Chapter 22: Encounters with Spirits
After coming out of the park, Shen Chong took a taxi directly back to Bihaiwan.
Walking on the uninhabited mountain road, looking at the villas of all kinds, Shen Chong greedily inhaled the sea breeze and stretched a big lazy waist: "It's still a place with few people!"
"Ahh
Shen Chong's heart tightened, and he hurriedly looked, only to find that the sound came from a villa located on the mountainside.
"Fortunately, it's not Yun'er!" Shen Chong instantly judged that the owner of the voice was not Xuanyun and the girls, and his villa was on the top of the mountain, not the mountainside.
However, he still decided to go over and take a look, and when he heard someone screaming, something must have happened, and the other party was still a woman, so he absolutely couldn't ignore it.
Shen Chong's speed was very fast, and he was cautious as he approached the villa. Xuan Yun said that the lion fighting the rabbit still needs all his strength, and there can be no carelessness before the battle, and the environment must be observed and judged clearly.
A high-end black sedan was parked in the courtyard of the villa, and the door of the villa was also open, revealing a black hole.
"Hell... Hell, someone, help!~" The cry for help just now sounded again, but it was much more urgent than the previous one.
Ghosts? How can there be ghosts?
Although he was puzzled, Shen Chong didn't dare to delay, and rushed to the villa directly, and then saw the woman curled up in the corner of the living room, as well as the two black-clothed men who fell to the ground.
"It's you!?" Seeing the beautiful girl who was dressed fashionably but with a frightened face, Shen Chong was stunned.
The woman who was shouting for help was the girl who was trying to rob her boyfriend in the commercial street just now. This villa turned out to belong to this eldest lady.
"Little... Xiao Shuai!Help me!" The girl also recognized the young man in front of her, and threw herself directly into his arms, trembling all over.
"Senior?" The eyes of the two black-clothed men who fell to the ground lit up when they saw Shen Chong, and then shouted anxiously: "Senior, please take the young lady away quickly." We're running out of ......."
What the hell is the situation that can make two masters of ancient martial arts from another world seriously injured and fall to the ground! Shen Chong followed the two of them and looked at the figure hidden in the dark corner of the villa.
The figure took a step towards the two men in black, but his movements were very strange and stiff, but his body was still hidden in the darkness, and even Shen Chong's eyes couldn't see each other's faces clearly.
"Cultivator?" Feeling a strange but very familiar fluctuation of spiritual power, Shen Chong became vigilant in his heart, and at the same time said to the two black-clothed men who had already gotten up from the ground: "Take your young lady out of here, the farther away the better!"
The two of them, who were originally a little hesitant, thought of Shen Chong's power, and immediately nodded in agreement, directly hugged the girl in Shen Chong's arms, and then stumbled out.
A moment later, the sound of a car ignition starting rang out in the yard.
Hearing the car drive away, Shen Chong met the mysterious person in front of him and said coldly: "Come out! I'm also a cultivator, don't pretend to be a ghost in front of me!"
"Heh, ah......" A heavy voice sounded, and the figure buried in the darkness turned slightly, taking a step towards Shen Chong's side, and at the same time, his face gradually became clear in Shen Chong's sight.
It was a woman, the color of her skin and clothes were the same, they were all lifeless gray-white, her face was blank, she raised her hands flatly, and continued to walk in the direction of Shen Chong mechanically.
"A moving stone statue?" This was Shen Chong's first impression after seeing the other party.
"Is it a stone statue or a zombie? ghost?... Is it a ghost...... Could it be that there are really ghosts in the world!?" Faced with the unknown beyond imagination, Shen Chong's frightened hairs stood on end.
But he didn't run away immediately, because he felt that although the woman had a heavy breath and strange behavior, he still had the strength to fight the other party, so he was just on guard and watched the other party's next move.
The woman who resembled a stone statue still walked towards Shen Chong stiffly, and at this time, two rays of light suddenly lit up in the darkness behind her, like ghost eyes in the night, staring directly at Shen Chong's face. At the same time, an even heavier aura emerged from the darkness.
"And there's one more! and it's even more powerful, stronger than me......" Shen Chong's eyelids jumped, and a sense of powerlessness arose in his heart.
"Damn, there are so many ghosts~!" Once he relaxed, fear instantly occupied Shen Chong's heart, and he suddenly screamed like an ordinary fourteen-year-old boy and escaped directly from the villa.
Rushing all the way back to the villa, it wasn't until the door was closed that Shen Chong heard his rapid breathing and rapid heartbeat.
It wasn't a run, it was scared out.
It's terrible! Just now, I actually encountered two monsters that resemble zombies.
