Towards Eternity
Ch 567's. Bridges
How much would an Evil Spirit have to absorb another soul to become a Ghoul?
A ten? Twenty? A hundred? The answer is five hundred adult souls who still have intact emotions and that is a minimum requirement. A Ghoul needs negative energy from the emotions of the souls he absorbs.
You could say, these souls that he absorbed were a source of fuel that he had in order to stay alive. Therefore, a true Ghoul will keep all the souls he has eaten into his Core. These souls will remain intact and produce an emotion of hate that it converts into power.
Therefore, the Ghoul Core was considered to be something evil, and only a few people were willing to use it regardless of the souls in it.
In order to use an ability that increased his strength, the Ghoul would burn some of the souls he had saved. These souls will be tormented and produce more hatred, until finally the soul must disappear because of the loss of its emotions.
Inside the Ghoul Core, Weng Lou could feel the hatred of the souls within that were directed at him.
The souls looked at him with deep hatred, and thought of him as the main mastermind that had tormented them all along.
Weng Lou was aware that these souls, though held in the core of a Ghoul, did not know that they had died at the hands of a Ghoul. This must have been caused by the Ghoul's body resembling a monster in the form of a giant lizard. If a Martial Practitioner did not have enough sensitivity, they would be fooled by the fear and smell of death that was in the air.
The souls in the Ghoul Core began to approach Weng Lou's consciousness in a shape resembling the original Weng Lou's body. The Vindictive Soul closest to him began to clasped Weng Lou's hand tightly, and tried to pull himself into the sea of souls.
One by one the souls capture, hold, and even strangle Weng Lou's consciousness. They continued to pull Weng Lou's consciousness into the very depths of the Ghoul Core, while Weng Lou could feel his consciousness being pulled out of his body.
"It's dangerous, my consciousness will be completely withdrawn if it continues this way. I have to do something" Weng Lou thought quickly.
He pushed back the souls around him and took quite a distance from them. He noticed the very center of the room containing the souls, where there was a very large flame and was burning some souls who did not stop screaming in pain.
"Meet."
His consciousness immediately shot towards the blaze, and then saw the true appearance of the blazing flame.
Weng Lou smiled coldly staring at the original soul of the Ghoul he had fought before. It was a lizard-shaped savage beast that was no more than the size of an adult's arm. Yet the hatred and negative energy he radiated was truly terrifying.
"So the reason Ghoul's intelligence was so lacking was because he was indeed not a human? But what's with that hate? How could a wild beast have such deep hatred of itself? What kind of suffering did he suffer?" Those questions only made Weng Lou even more curious and he began to look around at the soul of the biggest lizard.
The negative energy from the lizard's soul, continued to burn the souls around it, thus making the lizard's soul unable to be killed just like that by Weng Lo.
Actually if he was in his prime and mentally not exhausted, he would see this incident just plain, because he did not even know those souls. But, after being exhausted for several days, and also he had to use his consciousness several times to enter the previous few Ghoul Core, Weng Lou's state was arguably extremely sensitive for now.
Especially when he absorbed the Soul Power from within the Ghoul Core, the rest of the emotions from that Soul Power would be felt as well.
Seeing such a large number of tormented souls before his eyes, he could not let things go. But what could he do within this Ghoul Core? He can't just attack because he's just a consciousness.
The arrival of Weng Lou inside the place was immediately noticed by the soul of the lizard, he stared at Weng Lou and growled furiously. His mouth opened, and he spurted an energy attack towards Weng Lou. Weng Lou's consciousness immediately dodged her, the lizard's soul seemed to be getting angrier as his attacks did not hit Weng Lou.
Gritting his teeth, Weng Lou finally made a decision, he moved towards the lizard slowly. The soul of the lizard looks alert while showing its teeth that are only as big as an ordinary human nail.
"Calm down, I'm here to help. I don't intend to hurt you!" Weng Lou's consciousness, which took its original body shape, raised his hand and showed that he did not have any ill intentions.
After several times entering the Ghoul Core, Weng Lou had understood how to speak to the soul within the Ghou Core.
"There's nothing to be trusted from a human being.get out of here, before I devour your consciousness!" Surprisingly, the lizard's soul could smoothly speak to Weng Lou. But Weng Lou did not feel surprised because indeed in the form of the soul, all living things are the same and can understand the thoughts of each other.
"Believe me! I just want to help you! Tell me, what is your wish? What makes you have this much hate? Who hurt you?"
The growl of the lizard's soul grew bigger and he looked at Weng Lou with enormous anger while shouting, "You guys! People like you have made me like this! The massacre you committed...my children.you killed them all, then put me in this cursed labyrinth!"
"I ended up being killed by a teenager like you a few months later and made my hatred for you, man, even greater. My anger and hatred will not be extinguished until the two humans who have made me like this die!!!"
Listening to the short story of the lizard's soul, Weng Lou could only let out a long sigh, and nodded in understanding. He was getting closer to her too.
"If it doesn't matter, can you tell me who those two people are? Or at least something that's typical of those you remember. Maybe I can help you get your revenge"
"No need! You yourself are a human being, you will definitely side with them once I tell you who they are! Hmp! You think I'm stupid enough to depend on you?! Now, get out of here right now!!!"
The energy attack was again released by the lizard. This time the energy formed a huge wave that led to Weng Lou's consciousness. At the same time, the souls around them began to burn one by one and continued to grow.
