Chapter 4300: The Remnant Soul of an Extra Domain Power
Lin Moyu frowned, and in an instant, time completely froze within the world where Little Mist and the others resided.
The black blue dagger in mid air began to vibrate violently, struggling desperately to break free from the shackles of frozen time.
Little Mist, caught in the moment, was staring in surprise the dagger was barely half a meter away from her but the halted time kept her completely immobilized.
An instant later, Lin Moyu appeared directly before her, one hand closing around the black blue dagger.
The weapon resisted even more frantically, bursting with tremendous force to break away from his grasp.
From the blade, a corrosive blue glow seeped out, piercing through the frozen flow of time, trying to invade Lin Moyu's body.
But Lin Moyu had already completed his chaotification; the corrosive glow could not touch him.
"As expected… not that simple," Lin Moyu murmured under his breath.
As soon as he spoke, time resumed yet in his palm, the World Burning Fire roared to life, suppressing the blue light and invading the dagger in turn.
"Master!"
Little Mist gasped the instant she could move again. She instinctively wanted to leap onto Lin Moyu yet when her eyes landed on the dagger in his hand, she abruptly stopped, sensing the danger.
Little Wu, Little Yue, and Little Mei all started with joy upon seeing him, but quickly sensed something amiss; none of them made a sound.
From the dagger came continuous screams. The World Burning Fire had penetrated inside, enveloping a wisp of soul hidden deep within its core, burning and refining it away.
Against a soul, the World Burning Fire was the ultimate weapon resistance was almost impossible.
"Come out!"
With a cold shout, Lin Moyu tore the remnant soul free and at once, the frenzied resistance of the dagger ceased.
Suspended before him, within the flames, was a shred of remnant soul not human, but resembling some sort of lizard like creature.
He could tell that this remnant wasn't truly intelligent; it had been deliberately left in the dagger by some being to carry out specific actions at the right time.
Lin Moyu already had his suspicions. He took out the Causality Seeking Ring.
"Cause from effect brand!"
Using the ring's Effect Without Cause ability, Lin Moyu imprinted upon the soul directly, branding it without needing to know where its owner was.
Even across immeasurable distance, so long as it existed, the brand would remain.
The cost was merely higher backlash.
Lin Moyu's body suddenly exploded into fragments the sight made the four girls cry out in shock.
But then, violet light flared, and in its radiance Lin Moyu's body reformed.
A moment later, he exploded again and was reborn again.
This cycle repeated; after several such deaths, the girls were no longer startled.
Ten deaths later, the backlash from the Causality Ring faded the Effect Without Cause was complete.
At once, Lin Moyu could sense the brand faint and extremely distant, but locked all the same.
That was enough; when the time came, he could kill the owner at will.
Right now, he simply didn't have the right corpse to use otherwise, one corpse detonation would mean an inexplicable death for the target on the far end.
"I'll let you live for now," he said coldly.
The World Burning Fire flared, erasing the remnant soul entirely.
Only then did Little Mist unable to hold back ask, "Master, what just happened?"
"Someone who'd been hiding for countless years tried to kill someone," Lin Moyu replied. "But failed."
He didn't elaborate; Little Mist was like a daughter to him there was no need to taint her with shadows she needn't know.
Among Little Wu, Little Yue, and Little Mei, only Little Mei might guess at the truth but Lin Moyu kept equally silent toward her.
Mei, clever as always, never asked more than she should.
Little Mist, in turn, had already forgotten the incident, exclaiming as she leapt onto Lin Moyu, clinging to her usual spot and greedily breathing in his familiar scent.
After ten thousand years apart, Lin Moyu missed them dearly. He chatted with them, retelling his years away like simple stories, omitting many of the darker details.
When they'd caught up enough, he released their true spirits into the Great Dao he had prepared, helping them advance to Dao Lord.
Meanwhile, in the virtual world, one of Lin Moyu's thoughts appeared before the Lord of Slaughter holding the black blue dagger.
At the sight of it, the Lord of Slaughter trembled. "Domain Lord…"
Lin Moyu asked, "Did anything happen to this dagger just now?"
"It suddenly flew off," the Lord of Slaughter said, voice shaking. "I couldn't control it at all."
He could guess it had something to do with Lin Moyu, though he didn't know what and feared being blamed.
"There was a hidden soul inside," Lin Moyu told him. "They tried to kill me."
"What?!" the Lord of Slaughter's eyes widened.
Lin Moyu tossed the dagger back. "It's not your fault they hid deep. I didn't notice either, until now. They're dead; keep the dagger."
"For real, you're not angry?"
"It wasn't your problem," Lin Moyu said. "Even if you knew, you couldn't have stopped it. This is beyond your reach. Now, let me see that black robe."
Without a word, the Lord of Slaughter handed it over. Lin Moyu searched it carefully with his soul and smiled coldly.
"As I thought another hidden hand."
The World Burning Fire roared into the robe. A scream echoed out at once.
The Lord of Slaughter shuddered not from fear itself, but from the soul pressure in that scream. It far surpassed his own the mark of a Chaos Realm powerhouse.
A Chaos Realm soul hidden in the robe, and he had never known.
"What do they want…?" he murmured.
"You really want to know?" Lin Moyu's glance made him instinctively shake his head.
He was curious but some karma was too dangerous to touch.
Lin Moyu drew out the remnant soul from the robe and tossed the garment back. The Lord of Slaughter only dared glance at the burning, screaming wisp and shivered again.
The soul in the robe was identical to the one in the dagger two fragments from the same cultivator. This time, Lin Moyu didn't even need the Causality Ring.
Moments later, the soul was ash.
Lin Moyu turned to him. "Where exactly did you get these? Take me there."
"Yes… please follow me."
"Wait." Lin Moyu looked ahead they were still in the Jianmu Spirit Domain, and the Jianmu Emperor was clearly still killing.
"I advised him," the Lord of Slaughter said quickly. "He said he just wants to kill a few more."
"Kill you first, more like."
Lin Moyu's thunderous snort cracked like lightning across the realm, striking straight onto the Jianmu Emperor.
A scream cracks split his body, his aura collapsing into weakness. In terror, he fled the Jianmu Spirit Domain entirely.
"Hmph. Doesn't know his place," Lin Moyu said coldly.
The Lord of Slaughter wisely kept his head down; the Domain Lord was not in a good mood.
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