61 Chapter 61 – Soul Integration

Zhu Xuan entered the portal, and appeared in a dark place.

Shen Long was waiting for him and he waved his hand and two chairs appeared. Shen Long suddenly changed from his light bulb form to the old man.

Zhu Xuan was astonished since this was the first time he is seeing Shen Long's true form, and also first time Shen Long is willing to speak to him face to face. He soon calmed himself and sat down making a decision that he should ask all his doubts and clarify everything since he was not sure whether he will come across this opportunity again.

He asked "Senior Long, I have few doubts I need to be clarified, I need to make plans for the future based on your answers."

Shen Long didn't speak and simply nodded, so Zhu Xuan continued "First and foremost, I think you already know my condition. Lei Shu Kingdom imperial family is trying to capture and kill me, and I'm sure everyone in the kingdom will also help them to capture me. My safest bet is to leave the kingdom and move to another kingdom, but I am not sure if my father had enemies there too and even if he is not, they will also probably try to capture me to gain the support of the central continent cultivators."

"Moreover, I at least know something about the situation in Lei Shu kingdom, but if I go to another kingdom I have to learn from scratch about everything in the kingdom; it will be a fresh start and it will take time for me to adjust and gain connections to join a sect. I can't afford to waste times since I want to get strong faster since now I have many powerful and unknown enemies."

"The thing I want to know is, I can use body transformation technique to change my body to someone else to stay in Lei Shu Kingdom, but I'm worried if my enemies have any other way to track me. Do you know anything about it?"

Shen Long nodded and answered "Yes, it is a bit of a problem. First you need to know, that your transformation is because of your bloodline and since the moment you transformed, your bloodline aura is released. There is also a way to track someone using the bloodline aura and I'm sure the people from the Lei Shu Kingdom will not have this method, but there is a very high chance that central continent cultivators from this world will have those methods and will track you down."

Zhu Xuan panicked "If that's the case, it is useless even if I suppress my cultivation aura, and they can search and find me from my bloodline aura anywhere in this world right?"

Even though it will take time for them to hear the news about him to come here to search for him, from what he learned they will definitely come for him.

He asked with worry "Senior Long, is there any way to conceal my bloodline aura?"

Shen Long calmly replied "Before answering your question, I need to tell few things about bloodline awakening to you first. Cultivators having hidden bloodline, even though is rare but not too rare of a thing. But you need to know of the ways to awaken your bloodline. There are few ways, one such example is you can awaken your bloodline by praying at the altar of your ancestors and once your bloodline ancestor accepted you as a true member of the clan your bloodline will awaken."

"Another method is you can use blood of a higher power to activate your bloodline. For example, let's say a cultivator has the bloodline of snake in your body, you can use a blood of flood dragon to awaken your bloodline and there is a possibility that person can improve his bloodline too, so most cultivators prefer this method."

Zhu Xuan nodded in understanding and Shen Long continued "But your awakening is a method that happens rarely. Your bloodline is activated by your emotional imbalance and your anger and need for power took control and activated your bloodline. And to answer your question, I have a way to solve your problem and conceal your bloodline."

Zhu Xuan was ecstatic at first but Shen Long's next sentence was like pouring a bucket of cold water in his head "The problem is with your way of awakening and I can't guarantee your bloodline will not awaken again by accident, and you might even get caught straight away by your enemy."

Zhu Xuan was worried and confused; he asked "What is the issue with my awakening method Senior?"

Shen Long spoke "It's not exactly the method of awakening; there is a lot of people I have seen awakening their bloodline through the same method and can also conceal their bloodline aura if they trained enough with their bloodline, but the problem with you is your emotional fluctuations."

Shen Long had a grim face and continued "Have you realized that your emotions are out of your control at times? I have been observing you and found your emotions are quite contradictory at times."

After hearing Shen Long, he also found issues about his emotions. For example, his unusual enmity towards Zhu Lang and the moment he awakened his bloodline also because he was angered by Zhu Lang. He shouldn't have been that emotional about Zhu Lang and also when Zhu Donglai expelled him from the clan, he felt disappointed, sad and angry. Also his closeness towards his aunt, like she is his only family member since the moment he met her.

He shouldn't have felt those feelings in the first place because he doesn't have anything to do with Zhu clan or them, only the predecessor of this body had known them since his childhood not himself.

At that point of thinking, he thought of a possibility and was shocked.

Looking at Zhu Xuan's shocked face, Shen Long answered "Looks like you guessed what happened. If I'm not wrong, you didn't replace the body predecessor's soul, but when he died you integrated his dissipating soul to yours and took his body."

"This situation is called Soul integration, which is an soul method practiced by evil cultivators to devour others soul and strengthen their own soul, but they lose their own self in the integration of various souls and become bloodthirsty killers. Even though you didn't intend this, I didn't expect this to happen to you and this will influence your emotions of both souls and cause mutual destruction."

Zhu Xuan was terrified that he will lose himself and now understood why he felt his consciousness getting fuzzy when he used his bloodline power; it is not because of his bloodline transformation but because of the issue with his soul.

Zhu Xuan looked at Shen Long with expectation. Shen Long answered "The problem those evil cultivators lose their mind due to Soul integration is because when the other soul is absorbed they are influenced by the anger of that soul for being killed mainly and the other strong emotions they had while living."

"Since you have only integrated with this body's predecessor's soul is an accident and it is only one soul you integrated, we have ways to solve it. First, if I'm not wrong, bloodline awakening is mainly because of the predecessor's anger towards Zhu Lang and craving for power to kill him, because he was killed because of Zhu Lang's plot. You have to kill that Zhu Lang if you want to keep your anger and the thirst for power in control."

Shen Long continued "Another method is you accept this predecessor's identity as completely yours and accept his soul and memory completely as one without losing your own. But, I feel that you should try this and also you have to kill Zhu Lang because of your special situation."

Zhu Xuan understood this point and nodded "His own emotion is already craving to get strong and powerful so that he can find a way to get back to Earth, now mix the emotion of this body's predecessor and you have a bloody big mess."

Shen Long saw that he understood and continued "I can seal your bloodline until you are strong enough to go against your enemies, but since your awakening is based on the emotions of craving for power and to kill Zhu Lang, if those emotions arose and go beyond a point the seal will not be able to control your emotions and you will be found out by your enemies."

So he has to try both methods, but killing Zhu Lang should be on the top of the list because the emotional imbalance of his anger and craving to gain power could really cause an issue for him.

He finally decided and said "Please seal the bloodline in my body Senior Long. I will work on controlling my emotions by accepting the other soul and also will try to find a method to reach Zhu Lang"

Shen Long nodded and said "Okay, I will seal your bloodline now but you have to relinquish your right for the reward for this mission. And I can also seal your bloodline in the future if you activated your bloodline but you should not know that every time you use your bloodline power, your bloodline gets stronger and it will get harder for me to seal it and you have to pay a higher price."

Then Shen Long spent half an hour to completely seal the bloodline and Zhu Xuan finally relaxed.

But what Shen Long didn't tell Zhu Xuan was that not every bloodline power increase every time they use it, and it only happens for Zhu Xuan because he has a royal bloodline.

Shen Long thought with a grim face "I really hope his bloodline isn't related to those bloodthirsty maniacs."