Master of Kaidan-Chapter 504: Ghost Meets Sorrow

Feng Xue, unable to get answers from Cain, sought an even more learned existence. However, upon seeing Feng Xue dump Tower Coins onto the bar counter by the boxful, the bartender helplessly shook his head and bluntly replied:

"There is no such method in Infinite City."

"If Infinite City doesn’t have it, does that mean Babylon Tower might?" Feng Xue was adept at catching loopholes in language, but the bartender did not bite, responding:

"Babylon Tower is a part of Infinite City. If you insist on differentiating the two, then Babylon Tower also lacks it."

"There’s really not even a little way?" Feng Xue said, somewhat unwilling to give up:

"You can keep all this money as a tip."

Upon hearing this, the bartender reached out, scraping the Tower Coins piled up like a small mountain in front of him under the counter, but still said:

"I don’t know."

"Big guy, all those Tower Coins are only worth this..." Feng Xue was about to express his saltiness when suddenly, he heard a voice by his ear—

[After receiving a considerable tip, the bartender whispers to you...]

"..." Feng Xue smirked, started to speak, then stopped, caught in thought, and forgot what to say.

Ultimately, he could only silently digest the information in his brain, leaving behind only a bag of salt in the bar...

...

"What exactly is the mechanism of this tavern?"

Feng Xue muttered to himself as he returned home, tidying up all the ritual implements, leaving only an incense burner, a pair of white candles, and three incense sticks.

After cleaning the table, Feng Xue spread out a piece of white paper, used the white candles to light the incense, purposely burning them to two short and one long lengths before inserting them into the incense burner, and then he took out his precious pen.

Actually, according to what the bartender had said, he should have gone to the department store’s basement level to buy many materials. However, this time he happened to have what was needed, which made it even easier to proceed.

As the smoke curled upward, Feng Xue held the pen in the air, softly chanting:

"Pen spirit, pen spirit, you are my past life, I am your present..."

"Uh, why is there no reaction?" After completing a standard procedure, Feng Xue was slightly startled. He used his Golden Finger to check the pen again and, confirming there was no issue, couldn’t help but fall into deep thought.

He took out his phone, did a search to confirm he had not made a mistake in the process, and suddenly felt that his Golden Finger might not be so reliable either.

But at this moment, he suddenly discovered that the interface for the Expensive Steel Pen had changed—

Name: Phantom Object·Expensive Steel Pen

Attributes: [Stationery], [Infinite], [Durable], [High Efficiency], [Mysterious], [Comfortable], [Precious]

Description: A costly, high-end steel pen, understatedly luxurious yet fits the fingers perfectly. Merely holding it in one’s hand is pleasing, and it significantly enhances fluidity and speed when writing. It seems, however, that one of its former owners used it for a certain special ritual, thus it has been imbued with a strange power, possessing ink that never runs out, and can even improve the precision of divinations.

Note: While it’s generally not recommended to play pen spirit with this pen, who cares when you are an immortal?

...

"Damn, how come I never realized how much drama this ’Golden Finger’ held?" Feng Xue took out his other Phantom Objects one by one to see if there were any changes but didn’t find anything. In the end, he concluded that the changes must result from the interaction between Phantom Objects and Powers.

For example, if he had gotten abilities like "Beyond seven steps, fast firing; within seven steps, both fast and precise firing," then the double-barreled shotgun that was once nullified by an Acupoint master didn’t seem entirely unusable.

Having figured out the root of the problem, Feng Xue sighed, activated his ’Hermit Power,’ and hid all his Kaidan entries again. After seeing the note for ’Expensive Steel Pen’ revert to "If I were you, I’d never use this pen for the Pen Fairy game!", he started the Summoning Ceremony again.

"Pen fairy, pen fairy, you’re my past life, I’m your present. If you’re willing to continue our fate, please draw a circle on the paper."

As his words fell, the steel pen that Feng Xue held trembled slightly, but under his grip, it couldn’t move at all either.

Feeling the pen’s force in his fingertip gradually increase, Feng Xue’s mouth curled slightly. He was actually quite curious if he kept holding on, whether he would piss off the pen fairy, but considering now wasn’t the time for games, he relaxed his grip and let the pen slowly draw a circle on the white paper.

Feng Xue looked at the shaky circle, drawn as if in an extremely fatigued state, whistled frivolously, and continued:

"Pen fairy, pen fairy, I want to know the location of the [beep -] liquid that was stolen from me..."

"???"

The pen, which had seemed to be quivering due to shaky hands, gave up the act and directly drew three question marks on the paper, making Feng Xue quite embarrassed. However, thinking since he had already asked, he simply said:

"Just tell me whether you know or not."

"..."

The pen rapidly dotted six points on the white paper and then stopped moving. Seeing this, Feng Xue rolled his eyes and said rather rudely:

"Tch, useless!"

The moment he spoke, he clearly felt his Expensive Steel Pen violently twitch twice, but it still showed no intention of writing more. Feng Xue knew this guy was truly helpless, so he immediately blew out the white candle on the table, extinguished the three sticks of incense, capped the pen, and pocketed it in his jacket.

Undoubtedly, Feng Xue’s act of inviting the Pen Fairy without sending it off was taboo, but that was precisely Feng Xue’s intention.

According to the information given by the bartender, if he could enter a state haunted by ghosts and open the door, he would enter a world with a Mysterious and Cursed perspective. The method to be haunted by ghosts was to hold a Summoning type of Ritual in a room within Babylon Tower, without terminating it through the proper channels.

Of course, it’s not exclusive to the Babylon Tower; it’s just that outside of the tower means it’s not a Forbidden Weapon zone, and being casually haunted by ghosts can be very dangerous.

After all, not everyone is like Feng Xue, who has the Kaidan of a ’Ghost-Catching Master’ at their side, okay, besides that, he’s also the ’Lord of Three Worlds,’ the Supreme of Heavenly Court.

But before crossing over, he did have to maintain his Mortal state continuously, otherwise, who knows if he would scare away the Pen Fairy that was haunting him.

However, instead of worrying about that Pen Fairy, what Feng Xue needed to do now was to take out that set of sacrificial gear again.

His gains from the world of the ’Divine Enthronement’ made him acutely aware that inheriting a legacy is always easier than building one from scratch.

The only thing to be mindful of is to be careful not to inherit debts as well.

With the candles lit again and the incense smoke rising, Feng Xue’s mansion once again filled with curling blue smoke, and he opened a bottle of ’Lucky Milk,’ pouring it down his throat with a gurgling sound.

"Next, let’s see what kind of world I can go to!"

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