Crime Prison Island-Chapter 1319 - 646: Soul Coffin

Seeing Cangyue appear again, everyone was overwhelmed with joy.

To be honest, seeing him resurrect again, his own people were not very shocked, somewhat desensitized.

However, Themis was really stunned, quite bewildered.

"A free soul dies without a home; how can you still be alive?"

"Could it be that Tai Sui's understanding is wrong?"

"Or perhaps he didn't completely separate you from the Great Saint Spirit?"

Cangyue chuckled lightly, "Guess what?"

He kept them guessing, his surging Light Mist body continuously compressed and shrunk.

This emptied the material cloud within hundreds of kilometers around, forming a vacuum area.

"You won't say, then killing you again will reveal the truth."

Themis snorted lightly, locked in combat with Mo Cang and could only send a mischievous sprite towards Cangyue.

Cangyue was still condensing his body, countless atoms precisely arranged.

Although his body was already strong now, it was truly insufficient against a Blazing Heaven level opponent.

"Tsk, I can't condense a White Star Body, Luo Yan, do you have any Silver White Essence left?"

Cangyue detected the problem and urgently requested the highest product of today's life sciences.

"Yes! Yes!" Luo Yan said without hesitation and released a large amount of Silver White Essence from an Emperor's Artifact into Cangyue's body.

Cangyue's body suddenly emitted a stronger power, forming a strong Gravity Field collapsing onto itself.

He was regaining his strength.

But time wasn't on his side.

The mischievous sprite moved incredibly fast, supported by the Burning Star Force Field, its power overwhelming.

"Stop him!" Everyone was almost exhausted but still pressed forward bravely, together trying to block the sprite.

Unfortunately, there was simply too large a gap in hard strength.

This sprite, although only an avatar of Themis, also had Quasi-Emperor combat power!

No number of Blazing Heaven strong persons could face it.

"Boom!"

The group was like dust being blown away, only Yak, Milan, and a few others barely withstood a hit, shielding everyone from potentially fatal damage.

However, the sprite's offensive came in waves.

Seeing everyone about to fall, Cangyue was helpless and had to stop regaining strength.

At this moment, he was not at his combat power before death, merely Titan Super Divine level, actually, not even as strong as Milan.

Yet, he decisively charged up and engaged the sprite head-on.

Fighting desperately, he absorbed the vast energy cleanly, protecting everyone.

"Swoosh!"

Then the sprite struck again, blowing Cangyue apart, reducing him to nothing once more!

"Huh?"

"Cangyue!"

Everyone was stunned, Cangyue had just resurrected, his body not tough enough and was instantly killed again.

For a moment, they didn't know whether to feel sad or not.

But, having experienced previous events, they were not panicking.

Sure enough, not long after, a cloud of matter in the explosive firelight moved on its own again, forming Cangyue's Three-eyed Divine Race Light Mist body.

"You can resurrect infinitely?" Everyone was shocked.

Themis was also astounded because the situation just now he saw clearly.

Just a mass of hydrogen elements unrelated to anyone, coming to life out of thin air, self-reorganizing, and then forming Life Light Mist, coalescing into the Three-eyed Divine Race.

This was simply outrageous.

Any super-speed regeneration at least required it to be active material, the basic life structure of one's self not completely destroyed.

Then, those life factors self-aggregate, divide, and regenerate.

But Cangyue, this time, directly resurrected from a mass of naturally dead matter.

It's like an invisible soul parasitically manipulating this dead matter.

But how is this possible?

"How did you do it?"

"No... I got it, is this the ability of a free soul?"

"This is the inherent trait after a soul separates from the Great Saint Spirit independently!"

The past souls had to reside in living beings. Yet a free soul is unbound! Dead matter can be parasitized!"

Themis was quite perceptive; he did figure it out.

Others also suddenly realized what set the current Cangyue apart from before was that he was now an independent soul.

Dead matter forming a body, this likely was the effect of the free soul.

Cangyue laughed heartily, "That's right, Gao Xin said a free soul completely disappears after death, and that's not wrong."

"The mistake lies in the definition of 'death' being different now."

"For a free soul, losing the physical body is not death."

"After all, we are in six dimensions, even without any material, only the Spiritual Body remains—we're still alive, right?"

"Only soul annihilation is true death, and when even the soul is annihilated, with no next destination, it naturally completely disappears from the Universe."

"However, can you truly annihilate my soul?"

"Mere physical attacks won't kill me!"

"Now, we are the ghosts of this world!"

Everyone was overjoyed, that's how it is.

Yes, the definition of death varies for different levels of beings.

Ordinary humans die when losing heads or having heart damage, while Elephant Level doesn't fear losing the heart, and Dragon Level doesn't mind the body being blown apart—as long as one cell remains, they can live.

Subsequent Divine Level, Super Divine Level all go further, achieving molecular and even atomic level regeneration.

Only if atomic level genes containing Life Force aren't completely destroyed can they regroup.

Of course, it is limited to atoms; atomic level regeneration is the ultimate limit.

This is the limit of life, it can't be any closer, even someone as genetically complex as Gao Xin, with electron level and quantum mystery-like genes, can't evolve into a neutron star body.

