Tianjing, underground research institute, among scattered spirits.

Fang Shili looked at the man sitting on the iron throne in front of him. Even though he could not feel any pressure from the cyclone, he did not dare to look down on him. He saluted with the four people around him and said, "Hello, teacher."

The man in front of them was undoubtedly their teacher, and it could even be said that he was the teacher of all the practitioners in Xuan Country. The prototypes of all the current exercises were created by him, and the "Xuan Jun Secret Records" was created by him alone. No one else could add or delete a single word. Even if a version update was needed, only he had the authority and ability to update.

Ren Zuo nodded slowly and said, "Let's get started."

But for the sake of safety, Fang Shili asked one more question: "Teacher, are you ready?"

"joke."

Ren Zuo leaned lazily against the iron seat and squinted his eyes at the five of them: "With just the five of you, you still think you can hurt me? Don't be too confident in yourself, weakling."

In an instant, the rage burned from their hearts, livers, spleens, lungs, kidneys to their pituitary glands. Except for Fang Shili who could slightly resist this sudden impulse, the other four attacked him fearlessly. He had no choice. His pair of black pupils were instantly filled with bloodshot, and his will turned into a sharp blade along with his gaze and stabbed towards Ren Zuo!

"Fighting spirit"!

"Dream Stealer"!

"Kill all the corpses!"

"Light the sky lantern"!

"The mind can move, but the stone cannot!"

Facing the all-out killing moves of the five soul awakeners of Xuan Country, Ren Zuo just sat leisurely on the iron seat and even turned on his computer to check P station for new pornographic pictures. However, the five of them were bleeding from their noses and some fell down. Fang Shili was even more like being struck by lightning and knelt down limply.

"Well, are you done?"

Ren Suo's tone now made the five of them feel ashamed, just like a long-distance couple who finally got together and checked into a hotel. After the dashing boyfriend was exhausted, his girlfriend who had been playing the King of Glory promotion game only then realized, "Well, is it over? If you're done, help me play, you Li Bai are awesome."

"You have all been promoted to the third level, and the power of your spells has increased a lot..." Ren Zuo closed his eyes, recalling the feeling just now:

"'Mind moves, stone doesn't'. Good. You affected my breathing for a moment. Although you can't control my body, it's a big improvement. 'Light the Sky Lantern' is a soul attack spell. It made me feel something this time, but you have to be careful when using it. The soul fire you created is invisible and intangible, and it is very easy to accidentally hurt your companions..."

Ren Zuo commented on them one by one, and finally looked at Fang Shili: "I originally thought that you were unable to exert the effect of "Fighting Heart" because of your low cultivation level. But now it seems that it is not true. The trick to "Fighting Heart" is to use your own three views to crush the other party's three views, and make the other party doubt the world. But your three views are not firm. Don't say compared with me, compared with the determined monks of the same transformation, you may not be able to do it well."

"Then teacher, what should I do?" Fang Shili asked humbly.

"As for the issue of three perspectives, of course you can only start from the three perspectives." Ren Zuo said: "I don't know much about this aspect, but you can start from philosophy."

"Philosophy..." Fang Shili's face turned red, and no one knew what he was thinking about.

After the five people left, the researcher who was observing came over and asked, "Zuo Ren, have you made any progress?"

"Yes, the mental defense spell is almost complete."

"What about the big topic?"

"It's a big topic..." Ren Zuo rubbed his temple, "Not at all. We are studying the soul almost from scratch, how can we get results so quickly?"

"Even if I personally endure their soul attacks, I can only vaguely feel the existence of my own soul. It's better to say it's brain waves than soul..."

The researcher said: "But they are already the soul awakeners we can find. If even they can't give you inspiration, this project can only be put on hold temporarily and restarted when new soul awakeners appear in the future."

"Or maybe there is no soul at all? There is only a spirit constructed by brain waves and brain nerves?" said a middle-aged researcher.

Ren Zuo shook his head. "As for the monsters and demons in mysterious phenomena nowadays, let's not talk about monsters. Ghosts are often the spirits of dead bodies. Dead bodies have long lost their body functions, and their brains are completely non-functional, so how can there be brain waves? And the monsters are even more bizarre: dead things have spiritual intelligence. Dead things don't have brain nerves, or even physiological structures, but they can have intelligence similar to that of humans. It's hard to find other explanations except the soul hypothesis."

