"I told you, you're a good person!"
"Are you going to keep humiliating me?
I'm a Soul Beast, the Lord of Soul Beast.
You keep stressing that, tearing open my scars over and over!"
"But you really are a good person."
"You..."
"All right, I don't have time to toy with you. I'm not someone who can't tolerate a soul's existence.
But while I won't kill you, I won't let you eat and live here for free, either.
I've already enslaved your soul, so you'll work for me in here. The term is forever."
"You-you really are a devil!"
Gu Yue was shocked and furious. "You must have already devoured my physical body, and now even my soul has to work for you."
"Don't want to? Then you can die instead."
Lin Ming pointed at the largest furnace in the soul space. Inside it, flames that could burn everything blazed fiercely, making Gu Yue feel the threat of death.
"Then may I ask what I can do?"
Gu Yue instantly softened.
"You do know which way the wind blows.
I haven't decided yet. Probably manual labor."
Lin Ming smiled, then took out several other souls.
These were all relatively important souls, fundamentally different from those cannon-fodder souls.
They included Demon Spirit, who had self-destructed in Eastsea City; Xu Tianjiao, whose body Xu Tianran had possessed; the twins Xia Bingxin and Xia Bingyu, whose souls had been extracted to make room for Bi Ji and Zi JI; the two slaves the Du Busi brothers had reincarnated as; and Qiangu Zhangting, whom Myriad Demon King had crushed into a bloody pulp.
Of these, Lin Ming only awakened Demon Spirit, Xu Tianjiao, Xia Bingxin, and Xia Bingyu.
As soon as Demon Spirit's soul awakened, he spotted Gu Yue pinned to the ground and