Volume 1: Induction Section 36: Soul Hunting
According to Sister Ran's suggestion, the four of them went straight to the mourning hall, at this time the mourning hall did not know whose funeral was being prepared.
Although Zhang Su didn't know who the deceased was, he was still full of awe for the deceased, and he didn't get too close to the upcoming mourning ceremony, but just paced on the side of the mourning hall, opened his yin and yang eyes to explore around, and easily found a few dead souls around the mourning hall.
The deceased who have just passed away will produce the first soul, the first soul is very similar to the appearance before life, they are not aggressive, but wander around aimlessly in the world, fluttering with the wind like floating dust, they look at the present world that has been separated by yin and yang, although there is a slight reluctance and fetters, but they can also leave with relief.
The four of them acted separately, Zhang Su locked the nearest first soul to himself, it was a grandmother-like soul, Zhang Su had a brief soul dialogue with him, and informed the old grandmother of his soul master duties, the old grandmother's soul told Zhang Su about his nostalgia and wishes, Zhang Su listened quietly, did not interrupt the old woman's various longings, when the old woman finished telling, but the last trace of dust, Zhang Su introduced the old grandmother's soul into the dark stone cup and sealed it, The first primordial soul was captured.
After the first soul is captured, according to the requirements of the task, a low-level ghast soul needs to be captured to be able to complete the personal task, the level of ghast soul power is generally between the senior soul master and the senior soul master, the level of the low-level ghast is equivalent to the senior soul master, Zhang Su's actual soul power has reached the high-level great soul master, so the task of capturing the low-level ghast is nothing to Zhang Su.
Zhang Su opened the yin and yang eyes and patrolled the surroundings of the mourning hall.
The population base of Qicheng is very large, and there are not many official funeral parlors, who need to make an appointment in advance for a funeral business, and the funeral is endless, the staff is arranging the next one in the mourning hall, and there are thirty or forty family members waiting outside the mourning hall, all of whom should be related to the deceased, or relatives, friends and colleagues of their families, people are all wearing dark coats, standing outside the mourning hall and waiting for the opening of the memorial ceremony.
During the waiting period, some people cried and shook the sky, some people sobbed again and again, some people stood in silence, and some people were bowing their heads and swiping their mobile phones, or standing at the end of the line to talk to each other, and a few faint laughter burst out from time to time between the words.
"Help! Help me! ”
Suddenly, an ethereal voice came from the mourning hall of the mourning hall, the voice was full of misery and pain, and it was a hissing cry for help.
Zhang Su is the closest to the mourning hall, and he heard the voice of the cry for help for the first time, this is obviously not a human voice, more like a soul is constantly calling out, Zhang Su's body moved, and wanted to rush into the mourning hall of the funeral home, but he felt that it was not appropriate to do so, and it was a blasphemy against the deceased, which would definitely attract the dissatisfaction of the deceased's family, so Zhang Su decided to leave his body outside the mourning hall, and his soul went out of his body, passed through the wall of the funeral parlor, and entered the mourning hall.
"Sister Tan, it's just the dead man's clothes, why did you sort them out so carefully?"
"Xiaoling, you do your job well, put the direction of the flower neatly, don't be sloppy."
"I can see it, this family has a lot of mouths, but the family is all going to work and working, and they don't have any power, and people don't pay attention to these at all, but complain about you being slow outside."
"Remember, it's okay for you to work for the living, don't come to that for the dead, first be worthy of your conscience."
"Hmph, the dead are dead, and he doesn't know what you're doing."
"You have been here for a short time, and you haven't experienced much, but I listened to my sister's advice, and what you want to do in this line of work is to be down-to-earth."
"Hmph, I don't believe that dead people can cheat corpses, superstition!"
The two women who spoke were arranging the mourning hall, they should be the staff of the funeral home, the older woman was arranging the mourning clothes for the deceased lying on the coffin, and the younger one was carelessly arranging the flower skirts around the coffin.
Zhang Su's purpose was not to eavesdrop on the two women, because the previous cry for help from the soul came from inside the mourning hall, Zhang Su followed the sound positioning, and saw a hideous-looking ghast standing on the coffin in the middle of the mourning hall, wide and fat like a big orangutan, but its face was completely different from the orangutan, the hair was scattered, the hair was windless, and the teeth at the bottom accounted for half of the face. The ugly side is really scary.
