referring to.
Back then, the Great Elder had asked him to help steal the mermaid clan's treasure, the Heart of the Ocean. The two people who had come to the icy sea with them at that time were precisely Myriad Soul and Abomination.
What he had to do was bring the Great Elder's scale near the Heart of the Ocean. He really didn't know what Myriad Soul and Abomination had done back then.
Thinking of this, he looked toward Myriad Soul again.
"Sigh." Myriad Soul let out a soft sigh. "At that time, the Great Elder had set up a grand blood sacrifice array in a certain sea area. After the Great Elder lured Sea Princess into the array, Old Six and I would activate it."
"Blood sacrifice array?" Lin Xiao frowned in thought. "What is its function?"
"I'm not too clear either, and I didn't ask in detail. It was probably used to increase cultivation."
Lin Xiao suddenly realized. No wonder the Great Elder had immediately faced her heavenly tribulation right after obtaining the Heart of the Ocean. He had thought it was just a coincidence, but now it seemed that everything had been planned by the Great Elder in advance.
Not only did she want to take the mermaid clan's treasure, she even wanted to make a blood sacrifice of the mermaid clan to help her increase her cultivation…
"At that time, the momentum was enormous. Old Six and I saw that the situation was not right and immediately fled," Myriad Soul continued, recalling the situation at that time. "It's just that I couldn't let go of so many mermaid souls in my heart."
"At the time, I was still thinking that even if their bodies were blood sacrificed, a few souls might remain."
"But when I secretly returned there alone afterward, there was nothing left except a thick, bloody, murderous aura. Let alone souls, there wasn't even a fragment of a soul left."
Lin Xiao sighed softly. "So that array doesn't just blood sacrifice flesh and blood, but also souls, right?"
"Yes, yes." Myriad Soul nodded repeatedly. "That's what I mean."
Lin Xiao slightly closed his eyes, recalling the few times he had interacted with the Great Elder.
In the Great Elder's words, he had indeed heard terms like "Master." Now it seemed that the sea soul beast that had attacked the mermaid clan was probably the Great Elder's "Master."
The arrays they used were of the same lineage… That made sense. The one who could make a sea soul beast like the Great Elder serve was another sea soul beast. It was indeed reasonable.
No wonder they targeted the mermaid clan. After all, that array could even absorb the power of souls, and in the entire ocean, there was probably no stronger soul than those of the mermaid clan.
"Disciple, the divine sense fragment has probably been located."
Just as Lin Xiao was pondering, Ilex suddenly spoke.
"Teacher." Lin Xiao immediately reacted. "You mean?"
"Mm, though I'm not entirely sure, but this method of blood sacrificing even souls is quite similar to the sacrificial techniques in necromantic magic."
"When some necromancers' own abilities are insufficient, they can lower the requirements for casting necromantic magic through sacrificial means. This power, after some modification, can also be used to enhance one's own abilities."
"However, in the world I was in, the more powerful necromancers mostly mastered the means to become liches and rarely used this method to increase their strength."
Upon hearing this, Lin Xiao's eyes flickered slightly. "Teacher, no matter the result, it's worth taking a look."
"If that's truly the case, the sea soul beast we encountered earlier that carried your divine sense fragment's aura was probably somehow contaminated by the aura during the sacrifice."
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