Chapter 436: Soul Extraction
Xiling Jiangkun gradually woke up.
He felt as if he had a dream, a very long, distant dream. He opened his eyes, and there was a world completely unfamiliar in front of him, and his brain could no longer tell if he was awake or still in a dream.
The world is blue, a strange blue. There is no heaven and no earth, and the whole world is like a circular space, oppressive and gloomy.
Gradually, the blue world began to change. It seems that someone is using a paintbrush to add color to the world simply and crudely.
Xiling Jiangkun saw that there was a cypress-like plant in front of him, but its appearance became very distorted, like a black tongue of fire, straight up to the clouds. When I looked up, the blue sky began to change.
The texture of the "sky" is like a swirling nebula, everything concrete and abstract. Everything in this world is like the world drawn by a babbling child on blue paper with crayons. "Am I in the painting?" Xiling Jiangkun had such a strange idea for some reason.
More and more colors are starting to appear, and they construct many things that can be encountered in real life, but at the same time produce unique distortions.
The beating greens form mountain range after mountain. On top of a hill, a house seems to have appeared. The house is triangular, slender and sharp. Its spiky roof stretched uneasily into the sky, everything swirling and shaking......
Or maybe all this didn't turn, but Xiling Jiangkun stood in place and kept playing in circles.
Everything is intertwined with long curved lines and broken short lines, and the whole picture is dazzling and fantastical. The nebula in the sky was like a fiery fireball, emitting a halo of short, rapid yellow lines. It's a restless sky, it's a restless world.
“…… Xiling ...... Jiang Kun ......: "Someone seems to be shouting his name. Xiling Jiangkun heard it, but he didn't dare to be sure. For the voice seemed to come from the distant past, through the long centuries, and then hovered in his ears, far and near. As if it were my own imagination, maybe the voice didn't exist.
"Xiling...... Jiang Kun...... You are...... How...... ......" voice continued to appear in my ears. I couldn't tell whose voice it was. Because Xiling Jiangkun felt that it seemed to be a mixture of the voices of many people, but he could be sure that this was a person speaking. The whole world is so chaotic.
Suddenly, the picture in front of me changed again. The black sharp lines slowly formed a black shadow, which was the appearance of a human being, but it was like an ink painting, full of freehand, and the black shadow was gradually approaching itself.
The sharp lines that make up the black shadow are also constantly twitching and writhing.
The writhing black shadow was getting closer and closer to Xiling Jiangkun, getting closer and closer...... Xiling Jiangkun can already see that the black shadow that was originally just constructed with black lines has gradually gained several colors. The rough pale brown lines outline the dark shadow's facial features, but those facial features are also distorted, like the graffiti of a child who can't draw.
Underneath the slender lines that can be called eyes, there is an irregular pattern, perhaps called a circle, that is closing one by one. Is that his mouth?
"Xiling...... Jiang Kun...... ...... Middle...... Poisoned...... ......" The voice came again, but not as far away as before. It's just that the sound is also like a beating line, turning into a wavy line, pouring into Xiling Jiangkun's ears.
"What the hell am I......" Xiling Jiangkun shook his head, this world is too unreasonable, even the Netherworld should not be like this. He deceived himself and closed his eyes, "Maybe close your eyes and open them again after a while, and everything will be normal, right?" Xiling Jiangkun comforted himself.
“……”
"Why did Xiling Jiangkun close his eyes?" Ye Xuesong pinched his chin and stared at Xiling Jiangkun with his eyes.
Xiling Jiangkun in front of him closed his eyes, but his brows were deeply furrowed.
