Apocalypse: Become stronger by absorbing flames at the start; my name is the Flame Emperor.

"Stop pushing. You're only at the third rank. How can you open the door to the fourth rank? You need to absorb more energy to improve your strength, physique, and spirit to reach the fourth rank. Then the door will open naturally."

The old man sensed Chen Jing'er's movements and was somewhat speechless.

It's been a long time since I've encountered such a novice. When I teach him, he actually feels a sense of accomplishment.

"Little girl, I see you have good talent, and we have a connection. How about you become my apprentice?" the old man said with a smile.

"You have good talent? How did you tell?"

Chen Jing'er glanced at him.

"Your evolution gate is red. Although it's not the most advanced kind, it's still pretty good. It's mainly because of fate."

The old man explained with a smile, not hiding his true abilities.

"You mean, everyone's evolution gate is a different color?"

"Of course, the color of the Gate of Evolution represents an individual's talent and foundation. There are five levels: white, green, yellow, red, and gold."

"Talent and potential are fixed at birth. Only by consuming certain rare treasures before reaching the first rank can one undergo a transformation. After reaching the first rank, consuming treasures will not change the fundamental nature of one's foundation."

The old man spoke slowly, as if lecturing a disciple.

"Rare and precious treasures? You don't mean attribute-enhancing fruits, do you?"

Chen Jing'er's heart skipped a beat, and many thoughts came to mind.

As Brother Yu once said, before the first tier, the effect of attribute fruits is the greatest.

Although the explanations at the time are somewhat different from those now, the result is the same.

"However, these days it's rare to see rare and precious natural treasures that can strengthen one's foundation. I haven't seen a single one in all these years." The old man stroked his beard and shook his head.

"Didn't you say I was dead? Now I'm just a ghost."

"That's right. Although I don't know how you brought your physical body in here, you are indeed about to die. Once the seven-day mourning period is over, if you don't sever your ties, you will surely die, and you won't even have the chance to become a ghost."

The old man's voice became much more serious when he said this.

"To sever all ties with reality, isn't that to sever everything between me and Brother Yu? I might as well just die."

"Besides, what's the point of being a lonely ghost in this hell?"

Chen Jing'er shook her head.

Lin Yu had already filled her heart completely; she could never forget him in this lifetime.

How can we talk about severing ties?

That makes sense.

Upon hearing this, the old man stroked his chin and nodded.

Sudden.

He raised an eyebrow and looked into the distance.

"Little girl, no matter which world you come from, it is fate that we have met now. However, I have urgent business to attend to and must take my leave first. Here, take this. If you can't hold on any longer, you can try the method on this page. It may allow you to stay in this world, although the price will be great."

As the old man spoke, a small booklet suddenly appeared in his hand.

He threw it directly at Chen Jing'er.

"Shikigami Jutsu!"

As soon as Chen Jing'er received the booklet, her pupils contracted upon seeing the three large characters on it.

"senior……"

She looked up, but the old man was nowhere to be seen; he had vanished without a trace.

"Shikigami?"

"Isn't this the talent that Brother Yu killed during the Hundred Kingdoms War?"

Chen Jing'er seemed to remember something and slowly opened the booklet.

I read them one by one from the beginning.

A moment later.

She slowly closed the booklet. The so-called shikigami were powerful beings that roamed the underworld.

Or, you could call it a ghost!

In the real world, if someone possesses the talent of Shikigami Contract, they can open the gates of hell and randomly summon those demons! They can then make them their Shikigami to fight for them.

Susanoo is an example of this!

However, the summoning of shikigami is also random; it may summon powerful, weak, benevolent, or evil ones...

If you accidentally summon an evil spirit, and the spirit doesn't want to be bound by a contract or come to the real world, it might just kill the person who summoned it!

This is definitely a high-risk profession!

As ghosts, some of them actually want to have some fun in the human world... but if no one calls them, they can only stay in this so-called hell forever, unable to leave.

Thus, the art of shikigami came into being.

Demons in hell can use their own souls to inscribe shikigami talismans, attach them to an object, and then throw them into the human world when they have the chance.

When the shikigami talisman is stained with blood, the gates of hell will open immediately.

This demon will become the shikigami of the blood master!

Is it random?

Chen Jing'er murmured, and with a tremor of her right hand, a terrifying force was released, completely shattering the booklet.

However, she still silently memorized the method of drawing the shikigami talisman in her heart.

But she would never do that unless absolutely necessary.

because--

The cost was too high!

Given her strength, if she were to appear in the form of a shikigami talisman, her own consciousness might be erased, turning her into an unconscious shikigami with only her innate instincts remaining.

"Only ghosts of the ninth rank or higher can retain 100% of their consciousness..."

Such a request was harder than climbing to heaven for her.

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