Dark Phoenix Prince

Chapter 56: Refining Soul Essence

Roux and Reva were shocked when they saw Alu actually put Varog's soul essence into his mouth.

Cultivating with soul essence?

First, because soul essence is very difficult to obtain, cultivating with soul essence is also rare for people to do.

However, that didn't mean there weren't any benefits to cultivating in a way of refining soul essence. In fact, the benefits are quite extraordinary for one's cultivation.

The soul essence may not be something that contains spiritual energy like other heavenly resources. But that is ultimately the essence of one's life. From someone's birth, their experiences, their comprehension, their joys and sorrows, everything is basically stored in the essence of the soul.

When one was refining soul essences, they were basically the same as absorbing one's life. The greatest benefit of doing that is getting enlightened.

Cultivating is not just about absorbing energy. One needs to comprehend the laws of the world and comprehend themselves to increase their cultivation.

And it's not something that can be done easily. A person needs an enlightenment to increase their comprehension.

Every time someone gets enlightened, their strength will also increase.

However, even though it had tremendous benefits, refining the soul essence also had its risks. It is not something that is easy to do.

Refining soul essence was the same as absorbing one's life, how could that be so easily done. Even if soul essence possessors were dead, their will would always exist with their soul essence.

Generally, those who wish to cultivate with soul essence would choose to use soul essence of beasts that lacks intelligence. Even though the beasts also had a will of their own, they were far weaker than the will of an intelligent being. Refining their soul essence was much easier.

As for refining the essence of the human soul?

Even if we don't talk about the risks, there are other things that need to be discussed first.

For humans, no matter what creature it is, they can eat it as long as it is not human. But to eat fellow humans, it was clearly a very taboo subject.

Refining the essence of the human soul which is the core of human life is of course much more taboo.

Those who do will be killed without a doubt. They are considered demons.

ALU may seem even scarier than a demon, but that is in the end just her violent personality. He is not a demon who eats his own fellow.

But now things are clearly different.

Alu put Varog's soul essence into his mouth. What else did he want other than refining it to increase his own strength.

Only now did they realize that the master they followed was really a demon who could do anything for his own gain.

But compared to Roux, Reva calmed down a lot faster. Regardless of what Alu did, the fanatical look in her eyes didn't diminish in the slightest.

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Whooss....

When Varog's soul essence entered his mouth, Alu's previously glowing eyes immediately turned dark.

An aura of hatred suddenly erupted from Alu's body.

That aura of hatred of course didn't come from Alu, but from the essence of Varog's soul that Alu had swallowed up.

With Varog's strength, he naturally couldn't control his soul essence, but his hatred that was too great before his death made his soul essence fill only with hatred. All of his life experiences seemed insignificant in front of his hatred.

And incidentally, that hatred is mostly focused on Alu.

When Varog's soul essence found him being engulfed by Alu, it naturally became much more berserk.

All of Varog's curses ring in Alu's mind. It even caused many images to flash across Alu's mind.

Alu felt as if he saw Varog's curse happen to him.

He saw a red spear piercing his heart, and when Alu saw the person holding the spear, he was not at all surprised. He even felt the pain. It wasn't the pain of being killed but the pain of being killed by a loved one.

It even caused Alu's expression to change.

But that only lasted a moment.

"Only this." Alu then said with an unsatisfied expression. "Looks like your curse is too weak."

If it was only Varog's soul essence, it was definitely not useful enough for Alu. From the start, what Alu wanted was Varog's hatred.

A soul of hatred, that's what Alu likes the most.

Unfortunately, even though Varog's hatred was immense, it was still not enough to influence Alu. Alu's mentality was too strong for Varog to influence him.

"Time to end it... Even if it's not very satisfying, it's still quite useful for me." Alu said one more time.

Of course, being able to change Alu's expression even if it was only for a moment was good enough.

Cry...

Phoenix's cry suddenly echoed from within Alu's body right after Alu spoke.

When that happened, Varog's aura quickly faded from within Alu's body.

Inside Alu's body, flames of black flames burned down Varog's soul essence. When all the hatred disappeared, it then sank into Alu's soul.

Refining soul essence was extremely difficult for others, but in front of Phoenix Alu's soul, all soul essences were as fragile as paper.

Alu then closed his eyes, and when Alu opened his eyes again, Alu's aura immediately increased a little.

Alu's cultivation increased until he reached the pinnacle of the first layer of the Life and Death stage. The spiritual source of Alu also jumped up to ten thousand spiritual sources.

"Well, it's still quite satisfying." Alu nodded as he felt his strength increase. "This at least saves a lot of my time... With this power, I can move more easily."

Thinking that, Alu couldn't help but remember his battle with Elizabeth.

"Hmph... If we meet again, I will accompany her to the end. We'll see who is the last one standing." Alu snorted.

After that, Alu then looked at Roux and Reva.

Thud...

When Alu was just looking at them, Reva suddenly dropped herself and bowed down to him.