HLnovel Chapter 174 Because I'm not a machine!
Chapter 174 Because I'm not a machine!
Inside the Garan Secret Realm, Ling Yuanzi's avatar did not directly attack "Xue Lan" in front of him, but instead focused on dealing with the Mist-Hidden King Beast. The pale blue sword light was like a graceful ribbon, but it contained boundless killing intent, which troubled the Mist-Hidden King Beast.
The enormous Mist-Hidden King Beast first became transparent, and then began to slowly shrink, from being more than ten feet tall to just a few feet tall. Its cultivation level also dropped from the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm to the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm.
Looking at the slowly weakening Mist-Submerged King Beast in front of him, Ling Yuanzi seemed to understand why Xue Lan dared to provoke this demon.
This was based on the calculation that his master would make a move sooner or later.
They're playing with their lives, calculating their own fate.
Thinking of this, Ling Yuanzi glared at the girl not far away.
The girl had been slacking off from the beginning, but now that she had suddenly seen Ling Yuanzi's gaze, she turned her head away somewhat guiltily.
"Dead Xue Lan..."
The girl muttered a curse under her breath, completely oblivious to the fact that she was also named Xue Lan.
The low curse received no response. The girl looked at the black lotus in full bloom in her sea of consciousness and prayed that Xue Lan would quickly finish searching through the memories of the demon god's remnant soul.
Once she devours the remnant soul, she will be qualified to challenge the old man in front of her.
Within the soul realm of the remnant demon god, there was an unusual darkness. A girl dressed in gray walked within it, her divine sense contained within her body, not leaking out even a trace.
Xue Lan held a straight tree branch in her hand and tapped it lightly as she walked forward.
Beneath the girl's feet, a long, undulating black staircase stretched all the way to the end of this space.
"It's like this again!" Xue Lan sighed. In her previous life, she was a rather cruel person. When she captured a demon, the first thing she did was torture and search his soul.
The higher the level of the demon race, especially those who have always lived in the Nine Heavens Demon Realm, the more uncomfortable the darkness in their sea of consciousness is.
Without the involvement of soul magic, not a single useful piece of information can be obtained.
The girl stood in the center of this pitch-black space, her left hand slightly raised.
In that instant, the girl's body seemed to transform into a fertile pool of mud, appearing somewhat unreal in the extreme darkness. A small sprout emerged from her wrist, growing rapidly until it finally blossomed into a black lotus.
The black lotus was held aloft by Xue Lan, resembling a beautiful lotus lantern, with a soft glow emanating from the center of its petals.
The main system, which had been silent for a long time, finally spoke: "Your current demonic soul power won't last long enough to uncover the memories of the Demon God..."
Xue Lan took a step forward, holding up the black lotus that had grown from her wrist.
The long black staircase in front of her rippled as the girl stepped onto it.
The endless darkness around her seemed to transform into a tranquil pool of water. Xue Lan took another step forward, and the water covered her feet.
In this pond where only one black lotus grows, the girl seems to have become the root of that black lotus.
One step, two steps... Xue Lan walked into the pool until the water was above her knees before speaking: "Xue Tong, she failed all her previous missions... right?"
The main system's voice was cold: "How did you know?"
Upon hearing the main system's question, the girl chuckled softly: "Because I'm not a machine!"
Xue Lan found it very interesting. Xue Tong always said that she was a machine without emotions, but in reality, she was a lively and vibrant soul.
The main system beside me now, though a complete machine, has developed human emotions.
No wonder Xue Tong was so stubborn before; it turns out it was all taught by the main system.
The main system seemed to be stung by Xue Lan's words and remained silent for a long time. Xue Lan took a few more steps forward until the thick, black pool water reached her chest.
The girl raised her left hand high, lifting the swaying black lotus above her head.
At this moment, Xue Lan was like a lotus root stuck in mud.
"coming!"
A constant rustling sound came from all around, as if something was moving beneath the boundless pool.
The sound of splashing water came from behind her. Xue Lan didn't turn around, but noticed that her ankle was wrapped around something slippery.
The first one... the second one... followed by countless monsters swimming in the water, emerging from the black pool and enveloping Xue Lan.
A few breaths later, only a solitary black lotus remained in the center of the pond, standing gracefully like a fairy who lived apart from the world.
The girl's voice entered the main system's ears:
"I have no intention of sacrificing my demon soul here."
At the end of the girl's voice, the main system saw the black lotus in front of it sway slightly, as if it were nodding in its direction.
A violent splashing sound came from beneath the dark pool. Everything happened in an instant. Black and white lotus leaves emerged from the water and spread out from the black lotus before the main system could react.
Wherever it went, painful roars echoed from beneath the pool.
Supported by the stems of plants, Xue Lan slowly rose from the pool. The girl was soaked to the bone, and the strange fire mark between her brows shone brightly.
The pitch-black space transformed into a vast lotus pond, but as far as the eye could see, it was filled with dense lotus leaves, except for a single black lotus growing on Xue Lan's wrist. The girl dropped the stick from her right hand.
"Click!"
With an extremely crisp snapping sound, the girl pinched the black lotus off her wrist.
The dark lotus, which had been emitting a faint glow, lost its luster when it was broken off. Some blood-red liquid oozed from the broken stem.
The petals of the black lotus fell off one by one and flew away into the distance.
The creature that had been coiling around Xue Lan's ankle beneath the pool finally succumbed to the allure of the black lotus and revealed itself: several enormous, ferocious-looking snakes emerged from the water. The pitch-black space suddenly brightened, turning a gray hue.
Behind those giant serpents lay countless mountains of corpses and seas of blood, where countless humans struggled.
Xue Lan saw many familiar faces among the struggling crowd.
Gong Yuan, Zhang Mingqiu, and Xiao Shuang...
They were torn apart by the monstrous beasts behind the giant serpent, turning into piles of minced meat. But after only a few breaths, the rotting minced meat would revive again, and they would die once more in the same way.
It's a slow, agonizing death that happens a million times over!
Xue Lan's voice seemed to come from a very, very far place, like a gentle breeze brushing across the pond in front of her:
"I knew it! The matter of souls devouring each other is nothing more than the remnant soul of a mere demon god. How could it possibly endure that?"
Only then did the main system realize that Xue Lan had used himself as bait to extract the memories from the remnant soul of the demon god.
Looking at Xue Lan, who seemed to have victory in her grasp, the main system thought to itself.
This is the most challenging host it has ever encountered.