Chapter 598 Soul Power, Soul Sect

Senluo’s ghostly aura is boundless.

The oppression brought by the powerful consciousness also frightened Li Qi.

Although the overall strength of this consciousness is only at the peak of level four, it is far inferior to Li Qi.

But in such a world, the consciousness power at the peak of level four is already considered the strongest in the world!

Li Qi felt that if Hu Buer was still alive, his consciousness might not even be at the peak of level four.

After all, the “Heavenly Soul Transfer” that Li Qi passed on to Hu Buer was not the complete version, only the first four levels.

With only the first four levels of Tiangong Soul Transfer, the level of consciousness can reach level three, which is already the limit.

Even though Hu Buer improved his skills in the later period, in the absence of other skills as a reference, the fact that his consciousness level could reach the peak of level three already made him a genius in cultivating consciousness.

Now, a character with level 4 peak consciousness suddenly appeared in front of him… Even if the other party is not an outsider, he must be related to the outsiders!

“Give me your body!!”

While Li Qi was thinking, Lucy, who was surging with ghost energy in front of him, had already started to compete with Li Qi at the level of consciousness.

She transformed into a dark cloud filled with black air. The cloud looked the same as her, with a pair of phantom eyes emitting a chilling blue light.

The dark cloud pressed down towards Li Qi, trying to penetrate into his body and take away everything from him.

however……

“No! Wait… That’s not right!! Who are you?! You’re not a puppet!! Senpai, I was wrong! Forgive me—!”

In just one second, the opponent’s consciousness was shattered by Li Qi’s single blow.

The other party’s arrogant appearance turned into wailing and begging for mercy in the blink of an eye.

Li Qi said nothing, and with an expressionless face, he compressed the other party’s consciousness. Like a ruthless executioner, he dismembered the other party’s out-of-body consciousness bit by bit.

The oppression of high-level consciousness over low-level consciousness is almost absolute. What’s more, Li Qi is a person from the interstellar world who specializes in consciousness. A mere fourth-level miscellaneous consciousness has no ability to fight back when facing Li Qi.

Lucy, whose consciousness was mostly wiped out in a short moment, begged for mercy in the world of consciousness.

She gave in quickly, and after realizing the absolute gap in strength between her and Li Qi, she immediately cried out for mercy, and the illusory space arranged with her consciousness as the core also disappeared.

The eerie scene was gone, and the surrounding scenery returned to the abandoned style of piled dolls. The doll that looked like Lucy slipped off the chair, knelt on the ground, and gasped heavily.

Her expression was terrible, with tears and snot flowing out. She looked like a tearful pear blossom, which gave people a different kind of beauty.

But Li Qi turned a blind eye to her appearance.

After all, strictly speaking, this doll with the same appearance as Lucy looks so different from Li Qi himself. It is impossible for Li Qi to feel sympathy for someone who looks so much worse than himself.

Besides, this guy just wanted to attack Li Qi, and Li Qi was merciful by not killing her immediately.

“who are you?”

Looking down at the puppet kneeling on the ground, Li Qi’s voice echoed in the spacious basement.

“Um… Junior… I’m the president of Brandi Group… Lucy, you can just call me Lucy.”

The puppet who called herself “Lucy” was under pressure from Li Qi, lying on the ground and answering Li Qi’s questions with difficulty.

Li Qi kicked the puppet aside, sat down on the only chair in the venue, crossed his legs and asked:
“Your name is Lucy too?”

“Ah?” Hearing what Li Qi said, the puppet who called herself Lucy was startled, and then quickly reacted and said, “Yes… yes… no no no, no no, that’s because my name is Lucy, and the other puppets you met who look like me are called Lucy… They are all imitations of me, specially… to provide me with soul power…”

Soul power?

Hearing the only unfamiliar noun in Lucy’s words, Li Qi’s heart moved.

He released his consciousness, pressed on Lucy, and asked softly:

“You call this… ‘soul power’?”

“Senior, please spare me! I don’t know what this power is, but everyone calls it ‘spiritual power’, so I just follow them! Senior, please spare me!!”

The puppet Lucy fell to the ground again.

The overwhelming pressure of Li Qi’s consciousness was like a mountain falling on her head.

Just a slight touch would crush her to pieces.

The fear of impending death forced her to beg for mercy, and she admitted her mistake first, regardless of whether it was her fault or not.

Li Qi admired her for begging for mercy so timidly yet resolutely.

Not everyone can immediately put down their dignity and self-respect and beg for mercy from others, especially a character like Lucy who has a high status.

After slightly relaxing the pressure on Lucy, Li Qi asked again:
“You just said you were the president of some group?”

