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Chapter 902: The Art of Possession

Gu Hao was also very surprised when he saw Deng Kai and the others. He asked in astonishment, "How did you find this place?!"

Song Jiang heard this and said, "It was Brother Wu who told us that you were trapped in this place... otherwise we really wouldn't be able to find you for a while."

But after hearing this, Gu Hao was even more surprised and asked, "Zhou Shiwu? How did he know I was here?!"

Song Jiang naturally didn't know the answer to this question, so he shook his head and said, "Then you can ask Fifth Brother yourself the next time you have a chance to see him."

Deng Kai was still having trouble adapting to the fact that Gu Hao was reborn from another body, so he said anxiously, "Why do you have so many questions? Shouldn't we ask you now? How did you get trapped in this damn place?!"

Unexpectedly, Gu Hao did not answer Deng Kai's question immediately. Instead, he looked at the three people with a complicated expression and said, "This place has two barriers. The first one is used to prevent people from entering by mistake. The second one is used to prevent ghosts, mainly to prevent the ghosts inside from escaping from here."

The more Song Jiang listened, the more confused he became. "Wait... why are you on guard against people and ghosts at the same time? Gu Hao, what is going on? Why did you come to this place?"

Song Jiang asked the same question again. Gu Hao naturally couldn't avoid answering it like he did to Deng Kai, so he pondered for a moment and said, "Someone opened a hole here that connects to the hell of hell and released the most evil ghosts in hell... The number is quite shocking, probably hundreds of them."

Meng Zhe shook his head and said, "This is impossible... If there were suddenly so many evil ghosts in the world, how could the people in the underworld not know about it? They do have some useless people, but they are not all useless people."

Gu Hao sighed and said, "It's natural that the people from the underworld wouldn't fail to notice the sudden increase of several hundred evil spirits, but what if there were only a few hundred ordinary humans who had nothing to do with the incident showing abnormal behavior? They probably wouldn't take it seriously, right?"

After listening to Gu Hao's words, Song Jiang immediately thought of the abnormal situations in the scenic area. Could it be that the hundreds of evil spirits that escaped from the hell possessed the hundreds of tourists who came to the scenic area, and then used their identities to blend in with ordinary people? When thinking of this, Song Jiang couldn't help but feel a chill on his back.

Meng Zhe naturally understood Gu Hao's implication better than Song Jiang, but he still disagreed and said, "That's unlikely... Evil spirits naturally reject ordinary people's bodies. It may be okay for one or two days, but once the possession lasts too long, the possessed person's body will have obvious problems, and naturally it will be easy for the underworld to find out."

Unexpectedly, Gu Hao suddenly asked in a deep voice, "What if it's not possession... but taking over someone else's body?"

Meng Zhe didn't seem to expect Gu Hao to say that. He looked at Gu Hao with some confusion and said, "What do you mean? Although those evil ghosts have committed serious sins, they were just ordinary mortals when they were alive. How could they know this art of possessing bodies, unless... there is someone who knows how to teach them." After Meng Zhe said this, Song Jiang and Deng Kai all looked at Gu Hao, as if they had guessed something. The latter sighed first, then said to Deng Kai with some hesitation, "Actually... I didn't drink Meng Po soup when I was reincarnated, so I remember some things from my past life."

Deng Kai thought that Gu Hao wanted to cover up his reincarnation by saying that he didn't drink Meng Po, so he said unhappily, "Don't bother making up excuses. I know about your reincarnation."

Unexpectedly, Gu Hao waved his hand and said, "That's not what I'm talking about... You should know that no one is born with the ability to possess a body, and no ordinary person would spend his entire life studying this, unless he has memories of his past life."

Afterwards, Gu Hao told them that he used to be no different from ordinary humans, and spent his whole life muddledly pursuing material things. Until one day after his death, he met an old ghost in the underworld, who told him that he had a way to prevent him from drinking Mengpo soup, which meant that he would be reincarnated with the memories of his previous life...

People who have never died naturally do not understand the mystery of this suggestion, because carrying the memories of the previous life means also having the knowledge and experience of the previous life. Others are like fools when they are just born, but you are already an adult soul with sound thinking.

So, with the help of the old ghost, Gu Hao at that time successfully avoided the memory cleansing of Meng Po soup, and was reincarnated as the third illegitimate son of a merchant family. Because of his humble status, he did not receive much attention after birth, but this also gave Gu Hao more time to concentrate on his own things.

Logically speaking, Gu Hao, who had the memories of his past life, should have used this advantage to make a big splash in this merchant family and carve out a world of his own. However, he had no interest in business at all. He devoted himself to studying metaphysics and mathematics, and was always treated as an alien by his family members in that life. In the end, he even became a cultivator... The reason why Gu Hao did this was because he was aiming for something bigger than the wealth of his small family business.

It turns out that the old ghost who helped him avoid the Meng Po soup at first did not help him in vain. The reason why he let him reincarnate with his memories was because he saw that he had wisdom and wanted him to return to the human world to find a way to take over another's body. At that time, Gu Hao did not disappoint. Not only did he become a sorcerer with profound cultivation, but he also finally figured out the real art of taking over another's body.

This art of taking over a body refers to the soul of a dead person taking over the body of a living person to achieve the purpose of resurrection, which is also a disguised method of longevity. Most of those who possess this art are some Taoists, who rely on their powerful willpower to forcibly suppress or expel the soul of a living person, thereby achieving the purpose of resurrection.

Gu Hao was a man of his word whether as a human or a ghost, so he tried his best to find the reincarnated old ghost. He discovered that the other party's life was not bad now, and he was a young general with some military power. So Gu Hao enlightened him and taught him the art of possessing another's body.

However, possession of a body is different from using a corpse to revive the soul. Compared with revive the soul, possession of a body is quite overbearing. As long as a suitable host is found, it will use any means to occupy someone else's body and drive the original main soul out of the body.

At that time, Gu Hao thought that he had fulfilled his promise and ended the cause and effect between the two of them. There should be no intersection in the future. However, he did not expect that the decades-long entanglement between the two had just begun...