Just when Zhang Su locked on to the ugly ghast with his eyes, it was still holding a half-cut soul in its hand, the soul was bitten off by the waist, and there were still jagged tooth marks of the ghast soul at the fracture, and the soul power continued to volatilize outward from the broken face, and it had lost its vitality.
The ghast also saw the soul of Zhang Su who entered through the wall, opened his mouth, stuffed the whole of the remaining half of the remnant soul in his hand into his mouth, swallowed it alive, and then jumped out of the coffin, stood on the ground and confronted Zhang Su, looking at Zhang Su greedily, and a low roar faintly came out of his mouth.
"Is it a step too late?"
Zhang Su watched the ghast swallow the remnant soul in his hand, and couldn't help but feel a little guilty in his heart, and muttered to himself.
"It's really fragrant, but the soul power of the first soul is still too little, and you can't even make a stomach, I see that you seem to have a very good taste, come over honestly and let me swallow you, you won't be as painful and wailing as the soul just now."
The ghast belched and looked at Zhang Su with a hideous face, his uneven teeth opening and closing back and forth, and he actually said something that Zhang Su could hear.
"You just ate the soul of the man lying in the coffin?"
Zhang Su glanced at the coffin, it was a white-haired old man, although the person had passed away, but his body was actually frowning, showing a slightly painful expression, obviously not walking peacefully enough, so he asked the evil spirit.
"Jiji, do you mean this old fellow, it's really exactly the same soul I devoured, fresh soul, but this delicacy is too short-lived." The ghast looked back at the man lying in the coffin and smacked his lips.
"It seems that the empty soul sound just now is indeed from the soul of this old man, and it is really a step too late, since it has not been able to save a soul, then this seventh-level floating slaughter is estimated to be created on this evil soul." Zhang Su sighed and said softly.
"Boy, what are you muttering there? I see that you have become a lonely ghost at a young age, and you must have died unexpectedly and tragically before your death, as long as you obediently become my sustenance, your soul will no longer wander miserably after death. ”
Seeing Zhang Su's sigh, the evil spirit thought that the young man in front of him was already planning to be arrested, and while approaching Zhang Su, he coaxed like a child.
Zhang Su released his soul power and probed the ghast in the shape of the orangutan, this ghast's soul power is not very strong, it is equivalent to the level of a high-level soul master, it belongs to a low-level ghast, this level of soul power does not pose a threat to him, but Zhang Su is still cautious in the face of this ghast, after all, it is the first time to fight with the ghast, Zhang Su does not know what means the ghast will use, in this case, any arrogance is a disadvantage that affects the battle.
"White Phosphorus Arrow!"
When the ghast continued to approach him, Zhang Su suddenly turned on his soul power to the level of a senior soul master, and used his soul power to condense six white phosphorus arrows in front of him, and the arrows of each white phosphorus arrow were towards the ghast that was constantly approaching him, with a wave of Zhang Su's soul hand, the white phosphorus arrow pulled out six long halos and shot towards the ghast together, and the white arrow pierced the surrounding soul dust and rushed straight to the head of the ghast.
The ghast also maintained a high degree of vigilance when approaching Zhang Su, and the ghast should also know the truth of scheming, and knew that only by being careful would it not become food for other people's mouths, obviously this ghast has survived to this day, and it is also because of this high vigilance.
Therefore, when Zhang Su suddenly made a move, the orangutan ghast fled backwards for the first time, quickly distanced himself from Zhang Su, raised his thick arms to block his head, and made a defensive posture.
When the six white phosphorus arrows hit the ghast's arm together, the ghast used its steel-like arm to put the white phosphorus arrow in front of him, and the white phosphorus arrow only relied on the impact force to knock the ghast back half a step, but it failed to cause more damage to the ghast, and the sharp arrow failed to pierce the ghast's arm, which surprised Zhang Su.
Seeing that the confrontation between the white phosphorus arrow and the thick arm of the ghast could not take advantage, Zhang Su put the white phosphorus arrow in front of him and looked at the ghast again.
