Chapter 787, the so-called immortality
I really don't know what the difference is between the primordial spirit and the soul, and I didn't think to ask about this before Zhao Hongjun was arrested. However, there is one thing I can imagine, and that is that the feeling of the spirit out of the body and the soul leaving the body should be completely different.
In my opinion, moving the spirit through the leylines should be similar to the feeling of being psychic, but actually experiencing it has a completely different feeling.
I meditated cross-legged in the middle of the blood circle according to Boss Nie's instructions, and completely relaxed to let my brain empty. During the process, I kept hearing Boss Nie chanting a mantra in a low voice. I wanted to hear what he was chanting, but Boss Nie motioned for me to ignore his spell and preferably enter a half-asleep state as if he didn't exist.
This kind of thing is simple to say, but it is not easy to do, and the more I empty my mind, the more dull my sense of time will become, I feel as if I have listened to Boss Nie recite the scriptures for an hour, and in the end I am simply sleepy by his recitation, and I am about to fall asleep.
And just when I was in a daze, I suddenly felt someone tap me on the shoulder, and I suddenly woke up and found that I was no longer in the old demon's underground laboratory.
I can see myself. The body is also completely under my own control, when I reach out and touch the floor or wall around me. I also have a normal touch, and it feels like I've teleported to another place all at once. But at the same time, I could still faintly feel some numbness in my legs, as if something was sitting under my buttocks, and the feeling of meditation was still there.
"The first time I use the leyline Genshin Out of the Body is very strange, and sometimes I even confuse the feeling of the body with the feeling of the Genshin, but it's good to get used to it slowly." Boss Nie seemed to see my doubts, so he explained it to me.
"What is Genshin? Soul? "I know there's more important things to do, but I can't concentrate if I don't ask them.
"It's almost, but it's different, in fact, the out-of-body is just a figurative statement, in fact, your soul is still intact in your body, and what is transferred is just a copy of you." On the cross.
"Replicas?" I was surprised.
"Yes!" Boss Nie nodded. And further explained: "The so-called leyline is actually a strong magnetic field line that cannot be seen or touched. Where the magnetic field is strong, a large number of spirits will gather. Some spirits are conscious. Some are unconscious, and the out-of-body is actually to channel the consciousness in our souls into these unconscious spirits, and then let them transmit our consciousness along the leylines to any place on the leylines, and then use a fake body to receive our consciousness, and transmit back all the information we see, hear, and feel in the same way. So now you can feel everything on this side of Baoci Temple, and at the same time keep all the sensations of your body on the other side of Linghai. ”
"Oh, it feels complicated." I scratched my head.
"It's complicated to say, but it's even more complicated to do. The out-of-body spirit requires that the spellcaster must be able to perceive the subtle changes in spiritual power, and the most important thing is to confirm the exit of the original god, even if there is only a slight deviation, the original god may be trapped in the leylines forever, and finally cause the person who is out of the body to be unable to wake up for the rest of his life. ”
"You didn't say that before!" I said with a frown.
"Because I'm absolutely sure of my skills, and telling you this will only distract you, and maybe I'll be trapped in the leylines with you, which will be more than worth the loss." Boss Nie smiled slightly and said lightly, but his expression was really incommensurate with that miserable face.
The blood circle used for Genshin movement was set up in a dilapidated wooden house, and when we walked out of the cabin, we saw a bamboo forest outside, and it was very warm, and it felt that this should be the south.
Boss Nie held his helmet in his hand to cover his face, but he didn't wear it on his head. After leaving the door, he walked along a bluestone road on the left towards the depths of the bamboo forest. A few little monks could occasionally be seen along the way, but they didn't look at Boss Nie at all, and they didn't know if they really couldn't see it or pretended not to see it.
I whispered what was going on.
Boss Nie replied that these monks did not dare to greet him, and were even a little hostile to him, because the day after he appeared, the abbot of the temple appeared in his original form.
A few minutes later, we came to a hut surrounded by a bamboo forest. There were four black altars around the room, and there were knots and seals between them, and it seemed that the hut had been completely sealed.
In front of the two altars at the main entrance stood a monk, and when they saw Boss Nie coming, they immediately performed a Buddhist salute.
"Nothing special, right?" Boss Nie asked.
"It's just getting stinky and nothing else." One of the monks replied.
"Well, hard work. We're going to go in for a while, and you get your spirits up outside, and if you notice someone who is not right approaching, tell me at once. Boss Nie admonished, then raised his leg and crossed the knot used to seal it, and then motioned for me to follow him into the hut.
