Chapter 1906 Black-Robed Bishop <TOC> Chapter 1908 Living as a Sword
Translator: SumTLMan
In the depths of the Endless Abyss, there lies a seemingly quiet expanse of dark void.
At this moment, this long-silent void suddenly lights up with a glow.
The source of light comes from a soul, more precisely, a soul that has just been ejected from the vortex passage.
This soul emits a faint glow, which, though insufficient to dispel the darkness of the void, outlines the soul’s visage. The owner of this soul is a handsome young man.
However, what is most startling is not the glowing soul itself, but what is beneath the soul’s feet… a palm.
This seemingly normal-sized human soul is being supported by an enormous hand. The sheer size of this hand suggests its owner’s true form is comparable to a mountain.
And indeed, this is the case.
Within the range illuminated by the glowing soul, a gigantic eye appears, seemingly belonging to a ‘giant’ who has drawn its head closer to observe the soul in its palm.
This soul on the palm is naturally Popoca, who was pulled into the vortex passage. The owner of the eye observing the soul whose fame spreads across myriad planes and who possesses countless followers in various worlds is undoubtedly the Supreme Demon God——The Profound Lord.
Typically, the Profound Lord seldom opens his eyes, resting in tranquility and dispersing his thoughts across multiple planes. Because of this, his residence in the Deep Abyss is perhaps the most unadorned among the great Demon Gods.
And now, such a Demon God, who usually keeps his eyes closed, has actually opened his eyes?!
The followers of the Profound Lord nearby were already incredibly astonished at this moment. Although they had not approached the Deep Abyss, they could sense the situation there.
The Profound Lord not only opened His eyes, but more importantly, He was not looking at them, but at a human soul.
Is this human soul somehow special?
If this question were to be answered by the Profound Lord Himself, His answer would be affirmative. If this human soul were not special, He would not have descended so much of His Demon God power to make a contract with him in the first place.
This human belongs to the Laudsourcian tribe, a people cherished by the World Will of the Wizarding World.
For various reasons, the Laudsourcians have almost vanished from the annals of history. Therefore, when the Profound Lord discovered this pure-blooded descendant of the Laudsourcians, He was quick to tempt him into signing a contract.
At that time, the Profound Lord’s thought was to leave a piece for spying on the World Will of the Wizarding World, which might be useful in the future.
In other words, to Him at that time, Popoca’s soul was just an expendable piece. Valuable, but dispensable at any time.
However, after Popoca experienced the ‘Original Tan Continental Upheaval,’ the Profound Lord began to pay more attention to him.
Because the True Spirit of the Flameless Lord had fallen on the Original Tan Continent.
Although the Flameless Lord was not a Supreme Demon God, causing the fall of a Demon God’s True Spirit was no ordinary feat. At that time, almost all eyes in the Abyss were on the Original Tan Continent, seeking to uncover the truth behind the fall of the Flameless Lord’s True Spirit.
Among them, naturally, was the Profound Lord. However, He did not receive any news, and when He tried to probe further into the Original Tan Continent, a sense of fear suddenly arose in His heart.
Those who reach their level and experience “fear emotions” are definitely not that simple; it represents a kind of omen. It suggests that the entity responsible for the “Upheaval of the Original Tan Continent” definitely possesses the power to annihilate them.
The Profound Lord at that time didn’t hesitate and chose to retreat. His decision wasn’t wrong because, as he later learned, not only him, but even the more mysterious Elders of the Abyss were intimidated and sent back by the great being that descended upon the Original Tan Continent.
Even those mysterious Elders didn’t dare to probe, making the Profound Lord’s retreat even wiser.
However, although he didn’t investigate the “Upheaval of the Original Tan Continent” at that moment, his curiosity didn’t diminish. He wasn’t in a hurry, though, because he had a channel of information——
A believer who had signed a soul contract with him was on the Original Tan Continent at that time.
And that person was Popoca.
The Profound Lord, fearing the “terrifying existence,” didn’t dare to probe recklessly, and even avoided paying too much attention to Popoca. He just waited for Popoca’s death when his soul would return to the Abyss, and then it would be logical for him to examine Popoca’s memory.
After all, Popoca, having forcibly embraced the power of the Demon God, was already suffering from backlash and was not far from death. So, the Profound Lord didn’t have to worry about waiting long.
Half a year for him was almost like a human yawning.
Finally, he waited for Popoca’s death. However, when Popoca’s soul entered the deep Abyss, he was puzzled.
This human’s soul, although bound by the power of the contract to the deep Abyss, why…
“Why is his soul a blank slate?!”
In the icy gaze of the Profound Lord, a rare flicker of confusion passed. The human soul, glowing faintly in His palm, was expressionless, as mute as a puppet devoid of intelligence.
Yet it was indeed a soul, with all the characteristics of a soul, the particles that constitute a soul, and His spiritual sense, all indicating that the soul in His palm was normal.
But this normal soul, peculiarly, lacked all spiritual light of consciousness.
This meant that the soul had no memories at all, like a newborn baby. Even He couldn’t find any clues in such a blank soul, let alone information about the Original Tan Continent.
In the eyes of the Profound Lord, a flickering, unsettled spectral light shimmered. Undoubtedly, this soul had been tampered with.
But how it had been tampered with, He did not know.
Stripping a soul of its spiritual light of consciousness is not something an ordinary extraordinary being can do. Even He, who has lived for endless years, couldn’t perfectly strip away all the spiritual light of consciousness.
It was so perfect it seemed as if the spiritual light of consciousness gathered together and then autonomously separated from the soul.
Of course, He didn’t believe that the spiritual light of consciousness would leave the soul on its own; someone must be manipulating it from the shadows. And the manipulator, undoubtedly, was powerful… Could it be the entity that caused the “Tan Continental Upheaval”?
Because in the eyes of the Profound Lord, the only valuable memory of Popoca’s spiritual light of consciousness was probably the “Tan Continental Upheaval.”
If his spiritual light of consciousness was erased, it was very likely related to this.
For this reason, he hesitated about whether to investigate Popoca’s life before death. Investigating might reveal some clues, but it also risks attracting the attention of a terrifying existence.
The Profound Lord silently gazed at the vortex passage not far away.
This was the passage that pulled Popoca from the Land of the Soul into The Deep Abyss, a type of passage that transcended dimensions and was beyond even the current understanding of the Profound Lord. The passage was not constructed by the Profound Lord, but was formed due to Popoca signing a soul contract, created by the greater will.
After Popoca’s soul fell into the deep abyss, the vortex passage began to slowly disappear.
The Profound Lord thought for a while and, before the vortex passage completely vanished, infused more of the Demon God’s power into it.
After much deliberation, he eventually decided not to wade into murky waters and take the risk. Although he had decided not to investigate, he felt somewhat reluctant. Finally, he planned to, within the “allowed laws,” or before the vortex passage disappeared, use the extension of the Demon God’s power to see the place and the scene before Popoca’s death.
Perhaps, he could circumvent that “existence” and find some clues.
If he couldn’t find anything, it didn’t matter, since he didn’t have much of a connection with the Flameless Lord anyway.
However, the Profound Lord was somewhat disappointed because as soon as he transmitted the Demon God’s aura through the vortex passage, it was detected by the World Will of the Wizarding World.
Under the suppression of the World Will, and with the distance crossing planes, he almost saw nothing. He could only faintly sense that Popoca’s body seemed to be moving and heading towards an area with a stronger presence of the World Will…
Chapter 1906 Black-Robed Bishop <TOC> Chapter 1908 Living as a Sword