Principles

"Wait a minute before attacking" Fan Lin said before charging Fiery fire. He can sense the infernal King Harosha due to his advanced senses.

" Ok" Yun Ming replied. He was still a little stunned from Fan Lin's previous words. He wanted to refute but what he said was right and hence he had no words to refute.

One minute later.

Fan Lin launched the Fiery fire. A 10 meter wide red lightning striked the land.

There was a blinding red light when the Fiery fire reached with the hut. The light turned in a big explosion. The land in the 1000 kilometres radius was destroyed by it.

Yun Ming was shocked by this. This power was comparable to level 12 soul missiles. Comparable but not on the same level, but it was really close to it. He wanted to ask Fan Lin but he stopped when he heard Fan Lin.

" Capture his soul or it will escape" Fan Lin asked emotionlessly.

Yun Ming can only nod to that statement. He immediately went to capture the Infernal King, Harosha's soul. He was a half God/ Demi God and it was easier for him to do it.

He captured the soul of the Infernal King and sealed it in something pumpkin looking thing.

" How did you get this strong? Even your previous peak self was not this strong, if it was then you wouldn't need to waste that much time to get rid of the soul missiles." Asked Yun Ming as he wanted to know badly.

" What do you think I was doing in the past five months? Even though my body has just 85% recovered and my martial soul was around 70% with my three word battle armour at around 40% recovered. I was weak. Quite weaker than my past self. Overall I can just use 70% of my full power of my previous peak self.

" you said my soul energy wasn't dense enough. So I started working on it." Fan Lin said while showing him his soul energy. It was pure.

Fan Lin showed Yun Ming his soul energy.

" You, you, how did you do it? You soul energy is denser than mine. Around two times at that. You, are you really a Soul Douluo or are you hiding your strength? Did you take a spirit treasure to increase it?" Yun Ming's breathing became a little restless. The power he showed just now was enough to injure him. That was just a ten thousand year old ability. He was thinking about the words his wife said to him.

Should he kill him?

That thought came into his mind. But Fan Lin's next words disrupted his thoughts.

" You just asked me why I still follow the principles of people who are already not here with me , right? Well , those are the only things that are left of them. Those principles are the only remembrance of her; Of them; of us. Those principles are the proof that 'I' existed. That she existed. That all of them existed at some point some place, it is the proof of our times that we spent together with each other."

"Those principles, those habits were given or sometimes forced into me, they are the things that reminds me of them, of our oath and our relationships."

" She taught me to always care for innocents, to care for animals, to protect our precious things and to love. Even now, her memories still makes me happy."

"My leader taught me to stand against crime, to never back down, to never hurt innocents and to sacrifice when needed and many other things."

" My colleagues, well, they taught me a lot of things, be it cooking, painting, fighting and a lot of things. If I started counting then the whole night will not be enough to list all of them."

" I could have become far stronger than I am now if I ate spirit beast meat. I didn't need to train till I was bloodied as the spiritual meat would have helped to make the body stronger. I would have reached the Tilted Douluo level faster than that Infernal King Harosha. Yet I didn't."

"All my rings would have been red in colour if I slaughtered soul beasts to gain spirit energy. The strength I would had attained from it was more than enough to complete my goals but I didn't."

" I could have decided to destroy the Shrek city with Qiangu Dongfeng. The benefits he gave was more than enough to compensate me for. If I did, then you guys wouldn't even know how you died? There would have been no chance to send your students to sanctuary or to encase your future hope in a golden barrier. All of you would have died. But I didn't."

" I could have chosen to flee when Shrek city was attacked. I already knew teleportation, fleeing for me was child's play. There would have been no guilt, no shame, no remorse in me. Yet I didn't."

" I could have become an evil soul master, I already know a lot of ways to become one. My strength would have reached the top of the world in just a few years. Yet I didn't. What? You think my information network was that shallow, I have blackmailed even Qiangu Dongfeng once with it so knowing about a few evil soul master was an easy feat."

"I could have done all those, do you know why I didn't do them? My so called principles were getting in my way. I could have chose the easy way to become stronger but I am a fool. That's why I chose the hard way to become stronger."

"Many people who know about my situation will say that I am an idiot. but what's the point of living when you can't even look at your own eyes. When you are like a dog who has no shame, no pride, no values. That's just a living corpse. I don't want to be one of them."

"So you guys should encourage me to follow my principles, those are the only reason why you guys are still alive. Those are the only reason why I have not destroyed this planet. If they didn't exist or I stopped following them, then even your so called planar ruler won't be able to stop me."

" Because for now I am stronger than you. We can have a round off if you want to check, except you wouldn't be able to leave here alive. But I promise you I will make sure to keep at least a piece of your body to give to your wife. Wanna try, if you don't then stop thinking of killing me. Even if I have not reached spirit domain realm, I have an expertise in human nature."

Fan Lin said to the Atlas Douluo Yun Ming. He had already showed his strength and it really was not lower than Yun Ming's.

Yun Ming was regretting his actions. He, of all people knew that Fan Lin would do what he had said. His spirit domain was screaming to him.

" But well you have become more cheering than before. Did something happened." Regardless of how shocked he was, Yun Ming was a limit Douluo and controlling his emotions was easy to him. He asked this because Fan Lin was really more open than before.

" Well fourteen years are enough to let go of a lot of hatred and malice in a person. I have also let go of my past feelings. And I was acting distant because I was not strong enough at that time; strong enough to protect my loved ones if I began to like them." Fan Lin said to him normally like the previous conversation never happened.

" Oh, so do you have someone who you like. Someone who you want to marry."

"There is but I can't marry her again even if I want to."

" Well you can always choose someone else, there are many beautiful girls in this world, you should let go of her and live your life now. Even she would have wanted that."

" Yun Ming, I will rip your throat if you say one more thing about her. I do what I want to do. Any problem with it?"

"..."

" Fan Lin you are too overbearing, you should try something else at life also." Yun Ming said after a little thought. He was not scared of Fan Lin, but if something were to happen to him at this time then Wulin will have one less helper to help him. He didn't want to risk his life just to tease Fan Lin.