Chapter 7 Yin Stones and Lost Ghosts
In the Dead World, in addition to cities of all sizes and levels, each city also has many villages under its jurisdiction.
Villages are mainly responsible for planting, but they naturally do not plant plant crops like the living world. All kinds of ordinary foods in the soul world can be directly transformed with yin energy and do not need to be planted.
Each city will arrange some special magic arrays in areas with rich yin energy around it. In these special magic arrays, stones of a specific material are buried underground. After a few years of excavation, the original stones will become yin stones.
Yin stone is rich in Yin Qi and has many functions. It is regarded as a widely circulated high-value currency.
These Yin stones require special people to collect some surrounding Yin Qi and pour it into their buried location every day. If no one takes care of them for a long time, the quality may be reduced or even directly damaged, resulting in the previous hard work being invalidated.
When the Yin stone is approaching the period when it can be unearthed, there is a certain chance of attracting some evil spirits who are confused or destroyed for various reasons.
This kind of evil ghost is generally in the middle and high stages of the soul life period. Most of the farmers who are responsible for planting and raising yin stones are responsible for being ghosts who have just awakened their souls. They have no problem protecting themselves because of the protective coffin left by urban managers. The yin stones are located underground and are protected by special magic circles. However, these farmers cannot take out the yin stones underground under the attack of the evil ghosts.
This short-term problem is not a big problem, but once the Yin stone is damaged due to insufficient Yin energy, these people cannot afford it. Therefore, the old people who manage the village can only send people to Hechuan City to ask for help when the evil ghost is away.
Wu Sheng’s own strength may not be as high as those farmers who grow yin stones. If Lu Chengxuan had not helped, he might have to find an errand to plant yin stones. Now Lu Chengxuan guarantees and helps him with this task, the result is naturally different. The two of them rushed there directly along the official road of Hechuan City and under the guidance of the Tongyuan Village Roadmap.
The outside areas of the city in the Dead Soul Realm are not as peaceful as those in cities. Generally, it is easy to die if you have the strength of Wu Sheng. However, each city has its own official roads, and the security level on the official roads is much higher. With Lu Chengxuan's escort, Wu Sheng was not very afraid.
Humans are one of the most adaptable creatures, and this adaptation is not only reflected in the physical body, but also in the spiritual state.
Although Wu Sheng has not been in such a terrifying and weird environment as the Dead Soul Realm, he has adapted to it in concept. At least he will not be at the highest level of the novice's "fear suppression state" as he did at the beginning.
I believe that in no time, even without this "fear suppression" effect, Wu Sheng can still move normally in the soul world.
This is also impossible. According to his "Brief Manual of the World of Domination", the welfare state of the novice - fear suppression, will disappear as long as you leave this world. If you don't hurry up and adapt, you will die next time you come in because of fear, but it will be too worth it.
On the official road, while the two of them were walking, Lu Chengxuan also taught Wu Sheng the general way of moving ghosts in this world.
In the realm of the dead, ghosts are not new people, so they have a special way of moving when they are on the road - floating.
Just like the ghost in the legend of Wu Sheng’s original world, ghosts in the dead soul world can do no movements and control themselves to move quickly based on their thoughts. This method is much faster than walking like a living person. It only takes some time to learn and consume some of their own yin energy.
It was not until the boundary of Tongyuan Village that Wu Sheng learned this fast movement method, but it still needed a lot of practice in the future. He floated up a little bit intermittently now. Walking is a mark that is rooted in the depths of the mind. It is normal for a sudden change to be difficult to adapt. Wu Sheng's learning speed is already considered good. He has always been good at accepting new things.
Tongyuan Village is relatively close to Hechuan City among the villages, but the two set out early in the morning and arrived just in the evening.
The two turned right from a small branch on the official road, and soon they saw many Tongyuan villages surrounded by ghost locust trees. The village was not large in size, with only dozens of simple houses transformed from coffins leaning against each other, and surrounded a piece of open space in the middle.
The open space in the middle must be a place where the old Yin Qi is buried with Yin stones. Lu Chengxuan and Wu Sheng came to see the evil ghost mentioned in the mission letter lingering in the open space.
Instead of going up to fight with the evil ghost immediately, Lu Chengxuan pulled Wu Sheng to observe behind a tall ghost locust tree, and explained some information he knew to him: "Remember, there are many kinds of evil ghosts. Various powerful obsessions when a person dies can transform his soul into an evil ghost."
After saying that, he pointed to the evil ghost on the Yin Qi Land, and then said: "This evil ghost looks weird and ugly all over. Many of his body parts appear to be seriously damaged, and many extra body parts have grown. It is obvious that he is a relatively low-level 'soul-loss ghost' among the evil ghosts."
