Staring at each other.
The big eyes made of black buttons stare into the small round dark red eyes.
The humanoid puppet and the brown bear have been facing each other for a long time.
Luo Zheyu naturally noticed that the brown bear ran out on its own initiative and ignored it.
Because the old Taoist priest said that he had a way to speed up the transfer of death energy, but he didn't have the materials and had never implemented it, and was still in the theoretical stage of reading books.
That method was learned from a book, and it was not a method specifically for dealing with dead energy. It was just a "soul gathering" formation that could attract a certain kind of energy, gather it together, and make it easier to absorb.
Dead air is also a kind of energy, but no one can absorb it. It should be feasible to use this formation to capture it and let the Thousand-Sided Mirror absorb it into the small world inside the body.
"Taoist, just tell me what materials you need, and the Dark Realm will provide them to you. If you can resolve the death energy as soon as possible, you will be rewarded handsomely!"
"This is not about reward. I came down the mountain this time because I found that the yin and yang in the world were mixed and in chaos. Of course, I wanted to get rid of the dead air. It was really those materials..."
"Old man, aren't you talking about the Spirit Gathering Array?" The Thousand-Faced Mirror suddenly interrupted.
He changed after realizing that no matter how he tempted Luo Zheyu, he would not use the Mirror and even wanted to secretly destroy it.
It is no longer the sinister and bewitching artifact it used to be, but has become sunny, positive, harmonious and friendly.
The desire to survive is very strong.
"Do you know this formation?" Luo Zheyu asked.
The multi-faceted mirror immediately wilts.
"…I know it and have seen it, but I don't know how to set up the formation. I don't need to set up a formation as a weapon spirit…"
"It's good to have seen it. It can be used as a reference."
"As for materials, although other materials are hard to find, they are not impossible to find. However, there is one thing..."
The old Taoist frowned in confusion.
"Gathering spirits requires a primer. The primer can attract energy of the same origin into the formation, and it is also the energy source that supports the operation of the formation. Most of the formations for gathering spirits in that book are used to gather spiritual energy. The primer used is called a spirit stone. I have never seen a spirit stone, let alone what should be used to attract dead energy and support the operation of the formation."
"I have a way to do this." Wanmianjing said impatiently: "You haven't seen a spirit stone, but I have!"
"A shiny, translucent stone with rich spiritual energy inside! It is the crystallization of spiritual energy. But it is useless to tell you, this is also a world with scarce spiritual energy. I am afraid that even if I practice for hundreds of years, I will not be able to find a complete spiritual stone."
The Thousand-Faced Mirror sighed.
"That's the method you mentioned." Luo Zheyu had to remind him.
The method provided by the kaleidoscope is very simple, but it is difficult to operate.
Compress the dead air until it becomes solid.
It sounds simple, but it is not as easy as making fog condense into water and water turn into ice.
The old Taoist priest, Luo Zheyu, the skeleton man in a suit and the Thousand-faceted Mirror gathered together and whispered, discussing how to turn dead air into solid.
The old Taoist's puppet master moved his legs and took a small step to the side, trying to join in their conversation.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he moved, the brown bear's dark red eyes flashed red wildly, and its gaze was fixed on his legs.
The puppet was very helpless.
What on earth does this spirit created by a small pendant want to do?
Colleagues all say that spirits are difficult to communicate with because their brain circuits are different from those of humans, and this is absolutely true.
Just as the puppet was thinking divergently and was hesitating about simply ignoring the brown bear, he was suddenly poked in the chest.
The little brown bear stared at him curiously with its dark red eyes and poked the doll with its furry paws again.
Soft and a little elastic.
Made of cloth, moves.
Although the painting style is different, it is the same species.
The brown bear grabbed the puppet by its thighs. It struggled and shook its thighs, but failed to get rid of it.
…………
Xu Xiaoyu and Chen Manyin completely ignored the people and things around them. They hugged each other and cried until their noses were running. Then they hurriedly searched for tissues in Xu Xiaoyu's bag.
After wiping their tears and noses, they looked at each other and couldn't stop laughing.
"Let's go home."
"Well, let's go home. I'm so sleepy."
So they went hand in hand to find Luo Zheyu and the old Taoist priest to thank them, and asked them to send them back to the human world when they were free.
"Wait a minute, little girl. Don't leave in such a hurry." The old Taoist priest took some time out from his busy schedule and stopped discussing how to solve the problem of setting up the formation. He rolled up his sleeves, straightened his back, stroked his white beard, and said to Xu Xiaoyu with the demeanor of a master.
"I see that you have excellent talent. Although you are a little old, you have a good character, which can make up for it. I would like to take you as my apprentice. I wonder what your intention is?"
"……ah?"
