Before her words had faded, Zhang Lexuan flashed forward. She moved so fast she left only an afterimage, then vanished into the dense forest.
Everyone watched the direction she had gone. Only Huo Yuhao moved, almost imperceptibly.
He reached out and caught Gu Yue's sleeve, giving her a slight shake of his head.
Gu Yue's violet eyes narrowed. As the sovereign of Soul Beasts, she had always stood on their side.
Huo Yuhao had already perfected the Soul Contract, a method of coexistence that opened a path to peace between humans and Soul Beasts. But he had yet to reveal it, and the deep-rooted divide between the two remained unchanged.
Humans hunted Soul Beasts; Soul Beasts attacked humans. How could a blood feud hundreds of thousands of years old be erased in a day?
Beyond that, Huo Yuhao harbored a staggering, utterly mad vision that would overturn the rules of the entire Douluo Plane.
He intended to reshape Douluo's Leylines with his own hands and create a cycle of reincarnation unique to the Douluo World—the "Night God's Kingdom."
The Night God's Kingdom would not be a physical realm. It would be a nexus of souls and reincarnation built upon the continent's Leylines.
The Leylines of the entire continent would serve as conduits, guiding the souls of every living being, human and Soul Beast alike, into the nexus for an orderly, fair, and complete cycle of rebirth.
But the system was far from complete. Its Leyline framework, rules of reincarnation, and central vessel had yet to be established.
To bridge that gap, Huo Yuhao had devised an extreme interim plan.
He would follow the example of Capitano, the Captain, and use himself as a vessel. He would force the souls of humans and Soul Beasts into his own body, temporarily serving