Yun Qishen

"Sir, are you okay?" Liang Jie found the man in the backyard of the inn. He thought he was a guest staying in the inn, but the man didn't have any magical powers after entering the inn. But facing an unconscious person, Liang Jie was still worried and shook the man and shouted, "Sir? Sir?!"

The man opened his eyes dazedly, and Liang Jie hurriedly asked again, "Are you okay? Where did you come from?"

The man looked at Liang Jie and shook his head in confusion, "I don't know."

Just as Liang Jie was about to ask again, Mo Li also entered the backyard from the front hall. As soon as he came in, he saw Xiao Li accompanying Liang Jie and supporting a guy in a black robe. In Mo Li's vision of his unique heterochromatic pupil, the black-robed man exuded an ethereal aura of a ghost beast. He quickly became alert, "What are you doing?"

"Brother Mo Li, we picked up a person... a medicine man." Liang Jie knew that the medicine man existed, but he had never seen one. However, the strong smell of medicine on the man made him very sure that this was the medicine man.

"Medicine man?" Mo Li lowered his eyebrows and walked over to pull Liang Jie and Xiao Li apart, "Liang Jie, Xiao Li, stay away from him!"

"What's wrong, Brother Mo Li?" Liang Jie was puzzled. He watched the man staggering backwards after being pushed away, and he was afraid that he was about to fall.

Mo Li explained, “He has no heart, he is a dead hysterical soul.”

Flesh death hysteria?

Liang Jie didn't understand, "What is that, Brother Mo Li?"

"That thing!" Just as Liang Jie was asking Mo Li, the man suddenly aimed at a piece of jade on Mo Li's waist and rushed over, "Give it to me!"

"Be careful!" While protecting Liang Jie and Xiao Li, Mo Li used his magic power to knock the man away.

"Ah!" The man got up from the ground in pain, his hand still reaching towards Liang Jie, "I just want that piece of jade... jade..."

Eventually the man fainted.

"This is a faint..."

Just as Mo Li was about to move forward to check, Liang Jie stopped him again for fear that Mo Li would kill him.

"Brother Mo Li, he doesn't look like a bad person."

Xiao Li also stuck his head out and said, "Yeah, Brother Mo Li, maybe he doesn't want to become like this."

Mo Li sighed and turned to look at Liang Jie and asked, "What's the matter with the jade on your waist?"

Liang Jie explained, "A customer bought something on credit before leaving, and he also said a lot of things about numerology."

Mo Li took the jade in his hand and looked at it carefully. "The texture of this jade is clear, and there seems to be some... soul fragments in it. Could it be the soul fragments of this flesh-dead hysterical soul? The texture doesn't feel right..."

Mo Li put the jade away, and then he said, "Forget it, Liang Jie, please help carry him into the secret room."

"Okay!" Liang Jie and Mo Li carried the man into the underground secret room together. Xiao Li stood at the door of the secret room and watched them disappear into the darkness.

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A dark underground secret room.

The man was mumbling in his sleep, and Mo Li listened for a while before he understood what he meant.

"Master... Junior Brother..."

Mo Li lit a stick of soul-capturing incense and placed it beside the man's couch. The green smoke from the soul-capturing incense then penetrated into the man's body.

"The soul is incomplete, and the body is incomplete. But there is a strong obsession... What a miserable life." Mo Li sighed and turned to look at Liang Jie who was holding a candle behind him. "Okay, it's none of your business. You can leave with Li'er first. I'll take care of him."

"Okay, Brother Mo Li." Liang Jie put down the candle and walked towards the door of the secret room.

The green smoke of the soul-stealing incense turned into a pair of hands, which gently stroked the man's forehead. The man's expression eased, and his mumbling became clearer, "So warm..."

Qingyan entered the man's soul and spoke gently, "My good disciple, if you are tired, just sleep a little longer, and there will be less trouble in this world."

The man responded in a murmur, "Well... it's enough to have Master here... Master..."

After a while, the man stopped mumbling and opened his eyes.

“Awake.” Noticing that the man had woken up, Mo Li quickly extinguished the soul-stealing incense and handed the man a red pill, “Come and take this pill.”

"..." The man looked at Mo Li in a daze. He did not take the pill.

“Don’t worry, I won’t hurt you.” Seeing that person’s cautious resistance, Mo Li handed over the jade he had taken from Liang Jie along with the elixir, “Don’t you want the jade? Here you go.”

"!" When the man saw the jade, he grabbed the jade and the pill together. He held the jade in his arms facing his empty heart.

“Look at the treasure you have. Is this jade really that important?” Mo Li urged, “Take the pill quickly.”

The man hesitated for a moment and ate the pill. He then slowly spoke, "I don't know, but I want to catch more of these jades and send them all away to where they should go. I don't know why I do this, I just want to do it, there is no reason..."

Mo Li looked at the man curled up and hugged him and sighed, "Listen to me, your body and your soul are not together, you need this soul-stealing incense to calm your soul and strengthen your body. So. You can go collect this kind of jade, but at the same time, if you want to continue to live, you must come back and eat this pill I give you."

"What will happen if I don't come back?" the man asked.

Mo Li answered him seriously, "There is a power placed in your body that can make you explode at any time. I have just helped you seal it. But the power in your body is still unstable. You must be careful not to let the power hurt yourself."

The man lowered his head and remained silent for a moment before saying, "I beg you to help me..."

"What?" Mo Li observed the man's every move.

The man covered his head with his hands. "I want to figure out who I am and whose body this is... I also want to know what I look like... Can you help me?"

Li Qiye crossed his arms over his chest and said, "I can help you find your identity, but I can't tell you. As a Flesh-Dead Hysteric, you can't see your own appearance."

"Can you tell me why?"

Mo Li picked up the candle behind him and placed it next to the soul-stealing incense. He said, "It is recorded in ancient books that if the body is not complete, the soul is incomplete, and if the body is hysterical, the two cannot be seen. If the soul sees the body, the body will collapse. If the body senses the soul, the soul will leave. Not allowing you to look in the mirror is not allowing your soul to see the body. You have no heart, so this body can be replaced by any soul, and at the same time such a body will have a strong obsession with itself. Your current obsession is just the obsession of this body, so you want those jade stones for no reason."

The man quickly asked, "What if I accidentally saw my appearance?"

"Like this." Mo Li used his ghost power to conjure up a ghost mask. "This mask is for you. It can transform into anything. When you put it on, try not to look at things like mirrors."

"I understand..." The man took the mask and put it on. The mask formed another ordinary face on his face.

"Do you have a name?" Mo Li asked.

The man shook his head, "No."

"Let me give you one, so I can call you by that name in the future."

Hearing what Mo Li said, the man hastily refused, "No... you don't have to choose one... I have a name I want to be called."

"This should also be your body's obsession...Okay, what do you want to call it?"

The man opened his mouth and said seriously, "I want to call..." (End of this chapter)