Xu Xiaoyu was stunned, and quickly said: "Master, although I have a strong interest in Taoism, I have never been in contact with it seriously before, and I am afraid I don't have the talent..."
Taoism originated in the Celestial Empire and has a long history. Xu Xiaoyu knew this, but her understanding of Taoism was very one-sided and she only had an impression of it. If you really asked her what the "Tao" of Taoism was, she didn't understand at all.
"Just listen to me first." The old Taoist waved his hand.
"You may have misunderstood. I am only a sorcerer who specializes in fighting. I only know a little bit about talismans, formations, instruments, and spells. Folk methods are my best. If I accept you as my apprentice, I will only teach you these. I cannot comprehend the Tao Te Ching and the like. You have to read it, but I cannot teach you."
He looked around and saw the puppet being held by the brown bear and pulled away. He didn't know what game it was playing. When it stopped paying attention to him, he covered his lips with his hand and whispered, "My master taught me this way. He couldn't read it either. If you become my disciple, he will be your master in the future."
Xu Xiaoyu was completely confused and didn't know what to say.
To be honest, after seeing the old Taoist's methods, it was very tempting to become his disciple and learn magic from him.
People are always curious and eager about these mysterious abilities, wishing they could possess these special skills. Xu Xiaoyu also has this mentality.
But now she hesitated.
It’s nothing, he’s just a coward.
Let’s not talk about anything else, let’s just talk about the duties and abilities of Taoist priests like the old Taoist priest.
Attract ghosts, catch ghosts, seal ghosts and deal with ghosts.
Xu Xiaoyu is really an ordinary girl who gets scared even when watching horror movies!
Are you suddenly going to be a ghost catcher?
What a magical realism this is.
Xu Xiaoyu turned her head and pinched Chen Manyin's cheek with a little force.
"What are you doing?" Chen Manyin said incoherently as her cheek was pulled.
"Does it hurt?" Xu Xiaoyu said in a numb tone.
"pain!"
"Ah, I really wasn't dreaming, everything is real..."
Xu Xiaoyu's eyes widened.
"Are you stupid?" Chen Manyin patted Xu Xiaoyu's head with care.
"Master, I'm sorry, I..." Xu Xiaoyu finally didn't dare to try a life where he had to see and fight ghosts every day.
Just as he was about to politely decline, he was interrupted.
"The chaos of ghosts and monsters in the human world will continue for a while. When you go back, be careful when you go out." Luo Zheyu paused and said, "Be careful at home too."
This is a very straightforward reminder.
The message was clearly revealed to Xu Xiaoyu: the world was unsafe recently and there were ghosts everywhere. Even if she did not worship the old Taoist priest as her master and did not take the initiative to catch ghosts, ghosts might still come to her door.
"Master, I'm sorry, I'm very grateful to you and would love to be your disciple!" Xu Xiaoyu changed the subject and said sincerely.
"Hmm~" The old Taoist stroked his beard with satisfaction.
"It is not appropriate to perform the apprenticeship ceremony here. We will not address each other as master and disciple for the time being. When things are settled, I will take you back to perform the apprenticeship ceremony and offer you tea."
"Oh, right, you can ask your friend to learn some self-defense skills. She should have died and came to the world of the dead, but she was forcibly pulled off the trajectory of her life and took a new path in life. This is a good thing, but it also has disadvantages."
"What's the harm?" Xu Xiaoyu and Chen Manyin looked at each other and asked nervously.
"It is easy to attract negative energy and filth."
…………
Xu Xiaoyu and Chen Manyin were sent back to the human world first. The dark world was not a place where living people could stay for a long time, and it would be no good for them to stay here for too long.
The old Taoist priest and the puppet stayed behind, and together with Luo Zheyu and others in the dark world, they used various methods to experiment on how to turn the death energy into a concentrated solid.
He called in other managers of the Dark Realm to create an extremely low temperature environment, solidifying a small amount of dead air into a solid. However, the concentration of dead air was not high enough, and after setting up the formation, it could not even last three seconds. The solid created was unstable and collapsed, and failed.
Compress the dead air in an attempt to compress it into a solid.
Many different methods were used by different people, and all ended in failure.
Luo Zheyu also used his soul power to compress it, and he did solidify a small piece of death crystal. However, due to the unevenness and instability inside, it exploded with a "bang" when the skeleton man in a suit took it to check.
Fortunately, the skeleton man in the suit was not disfigured by the explosion. He almost jumped up and fought with Luo Zheyu because of this.
I was so scared of my own face that I couldn't swallow my breath. I couldn't beat the opponent, so I could only fight with my life. It was a one-sided fight.
Fortunately, hard work pays off. After thousands of experiments, the death energy was finally successfully solidified, and its concentration was high enough to support the operation of the formation.
It was the combination of low temperature and compression, a two-pronged approach, with precise control of temperature and compression force, that ultimately led to success.