Relying on his spirit, Weng Lou's consciousness shot up and crashed into the energy wave and passed through it. It seemed that his consciousness was getting weaker as soon as he passed through the wave. But he did not stop there, he quickly arrived before the lizard, and hurriedly caught his head.
"Baahh!!! Release me!!!"
The lizard thrashed, but Weng Lou's grasp of consciousness was powerful. With a single move, the heads of the two of them touched each other, and Weng Lou entered into the lizard's soul consciousness. The surroundings instantly changed completely, when Weng Lou realized that he had entered into the memories possessed by the lizard's soul.
The place he was in right now was a dense forest where the sound of birds chirping from the branches of trees could be heard.
Weng Lou was still checking where he was for a while, when then several groups of Martial Practitioners were seen darting through the forest and heading in the same direction. Weng Lou instantly moved after them and equalized his position with theirs. None of the group was aware of Weng Lou's presence, as it was all just a memory.
They then arrived at a cave located under the foot of a volcano located in the middle of a forest. Without hesitation, the group entered the cave, and Weng Lou continued to follow them until he reached the end of the cave.
A pool of hot lava is located at the end of the cave. At the edge of the pond, some strange plants thrived. The plants give off a reddish glow from the leaves and also heat that reaches a hundred degrees Celsius more.
But the view of the group was precisely directed at the cave wall, where there was a small hole containing several eggs that also emit a reddish light from it.
One of the group members walked towards the eggs. As soon as he arrived, he instantly smashed the eggs without blinking. Right after the eggs were smashed, an angry shout sounded from within the lava pond.
A figure of the Flame Demon Lizard leaped out from within that lava pool, and directly pounced on the person who had destroyed its eggs. The man's back melted as soon as he was hit by the lizard's hot claw, and before long, he died.
The rest of the group immediately charged towards the lizard, planning to finish it off as well. However, they all died at the hands of the lizard, leaving only the leader of the group still in his place.
Without waiting for his opponent to attack first, the Flame Demon Lizard chose to attack first. His figure immediately ran agilely and jumped towards the leader of the group. His claws were attacking, but his opponent could easily avoid him
After half a minute just dodging the lizard's attack, the leader of the group finally chose to immediately stop the lizard's futile attack. His legs moved very quickly, and kicked the head of the lizard to make it sprawled on the wall of the cave.
While carrying out the attack, the face of the group leader who was previously covered by the robe he was wearing, accidentally opened and revealed his true figure.
Weng Lou's face turned serious when he saw that person's face, and he could only click his tongue.
The Flame Demon Lizard had finally fainted from his opponent's attack, and he was taken in by the leader of the group. The surroundings around Weng Lou once again changed, this time the location was a place he recognized.
It was a passageway near the entrance to the center of the labyrinth. In the hallway, Weng Lou saw the figure of the Flame Demon Lizard that had grown bigger and bigger. His form was exactly the same as the one Weng Lou had seen when he first met the Ghoul from the lizard.
On that memory, a twenty-year-old young man managed to finish off the lizard. But unfortunately the death obtained by the lizard is not at all reliable.
The big lizard was flayed alive by the young man, before then it began to take the lizard's organs, before finally killing him. It was the most painful death that Weng Lou had ever seen, he even trembled with rage at the sight of it. Unfortunately, Weng Lou did not know the identity of the young man, even though he could see his face completely.
The memory then ended, and Weng Lou's consciousness returned into the Ghoul Core. He still held the lizard's head, but now there was no more resistance from the lizard. He chose to stay in his place, and his negative energy and hateful emotions were no longer released, so the souls there stopped burning.
"You.I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Weng Lou spoke regretfully. He had no idea that the death of this lizard was far more heinous than anything he had ever done.
"There is no need.we beasts are just a mine of resources for you humans. Basically, even if we don't commit crimes against you, you will still hunt us down to take our body parts. Whether it's for drugs, weapons, or just food. You feel that you are a god who is entitled to our lives, when all we want is a peaceful life without any interference from you" explained the Lizard.
He sighed, then looked at Weng Lou's two eyes, not the eyes on the consciousness that were in front of him, but the two eyes of Weng Lou who were in the outside world.
"Haaah. I want to meet my children soon, the grudges I've carried all this time I won't be able to reply at any time."
Weng Lou clenched his hands tightly, before then starting to speak, "I promise to avenge you. I swear on my name, Weng Lou."
A smile appeared on the lizard's face, he just nodded slowly. Slowly the lizard's soul form melted, Weng Lou's consciousness was immediately scorched out. Before long, the Ghoul Core broke apart, and the souls confined within it were finally freed.
The resentment and negative energies affecting them disappeared. Their forms then began to disappear in the air one by one, just like the soul of the lizard before.
From that shattered Ghoul Core, some Soul Power moved out, then shot into Weng Lou's body. Weng Lou's body felt like it had been hit by a huge rock as the Soul Power flowed into where his dantian was supposed to be.
Inside Weng Lou's body, the bridge between Weng Lou and his pent-up Soul Power was finally complete and soon a huge surge of Soul Power enveloped him.
A wide smile adorned Weng Lou's face, he looked at both of his hands, and saw a gentler energy than that Qi gushing out from his body. A comfortable sensation could be felt by him from the energy.
"Soul Strength.I very rarely used it when I still had my strength, but now I can practice using it. Who needs Qi if you can use Soul Power? Even the Sovereigns no longer used their Qi, but rather only their Soul Power!"