Chapter 002: Merging Souls
The strong and persistent survival ** made Yang Hongtao unable to calm down at this moment, and the more he couldn't calm down, the more Yang Hongtao realized that the seemingly pervasive sunlight was constantly eroding his soul, and the originally cold bullet began to burn gradually......
Can't wait any longer! Yang Hongtao knew that such an inactive wait would eventually lead to a dead end. However, he can't move now, he can't run, and what can he do if he doesn't wait passively?
Suddenly, Yang Hongtao thought of the six-character mantra again. In any case, he has personally verified that these six-character mantras have incomparably magical powers. Although the changes brought to him by this magical power may not be a good thing, for Yang Hongtao, who will fall into a desperate situation sooner or later, no matter what kind of changes it is, it will not be more terrible than the result of his soul being dissolved a little bit in the sun until it completely disappears.
In that case, what else is Yang Hongtao afraid of? So Yang Hongtao, under the pressure of the increasing sense of urgency brought to him by the sun, once again began to silently recite the six-character mantra that sounded very simple, but was actually full of the mysteries of heaven and earth.
"Hmmm...... Om Ma Ma Horn Mi ...... Om Mani Horn Mi ......"
Probably the reason why I couldn't concentrate at the beginning, the previous more than a dozen times of silent recitation did not produce any effect, but this six-character Daming mantra is known as the most original source of Buddhism's Guanzi original heart mantra is by no means in vain, and the chanting of more than a dozen times in a row has made Yang Hongtao's original frivolous and anxious state of mind slowly stabilize in this six-character mantra, and even under the unconscious subtlety of the six-character mantra, I feel that even the major events of life and death are as ordinary as a cloud of smoke.
The strange white aperture was once again born with the six-character mantra recited silently by Yang Hongtao in his heart, and this time the aperture covered a wider range, every time Yang Hongtao recited a word in his heart, there was a huge character flying out of thin air, turning into a huge aperture with a diameter of about ten meters, and then the aperture began to shrink from the outside to the inside at a constant speed, until it contracted to the extreme, and then drilled into the bullet and disappeared without a trace.
Yang Hongtao was in the center of these endless circles of light, silently feeling those mysterious circles of light shrink into his soul one after another. At first, he didn't feel too strongly, but when he found that a fragmented remnant soul that had been scorched by the sun had also compressed towards the center of the circle with a circle of light, and finally forced into his soul, he realized how powerful these inexplicable circles of light that appeared with the six-character Great Ming Mantra were.
When the first wisp of remnant soul squeezed into his soul, it really scared Yang Hongtao, as if someone had attached a bloody human hand or human leg to his body, which made people instinctively have a sense of rejection from the bottom of their hearts. But when that wisp of remnant soul really merged into his soul, he was surprised to find that this thing was simply a wonderful Ten Great Tonic Pill for him.
Under the strong compression of the aperture, the remnant soul that had already lost its autonomous consciousness had been completely purified into a pure soul energy, without the slightest resistance, and without a little waste, it was all fused into Yang Hongtao's soul, making Yang Hongtao's soul feel a lot stronger all of a sudden.
Once he realized the benefits of absorbing the remnant soul, Yang Hongtao quickly left the psychological rejection behind, and then began to like this feeling of devouring soul energy like smoking opium. The six-character mantra kept reciting in the depths of Yang Hongtao's soul, and the strange circles of light were like the tide of the Qiantang River, which continued to shrink from all around to the place where Yang Hongtao's soul was, and at the same time brought with them the wisps of fragmented remnants that were floating in the area shrouded in the aura. Whenever the pure soul energy transformed by a wisp of remnant soul was completely absorbed by Yang Hongtao, his soul strength would quickly become stronger, and the aura formed when he recited the six-character Daming Mantra again would also become a few points larger, making the area that the aura could envelop even wider.
I don't know how long it took, when the last wisp of remnant soul in the execution ground was completely swallowed by Yang Hongtao's soul with the contracted aperture, Yang Hongtao finally stopped chanting the six-character Da Ming mantra. At this time, the circle of light created by the six-character Daming Mantra had expanded from about ten meters in diameter to about sixty meters in diameter, and it was almost enough to envelop the entire execution ground.
At this time, the sunlight had already shone directly on the bullet through the gap in the stone with the angle of the sun's deflection, but Yang Hongtao, whose soul power had increased more than ten times invisibly, could no longer feel that the sunlight was anything terrible. Originally, Yang Hongtao's soul was far more condensed than an ordinary soul after being compressed by the limit of the six-character Great Ming Mantra, but now he has frantically absorbed the remnant souls of more than 20 death row prisoners, and his soul has been condensed as if it were an entity, where can ordinary sunlight hurt it?
And it was only then that Yang Hongtao was surprised to find that what he had devoured was not just some pure soul energy, but also ...... There are even memories of life carried by those remnant souls.
Of course, because Yang Hongtao absorbed some remnant souls that had been destroyed in the sun for a long time, the soul memories he obtained also became incomplete. However, generally speaking, the memories that can be preserved in this situation can be regarded as an obsession, such as the most proud things of a certain soul during his lifetime, the biggest secret that has always been buried in his heart, and the professional knowledge and professional skills that this soul is best at in a certain field during his lifetime, etc., Yang Hongtao can easily search out those messy remnant soul memories.
