Chapter 1040: Emperor Ming's Great Villain
What happens when people die?
I'm sure many people have thought about this question more than once.
Generally speaking, when the body is unable to carry the soul, the life will continue to exist in the form of the soul.
It's just that most people's three souls and seven spirits must rely on the body to support, if the body dies, the three souls and seven spirits are helpless, and often they will disappear after not holding on for much time.
Only a few ghosts with deep obsessions or resentment are likely to stay for a long time, which is also known as the ghosts, which belong to the category of the dead.
I knew I was going to die a long time ago, but I never thought that I would turn into a ghost when I died.
In fact, most exorcists don't want to become ghosts after death, after all, they have fought against ghosts all their lives, and suddenly one day they have become this ugly, dirty appearance, and no one will be happy to change it.
Therefore, when exorcists enter the industry, they will make some preparations for death in advance, and once they really die one day, they will return to dust, dust to dust, and a hundred will be gone.
After all, it's tiring enough to be alive, why do you want to be a yin ghost and be tired for another lifetime?
Only the exorcist soldiers who died in battle did not understand the way of yin and yang, and there were many people who turned into yin spirits after death.
They fought and died for the living, so they were called heroic souls. The current exorcist city basically exists for the souls of the dead.
The heroic souls have made great achievements, so they naturally cannot be treated as ordinary dead people, but in fact, Middle-earth is also following the old path of the Dayu Dynasty back then, and the number of heroic souls is increasing, and sooner or later there will be conflicts between life and death.
After a long time, it is inevitable that there will be old things about Mr. Deep Water and countless water ghosts in the River Styx.
I never thought I'd be a ghost, but sometimes God really likes to joke with people, and if you don't want something to happen, it will happen.
The Far North Ice Sheet, inside the Grand Canyon of Ten Thousand Souls.
More than a dozen ethereal ghosts were struggling to move forward against the wind, and the cold wind on the ice field swayed their figures, and they felt like they were about to be scattered.
The leader of the ghost has an old appearance, and his body takes on the appearance of a coarse cloth robe. He was hunched on his back, and his figure was almost unreal.
No matter who looks at it, this yin soul is already in a state of imminent dissipation, and even if the cold wind in the canyon is a little colder, he may be blown away between heaven and earth.
Rao was so, the old man was also digging the ground with his hands, and after a while, the old man said tremblingly: "Found it!" ”
More than a dozen yin spirits behind him cheered and gathered around.
With a smile on his face, the old man said, "There are abundant reserves of ice soul stones here, and it should be that there are too many lives that died here in the early years, so this kind of stone was formed. ”
"Although there are a few things, it is possible to supply us through this time."
The ghosts breathed a sigh of relief, and a few impatient guys even began to dig out the rocks in a hurry, wanting to reclaim the land and dig out the soul stones.
Everyone knows that Yin Soul is not immortal, and every Yin Soul has its own lifespan. Although they don't need food or water, they do need energy to comb their souls.
The more energy there is, the purer the Three Souls and Seven Spirits will be, and the longer they will live.
This energy is generally contained in a kind of ore, which is called a soul stone.
The Soul Stone is the hard currency on the Arctic Ice Field, and the money used by the lords of Endless City to recruit the Shadows into the war.
The old man seemed tired when he found the soul stone, and he sat on the hard stone and coughed. Every time he coughed, his body became a little more illusory, and one had to wonder if he could still hold on.
Suddenly, someone next to him whispered: "Old village chief, this vein seems to be small in area, is it to be hidden, let's use it ourselves?" ”
"The young ghosts in the village have all gone to the front line, they are all old guys, if there are no soul stones, it is estimated that no one will be able to last long."
As soon as he finished speaking, the old man covered his mouth in horror and shouted in a low voice, "Don't you want to die? Everything on the Arctic Ice Sheet belongs to the ancestors, including us, all belong to the ancestors! ”
"It's not easy for us to be allowed to come out and find ore veins! As is customary, we are lucky to be able to distinguish a little bit of it! You can't just take it all to yourself! ”
The villager thought of the power of those old men, and subconsciously shuddered, and then sighed heavily.
"It's all a goddamn war."
The battle of life and death has been fought for a long time, and since it is a war, it always costs resources.
The dead don't need food, water, sunshine and rain, but they need soul stones to sort out the three souls and seven spirits.
Anyone who is injured in the battle formation, as long as there is a soul stone combing, he can recover quickly.
If you don't have a soul stone, either it will take a little more time to recover on your own, or the three souls and seven spirits will slowly weaken until the soul is gone.
It can be said that the soul stone is the most needed material for the Yin Spirits to wage war.
