A cold, eerie wind whistled through the valley, a desolate cry.
From the Nether Feather Black Crow's million-year soul ring, thousands of souls surged out like a tide, wailing and howling, completely integrating into the Exile Domain, as if finding their natural element.
The sky grew darker, with pockets of abyssal flame floating in the air.
The environment felt extraordinarily grim.
The chilling aura caused vegetation to wither and beasts to flee in terror. Demons seemed to dance between heaven and earth. If anyone else were to witness this scene, they would surely think they had stumbled upon a Fallen One's nest.
Even Feng Yu couldn't help but complain:
"Lin Xiao, you don't look like a good person!"
Lin Xiao: "..."
He was a bit bewildered himself.
While he knew the Exile Domain and these souls were compatible, he hadn't expected them to mesh so perfectly. The souls seamlessly merged with the Exile Domain, becoming a part of it.
Lin Xiao was only grateful that he had taken precautions and moved away from the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well to this remote valley. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to explain himself even with eight mouths.
The domain's upgrade had been unexpectedly smooth.
Or rather, the Exile Domain and souls were a match made in heaven.
However, Lin Xiao hadn't heard the prompt for the Asura God's Trial.
He frowned slightly, wondering if he needed to put it into practice.
So, Lin Xiao attempted to control these thousands of souls, gathering them together and unleashing a piercing scream, which he dubbed "Soul Shriek."
As a result, small animals and some low-level soul beasts in the valley immediately bled from their orifices and died instantly.
Lin Xiao's complexion turned slightly pale.
Fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
Controlling too many souls indeed placed a heavy burden on his spiritual power.
But fortunately, his spiritual power was outrageously strong.
Furthermore, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's million-year head soul bone emitted a soft, white glow.
Lin Xiao continued to control the souls.
He directed them to tear apart a hundred-year soul beast that was foaming at the mouth.
In the blink of an eye, the soul beast was reduced to a pile of white bones.
Finally, the prompt for the Asura God's Trial sounded in his mind.
"Asura God's Trial Third Trial: Completed!"
"Reward: Asura Affinity increased by 15%, all soul bone ages increased by 10,000 years!"
A warm current flowed into his body, a reward obtained for free.
Following that was the voice of the Asura God's Trial.
"Asura God's Trial Fourth Trial!"
"Mission: Detain the soul of a Titled Douluo or a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast!"
"Reward: Asura Affinity increased by 15%, all soul ring and soul bone ages increased by 10,000 years!"
Lin Xiao was slightly taken aback.
Starting from the fourth trial, the Asura God's Trial had begun to ramp up the difficulty.
Lin Xiao was strong, but at this point, his cultivation level was only that of a Soul Saint!
Asking a Soul Saint to detain the soul of a Titled Douluo?
Was this the Asura God's Trial's assessment of his strength, or did it intend to slow down his progress in completing the trials?
Lin Xiao had no immediate answers.
He shook his head, dismissing these extraneous thoughts.
Instead, he began to worry.
The domain's upgrade had been smooth, much like combining equipment. By integrating the souls he had purified and controlled into the Exile Domain, he had gained an ability similar to the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
Moreover, the domain had no "banner," no physical form, so there was no need to worry about repairing a magical artifact after a battle.
However...
Lin Xiao looked up, gazing at the scene of souls drifting, ghost fires flickering, and the overall eerie and terrifying atmosphere, and felt a great headache.
This was far too sinister!
While this move was powerful, it could easily ruin his reputation!
What if he was branded as a Fallen One?
With this sinister scene, anyone would readily believe rumors of Lin Xiao resorting to any means necessary, even slaughtering cities for cultivation, and he would become the target of public wrath!
Lin Xiao fell into deep thought.
"Let me think, there are always more solutions than difficulties. In essence, it's all about packaging."
"The observations from the information explosion era in my past life all proved one thing: as long as the packaging and marketing are in place, distorting the truth isn't difficult."
"People only believe what they can see with their own eyes."
For example, a brow pencil that costs mere cents can be packaged and marketed to sell for seventy-nine, and people will still rush to buy it.
For example, someone completely uneducated, if they speak beautifully, can become a master of success.
Packaging and marketing are like a person's appearance.
Everyone only looks at the golden jade exterior, who cares about the rotten cotton within?
Suddenly, Lin Xiao's eyes lit up, and a brilliant idea was born.
He immediately set to work on renovating the Exile Domain.
...
The soul, put simply, is a spiritual body that inherently has no fixed form. This is even more true for souls purified and controlled by Lin Xiao's Black Sun Purifying Fire.
It's like Play-Doh.
Can't you shape it however you want?
At worst, you can always use the Spiritual Interference ability to modify it!
The only slightly troublesome thing is the gloomy feeling the Exile Domain gives off, but even smelly cow dung can be packaged as top-tier fertilizer.
What's so difficult about that?
One must be open-minded and let their imagination run wild!
Lin Xiao got busy.
Half a day later, the "Ten Thousand Souls Banner" version of the Exile Domain was remodeled.
When Lin Xiao unleashed the Exile Domain, a fine, light snow began to fall from the sky. In this kind of weather, a little gloominess is quite normal, right?
And high above in the sky, a phantom ice sculpture castle stood tall.
Looking at its exterior.
It was none other than... Mixue Bingcheng!
Countless souls, shaped into the appearance of Snow King, could be seen. Chubby snowmen with silly, innocent smiles were darting out of Mixue Bingcheng in droves, flying everywhere.
The feeling was immediately different!
Feng Yu, who witnessed Lin Xiao's operation firsthand, twitched the corner of her mouth.
She felt an inexplicable sense of strong comedic effect.
At the same time, she posed a soul-searching question, "You can play it like this?"
Lin Xiao said proudly:
"This is Mixue Bingcheng! Who dares say it's the Ten Thousand Souls Banner?"
Of course, illusions created by spiritual power would be completely transparent to those with stronger spiritual power than Lin Xiao.
But why would one's own people expose such a thing?
If they aren't one of us, they must be slandering us!
Slandering good people's innocence? I think you want to be the Snow King in my Mixue Bingcheng!
"Hahaha..."
Lin Xiao couldn't hold back any longer and laughed heartily, clutching his stomach.
After laughing.
He still had important matters to attend to.
Lin Xiao frowned, contemplating improvement plans.
He finally focused his attention on "Spiritual Interference." Creating illusions was precisely an application of Spiritual Interference and could be used to deceive enemies.
However, a more advanced soul-level technique should be soul manipulation, and its high-level application would be memory alteration.
This was too difficult, and Lin Xiao had no clue.
However, he could start with the simpler aspects.
The Black Sun Purifying Fire could dilute killing intent, while the Deathgod Domain specifically amplified killing intent.
The Exile Domain, as a combination of the two, could weaken senses, and naturally, it could also strengthen them.
If he amplified an enemy's feeling of loneliness, amplified their sense of pain.
Wouldn't that also be a form of attack?
This was the true meaning of exile, not just locking someone in a dark room.
Feng Yu watched Lin Xiao lost in thought.
She felt a strange sense of worry.
This child, wouldn't he go astray?
You're a Phoenix, not some necromancer!
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