"Shen Chong, what's wrong with you?" Xuan Yun and Yu Kite, who heard the strange noise, walked downstairs and asked curiously when they saw Shen Chong's frightened appearance.
"Ghosts! There are ghosts!" Shen Chong's face turned pale and he was shocked.
Xuan Yun originally thought it was funny, but when she saw that Shen Chong was already scared, she asked, "What the hell?" ”
After the two girls appeared, the horror in Shen Chong's heart receded slightly, so he heard the girl cry for help, and then went to check, and then recounted the terrifying scene he saw.
After listening to Shen Chong's narration, Yu Kite burst out laughing: "What the hell is not a ghost! It turns out that you want to be a hero to save the beauty, but you are scared to run away, it's really boring!"
The originally cold rain kite smiled like this, but Shen Chong felt that she was making fun of herself, and said unconvinced: "But it's really terrifying! That woman walks like a zombie, she pounces when she sees someone, and there is a more powerful one hidden behind, if you are bold enough to rain kite, you can try to subdue them?"
"Just go, I'll go and catch the ghost in your mouth later, and see if you have anything else to say......" Yu Kite deliberately said with Shen Chong.
Shen Chong was angry, "You...... Okay, let me see if you're only big talkers!"
"Okay, you two!" Xuan Yun interrupted the quarrel between the two with a smile, and then turned to Shen Chong and said, "But what Yu Kite said is right, if she makes a move, she can indeed easily subdue the 'ghost' you call in your mouth." ”
Shen Chong hurriedly asked, "Yun'er, do you already know the true face of the 'ghost'?"
Xuan Yun smiled and nodded: "If my inference is correct, I think what you said must be 'material essence'." ”
Shen Chong remembered that in the cultivation exercises given to him by Master Xuanji Zhenren, there were some common knowledge in the cultivation world, which also described the essence of matter, saying that some inanimate objects would suddenly have life under accidental conditions, and they were collectively called 'essence of things' by cultivators, and most of the 'ghosts', 'zombies', 'ghosts', etc., which mortals said, belonged to the category of 'essence of things'.
Shen Chong suddenly realized: "My master said that the essence of the object has no spiritual intelligence, and when it encounters the qi of the living, it will pounce on people, and it will suck the vitality of the living or the cultivator to enhance its own strength, so that when I encounter the essence of the object in the future, I will destroy it if I can fight it, and prevent the essence from harming mortals, and if I can't beat it, I will run away, so as not to be sucked by them." No wonder that female spirit raised her hand just now to pounce on me......"
"Not entirely true. Xuan Yun smiled slyly, and had the intention to eliminate Shen Chong's illiteracy. "There is nothing wrong with the fact that the matter-spirits are inanimate dead things, but the main reason why there are matter-spirits is because of the existence of humans and other living beings. ”
"How do you say this?" Shen Chong was confused.
Xuan Yun smiled and said, "Shen Chong, do you know that even ordinary beasts and mortals have heaven and earth aura on their bodies?"
Shen Chong nodded: "I naturally know this, and the aura on some mortals and beasts will be much higher than other similar ones, this kind of mortals and beasts belong to the category that has the talent of cultivation and is suitable for cultivation." But what does it have to do with the spirits?"
"Don't worry, let me tell you slowly......" Xuan Yun smiled slightly: "Some dead things, it is originally composed of things that contain spirituality, such as a sculpture carved from jade, the roots of a 10,000-year-old tree, and a mortal corpse with spiritual energy remaining in it, etc., in some specific circumstances, when they are touched by creatures with spiritual energy, they will undergo special changes and become 'material essences'." ”
Shen Chong secretly said in his heart, no wonder there are rumors that the corpse has turned into a zombie when it meets a cat, it used to be a lie, but now it seems to be true.
Xuan Yun continued: "Whether a dead thing can suddenly have life and become a substance essence is not up to anyone. Maybe you have a lot of spiritual power, but no matter how much you touch a dead thing with a spiritual nature, it will not become a 'matter spirit', but on the contrary, other people with less spiritual power than you, if they touch it by chance, it has life. In short, the appearance of matter spirits is very accidental, so they can also be regarded as a kind of heaven and earth creation of nature. ”
"Aren't they just hurting people? can this also be regarded as the creation of heaven and earth?" Shen Chong said puzzled.
"That's just a misunderstanding of the essence of matter between mortals and you mortal cultivators. Xuan Yun shook his head and said: "The essence of things does pounce on people, and in the same way, it will pounce on all things with spirituality and aura." This is a moth-like nature, a natural love for the aura of heaven and earth, just like a person who is about to freeze will involuntarily approach the stove. But after pounced on people, the essence of matter will not harm people, let alone suck the aura on people. Moreover, the spirits are not without intelligence, and soon after they have life, they will develop intelligence. Even some human corpses turned into essences, after they have cultivated to a high level, they are no different from normal people in terms of appearance and heart......"