The Ancestor of the Corpse has ordered to search for soul stone resources on the Arctic Ice Field, and then hand them all in. As a reward, villages that find soul stone resources can get a certain amount of soul stones to use for themselves.
This ghost squad is a ghost village hundreds of miles away, constantly spreading outside, looking for dead people for resources.
War has a great impact on the living, but it also has an untold toll on the dead people.
The villager sighed and continued, "It would be nice if there was no war." If you want me to say, the Arctic Ice Sheet is so big, how many Yin Souls do we have in the Ten Thousand Demon Pit? As long as you work hard, you can live a very nourishing life here. ”
The old village chief shook his head: "The old ancestor said, life and death are incompatible, this place we occupy belongs to the living, how can the other party give up?" ”
"It's a pity that we can't live a good life, we can only wait for the war to end."
Speaking of this, the idle villagers next to him leaned over one after another, and someone asked in a low voice: "Village chief, you are a person who has seen the world, what is the battle on the front line like now?" Is it almost over? ”
The old village chief said, "The end? I'm afraid it's enough! ”
"Now the old ancestor has pressed the army on the defense line of the Great Wall, and the two sides have fought dozens of battles, and each time they have killed the remnants of the souls all over the place, and the bones are rolling around."
"It's just that the great villain of Emperor Ming among the living people is really powerful, the old ancestor has been attacking for seven or eight days in a row, but he has never been able to enter the defense line."
Someone around said: "Is the great villain of Emperor Ming really so powerful? Didn't the ancestor say that he was known as a million ghost soldiers? How can you not help a great villain of Emperor Ming? ”
The old village chief shook his head: "Millions of ghost soldiers? Is it a lot? ”
"There are five major exorcism legions for the living, and each legion has 200,000 exorcist soldiers, which adds up to a million!"
"What's more, the other party still has reserves, as well as the security team, and the exorcists from the three mountains and five mountains, there are always two or three hundred thousand in total, right?"
"And it is said that the rear is still training new exorcist soldiers, just waiting to fight us to the death."
The surrounding villagers gasped, and then someone sighed and said, "What are you talking about?" Isn't it good for everyone to live happily? ”
"The dead live in the Far North ice sheet, and the living live in the South. If everyone's well water does not interfere with river water, no one can hinder anyone, how good? ”
Everyone sighed for a while, the longer this war dragged on, the greater the damage to the ghost people.
Not to mention anything else, the oppression from the Ancestor of the Corpse alone was already unbearable for them.
This war is not a good thing for anyone.
The north wind was howling, and the air was gloomy, and suddenly someone said loudly: "Huh! Who are you? Old village chief! Old village chief! ”
The old village chief hurriedly stood up and took a few steps forward. After only two steps, I saw an extremely weak Three Souls and Seven Spirits, lying on the soul stone shivering.
There's a ghost on the ore? This kind of thing is really incredible.
But the old village chief was kind-hearted, and saw that this was a ghost, not a living person with flesh and blood, so he hurriedly beckoned: "What are you doing in a daze?" Save! ”
Everyone dragged the remnant soul out, and a soul stone quickly stuffed into his head.
The fluctuations emitted by the soul stone combed the three souls and seven spirits layer by layer, and soon the body of this remnant soul became solidified.
Seeing that the image of the remnant soul was gradually stabilizing, the old village chief asked in a low voice, "Young man, wake up, wake up!" ”
I had a dream in a daze that my soul was so lost that even my thoughts vanished. may be because of the dream, although my soul is scattered in the dream, I can still "see" my own silence.
It wasn't until I heard someone whispering to me that I opened my eyes subconsciously.
I'm alive? It was the first thing I felt when I woke up.
I immediately recalled in my mind the battle between myself and Win Mandate, I used the black and white sword of life and death to cut off the last soul of Win Mandate, but I was also killed by Win Mandate, and the three souls and seven spirits could not be saved, and I was about to scatter my soul.
But how can I still be conscious? Could it be that he has become a ghost?
As my eyes gradually focused, I looked first at my hands and feet, and then at the ethereal ghosts around me, and immediately understood what was going on.
I ended up being a ghost, and I don't know how, I ended up here.
Surrounded by snow and darkness, there is no doubt that this is the Far North Ice Sheet shrouded in the Great Dark Age.
The illusory old man in front of me was looking at me expectantly.
Maybe he noticed that I was dumbfounded, and the old village chief asked again: "Young man, is your brain not bright?" ”
I asked in a hoarse voice, "Where is this, old man?" ”
The old village chief smiled and said, "This is the Valley of Ten Thousand Souls, and it is the favorite place for lonely souls and wild ghosts. You're not really hurting your head, boy, are you? ”
"You can be here, how can you not know the situation here?"