This is what an immortal should be like

Chapter 228 Remembering My Past Life: Who Am I?

Taking a bus is the most convenient way to get between Zhonghai City and Donghai City. After some twists and turns, Xiong Xuguang finally managed to catch the bus with his family.

Once on the bus, Xiong Xuguang and his wife found seats, each with a child on their laps. After relaxing, as the bus moved forward, he couldn't help but think of the dream he had the day before.

The dream was so vivid that I haven't forgotten any of the details even now.

"Honey, did you have a dream last night?"

Xiong Xuguang's wife had just put their son to sleep. Looking at their daughter, who was also asleep in her husband's arms, she couldn't help but wonder why her husband put the child to sleep so easily.

"Honey, did you hear what I asked?"

"Oh? You mean you dreamed? You dreamed about the lantern festival? This lantern festival at the film studio is really great. I made the right decision to come here after listening to you!"

"Did you dream about the lantern festival?"

Xiong Xuguang became excited.

"Did you dream about the Demon-Sealing Rock?"

"What? What are you sealing off?"

"Demon Sealing Rock!"

"What nonsense are you talking about? You're so busy you're practically obsessed."

The woman ignored Xiong Xuguang, took out her earphones, put them on, and started listening to music on the MP3 player in her pocket.

Undeterred, Xiong Xuguang removed one of his wife's earphones and patted her on the shoulder.

"Hey, were all the people at the lantern festival you dreamed about last night dressed in ancient costumes?"

"I can't remember clearly, I just remember dreaming about a lantern festival. You need to interpret dreams? Oh right, you can interpret dreams."

The wife seemed to suddenly remember her husband's profession: a civil servant in the Imperial Observatory, who had apparently been promoted recently, and who had interpreted dreams for relatives and friends before.

As she said this, Xiong Xuguang's wife took back her earphones, told him "Don't bother me," and continued listening to music.

Xiong Xuguang frowned slightly. Clearly, his wife's dream was different, or not as profound.

But his wife was right about one thing: Xiong Xuguang was very concerned about that dream, but it was difficult to interpret from a dream analysis perspective. Why would he dream about something he had absolutely no recollection of? And what about the scene in the dream?
As the saying goes, what you think about during the day, you dream about at night; that must be the case with his wife.
Sealing Demon Rock.
As the bus swayed, a wave of drowsiness gradually washed over him, and before he knew it, Xiong Xuguang had fallen asleep again.

This time, Xiong Xuguang had another dream. In the dream, he seemed to be dozing off, and his mind felt like it was constantly swaying.

"Humph!"

A cold snort gave Xiong Xuguang a strange sense of dread, and he immediately sobered up. When he looked up, he saw three people, including himself, sitting by a clear mountain pool.

One was his wife, another was a person shrouded in white light whose face was obscured, and the third was Xiong Xuguang.

"Master, my senior brother was just too tired, but he was listening attentively the whole time."

"Is it?"

The person in the white light had an old voice. When he looked at Xiong Xuguang, he immediately felt a chill and quickly agreed with his wife.

"Yes, Master, I'm just too tired."

"Okay, what did I just say?"

Xiong Xuguang immediately panicked; he had absolutely no recollection of it, only vaguely remembering some booming sounds.
The person in the white light seemed to become clearer, and sighed helplessly.

"Alas, my lifespan is short; how can I entrust everything to you with peace of mind?"

"Master, I will help my senior brother, and I will always be by his side!"

Upon hearing the woman's voice, Xiong Xuguang looked to his side with a grateful expression, only to be met with a glare from his junior sister.

"Fine, I'll say it again."

The old man in the white light spoke exceptionally clearly this time, explaining several methods for sealing demons. Xiong Xuguang listened very attentively, not only out of fear, but also subconsciously, as a member of the Bureau of Astronomical Investigation, he also longed to learn similar knowledge.

After an unknown amount of time, Xiong Xuguang was jolted awake by the bus braking, accompanied by a slight feeling of weightlessness.

"We've reached a service area. Anyone who needs to use the restroom, please go."

The driver and ticket seller were calling out, the doors opened, and many people got off to use the restroom. Xiong Xuguang rubbed his face and looked at his wife beside him, who then turned to look at him as well.

"Sleep a little longer, I'm watching!"

Xiong Xuguang immediately realized what was going on. There were pickpockets on these kinds of vehicles, and he was usually quite vigilant, but he had fallen asleep this time, so his wife had been on high alert the whole time.

But Xiong Xuguang really wanted to keep dreaming.

"Okay, I'm a little tired, I'll take a nap. Wake me up if you need anything!"

"Ok!"

His wife nodded, and Xiong Xuguang leaned back in his seat and closed his eyes, but this time he couldn't fall asleep no matter how relaxed he tried.

This troubled Xiong Xuguang. After trying several times, he finally opened his eyes and looked to the side when the bus started moving again.

"I'm not sleeping anymore, you should get some sleep!"

"I can't sleep on the bus." "Why don't you lean on my shoulder and sleep?"

Hearing this, his wife rolled her eyes at Xiong Xuguang, and that look reminded him of his previous dream.

Perhaps it was because he was seeing things through a filter, but Xiong Xuguang felt that the feeling was almost exactly the same. His wife was especially beautiful at this moment, and he couldn't help but want to kiss her. However, his wife reached out and slapped him away, and nervously looked around, muttering under her breath, "Are you trying to kill me?"

