Volume 2: Entering the Ghost Feast Verse 62: Nirvana
Zhang Su walked home wearing Qu Mo's clothes, all the way he was thinking about Qu Zhiru and Qu Mo's words, and he also thought that it was not a way for him to escape like this, maybe it was because he had not encountered ups and downs since he became a soul master, which led to Lu Sen's death brought him an unprecedented impact, since Lu Sen's accident, he realized that the path of the soul master was far more terrifying than he imagined, and he really thought about the path of the soul master too naΓ―ve in the past.
Walked to the flower bed downstairs where his rental house was located, Zhang Su looked at the red and yellow clusters of flowers blooming in the flower bed, and suddenly remembered the truth that Qu Mo told him about one flower and one world, so he found a rose-red stamen and looked inside, he couldn't see the colorful world inside, but saw bees and butterflies moored on it in turn, and occasionally a few small insects and ants got into the stamen and drilled out again, Zhang Su guessed, maybe there is really a microscopic world in the stamen.
Just as Zhang Su was looking at the stamen, suddenly a big white and tender hand was on Zhang Su's shoulder.
Zhang Su's body muscles were originally in a state of high vigilance, when he sensed the breath of a person behind him, he immediately turned on the body emergency mode, his body quickly retreated a step back, his hands tightly clasped the big hand on his shoulder, and he used an over-the-shoulder throw move with all his strength, directly throwing the person behind him from back to front into the flower pond in front of him, and then vigilantly looked at the appearance of the person who was overturned.
"Brother Hu Xi?" When Zhang Su saw the face of the person who fell in the flower pond, he realized that he had fallen over Hu Xi, who had not seen him for a while, and unconsciously cried out.
"Oh, you want to kill me, I came to see you kindly, do you treat guests like this?" Hu Xi was lying in the flower pond on all fours, his body pressed the flower pond out of a large human shape, and his mouth complained.
"I'm sorry, Brother Hu Xi, I didn't mean it, I just reacted instinctively." Zhang Su hurriedly climbed onto the flower platform, raised his hand to help Hu Xi up from the flower bed, and then walked out of the flower bed with Hu Xi covered with flowers and leaves.
"You bastard, it hurts me to death, I just went to your house to look for you, and found that you were not at home, so I came down from upstairs, just in front of this flower bed in a daze, but just wanted to say hello to you, you gave me a perfect over-the-shoulder fall, do I have a grudge against you?" Hu Xi complained while patting the flowers and green leaves that he had glued to his body.
"Oh, I've apologized, but Brother Hu Xi, do you have anything to do with me?" Zhang Su asked.
"It's nothing, just to come and see you, you haven't appeared in the company for more than a month, Old Man Yan is afraid that something will happen to you, so he assigned me to investigate." Hu Xi explained.
"So Brother Hu Xige agreed to come to me?" Zhang asked with a wicked smile.
"What's the matter, I repeatedly emphasized to Old Man Yan that you are just an old problem with depression, and there is no big problem, but he doesn't believe it, and finally he has to come over to confirm it, and I have to report the situation to them when I go back, hey." Hu Xi sighed.
"Depression? Still old? Brother Hu Xi, you really know me. Zhang glanced at Hu Xi and said.
"Well, I admit that I was wrong, you are now severely depressed, and you have some violent tendencies, I have to report to Old Man Yan truthfully, and then let Lin Yan prescribe you a tranquilizer drug." Hu Xi rubbed his arm and replied.
"Yes, don't say it, I apologize, I'll treat you to dinner, really, and play with porcelain." Zhang Wei snorted coldly.
"That's a good dare, I happened to fancy a game restaurant in the past two days, in the suburbs of the south of the city, newly opened, I heard that the sweet and sour carp is a real lake fish, the taste is particularly delicious, so I almost invited someone to eat." Hu Xicheng said with a smile.
"Don't brag, if there is something delicious, can you take Sister Lin Yan to eat? I'm going to be experimenting with me again. Zhang Su knows Hu Xi's thoughts, Hu Xi often looks for all kinds of delicacies to please Lin Yan, and this time he must have heard about the name of a certain restaurant, so he wanted to take Zhang Su to take the lead first.
After being debunked by Zhang Su, Hu Xi just scratched his head and laughed, like a child who had been found lying about it, but before he could laugh a few times, Hu Xi suddenly remembered something, looked at Zhang Su with a puzzled face, and asked in surprise: "Hey, weren't you still depressed at home before?" I've been here with Miss Pu a few times, but you haven't seen each other, how did you get back to normal today? β
"Well, because something happened, I've figured it out." Zhang Su nodded.