“Yes, the Brandi Puppet Group! I…I am the president of this group!”

“But you look like a puppet, don’t you?”

Li Qi asked tentatively.

Lucy immediately showed a flattering smile on her face. She looked up and said, “Senior, please stop joking. People like me who practice soul power, how can we simply judge based on appearance? Isn’t it the same for you, senior?”

Soul power, nowadays, is consciousness power. People who cultivate consciousness power do not attach much importance to their own bodies, and the body is something that can be replaced at any time.

Then Lucy was originally a human being, and now she is just using soul power as energy to transfer her consciousness and soul into the body of a doll. This is not something incredible.

“So, you were originally human?”

Li Qi asked again.

Lucy was stunned when she heard that. She raised her head and looked at Li Qi who was sitting there, her eyes moving around restlessly.

But she had just made this slight expression when Li Qi’s powerful consciousness fell on her head again.

“Wait…wait! Senior!! I haven’t said anything yet!”

Lucy, who was pinned to the ground miserably, begged for mercy again.

Li Qi’s consciousness was locked on her, and he said in a calm but threatening tone:

“Your… soul power is much weaker than mine. I can see all your thoughts and expressions, so don’t play tricks on me. Do you understand?”

“Understood! Junior understands!”

“So what were you thinking about?”

“I’m wondering, could it be that you just woke up not long ago, so you’ve forgotten some of your past memories? If that’s the case, you can ask whatever you want, and I’ll tell you everything I know!”

Lucy spoke very tactfully, and her speaking style was very similar to that of Yuguo. If it weren’t for her Western appearance, Li Qi would have thought that this guy was from Yuguo.

However, Lucy’s words gave Li Qi a reason to ask.

He felt at ease and began to ask questions one by one, asking Lucy to answer them.

Lucy, who really regarded Li Qi as a ‘strong man with confused memories’, did as she said herself, telling him everything she knew. She answered whatever Li Qi asked without any falsehood or concealment in her words.

According to Lucy, although she is the president of Brandi Doll Group, she actually has another identity.

The leader of the branch sect of [Soul Sect].

When talking about the Soul Sect, we have to mention Hu Buer, who is currently recognized as the father of puppets in the world. The Soul Sect was founded by Hu Buer himself. Based on the “Heavenly Soul Transfer” left by the founder Li Qi, it has become the only traditional sect in modern society, and perhaps the only one in history, that uses “soul power” as the main way of practice.

The division within the sect is similar to that of the ancient sect. In addition to the division between the main sect and the branch sect, there are more detailed divisions within the sect from top to bottom, such as the sect master, elders, deacons, inner and outer disciples, etc.

Hu Buer is the leader of the main sect of the Soul Sect, and Lucy is the leader of the branch sect located in the west.

The world develops with the Soul Sect as the main body, and the puppets have become more refined and advanced due to the Soul Sect’s “Soul Power Cultivation Method”.

This is of course.

Because to the Soul Sect members, each puppet is equivalent to their own body, especially the puppets they make themselves, which will be more in tune with their own soul.

In order to be able to experience the same feelings as in the human period, dolls will of course become more and more refined and closer to humans.

The world prospers because of the dolls, and the Soul Sect also grows stronger and stronger.

But as the saying goes, everything that goes up must come down. When the puppet civilization was developed to its extreme, the world also fell into crisis.

The puppet riot has begun.

Speaking of the puppet riots, what the world knows is that the puppets suddenly went crazy and began to kill all the humans they saw until all the humans were killed.

But only the people of Soul Sect knew that the sudden change of the puppet actually had traces to trace, and the root of the change lay with Soul Sect.

“Did you cause the puppet riot?”

Li Qi looked at Lucy in surprise.

Lucy immediately shook her head, her reddish-brown hair almost flying out, and she quickly replied:

“It has nothing to do with us… um, well, it should be said that it has nothing to do with me, it’s the main sect! Something happened in the main sect. They somehow created a soul poison. The soul power infected with the soul poison will affect a person’s thoughts and personality, making the person tyrannical and fond of killing living beings.

“Most puppets have soul power themselves, and because they have not systematically cultivated soul power, they have no resistance to soul poison, so… they are all infected by the soul poison.”

After a long period of research on the soul power cultivation method, the Soul Sect discovered that puppets with soul power would be more suitable for Soul Sect disciples who have practiced soul power.

Therefore, the newly developed dolls generally carry some soul power seeds. These soul power seeds will slowly germinate and grow in the doll’s body, becoming one of the doll’s power sources.

Dolls with soul power seeds are generally smarter and more like humans than those without soul power seeds.

