Two Choices

"You really can't tell us?"

Zhou Qing stared at Hu Lingling, his dark eyes reflecting Hu Lingling's wretched figure filled with resentment.

However, Hu Lingling kept her head down and remained silent.

"Alright, then we won't bother you any longer."

Zhou Qing turned around and apologized, "I'm really sorry for making you like this, but I hope you can be a good person in the future."

"Roll!"

At that moment, anger, fear, resentment, shame, and other emotions surged into Hu Lingling's heart again, causing her to burst into curses, "I never want to see you again in my life! I never want to see you bunch of bastards again!"

"Do you have to be so angry?"

Zhou Qing muttered to himself as he went up the stairs with Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina, all looking rather disheveled.

"Zhou Qing, I didn't realize you were so good with words. You managed to make her look so pathetic in just a few sentences," Xiao Wu said with a hint of teasing.

"I didn't expect her to be so 'sensitive'." Zhou Qing sighed slightly and said to Tang San, "Tang San, when Soul Power Circulating the Heavenly Cycle through the Meridians, it can lead to the rupture of the meridians. There is probably only one reason: something went wrong and it stimulated other flesh and blood tissues in the body. In the short term, it can greatly enhance the body's functions, but the longer it goes on, the greater the burden on the body will be, eventually causing the balance in the body to be broken, thus causing the body to collapse in the end."

To put it more scientifically, it's the malfunction of Soul Power that stimulates the relevant neural networks or glands in the body, causing a large secretion of hormones that can stimulate excitement, thus keeping the person in a state of over-excitement or even madness.

If you stay in this state for a long time, your body will naturally not be able to withstand it, and your brain will also suffer more serious damage.

However, Tang San certainly didn't have the concept of "hormones," so Zhou Qing didn't explicitly state it, only saying that the Soul Power circulation went wrong and stimulated the flesh and blood tissue.

"Yes, this way of circulating Soul Power is extremely dangerous and should only be done when you have no other choice."

Tang San had heard of this method of circulating Soul Power in his previous life:

A certain unorthodox martial arts practitioner was being hunted down by disciples of the Righteous Path. In desperation, he used a technique called "Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique," which caused his internal Internal Energy to surge in an instant, killing all the Righteous Path disciples who were chasing him.

But in the end, he died from exhaustion. When he was discovered by other Righteous Path people, his Five Viscera were broken, his muscles were torn, and his bones were almost turned to dust.

In short, this method is extremely dangerous. Although it can unleash tremendous power, the consequences are far beyond what the human body can withstand.

Unexpectedly, there are actually Soul Master in this world who have created such a method, and because of the existence of Martial Soul, there is a possibility of survival after using it.

"I think this might be a method created by the Fallen Ones." Zhou Qing said, referring to the "Origin of Martial Souls" he had seen in the Nuoding Spirit Hall Branch Library. "The Fallen Ones also study it, and can even see problems from angles that normal Soul Master cannot see. However, when they actually study related topics, their confused thinking leads to various experiments that are not reproducible."

Fallen Ones would do research?

Tang San was slightly taken aback, but once he categorized the Fallen Ones into the categories of "evil people" and "Demonic Path people" from his previous life, he understood.

They simply crossed the line of basic human decency; it doesn't mean they are stupid.

"So, Hu Lingling is Fallen Ones?" Tang San felt that as a Righteous Path person, he was irreconcilably opposed to the evil and Demonic Path paths, and thought it would be better to kill Hu Lingling.

"It's not clear yet. All we can say is that her reckless method just now might have originated from Fallen Ones."

Zhou Qing did not jump to conclusions, "To find out the specifics, we still need to find Hu Fangyuan first!"

"So Hu Fangyuan also has the surname Hu, are he and Hu Lingling siblings?" Xiao Wu guessed.

"It's not certain yet; they might just share the same surname. The only thing we can be sure of is that their relationship is quite close. At least Hu Lingling has feelings for Hu Fangyuan that are close to 'love.' As for Hu Fangyuan ... we haven't met him in person, but judging from the information given by Steward Xiao, he seems to care about Hu Lingling quite a bit. But whether he has other motives is unknown." Zhou Qing shook his head. "After all, if someone is truly Fallen Ones, they can cross the line of humanity for power. They can easily abandon or even exploit their parents, relatives, and siblings."

"These kinds of people don't deserve to live in this world!" Tang San was filled with righteous indignation, wishing he could exterminate all these evil demons and heretics.

"She just took the wrong path." Zhou Qing glanced at Tang San and continued talking about Hu Lingling, "Under what circumstances would an eighteen-year-old girl be so indifferent to her chastity?"

"For the Soul Bone, of course."

Xiao Wu gave the answer she could see, after all, Hu Lingling was arrested because of Zhou Qing's Soul Bone.

"Yes, Soul Bone." Zhou Qing's thoughts were not on Soul Bone. "Therefore, these kinds of people can never be eradicated. As long as there are people who pursue power, they will always exist."

These words were naturally meant for Tang San's ears.

Tang San did indeed take it to heart, but his brows furrowed slightly. After all, according to Zhou Qing's statement, the fallen would always exist and could never be eradicated.

More importantly, it seems to be true?

In the past, the major sects of the martial arts world had been cracking down on Demonic Path and evil people, but those people always managed to reappear, and even establish Demonic Path sects, standing up to the major forces of the Righteous Path.

Why is this the case?

Tang San pondered for a moment and finally found the answer in Zhou Qing's words: the pursuit of power.

If this doesn't change, nothing else will!

Thinking of this, Tang San glanced at Zhou Qing without showing any emotion, and once again keenly noticed the hint of hesitation in Zhou Qing's eyes—

"Qing Ge, you have eyes that see right through things, and you have the will to change things, but you've lost some of the youthful vigor you had in Holy Soul Village..."

You want to change all of this, yet you're afraid of being assimilated by everything in this world...

You can only regain that confidence when you focus on researching Martial Soul, Soul Power, and Qi and Blood, but that shouldn't be everything for you.

You need the courage to face all of this!

Zhou Qing, unaware of what Tang San was thinking, continued, "Now, we have two choices."

Romantina asked, "What choice?"

"The first thing is that we continue to investigate the Soul Ancestor's whereabouts according to our own ideas."

"Secondly, we should tell Grandmaster Ma Xiunuo about this. The other party might not be a simple Soul Ancestor, but a Fallen Ones Soul Ancestor Master, who may possess some extremely strange and unpredictable methods. Although we also have many trump cards, such as the Soul Conductor Godly Zhuge Crossbow and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, we should avoid revealing them if possible..."