0189 - The Soul-Linked Artifact.

[Listen to me, Host,] the System responded calmly. [Every Soul Imprint Art we have from Lu Qing takes a part of the soul to create the Imprint. The pain is given and accepted by every Soul, Ghost, and Corpse Cultivator, so there is no painless one. What I have created is the most painless one.]

Lu Sheng was still fuming, but the System's logical explanation began to calm him down slightly. "Fine… but this better not be as bad as you're making it sound," he grumbled, his anger giving way to reluctant acceptance.

[Yes, I have made sure of it. Now that the bad part of it has been resolved, let's talk about the good part of it.]

Lu Sheng's eyes shined at the mention of a good part of the new Soul Slave art.

[This Soul Slave art when used as a Soul Imprint art will plant a small part of your soul as a seed, which will grow and become a full-fledged soul with its own free will, thoughts, dreams, and other soul-related things and yet fully under your control.]