"It's good to figure it out, three of the people who participated in the newcomer training at the same time as you have died at the hands of ghosts, Fu Tianmei from Jicheng, Zhang Xuanting from Guicheng, and Wan Lei from Shicheng, their strength is very good, but they have not been able to stick to the path of the soul master for various reasons, since they have chosen this path, life and death will be open, this is true for others, and it should be the same for themselves." Hu Xikai explained.
After listening to Hu Xi's explanation, Zhang Su nodded obediently, he already knew about Fu Tianmei, and the ghost that caused Fu Tianmei's death was the evil soul that the museum bountied, and he had solved it.
"Since you're back to normal, then I won't say anything more, I'll go back first, and I'll see you at the company then." Hu Xi saw that Zhang Su had come out of a sad situation, and planned to leave and return to the company to resume his life.
"Don't be in a hurry to go, Brother Hu Xi, go to my house and sit down, I still have important things to say to Brother Hu Xi." Seeing that Hu Xi was leaving, Zhang Xidi's eyes turned eighteen times, and he said to Hu Xi mysteriously.
Hu Xi felt that Zhang Su's expression was a little strange, and asked with a puzzled face, "What's the matter?" β
"There are a lot of people here, wait until you get to my house." Zhang Su deliberately bought a pass, and walked upstairs with two bags full of fast food.
Hu Xi didn't know what Zhang Su was going to say, and guessed that it might be related to the reason why Zhang Su came out of the gloom, so he followed Zhang Su upstairs, and then followed Zhang Su into Zhang Su's rental house.
After a while, Hu Xi's loud questioning voice came from Zhang Su's rental house: "I'll go!" What did you say? You called me in to help you clean the house? β
"Oh, Brother Hu Xi, be quiet, it's not good to make noise to the neighbors." Zhang Su made a booing gesture and said.
"Zhang thinks you're ......, you said you had something important to tell me, but the result was to trick me into helping you clean up, you are a bit of a deception." Hu Xi complained.
"Brother Hu Xi, didn't you say that you want to see me in the company earlier, you see that my house has not been cleaned up for several months, if I am left alone to clean it it will probably take several days, you are good, help me clean up, I may be able to go back to the company tomorrow." Zhang Su explained.
"Don't do it! You haven't cleaned it in three or four months, it's worse than a pig's nest, and I don't want to get my new clothes dirty. Hu Xi refused.
"Oh, Brother Hu Xi, I promised to invite you to eat lake fish, if you help me earlier, I can also invite you early, otherwise Sister Lin Yan should be in a hurry." Zhang Su argued.
"You are naked blackmail!" Hu Xi pretended to be angry.
"And a plate of pheasants?" Zhang Su asked.
"Okay, deal!" Hu Xi immediately agreed.
Zhang Su didn't expect Hu Xi to agree so quickly, he looked at Hu Xi with tears and laughter, and scolded Hu Xi for being a foodie.
"If there's anything else you want to say, just pack it up and say it, I know you must be trying to do something when you just come out of the gloom, so I'll do my best to give you some knocks and advice." Hu Xi suddenly said to Zhang Su seriously, and then picked up the dilapidated broom in Zhang Su's house and swept all kinds of garbage scattered on the ground.
"Well, I don't know how to speak." Zhang Su also showed a serious expression and responded, opened the window to let in the wind, and cleaned up the moldy food on the table.
"Say whatever you want." Hu Xi replied.
"I want revenge." Zhang Su truthfully said his inner thoughts.
"How?" Hu Xi asked.
"On the one hand, I want to investigate the information of all the undead souls who participated in that ghost feast, and break them one by one from weak to strong." Zhang Su explained.
"It's okay, it's just that the revenant is not so easy to deal with when it reaches the first level of the little ghost." Hu Xi reminded.
"Well, I'm a junior soul king now, and I haven't condensed the soul core yet, so it's no problem to challenge the junior ghost after condensing the soul core, but I also wanted to try it before." Zhang Su explained his plan.
"I believe you have that ability, but the condensation of the soul core is not as simple as imagined, secondly, according to reliable information, three of the seven junior imps on the ghost banquet have advanced to the level of intermediate imps, the ghost bamboo scholar, the human-faced ghost scorpion, and the fat dolphin have all advanced, and it is said that the remaining four imps are also on the verge of advancement, even if you condense the soul core with the strength of the primary soul king, it is not necessarily their opponent." Hu Xi knocked.
"Brother Hu Xi, what conditions do you need to condense the soul core?" Zhang Su asked.
