Taking His Talent to the Sun Moon Empire, Electrolux Appears, the Super Divine Artifact Nether Emperor Sword (4K)

May reading these words be like meeting face-to-face. From afar, I wish you peace and health.

Deep in the wilderness at night, machine element condensed into a silver desk. Lin Qing spread out a sheet of stationery and carefully considered his wording as he reported his situation to the elderly woman far away in Star Luo City.

Grandma Lin had never married. She had treated the siblings as her own children, giving them all her love. The pain of the white-haired burying the black-haired would be like having her heart gouged out and her bones stripped bare. Lin Qing intended to conceal Lin Lan's death for now, saying only that she had been injured during an inspection mission and was recuperating.

He continued the letter. Shrek's Soul Tool Department had long suffered under the suppression of its Martial Soul Department, and he had no intention of enrolling in the continent's foremost academy. His next step would be to visit the imperial capitals of the Heaven Dou Empire and the Dou Ling Empire, traveling the continent to broaden his horizons while choosing the advanced soul master academy best suited to his cultivation.

In truth... after leaving Shrek City, his flying soul tool had never stopped running. He had only landed after nightfall, spending the entire journey thinking of workable ways to repay blood with blood. Lin Qing had been thinking all along.

Repaying blood with blood meant severing the hands that deserved severing, cutting off the feet that deserved cutting off, blasting those who deserved it to pieces, and sending those who belonged in hell straight to hell!

A monster was still a monster. He simply needed to hone his fangs and claws.

Shrek Academy had stood for ten thousand years. Dragon God Douluo Mu En, one of the three great Limit Douluos of this generation, presided over its heart, surrounded by the elders of the Sea God Pavilion. With more than twenty Titled Douluos, it was the highest mountain looming over the Douluo Three Kingdoms.

Though the three great empires resented Shrek's overbearing ways and had tacitly agreed in recent years to stop sending their royal descendants there, their top-level combat strength was simply not in the same league. Worse, too many Shrek graduates within their own ranks tied their hands.

After a journey of furious brainstorming and clashing ideas, Lin Qing saw the light.

If he wanted to storm Shrek Academy and stuff Taotie Douluo's head inside a Chicken Skin Swallow, he should abandon any hope of receiving the three great empires' full support. Xu Jiujiu's little schemes were doomed to come to nothing.

Heaven never barred every path. As long as he was willing to walk, there was a road beneath his feet. The continent had a fourth empire, one whose circumstances differed vastly from those of Douluo's original three empires.

The Sun Moon Empire.

From its rulers down to its hawkers and porters, compulsory education had taught everyone in Sun Moon to regard Shrek Academy as a mortal enemy. They would love nothing more than to cross the border and lob eighty or a hundred Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells at it.

At the same time, the Sun Moon Empire was an extraordinary match for Lin Qing and his machine element. Soul engineers formed the backbone of its military strength, and its advanced soul guidance technology far surpassed that of the Douluo Three Kingdoms. Rich and varied mineral resources filled the earth beneath it, allowing him to make the fullest use of his Gold-Eating Beast talent to increase his soul power.

Lin Qing still vividly remembered the exquisite taste of amethyst copper. After the Gold-Eating Beast tasted it, his legs had trembled uncontrollably.

Yet among the hundreds upon thousands of rare metals in the Sun Moon Empire, amethyst copper could hardly be called scarce.

The culprit who had brought about his sister's death was still on Sea God Island, gnawing chicken drumsticks and swilling liquor, while her younger brother had been forced to turn away and leave. His hunger for strength grew ever fiercer, driving Lin Qing to a decision-

Take his talent to the Sun Moon Empire!

There were still two matters to settle before he departed. The first was Grandma Lin.

Put plainly, this journey meant sneaking across the border. Everyone knew that chaos and lawlessness defined the frontier. Robbers, bandits, evil soul masters... all manner of vicious, depraved villains appeared in endless succession.

An eighty-year-old Soul Elder would have virtually no fighting strength against such fiends. Lin Qing refused to gamble with his grandmother's life.

