"Shadow of Death, tell me your name."
Qin Xiaoxia looked at the shadow of the secret realm and then asked this question.
The Shadow of the Secret Realm spoke slowly, but the voice seemed to echo everywhere in this space.
"There are shadows beneath the light. I am a harvester existing in the shadow of the dawn. I watch over life and soul, but I represent death. And death does not need a name, sage."
The first half of this sentence can be said to be the "basic setting" of the Shadow of the Secret Realm, like a "program" engraved in the secret realm, but the second half of the sentence is obviously what the Shadow of the Secret Realm said itself, and it also fully illustrates the degree of activation of the Shadow of the Secret Realm.
"You have also collected the soul of the ancient species, right?"
Su Su asked this from the side, and the Shadow of Death slowly opened the cloak on one side of its body. Although its arms were skinny, the body inside the cloak did not seem to have a complete shape. It seemed to be a vague shadow, with a gray and misty depth in it, and a worm-like soul faintly emerged from it.
"The soul is both power and will. Once the will has disintegrated, only the power of the soul remains."
Qin Xiaoxia murmured. It could be seen that the will of the ancient species had almost collapsed, and soon only an empty shell of the soul would be left.
This is actually a very terrifying power. The will of this ancient king of ancient fear is impossible to dissipate, but it was disintegrated by the shadow of death in a short time.
Of course, it has not disintegrated yet. For the soul of the ancient species itself, this is an extremely terrifying thing. It is like watching itself being tortured to an unknown degree.
“Woo…”
The strange insect suddenly started to make sounds, and its originally dull appearance changed. It began to twist, gradually turning into a violent struggle, constantly moving in the gray mist, trying to get out of here. The Shadow of Death just lowered his head and then reached out to grab the strange insect, and the insect froze immediately.
Su Su frowned, thinking that the bug was really disgusting.
"It won't run away, will it?"
"It definitely wants to run, but soon it won't have that thought, or any thought at all."
The Shadow of Death made no sound, but just stared coldly at the soul in his hand. The surface of the soul gave people a vague feeling, as if it would become extremely huge once it escaped from the Shadow of Death. But at this moment, in the hands of the God of Death, it was just an earthworm that could not struggle enough.
During this process, Qin Xiaoxia and Su Su could both feel that the power of the secret realm was converging towards the Shadow of the Secret Realm, causing a layer of gray flame to appear on the hands of the Shadow of Death.
“Sizzle, sizzle…”
The naked ear could not hear any sound, but from the magical level, a sound of flesh rolling against a branding iron was heard.
“Ah…”
The soul of the ancient species let out a sharp scream, a scream filled with extreme fear. The worm-like soul form suddenly became violent, and the intensity of its struggle became more and more exaggerated.
The will of this soul was already very weak, and at this moment it was like a weak frog thrown into boiling water, bursting into its final madness.
"roar--"
The gray mist in the secret room began to flow, and strong winds blew up in the room, making Qin Xiaoxia and Su Su's robes rustle. Only the Shadow of Death showed no reaction.
The current situation is an extremely rare observation opportunity. Qin Xiaoxia stared at the soul of the ancient species carefully, and Su Su also stared at it intently, and even put one hand under the cloak and pressed on the crystal ball.
“Boom boom boom…”
The environment within the entire secret realm was also shaking slightly, which alarmed everyone in the File Management Office for a moment. The guards and administrators everywhere took subconscious action to protect all the secret files at the first possible moment, and some powerful magic controllers even went to the secret realm outside the management office.
"What happened?"
"Is there an enemy?"
"Enemy? On Earth?" "Impossible?"
“Don’t take it lightly!”
However, the secret realm master in the management office frowned, because he knew that the secret realm was very solid at the moment, and there was no problem at all, let alone any external attack. Instead, it seemed more like the power of the secret realm was flowing inwards.
As a result, several magic controllers immediately thought of something and went to the secret room together, but outside the secret room, the guard stood there very calmly and bowed to the visitors.
"Don't panic, everyone. The wise man is inside."
"Sage!"
“So that’s how it is!”
"May the dawn be with you!"
"May the dawn be with you!"
