Ghosts come from obsession.
Today's Shu Guan has long been extremely clear about this.
For ordinary people, after the physical body dies, the soul will automatically go to the underworld due to the attraction of the laws of heaven.
Even practitioners who have not reached the Nascent Soul realm cannot avoid such a fate.
But if a person's obsession is deep enough before death, he may become a ghost lingering in the world.
Just like the female ghost in white in Jingcheng, her obsession was due to her reluctance to leave her lover, so she stayed in the world for decades, and was even as powerful as a practitioner in the Fetal Movement Realm.
What about the little girl in the attic?
Her obsession must be due to her hatred for those who hurt her!
It's just that the human world is not a suitable place for ghosts to live, and ghosts who stay in the human world because of obsessions such as hatred can easily turn into powerful ghosts and then harm others.
…
Shu Guan walked up the wooden stairs towards the attic above the small building.
The wooden stairs creaked under his feet.
On a night like this, hearing such a noise in a small building where a death occurred not long ago would inevitably give rise to some eerie and terrifying feelings for ordinary people.
Of course Shu Guan would not have such a mental barrier. What he was thinking at this time was that he would have the entire staircase redone tomorrow.
Then he went into the attic.
The attic was quiet, there was no one around, and there was no sign of the little girl I had seen during the day.
Shu Guan did not turn on the light in the attic, because he knew that ghosts are afraid of light. Even if it is not sunlight but just light, it will still make ghosts instinctively hate it.
Shu Guan stood in the darkness and said to the darkness:
"Come out."
However, he waited for five or six minutes and still didn't see the little girl show up.
But Shu Guan knew that the little girl was hiding on the beam of the roof, shivering.
Ghosts, without flesh and blood, cannot really "shiver", but Shu Guan could feel the trembling of the little girl's soul, and the fear and uneasiness conveyed in this trembling.
Just as he had already noticed the presence of this ghost before he stepped into this small building during the day.
Shu Guan didn't care at that time.
He has too many methods to expel or directly destroy a ghost.
After all, he was the ghost clan's nemesis confirmed personally by a city prince.
Back then in Dahong Mountain, thousands of ghosts were wiped out in a single thought, including a powerful ghost race in the Fetal Movement Realm.
What's more, there is a "little devil" in his own family.
But after learning what happened to this kid from Zhu Ming's mouth, Shu Guan was no longer prepared to drive him away or kill him.
"Would you like to come out and talk? I will never hurt you. Maybe I can help you."
After waiting for a while, Shu Guan said this sincerely again.
However, after waiting for a long time, the little girl on the beam still did not show up.
Shu Guan was silent for a moment, then turned and left the attic. Before leaving, he gently closed the door.
Shu Guan understood the little girl's reluctance to show up.
Anyone who encounters such a tragic incident will probably no longer have any trust in any stranger.
So the little girl in the attic is actually a ghost who is stuck in the autistic stage.
For a child with autism, Shu Guan knows that the more pressure she has, the more scared she will become.
Then wait for a while, wait until she can slowly accept herself, then ask her what happened that night, and then find a way to resolve her resentment.
…
The decoration of the small building took more than twenty days.
After all, Shuguan did not plan to renovate the small building, and Mei did not plan to decorate the small building so luxuriously. It was just to make people feel new.
Just paint the walls, put some paper on the windows, and just buy some furniture.
Oh, by the way, Shu Guan finally decided to re-reinforce the wooden stairs in the small building, as long as there was no abnormal sound when he stepped on them.
Although the decoration workers introduced by Zhu Ming were not as skilled as the best in Shanghai as he boasted, they did a pretty good job. As for the wages, Shu Guan didn't know the market price, so he gave them as much as they were told.
During this time, Shu Guan also went to the telegraph office and sent a telegram to Rong Miao who was far away in Jingcheng. He didn't say much. He just said that he had arrived in Shencheng and didn't even tell Rong Miao himself. Bought a house in Duolun Lane.
Shu Guan was still vaguely worried that the Seven Immortals Alliance would look for him, and what happened between him and Rong Miao was not a particularly big secret. All the senior brothers and sisters in the Guan knew it.
