Chen Luo discovered he could scavenge the minds of the dead.
So he went to a graveyard and scavenge the brain of a deceased Great Emperor, figuring he’d borrow it for a bit.
While other...
It was not until three months later that Chen Luo finally reached the westernmost part of the country.
The road ends.
There is a vast ocean ahead.
Two years later.
The bookstore reopened, and passers-by on both sides showed surprised expressions when they saw Chen Luo.
"Is Shopkeeper Chen back?"
In two years, Chen Luo traveled around the country. He passed through hundreds of cities, read a lot of books, and met countless people. In the end, he didn't meet a single immortal cultivator. Not only immortal cultivators, he didn't even see an ordinary person with spiritual roots.
This place is like a real place without souls.
What made Chen Luo most uneasy was that he found that his body was aging!
Two years would not be noticeable to ordinary people, but in the eyes of a cultivator at Chen Luo's level, he could clearly sense any changes in the body. This discovery gave Chen Luo a sense of urgency.
He returned to Anning County to find a way to make a living.
The area outside the emperor's tomb is definitely not a place without spirits.
This can be seen from the Kuishan I met at the beginning. This person has seen the world outside the Emperor's Tomb and knows many secrets. How can a place where such people come be a place of death?
There must be something wrong somewhere in the middle.
After greeting his neighbors, Chen Luo pushed open the door and entered the bookstore. After not coming back for half a year, the bookstore was still very clean. Hongniang and Yunniang would often come to help clean, and all the furnishings in the house were the same as when he left.
"There must be something I overlooked."
Chen Luo thought about everything that had happened since he came here.
When he first woke up, he was on an official road, and the scene he saw was completely different from what he had encountered when robbing tombs before.
There is neither a cave entrance nor a teleportation array.
The whole person seemed to have appeared out of thin air, which was the first abnormal point. The second point was the people here, all of whom had no spiritual roots. Before leaving the Emperor's Tomb, Chen Luo had been to many mortal realms and had seen no less than a hundred countries. As long as there were mortal populations, ordinary people with the qualifications to cultivate immortals would surely be found. Although spiritual roots were rare, they could not be so rare.
For a dynasty with such a large territory and a population of tens of millions, there is not even one person with the qualifications to cultivate immortality.
This in itself is an abnormality.
"So, there is a high probability that the place I am in now is not real."
Chen Luo's eyes flashed. After grinding the ink, he picked up the brush and began to write on the blank page.
Immortal ambition!
Since this is a place without spirits, he used his pen to create a world with spirits. This method was summarized by Chen Luo using the power of the "Legendary World". After more than a thousand brains deduced it, especially the second brother Zhao Qi, this method was affirmed.
The brain state of the Immortal Emperor Changqing has always been strange.
After arriving at this place, it was as if I fell asleep and I haven't had any reaction until now.
Fortunately, my second brother is also an immortal.
Corpse reincarnation immortal.
Also a fairy!
As long as the rules here are pried open, the power isolated outside the stars will fall down.
"There is a country in the southwest border, Mingyue Baoxiang. The king of Baoxiang has been on the throne for more than 20 years and has a recurring dream in which an immortal comes riding on a cloud."
The writing is brilliant.
Chen Luo described the books he had read before and the things that his more than a thousand external brains had experienced in the form of "stories". At the beginning, these words were very ordinary, but as they were written, they gained a special charm.
This is Chen Luo's "Heart Demon Path".
Before the Dao, Chen Luo had come into contact with several kinds of Dao, and his understanding of the Dao of Heart Demon was limited to the heart demon, and its use was closer to magical skills. But this time was different, this place isolated the spiritual power, allowing Chen Luo to find a second way to use the Dao.
'The devil comes from the heart.'
Gradually, Chen Luo found that his vision became extremely broad.
The study beside him disappeared, and he sensed the atmosphere outside. Different people, different desires.
'Business is getting worse and worse. I don't know if we can open today.'
'I hope there are some steamed buns left today, otherwise I'll be hungry.'
"Widow Mei, you dare to reject me? Don't think I can do nothing to you just because of your connections with this old man!"
The desires lingering in these people's minds now became clearly audible.
Worry, fear, greed.
The words continue to be written.
Strands of invisible power flowed out from these people, and were drawn by Chen Luo's "Tao" and merged into the tip of the pen. A seemingly ordinary book gradually gained a different aura. The words written on it actually moved like a living thing.
Half a quarter of an hour later.
The ink ran out, and Chen Luo picked up the brush. The strange vision on the book suddenly disappeared, and the mysterious power that was originally emitted returned to normal.
After closing the book, Chen Luo stood there for a long time, thinking, before opening his eyes again.
"Sir, you are back?"
Yunniang's voice came from outside.
The news of Chen Luo's return had naturally spread a long time ago. As a famous person who rejected Liu Gang, Chen Luo's every move would be closely watched. As Chen Luo's old friends, Yunniang and her husband also came after hearing the news. Along with them came two children.