"But if people have souls, where do they go after death?" someone asked in confusion.

"The underworld? Heaven and hell?" Ren Zuo smiled. "Although we still don't have the means to observe souls, such a place should exist. The environment should be similar to that of Experiment No. 241."

"Speaking of this..." A researcher said, "Although the official document has not been sent to you yet, No. 241-F3 is dead."

Ren Zuo was slightly stunned: "How did he die?"

"There were no external injuries, and as a 'ghost', there was no problem with its spiritual energy system. Like A2 and D11, it died suddenly." The researcher said: "At present, it is believed that the cause of death of No. 241-F3 is the same as the previous two test subjects, because it left the 'super-high concentration spiritual energy area' that nurtured it, causing its soul to dissipate."

Ren Zuo opened the experimental document No. 241 and knocked on the handle of the iron seat: "Is spiritual energy closely related to the survival of the soul..."

Experiment No. 241 involves executing death row prisoners in a room with a very high concentration of spiritual energy and letting them rot freely to see if there will be any changes. This experiment has been going on for three months. Among the 120 corpses, three have undergone corpse transformation. They are all ghosts of the "demons and monsters", but they are completely unable to communicate. Even letting them watch "The Haunted House" is useless.

Because there are too few samples now, it is impossible to confirm whether the three test subjects turned into ghosts naturally or because of the concentration of spiritual energy. However, after the three test subjects were moved away from the high-concentration area, their souls quickly died. This basically proves that the "forced induced" souls must continue to maintain a high concentration of spiritual energy in order to survive.

This means that the demons and monsters that appear nowadays are basically gifted souls that can survive on low concentrations of spiritual energy. No wonder they are so powerful.

"But the concentration of spiritual energy in the 241 experiment is already the peak value we can achieve. If there really is a place where souls can survive, or even where souls can be observed, then the concentration of spiritual energy would be terrifying, and what kind of monsters would live there..."

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"I'm dead."

At dinner time, Ren Suo suddenly felt like going to the market to buy ingredients to make his own fried beef brisket and lo yi noodles. He looked at the information on his phone screen, swiped upwards, and found that after the explorers robbed a few chickens of knives and wine, they met a cow.

"There was a cow in the field. It seemed to have green and red scales. From a distance, it looked like someone had used Photoshop to add a color gradient to it."

"It turned its head and looked at me, and a stream of grey gas came out of its nose."

"I suddenly lost all my strength. My bones seemed to melt into water, unable to support my flesh and blood. I fell to the ground like rotten pork."

"I'm dead."

"He died if he was glared at by the cow. It seems that he doesn't want me to gain energy." Ren Suo was helpless and had to read the save file "Set up wine and kill chickens for food". After the explorer killed the chicken blocking the road, he ran directly to the family who invited him to dinner.

There was only one old man in this family. He was sitting outside and playing with the bird very kindly. Ren Suo couldn't tell what species his bird was. It had dark blue feathers and looked very beautiful. It was also very well behaved. It just stood on the old man's shoulder and chirped.

Seeing the explorer coming, the old man quickly invited him in and said that he would prepare a sumptuous lunch right away and that he had many questions to ask the explorer.

The old man's house is not as rich as the village chief's, but it is not small either. It is a courtyard house where he lives alone. There are flowers and plants planted in the yard. It seems that he lives a very happy life.

"Xiao Fei, come and keep the guests company. I'm going to cook."

"The little bird chirped and flew to my shoulder, which was considered a response to him, and the old man left with peace of mind."

"When the old man was out of sight, the bird suddenly pecked at my neck!"

On the screen, the bird standing on my shoulder suddenly grew into a green monster with a very long neck, fleshy wings, and claw-like feet! Its head was ferocious and evil, and its terrifying appearance was very shocking even through the screen!

A thick green liquid oozed out of its sharp teeth, which continuously poured into my body!

"My skin turned blue. I couldn't move. I was doomed."

"I'm dead."

