As the Spirit Monarch arrived right in front of Lin Xiao, just as his power was about to invade Lin Xiao's body, Lin Xiao, who had been completely unconscious moments ago, suddenly opened his eyes.
A gaze fell upon the Spirit Monarch. Lin Xiao's pupils had turned completely gray.
With just that one glance, for some unknown reason, the Spirit Monarch's movements slowed by half a beat.
This fleeting opening was precisely seized by "Lin Xiao." His figure abruptly retreated, and the surrounding seawater instantly became somewhat turbid.
By the time the water calmed down again, "Lin Xiao" had completely changed his appearance.
The red and blue glow of the River Styx Embrace on his body had entirely disappeared. In its place were strands of gray patterns. These things did not look like soul guidance arrays at all; instead, they resembled some kind of ancient script.
His right hand grasped at the air, and faint gray mist spread out, forming a long staff in "Lin Xiao's" palm.
His left hand was held flat, with a cluster of gray mist condensing in his palm. The mist continuously drifted, making it impossible to see clearly what was inside.
"You…" The Spirit Monarch paused for a moment, speaking with some uncertainty, "You are not… No, what exactly are you?"
"Lin Xiao" seemed to smile slightly. He opened his mouth, but what came out was a voice filled with vicissitudes.
"My disciple is in trouble. As his teacher, I naturally have to come out and help him this time."
As he spoke, the long staff in his hand tapped lightly. "Come out. I cannot command you the way my disciple does, but you all exist because of my disciple. Now, it is time for you to take action."
The Spirit Monarch naturally had no way of knowing that both the one who had just blocked his attack and the one now standing before him were Electrolux, who had always existed deep within Lin Xiao's sea of spirit.
"Your strength is indeed impressive," Electrolux saw through the Spirit Monarch's power with a single glance. "If it were your true body here in my current state, I might have to retreat and avoid confrontation."
"But unfortunately, what has appeared here is only your projection. Even if the power of the body you are possessing bears some resemblance to your own, allowing you to display some of your abilities, it is ultimately not you yourself."
"My disciple is currently at a critical moment. Until then, I shall spar with you for a while. Speaking of which, it has been a long time since I last fought with anyone."
As his words fell, Electrolux tapped his long staff, and several souls imperceptible to ordinary people appeared at his side.
Snow Empress, Feng Shen, White Tiger, Dark Lightning … They were complete souls that had possessed Title Douluo-level cultivation in their lifetimes.
Electrolux naturally could not communicate with these souls through consciousness the way Lin Xiao did, nor could he command them like Lin Xiao. But as a necromancer, he had another method of commanding souls that Lin Xiao rarely used and had never employed.
"Fen—"
"Oh—"
"Pa…"
One incantation after another was uttered from Electrolux's mouth. The Spirit Monarch had no idea what kind of power this was, but he could feel strands of aura swirling around the person before him, growing clearer and stronger with each incantation.
The Snow Empress, Feng Shen, and the others also felt, in that instant, an inexplicable power surging forth, a direct amplification acting upon their souls.
Lin Xiao himself possessed powerful strength, so the souls around him had always been his assistants rather than the main force in battle. Therefore, he rarely used such necromancy.
But in Electrolux's hands, as a necromancer, there were countless ways to utilize souls in combat.
In the gap between life and death, Lin Xiao had no idea that his body had already begun to move and was commanding several souls to fight. At this moment, he was quietly staring at the face reflected on the water's surface.
"Why did you reject me?"
Lin Xiao's own voice echoed from the bottom of his heart. "If you escape death, how can you grasp death itself?"
"Come. Only by experiencing true death like me will you know what kind of power death truly is."
His own voice continued to reverberate in his heart. For a moment, Lin Xiao could not tell whether this was another temptation of death or his own true thoughts.
Was he rejecting death?
Perhaps he was. Even though his martial soul was of the ultimate death attribute and he had mastered the use of this power, he was ultimately a living person. His instincts and everything about him were rejecting the idea of death falling upon himself.
Even the terrifying feeling from his previous life when he was on the verge of death, he had been deliberately avoiding recalling it.
No one would like that feeling.
It was precisely because of his resistance to death and his unwillingness to lose his life that he had pursued power and walked all the way to where he was now.
If the way to completely master death was to abandon life and accept death itself…
Lin Xiao could not make a decision. The other shore was right before his eyes. It seemed that as long as he took a gentle step forward, his consciousness would return to his body just like the previous times.
But what about after that?
What he would face was a powerhouse from the Abyss Plane, an opponent who could easily knock his consciousness down here just by possessing the Evil Emperor's body.
And this was merely one powerhouse from the Abyss Plane.
Once the Abyss descended, how would they resist when truly facing the foreign enemy?
Gods?
Ordinary people could naturally rely on their power, but Lin Xiao could not.
He was doing something unspeakable for the gods. To protect the gods' image, no matter whether he could complete it or how well he completed it, in the end, only by making him completely silent could that god feel at ease.
In the beginning, he had no choice but to make such a decision. Lin Xiao had known from the very start that this path had never been one that could be walked in peace.
His gaze remained fixed on the reflection on the water's surface. His emotions surged, and suddenly, the reflection began to change. The face in the reflection grew increasingly ugly, gradually rotting, until it completely disappeared.
Watching his own face slowly decay and head toward death, a strange feeling rose in Lin Xiao's heart.
He turned back to look at the sea of flowers behind him. Lin Xiao suddenly took a step forward. However, his figure did not land on the opposite shore but fell into the river before him.
Not a single ripple was raised on the water's surface. Lin Xiao's figure seemed to merge into the water, becoming one with the reflection within it.
Suffocation, coldness, fear… The sensations from his previous life when he was on the verge of death gradually swallowed him. Even the memories after death began to slowly emerge in his mind.
Lin Xiao suddenly understood that he was able to possess such a unique martial soul and the Other Shore Flower that connected the shores of life and death precisely because he himself was someone who had personally crossed the two realms of life and death.
Although he himself might not have realized it, these things had always been with him, influencing him every moment.
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