He intended to scout the way himself, join the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and establish a foothold. Once the Soul Master Tournament began, he would return to Star Luo City and take his grandmother back to Mingdu to enjoy her remaining years.

A year from now, Lin Qing would be stronger, with teachers and elders accompanying him. His grandmother's safety would be assured. Then he would tell her of Lin Lan's death in person.

Lin Lan's enrollment recommendation letter had also concealed the fact that her hometown was Star Luo City, shielding her family from Shrek's interference, because Shrek Academy treated the organization issuing a recommendation letter as the student's background.

For instance, Wang Dong came from the Clear Sky Sect, Xu Sanshi from the Xuanming Sect, and Huo Yuhao was a disciple of the Tang Sect. Shrek could not trace him to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.

In another timeline, even after Huo Yuhao revealed his ultimate martial soul, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, and became Dragon God Douluo's final disciple, Shrek Academy had never discovered his true background.

If Lin Qing had not come to Shrek City to get to the bottom of things, and Zhang Lexuan had somehow miraculously persuaded Xuan Zi to visit each family, apologize, and offer compensation...

When it came time to visit Lin Lan's hometown, they would most likely have trotted all the way to the Far North, then stood there staring at one another in bewilderment.

Thinking of that thousand-year-old sect in the Far North, Lin Qing sighed softly. He ought to visit when he had time. His sister had promised to join after graduating. Now that she was gone, he should at least let them know.

The second matter urgently requiring Lin Qing's decision was his route across the border. The Sun Moon Empire bordered both the Star Luo Empire and the Heaven Dou Empire, which meant choosing between the two.

Heaven Dou or Star Luo? Lin Qing took only a quarter of a second to decisively pick the Heaven Dou Empire.

Though Shrek City lay at the meeting point of the three empires, it technically belonged to the Heaven Dou Empire and was somewhat closer to its border. Lin Qing had already gone to enormous trouble to enter the Heaven Dou Empire from the Star Luo Empire. Doubling back would make him an indefatigable donkey.

Besides, the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire differed in how tightly they controlled their borders, and their danger levels differed accordingly.

Star Luo's border lay along the Mingdou Mountain Range, guarded by the Northwest Legion under the White Tiger Duke's command. A whole host of desperadoes operated within the mountains, playing both sides, and even the White Tiger Duke could do nothing about them.

Heaven Dou's border was considerably safer than Star Luo's. It was still nowhere near peaceful, but at least its villains could not be described as terrifying beyond belief.

With his preliminary plan settled, Lin Qing continued writing furiously.

Grandma, while I am away from Star Luo City, if Miss Xu from Star Luo National Academy comes asking for her goods, please tell her that I am traveling the world. I will deliver all her soul tools during next year's Soul Master Tournament. As for Madam Pan next door...

Please be sure to tell her that I am never coming back. She will have to find someone else to fix the soul guidance lamp on her roof.

Please take good care of yourself. That is my dearest hope and prayer.

Maintaining a tone that suggested all was well, Lin Qing rolled up the letter and placed it inside an intricate, square soul tool box. Gears turned, and its mechanism clicked.

The box was fitted with a self-destruct mechanism. Only Grandma Lin knew how to open it.

The Pingxin Tower maintained branches in the major cities of the three great empires. It was an organization that delivered letters for ordinary people. Lin Qing would post his letter when he passed one, paying extra for express delivery.

The night stretched boundless, without light from moon or stars.

Lin Qing looked up at the sky. In two more days, he would become an illegal border crosser-a strange road he had never once imagined taking in all his eleven years.

"Little one, you are calmer than I imagined. You managed to suppress the demonic flames of vengeance burning like wildfire in your heart."

An aged voice rang out within him, and the phantom of an old man slowly appeared. Magnificent patterns adorned his golden robes. His hair and beard were white, and his weathered appearance held an ancient, unfathomable depth.

"My name is Electrolux. I am a sliver of divine consciousness from another world that survived by chance. The spatial fluctuations caused by that great worm brought me into this world by mistake. Without roots, I was insubstantial and could have dissipated at any moment.

