Master of Kaidan-Chapter 514: Soul Lost in the Clouds, Spirit Gone Astray

Chapter 514: Chapter 514: Soul Lost in the Clouds, Spirit Gone Astray

The woman who had hanged herself was dangling over the round table in the living room, and no one had taken action to rescue her, because nobody knew whether the spirit of the hanged had been devoured by the murderer’s ghost, found a replacement and reincarnated, or was still residing in her corpse, waiting for the next unlucky one to approach.

Apart from Feng Xue, who was holed up in her room, the remaining six people clearly divided into four factions, a student leading the only woman, a corporate slave with a deepened bruise on his neck following the pale-faced man, the previously most arrogant bald man with a red face stood alone, trying to woo the equally lonely fat man, only to be ruthlessly rejected; after all, the bald man was ostracized, and the fat man simply did not want to group with anyone.

Watching the fat man, drenched in stinky sweat, headed back to his room, the red-faced bald man’s complexion grew even worse. He tried to use the information he held to analyze the situation but realized none was applicable to the current scene.

As people gradually disappeared from the living room, Feng Xue finally stepped out of her room. He applied a bottle of eye cream on his eyelids, and a cool sensation spread, making everything before his eyes immediately appear different.

It was not that Feng Xue, being both an Immortal and an Emperor of Heaven, was so lowly that he could not even see ghosts; rather, the settings for ghosts from different worlds were entirely distinct. Just as Mechas from the Cyberpunk World would become Pseudo Artifacts in the real world, names might be identical, but different settings could lead to many strange discrepancies in non-Power abilities.

Although it was not impossible to use the Feminization Filter, Feng Xue hoped to see the real scene more directly, instead of through the lens of the Feminization Filter which corrected everything into a tantalizing style.

Thus, Feng Xue simply used an eye cream mixed with Cow Tears, intrinsically granting him the ability to see Spiritual Bodies.

Heart Over Matter + make the most of everything + Master of Props, it was that useful.

Where did the Cow Tears come from?

Don’t ask, it’s from the Babylon Tower department store.

Anyway, with the effect of the temporary illusion, Feng Xue obtained a universal vision for Spiritual Bodies, and under this perspective, the entirety of the living room subtly transformed.

The table was still the same table, and the Corpse was still the same Corpse, but what was chilling was the sight next to the hanged woman’s Corpse, where a ghost, looking as if it had eaten Fatty Tongue Toffee, sat on the edge of the table, hugging the woman’s Corpse and gnawing at her belly.

No, to be precise, it was gnawing at something inside her belly.

Her soul?

Or something else?

Feng Xue did not know much about the ghost and spirit system of this world, but seeing how engrossed the ghost was, it was clearly something valuable.

Feng Xue gently stroked the Expensive Steel Pen, and the pen fairy sister immediately poked half her body out, looking tired, and said:

"What is it? I’m studying job skills."

"What job skills?" Feng Xue raised an eyebrow in surprise as the pen fairy sister, pulling out a wooden waist token, waved it—

"The job skills of Star Lord of Calculation, how to calculate a person’s good and evil karma, how to adjust a person’s lifespan based on these data, how to communicate with the Underworld, and how to go easy on the descendants of immortals..."

"Well, those things are in this waist token?"

Feng Xue, as the Emperor of Heaven, was unaware of this matter and was quite surprised to hear it from the pen fairy.

"It’s not in the waist token, but it’s in the Divine Position. Even as temporary staff, no, specifically because it’s temporary staff, if you don’t want to take the blame, you have to study hard," the pen fairy took a deep breath and then brought the conversation back:

"So, what do you need?"

"Ah, oh, look at that thing, what’s going on with it? What is it eating?"

"I’m not a ghost from this world..." Miss Pen Immortal muttered, but still looked in the direction Feng Xue was pointing, only to accidentally say at the moment her eyes (?) focused:

"Ah, I actually do know about this."

"If you know, then speak quickly." Feng Xue rolled her eyes, and the seemingly not-so-bright Miss Pen Immortal explained with a hint of grievance:

"It’s eating the ’hun’ of that corpse."

"The ’hun’ part of soul and body?" Feng Xue understood immediately thanks to the effects of the Translation Tuber, and Pen Immortal nodded then continued:

"I am like the ’hun’, the ’po’ is what secures the soul to the body, you can think of ’po’ as a cage, the body envelopes this cage, and inside the cage, the ’po’ is confined. When a person dies, the ’po’ shatters, the ’hun’ drifts out, some souls lose track and then turn into ghosts."

"Losing track can still turn into that..." Feng Xue concentrated her immortal power on her fingertips and flicked Miss Pen Immortal’s head, which Miss Pen Immortal did not appreciate, showing a face full of grievance:

"I find it difficult to explain verbally, but in essence, the soul lacks certain things and then becomes a ghost. What those things are, I don’t know, but to put it simply, it’s like the ’hun’ has lost its ’cloud’."

"So if the ’po’ loses its ’white’, does it also become a ghost?" Feng Xue casually tossed salt at her feet, making a jab that didn’t hold much substance, but what he didn’t expect was that Miss Pen Immortal actually nodded seriously.

"F*ck! Are you serious?" Feng Xue stared wide-eyed in disbelief, but Miss Pen Immortal pointed at the ghost and said:

"Ghosts formed from ’hun’ are Yin Ghosts, while those formed from ’po’ are Yang Ghosts. Yin Ghosts cannot exist independently; they must rely on items or living bodies, whereas Yang Ghosts directly cling to corpses, also known as corpse transformation. However, Yin Ghosts can also gain yang by devouring ’po’, allowing them to exist independently. That ghost is doing just that right now, it first eats up the ’po’, allowing it to leave the object it was relying on, then it eats the ’hun’ to increase its power so it can continue to harm others..."

"How do you know this?" Feng Xue looked at Miss Pen Immortal with a somewhat bizarre expression, but Miss Pen Immortal replied as if it were only to be expected:

"Isn’t this something every ghost should know?"

"..." Feng Xue furrowed his brow even more and after a moment of contemplation, he then asked:

"Does the Po Ghost also eat soul and body?"

"How would I know that?"

"???" Feng Xue’s face suddenly changed, then he said sternly:

"You don’t know?"

"Yeah? Should I know about this kind of thing? I’m not a ghost from this world!"

Miss Pen Immortal answered as if it was a matter of course, but Feng Xue only felt a chill rising up his back, then he hesitated slightly before asking:

"Then why do you know about the soul turning into a ghost?"

"Because that’s common knowledge!" Miss Pen Immortal still looked completely unaware of the seriousness of the issue, which made Feng Xue’s scalp tingle. He took a deep breath and asked again:

"This common knowledge, is it from the previous world?"

"I am just a Pen Immortal, what previous world would I have!"

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