Chapter 22: Ontology and Essence
In the picture projected by the eyeball monster, the strange figure holding the ghost horn has a hideous and terrifying fierce wolf head, and the whole body is wrapped in a kind of tangible black evil qi, when you look closely, you will find that this black evil qi is actually the fur on his body, but the hair has been demonized, turned into a black mist and gently floated outside the body. The most bizarre thing is that there seems to be an original intact skin bag all over his body, covered in fragments, the most obvious is hanging on the left cheek, and the half of the skin belonging to the old man with a goatee can be vaguely seen.
"The skeleton is the body of the podophyll. Qin Yun pointed to the wolf's head and grabbed the bones connected to the ghost horns, and then said suspiciously: "I just don't know where the goatee is?
"I think this person must be the same goatee as before. Feng Yu looked at the stranger with a wolf's head and said. Although Feng Yu is the worst among the three, his grade is the largest. Compared to the fact that he is only a hundred years old, he can only be regarded as a hairy boy in the demon world, so Feng Yu is a middle-aged uncle who is more than six hundred years old, so his experience is naturally a lot.
Feng Yu then explained to Ming and Qin Yun: "Look at the broken skin on this wolf's head, it is obviously the goatee from before. I've heard that there is a secret method that can steal other people's bodies and parasitize them inside, and at the same time absorb the cultivation of the parasitic person. In the end, the parasitic person will be absorbed into the light, and the parasitic person will die completely, but the skin will remain.
The thief can choose to give up the skin, or he can continue to stay in the skin. If you stay, your own body and essence become one and hide in the skin, and then use this skin to fight, of course, if you are damaged, this skin will also bear it, as long as you hide in the original without damage, there is no substantial danger, which is equivalent to an extra life.
I think the wolf's head in front of me is the secret method used, and the goatee before was just a leather bag that he occupied, and it had been destroyed in the explosion just now. ”
"Mr. Feng Yu is really well-informed, and hearing Mr. say this, the little woman remembered that she seemed to have heard of this secret method, but it was far from being as detailed as Mr. Know. It is not even possible to associate it from the current situation. Qin Yun said politely.
"There, Qin Yun is polite. Feng Yu said politely.
"Hehe, it's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Now the bones are seen to be exposed. Styx said with a sneer. The previous goatee was indeed easy to find out that it was a goat demon from the appearance, and now the wolf head in front of him is naturally a wolf demon, so it is indeed a wolf in sheep's clothing, and the mortar is naturally the bone that the hell said.
"Hehe, yes. Qin Yun smiled in response to a rare sense of humor. Then continue to look at the picture.
The wolf demon holding the ghost horn (instead of the goatee) was gathering in the palm of his hand with a strong demonic power, forcibly imprisoning the ghost horn, and then raised his other hand to peel off the remaining half of the goatee skin stuck to his face, and threw it away. With some pity in his mouth, he said, "Hey, it's a pity to have a good skin." Then he lifted the ghost horn and the bones of the ghost mortar and put it in front of him. With a hideous smile on his face, he said, "Since you broke it, then give your own compensation to the deity." The wolf demon said, his eyes lit up with a strange light, and the skeleton of the camera ghost only had empty eyes.
With the ingestion of light in the eyes of the wolf demon, the mouth of the podophyll's bones naturally opened by itself, and the corners of the demon's mouth immediately showed a cold smile, and the body immediately turned into black smoke little by little, and a trace of it burrowed into the body from the mouth of the podophyll, because the podophyll's body was only left with bones, and there was no flesh and skin, so it could be seen that the black smoke that drilled into the podomortar's body was absorbed on the bones of the podophyll.
"It's not good, this wolf demon is stealing the body of the ghost mortar, and wants to get the ghost king and ghost horn with it. Feng Yu said.
Ming and Qin Yun naturally understood that the things in front of them were indeed as Feng Yu said, originally the wolf head himself could not use the power of the ghost king's ghost horns, but now the ghost horns are connected to the body of the ghost mortar, so it is equivalent to occupying the body of the ghost mortar, and the ghost horn is obtained.
"What do we do now?" Seeing this, Feng Yu immediately asked eagerly.
"What to do? What is happening now, so to speak, has nothing to do with us for a long time. Are we going to stop that wolf demon now? Isn't that a death?" Qin Yun turned her head to stare at Feng Yu, and said strangely, thinking that Feng Yu might still be greedy for treasures, and then sighed again: "Hey! ”
Feng Yu smiled faintly, hiding his eagerness just now, and then said: "What the leader of Qinyun said is that I am thinking that the last benefits will be taken by this wolf demon, and I am a little unwilling!"