"Maybe in Xiling Jiangkun's view, you are bizarre and abstract now. Nangong Fei staggered over, and when she saw Xiling Jiangkun's appearance, she couldn't help but smile lightly. "But I'm not going to help him detoxify. Maybe he's been poisoned a little longer and says no
It is determined that there will be a great painter of abstraction in the entire Zhiyuan Academy. ”
"I've heard that if you are poisoned by the poison frog of the blood arrow, the whole person will have a hallucinogenic effect. Therefore, once many people are poisoned, they will be like crazy, saying crazy things that ordinary people can't understand, such as seeing people melt and houses being sucked away by the sky. But Xiling Jiangkun, he seems to be very calm......" Ye Xuesong said beside him.
"Calm down, then you are too optimistic about him, how can he be so powerful. I guess he didn't move, his eyes closed, probably stupefied by the sight in front of him. But I'm really a little curious, what do you say we will be like in the eyes of Xiling Jiangkun?" Nangong Fei still maintained her usual ladylike smile.
"......" Although Xiling Jiangkun closed his eyes, he could still hear others. Although their voices are weird and distorted, at least the content does not change. So Xiling Jiangkun has already understood that he should have been poisoned by the blood arrow poison frog...... That's why the world in front of me has become so weird......
With a sudden, Xiling Jiangkun opened his eyes. However, he was almost stupefied by what he saw.
In front of him appeared two matchstick-like figures, with elongated bodies and large heads. With such body proportions, it is simply not like a creature that would appear in this world.
At the same time, although their heads are extremely large, their facial features are twisted in the middle like sesame dots, which is really a scene that has never been seen in nightmares. In addition, behind the two stickmen, there are huge creatures like a house.
The giant creature was writhing its body, as if it was about to lunge at itself.
"Hell!!" Xiling Jiangkun shouted, exerting all his strength, even though it was within the plane where the spiritual power was suppressed, he still forcibly lifted the spiritual energy in his body, and suddenly struck forward.
Ye Xuesong and Nangong Fei, when they heard Xiling Jiangkun's sentence "Ghost", their faces were full of black lines, and they saw a layer of white smoke rising from Xiling Jiangkun's body.
And Xiling Jiangkun, who was surrounded by this white smoke, had a pale face and a distorted expression, and was rushing towards the two of them desperately.
"Painful, painful, painful ......!" Xiling Jiangkun screamed weakly, and fell to his knees. The pain came from all directions, and the body ached so much that it was impossible to help itself, as if the brain could only feel the pain, not even think.
And in front of his eyes, the two stickmen with huge heads on their heads forcibly grabbed him.
"Why...... Isn't it a practical course...... Why are you sending aliens to catch me......"
"What is he talking nonsense?" Ye Xuesong pulled Xiling Jiangkun's arm, and he was eager to step on it now.
"Poisoned, of course gibberish. Nangong Fei didn't care, but she continued, "Did you see the smoke that rose just now, he forcibly mentioned the aura, but in this face, forcibly mentioning the aura will cause backlash." In addition, he was poisoned by the poison frog of the blood arrows......"
Nangong Fei shook her head, "It is estimated that he will soon be unconscious." Speaking of which, this practical course was really troublesome. That Ye Shuo didn't know where he was pulled by Gongsun Zhiqi, and now he found Xiling Jiangkun, but he was this virtuous. Why don't you just eat it as food? ”
“…… Practical course ...... I...... Can't I join it......" In the end, Xiling Jiangkun's head sank suddenly with these words, and the whole person fell down. Sure enough, as Nangong Fei said, his eyes rolled and he fainted.
In front of the cabin on the other side, Gongsun Zhiqi was on the verge of collapse.
"Actually, I think I still look good in women's clothes~" Ye Jingyan was wearing a pink skirt, and the skirt was decorated with dotted patterns, which was very good-looking.
This is Gongsun Zhiqi's favorite set of clothes, which she specially brought for this practical course. Of course, she knew that practical courses were meant to endure hardships, and it was not practical to wear nice clothes at all, but there was no way, who told her to be in the same group as the person she had in mind!
When Gongsun Zhiqi was sorting out her clothes, she also specially tried on this pink skirt and turned around in front of the mirror. I still thought to myself, if Jia Luo saw it, would he think he was particularly good-looking?
