Chapter 235

Chapter 235: Grant Me a Death

Li Shuang could only sigh.

She was about to keep arguing when a mechanical voice sounded in her mind.

“You have completed the Divine Transformation Stage ultimate challenge of Gluttony Hell. Gluttony Hell will now be temporarily closed to cultivators. Beginning tally of Soul Points.”

Li Shuang blinked.

Closed?

Just like that?

Before she could react, the swamp under her feet turned to solid ground. No matter how she tried, she could not sink.

It seemed she would not be getting back into Gluttony Hell anytime soon.

She sighed.

The Wanfa Eye finished its tally.

“Li has perfectly cleared the Divine Transformation Stage trial of Gluttony Hell. Reward: twenty thousand Soul Points.”

Twenty thousand Soul Points appeared at once in her Wanfa Eye.

Her eyes lit up.

Her original plan had been to save up thirty thousand Soul Points in two years.

She had not expected that on the first day she entered the Soul Prison, she would already have more than half.

Next, she only needed another ten thousand Soul Points to qualify for the Golden Soul Altar.

For her, that would not be hard.

Relaxing, she no longer felt so regretful.

Leaving the swamp behind, she flew off into the distance.

Inside Gluttony Hell.

Sensing Li Shuang’s aura disappear completely, the Human Skin Skeleton finally let out a long breath.

That annoying human was gone at last.

Her current Soul Realm was the Divine Transformation Stage. There were not many in the Central Continent who could reach the Integration Stage before a hundred years old.

He should have a long while before he had to see this sanity-breaking girl again.

He enjoyed the peace for a moment, then sighed. A faint envy flickered in his empty eyes.

The Supreme Ice Spiritual Root.

As long as this human did not fall halfway, she would become a peerless powerhouse.

Her future held one thrilling adventure after another.

A touch of longing passed through the Human Skin Skeleton’s gaze.

He too had once had such high-spirited years.

But all of that was in the past.

“Someone cleared Gluttony Hell?” A majestic voice rang out overhead.

The Human Skin Skeleton snorted: “The whole Myriad Arts City and the Soul Prison are under your control. How could you not know? City Lord, why bother asking what you already know?”

“I only felt… her soul power was a little special,” the woman’s voice said, slightly puzzled.

“How special can it be?” the Human Skin Skeleton said with biting irony.

The City Lord did not argue with him. She said calmly: “You were bewitched by the Devil Seed, betrayed the Human Race, and committed countless blood crimes. I bound you here but left you a life. That was already a great mercy.”

He was quiet for a while.

Devil Seed…

Only a top powerhouse like the City Lord could speak those words so lightly. Others could not even say them.

After a long silence, he said softly: “If you could kill me outright, that would be mercy.”

“It is not that I am unwilling to grant you a swift end,” the City Lord said seriously. “The Heaven Severing Lands are expanding faster and faster. I need helpers to temper the Human Race’s Heaven’s Chosen. And you are still a Tribulation Crossing Stage expert. One day, you can still give your last bit of strength.”

The Human Skin Skeleton laughed.

Listen to that. She was not even trying to hide it.

She meant to squeeze him dry, then let him die.

But he could not bring himself to protest.

Back then, he had committed terrible crimes. This ending was not even unfair to him.

“Then let that day come sooner,” the Human Skin Skeleton said calmly. “When the real war comes, send me to the battlefield. Then… grant me a death.”

All he asked was to die on the field.

“Rest assured.”

The City Lord’s voice faded from the air.

Elsewhere, Li Shuang had already flown far from the swamp.

She was very interested in the Eighteen Hells now.

By perfectly clearing one Gluttony Hell, she had earned twenty thousand Soul Points.

What about the other seventeen?

If she cleared them one by one, would she not soar at once?

For the moment, there was just one problem…

Where were the other seventeen hells?

Li Shuang was still thinking when a killing intent shot toward her.

She reacted on instinct.

A clear clang of metal rang out.

She looked back.

A Soul Beast with a strange hooked blade in its hand was lunging at her.

Li Shuang quickly cut the Soul Beast down and was about to move on.

Then she paused.

This Soul Beast… was interesting.

Killing it gave her only ten Soul Points. That was not the point.

The point was that after she killed it, she felt a strand of mysterious light enter her sea of consciousness.

The Azure Lotus quickly absorbed the light. A faint glow appeared on the fifth lotus petal.

Li Shuang’s eyes flashed.

She realized something.

In the Soul Prison, killing Soul Beasts could grant rewards to the soul.

This one was not strong, so the reward was small.

But what if she did not kill just one Soul Beast, but thousands, tens of thousands? What if she hunted not low tier, but Sixth Tier and Seventh Tier?

Would she not gain far more gifts?

Also, the City Lord at the doors of the Hall of Myriad Arts had posted a long-term task. With Soul Beast Crystals, you could exchange for Merit Points. And with Merit Points, there were many good things to trade for. Just thinking about it made Li Shuang’s mouth water.

Of course, Soul Beast Crystals did not drop every time. The one she just killed did not leave a crystal.

Even so, Li Shuang was not in a rush.

Now that she had discovered the use of Soul Beasts, she did not need to chase the other seventeen hells yet.

Clearing a soul-type hell only gave Soul Points.

But hunting Soul Beasts did three things at once: it gave that mysterious power to strengthen her soul at the Divine Transformation level, it let her collect crystals, and it earned Merit Points.

[Not bad at all.]

Besides, she had cleared Gluttony Hell because that trial mode happened to be solvable with the Heaven and Earth Furnace.

She had no idea what the other hells were like. The Heaven and Earth Furnace was not almighty, and she could not count on luck forever.

Rather than waste time searching for the other hells, it was better to…

Hunt Soul Beasts steadily.

Li Shuang looked at a drifting Soul Beast far off. Her eyes shone.

Good.

A goal.

For the next two years, she would use the endless Soul Beasts of the Soul Prison to temper her soul, hone her swordwork, and walk her own path.