When everything returned to calm, no one in Taiping Town survived, the atmosphere was dead, and it seemed like a dead and empty city. The satiated ghosts got back into the earthen jars and stood guard in front of the city gate.
In an instant, thousands of living lives fell into silence before his eyes. Zhang Zheng stared at the empty city intently. Although he had expected it, when he saw this miserable scene, he still couldn't hide his sadness and shock.
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"Hey, it's not moving anymore."
After waiting for a long time and seeing no movement, the ghost doll was quite surprised.
Zhang Zheng suddenly came back to his senses and frowned as he observed the situation in front of him. There was indeed no movement at all. The trees were still, the wind had calmed down, and the waves were calm.
Falling from the air to the ground, Zhang Zheng subconsciously walked towards the carriage containing the earthen jars and stopped on the side of the carriage.
The ghost doll asked strangely: "What are you going to do?"
Zhang Zheng didn't answer. He stretched out his hand and lifted the embroidered curtain. The standing earthenware jar came into view. His green and white fingers stretched out towards the earthenware jar as if to open it.
"What are you doing! There are ghosts inside!"
The ghost doll yelled, anxious and angry, its pupils shrank to the extreme, "You are just a mortal now, you are looking for death!"
The outstretched finger frightened Zhang Zheng, and she curled her lips helplessly and smiled, "What are you thinking about? Don't worry, I have a sense of discretion."
"You have such a bad reputation...ahhhhhh!"
Before the ghost doll finished cursing, the finger in the air had already touched the lid of the earthen jar, and with a little force, it opened a crack. The rich ghost energy spurted out from the gap, and it rushed towards Zhang Zheng with open teeth and claws, frightening it.
The unprepared ghost doll Zhang squeaked and screamed.
"Okay, stop barking."
A familiar voice rang in his ears. The ghost doll closed his big mouth, turned his head quickly, saw a bright smiling face, and yelled in shock and anger: "What are you doing! I almost lost my life!"
Zhang Zheng clenched his fist, feeling the freedom of his soul, and couldn't help but sigh, it was indeed better to slip out, even if there was a possibility of his soul disintegrating at any time.
"Okay, okay, my fault, my fault. Don't be too busy being angry now. I'm not dead, and neither are you. We should leave now."
"Go? Where?"
The ghost doll looked around. Fang Yi calmed down and finally reacted. His eyes widened in shock, "How did you do that?"
The female corpse was lying upright on the ground, her beautiful face looked a bit ferocious and terrifying, her mouth was drooling, her white eyes were staring at Zhang Zheng, her undisguised greed was clearly visible.
"I'll explain it later, it's too late."
Zhang Zheng glanced at the female corpse fearfully, jumped up, grabbed the ghost doll with one hand, picked up the earthen pot neatly with the other, and ran out of the city gate.
After rushing out of the city gate, Zhang Zheng did not stop and rushed to about two miles away. The scene in front of him suddenly changed. The green mountains and sky were like a whole mirror cracking open. The winding cracks covered the mirror and exploded with a bang.
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The ghost doll kicked away a bunch of petals at its feet and watched them swaying down, "What are we doing now?"
Zhang Zheng turned the earthen pot in his hand and took a closer look. He couldn't see any difference in appearance from the real one, but he could feel the ghostly energy in it, so he continued to hold it in his hand.
Her eyes fell on the bright red petals scattered everywhere on the ground. The bright red all over the ground seemed to make her mistakenly think that she saw the blood mist in the sky of Taiping Town again. "Of course we have to find the exit."
"Can you find it?"
Faced with the doubts of the ghost doll, Zhang Zheng pursed her lips in dissatisfaction, "Of course..."
"Can't find it."
The ghost doll said, "By the way, how did you escape from the corpse just now? And also locked the ghost in it?"
Zhang Zheng knelt down, pinched a petal, looked at it carefully, and replied casually: "A soulless corpse is the easiest to attract wandering souls, but most of them can only let the wandering souls pass through, and a very few can become soul cages, and the mortal body can be used to revive the soul.