As soon as I reached the door, I smelled a rotting stench. I used to smell it a lot, and I thought I was probably used to it, but now that I smell it again, I still feel like I'm never going to be able to get used to it, and I feel like my stomach is rolling.
"What's inside might make you feel sick, be prepared." Boss Nie turned around and admonished.
I nodded at him, then motioned for him to open the door.
The moment the wooden door was opened, an unusually strong stench hit my face, almost making me lean back. I quickly covered my mouth and nose to reduce the impact of the foul smell and prevent myself from spitting out. When the urge to vomit was finally suppressed, I fixed my eyes on the inside of the room.
The room was dark, Boss Nie walked into the room and turned on the light, and I saw at a glance that there was a humanoid thing sitting against the innermost wall of the room, and the rotten stench was obviously wafting from that "person".
If Boss Nie hadn't told me in advance that the thing locked up here was a guy who couldn't die, I would definitely think that the thing sitting by the wall was a rotting corpse at all.
No skin was visible on his face, and what little muscle was left was completely dehydrated and dry against his skull. The eyeballs were gone, leaving only two black holes above the cheekbones, a lot of maggots wriggling in the eye sockets, and dozens of flies flying around his head.
He was draped in a shabby monk's robe, the front of the monk's robe was open, the skin and muscles on his chest were almost gone, the thoracic vertebrae and ribs in his chest cavity were clearly visible, and even in the abdominal cavity there were many wriggling maggots.
"Are you sure he's alive?" I asked, somewhat skeptically.
"You can try to get close to him." Boss Nie said as he gestured to the rotting corpse.
I clenched my nose and took a few steps forward, only to see the rotting corpse's hands hanging at my sides really move. I didn't stop, but continued to take a few steps forward, and the rotting corpse suddenly let out a muddy cry of "ah", and then stood up with both hands on the floor!
However, his body was already rotting to a pulp, and most of the muscles on his body were eaten by insects, so he could barely stand up and collapse before he could take half a step. But even so, his head was still facing me, his mouth was constantly opening and closing, and he didn't know if he wanted to say something or come and bite me.
"He's always been like this? Or did you do something? I frowned and looked at Boss Nie and asked.
"Fifty years ago, his body had begun to decay, and he had stuffed a lot of preservatives into his stomach and injected them into his veins. Usually he wrapped himself in monk's robes and covered his face with a mask, probably because he could always talk, walk, and stand in the sun, so he hid himself in this temple for fifty years. I just cleaned all the preservatives off his body, so it only took one day for him to rot and I guess he won't even be able to move in a few days. ”
"His soul should be bound in his body, I'll see if I can take it out." As I spoke, I walked over to the corpse, then held out my left hand and gently placed it on top of his head, silently reciting the dementor's mantra.
The corpse didn't really want to get up and bite me, so I immediately took a half step back to avoid his mouth, and at the same time pulled his soul out of his body.
I thought that his body would no longer move, but I didn't expect him to crawl towards me with his hands on the ground, and shout in a muddy voice as he crawled, "Give it back to me!" Give me back your soul! ”
I was sure that I would not satisfy him, and I continued to walk backwards to distance myself from him, and then completely severed the connection between my soul and my body with a curse.
This room is surrounded by pure yang barriers, and in this environment, I can open the spiritual path at will. Although Xi Lin didn't teach me how to send ghosts into the underworld as a yin, I could open a spiritual path first, stuff this guy's soul into the spiritual path, and then slowly interrogate me.
But just as I was about to open the spiritual path, the dry corpse didn't know where the power came from, and he jumped up from the ground suddenly, and stretched out his hands and pinched my neck, and continued to shout "Give it back" in his mouth!
Before I could make a move, Boss Nie threw a punch and knocked the dried corpse back into the corner from mid-air.
The dry corpse's already rotting and fragile body was almost completely broken because of this punch, and several ribs were broken. But this did not stop him, and as soon as he fell to the ground, he got up again, and reached out and pulled a broken bone from his stomach as a dagger, ready to continue the attack on me.
But his attack was unsuccessful, and almost as soon as he got up, a burst of fire came out of his stomach and instantly engulfed him in flames.
I thought it was Boss Nie using a spell, but Boss Nie suddenly shouted outside the wooden house, "What's the situation?" ”
"There's a giant, it's not our man!" Immediately there was a response from outside the house!