“What?”
Before Luo Hongyan could react, Changqing’s hand was already gripping her neck.
His face, bleeding from all seven orifices, was like a hideous evil spirit as he crazily lunged and pinned Luo Hongyan down.
“I’ll kill this little girl! Kill the woman you love!”
His voice was shrill, like a woman’s. Luo Hongyan was so startled that she hadn't even registered the danger before her, even the feeling of suffocation was ignored; she was completely stunned.
It wasn’t until the sensation of suffocation finally hit her that she began to struggle desperately.
“Cough, cough… Chang… Changqing… what’s wrong with you… where did I…”
All her Imperial Spirits were destroyed. Without her Imperial Spirits, she was just an ordinary, weak woman. Pinned beneath him, she had no chance to resist. Before long, her eyes rolled back, and it seemed she was about to perish.
Just as she was about to breathe her last, Changqing suddenly released his hand.
He rolled off Luo Hongyan, without a moment’s hesitation, and ran with all his might towards the wall at the side of the cave, smashing his head into it.
“Hahahahaha, it’s useless, it’s useless! Both the Blood Sea Other Shore and the Blood Demon Spirit are here, your Physical Body cannot die!”
Indeed, his shattered skull quickly regenerated.
“Before my Soul dissipates! I must drag her down with me again!”
Luo Hongyan gasped for air, having narrowly escaped death. She looked at Changqing with disbelief.
But then she immediately froze. Changqing was struggling in agony, as if two Souls were fighting for control of his body.
“Kill—me!”
He gritted his teeth, enunciating each word.
Luo Hongyan struggled to her feet from the ground. After a moment of hesitation, she still ran to his side.
“Are you under the influence of a Soul Law Spirit? What should I do!”
Luo Hongyan, being well-informed, immediately recognized some clues.
But she probably didn't know that Changqing was already a dead man at this point.
“Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!”
He pushed Luo Hongyan away. He was biting his teeth so hard that blood was drawn, as if he was caught in a storm vortex, each step met with immense resistance, making it difficult to move.
His hand trembled as he reached for his abdomen.
With a “puchi” sound, he directly tore open his stomach.
“No! What are you doing! Stop it!”
His voice turned shrill again; Dan Ji and he were fighting for control of this body.
Changqing laboriously pulled out a flesh-and-blood Blood Sea Other Shore flower from his abdomen, and then took out a bloody, wriggling worm.
These were precisely the Blood Sea Other Shore and the Blood Demon Spirit.
He exhausted his mind. The two Imperial Spirits flickered in and out of existence in his hands, on the verge of collapsing.
“No, no, what are you doing! Let go!”
His voice turned shrill again, Dan Ji’s Soul controlled his body, struggling to stuff these two Imperial Spirits back into his body.
“Perish—for—me!”
With Changqing’s roar, the two Imperial Spirits finally dissipated in his hands.
“Hehehe, this time, I won.”
He grinned menacingly and fell to the ground.
Luo Hongyan ran over and supported Changqing. She seemed to understand something, and cried.
“No, no, Changqing, don’t die!”
But Changqing could no longer answer her. In the darkness, he only felt himself in a boundless abyss, falling together with Dan Ji.
Luo Hongyan’s tear-reddened eyes rapidly receded from his vision as he fell, until they finally disappeared.
The eerie clock in his mind began to reverse.
The clock face and hands collapsed, wriggled, and flowed like a nightmarish, amorphous entity. The twelve eyes representing time, like pus, constantly formed and decomposed on its surface, flashing with an evil light.
“What kind of evil thing is this!”
In the final moments, he heard Dan Ji’s terrified voice.
Opening his eyes again, the familiar ceiling came into view.
As usual, he first opened his phone to check the time.
January 8th, no change.
He rubbed his somewhat heavy head and sat up.
It was still the familiar room, but this time, he could clearly feel that his physical condition was much better than before.
“This lifetime was the closest I’ve come to success, and also the time my cultivation was highest.”
“Is it because my cultivation in the other world improved, leading to an improvement in my physical condition in reality?”
As he thought this, his phone rang again. His gaze softened involuntarily, and he answered the video call.
“Changqing, are you feeling better?” Ye Qinghe’s pretty face appeared on the screen.
She was still wearing a white down jacket, her originally fair cheeks were slightly reddened by the cold wind, and her black long hair was somewhat disheveled over her shoulders, yet it still couldn't hide her beauty.
“I’m fine. Why are you video calling me while walking? Be careful where you’re going…”
Changqing responded as he had before, but suddenly, he froze.
In his mind, a familiar voice appeared.
“Boy, where is this?”
It was Dan Ji!
“What’s wrong, Changqing? Why did you suddenly stop talking?”
“Ah, nothing, nothing. You go to class first, I have something to take care of here.”
He replied somewhat flustered, hastily hanging up the phone.
What’s going on! Why did Dan Ji Transmigrate back with him? Was it his hallucination or was it real?
To verify this conjecture, he closed his eyes and carefully sensed the depths of his mind.
That eerie clock, sensing his “gaze,” had the twelve eyes representing time on its face simultaneously open eerily, their pupils like a profound starry sky.
The only difference was that next to the clock, a black humanoid phantom was floating, continuously flickering with a faint light.
Is this Dan Ji’s Soul? Changqing tried to communicate with her, but received no response.
He recalled the knowledge he had seen in the Soul Exchange and Body Seizure method. If a Soul was not refined through some special means, it could not directly communicate with people.
To communicate with a Soul, besides refining it in a special way, the simplest method was to find a flesh-and-blood body for the Soul to temporarily attach to.
He naturally couldn’t refine Dan Ji’s Soul. This was Earth; let alone Imperial Spirits, he couldn't even feel the so-called Spiritual Qi of the other world, and couldn't employ any means.
So the only feasible method was to find a flesh-and-blood body for Dan Ji.
“A flesh-and-blood body, huh… I can’t go to a funeral home to steal a corpse, nor can I become a murderer, can I…?”
“I’ll make some attempts first. I need to hurry; I don’t know how long this return to reality will last. I must figure out what’s going on.”
Thinking this, Changqing tidied up and left the house.
He had to figure out what that black phantom in his mind was while he was still in reality, and whether Dan Ji had Transmigrated back with him. Otherwise, he couldn't let strange things appear in his mind.
If any accident occurred, its severity would be comparable to a fire in the backyard.
After all, in this lifetime, he had experienced the terrifying and Weird aspects of Soul Law, which were impossible to guard against. He must be careful and make thorough preparations.
Thinking this, he had already put on his clothes and rushed out the door.
Before long, he rushed back, bringing three items.
The items were too heavy, and coupled with his physical condition, even for a young and strong man like him, he was exhausted by the time he moved them back.
On the table was a whole pig’s head bought from the market, and a large rooster that had just been untied and was flapping wildly around the room.
On the other side stood a large box, taller than a person, wrapped tightly in black packaging.
He picked up a utility knife and opened the packaging. Just thinking about the process of buying this item made his scalp tingle with embarrassment.
Anyway, let’s try it first…
Looking at the pig’s head on the table, which smiled eerily, Changqing thought for a moment, then placed his forehead against the pig’s head, closed his eyes, and concentrated, wanting to guide the black phantom in his mind into it.
The phantom, urged by Changqing’s thoughts, seemed to waver a bit, but ultimately did not enter the pig’s head.
He let go of the pig’s head somewhat disappointed, then turned to catch the large rooster, and tried the same method again.
Still no effect.
“Can the bodies of livestock not accommodate her? It seems I can only try the crystallization of human wisdom.”