Because neutron star material is formed by compressing all electrons into atomic nuclei, even the so-called OG radiation type genes are gone at this strength.

So far, no one has achieved a neutron battle body on their own; Gao Xin only managed it by merging with Joshua, and he paid the price of his life for it... indicating that he crossed the bottom line of living beings.

But now, Gao Xin has pioneered an unprecedented 'free soul.'

He severed the connection between the soul and the Great Saint Spirit, making it independent.

This led to their souls not needing to adhere to the reincarnation laws of the Great Saint Spirit, thus transcending the cycle.

The rule that 'souls can only enter the structure of life' is not the essential rule of souls, but established by the Great Saint Spirit.

After all, there is a known soul that does not comply with this rule, which is the Great Saint Spirit itself.

The Great Saint Spirit existed even before the birth of the universe, where were any life forms then? There wasn't even a universe.

It was the Great Saint Spirit that decreed reincarnation spirits could only reside within life structures.

But what does this have to do with their free souls? They are all independent now, it's an outdated sword from the past!

The free soul is truly free.

Except for being not as vast and multi-dimensional as the Great Saint Spirit, their other properties are the same as the Great Saint Spirit; they can exist independently without a material basis, self-existing.

"So you're saying, the tens of billions who died before aren't really dead?"

"But why are you the only one who resurrected? Where are the others?"

Mo Cang was overjoyed, the madness that once consumed him now fading.

Countless people didn't truly die; their souls still exist, meaning his dream still has a chance to be realized.

Cangyue said, "After I died... to be precise, after my body disintegrated, my consciousness did not cease."

"I felt like I was in an endless void, nothing there, nothing to do."

"The only thing I could do was think, as if trapped in an infinite coffin."

"I think the others are in the same state now, aren't they?"

"These souls, although they don't die, can think without limit, remember limitlessly, requiring no physical support."

"But it's also like being imprisoned, senseless, actionless, a soul coffin of sorts."

Everyone's joy vanished; indeed, though a soul can keep thinking if it doesn't die, all it can do is think.

Senseless, trapped in nothingness, eternal undeath becomes a torment instead.

"So how did you come back to life?"

Cangyue explained, "Because I thought of Gao Xin, and after crossing the bottom line of living beings, defined myself as still alive."

"So when I realized I'd be thinking eternally in the dark void, I struggled madly, self-hypnotizing to bring myself back to life."

"Unfortunately, I can't perfectly control my heart like Gao Xin; that heart power, I could never master."

"But, after all, I am the God of Creation, my divinity remains."

"In my attempts, I still found another way of creation."

Everyone marveled, ah, it had to be Cangyue.

The legendary Killing Resistance King, when countless fell into the same trap as him, found ways when others couldn't.

It was like with the Soul Lighthouse in the past, and now again.

Of course, Cangyue spoke vaguely, not directly naming that method.

Everyone understood his concerns; he didn't want Themis to know.

"Cangyue, you have to tell us, so that when we lose our bodies we can also reconstruct and resurrect."

"Share the method with us using spiritual power."

Luo Yan said, asking Cangyue to use spiritual power to speak.

However, Cangyue frowned, "Themis, that guy, also knows spiritual power. I felt it."

"What?" Everyone was taken aback. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

Themis smiled, "I'm not a free soul, why wouldn't I dare to know?"

Cangyue said coldly, "Hmph, if you know, then Emperor Ran will know again."

"This Magic Gate, I won't tell any AI."

"Really..." Themis's face darkened, aching with curiosity.

What a pure seeker of knowledge he was, yet here lies a secret about souls right before him, known yet unknown, truly painful.

"Hmph, if you don't say it, your teammates who died can't resurrect."

"To guard against me, would you rather let others be trapped in dark voids, their souls struggling in torment?"

Themis spoke, intensifying his force to fight Mo Cang.

Because he knew human souls hadn't disappeared, Mo Cang's previous frenzy dissipated.

Plus, his Boluo Ge Second Stage wasn't lasting, as it was life-burning, temporarily stepping into Void Emperor.

In contrast, Themis grew stronger with each battle, having fully adapted to Force Field Life, the speed of force field changes increasing too.

"I'll kill you first!"

Themis struck with deadly blows, no longer laughing unduly.

Mo Cang soon couldn't hold on, on the brink of falling.

"Old Demon!" Cangyue was anxious but couldn't help him.

They were also in dire straits, the Mischief enough to suppress everyone else alone.

At the critical moment, a massive vacuum bubble abruptly arrived, dissipating Themis's killing blow.

"Joshua!" Themis looked arrogantly at the newcomer.

It was Joshua who came, four heads clamped under his arms, slowly arriving.

"Themis, your opponent is me!" Joshua said proudly.

Themis shook his head, "Is that so? You're no longer my match."

He easily avoided the vacuum bubble, biological field circumventing Joshua, light speed slash!

"What!"

Joshua arrived arrogantly, quickly subdued.

He, the strongest high-level apostle, was out of date.

Themis, this Quasi-Emperor, defeated even Mo Cang, let alone Joshua?

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