A figure was torn apart, and after a moment of distortion, it actually revealed a cold and beautiful face.
It was Celestia.
‘This is hilarious. Have you been beaten senseless? Do you even know what my relationship with her is before you try to use her face?’
Lin Hong sneered and shook his arm, directly shattering the figure.
By now, the other portion of his mental power had completely finished cleansing the physical body.
The roles of hunter and prey had switched; Lin Hong now held the home-field advantage.
“Go ahead, make a few more.”
Lin Hong used a killing technique specifically designed for the soul.
It swirled around his fingers as he repeatedly destroyed the figures popping up from all directions.
He could feel the Evil Priest growing desperate, constantly changing into the faces of various people to try and interfere.
In a sense, its goal was achieved—it gave Lin Hong a chance to kill to his heart’s content.
Lin Hong even visualized the faces of some of his old enemies and transmitted those images back.
Bang!
Lin Hong remained unmoved.
He shattered a phantom that had taken on Lovela’s appearance with a single palm strike.
“Have you even seen the real person? Look at this. Does it even look like her?”
The dark-red robed Evil Priest was both shocked and furious.
This bastard was toyed with him!
It felt its assimilation marks on the body being erased at some unknown point.
Now, this body had become a cage trapping it instead.
It couldn’t get out, and it couldn’t win the fight.
“Sir, I think we can talk… GAH!”
Before it could finish, the Evil Priest screamed.
It had been hit by a palm strike that looked light but was incredibly lethal, actually carving away a portion of its soul body!
“I’ll find out whatever I want to know myself. No need to talk,” Lin Hong sneered.
He continued to strike, weakening the opponent’s soul body with the intention of capturing it alive.
“Don’t push me! Don’t push me!” the Evil Priest growled.
It was terrified.
Even though this was only a portion of its soul, it truly felt death approaching.
Lin Hong sneered, not caring at all, treating it as nothing more than a stray dog’s barking.
The Evil Priest was anxious.
It couldn’t drag this out any longer.
This mysterious young man’s methods were too vicious; he was shaving away the essence of this soul fragment.
Clearly, he wanted to capture it alive!
It was a believer under the command of the Holy God of the “Feast Hall”!
How could it allow itself to become a prisoner?
Bang!
It took another hit.
The Evil Priest staggered back, its soul body already so faint it was nearly transparent.
It couldn’t wait anymore!
The Evil Priest steeled its heart, and its soul body suddenly began to collapse inward.
It wanted to self-detonate; it would never allow itself to fall into the enemy’s hands!
“Forbidden.”
In the next instant, following a low whisper, the Evil Priest was stunned.
It was actually immobilized, and its self-detonation was forcibly suppressed!
“Don’t be in such a hurry to blow up. It won’t be too late to do that after you let me understand a few things.”
Lin Hong mocked.
The spirit sea resonated, turning into invisible shackles that bound the soul fragment he had weakened.
He prepared to extend his spirit and perform a soul search.
“Hmm?”
In the next moment, he paused and looked up.
He sensed an unfamiliar energy about to enter the body, carrying an investigative nature.
Presumably, they had reached their destination, and a professional outside was conducting an examination and treatment.
Lin Hong clicked his tongue.
He immediately circulated his mental energy to camouflage himself, emitting weak fluctuations.
“Despicable!” the bound cultist cursed.
It was furious, clearly making the connection to how it had been tricked by this same tactic earlier.
In the end, it had been caught like a fish.
Now, it was filled with regret and resentment.
Lin Hong glanced at it without a word.
He pointed his fingers like a sword and made a light horizontal stroke.
With a psh, the dark-red soul body couldn’t even manage a scream.
Its consciousness was sealed, and a secret mental power invaded its soul body.
It no longer shaved away its essence, but it brought a terrifying sense of erosion that was agonizingly painful.
“What are you babbling about? Stop distracting me while I’m busy.”
Lin Hong was cold, maintaining his camouflage to deal with the outside world.
Soon, after the investigative energy circulated through the entire body once, it withdrew.
It was replaced by another gentle energy that wrapped around the physical body, providing a healing effect.
Shortly after, the outside world became quiet.
The feeling of being moved vanished.
The body was no longer surrounded by people and seemed to have been placed in a quiet location.
Lin Hong didn’t waste any time.
He immediately began the soul search, using the most direct and brutal method.
He didn’t care about what damage it would cause; he only wanted the information he desired.
“The main body isn’t in the city, but there is a soul clone at…”
“Lovela is also part of the capture plan. The goal is to retaliate against those two…”
“There’s also a hidden base…”
Lin Hong muttered to himself as he processed the various pieces of information.
Originally, he had planned to destroy this soul fragment after getting the information he wanted.