After greeting each other, everyone felt relieved. Since it was the wise man, there could be no problem. Moreover, he did not notify them, so he naturally did not want to be disturbed. However, they did not choose to leave directly, but stood outside waiting. Only one person left to convey the message to others in the management office that everything was fine.
However, the vibration did not weaken, but became stronger and stronger. Even some desks in the file management office began to shake. Some Bopoli monsters and administrators frequently shuttled between various secret realms to check if there were any problems with the secret files. After all, there had been precedents of secret files "escaping on their own" before.
About three days later, the shock began to gradually weaken, but the news of the management office had already been "published" within Shuguang. Shuguang members everywhere were speculating about what had happened in the File Management Office. Although they said to the outside world that there was no danger, it was obvious that there must have been some important changes.
Qin Xiaoxia and Su Su, who were in the secret room, were unaware of this, but Qin Xiaoxia also understood that there must have been some commotion outside. He just wouldn't leave to explain anything at this time. He was reluctant and there was no need to. He and Su Su both focused on watching the changes in the ancient soul.
Apparently, the Shadow of Death had been slowly eroding the soul will of the ancient species for quite some time, but the arrival of the sage accelerated the process, as it seemed that the sage wanted a pure piece of ancient species' soul power.
This may be a misunderstanding, but it doesn't matter anymore.
By the fourth day, the entire body of the Shadow of Death was shrouded in thick grey fog. It was called fog, but there was a faint feeling of fire rising and falling. Although this power was a collection of secret realm powers, it was as if the power of the "reapers" in the Dawn Secret Realms across the world had all gathered together. It was not simply a secret realm, and there was even a feeling that was similar to magic but different from magic.
"Chaos and darkness, melt away under the dawn."
When the Shadow of Death said this for the last time, the soul of the ancient species in his hand went from struggling to trembling, and finally gradually calmed down. In the eyes of Qin Xiaoxia and Su Su, the soul of the ancient species at this moment was already very pure, without any "impurities" and of course without any will.
"I offer this soul power to the wise master!"
The Shadow of Death slowly lowered his body, with his tattered cloak extending on both sides of the ground, his sickle floating beside him, and his skinny hands grasped the soul of the ancient species and slowly handed it to Qin Xiaoxia.
At this moment, the voice of the Shadow of Death seemed to carry a hint of emotional fluctuations, and there seemed to be a sense of fanaticism in it.
"I remember this soul was cut off by you before."
Qin Xiaoxia remembered the battle report. The Shadow of Death cut the earthworm-like worm into pieces with a sickle.
"The soul has no fixed form. I pieced them together after harvesting them. The soul of another ancient species was finally shattered by Gillian and has been absorbed by the abyss."
The Shadow of Death continued to answer without any emotion.
Qin Xiaoxia stretched out his hand and grabbed the soul of the ancient species. It felt extremely heavy in his hand, but his own magic power surged out instantly and immediately suppressed this huge soul power. He even found that his own magic power showed a sense of hunger and had begun to slowly devour the soul power. However, Qin Xiaoxia immediately restrained himself, and the magic power naturally calmed down according to his will.
Su Su looked at the soul in her mentor's hand with curiosity, then looked at the crouching Shadow of Death. She saw her mentor think for a while, then directly grabbed the tail of the insect monster's soul, and tore it apart with a hissing sound. Instantly, that section turned into a ball of soul power.
Qin Xiaoxia pressed the soul power directly onto the Shadow of Death, who let out a deep, long, hoarse voice.
“Huh…”
Su Su was stunned for a moment, not because of the shadow of death, but because the mentor had clearly torn off a piece of soul, but found that the worm's tail had recovered.
"Although I tore off a part of it, after the loss of soul power, this soul power does not have will, and there will be no thought of 'I have lost the tail'. Instead, the remaining soul will repair itself."
Qin Xiaoxia is a well-deserved master scholar. He saw through the essence at a glance. This is not special to the ancient species, but actually the combined effect of will and soul power.
"Harvesting souls?... Really like the devil..."
Qin Xiaoxia looked up at the Shadow of Death, grasping the soul power of the ancient species with one hand and stroking his chin habitually with the other hand.
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