[The empty energy she pulls out feels both like the primordial spirit of a soul having drunk of the soup before being reborn and like an endlessly malleable slice of primordial chaos. He leaned back, eyes going half-lidded. Genuinely just a touch surprised that she would offer one of the souls she ferried to him - washed as clean and without any stories as a freshly cut sheet of paper or not.
He was fairly certain he could 'convert it permanently' in much the same was as transferring energy gave power to be used to another. Use it to grow his power, however... He was a monster and as such, the sort of taboo methods of cultivation she was suggesting were not beyond him. But absorbing primordial spirits risked opening one's own to being manipulated by whatever remained of the spirit absorbed.
It did make him wonder if, in her world, she was not only an agent to ferry souls, but to cleanse them of their memories before sending them on - or if she cleansed them only to destroy them for their power.
Rather than answer her unstated question on if he could convert it permanently or not, he titled his head and asked one of his own:]
no subject
He was fairly certain he could 'convert it permanently' in much the same was as transferring energy gave power to be used to another. Use it to grow his power, however... He was a monster and as such, the sort of taboo methods of cultivation she was suggesting were not beyond him. But absorbing primordial spirits risked opening one's own to being manipulated by whatever remained of the spirit absorbed.
It did make him wonder if, in her world, she was not only an agent to ferry souls, but to cleanse them of their memories before sending them on - or if she cleansed them only to destroy them for their power.
Rather than answer her unstated question on if he could convert it permanently or not, he titled his head and asked one of his own:]
What sort of thing do you intend to build?