The better the soul power seed grows, the closer the puppet will be to humans, such as Charlie that Li Qi knows.

However, because of this soul power seed, the puppet was infected with soul poison. The soul poison became more threatening under the nurturing of a large number of puppets. Even the high-level leaders of the Soul Sect were infected by the soul poison.

As a result, the world was on the verge of collapse in just a few years, and even the Soul Sect disciples were powerless to do anything.

“But you don’t seem to have been poisoned by the… soul poison you mentioned?”

Li Qi looked at Lucy, and Lucy immediately explained: “Because I escaped… through the ‘stand-in’ method.”

“…substitute?”

Hearing this word, Li Qi subconsciously turned his gaze to the abandoned dolls around him.

Lucy noticed Li Qi’s gaze and nodded.

“Yes, it is these dolls… I used these dolls to dilute the soul poison in my body.”

Lucy then explained her operation process to Li Qi.

Create puppets that look like you, and let them repeat the “plot” that has been set long ago over and over again. On the one hand, this can make the puppet’s soul power seeds grow faster, and on the other hand, it can also dilute the soul poison in Lucy’s body by constantly changing bodies.

When the soul poison is diluted to the point where Lucy can clear it out herself, she will be able to wake up and live a second life.

“If that’s the case, then why did you want to take my body?”

Li Qi looked at Lucy unkindly.

Since Lucy has already arranged everything for herself, there is no reason for her to change to another body temporarily.

Lucy’s greedy look in her previous attempt to seize the body was a little hard to explain.

“…Because…your body is so perfect, I…I couldn’t help myself…”

Lucy explained awkwardly.

Although Soul Sect disciples have the restriction that they must transfer into the bodies of the puppets they created, this restriction is not absolute.

Hu Buer didn’t know how he changed his consciousness cultivation method, but the soul power cultivated through the new method could actually allow a person to enter any body. The only difference was the degree of compatibility.

Although the dolls made by Lucy were 100% compatible with her, when a doll body like Li Qi, which she thought was absolutely perfect, appeared in front of her, even if the degree of fit was only 1%, it was enough to make her greedy and try to snatch the doll away.

When it comes to this, we have to mention the method of cultivating soul power.

The cultivation of soul power is not something that can be done behind closed doors, but it is complementary to one’s own body.

The soul power cultivated through the original body is the purest, and the speed of soul power improvement is also faster. By cultivating through the puppet body that has a high degree of compatibility with oneself, the speed of soul power improvement is also not slow.

And if you come across a perfect doll, even if the degree of fit is not high, the progress of soul power cultivation will be greatly accelerated.

For Lucy, Li Qi’s perfect puppet body was equivalent to a soul power cultivation accelerator. She had never seen such a perfect puppet before, so she became greedy for a moment and launched an attack directly without caring whether there was the consciousness of a strong man in the puppet’s body.

then……

Now he has become Li Qi’s prisoner.

Lucy was also in tears. In fact, if she had been a little more rational and thought about it, she would have understood that such a perfect doll would definitely not be ownerless and it was very likely to contain the soul of a powerful person.

Therefore, normally one should have friendly communication first, and then decide whether to take over the body.

It’s just a pity that desire blinded Lucy and made her do irrational things.

But at the same time, Lucy also had doubts.

The soul power cultivation method in this world originated from the Soul Sect, so no matter who they are, their soul power cultivation method remains the same. If they are close to each other, they can sense the soul power techniques practiced by each other.

Soul Sect disciples also recognize each other in this way.

The reason why Lucy attacked directly before was that her desire overcame her reason, but one of the main reasons was that she did not sense the soul power cultivation method of the same origin as Li Qi.

Lucy was very confused about this. She couldn’t confirm whether Li Qi was a senior from the Soul Sect.

After listening to Lucy’s explanation, Li Qi understood the reason a little.

He changed the fluctuation of his consciousness cultivation method, making it closer to the “Heavenly Soul Transfer” method, and then asked Lucy:

“Can you sense anything this time?”

Li Qi believed that the reason why Lucy was unable to sense the aura of the same martial arts on her body was probably because Li Qi’s current method of cultivation was the consciousness cultivation method of the interstellar era.

The two techniques are fundamentally different, so it would be strange if the other party could sense the same aura.

Now that Li Qi has changed the fluctuation of the technique back to “Heavenly Soul Transfer”, then logically speaking, Lucy should be able to feel the familiar aura she mentioned…

This is what Li Qi originally thought.

Then he saw Lucy shook her head doubtfully but firmly.

Even after changing the fluctuations of her martial arts, Lucy still couldn’t feel the aura of the martial arts from the same origin as Li Qi.

(End of this chapter)