"Soul skills? Seeing that you are young, I didn't expect you to be a ghast. The ghast looked at Zhang Su with jealousy, and said with palpitations.
Zhang Su picked out an arrow from the six white phosphorus arrows, carefully examined it, and found that the white light at the tip of the arrow was actually a lot dimmer, with the influence of the white light, the tip of the arrow actually lost its original sharpness, as if it had been blunted, the tip became a round head, and the penetration was greatly reduced.
Zhang Su guessed that the reason why the tip of the white phosphorus arrow was rounded was related to the thick arm of the ghast, and the arm did not show anything special from the appearance, but it was unusually wide and hard, blocking it in front of him like a hard shield, and it was much more flexible than the shield, although Zhang Su only opened the soul power to the level of a high-level soul master, but counting the bonus of the seventh-order soul skill of the white phosphorus arrow, its power even the junior great soul master did not dare to directly resist it, which shows that the thick arm of the ghast has some special ability.
"It's interesting to be able to block my white phosphorus arrows." Zhang Su sighed with a grin.
"It's all ghasts, of course I also have my own abilities, I look like a cunning ghast, but if you don't succeed once, your subsequent attacks won't be useful anymore, your soul power is almost the same as mine, and you have exposed your only means of attack, you have no chance of winning, Jiji."
The ghast was not frightened by Zhang Su's attack, but sensed Zhang Su's soul power, and judged Zhang Su, as if he had seen through Zhang Su, and showed a greedy smile at Zhang Su again.
"Cunning? Is there still such a classification for ghasts? I'm interested in your abilities, can you tell me what they are before you die? Zhang Su asked calmly.
"Hmph, if you want to say my words, you won't tell you, but I can tell you the name of my soul skill." The ghast laughed.
"What's it called?" Zhang Su asked.
"I named it: Spirit!" The ghast replied proudly.
"Spirit? If I'm not mistaken, it should be a skill that can selectively strengthen a certain part of the soul, use a certain way to mobilize the soul power of the whole body, and then selectively strengthen a certain part of the soul, so as to achieve the ability of the soul part beyond the existing level, just now you just temporarily condensed the soul power on your thick arm, and the arm part temporarily crossed your existing soul power level, so you can easily block my white phosphorus arrow. Zhang Su analyzed.
"Hmph, cunning boy, even if you see it, your six little arrows are no longer a threat to me, I advise you not to do fearless struggles." The ghast was slightly angry when he saw that his ability and characteristics had been exposed, but he still put on a haughty posture that he didn't care.
Zhang Su ignored the threat of the ghast, and looked back at the wall behind him, outside the wall, a tall woman was leaning on the side of a van, that person was the mentor of Zhang Su's group, Sister Ran, she was using her soul power to perceive the movements and state of the four Zhang Su, Zhang Su didn't want her to find out her true soul power, because Zhang Su didn't want to expose her true ability before the newcomer battle.
"With that mentor following, releasing too much soul power will inevitably not arouse suspicion, so it's better to show the Dacheng form of the White Phosphorus Arrow." Zhang Su muttered softly.
"What's the matter, boy, are you planning to run away?" Seeing that Zhang Su turned his head to look behind him, the ghast thought he was trying to escape, and asked with a grin.
Zhang Su turned his head and looked at the ghast again, and asked with a disdainful expression, "Even if I want to escape, what can you do with me?" ”
"It's not just this arm that I can temporarily strengthen, as long as I strengthen my legs and feet, do you think you can still outrun me?" The ghast replied, settling into a trapped-beast fight.
"It's been delaying for a long time, and now I should not be suspicious of you anymore." Zhang Su looked at the ghast in front of him, touched his chin and said.
"Solve me? Are you kidding? Boy, are you scared silly? The ghast's eyelids jumped, and he asked disdainfully.
"White Phosphorus Arrow!"
Zhang Su didn't talk nonsense anymore, and once again condensed the brand-new six white phosphorus arrows, and with a wave of his fingers, the white phosphorus arrows shot towards the ghast not far away again, although the power did not change much, but it was much faster in speed.
"It's useless to say it, and you still want to struggle with six small broken arrows?"
