Chapter 785: Memory Fragments (Second update, requesting everything)

For the sake of safety, Li Zhangsheng activated the restrictions in the room, then used his Mental Power to remotely control a large hammer from afar, smashing it fiercely onto a Soul Coin that sealed a demon's soul.

Crack!

A sound like shattering glass rang out, and the Soul Coin was smashed to pieces by the hammer; immediately after, a nearly transparent demon soul floated out.

The demon's soul let out a shrill, desperate scream, and like a drop of water falling into magma, it vanished in the blink of an eye.

Well, it should be said that its soul flew away and scattered.

"Perhaps it has to do with Yang energy."

Li Zhangsheng checked the time; it was currently noon, the time of day when Yang energy is most potent.

The next moment, Heiye appeared in the room, and at Li Zhangsheng's signal, Heiye activated the Night Veil trait, causing the room to suddenly plunge into total Darkness.

Ever since devouring the Spirit Essence of three Top-tier Divine Beasts—the Black Tortoise, the Hundred-Armed Giant, and the Five-Colored Peacock—Li Zhangsheng had possessed impressive night vision, allowing him to see in the dark.

In the darkness, Li Zhangsheng took out another Soul Coin sealing a demon and repeated his previous action.

Crack!

The Soul Coin shattered again, and what made Li Zhangsheng frown was that the scene was almost identical to the last; in the blink of an eye, the demon's soul vanished into thin air.

"It has nothing to do with Yang energy?"

Li Zhangsheng's brows furrowed tightly, and as his consciousness stirred, the Original Light flew out from his Consciousness Sea.

Crack!

The next moment, Li Zhangsheng shattered another Soul Coin.

The moment the demon's soul emerged from the Soul Coin, before it could dissipate, the Original Light emitted a soul-captivating radiance, pulling the demon's soul inside.

The Original Light can seal and nourish souls; as long as the target's resistance is not strong, it can likewise collect their soul, and this demon soul was naturally within the reach of the Original Light.

After collecting the demon's soul, Li Zhangsheng placed his right hand upon it, intending to seize the demon's memories.

Scattered memory fragments emerged; unexpectedly, the memories were surprisingly few. It was not because this demon was too young, for from the fragmented memories, Li Zhangsheng discovered that this demon had already lived for over a hundred years and was a Great Demon.

Although the extracted memories were few, Li Zhangsheng still discovered some information about the Soul Coins.

Soul Coins are crafted using special techniques and can effectively seal the origin of a soul, but they also possess significant side effects: as time passes, the memories of the soul sealed within the Soul Coin decay rapidly, which is the reason Li Zhangsheng did not extract many memories.

In the time that followed, Li Zhangsheng continued his experiments, smashing one Soul Coin after another that sealed demon souls, continuously extracting their soul memories.

Although the memories of a single demon were few and mostly intermittent, they still allowed Li Zhangsheng to obtain a great deal of useful information.

Besides information about the Soul Coins, there was also much content regarding the Abyss, with the most being combat experience, including Blood Wars against other large planes.

Soon, Li Zhangsheng had no more Soul Coins sealing demon souls in his hand.

The next moment, Li Zhangsheng took out a Soul Coin sealing a different creature.

This Soul Coin sealed a humanoid creature with a pair of snow-white wings, filled with a holy aura.

An angel!

Li Zhangsheng recognized it at a glance, and just like the previous scene, after the Soul Coin shattered, he sucked the angel's soul into the Original Light.

The difference was that Li Zhangsheng took out a wisp of Mysterious Yellow Merit Qi, and under his control, this wisp of Mysterious Yellow Merit Qi rushed into the Original Light, finally merging into the angel's soul.

In an instant, the angel's originally illusory soul solidified significantly, but its eyes remained dull, giving one the feeling of a simpleton.

Without hesitation, Li Zhangsheng released the angel's soul.

Unlike the demon soul from before, the angel's soul did not immediately dissipate, but Li Zhangsheng could still feel its soul constantly crumbling, though the speed of the crumbling was far slower than the previous demon soul.

"I wonder if it's because of the Mysterious Yellow Merit Qi, or if it has to do with the angel itself?"

Li Zhangsheng thought to himself, then retracted this angel soul and instead found another Soul Coin sealing an angel, smashing it directly.

The difference was that this time, Li Zhangsheng did not use the Original Light to collect this angel soul.

Just like the demon soul before, the angel's soul flew away and scattered in the blink of an eye.

From this, Li Zhangsheng could judge that Mysterious Yellow Merit Qi also has the effect of stabilizing souls.

"Is it possible to fuse souls?"

Li Zhangsheng did as he thought, smashing another Soul Coin sealing an angel soul, and under his control, the two souls began to merge like water and milk.

Unfortunately, the two only maintained this for less than ten seconds before both souls crumbled simultaneously, including the angel soul that had absorbed a wisp of Mysterious Yellow Merit Qi.

"Even with the same race it failed, let alone different species. It seems that to fuse souls, merely possessing the Original Light is not enough; one must also master the corresponding techniques!"

Li Zhangsheng shook his head and began to smash all the Soul Crystals that sealed non-human souls, having them collected by the Original Light, preparing to absorb the dusty memories of these creatures.

These creatures came from many different worlds, and although the memories obtained were few and fragmented, they were precious to Li Zhangsheng, greatly broadening his understanding of the 'outside world'.

Their soul origins were stored in the Original Light; perhaps there would be a day they would be useful.

As for those human souls, Li Zhangsheng had no intention of absorbing them.

Li Zhangsheng could not distinguish which came from this world and which from other worlds; if he absorbed people from the Fairy World, no one knew if there would be any consequences—he might even end up burdened by Karma...

He did not intend to take that risk; besides, he already possessed partial memories of two kings, and these scattered memories of non-kings were of little use to him.

Given that many of the human souls were contestants in this year's competition for seats in the Heavenly Dao Secret Realm, he prepared to hand this batch of Soul Coins over to the three chief and deputy examiners to handle.

As for how they handled them, that was none of Li Zhangsheng's business.

At this time, Li Zhangsheng continued to search the Dimensional Bag.

There were mountains of materials, many of which came from the Abyss or other planes; having absorbed many fragmented memories, Li Zhangsheng was actually able to recognize a portion of them.

A pair of Demon Cores and magic cores; the latter did not differ much in nature from Demon Cores, and they were taken from a type of creature from other planes called magic beasts.

A pile of tokens and daily items, which were of no use to Li Zhangsheng.

There were also many items that were not very useful or could not be identified; it had to be said that the wealth of a Demon Commander who had lived for hundreds of years was extraordinarily vast. This haul alone made Li Zhangsheng incredibly rich.

After spending quite some time, Li Zhangsheng finally finished taking out all the high-quality items from the Dimensional Bag.

(End of chapter)