"That's the hundredth shot"
Xiao spoke as Li Lun once again missed to hit any of the birds flying in the sky, snorkeling them up, they were unhittable as they kept flashing around, nothing capable of hitting them, several of those birds dominated the sky,
'Looks will take some time'
Xiao thought, the reason she was mainly missing is due to the fact that Li Lun isn't adjusted to all the differences around her, right now she was just performing at 5% of her power, it's only when she's completely adjusted will she be able to even land a shot,
Li Lun spoke as she held her bow tighter, looking up at the birds her eyes narrowed after which she sat on the ground, and slowly she closed her eyes as she started to adjust herself to the world around her. While she did so Xiao didn't say anything as he sat some distance away from her, he was sure that they will be stuck here for some time hence all he can do is train a bit,
'I need to start the change'
Thinking so he too closed his eyes, his mind becoming entirely calm, while he activated a power that was granted to him as the prince of Death, the ability called,
Slowly Xiao's consciousness started to get blurry and less focused, while an intense chill filled his body, he felt his consciousness being pulled out and felt his whole soul quake, he felt a paper-thin resistance trying to stop his movement but that didn't even last for a second after which the resistance was destroyed.
Soon the pulling speed stopped and a few seconds later Xiao opened his eyes, coming to focus he could see that all around him is darkness, utter darkness, and seemingly floating around him were several souls, all of them calm and....dead.
The thing was the fact that all the souls had different colors, either, brown, silver, gold, or cyan, some were bright while others were barely lit but in the end, all of them felt dead, floating around in the infinite chamber of the limbo with their consciousness completely on shut down,
'Most of these souls are too powerful for me'
Xiao thought, while soul devoured is indeed a broken ability it also has its limitations, for one he couldn't swallow a soul too much powerful than him, that would just lead to him being swallowed, there's also the fact that he shouldn't be too greedy with his devouring, at his current level just one soul itself will take a long time for him to completely swallow.
After all, Xiao will be taking in the person's complete understanding, and everything the person knows will belong to him, with his current cultivation Xiao's processing capacity hasn't reached a level where he could take in all those understandings in a short time,
'Let's see, I guess I will take one for the World Spirit path'
Xiao raised his hand as he felt through all the souls spread around, here he felt at home, the place he is, is the dark limbo of souls, the place where all dead souls will first lay before they either enter the cycle of rebirth or be taken by the underworld were depending on their chosen karma they will enter one of the underworlds of the 21 lords.
Xiao's mind started to feel all the souls spread around, most of them seemed to be more powerful than him, hence he kept looking, it was only after an hour of searching did Xiao finally find a perfect soul for him, though he couldn't really tell the time, as time isn't an actual concept here and if Time even tried to put its concepts here Death would definitely kick its ass if Time even has one.
Thanks to his gift of soul reader Xiao's able to tell a lot about a soul with just one glance and being who he is, his control and power would almost reach omniscience when he's in the realm of death, being the prince of Death has its one or two perks,
'A World Spirit Transformation spirit master at its peak, one purely focused on the path of World Spirit masters'
Thinking till here Xiao's eyes flashed with amusement, everyone believes that in death all secrets shall be buried because its the best guarantee but in his case, it will be his nourishment and growth, the souls he takes will have several techniques and hidden moves which would be swallowed up by him.
His enemies even after death would be contributing to the growth of his power. Xiao took up the soul, it was a small wisp, unlike all the colorful souls floating around him, the soul in his hand was colorless, one without any achievements affecting the cosmos as a whole, the soul's like a colorless gas as it floated in his hand.
Slowly moving his finger the soul moved along with him, wrapping into a small colorless stone-like image, and with that Xiao took it up and placed it in his mouth and swallowed, the soul itself being completely destroyed and its main essence entering inside Xiao, he made it such that the personality and useless memories were destroyed while only the knowledge he needs is swallowed up by him.
Bit by bit information started to spread to him, each one more complex than the next, while an existence was completely removed from well......existence, did Xiao feel anything at this? if he was being truthful.......no.
The person he finished off wasn't his enemy, maybe he hadn't done anything to deserve something but so what? Xiao did what he had to do, if someone more powerful than him does the same to him, then so be it.
By now Xiao had stopped complaining about everything, perhaps at first he cried at the injustice he was facing but later on he came to live with it and move on, the powerful can do anything they want when they are in in the advantageous position, he took it as a fact and went along because Xiao knew that when he reaches such a power he would do the same,
'This is harder than I thought
Xiao grunted as he felt the enormous amount of information for him to swallow up, his whole being was engulfed by it as his soul tried to assimilate all the information it was taking it as it slowly got stronger. Xiao's mind fell into a trance, his body disappeared from the limbo and soon appeared back at his body.
A forced ripple spread out from his body as a blue light blasted out, information and understanding of the spirit realm filled Xiao, making his connection to it stronger, and a wider and humongous amount of spirit energy started to flow into him, causing his whole body to shudder, mystic blue light shined all around.
Li Lun who was concentrating was brought out of her thought as she turned to look at Xiao, her eyes widening at what she was seeing. She's no longer any lowly girl from the lower heavens, her mind is already fitted with several pieces of information letting her know what's taking place in front of her, this only caused her eyes to narrow as she felt Xiao moving too far away from her.
Li Lun turned around her eyes towards the birds in the sky, while her fighting spirit only rose higher and higher.