"As it happened, a seed of reincarnation law lay dormant in your Sea of Consciousness. It had been sleeping all this time, but my arrival awakened it. Through merging with me, it sprouted and took the form of a sword.

"From that moment on, reincarnation law gained a tangible form, and my fragment of divine consciousness gained a vessel. Gradually nourished by the power of reincarnation, my consciousness finally stabilized. I no longer have to fear my soul scattering into oblivion."

Electrolux spoke with deep feeling. Life was unpredictable. His fragment of divine consciousness had found fortune in disaster, merging with the embryo of a reincarnation-attribute super divine artifact.

"Lin Qing, you and I are now inextricably linked. Let us associate as senior and junior. How about calling me Elder Yi?"

"Your junior pays his respects, Elder Yi."

Lin Qing readily complied. He suspected that the nourishment of the Netherworld Rules was responsible. Electrolux's divine consciousness was in far better condition than that of his counterpart in the other timeline.

Electrolux chuckled. "Today, at Shrek Academy, the death of your dearest kin stirred the flames of hatred in your heart. I know that feeling very well.

"A similar tragedy once befell me. From the Son of Light whom the world envied, I became the Undead Calamity whose very name made people blanch, and did things that could never be undone.

"I cannot bear to watch hatred blind you, leaving you with lifelong regrets that you can never make amends for."

"Are you asking me to let go of my hatred, Elder Yi?"

"No." Electrolux abruptly grew solemn. "Never let the hot blood boiling in your heart grow cold, and never forgive your enemies. Doing so would be a betrayal of your young, powerless self and the family who loved you so deeply.

"What I want to tell you is this: do not let hatred turn you against the entire world. Hold fast to your moral boundaries, and believe that goodness still exists."

Having said this, Electrolux gently stroked his long beard, a trace of reminiscence in his eyes. Betrayed by his lover, with all his family slaughtered, he had fallen into becoming the Undead Calamity, knowing nothing but killing and creating mountain after mountain of corpses and sea after sea of blood.

During his lifetime, the Holy Necromancer had stubbornly believed that the mortal world was not worth saving. Yet years later, witnessing Long Haochen and Sheng Cai'er's devotion to each other through life and death, he had realized that humanity was not wholly vile and finally awakened to his mistakes.

Now, speaking as someone who had walked that road, he warned Lin Qing. Repaying grievances was only right and proper, but he must never allow his hatred to swell without limit.

"I understand. Don't worry, Elder Yi."

"I remained silent to observe how you responded to hatred. When it comes to controlling your emotions, you have truly done better than I did back then," Electrolux praised him sincerely.

"With control over the Gold Element and the favor of the Realm of Reincarnation, your future is boundless. Since I have merged with the Reincarnation Super Divine Artifact Soul, I will naturally accompany you to the mountain's summit."

"The Realm of Reincarnation... you must mean the Netherworld, Elder Yi. That sword is a super divine artifact?" Lin Qing asked in surprise.

"The name does not matter. The Netherworld is the Realm of Reincarnation. Though the sword is only an embryo, it is undoubtedly a super divine artifact," Electrolux answered firmly. "Come, young one favored by the Netherworld's Favor. It is time to draw out the mighty power the Netherworld bestowed upon you. Let reincarnation break free of your Sea of Consciousness and enter reality!"

Standing between heaven and earth, Lin Qing closed his eyes and pictured the gray longsword suspended in his Sea of Consciousness. He slowly raised both arms, bending his elbows and crossing them before his chest.

His left forearm stood upright, his right lay horizontally across it. With his right forearm resting against the inside of his left, he slowly pulled outward. It was as though he were not moving his right hand, but dragging a forbidden object out of the void from the farthest reaches of a mysterious shore beyond.

Bzzzz-

The air trembled incessantly. As his right arm moved outward, a point of gray light glimmered into being. It lengthened and expanded as he kept pulling, and Lin Qing slowly drew forth the outline of a longsword.

Clang-

A ringing sword cry suddenly echoed through the boundless night!

