Chapter 74 The Devil in the Heart
Chapter 74 The Devil in the Heart
In a quiet garden, Qin Menglan sat cross-legged on the ground, with six spiritual medicines of completely different colors placed in front of her.
At this moment, she was using her martial soul to quietly feel the elixir in front of her. When she absorbed it for the second time, Qin Menglan found that she could sense them in this way and choose the one that was most suitable for her to absorb.
"Young man, do you want power?"
An ethereal and ancient call appeared in Qin Menglan's mind.
"Who are you?" Qin Menglan couldn't help but look around in confusion, having no idea where the voice came from.
"I'm right in front of you, kid."
Qin Menglan was even more confused. There were only six spiritual herbs in front of her. Even though she had a deep understanding of spiritual herbs, she had never heard that spiritual herbs could actively transmit sound.
"Have you seen that black fairy product? Absorb it and you will gain extremely powerful strength." The ethereal voice said earnestly.
Qin Menglan picked up the black elixir that was weird in every way but emitted powerful energy. She instinctively felt that this was a trap - a trap to trick her into absorbing it.
However, even though she knew in her heart that this was not a good thing, she still couldn't bear to let it go, and instead held it even tighter.
She needs strength.
She didn't want to be a mascot anymore. She couldn't provide any help to Sister Yaoyao and could only hide behind her. She could do nothing but pray in her heart.
She hated this feeling of powerlessness.
"Yes, that's right, child. I promise that as long as you absorb it, you will gain extremely powerful power." The devil's whisper kept ringing in her ears.
Qin Menglan gritted her teeth, and after hesitating for a long time, she put away the other spiritual medicines and only left this strange black spiritual medicine.
"Come on, absorb me. It only takes a cup of tea, and you can gain powerful strength."
Qin Menglan is not an indecisive person. Since she has decided to absorb this thing, she did not hesitate at all and directly started her unique absorption process.
Different from the normal absorption of soul rings, Qin Menglan's absorption method is roughly equivalent to absorbing the essence of spiritual medicine to infuse a soul ring for herself.
This method will not cause any pain, but it requires enduring the energy contained in this elixir, whether it is cold, hot, or evil. Although this will not cause the same torture as ordinary people absorbing soul rings, it is still a rather uncomfortable thing.
As the absorption progressed, a phantom of a soul ring appeared behind Qin Menglan. With the injection of energy, the soul ring was white at first, then turned yellow, then purple, and then black. After staying black for nearly ten minutes, the soul ring slowly turned blood red.
Generally speaking, even immortal souls cannot be compared with ordinary hundred thousand year soul beasts, but don’t forget that the power of a hundred thousand year soul beast is not entirely on its soul rings. Although humans who absorb a hundred thousand year soul ring will be much stronger than their peers, this does not mean that they have absorbed all the power of this hundred thousand year soul beast.
In terms of quality, this demigod-level spiritual medicine is enough to allow a Soul Sage-level soul master to leap ten levels, or enhance one of his skills by several levels. It is no less than a hundred thousand year soul ring.
After the blood-red soul ring stabilized, Qin Menglan felt a little uncomfortable, as if something was about to come out.
Afterwards, her entire consciousness seemed to fall into an abyss. In this abyss, there was not endless darkness, but an old man with muscles rotted to varying degrees and wearing tattered robes.
"Who are you?" Qin Menglan asked helplessly, looking at the endless darkness around her.
The old man slowly walked in front of her and said with a smile in his disembodied voice: "You will master the real power, child. I will not harm you. I will help you release the demon in your heart and gain powerful strength."
"The devil in the heart, what is that?" Qin Menglan suddenly became curious when she heard what the old man said.
"Everyone has a dark side in their heart, more or less, it varies. These dark sides may come from the past, or from the present, or maybe you are an evil person. When this dark side is activated, people will make destructive actions, such as insults and beatings, or they may become evil soul masters and stand on the opposite side of the whole society, or they may be so disheartened that they drag a few or dozens of people to be buried with them."
"The meaning of my existence is to help people release the demons in their hearts. After that, I will be reborn in a certain area of the world, and I will be much better than before. Therefore, I will not take the initiative to contact people who have too little dark side in their hearts."
The old man explained his existence in one breath, and glanced at Qin Menglan again, with a smile on his face:
"And the dark side of you is the second most I've seen in recent years."
"The dark side?" Qin Menglan was in a daze, her thoughts seemed to drift to ten years ago.
Is she a kind person? Yes.
Is she a lively and outgoing person? Of course.
But Qin Menglan was very clear that this was a change that happened after she met Leng Xiyao. Before she met Qin Menglan, she longed for the destruction of the world all the time. If there was such a button that could destroy the whole world by pressing it, but she would also endure hundreds of years of torture, she would still press it without hesitation.
Even though she was only four years old at the time.
He was insulted, beaten, abused, forced to work fifteen hours a day, not well fed, had nothing to cover himself with except a piece of rag, had to drink water from a sewage puddle after the rain, knelt on the ground like a dog and was chased around by the nobles, tossed and turned in his sleep on the hard ground, and every time he fell asleep, he was so sleepy that he almost fainted.
It can be said that, except for the fact that she was not deflowered due to her young age, she has experienced all the sufferings in this world.
Therefore, she regarded Leng Xiyao as her only belief in this life. If Sister Yaoyao died one day, she would commit suicide without hesitation and continue to be with Leng Xiyao in another world.
Qin Menglan knew very well that the 'devil in the heart' that the old man mentioned was definitely not a good person. She also roughly understood that if she wanted to obtain the power that the old man mentioned, she must undergo this test, and the process would most likely be to relive the pain she had suffered before.
Although her third soul ring seems to be fine now, it does not have any skills at the moment, and is still one step away from complete absorption.
"I want to become stronger, grandpa, please help me become stronger." Qin Menglan looked at the old man with a firm expression and said solemnly.
"Haha, good, you are worthy of being the one I chose. Believe me, you won't regret it."
(End of this chapter)