16. The Purpose of the Evil Spirit Master

Gui Fang: "What are you going there for? To find Bing Jie?"

Bei Chen's eyes lit up. "It's not impossible."

The sword he carried was neither comfortable to hold nor well-worn. If the evil spirit master launched another sneak attack, he probably wouldn't be able to withstand it.

"Before we set off, I think we need to find a quiet place to review everything." Tang Xi looked at the two of them seriously. "Don't you think the evil spirit's surprise attack is strange?"

Bei Chen was taken aback. "Weren't you coming for me?"

Gui Fang asked in confusion, "Didn't you come here for Tang Xi and her little follower?"

"..."

The three exchanged bewildered glances, even Tang Xihe, the "reader" who had skimmed the original work and knew roughly the future direction, was somewhat at a loss. This attack by the evil spirit master was indeed a bit strange; it came in a bloody storm and left in a hasty manner, leaving behind some doubts.

First, the power of "summoning the star lord" that accompanied Beichen awakened ahead of schedule.

In the original story, the evil spirit master's surprise attack on the magic university spurred Bei Chen Sui Xing, which triggered the "Summoning Star Lords" for the first time. Bei Chen Sui Xing realized his insignificance in this battle, which led him to embark on the path of training and begin collecting the power of the Star Lords.

But as her younger sister vividly described how Beichen saved the day, Tangxi realized that Beichen had already learned how to summon the Star Lord before this fierce battle.

The second point of doubt is the existence of Yao Yuqian.

Gui Fang and Bei Chen were among the most capable students, and it took the combined efforts of the three of them to barely manage a draw against Yao Yuqian and his group. Furthermore, in the original novel, it was actually Lang Yuehua who fought to a standstill against the three of them.

How come Yao Yuqian suddenly appeared?

Moreover, for the sake of the mission, she didn't hesitate to destroy a top-grade magic artifact, the Wu Ding. Yao Yuqian seems to have gone a little crazy... How did she become an evil spirit master?

The third point of doubt is that in the original work, the evil spirit master came for Bei Chen's entourage, but Tang Xihe clearly sensed that it was not just that, and Pi Pi seemed to be one of the evil spirit master's targets.

Why would they want to steal an unregistered monster?

Lang Yuehua could have directly taken the monster egg, so why did she suddenly give up?

Numerous doubts and shrouded in mystery. After a moment of silence, Gui Fang quietly raised his hand: "There's a place where we can talk in peace, Bei Chen, are you coming?"

·

Student Affairs Office.

The three passed through the secret passage and, through two teleportations, arrived at Qin Xiuluo's secret chamber.

The student affairs office remained exactly as it was before, with all the furnishings and displays unchanged. Bei Chen, visiting for the first time, was taken aback by the sight. He knew this was no longer the school, but seeing the intact student affairs office still stirred a sense of nostalgia within him.

"You guys in the Weird Aura Department are really rich."

"Come and take a look."

Gui Fang skillfully wiggled on the corner bookshelf, tore a page from some book, burned the page, and conjured a memory stone out of thin air, activating it. "Before Teacher Qin left, he said he wanted to see this memory stone with the people who went to the secret realm with him."

The dusty, grimy recording stone projected past images into the space. Suddenly, two light brown figures appeared before them, Qin Xiuluo and Gui Fang Wu Di, who were flipping through documents.

The three of them seemed to have traveled through time and space, observing the conversation that had happened before from the same place.

...

Gui Fang: "Teacher, why are you so concerned about the differences in the legends of the Three Realms? Legends are just legends."

"wrong!"

Qin Xiuluo said seriously, "Legends become legends because they have historical origins. Have you ever read fairy tales?"

The question came as a surprise, and Gui Fang paused for a moment before replying, "No."

Several thin booklets flew automatically from the bookshelf and hovered in front of Gui Fang Wu Di. Qin Xiuluo said, "In various versions of fairy tales, the story of the Frog Prince has a vague origin that has been overlooked."

Gui Fang Wu Di quickly flipped through the several booklets in front of him. "For the golden ball toy, a princess who is just a child would give a kiss?"