That’s why, but there are still many harsh conditions, let’s not talk about it. Since that corpse can trap me in it, it is most likely a soul cage.”
"In the final analysis, ghosts and ghosts are nothing more than souls. Since they are souls, they can be locked by the soul cage. The soul cage can only hold one soul. As long as the ghosts seize the cracks the moment they get into the soul cage, 90% of them will
There was an opportunity to escape, so I took the risk."
The ghost doll was stunned, "What if it doesn't get into the body? What if it crushes you and turns you into a blood mist like the others?"
"It can crush my body to pieces. Once the soul cage is broken, I can naturally come out. As long as I run fast, there is a 50% chance that I can escape from the city before it catches up."
"Oh——" The ghost doll seemed to have some realization.
Zhang Zheng's hand holding the petals stiffened for a moment, and she blinked guiltily. She actually concealed part of the real reason why she dared to take the risk.
She cherishes her life the most. She will never take risks easily if she is not 80% or 90% sure.
The reason why we dare to risk our souls and ghosts is due to the whirlpool of vitality. There are nine whirlpools of vitality, one of which exists in the Divine Mansion. In addition, it is integrated with the Jingze Tree, and the soul body grows day by day.
Being nourished by it will be mixed with this type of breath to some extent, and it just so happens that the breath of the Jingze tree can swallow the soul, and naturally it can also cause a certain amount of damage to the ghost, enough for her to take the opportunity to escape.
Thinking of this, Zhang Zheng couldn't help but feel a sense of urgency. Although he didn't know what the mystery was that could actually make the soul exist outside the body, the crisis was like a guillotine hanging above his head. He didn't know when it would fall.
The soul is the foundation of a monk. Below Nascent Soul monks, once the soul leaves the body, there are only two results if there is no special external force.
Either enter the path of reincarnation, or lose your soul.
Even for Nascent Soul monks, their souls will be in an extremely weak state after leaving the body. If they cannot find a host within a certain period of time, their souls will wear out day by day, and they will eventually die.
"Hey Hey hey!"
"Huh?" Zhang Zheng suddenly came to her senses and faced the ghost doll's round, dead fish eyes, which almost came to her face.
Zhang Zheng tilted her head back slightly and moved further away from it, "What do you want me to do?"
The ghost doll stood up straight, stretched out its surprisingly slender arms, and in the palm of its open hand was a flower petal. "Even if you don't respond when I call you, it's as if you are dead. No, see for yourself, this petal is a bit strange."
Zhang Zheng took the petals and took a closer look. The petals were also bright red, but the edges were not the same as the blood red of other petals. Instead, they had a transparent, crystal-like texture. They were not soft to the touch, but a little hard.
"Why are these petals like this?"
The ghost doll rolled his eyes skillfully, "How do I know? Don't I ask you?"
Zhang Zheng sat casually on the ground, holding the petals in one hand and holding them up, squinting and looking carefully, his eyes full of confusion.
"Let's look for it again. Are there any petals like this?"
After an unknown amount of time, the ghost doll finally stopped its busy rummaging, opened its arms and fell back, collapsing from exhaustion.
Zhang Zheng sat cross-legged, holding up her face and looking at the petals piled up in front of her. They were all strange petals with transparent edges. There were probably hundreds of them. Not to mention the endless sea of ​​flowers, there were many more.
left in it.
These petals all have transparent edges, some are wide and some are thin, and their hardness is also quite different.
What is so strange about these petals?
Zhang Zheng shook her head in confusion, and her eyes focused on the petals began to lose focus.
Countless thoughts flashed through my mind in a hurried manner, until a sentence from a book suddenly appeared.
"One flower and one world, one tree and floating life, one grass and one paradise, one leaf and one Tathagata, one sand and one bliss, one square and one pure land, one smile and one worldly connection, one thought and one tranquility..."
Chapter completed!