The ghast snorted coldly, raised the strengthened thick arm in front of him again, and while resisting the thrust of the white phosphorus arrow, he rushed towards Zhang Su, intending to break through the attack of the white phosphorus arrow and directly deal with Zhang Su's soul.
"Six? When did I say I only had six? ”
Zhang Su saw the ghast rushing towards him, without the slightest panic, he raised his other hand, stretched out his index finger, and lightly touched the ghast that rushed over, on the path of the ghast's impact, six more white phosphorus arrows quietly drilled up from under the ground, attacking the ghast from the blind spot of the vision below the ghast, there were four white phosphorus arrows that pierced the limbs of the ghast, a white phosphorus arrow pierced the chest of the ghast, and the last white phosphorus arrow was directly aimed at the head of the ghast with a large mouth, Piercing upwards from the jaw, directly through the entire head of the ghast.
"You!"
The ghast was pierced through the soul by the sudden six white phosphorus arrows, and one stumbled and fell to the ground, lying on the ground and constantly struggling, looking at Zhang Su who was close at hand, with an uncontrollable roar in his mouth, obviously trying to kneel up from the ground again, but the soul power on his body continued to drain rapidly from the wound, and there was no longer enough soul power to support it to resist more.
"Temporarily strengthening one part is equivalent to giving up the defense of other parts, although there is no special change in appearance, but people with strong spiritual sense can easily perceive it, and let me tell you a secret, I am not a ghost, I am a soul master."
Zhang Su walked in front of the ghast, leaned down, whispered in the ghast's ear, and then stretched out his hand to the ghast, and used the stele soul extension to print the ghast's soul technique, and then Zhang Su picked up the ghast that had no ability to resist, and walked towards the outside of the mourning hall.
"Sister Tan, do you feel a cool yin wind swimming in this mourning hall?"
"Nope."
"Sister Tan, come and see, didn't this person in the coffin frown just now? I felt his brow furrowed, and his demeanor changed. ”
"It's your delusion, Xiaoling, it may be that what I just said scared you, don't always chatter, hurry up and work."
"Okay, Sister Tan."
With the conversation between the two in the mourning hall, Zhang Su dragged the ghast that he had solved through the wall out of the mourning hall and came to his body, Zhang Su's soul returned to the body, took out the ghost stone cup used to store the dead soul from his pocket, put the ghast whose soul power had been lost below the capture limit, and covered the lid of the ghost stone cup again, even if the ghast was captured, that is to say, the personal task of the soul hunting battle has been completed.
Zhang Su walked back to the van and reported his situation to his mentor, Sister Ran: "The first soul and the evil soul have been captured. ”
"Well, I see, you're using white phosphorus arrows well." Sister Ran nodded without joy or anger and praised Zhang Su.
"Thanks, how are they?" Zhang Su responded, and then asked.
"Pu Zitong has been captured, now go to find the high-level ghast in the additional mission, the other two are still in the battle with the low-level ghast, and now they have a slight upper hand." Sister Ran replied briefly.
"Huh? Looking for a high-level ghast, it's a revenant soul equivalent to a high-level great soul master, are you looking for death! When Zhang Su heard that Pu Zitong was going to find a high-level ghast alone, he couldn't help but cry out in surprise, causing a burst of sideways glances from the people around him.
"Shhhhh Sister Ran scolded softly.
Zhang Su quickly covered his mouth, crawled back into the car stupidly, released his soul power to perceive the surroundings, probed the situation of the other three, and after a while, the people slowly arrived.
"That ghast is really not simple, it took a lot of effort to subdue it." Zhang Xuanting was talking with his head sideways as he walked towards the parking lot.
"Isn't it, the ghast spirit of feelings is more cunning and difficult than people, and my hand is slightly injured, and it is estimated that the novel will be broken for a few days." Jing Gang responded next to Zhang Xuanting, showing a weak look, and also walked towards the parking position.
"Oh, how did you finish, if someone could help me just now, I would have caught the high-level ghast, but I didn't expect a careless one to let it run away, and I was so angry."
Behind Zhang Xuanting and Jing Gang, Pu Zitong also followed angrily, and complained loudly to Zhang Xuanting, Jing Gang and Zhang Su, who were already in the car.