Qin Xiuluo nodded slightly. "That is indeed a question, but what I want to ask is, why did the prince turn into a frog?"

Well?

Gui Fang Wu Di was taken aback, thinking he had missed something, and hurriedly went back to search.

Qin Xiuluo: "None of these fairy tale books explicitly state that the prince needs a princess's kiss to turn back into a frog—but why did the prince turn into a frog? What did he do to anger the witch and get cursed?"

Gui Fang shook his head and closed the booklets in front of him.

"If the witch who cast the spell could see into people's hearts and observed that the prince was inherently wicked, so she deliberately turned the prince into an ugly, slimy frog, then it means that the true message that the fairy tale wanted to convey had already been altered by the creator."

Qin Xiuluo pointed to the fairy tale books that had been returned to their original positions, "Similarly, there may be some truth that has been deliberately concealed in the legend of the origin of spiritual power in the Three Realms."

Gui Fang pondered for a moment and nodded in agreement, "I've never thought about it in that way."

"As an educator, I cannot betray objective history. I must search for it, I must uncover the truth. I seem to be very close to the truth, but I'm still missing a little direct evidence..."

Qin Xiuluo's gaze grew even more resolute. "I want to prove to everyone that the yin and yang of heaven and earth are mutually generating and restraining. There is no distinction between orthodox and unorthodox 'qi'. Yin and yang are one, so how can there be a distinction between orthodox and unorthodox?"

"What if you put in a lot of effort, only to find out in the end that there was no 'real truth' at all?"

Gui Fang hesitated and said, "Teacher, is it really possible that my inability to cultivate spiritual energy is due to a karmic curse?"

"Then let's have a contest?" Qin Xiuluo chuckled. "You and Tang Xi go find the Qingxin Flute, and Zhang Benyi and I will go find the origin of spiritual power in the Three Realms."

"There's a recording stone over there." Qin Xiuluo pointed lightly, and the light brown recording seemed to be able to penetrate the barriers of time and space, pointing directly at Bei Chen and the other two. "If there are any other people who want to go to the secret realm together, show the conversation in the recording stone to your companions."

...

The pale brown shadow in front of me vanished in an instant.

Beichen's companion was stunned by the novel viewpoint of "not distinguishing between right and wrong" and tried to find some weak support to correct the fallacies he heard in the memory stone.

The two people next to him listened calmly without any expression, seemingly agreeing with Qin Xiuluo's point of view as a matter of course, and crossed their arms and glanced at themselves.

Tang Xi asked with concern, "Bei Chen, what do you think?"

What do you think? I think it's strange.

Bei Chen felt his brain turn into mush: "But what we've always learned is—"

"Both are orthodox spiritual energy, while the supernatural energy is rebellious? But I'm not as crazy as Yao Yuqian."

Gui Fang interrupted him, "When you fought her, didn't you notice that something was very wrong with her?"

Bei Chen paused for a few seconds, pondering the matter carefully. Not only had Yao Yuqian's personality drastically changed, but he had actually fallen into the trap of becoming an evil spirit master.

He had always thought that the existence of evil spirit masters was just to scare children, but it wasn't until today, when they actually fought, that Bei Chen Sui Xing realized that evil spirit masters had not been completely eradicated.

He knew that Gui Fang was cursed by karma and could only cultivate eerie energy. But Gui Fang's eerie energy was completely different from the kind of energy Yao Yuqian used. If he had to describe it, Gui Fang's energy was cold and eerie; while Yao Yuqian's energy was sinister and vicious, full of killing intent.

Bei Chen imagined the whole story: "Although your eerie aura is different from Yao Yuqian's, it's still detrimental to your temperament, which is why you need the Tranquilizing Flute, right? Didn't your teacher Qin also investigate the truth of the legend in order to study the source of eerie aura?"

Gui Fang toyed with his skeletal fingers, saying, "The Qingxin Flute is my business; I'll handle it myself."