Unable to fall asleep, Xiong Xuguang kept thinking about the two dreams he had last night and just now. He could even recall what his master had said in the dream.

"All things are governed by Yin and Yang, and all things follow the Five Elements. The so-called sealing and prohibition is to prohibit the spirit, movement, and energy."

Xiong Xuguang muttered to himself, and the more he murmured, the clearer some of the originally blurry content in his dream became. Unconsciously, he uttered at least several hundred words in one breath.

When Xiong Xuguang realized this, he was stunned.

What did I just do? Did I memorize that?
Xiong Xuguang looked to his side, but unfortunately his wife seemed to be looking out the window at the scenery because he had woken up and was not paying attention to the car.

Xiong Xuguang turned his gaze back, took a deep breath, and subconsciously glanced inside the car to confirm once again that there were no suspected pickpockets in the vehicle.

However, when Xiong Xuguang's gaze swept across a certain spot to his right, his eyes paused slightly before immediately focusing on a specific location.

It was a boy with rather long hair, who looked to be at most sixteen or seventeen years old, and he was holding a very thick book and reading it.

However, this book is not a study reference book. Its fancy cover and title indicate that it is a novel. It is a thick book, at least five centimeters thick, the size of an A4 sheet of paper, and the amount of text must be astonishing.

What truly caught Xiong Xuguang's attention was the book's title.

Those were several large characters written in thick artistic lettering, titled "Remembering Who I Was in My Past Life".

Xiong Xuguang stared in that direction, at the book in the boy's hand, and froze. He gradually came to his senses, but goosebumps were already rising all over his body and the hairs on his body were standing on end.

Past lives? Do past lives really exist?
Yes, the black tortoise shell has been revealed, and the Xuan Tian Yi has been activated on its own, so why can't it have a past life?
Previously, I just couldn't figure this out, but once I did, everything became clear and all the logic became interconnected.

Xiong Xuguang suddenly became excited. After a long while, he looked to his side and saw his wife looking away from the window. She glanced at her husband out of habit, only to find him staring at her intently, which puzzled her.

"What's wrong with you today? We've been married for so long!"

Upon hearing this, Xiong Xuguang was deeply moved.

"You've really always been there for me."

These words, coupled with Xiong Xuguang's earlier attempt to kiss her, caused his wife's face to flush. Despite being married for many years, her cheeks visibly turned red.

"We're not having a third child!"

"Hahahaha, no child, no child!"

Xiong Xuguang also laughed. His wife's behavior was exactly the same as when she was at the lantern festival in his dream!
Thinking of this, Xiong Xuguang tentatively asked another question.

"Honey, do you remember a mountain? There's a huge rock embedded in the mountainside with words on it."

Before Xiong Xuguang could finish speaking, his wife laughed.

"Isn't that the mountain from your hometown? I've seen that rock before, but I've forgotten its name, and I don't know if it has any writing on it. What's wrong, are you homesick?"

Xiong Xuguang's eyes widened in surprise. He immediately pulled out his phone, quickly scrolled through his contacts, found a number, and dialed it.

After two rings, the call was immediately answered, and Xiong Xuguang spoke right away.

"Director, I'm about to return to China Overseas. I have an important report to make. Please notify the General Administration immediately, and it would be best to hold a video conference today!"

"what's the situation?"

A question came from the other end of the phone, and Xiong Xuguang replied in a low voice.

"At least Grade A, Class 2!"

Class A, Grade 2 is one of the current classifications of classified information by the Bureau of Extraordinary Investigations. The highest level is Class A, Grade 1, and Xiong Xuguang felt that classifying his past life, especially the possible existence of the Demon Sealing Rock, as Class A, Grade 2 was absolutely not an exaggeration.

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, clearly someone was startled, before a sound came through quickly.

"Where are you? I'll send someone to pick you up right away. Give me your exact location!"

Xiong Xuguang did not hesitate.

"They are gathered around a blue and white bus, traveling on XXX Highway, section X, towards Zhonghai City."

As he spoke, Xiong Xuguang covered his phone temporarily and looked up ahead.

"Excuse me, sir, what's the license plate of this car? I'm a senior police inspector, please cooperate—"

The officers from the Special Investigation Bureau also have police IDs, which they can show when necessary. Xiong Xuguang's action startled several people on the bus, and the driver and ticket collector were also taken aback.

Even Xiong Xuguang's wife looked astonished.
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That afternoon, a video conference was held at the Zhonghai Investigation Bureau branch, where Xiong Xuguang's dream information and his doubts about his past life were directly pointed out.

To prove this point, Xiong Xuguang even took a pen and, in front of many leaders and colleagues from the branch office, as well as many people from the Investigation Bureau on the other end of the video call, wrote down all the chapters about banning demons that his "master" had taught him.

Compared to when he was in the car, Xiong Xuguang's thoughts were much clearer at the meeting. As if divinely inspired, he wrote down more than three thousand words, many of which were obscure, yet without a single mistake.

This, of course, cannot be fully proven, but it has already convinced most of the Bureau of Mystery Investigations who believe in metaphysics.

Before the meeting even ended, orders were issued from the headquarters of the Bureau of Extraordinary Investigations to immediately mobilize military and police forces to Xiong Xuguang's hometown. The priority was to locate the potentially existing Demon-Sealing Rock and place it under close surveillance.
(End of this chapter)