Chapter 209: The Purifying Power Of The Soul

As the eye patch that sealed the Purple Demon Eye burned to ashes, the eye embedded in the little skeleton's eye socket once again emitted a piercing purple light.

At that moment, the soul-crushing pain once again invaded Han Shuo and the little skeleton's body. The bone-deep pain made both Han Shuo and the little skeleton tremble all over.

Han Shuo couldn't help but growl under his breath, and the little skeleton's stark white jawbone also rattled as a mysterious force invaded them both.

Suddenly, the demon infant in his abdomen surprisingly unleashed an enormous suction power. Han Shuo had the sudden impression that the demon infant had turned into a black hole. His entire body seemed to turn into a huge spider web, with the Demon Infant at the centre, and all of his meridians had turned into the permanent fibres of the spider web.

Thanks to the absorption power, the power that had entered Han Shuo's body flowed along the spider web's meridians towards the demon infant, like currents returning to the ocean.

The heart-wrenching pain diminished considerably as his body transformed into this state. The invading power in Han Shuo's body was sent to the demon infant. Just like how Johnny's soul had once been digested and absorbed, this power was turned into nutrients to help the demon infant develop at an insane rate.

As the pain in his body began to subside, Han Shuo saw that the little skeleton was still rolling on the ground. Struggling to make it to the little skeleton's side, he aimed the palm of his left hand at the skeleton's left eye socket and unleashed the 'Demonic Art Of Assimilation '.

Magical light suddenly sparkled from his left hand as beams of faint purple light flowed through Han Shuo's arm and into his body. They were sent through the meridians to the demon child, just as the surge of power in his body had been treated.

At this point, Han Shuo was certain that the power from the purple demon eye was that of the soul. Judging by the close relationship between the forest trolls and their protector Datara, this could very well be the remnants of the soul power left by the demon Datara on this plane.

Compared to Johnny's soul, the soul from the Purple Demon Eye was even more powerful. The violent, raging presence within it met no resistance from the demon infant. Instead, the demon infant circulated the power from that soul like mad, slowly purifying it.

Looking at the demon infant, Han Shuo could see that the demon infant now looked like a sun burning with black magical fire, sending out piercing magic light in all directions. At this moment, Han Shuo's body was also glowing with light as rays of a violent, chaotic and evil magical aura surrounded his body. From a distance, it looked like Han Shuo had suddenly grown countless black arms that were dancing wildly around him.

After who knew how long, Han Shuo suddenly relaxed as a crisp cracking sound rang out. Something seemed to have broken in the purple demon eye as it suddenly lost its light. A cloud of purple smoke escaped from the little skeleton's left eye as the demon infant continued to furiously circulate the power from the soul. The power he'd gained from the purple demon eye was far greater than the amount they'd received from Johnny a few days ago. When Han Shuo felt that all the power had been absorbed into the demon infant, he gave the little skeleton an order to protect him. After that, Han Shuo sat down cross-legged to enter a meditative state to digest everything.

The power within the purple demon eye had been completely absorbed by the demon infant. The little skeleton sat dumbly on the ground for a while as it was released from its agony. After the mysterious power had disappeared, the Purple Demon Eye embedded in the little skeleton's left eye socket rolled around skilfully, giving the little skeleton a trace of life.

"What's going on?" Emily and Gilbert noticed that a black magical aura had exploded out of Han Shuo's room, and they couldn't help but come out to investigate.

The skeleton had been sitting on the floor when he heard the knocking from outside. He straightened his calf bones and stood up, walking to open the door as his eye rolled slightly.

When Emily and Gilbert saw that a short, white skeleton had appeared in front of them as the door was opened, with a purple eyeball in its left eye socket whirring busily, they both took a few hasty steps back in fright.

The little skeleton raised his left finger to point at Han Shuo, his eye rolling in a circle as his hand reached for his mouth and made a silencing gesture. His meaning to Emily and Gilbert was, "He needs rest, don't disturb him!"

Emily and Gilbert stared dumbly at this little skeleton telling them to be quiet. They instinctively felt that the scene before them was too much for their minds to handle. A dark creature had made such a human gesture in front of them, and there was even a lifelike eyeball rolling around in its left eye socket. It all seemed unimaginably fantastic.

It was a good thing that this wasn't the first day that Emily had met Han Shuo. When she'd fought Han Shuo, she'd come up short against this little skeleton. So when she looked closely at the little skeleton and noticed the seven bone spurs on its back, she immediately understood that although the colour of the bone spurs had changed, this little skeleton was still the same wonderful skeleton that was immune to most dark magic and had been relentless in its pursuit of her.

"I think your master must have made some kind of miraculous progress this time. Then we won't disturb him!" Taking a deep breath, Emily shook her head at Gilbert and motioned for him to leave with her.

After the earth elite zombie's sudden rage in the cemetery of death, Gilbert understood that his master's dark creatures were different from the ones he knew. If there was a zombie that could form a large crack in the ground to attack him just for a phrase, then it wasn't too difficult to understand a little skeleton that made such human gestures.

"I think it will be very interesting to follow such a master!" Gilbert looked curiously at the little skeleton and waved goodbye, turning to speak to Emily after closing the door.

"I think so too, but you have to keep improving yourself, otherwise you might find one day that you can't even defeat one of your master's dark creatures!" Emily had learned from Han Shuo that the dark creatures he refined had the unlimited potential to evolve on their own. She'd been a bit sceptical at first, but now that she'd seen the little skeleton's performance, she was a firm believer.

Han Shuo had been completely unaware of Emily and Gilbert's visit. The tremendous power of the Purple Demon Eye had caused him to focus his concentration to the utmost, and he was impervious to any distractions from the outside world.

Some magical cultivators needed to find an extremely quiet place to mediate behind closed doors when they were practising a secret art or refining a treasure. They would also set up multiple layers of heavy defences to prevent disturbances. They were so careful because this was the time when a cultivator was most vulnerable. Not a single distraction could be allowed to occur during this process, or else one would run the risk of having one's cultivation deviated or having one's previous efforts wasted.

Two days and nights went by. Han Shuo stayed in his room during this time, and Phoebe, Emily and Trunks were all busy setting up the mercenary band or continuing to talk business to sell more of Han Shuo's jewels.

That night, the crew was in the shop discussing the best use of the gold and the most efficient way to handle the mercenary band's affairs when a member of the Cairo mercenary band suddenly knocked and said that a group of people were on their way.

The mercenary left immediately after delivering this message, saying that they needed to report this to the chief or deputy chief of the Cairo mercenary band. He warned them to be careful and informed them that their men would arrive in half an hour.

"It looks like the Rainbow Sickle mercenaries are on their way here. Bryan can't be disturbed right now, and we don't know when he'll wake up. We're in a bit of trouble now!" Emily said with a small frown as the mercenary left.

"We'll give whoever comes a good beating if they dare trespass!" Gilbert obviously did not think much of the matter as he scolded carelessly.

"They're not so easy to deal with. Florida's experts are as numerous as the clouds, and the Church of Light has also sent some reinforcements. You might not be able to win even if you turn into a dragon again." Trunks also said with a deep frown.

"Bryan can't be disturbed at the moment. The dark creature is protecting him, so he probably can't leave. We have to protect him if he's here. As long as we can hold things off until the Cairo mercenaries get here, we should be fine!" Phoebe thought for a moment and then answered.

Dull hoofbeats sounded in the still night air. From the sound, one could tell that the hooves of these battle steeds had been wrapped in cotton cloth or something soft.

"Be careful, let's protect Bryan's room first!" Emily called quietly to the others.