The old Taoist wiped away his bitter tears and couldn't help shouting: "Science is power!"
Being slapped on the back of the head by both the rag doll and the brown bear.
I suddenly felt wronged and wanted to cry.
It’s fine that he was beaten by the master, but why did that little teddy bear come to join in the fun?
Recently, the master has been hanging out with the little teddy bear every day, and they are inseparable. His behavior has become undisciplined and unstable.
Despite his complaints, the old Taoist priest diligently began to set up the formation.
The spirit gathering formation in the book was not powerful enough, at least compared to the area of dead energy, it was still a little small. There was only one spirit gathering formation in the book, and no other. The old Taoist priest had no means to improve and enhance the effectiveness of the formation, and the rest of the people had no knowledge of formations, so they could only... set up a few more.
Anyway, there is enough death energy, it just requires everyone to work hard to compress the death energy into solid form.
Compressing dead air is also a good way to reduce dead air, but it is a large project, takes too long, and requires a lot of manpower.
Luo Zheyu just wanted to get rid of the death energy as soon as possible. Although no one knew what the others were thinking secretly, they acted the same way on the surface.
The longer the death lasts, the more chaotic the world will become.
If the death energy is dealt with sooner, the dark world will have more manpower to deal with the ghosts and monsters stranded in the human world.
Most of them have gone crazy.
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"How does it feel?"
"Great! As long as the passage is opened, a large amount of death energy will flow into the small world on its own."
The Thousand Faces Mirror jumped to the center of the formation, and countless dead energy gathered by the formation rushed into it. For a moment, the Thousand Faces Mirror became a dark vortex, as if it was haunted by a demon, and he was the center point.
"But... my Lord, the small world was destroyed so quickly. Now it has been destroyed by the death energy and only one tenth of it remains..."
Wanmianjing felt so much pain in his heart that he almost vomited blood.
"We'll build a better one later." Luo Zheyu certainly chose to comfort him.
At the current speed, the Thousand-Sided Mirror continuously enters the formation to absorb the death energy, and the people in the dark world compress it to create death energy crystals for storage. In less than a month, the death energy can be cleared away.
This speed is already extremely fast.
It is the result of the joint efforts of the insignificant people in the dark world.
In fact, if Luo Zheyu hadn't gone to each of them one by one to sincerely "ask for help", the managers of the dark world would have stayed in their offices and were unwilling to come out at all.
Not to mention getting them to work.
"Next, I'll have to trouble you to stay in the dark world to transfer the dead energy. I'll leave for a while and go to the human world to do some things."
Luo Zheyu said to the Thousand-faced Mirror.
"...Oh." Wanmianjing actually wanted to say he disagreed. Maybe Luo Zheyu would leave this world without him?
But Luo Zheyu said that he had worked hard, and Wanmianjing suddenly felt embarrassed to howl and refused to let him leave.
Besides, the old Taoist priest also went back to the human world with Luo Zheyu. Luo Zheyu would not suddenly disappear, so just believe him for now.
After Luo Zheyu came to this world, he took on the identity of high school student Yun Bo. However, because he had been in the dark world and had not returned to the human world for a long time, the body of the original owner Yun Bo was discovered and he was declared dead.
So he couldn't go back to being Yunbo. The reason he came to the human world was to work with the old Taoist priest to clear out the ghosts and monsters that stayed in the human world.
It will take nearly a month to transfer all the death energy, and it’s too boring to stay in the dark world.
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world.
9:30pm.
It was already dark, and the lights on the path had broken down at some point and no one had repaired them. The entire path was pitch black, and not even the moonlight could get in.
Compared with the other brightly lit road at the fork in the road, the lonely path seems to be forgotten by the world.
One side is brightly lit and bustling.
One side was dark and silent.
"Gulp... Gulp... Good wine!" The drunkard staggered onto the path, holding the bottle of wine.
The trail was quieter and darker.
"It's so damn dark... burp..."
The drunkard couldn't see the road clearly, but he still walked forward fearlessly in a zigzag pattern, leaning east and west.
After all, he is walking by feeling now, not by eyes. Even if the straight and bright road is under his feet, he will not look at it now.
After walking for nearly half an hour, the drunkard didn't know where to throw his bottle, but the trail still hadn't reached the end.
There is a little light ahead.
The drunk walked towards the light.
He saw a street lamp, and under the lamp stood a woman. She was wearing a red dress, with long hair draped behind her head, and her face was also bright red.
"belch."
The drunkard burped and saw the woman in the red dress waving at him.
"Humph." He suddenly snorted coldly, turned his face away, and muttered, "I have a wife, why are you waving your hand? Don't you know that we should crack down on pornography and illegal activities? If you waving your hand again, be careful and I will report you!"
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