Revealing Electrolux's Ending

Zhong Kui quickly went to request leave, claiming to the outside world that he needed to search for rare medicinal herbs to refine pills.

After this was stated, most people in the Sun Moon Empire didn't say anything. Alchemists needing to collect materials was something many could understand, and since some materials were rare and could be used to refine superior pills, no one raised any objections.

Moreover, the point was that Zhong Kui was the most formidable alchemist in the entire Sun Moon Empire. Everyone was scrambling to curry favor with him; who would ever stop him? Besides, this was not something that harmed the Sun Moon Empire.

Jing Hongchen didn't say anything either. After all, he owed his own status as a level 95 Title Douluo to Zhong Kui, so he was even less likely to stop him or probe into whether Zhong Kui was truly going to collect precious herbs.

This was simply a matter of social etiquette and human relations.

Kong Deming was the same. Like Hall Master Hongchen, he had become a level 95 Title Douluo because of Zhong Kui, especially due to the pills Zhong Kui had provided. Therefore, Kong Deming would not stop Zhong Kui from leaving the Sun Moon Empire to collect any precious medicinal herbs.

Furthermore, during this period, quite a few people had already become capable of refining decent medicine.

Some could even instantly heal external injuries, such as lacerations and the like.

According to Zhong Kui's own claims, he was already a first-grade low-tier alchemist.

This ability had many uses on the battlefield, so Zhong Kui had made a significant contribution to the Sun Moon Empire.

This was a big shot with great merit; with such significant contributions at such a young age, who would try to stop him?

"That said, I would like to ask, what exactly are you planning to do?" Electrolux said within Zhong Kui's mental sea.

"I can sense that you have some sort of objective in heading to the Far North this time. It's to obtain some kind of fortuitous encounter, isn't it?"

"And you haven't said much along the way, which means you must be calculating something. It seems you want to snatch someone else's opportunity, much like that time back then when I was supposed to possess that young man."

"My soul was supposed to enter that boy's mental world, but it was snatched away by you instead."

"Could this operation be the same as that one? Are you planning to snatch someone's opportunity again?"

Electrolux was worthy of being a grandmaster; he saw through Zhong Kui's purpose with ease. Although he didn't guess it entirely correctly, he immediately deduced that Zhong Kui was going to snatch someone's opportunity.

Zhong Kui's goal this time was to snatch the Ice Empress, ensuring that Huo Yuhao's second martial soul would not possess the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion—a martial soul of such high quality and infinite proximity to the god-level—as it did in the original novel.

If Huo Yuhao lost this martial soul, whether he could even become a god would be a question.

At the very least, Huo Yuhao's chances of becoming a god would be cut in half.

"Electrolux, I want to ask you a question." Zhong Kui finally spoke at this moment.

"Go ahead, as long as it's something I can answer... though I feel like you're more inclined to tell me something instead."

"You, sir, are truly worthy of being someone who could become a god. If the gods of your world were not incarnations of rules, and if you were to become a god without becoming a rule-like existence, you would at most reach the peak of a first-level god in the Douluo world, or perhaps even become a God King."

Zhong Kui had to admit that Electrolux was indeed a top-tier powerhouse written by the [Creation God of the Tang Clan Universe, Tang Jia San Shao].

Honestly, if Electrolux hadn't been written to die back then, perhaps this Creation God, or even his own avatar in the story, Tang San, might have received a little less criticism.

"If the young man you possessed back then appeared to be a hot-blooded youth willing to seek revenge, appearing humble and grateful, but was actually someone whose bones were permeated with feudal slave ideology—if he had already been tamed by someone else—do you think he would have helped you?"

"Are you trying to say that if I hadn't chosen you, or rather, if you didn't exist and I had chosen to possess that boy, what kind of ending would I have had?"

Electrolux directly pointed out what Zhong Kui was trying to say.

"Exactly. That person is named Huo Yuhao, the Son of Destiny of this world, or rather, this plane and this era. His original mission was supposed to be helping this world. He was born to resist a certain evil god, to stop that evil god's parents from usurping the position of the Master of the Life Core Plane through the oppression of the world, and at the same time, to help ease the relationship between soul beasts and humans."

"Otherwise, with his innate level one soul power, how could he possibly become a god in the future without the help of this world's destiny?"

"That evil god recognized his powerful destiny and identified him as the Son of Destiny, which is why he was willing to marry his daughter to him. The goal was to usurp the destiny of this world and completely turn it into the evil god's backyard."

"According to your logic, if I had possessed that boy—that Huo Yuhao—back then, I would definitely have been noticed by that evil god, and then I would certainly have been eradicated, right?"

Electrolux's words directly spelled out his own ending—being eradicated under Tang San's schemes.

"That is indeed how it is. An existence like you is an obstacle to him. If you had reached the God Realm together, you would have become an obstacle to the evil god's control over the God Realm and the continent."

"Moreover, this Son of Destiny eventually forgot to help you; you could have been saved."

"But he forgot to help you, instead indulging in his romance with the evil god's daughter."

"He even felt that he was marrying into a higher status."

"Furthermore, in the original ending, the Soul Spirit system you created was supposed to help ease the relationship between humans and soul beasts, but because of the Spirit Pagoda he established, the situation for soul beasts became even more difficult."

After hearing Zhong Kui say this, Electrolux was truly speechless. Upon learning some of the circumstances regarding the luck value, he also felt it was too absurd.

"This old man has nothing more to say. Let's just work together properly. I'm already on your pirate ship, aren't I? I have no choice, do I?"

"Exactly, that's how it is. Do you think what I'm doing for you..."

"I think you're doing the right thing. After knowing the original ending, perhaps only by working with you can the deadlock be broken. What you are doing is correct."

After hearing Electrolux say this, the last trace of guilt in Zhong Kui's heart vanished. He had originally felt a sliver of guilt for forcibly bringing Electrolux into his mind, but now, it was completely gone.

"Then how exactly are we going to snatch this opportunity? You have to reveal at least a little bit."

"What we are going to do this time is to stop a powerful soul beast from becoming Huo Yuhao's soul ring and martial soul."