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"": ""We all look like battered remnants of a defeated army..."
"This... is going to be tough..."
"And Miss Shangguan is in a terrible position..."
Xu Lu stayed more or less where he was, pacing two steps left and right over and over.
Bai Xian frowned as well, a question in her eyes.
Xu Lu immediately spoke again, repeating the news Fourth Master Gray had brought back.
"Save her."
Bai Xian's answer was crisp and decisive.
"Of course we'll save her. She won't die anytime soon. As for consuming essence, just look at the people in Auspicious Qi Town. They aren't dying."
"If he eats someone until they're completely dead, he'll find himself in a predicament. That person's soul will be inside the two-five essence, and he'll swallow it whole. That's the drawback of Lifespan Theft. Why do most people who practice this evil art only dare feed on ordinary people? Because the practitioner can still suppress an ordinary person's soul. Separating the soul from the two-five essence, however, isn't easy."
"If he swallows them without separating them first, he'll have hundreds or thousands of souls hidden inside him. Will he still be himself?"
Xu Lu's explanation sounded rather complicated, but Luo Bin understood.
Suddenly, however, he thought of the Emotion Flower Fruit.
Nurturing flowers with human souls-wasn't that much the same principle?
Except one consumed lifespan to increase one's own yang lifespan, while the other consumed souls simply to strengthen one's soul?
It seemed both involved a process of separation, rather than consuming souls directly?
Shangguan Xingyue wouldn't die anytime soon. She would only suffer terribly.
That was still tolerable.
Sometimes, living meant constantly struggling and floundering in suffering, but at least you were still alive.
"There is still a difference, isn't there?" Bai Xian