Chapter 139: 139. Chapter 139 Shura Secret Spice (Part 1)

139. Chapter 139 Shura Secret Spice (Part 1)

Time rushed by, and it was unknown how long had passed.

Li Xuan was still outside the Fenxin Array, continuously releasing Burning Heart Divine Flame at the Fenxin Array.

Within the Fenxin Array, the blood-red nine-headed bat, whose wingspan had been a hundred meters, was roasted by the Burning Heart Divine Flame and astonishingly turned into a palm-sized blood-red little bat, and this little bat continuously emitted soul energy.

Upon close inspection, the blood-red nine-headed bat had lost eight of its nine heads, and having lost so much soul energy, its consciousness had already dissipated, leaving it dazed and locked within the Fenxin Array.

Seeing the dense soul energy surrounding him, Li Xuan welcomed it without hesitation, absorbing all the soul energy released by the blood-red nine-headed bat into his own body.

The soul of the blood-red nine-headed bat had stayed in the Soul Nurturing Wood for far too long; the Soul Nurturing Wood raised the bat like a pig, and the soul energy within its body was extraordinarily massive.

However, the blood-red nine-headed bat could neither use nor transform this soul energy, so the soul energy merely stored in its body, essentially still the soul energy released by the Soul Nurturing Wood, unchanged.

Thus these soul energies were stripped away with great ease.

But Li Xuan did not know how to cultivate soul energy, so he could only use the Burning Heart Divine Flame to simply process these soul energies and then absorb them into his body.

Like the blood-red nine-headed bat, Li Xuan could only store these soul energies within his own soul; otherwise, over time they would dissipate into the air.

Soul energy is exceedingly precious, and Li Xuan was reluctant to waste it; after absorbing it into his body, he waited for a future chance to discover a method of soul cultivation to fully assimilate this soul energy.

The process of absorbing soul energy is extremely slow, thus requiring a great amount of time.

……

Two hours later, the soul of the blood-red nine-headed bat was completely refined by the Fenxin Array, turning into a transparent memory that entered Li Xuan's soul.

As the soul of the blood-red nine-headed bat dissipated, the Fenxin Array automatically vanished within Li Xuan's Spiritual World; Li Xuan also ceased releasing the Burning Heart Divine Flame and began to focus on absorbing soul energy as well as the blood-red nine-headed bat's memories.

Li Xuan floated in the Spiritual World with his eyes closed, simultaneously absorbing the surrounding soul energy and the blood-red nine-headed bat's memories.

It must be said that the blood-red nine-headed bat truly is an ancient monster; although it possessed 990,000-year cultivation, its actual lifespan was only a few hundred thousand years, yet those hundreds of thousands of years of memories were enough for Li Xuan to consume a whole pot.

Absorbing such massive memories was extremely arduous for Li Xuan; only by sleeping could he absorb them at the fastest speed.

Afterward, the pure white Spiritual World returned to calm once again.

……

Three days and three nights later, Li Xuan's soul twitched, then slowly opened its eyes; though it was a soul, at that moment Li Xuan exuded waves of a weary aura.

Having absorbed the blood-red nine-headed bat's memories, Li Xuan seemed to have truly experienced hundreds of thousands of years, so his gaze was unusually deep and aged.

After a while, Li Xuan's soul slowly returned to normal.

"Truly worthy of a soul beast with 990,000-year cultivation; the memory content is indeed massive. If my soul weren't sturdy enough, it would easily drive me crazy," Li Xuan said, shaking his head with some helplessness.

During those three days and three nights, Li Xuan indeed went through all of the blood-red nine-headed bat's memories. However, there wasn't much truly useful information, though it did let Li Xuan learn what had happened in the City of Slaughter back then.

Six hundred thousand years ago, a successor who had inherited the Shura Divine Position, in order to boost the defensive power of the City of Slaughter, captured two top-tier soul beasts from outside.

One was a golden-patterned raging sun snake with, 000-year cultivation, and the other was a blood-red nine-headed bat with 80,000-year cultivation.

However, at that time the blood-red nine-headed bat only had six heads.

After being thrown into Diyu zhi Lu, the blood-red nine-headed bat found the place highly suitable for its cultivation, and thus began training there.

In the Blood Pool, the blood-red nine-headed bat's cultivation advanced extremely quickly, its training speed several times that outside, and even its breakthroughs here faced no bottlenecks.

Thus, time slipped to three hundred thousand years ago, when the blood-red nine-headed bat's cultivation had already reached the 500,000-year realm.

Having just witnessed a successor's ascension, the blood-red nine-headed bat also coveted the divine position.

After all, the blood-red nine-headed bat also knew: not becoming a god makes one merely an ant! Originally, the blood-red nine-headed bat thought of dispersing its cultivation to become human, then trying to inherit the Shura Divine Position.

Although it already possessed 500,000-year cultivation, the Shura Divine Power could, with a single move, help the blood-red nine-headed bat transform into a human.

However, the Shura Divine Power had explicitly stated that it would not permit the blood-red nine-headed bat to assume human form; it still needed to continue guarding the City of Slaughter.

Even though the blood-red nine-headed bat's cultivation had reached 500,000 years, it was nowhere near a match for the Shura Divine Power, so it suppressed its inner desire, sank into the Blood Pool, continuously using its own blood to breed small bats, gnawing the pool's energy to strengthen itself.

One hundred thousand years ago, the blood-red nine-headed bat's cultivation broke through to 990,000 years, but despite countless attempts, it could not surpass the million-year cultivation.

It must be that the Continental Will of the Douluo Continent does not allow a million-year soul beast to appear; otherwise, the blood-red nine-headed bat, leaning on the Blood Pool, would find breaking through to a million years very difficult, yet it is unclear why it cannot.

Ten thousand years ago, the blood-red nine-headed bat inadvertently learned that the Killing Treasure Vault contained a doll fashioned from a Soul Tree that could store souls.

Since the path of a soul beast had already reached its end, the blood-red nine-headed bat thought of first finding a place to store its soul, and when the right opportunity arose, obtain a human body, thus removing all limitations.

However, the inhabitants of the City of Slaughter are all Evil Soul Masters, and there is no divine position that selects Evil Soul Masters to inherit it, so the people of the City of Slaughter do not meet the blood-red nine-headed bat's criteria.

Only by awaiting the arrival of a divine position successor can one directly obtain the successor's body in one step and smoothly become a god.

Thus it must wait; after the blood-red nine-headed bat's body broke through to 990,000-year cultivation, it was wildly weakened under the control of the Shura Divine Power and the Continental Will, and its body would collapse soon, for they would not permit the existence of a potential million-year soul beast.

Therefore, the Soul Tree and the blood-red nine-headed bat were determined to obtain it.

However, the Killing Treasure Vault, as the place in the City of Slaughter that stores scriptures and various treasures, is personally guarded by the Shura Grand Priest.

The Shura Grand Priest is the gatekeeper of the divine position succession, possessing 99-level Limit Douluo cultivation, along with Shura Divine Power, and his combat power is not far off from that of the blood-red nine-headed bat.

The blood-red nine-headed bat also hesitated. (End of Chapter)