"First of all, you have to gather and compress a large amount of soul power in the soul, and then seal it with the spiritual seal, but the spiritual seal is different for everyone, but it can't be understood, Brother Lu Senge realized the Heavenly Curse Seal, and after the soul core was born, he learned the two special soul skills of the Heavenly Curse Hades and the Heavenly Curse Dungeon, I am the Wind Spirit Seal, and the attached soul skills are Hyacinth and Wind Blade Spirit Valley, but this kind of spiritual knowledge seal is not something that can be realized if you want to, Lin Yan is already an intermediate soul king, and now she has not realized the spirit seal." Hu Xi explained.
"How do you understand?" Zhang asked puzzled.
"As the saying goes, the blade of the sword is sharpened, as far as I know, the spirit seal bursts out after fighting with the soul, I was on a soul hunting mission, and the result was an excessive consumption of soul power, and when the soul power was replenished later, there was an inexplicable extra condensed soul core in the soul power, this is my experience, but it does not mean that others can succeed after using my experience, our company's Sister Chenxi has also used my method, and now it is the level of a high-level soul king and still has not gathered a soul core." Hu Xi gave a counter-example to illustrate.
"Well, put this aside for the time being, my second aspect is to quickly improve my strength and learn some powerful soul skills and soul skills, I don't know if Brother Hu Xige can help in this regard?" Zhang Su asked.
"I don't think it's easy to do it if you improve quickly, but I have some suggestions for learning some ways to restrain ghosts." Hu Xi rubbed his hands, thought for a while, and then replied, then put down the broom, went to the scrubbing room in Zhang Su's house to rinse the mop, and helped Zhang Su mop the floor while talking.
"What's the solution?" Zhang Su also finished cleaning up the garbage in the house, put the bags and piled them aside, then threw the sheets and some dirty clothes into the washing machine, poured a lot of laundry detergent and began to stir.
"Apprenticeship, the soul master realm is very large, there are many powerful soul masters who are hidden in the world, but as soon as they make a move, even the ghost king has to give up three points, this kind of soul master will have some special means, some of them do not call themselves soul masters, but continue to call themselves by the name of the ancient inheritance, there are many such people in the territory, such as exorcists, talismans, Jigong, Lingren, Baiye, Jiangxing, Tufuzi, and the living dead, these people have unique abilities, similar to the secret skills of some soul master families, In fact, the Xia family, the talisman master in the nine major families, is actually one of the ancient talismans. Hu Xi introduced.
"And so much more?" Zhang Su showed a surprised expression after hearing this, and he felt that he was lonely.
"Of course, there are onmyoji, wizards, holy sons, prophets, etc., overseas, in fact, they are all people who deal with souls like soul masters, so you can find these people to learn the soul kung fu you said." Hu Xi recommended.
"Going abroad?" Zhang asked puzzled.
"What you learn abroad may not be adaptable, you can find this special soul master in the territory, and it is enough to learn some from them." Hu Xi proposed.
"Well, I know, by the way, Brother Hu Xi, do you know what it means for things in the soul master's territory to have the word Yuantian?" Zhang Su suddenly remembered the jade tile and the remnant soul of Nuwa in his hand, and changed the topic and asked.
"Gentian?!" Hu Xi stopped what he was doing and looked at Zhang Su in surprise.
"Well, I remember overhearing someone say this word when I was training as a newcomer before, as if they were talking about Gentian." Zhang Su lied, although he thought that Hu Xi's suggestion to visit and study was good, but if it was compared, the Yuantian Apocalypse Soul Record in his hand should be of higher value, but the jade tile could not be opened without the infusion of the Yuantian Remnant Soul, the Nuwa Remnant Soul could not appear, and he could not learn even if there were powerful soul skills in the jade tile.
"I've heard of the Source Heaven Exercises, the Source Heaven Soul Technique and the Source Heaven Horcrux, it is said that everything with the word Source Heaven is an object naturally formed at the beginning of the creation of the world, extremely rare, whoever gets one of them can have the ability to reach the sky, there are rumors that the Source Heaven Horcrux has a key that can open the door to the Taoyuan Realm, of course, these are just rumors, there are some records in some books, but no one really owns these Source Heaven things, or even if there is, it is unlikely to be revealed." Hu Xi answered Zhang Su's question.
"Books?" Zhang asked puzzled.
"Well, I have seen everything about Yuantian in books, there are a few books in our company's storage room, but if you want to go to see it, you have to go to Zhong Tianli to ask for the key, and now the storage room is basically the horcruxes and some semi-finished products developed by him, and you have to find a few books from there to estimate that you are going to rummage through the cabinets." Hu Xi reminded with a smile.