Shen Chong was horrified in his heart, but he fully understood the characteristics of the essence of matter.
It turns out that the description of the Mortal Realm cultivators on the essence of matter is only one-sided, although the spirit of the essence is lower when it first has life, but after a period of time, it will automatically have a spirit that is not lower than that of a human. At the same time, they only smell the anger of people and chase after them when they have just had life, which is natural and not intended to hurt people. At this time, when encountering a monster of the essence of the matter, some people will run away, some people will resist, when they encounter resistance, the essence will instinctively attack the other party, just now I saw two men in black were injured by the spirit of the object, it is estimated that this is the case. When their intelligence is high, they will be able to control their fluttering and hurting behavior.
In this way, the monochin is not a ghost, but a kind species. Remembering that after seeing the strange appearance of the spirits, he didn't even have the idea of fighting, so he ran away, and Shen Chong was a little embarrassed.
"Hmph! Shen Chong, I can't imagine that you have become a cultivator, and you are still so simple!" Yu Kite suddenly interjected: "The law of the jungle is not only the iron law of nature, but also the standard of the cultivation world. What is good and bad, good and evil, it is just you simple people who deceive yourself, in the eyes of ordinary cultivators, even if the essence of the object does not hurt people, once they find the essence of the matter, they will still kill it on the spot, and there will be no mercy at all. It's called reality, you know?"
Xuan Yun nodded, and continued the topic: "Once a dead thing has life and turns into a matter of essence, it will have the cultivation of the Ning Dan stage at the very least. And unlike mortals and spirit beasts, which cultivate the golden pill and then conceive it from the golden pill to the primordial infant, the essence of the body is a peculiar inner pill, and the inner pill contains a very unique aura, which is neither an ordinary heaven and earth aura, nor the primordial spirit qi in the body of a cultivator, but it is very beneficial for a cultivator to improve his true spiritual cultivation......
Shen Chong finally understood, he knew that it was not difficult for cultivators to improve their own spiritual power, as long as they relied on constantly refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, or refining the golden pill yuan infant of other cultivators. The reason why their cultivation is not improving quickly is because it is too difficult to improve the cultivation of the true spirit, and they can only rely on gradual and gradual accumulation.
A true spirit in the late stage of transformation cannot control the energy of the early stage of the primordial infancy. Once the power of the Yuan Spirit in the body exceeds the control of his true spirit, there is only one result, that is, a large amount of Yuan Spirit power is out of control and causes chaos, and this cultivator will go mad and die directly.
Therefore, some elixirs that can quickly improve true spiritual cultivation have become hot treasures in the eyes of true cultivators.
The Inner Pill of the Essence of Matter can enhance the true spiritual cultivation of the cultivator to a certain extent, so it is not surprising that the Essence of Matter will become the favorite prey of the cultivators.
Yu Kite's tone was cold, and he looked at Shen Chong with a smile: "What's the matter?" I'll go and catch those two Essence Essence now, and then refine their Inner Pill for you, so that you can taste the taste of Essence Inner Pill?"
Shen Chong looked at Xuan Yun in amazement, and Xuan Yun also nodded: "Shen Chong, you have to get used to this way of survival." When you are a mortal, you also like to eat meat, but you eat the bodies of other animals, and the reality is that if you survive, other creatures will become your food. ”
Shen Chong's heart sank, he hadn't thought of this before.
In fact, Xuan Yun has been worried about this matter, Shen Chong is good at everything, talented, determined, and persevering, and the only drawback is that he is too kind. With this kind of character, there is no problem in living in a peaceful world as a mortal, but the cruelty of the cultivation realm is far beyond the imagination of mortals, Xuan Yun is afraid that if this continues, Shen Chong's cultivation path will not go far at all.
"No, I will never kill them and take the Inner Dan!" Under Xuan Yun's expectant gaze, Shen Chong shook his head, his mind was very firm: "Even if this kind of behavior is stupid, at least I will feel at ease." Yun'er, you also said that the essence of matter can be regarded as a natural creation of heaven and earth, so they have their own reason for existence, and they should not become the prey and food of other cultivators!"
Knowing that Xuan Yun was just worried about herself, Shen Chong hurriedly relieved her and said, "But Yun'er, don't worry, although I don't want to take the initiative to hurt others, once someone wants to deal with me, I won't be merciful." ”
Xuan Yun sighed, and then was relieved.
What path Shen Chong chooses, that is his freedom. And on the way to cultivating the truth, is it true that the more ruthless the willing, the smoother the go? This is a question that even she herself does not know. She only knew that no matter what decision Shen Chong made, she would support him unreservedly.