"That's no way, who says that everything depends on strength. The first-class strength is a bit too high for us to achieve," Qin Yun said lightly.
He looked at the ornament around his neck and said calmly, "At least we didn't die there." ”
"Look!" Feng Yuyou pointed to the bones of the podophyll, and suddenly said, "The essence of the podonine has not dissipated. ”
At the same time that the wolf demon turned into black smoke and invaded the body of the podophyll, in the head of the podomortar with only bones left, a white ghost fire was weak, but it was full of spirituality and was struggling, resisting the invasion of black smoke around him. This white ghost fire is the essence of the ghost mortar.
What exactly is the essence? This must start with the ontology. Because the essence is produced by relying on the ontology, and at the same time depends on the ontology.
The main body can be understood as the body of a demon, but it is somewhat inaccurate, because it should be the original form of the demon more accurately. For example, the jade pipa essence, although he has incarnated into a human form, the jade pipa is his body. And as Qin Yun said, the body of the podophyllum is the skeleton that is left now. In addition, it is explained that the general demon will try to transform into a near-human form, because this form is the most suitable for cultivation and convenient activities, and only demons who have reached the strength of the D level can initially have the ability to transform into a shape, and they can not be perfected until the C level. And the E-class youkai all exist in their ontological form. Of course, there are special cases, such as being born with a humanoid form, or disdainful of incarnating into a near-human form.
And when it comes to the original element, it can be considered the soul of the demon in the demon world, but it is definitely not just that. It contains the spirit and wisdom of each demon, and it is condensed. It can be said that it is the life of every demon, so once the essence disappears, it means that the demon is completely dead, even if the body is still intact. On the other hand, as long as the essence is not destroyed, it is possible to survive even if the essence is destroyed. However, once the true essence leaves the body, it has no actual power in itself, and even if it is not destroyed by others, it will slowly dissipate by itself after a long time.
In fact, many of the ontologies and essences of various demons are different, such as the wolf demon mentioned above, he is an animal demon race, and the general body is their body, and the soul before becoming a demon turns into a spirit, and becomes their essence together with Lingzhi; Another example is the ghost clan, where the body is generally a ghost, or a corpse, but the body is not the body of a ghost, and their body is later formed by cultivation; It's more like Qin Yun, she is a demon, and the ontology is a piece of music, a magic sound, and the appearance of the ontology contains consciousness and spirituality, so his ontology and essence are one, and they are all this magic sound.
Anyway, it can be said that there are all kinds of essences and ontologies, but their relationship will not change. And now the ghost mortar, the bones of the body are being occupied by the wolf demon, and the original is also being annihilated, so it can be said that it is about to face the danger of annihilation.
In the white ghost fire, the soul of the ghost mortar is letting out a desperate roar of death, but these sounds are not heard by anyone in the outside world. The essence of the podomort can feel that its own body is peeling off from itself little by little. The invading black smoke turned into a ferocious wolf, tearing and eroding its invisible body bit by bit.
The only thing that the desperate ghost mortar thought of was the ghost king and ghost horn on his head. In the depths of his soul, the ghost mortar was frantically urging the use of the ghost horn, shouting and calling for help to the ghost horn over and over again. It contains the despair, pain, perseverance, and anger that preceded death.
The ghost horn that was suppressed by the wolf demon with demonic power had always been very calm, but when he heard the ghostly shout, he began to slowly tremble again. The emotions of despair, pain, unyieldingness, and anger that came from the oni mortar actually resonated with some of the same emotions that had been hidden within the ghost horn for thousands of years, which were left by the one-horned ghost king before he died, and were imprinted in it by his ghost horn, the same despair, pain, unyielding, and anger.
The wolf demon originally thought that he had successfully suppressed the ghost horn, but it moved again. Feeling the ghost horn in the palm of his hand trembling more and more strongly, at the same time, the emotions of despair, pain, unyielding and anger seemed to have an impact on his own soul like a substance, and the wolf demon had to immediately terminate the invasion of the ghost mortar body, and the black smoke that invaded the ghost mortar body also retreated in an instant, and then quickly concentrated the demon power of the whole body to suppress the shaking ghost horn.
The wolf demon's demonic power is getting bigger and bigger, but the trembling of the ghost horns is getting stronger and stronger. The two sides were at a stalemate for a moment, and the wolf demon felt that the power of the ghost horn was once again terrifying, and the violent tremor even affected his entire body, and he trembled with the previous trembling.
Finally, the wolf demon felt a numbness in his palm, and the demonic power of the teleportation also breathed, and then the ghost horn instantly broke free from his palm.
The ghost horn that broke free from the wolf demon's palm immediately drew a cold light and stabbed towards the wolf demon.