Chapter 3: Soul Annihilation
[Due to your Soul Severing Shadow ability being in a pending stabilization state, you must wait ten hours before making this selection.]
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Among the three choices, the first is "Soul Rend." After this ability severs a portion of the enemy's soul, that soul fragment forms a "Soul Flying Blade" positioned behind the user. The user can control these soul blades at any time to attack enemies. If the target happens to be the unfortunate soul whose severed soul fragment was just turned into a soul blade, it inflicts extremely high soul damage and paralysis.
In other words, when two soul blades are lodged into an enemy's soul, the enemy's speed is reduced by over 90%. Moreover, since these "Soul Blades" are formed from the enemy's own soul, there is no way to peel them off. If they try, they might even tear out their own soul.
As for "Soul Devour," after injuring an enemy with the Law-Destroying Blade in hand, it devours a portion of the enemy's soul, temporarily granting the Demon Spirit a fraction of the enemy's abilities.
Furthermore, if the Demon Spirit is strong enough, it can even synchronize with the enemy's causality through this soul fragment in a short time. Su Xiao can then strike the Demon Spirit to map the damage onto the enemy, or use the Demon Spirit to block an enemy attack, thereby causing the enemy to hit themselves.
Combined with Su Xiao's "Substitution" ability, at that moment, a single substitution would mean the enemy's attack hitting the Demon Spirit is equivalent to them striking themselves. A sufficiently fierce attack would surely shatter a Life Core instantly, and "Causality Synchronization" would provide 100% damage feedback.
As for the third option, "Soul Annihilation," it is simple and brutal. The soul fragment severed by Su Xiao is immediately destroyed. This is soul annihilation at the level of causality.
The Soul Severing Shadow ability is still stabilizing, so there is no rush to choose. Su Xiao left the Lord's Train, leaped onto the canoe, and, having just enhanced "Heavenly Edge Shadow Slash" and his physique, naturally needed to train hard to fully realize the potential of this enhancement.
A total of 525,000 All Beings Phantoms appeared on the surface of the Soul Lake. Su Xiao swung his blade once, and then the identical slashes from hundreds of thousands of All Beings Phantoms were all experienced and felt by him. This experience was wondrous and irresistibly captivating.
Five days later, Su Xiao dragged his utterly exhausted body, steered the canoe back to the Lord's Train, and returned to the carriage. As soon as he reached the bedroom, he was forced to activate the human divine skill: Sleep.
This training session yielded great results, as follows:
[Heavenly Edge Shadow Slash, Lv.98 (Extreme Realm Technique · Passive)...
Current Extreme Blade · Foundation Strength: 430 points (Increased by 75 points, reaching an unprecedented level of technique mastery).
[Note: Every subsequent increase in your "Extreme Blade · Foundation Strength" will be recorded by Reincarnation Paradise for relevant top-tier authority data storage. Do you agree to this recording?]
[You have agreed to this recording. Your Reincarnation Paradise reputation has significantly increased.]
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When Su Xiao woke up, it was already noon the next day. He washed up as usual and enjoyed a hearty lunch prepared by the Alchemy Maid. He looked out the window at the endless Soul Lake. It was time to go and settle the life-or-death battle with the Underworld God.