After sorting out the scattered memories he had just obtained, Yang Hongtao found that none of the twenty-five death row prisoners who were executed with him just now were ordinary people, if you really want to count them, except for the four whose souls dissipated too much, and the remaining residual memories are too few to make Yang Hongtao unable to figure out their specific identities, he and a foreign language translator of a travel company have a relatively low social status, and the rest of those people are almost all elites in all walks of life during their lifetimes. And the combination of memory fragments formed by the obsessions of so many strongmen is definitely an amazing asset.
In fact, this feeling of having countless knowledge and skills out of thin air is really good, but it's a pity that the current Yang Hongtao is just a soul trapped in the bullet, even if he has more knowledge, it is useless.
However, Yang Hongtao's soul can't get out of that bullet head anyway and move around freely, and when he has nothing to do, he begins to slowly sort out these countless memory fragments that suddenly appeared. Fortunately, there are these things that can divert Yang Hongtao's attention and give him something to do, otherwise this feeling of being imprisoned in a small range of souls can easily make people go crazy.
However, no matter how many memory fragments there are, there will always be a time when they are finished, and I don't know how many nights have passed, when all the memory fragments obtained by accident have been completely integrated into his soul, Yang Hongtao finally deeply experienced the feeling of loneliness and despair.
This is a fixed place for executing death row prisoners, and no one can come here in normal times, so Yang Hongtao can only dry face a barren dirt slope every day, calling the sky should not be, and the earth is not working!
Fortunately, it didn't take long for another batch of death row prisoners to be ushered in at this execution site. This time, there were a total of 17 condemned prisoners, 15 men and 2 women, and one of them, a tall and thin man, was an armed bandit who had been circulating throughout the country for several years and had more than a dozen murders in his hands.
After the execution, the souls of the seventeen condemned prisoners also remained on the execution ground in a daze, refusing to leave for a long time, until the sun rose and was immediately illuminated to pieces.
Yang Hongtao only hesitated slightly, and then recited the six-character Da Ming mantra without hesitation, and the six mysterious characters shining with divine light suddenly turned into six white apertures, squeezing all the broken remnant souls in the aperture, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into pure soul energy and messy memory fragments into Yang Hongtao's soul.
Yang Hongtao didn't know at all, if those souls hadn't been devoured by him, what would have happened in the end? Will it be taken into the legendary Netherworld, or will it be completely reduced to nothingness in the scorching sun? However, Yang Hongtao guessed that the latter might have a larger surname, and even if Yang Hongtao did not devour the remnants of these death row prisoners, they would have already lost their self-consciousness under the scorching sun, and Yang Hongtao naturally would not have many psychological obstacles to devouring such remnant souls that basically had no consciousness.
Every time a newborn soul is devoured, even if it is only a small part of the remnant soul, it will allow Yang Hongtao to absorb a pure soul energy, making his own soul stronger and more condensed. At the same time, when he recited the six-character Da Ming mantra again, the white aura transformed by the six mantras also became larger and larger, and if he concentrated on chanting with all his strength, he could even expand the white aura to a diameter of about 100 meters.
And this range is also the range that Yang Hongtao's soul can perceive, the soul body has no eyes, but he can perceive any grass and tree in the area that the soul energy can cover through the soul energy that escapes, this kind of soul perception is a hundred times clearer than what the naked eye can see, and can perceive an all-round angle of 360 degrees centered on himself at the same time, which is equivalent to a person with eyes on the front and back, left and right. The disadvantage is that this kind of soul perception cannot reach far, at present, Yang Hongtao can only perceive a radius of about 100 meters, and in the distance, because the soul energy cannot be extended over, there is only darkness in Yang Hongtao's perception.
In addition, if the soul energy is dispersed too far, it will slowly lose control, and when the time comes, it will inevitably lose a small part of the soul energy. Although the amount of loss was not very large, it also made Yang Hongtao feel distressed, so after Yang Hongtao devoured all the remnant souls left by this batch of death row prisoners, he only tested the maximum range of soul perception once, and he no longer dared to easily disperse his soul energy so far.
This feeling of becoming stronger quickly is really wonderful, even if Yang Hongtao is just a simple soul body, he can experience an incomparably pleasant feeling from it. However, in comparison, Yang Hongtao actually prefers to collect those scattered obsessive memories from the remnant soul, which makes him seem to have a reason to be busy, even if he collects some memory fragments that have no value at all, it can completely allow him to use this to kill some lonely and lonely time.
If it weren't for the fact that one day, an old man who picked up rags came to the abandoned execution ground and picked up the bullet that Yang Hongtao was hiding in it, then Yang Hongtao would probably continue to live like this until one day he devoured enough remnants of his soul to make his own soul grow to the extent that the mysterious reticulations on the small bullet could no longer restrain him. During this period, there have been three more executions on this execution ground, and as for Yang Hongtao's soul perception range, it has expanded to more than 230 meters......