The Evil Soul Master Titled Douluo carried Lin Tian at breakneck speed across the ocean,
They flew for several hours,
and only when the sky had turned pitch-black
did they finally arrive at a desolate island.
The island was not very large,
and its surface was covered in rocks.
Not a single plant grew there,
and the air was thick with the stench of blood and decay.
After arriving,
a faint smile finally appeared on the Evil Soul Master's face,
as if he had returned home.
This was his base,
and his appearance in Aolai City had not been a coincidence,
for his base was on this island, in the waters surrounding Aolai City.
The Evil Soul Masters of the Holy Spirit Cult
did not all remain within the cult.
Nearly half of its powerful members had their own bases across Douluo Continent.
After all, its headquarters was in the Far North Lands,
a bitterly cold place
suitable only for hiding,
not for development.
This island was called Blood Island,
and his Blood Servants and Blood Slaves lived there.
"I am Blood Fiend,
titled Blood Shadow.
This is my territory.
From now on, you'll live here with me.
I'll nurture you well
and make you into a top-tier powerhouse."
Blood Shadow Douluo added silently in his heart,
without saying it aloud:
"Then I'll devour you."
"Aren't you afraid I'll run away once I grow stronger?"
Lin Tian asked in return.
Hearing this, Blood Shadow Douluo merely laughed.
"Hahaha,
you really are no ordinary boy,
you've hit the nail on the head.
But I'm not afraid at all,
because even if you escape Blood Island,
you'll never be able to return."
"Boy,
do you know?
Evil Soul Masters are divided into innate and acquired types."
"What are you planning to do?"
Lin Tian glared at Blood Shadow Douluo,
a trace of unease rising in his heart.
"What am I planning to do?
Naturally, I'm going to help you complete a glorious evolution."
Blood Shadow Douluo clapped his hands.
His figure swayed slightly beneath his black robe,
and he immediately took a string of bottles and jars from his Storage Soul Tool.
They all emanated a cold, sinister aura.
As he arranged them, he slowly explained:
"Did you know that Evil Soul Masters are ranked in all sorts of ways?
Soul Masters with innate Evil Martial Souls are one in ten thousand,
and they grow far faster than ordinary people."
But innate Evil Soul Masters were simply too rare.
Most Evil Soul Masters in the world today were acquired Evil Soul Masters,
who needed the Holy Sect's secret evil-corruption technique
to awaken an Evil Martial Soul.
Your Blood Martial Soul already lies between a normal Martial Soul and an evil one.
Add your astonishing devouring ability to that,
and once you're corrupted,
I can't even imagine
how high the rank of your Evil Martial Soul will be.
The more Blood Fiend spoke, the more excited he became.
Evil Soul Masters cultivated very quickly in the early stages,
but later they suffered backlash.
Unless they were exceptionally gifted,
they simply couldn't break through to a higher level.
For many Evil Soul Masters, the ceiling was Titled Douluo.
To become a Super Douluo,
one needed to be one in ten thousand,
or receive a blessing from the Demon Empress.
He had no connections in the Holy Sect,
so he could only rely on himself.
He had a premonition:
if he could raise Lin Tian up,
then devour everything he had,
his Martial Soul would surely evolve by an entire rank,
and he would break through the bottleneck he had been stuck at for years,
ascending to a higher realm.
That was why,
when Lin Tian had just mentioned that possibility,
he had left without hesitation,
with not the slightest desire to kill him in his eyes.
Because
compared with Lin Tian,
everything else was as fleeting as clouds.
If he wanted blood,
the Blood Servants and Blood Slaves on Blood Island were more than enough for him to kill.
He had never imagined
that a remote little fishing village like Aolai City, which he had never thought worth noticing,
could produce a genius with Twin Martial Souls,
and such heaven-defying Martial Souls at that.
He had happened to stumble upon this treasure.
Heavens had truly smiled upon him.
As he thought this,
he finished setting everything up.
As his crimson Soul Power flowed into it,
the formation activated in an instant.
"Weng!"
A deep hum rang out,
and thick black blood mist immediately surged from the formation,
rushing madly toward Lin Tian
and wrapping around his body.
Lin Tian felt a bone-piercing chill spread through him.
Immediately afterward,
both his Starfish Martial Soul and the Blood Martial Soul in his right hand activated involuntarily,
manifesting over his hands
as they continually resisted the invading evil energy.
"Boy,
stop resisting.
Join in this glorious evolution.
You have no idea how powerful our Holy Sect is.
The Demon Empress is a true god.
Only by becoming an Evil Soul Master
can you receive her protection.
Once your Martial Soul is corrupted,
it'll become more than ten times stronger.
Stop resisting
and accept this power."
"I refuse to accept my fate!"
Lin Tian roared,
desperately drawing on the Soul Power within him to resist.
"You really won't shed a tear until you see the coffin.
Then I'll speed things up for you."
As he spoke,
Blood Fiend immediately released his Blood Snake Martial Soul.
A vast Blood Sea surged into view behind him.
It was all blood his Blood Snake Martial Soul had devoured.
The stinking Blood Sea swept toward Lin Tian,
wrapping around the Blood Martial Soul in his hand
and preparing to corrode and corrupt it completely.
But just then,
a sudden change took place.
The Blood Martial Soul, swallowed by Blood Fiend's Blood Sea,
suddenly erupted with a dazzling crimson radiance,
and then a terrifying suction force appeared,
instantly forming a dreadful crimson vortex.
The vortex's suction was unimaginably powerful.
The surrounding air was sucked away in an instant,
and the Blood Sea was devoured in a frenzy.
Blood Fiend's Blood Snake Martial Soul had no time to react
before the crimson vortex swallowed it whole.
With his Martial Soul swallowed,
Blood Fiend immediately suffered a backlash,
and his face turned deathly pale.
And this suction was still going.
After swallowing his Martial Soul, it was his turn!
"No!
This is impossible!
How could your Martial Soul possess such terrifying devouring power?
What kind of Martial Soul is this?"
Blood Fiend let out a terrified roar,
doing everything he could to push his Soul Power against it.
But
against this suction, which seemed like a law of nature,
his resistance was utterly meaningless.
With a whoosh,
his entire body was forcibly dragged by the vortex,
turning into a streak of black,
and swept into the vortex.
A series of clatters rang out
as his clothes,
his black robe and the storage ring on his person,
along with his identity token, all hit the ground.
His entire person had vanished from the Douluo Continent.
Lin Tian knew nothing of this.
His eyes were bloodshot,
black energy coiled around him,
and his mind had already become unhinged.
His Martial Soul was on the verge of turning evil.
But the instant Blood Fiend disappeared,
Lin Tian's soul immediately left his body
and followed him into the Blood Sea.
"This... is the Blood Sea from my dream?
I'm back again?
No,
that's Blood Fiend.
How did he come along to the Blood Sea, too?
He was clearly sucked in just now by the vortex created by my Martial Soul.
Could it be..."
A look of shock appeared on Lin Tian's face.
He had thought of an extremely far-fetched possibility.
"Could this Blood Sea have been formed from my Blood Martial Soul?
No way..."