"Well, I know, the house is almost cleaned up, I'll invite Brother Hu Xi out for a meal first, and when I come back, I'll put on new sheets and covers, and dry all the washed clothes, and I can announce that I'm back to life." Zhang Su looked at the home that had become clean and tidy again, and said happily.
"You see that I am sweeping and mopping the floor, can't I ask my brother to do a massage after eating?" Hu Xi smiled evilly.
"Okay, when I go, I guess Sister Lin Yan will also get off work, and I will call Sister Lin Yan to go with me when the time comes." Zhang Su raised his eyebrows and looked at Hu Xi.
"Yes, you white-eyed wolf, forget it, let's go eat first, I'm almost starving to death after being busy for a while, go back to work before getting off work after eating, and report your situation to Old Man Yan, I will have to live another day today." Hu Xi shouted happily.
Zhang Su saw Hu Xi's happy appearance, and knew that some of this was because of his own cheer up, Hu Xi had been running to Zhang Xi's house for the past few months, constantly encouraging and comforting Zhang Xi through the crack in the door, Zhang Su had been hiding, and even used the colored scale arm guard to hide Hu Xi's soul from finding it, Hu Xi was very disappointed every time, and now that he has recovered, Hu Xi looks a lot more relaxed, although Hu Xi didn't say it, but Zhang Xi can feel it.
Downstairs, Zhang Su thought that his electric car was still in the parking shed in front of the old city hall in Qicheng, it had been more than four months, and he really didn't know if his tram was still parked there intact, so Zhang Su asked Hu Xi to take him for a ride, and went to the city hall to find the car first.
Hu Xi nodded and agreed, let Zhang Su sit on his electric car, and drove quickly towards the city hall in the center of Qicheng.
"Brother Hu Xi, how is Lu Zhen's sister-in-law?" Zhang Su asked.
"I followed Brother Luxon half a month ago, and I personally transformed her soul." Hu Xi explained.
"How did you get there? Suicide? Zhang Zhen asked, he thought that Lu Zhen's sister-in-law left because she couldn't think about it, and almost blamed herself again.
"That's not it, the disease has relapsed, plus it is a terminal illness, and the doctor can't do anything, I was guarding the bedside at the time, she passed in her sleep, and she was more peaceful than before her death." Hu Xi shook his head in the front seat and replied.
Zhang Su lowered his head and was silent and did not speak, even if Hu Xi explained so, Zhang Su could feel it to some extent, and the departure of Lu Sen's wife Lu Zhen was inseparable from Lu Sen's death, at least in his state of mind, he took away Lu Zhen's last hope for life.
"I understand your current mood, although I became a soul master not much earlier than you, but I grew up in a soul hunting company, and I have experienced a lot of life and death of soul masters, soul hunting failures and being devoured by soul spirits happen from time to time, Lu Senge is just one of them, I first heard the news of my father's death when my spirit was also on the verge of collapse, and then it was Old Man Yan who rescued me, and then I saw that there were more soul masters in the company who died in ghost hands, and I was extremely resistant to the path of soul masters, and finally decided to become a soul master, When the ghosts are placed in front of you, it doesn't exist if you cover your eyes, there are always people who have to fight against them to protect ordinary people, since it is a battlefield, life and death are unpredictable. Hu Xi talked about his understanding of the soul master.
"I also figured it out, when I went to our company for an interview, I almost lost my life at the hands of the ghast, at that time it was Brother Lu Senge who saved me, now I think about it, it's not that I can live a stable life by giving up the identity of the soul master, I met when I went to hunt souls and met those ordinary people who were tortured and persecuted by ghosts, seeing more powerless, those people can't even protect themselves, but I still have some strength to protect myself, and then I want to have more power to protect more people, I want to become the most powerful soul master!" Zhang Su made up his mind.
"Okay, don't talk too much, this is the town hall, you go find your own car." Hu Xi saw that Zhang Su cheered up, and said to Zhang Su with a smile.
Zhang Su nodded, jumped out of Hu Xi's car, ran to the public carport in front of the city hall, and saw his electric car at a glance, but when he looked at his car for the second time, he instantly showed an angry expression and shouted: "Who stole my battery!" β
Hu Xi drove closer to Zhang Su and asked teasingly: "Haha, do you still have to protect everyone now?" β
"Don't! I'm going to catch the thief! Ya's bad thief dares to steal Lao Tzu's battery and kill him to feed the soul! Zhang scolded angrily.