Now, it seemed he would have to change his mind for the time being.
If this soul fragment were destroyed, the other soul clone in the city would know immediately and might go into hiding or flee.
However, unlike this pure soul fragment, the other clone in the city had a physical vessel, so its combat power would be significantly higher than a simple soul fragment.
‘I’ll rest for a day or two to recover my cultivation, and then I’ll go kill that one as well.’
Lin Hong made his decision.
‘It feels like I suddenly have a lot more to do.’
[Fate Points +100. Current Fate Point balance: 100 points.]
“?”
Lin Hong was stunned.
He quickly went to check, thinking he had accidentally killed the thing.
Fortunately, he hadn’t.
Although the soul fragment was currently in a pathetic state, it was indeed still alive, clinging to its last breath.
‘Didn’t you say I’d only get the reward for slaying the spiritual body? This thing isn’t dead yet.’
Lin Hong felt relieved and asked within his consciousness.
At the same time, he tapped his finger.
A mental rune flew out and entered the soul body, sealing it so that even its last bits of fluctuation vanished.
[Detection: The Evil Priest spiritual body is extremely weak. Status: Unknown.]
[Status unknown means it is dead.]
Lin Hong was speechless.
“Anyway, back to the main topic. Can you explain what Fate Points are used for?”
The mysterious panel went silent for a short while, as if searching.
Then, new words slowly appeared on the panel, along with images.
Lin Hong browsed through them quickly.
The so-called Fate Points had quite a few functions.
They could provide the coordinates of an abandoned alchemy workshop in the Imperial Capital, or offer certain medicinal liquids for tempering the body.
They could even directly increase this body’s affinity for various elements—in other words, its talent.
‘I’m becoming more and more curious about your origins. Providing locations is one thing, but you can even buy physical items and increase talent. Just what kind of existence are you? Could it be that you’re connected to some mysterious space?’
Lin Hong teased while skimming through the entries.
Different functions on the panel had different costs.
Generally speaking, 100 Fate Points was very little.
Among the things he could buy, many were useful for young Evan’s body, but none were useful for Lin Hong himself.
‘Then let’s just raise this kid’s magic affinity a bit. Let’s go with the fire element. That’ll use up everything… Wait, what is this.’
Lin Hong casually chose something useful for the body, considering it a favor returned to young Evan.
In the next second, the mysterious panel actually changed.
What had been only a few simple lines of text suddenly became complex.
Name: Evan Wayne
Race: Human
Elemental Affinity: Fire (D), others all (E)
Magic or Martial Art tendency…
“Alright, alright. Close it.”
Lin Hong glanced at it twice and lost interest.
He really didn’t have the patience to keep reading, so he waved his hand to turn the screen off.
He possessed various laws and techniques of his own and felt they were sufficient for now.
He didn’t need what was offered on the panel for the time being; spending the Fate Points was purely to improve young Evan’s talent.
“Hey, Xiao Er,” Lin Hong said lazily, giving the mysterious panel a nickname for himself.
“Earlier, when that thing invaded, you didn’t seem so calm anymore. You seemed to carry a grudge and even added an extra fifty Fate Points. Could it be that you have a history with them?”
Lin Hong waved his hand, bringing the Evil Priest soul fragment that was sealed by the mental rune over to wave it in front of the mysterious panel.
The mysterious panel remained silent.
It felt like it was keeping its mouth tightly shut, refusing to speak no matter what.
Lin Hong didn’t mind and didn’t press further.
He said to himself, “It seems we’re on the same side for now. I have a blood feud with the Evil God race behind these cultists. I can’t wait to wash that entire race away in blood.”
“You are shrouded in many mysteries, and your origins seem extraordinary. You even seem to know where I came from. But I won’t ask about any of that.”
“Just use your mysterious abilities to point out the Evil Race to me—or ‘Evil God followers,’ as you call them in this world.”
“Find their locations for me. I will kill my way through them from the lowest to the highest, until every last one of those so-called Evil Gods is dead.”
After all, slaying the Evil Race was his old profession.
He had specialized in doing exactly that in his home universe.
The mysterious panel remained silent.
Just as Lin Hong thought it was going to continue playing dead, a new line of text slowly appeared: [Understood, Host.]
Lin Hong grinned.
He felt more and more that this thing was not a lifeless object; it definitely possessed a consciousness and was likely a living being.
Although they both had many secrets, he didn’t care.
As long as the panel also hated the Evil Race and wanted them dead, they would be friends forever.
He didn’t linger any longer.
His mind slowly floated upward, returning to his control over the physical body.
In the next instant, Lin Hong’s muscles tensed immediately, and alarm bells rang in his heart.
Without him realizing it, someone was standing right next to him!