A cross of gray light erupted. Sword energy shot skyward, piercing the clouds and the vault of heaven. An indescribable, earth-shaking sharpness spread outward, staining the sky a deep, somber shade.

Lin Qing closed his fingers around the gray longsword that had manifested in reality. No intricate ornamentation adorned its blade, only a few simple lines, like the barren, withered Netherworld upholding the eternally unchanging Reincarnation Law.

Sword energy whipped Lin Qing's clothes into snapping billows. His pupils turned a deathly gray. Beneath the sword's light, his handsome face was as cold and stern as a glacier ten thousand years old. Not the slightest emotion stirred in his eyes, as though he had merely done something insignificant.

Grasped the authority that had been his since birth.

The Super Divine Artifact Embryo, the Nether Emperor Sword.

"Twin martial souls..." Lin Qing murmured.

A divine artifact transformed into a martial soul. The super divine artifact born in the Netherworld had become his second martial soul!

"Well? Did you sense anything within the inheritance of the Sword of Reincarnation?" Electrolux asked.

"A responsibility. The Netherworld's responsibility," Lin Qing said. "The Divine Realm, Douluo, and the Netherworld-the three planes each have their own duties.

"Douluo is the foundation. The Divine Realm sits high above, ruling over many mortal planes, including the Douluo Continent.

"The Netherworld protects the endless cycle of reincarnation for all living things. Whether someone was a Titled Douluo, a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, or an ordinary creature in life, once their soul reaches the Netherworld, they are treated equally. Their power disperses, their memories of life are washed away, and they are reborn.

"Yet the Netherworld now faces an unprecedented threat. Disregarding the principle that the three planes must not interfere with one another, the gods of the Divine Realm have stretched their controlling hand toward the Netherworld.

"A group of departed souls brazenly broke through the Netherworld Rules, reclaimed the power they possessed in life, and launched a war of invasion against it. The Netherworld has almost completely fallen. Entrusting the Nether Emperor Sword to me is its final, desperate struggle."

"If I cannot put an end to the invaders, the supreme thing about to be born will inevitably fall into an evil god's hands..."

Lin Qing felt as though he had awakened from a dream. So he was a child chosen by the Netherworld.

No wonder he had felt such familiarity when he saw Huo Yuhao in the Star Dou Great Forest. The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was the starting point of Huo Yuhao's rise, while Electrolux was the catalyst for the Nether Emperor Sword's germination. Both boys had stood at the beginnings of their respective roads of destiny, creating that strange feeling of the left brain meeting the right.

One yin, one yang; light and darkness intertwined.

The great hand descending from the Divine Realm blotted out the sky and sun. In this era, Douluo and the Netherworld had been forced to save themselves, and two children of destiny had been born in response.

The blood-colored demonic hammer falling from the sky and the thunder of towering waves resurfaced in his mind... Lin Qing sank into thought.

Those fellows were almost certainly the Netherworld's invaders. With his current beginner's knowledge, he had no idea exactly how strong they were. In any case, they could certainly thrash him every which way. And that hammer was a troubling sign-a hammer accompanied by ocean waves... he had an ominous feeling.

"Aside from the Netherworld's desperately urgent situation, the Nether Emperor Sword hasn't given me much more information. Only innate skills for combat and a method for the living to enter the Netherworld," Lin Qing confirmed.

"Good! I shall protect you as you venture into the Netherworld and see the true face of the Realm of Reincarnation." Electrolux swept his hand outward.

"My fragment of divine consciousness has become one with the Nether Emperor Sword. Do not underestimate the title of Holy Necromancer.

"I guarantee you'll live."

Electrolux radiated domineering confidence.

In the next instant, the Nether Emperor Sword slashed horizontally. Its edge cut through the night sky, tearing open a gray gate!

With a supreme demon king taking the initiative to offer his protection, the boy feared neither the passing years nor the raging wind!

Having a civil servant on his side made things easy. He was going to the Netherworld to find Lin Lan's soul and utter the most heaven-and-earth-moving words in Douluo's history!