After two years away, the little girl has learned to walk and talk. She is now following her mother, Hongniang, and looking at Chen Luo nervously. Yunniang's son Wang Xiaohu has also learned to walk, but he still can't speak very well. When he saw Yunniang bowing to Chen Luo, he babbled a lot, but Chen Luo didn't hear a word clearly.
"Hello, sir."
At her mother's signal, the little girl bowed to Chen Luo earnestly. Unlike the little boy, the little girl had memories of fleeing and knew that Chen Luo was the benefactor of their family. Although she was young, she was sensible and tried hard to imitate her mother.
"Are you all here?"
Putting down the brush in his hand, a smile appeared on Chen Luo's face.
Anyway, this was the first step, and the next step was to find a way to bring the people in the book to life! As long as these people in the book came to life, he could use this to change the rules here, break the shackles of the realm, and take back the power hanging above the stars.
"We heard that the bookstore was open, so we rushed here immediately." Hongniang said with a smile.
She was in a good mood, as her own girl had earned him face. Compared to Yunniang's stupid son, her own daughter was obviously smarter.
"We have prepared a welcoming banquet at Fengqing Building."
"You guys go ahead, I have some things to take care of here."
Chen Luo rejected their invitation. He had just eaten a fasting pill before coming back, so he would not be hungry for a short time. Taking this opportunity, he planned to write a few more stories and write down the feelings he had just had in the book.
After seeing the two people off, Chen Luo stood up and closed the shop door.
Go back to the table and light the oil lamp next to it.
He picked up the brush and started writing again.
This time Chen Luo did not write "The Records of Immortals", but wrote about a person. A man named Chen Dahe, who was a corpse burial man. He was born in Qingya County and was adopted when he was young. When he grew up, in order not to drag down his adoptive father, he went to the city alone and learned the craft of digging corpses.
"I knew you were restless, so follow me and learn how to bury corpses."
"This skill is not as simple as you think. If these corpses are not handled properly, they will come back to life."
The words on the book came alive again.
This time, what Chen Luo saw was not "desire", but longing. Every person passing by on the street outside has someone they "miss" in their heart, whether it is hidden or obvious. Some of these people don't even know it themselves, their memory helps them block this longing, and only at a certain point, when the memory awakens, this longing will be manifested.
When the pen falls, the book is done.
The title of the book is "The Buried Man".
The words continued to emit a familiar atmosphere. Chen Luo seemed to see the third uncle in Qingya County who was clamoring to introduce him to a "wife".
After a moment of silence, Chen Luo closed the book and put it on the bookshelf next to him.
I picked up the pen and started writing again.
This time he wrote a piece called 'Evergreen'.
For dozens of days.
When Chen Luo was hungry, he would take the fasting pills, and when he was tired, he would sleep on the chair. The books on the table next to him were also increasing day by day. In addition to the most common "Records of Immortals", there were also many biographies of people. For example, there were more than 20 books such as "The Buried Man", "Eternal Immortal Emperor", and "Chen Lin".
It was not until the fasting pills were used up that Chen Luo woke up from this state.
Yunniang and Hongniang came several times, and when they saw Chen Luo writing, they quietly left. The food placed at the door was also heated up and cooled down, and changed over and over again.
“It really works.”
Sensing the power emanating from the book, Chen Luo could clearly feel the changes in himself.
His guess was right, there was something wrong with this world.
Conventional methods are not enough to escape from this place. If you want to leave completely, you must first regain your own power. Only by obtaining supernatural powers can you break through the outer sky.
"Have you finished your study, sir?"
A voice sounded, and Chen Luo found that the person who spoke was Hongniang's daughter Hongying. It was probably because she saw Chen Luo stopped writing that she mustered up the courage to ask a question.
"You want to study?"
Chen Luo looked at the little girl's expression and suddenly understood her inner desire.
When the little girl heard Chen Luo's question, her eyes lit up, but soon dimmed.
"My mother said that I am a girl and don't need to learn to read."
"I'll tell your mother."
Chen Luo reached out and touched the little girl's head. For some reason, he suddenly thought of his eldest disciple Mu Xiaoyu.
When I accepted her as my disciple, she was just a child. At that time, Mu Xiaoyu, like the little girl Hongying in front of me, had a pair of eyes that were eager for the future.
"Thank you, sir!"
The little girl's voice became much louder with joy.
He pushed the door open and walked out. The sunlight outside poured in and Chen Luo stretched lazily.
A long-lost sense of relaxation appeared in my heart.
Unfortunately, this good mood did not last long, as it was interrupted by the arrival of Liu Gang. With him came a gray-haired doctor. After seeing Chen Luo, he took two steps forward and bowed respectfully to Chen Luo.
"I am a junior student in Luozhong, and I am here to meet you, sir."
Luo Zhong's eyes were full of excitement. He determined his goal the first time he saw Chen Luo.
The person in front of him is the master of the Tao that he has been searching for for many years! (End of this chapter)