But now...... This pretty pink dress,
I wear it on the body of "Garo".
This feeling...... This feeling...... Gongsun Zhiqi only hopes that this is a nightmare.
"Why didn't you two stop him!!" Gongsun Zhiqi, who had nowhere to go, could only vent her anger on Ye Shuo and Xu Yuan.
As a friend of Garo for many years, he has long accepted the premise of having two souls in one body. Not only Jia Luo, but even Ye Jingyan is also his friend. But for Gongsun Zhiqi, she can't accept this at all.
What she thought in her heart was to be able to completely make Ye Jingyan disappear.
Since listening to Xu Yuan's words, although Ye Shuo felt that Ye Jingyan was really a very troublesome person at first, now his attitude towards this soul has changed slightly.
In fact, Ye Jingyan is also a poor person. Although I don't know why she only had a soul at that time, but if she was a complete person, how could she have only a soul left, and she was still a mutilated and half-dead soul? This point is the same as Ye Shuo thought, Ye Jingyan may have been cast a soul extraction technique.
The so-called soul extraction, as the name suggests, is the extraction of a person's soul from the body. This is usually done for practicing evil arts, or for making some medicinal herbs for evil sects. Because in many cases, these heresy studies need to be supported by the human soul.
The human soul, especially the pure soul, is actually a good nourishment. However, this technique is too bad and cruel for few people to use.
Perhaps because of such an experience, Ye Jingyan's personality is not as unacceptable as before.
Ye Jingyan, who had been smiling evilly, suddenly sighed with complicated eyes, "I said little sister, don't you have such an aggrieved expression." It's like I'm bullying you. ”
"Could it be...... Don't you have it?" Gongsun Zhiqi raised her head and looked at Ye Jingyan in a daze.
Ye Jingyan shook her head, "I have to tell you this fact, whether you accept it or not, since I was used to fill in the missing soul of Jia Luo, we have already been one. This is not what I wanted, but if he had not me, I would not have existed in the world. Now we coexist in such a way, which is not our intention, but it is the best outcome. ”
Gongsun Zhiqi lowered her head silently, she didn't answer. After a long time, she raised her head, but her eyes were red.
"Little sister, you don't have to put on such an expression...... Smile at me, smile at me, and I'll choose to sleep my soul and let your Garo come out, okay?"
Ye Jingyan said, knocking Gongsun Zhiqi's head, "But you have to promise me one thing." Garo didn't know that the two of us had to coexist, he just thought I was borrowing his body and deliberately burrowing into him. So don't tell him, I have been choosing to sleep and never come out again. ”
"......" Gongsun Zhiqi looked at Ye Jingyan with some surprise, "But...... If you keep choosing to sleep and never come out again, what's the difference between that and dying?"
"Well, this question ......" Ye Jingyan thought for a while, "There is no difference?"
The atmosphere became heavy in an instant.
"Two ......" Ye Shuo, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, "Actually, there is no need to be so pessimistic, I have heard a method...... Can fill in the missing soul ”
This is a very old method that is rarely recorded in historical books. Ye Shuo searched desperately in his mind before he remembered. This was also thanks to the knowledge that Master Yunxing forcibly instilled in him at that time.
Due to the existence of soul extraction, in the long history, alchemists have also searched for a way to save mutilated souls. Eventually, they discovered that if they could use the dead souls, they could make up for the missing souls. It's just that the method is easy, but the dead soul is hard to find.
The dead soul is not the soul of a person who dies naturally. It's a soul that is clearly dead, but will not be wiped out by some kind of coincidence. In the records, for thousands of years on the Spirit Continent, no one has found a dead soul.
"I don't care how hard it is to find dead souls!As long as there is this method, I will definitely give it a try!" After hearing Ye Shuo's narration, Gongsun Zhiqi's eyes lit up and said firmly.