In the depths of the Extreme North, Lin Xiao stood upon the snowfield, looking at the grave piled up from accumulated snow before him.
There was no corpse buried beneath it, only a blood-red cloak. A Limit Douluo had thus quietly vanished without a trace.
Though there were various reasons, Ye Xishui had at least delivered a soul bone to him. Consider it a small memorial left for the death of a Limit Douluo.
Several souls floated silently beside him, sharing the quiet with him.
Lin Xiao turned his head and glanced at the Snow Emperor, seeing that she was also looking toward him.
"I know what you want to say. I will get to the bottom of what happened in the Extreme North."
Recalling what had occurred right before Ye Xishui's death, Lin Xiao narrowed his eyes slightly.
When a Titled Douluo dies, their power should logically lose control and dissipate into the heavens and earth, not vanish completely as it had with Ye Xishui just now, even leaving no soul bone behind.
If that really was the Abyssal Plane being drawn by the evil soul master power in her body, thereby devouring her, then something must have happened between them that Lin Xiao still did not know about.
In his memory, the Abyssal Plane was a crisis that the Douluo Continent would only have to face ten thousand years later. Yet now, because of his arrival, the influence of the Abyssal Plane had already appeared in the Extreme North.
Even if the Snow Emperor had not spoken up, the anomaly that had occurred here was something he had to take seriously.
Letting out a gentle breath, Lin Xiao did not linger any longer and turned to leave.
Though he was concerned in his heart, staying here any longer would not bring any new thoughts for the time being. Moreover, Nana had been left by him at the edge of the northern lands, and he still felt somewhat uneasy about her in his heart.
However, on the way out of the core area of the Extreme North, Lin Xiao encountered an unexpected figure.
"Sixth Brother?"
"Eighth Brother!"
The Abomination Douluo clutched the wound on his chest tightly, fresh blood continuously seeping out from between his fingers.
His figure was already much larger than that of an ordinary person. Coupled with the fact that his martial soul, Hatred, specialized in defense, ordinary attacks could hardly leave a mark on him, let alone a wound like the one now that still refused to heal itself.
"Eighth Brother, you're still alive?" The Abomination Douluo's expression changed slightly. "But I heard that not a single person from the Holy Spirit Cult remained in the frontline camp…"
Lin Xiao paused for a moment before quickly reacting. "Sixth Brother, why are you here? And who injured you?"
"It was people from Shrek Academy."
"Shrek Academy?"
Building a good reputation takes a thousand years, but destroying it can happen in a single night.
Ever since the identities of Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao were exposed during the Heavenly Dou City tournament, Shrek Academy's reputation had plummeted again and again.
Under the deliberate guidance of the Sun Moon Empire, the view of Shrek Academy among both soul masters and ordinary people across the continent had undergone an earth-shaking change.
After that, Shrek Academy had fallen completely silent, and no news of its people had been heard anywhere.
Yet unexpectedly, they had appeared in the Extreme North, and with a single move, they had gravely wounded the Abomination Douluo.
The Abomination Douluo's face paled. He took a few more steps toward Lin Xiao. "Fifth Brother and I were tracking a shape-shifting soul beast. We chased it all the way from Heavenly Soul Empire territory to near the Extreme North."
"On the way here, we encountered that Nana who used to follow you. Then we continued chasing all the way to near the Ice Sea, only to run into people from Shrek Academy there."
"Just one person, and with a single move, he gravely injured me. Fifth Brother and I split up to escape, and then I ran into you."
The Abomination Douluo's voice was low, and his breathing was somewhat hurried due to his severe injuries. His words seemed to stick together, but Lin Xiao managed to understand the sequence of events.
"Sixth Brother, don't be nervous. This is close to the core area of the Extreme North. Even if that person wants to pursue, they won't come in this direction."
The Abomination Douluo nodded, exhaling rough breaths that turned into frost in the extreme cold.
Though he was somewhat slow-witted, he was not stupid. Relying on the physical toughness granted by his martial soul, he had forced his way into this place to shake off the people from Shrek Academy.
Looking at Lin Xiao, who seemed completely unaffected by the surrounding chill, the Abomination Douluo's eyes shifted slightly. "Eighth Brother, that disciple at the Extreme North border, was she arranged there by you?"
Lin Xiao's brows rose slightly upon hearing this. "Since you encountered her, didn't you ask about my whereabouts?"
"She told us she hadn't received any news from you either."
Lin Xiao paused for a moment, seemingly pondering something in his mind. "Why do you say that, Sixth Brother?"
The Abomination Douluo grinned, pressing his chest wound even tighter. "Although she didn't tell us where you were, I saw a different expression on her face."
"It was the same expression those participating disciples had during the elite tournament. I can't quite describe it, but we could tell it was different from the other disciples in the Holy Spirit Cult."
"Only you could make their faces show that kind of expression."
Lin Xiao did not reply for a long time. He had not expected that, though the Abomination Douluo seemed somewhat dull, his intuition was actually quite sharp.
"It was indeed my arrangement. I instructed her not to reveal my whereabouts. Sixth Brother, don't blame her."
"I won't." The Abomination Douluo shook his head vigorously. "But…"
He paused again, seeming to hesitate for a long while. "From now on, I have nowhere to go. If I can escape this danger, I want to stay here like that disciple."
"Why do you say that, Sixth Brother?"
"I want to try… to smile as they do."
Lin Xiao's expression grew somewhat complicated as he looked at the Abomination Douluo. To be honest, the several elders of the Holy Spirit Cult each had their own distinctive traits.
The Eighth Elder, Nightmare, was old and frail, focused solely on possession. The Seventh Elder, Mask, was diligent yet ruined by lust… The Third Elder, Nether Thunder, was cunning and money-obsessed. The Second Elder, Heavenly Centipede, was cowardly and prone to backstabbing escapes.
Only the Sixth Elder, the Abomination Douluo, made Lin Xiao feel, for a moment, that he was somewhat out of place among these elders.
Though he had a fondness for corpses and an almost pathological obsession with sewing them together, which had led to his ostracism and eventual entry into the Holy Spirit Cult, he still seemed a distance away from being a truly irredeemable evil soul master who committed every kind of atrocity.
Seeing that Lin Xiao remained silent for a long time, the Abomination Douluo did not press further. "The people from Shrek Academy saw me fleeing in this direction. They might come after me, so you should be careful too."
"Thank you for the reminder, Sixth Brother." Lin Xiao came back to himself. "Your injuries are serious, Sixth Brother. Let me take you to a place to rest and recover first."
"As for whether you stay or leave in the future… decide for yourself, Sixth Brother. After all, the Extreme North is so vast. I can't possibly claim any part of it as my territory and drive people out."
Seeing no response from the Abomination Douluo, Lin Xiao frowned slightly and suddenly realized he probably hadn't understood the meaning.
"If Sixth Brother doesn't mind the bitter cold here, then stay."
As the words fell, the Abomination Douluo's eyes suddenly lit up.
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