Wu Sheng kept staring at the evil ghost. Many parts of the evil ghost's body showed a state of lack of flesh and blood. You can see many organs in its body at a glance. The evil ghost had one missing eye, and half of the nose was bitten by some unknown thing, leaving two holes. It was not like a normal soul, but had five arms and three thighs.
These eight limbs are not all helpful, because some of them have only half of their arms left, and they are not growing on both sides of their bodies, and on the front and back of their chests.
"The soul-lost ghost is a ghost that loses some of its conscious souls for various reasons. This soul-lost ghost looks quite terrifying, but in fact it should have lost more original souls, which leads to act entirely on the remaining instincts and integrates some wandering souls or conscious ghosts. The extra parts of his body not only do not increase its combat power, but are some burdens, and their overall strength should not be strong."
"You will lure it here later. This kind of soulless ghost who acts too much by instinct cannot move in the way the ghost floats. If you escape in the way I teach you on the road, it will not catch up with you at all. This is a test I have given you." After Lu Chengxuan said that, he patted Wu Sheng on the shoulder and looked at him with a serious expression.
Wu Sheng didn't think there was any complaint. Lu Chengxuan helped him get his identity as [Slave], so that he could grow up quickly. In a world like the soul world with huge opportunities, growing too slowly may lead to death in the cradle stage. No matter how much potential it has, it would be useless.
Now he just has the chance to participate in the battle, especially his opponent is still such a hateful ghost. It is a chance for him, a combat opportunity that he would not have at all when he was an ordinary person.
So he nodded at Lu Chengxuan, but Wu Sheng did not rush forward immediately, but tried the ghost's floating method a few times on the spot, and then walked out from behind the ghost locust after he was ready.
It had already reacted two or three feet away from the soul-lossing ghost. The soul-lossing ghost suddenly turned his head and let out a hoarse roar towards the position where Wu Sheng was. Only then did Wu Sheng realize that its remaining left eye was also covered in abscessed yellowish yellow, which was obviously completely useless.
However, ghosts do not only rely on their eyes to observe things. As souls, all ghosts are born with the ability to perceive the surroundings and transform them into visual images. Wu Sheng has entered the perception range of this soul-losing ghost.
The moment the soul-lossing ghost sensed Wu Sheng, it instantly completed the action of turning its head and roaring. In the blink of an eye, its terrifying and disgusting face had already arrived in front of Wu Sheng. Wu Sheng hurriedly controlled his mind and tried his best to eliminate the fear of sudden rise. The moment the soul-lossing ghost pounced over, he controlled his body to drift out of the original place with his mind.
The ghost lost his attack, and his five arms and three thighs cooperated with each other and began to chase in a strange semi-crawling position. Wu Sheng did his best to concentrate his mind and control the drift without interruption. He did not want to merge with the ugly and disgusting ghost behind him.
Whether it is a wandering soul that seems to be a machine or a ghost that is consciously like a living person, evil ghosts like the soul-lossing ghosts are closer to wild beasts, and almost only have killing instincts left. The more this kind of monster is, the more terrifying it is for a newcomer like Wu Sheng. For ordinary people, who are not afraid of being chased by tigers and lions, let alone this soul-lossing ghost who is much more terrifying than tigers and lions.
Fortunately, Wu Sheng had seen all kinds of strange things in the Dead Soul Realm, and coupled with the fear suppression effect of the novice's welfare state, although he was also afraid, it did not affect the drifting and escaping.
Wu Sheng led the ghost to the place he and Lu Chengxuan had agreed on before in less than a minute. Lu Chengxuan did not stop there, and Wu Sheng did not see where he was.
However, Wu Sheng was not panicked and still lured the ghost to the ghost locust tree as planned.
As soon as he passed by Guihuai, he heard a shout at the end of the spell chanting from his right hand: "Lord---Nether Cage, explode!"
Wu Sheng subconsciously looked back and saw that the soul-loss who had been chasing him had been bound in place by dense black thick smoke-like thin lines. Then the thin lines suddenly became infiltrated into the soul-loss. When all the black lines penetrated into the soul-loss' body, the soul-loss' entire body suddenly burst.
There was no splash of limbs, and the ghost turned into a surging black mist, floating towards Lu Chengxuan, who was standing behind another tall ghost locust tree.
Lu Chengxuan clasped a translucent crystal ball the size of three or four fists in his hands. The black mist turned into by the soul-lossing ghost was sucked into it in the blink of an eye, and merged into a ball with the black mist that was originally surging in the crystal ball.
Chapter completed!