Ren Suo blinked and chose to try again.

Back to this scene, after the old man left, the explorer decisively took the initiative:

"You little bird, how dare you make such a noise——"

"I used the Flaming Sky Net to grab it, and it suddenly grew larger and knocked me away! It flew into the air and tried to kill me!"

"I opened my eyes wide to try to see its movements, but it just rushed straight towards me. I took the opportunity to dodge and punched it with a flaming fist!"

"It screamed, became even more ferocious, and bit me instead!"

"My skin turned blue. I couldn't move. I was doomed."

"I'm dead."

"An absolute difference in strength?" Ren Suo saw that the explorer couldn't even defeat the two-legged dragon with one punch. He pondered for a moment and decided to try again.

When they arrived near the old man's door, Ren Suo asked the explorer to stop and take out items from his backpack.

Now that his energy level was high enough, Ren Suo took out the "Advanced Countermeasures Vest" that he had borrowed from Yu Kuangtu's house and started scanning it.

This was the cheapest epic item he had ever seen, and Ren Suo also thought it was worth the money. After all, "Xuan Jun Secret Records Chapter 1" had already brought an all-round strength improvement to the explorer, allowing him to fight against small monsters head-on. Now, the bonus effect of the second chapter from the "Advanced Countermeasures Vest" should allow him to take his strength to the next level.

Currently, the explorer's attack power, speed, and defense are all insufficient, and the advanced countermeasure vest is just right for it.

Moreover, Ren Suo also wanted to see how powerful the second chapter of "Xuanjun Secret Record" was. He found that the explorers were different from the seekers who could fight against the heavens and the earth with just one chapter of "Xuanjun Secret Record". The explorers seemed to be closer to normal people in terms of strength.

Even though the explorer can now tear apart female ghosts, blow up ghost children, kill vicious dogs, and kill strange chickens, if he fights with Ren Suo, Ren Suo will have to use his "heart-strengthening technique" to save him within three moves.

What if the seeker fought with Ren Suo? Without even using a single move, Ren Suo knelt down under the strong suppression of the realm.

Therefore, we can see how big the gap is between explorers and seekers of truth.

"However, I still have to find something to prevent the explorer from being poisoned..." Ren Suo looked through the cosplay props he had bought and found that few of them had anti-poison effects. Even if there were, it was only a trivial effect, such as the golden armor, the divine robe, the steel armor, etc. Ren Suo did not have that much energy to scan.

But the anti-virus function should be very common, so Ren Suo started to search through all the drawers and cabinets at home.

Soon, Ren Suo finally found something that met his requirements, but this thing...

"That evil bird is powerful, but how can I not have a backup plan?"

"Advanced Countermeasure Vest!"

"When I put it on, my strength will increase! Haha, evil bird, your doom has come!"

"In addition, there is... "Ideology, Morality and Law", the edition is from Higher Education Press in 2010!"

"..."

"never mind."

Wow, this explorer is showing off and even gives out props?

Ren Suo looked at the Si Xiu in his hand, flipped through it, and found that he had not written a single word on it. It was brand new, as if he had just bought it.

This book was not brought from college, but was given to him by Tianlian College. To be a school doctor, one must also undergo political review, and this is the review material.

I didn't expect it could be scanned as a prop:

"'Ideology, Morality and Law': A supernatural item, a required course for Xuan Nation university students. Holding this book will make you immune to negative effects such as pornography, gambling, and drugs, and you will also have a certain resistance to other negative effects. It requires 18 points of energy."

Scan these two things, and you don't have to worry even if "High Energy Ahead" is uploaded in the future. These two items are standard items without any markings. When Ren Suo returns the vest to Yu Kuangtu next time, he can get rid of it completely - high-level vests are possessed by department-level and bureau-level monks and officials all over the country.

Anyway, Ren Suo used the excuse of "I want to test magic" to borrow a high-level vest from Yu Kuangtu. With this reason and the bond between the two of them, Yu Kuangtu would never doubt him because of this.

As for Xuan Nation, if they launched a massive search because the explorer was wearing the vest of the Countermeasures Bureau...

You are looking for an explorer, what does it have to do with me, Ren Suo?