Qin Xiuluo is the only teacher in the Department of Mystic Energy. For some reason, she is deeply obsessed with the "Mystic Energy Curse" of the Gui Fang family. She usually keeps a low profile at school, but her presence seems to be felt everywhere. She likes to attend lectures by teachers from other departments, holds a position in the student union, and also has part-time jobs off-campus. It's hard to say whether to call her knowledgeable or to praise her boundless energy.

but……

If Qin Xiuluo really uncovers some earth-shattering news, Bei Chen Suixing wouldn't be surprised at all.

Bei Chen turned to Tang Xi, who had remained silent, and said, "I've always wanted to ask you this."

"What?"

Where is your friend?

Tang Xi tilted her head, "Which one?"

Bei Chen followed along, tucking his arms in and making a flapping-wings gesture, "That crow."

Oops.

Tang Xi awkwardly touched her nose and released Pipi from the storage ring.

A flash of light, and a dark shadow darted out of the storage ring. Pipi spread its wings and stretched its limbs with a whoosh, its glossy black feathers reflecting a beautiful rainbow of colors. It took a deep breath.

A roar that could have split the throat almost blew Tang Xihe's ears: "Tang Xihe, you heartless bastard, you must have forgotten me in your storage ring! Three hours! A full three hours! I was bumping into your snacks in there! My colorful feathers are all dirty!"

Bei Chen was stunned by Pi Pi's true personality.

Tang Xi rubbed her ears. "Young man, you're so ambitious. How are you now? Can you sense where your primordial spirit is?"

"On you." Pipi landed on Tangxi and proudly showed off its wings. "How about it? Isn't my true form beautiful? By the way, where are those bad guys? Did they run away?"

"They ran away," Tang Xi said. "Some Moon Wolf Clan guys tried to catch you."

"Yeah, why do they want to capture me?" Pipi asked curiously. "I just hatched and don't have a demon core yet, so capturing me won't do any good."

The three found Pipi's words strange, and Guifang tried to deduce what Pipi meant, "Do monsters of different races steal each other's demon cores?"

"Yes, of course!" Pipi asked in surprise, "You didn't know?"

—I really don't know.

That didn't seem to be the point. Tang Xi waved her hand and urged, "How am I supposed to cooperate with you? Quickly take away your primordial spirit."

Pipi stiffened his neck and said, "No rush, what's the rush?"

Tang Xi smiled gently, "Not in a hurry? Then never take it back. Return it to where it came from."

Pipi was furious: "How could you do this!"

Tang Xihe was furious: "I'm angry too! Your thing inexplicably fell into my body! I was worried and scared for a long time!"

While they were arguing and bickering over the issue of Yuan Hun, Bei Chen was dumbfounded on the other side.

What's going on here?

Bei Chen felt he had been through too much today, so he turned to Gui Fang for confirmation, "Does Tang Xi have the primordial spirit of that little crow on her body?"

“Yes,” Gui Fang said softly. “According to Tang Xi and himself, the demon soul fell into his body without him feeling anything.”

"How is that possible?" Bei Chen exclaimed softly.

Unable to win the argument with Tang Xi, Pipi rolled her eyes and suddenly lowered her voice.

"Okay, sorry, I'll tell you the truth."

?

Tangxi suddenly had a bad feeling.

Pipi suddenly flew to the ceiling and chuckled, "Actually, I don't know how to extract my primordial spirit either."

Tangxi looked at Guifang in despair, as if the sky had collapsed and the earth had split open.

"Teacher Qin, I need to see Teacher Qin..."

"Your teacher Qin has run off to the human world with her beloved student." The ghost looked back at Tang Xihe with a somber expression, then suddenly looked up and grinned at Pipi, who was hiding on the ceiling.

Pipi shuddered and sheepishly covered half of his face with his wings.

Gui Fang asked, "Bei Chen, if a child has a habit of lying from a young age, it should be corrected in time."

Bei Chen, accompanying him, chimed in, "I would like to hear the details. How can it be corrected?"

“Violent correction.” Gui Fang stared at Pipi and slowly spoke, “I skinned it, pulled out its tendons, cut off its flesh, and drank its blood…”

Bei Chen: "...Don't do this."