So Shu Guan was afraid that others would find him through Rong Miao.
As for how Rong Miao will get along with her when she comes to Shanghai in a few months, Shu Guan has already thought about it, and this is what he is preparing to do.
Just make yourself the person with absolute power in Shen City!
By that time, even if the Seven Immortals Alliance really comes to visit, I will have many ways to deal with it.
Shu Guan's current judgment on this matter is this: the Seven Immortals Alliance should have looked for him, but he did not do anything harmful to the world by approaching him. He left the Seven Immortals Alliance in the first place just for the convenience of avenging his master. What's more, he also defeated the Black Dragon Society's conspiracy, saved Jingcheng's overall situation, and preserved Jingcheng's destiny formation.
Therefore, even if the Seven Immortals Alliance is really looking for him, they should just look for him "casually". At most, they may send out an ancestor-level figure to look for him.
You wouldn't let an immortal like Lu Zu go out to find you for a young disciple like yourself, right?
This is simply impossible!
Besides, if you really have trouble, you can still ask your senior brother for help.
This is Shu Guan's current judgment on this matter.
Perhaps it is because deep down in his heart, Shu Guan still regards himself as a member of the Seven Immortals Alliance, and does not feel that he has any irreconcilable conflicts with the Seven Immortals Alliance.
He felt that he should be more careful and avoid meeting people from the Seven Immortals Alliance, but there was no need to be vigilant all the time and live a life of hiding.
What needs to be done still needs to be done.
For example, Shu Guan is currently focused on the fortune-telling parlor that is about to open.
…
In a spacious and elegant room.
An old Taoist priest, an old monk, and an old scholar stood side by side, staring at a portrait hanging on the wall.
The portrait depicts a young man carrying a steel bridge on his shoulders.
The portrait is so lifelike that it can be said that it is no different from the actual scene that happened at that time. Moreover, the scenery and characters in the portrait are slowly rotating, and the appearance of the young man in the portrait can be seen clearly from 360 degrees without blind spots.
This is naturally a portrait drawn using magic. Compared with the photos taken by ordinary people with cameras, it is many times more realistic and delicate.
The person who painted this painting is Chen Shanming, the mountain chief of East Lake Academy in Yuzhang City.
Of course, he has returned to Yuzhang City now, but before going back, he left this painting behind according to the request of his master Zou Zhen.
At this time, the three giants of the Shencheng Seven Immortals Alliance were looking at the painting with serious expressions.
Unlike Jingcheng, Yuzhang City, or other large historical cities in Dahua, because Shencheng was just a small county hundreds of years ago, there are no temples, temples or academies of the Seven Immortals Alliance here.
Shencheng was opened as a port two hundred years ago, but the real earth-shaking changes occurred in the past one hundred years. In just one hundred years, Shencheng went from an inconspicuous small town to the largest and most prosperous city in the entire Eastern Continent. It is also the most populous city.
The intensity of this change exceeded the expectations of the Seven Immortals Alliance.
After all, they are a group of detached practitioners. Apart from upholding heavenly rules, they do not pay too much attention to the mortal world.
Lots of looks.
However, when Shencheng developed to a certain scale, it finally came into the sight of the Seven Immortals Alliance.
But at this time, the Seven Immortals Alliance was shocked to find that Shen City was already crowded with too many practitioners.
Yes, compared to other big cities in Dahua, the number of practitioners hiding in Shencheng at that time can be described as "crowded".
These practitioners have been operating in Shencheng for many years and have already had a deep foundation and powerful power, which makes the Seven Immortals Alliance feel a little troublesome.
Of course, Shencheng is also the territory of Dahua, and the practitioners here must also abide by the heavenly rules. This is the bottom line of the Seven Immortals Alliance and the reason why the Seven Immortals Alliance was established four thousand years ago.
With the power of the Seven Immortals Alliance, it is still enough to overwhelm the forces of these practitioners in Shencheng. However, many people will die in that case. Given the situation at the time, there is no need to go to such an extent. After all, everyone is Dahua. of practitioners.
So in the end, the Seven Immortals Alliance came to several land immortal-level ancestors, and after some negotiations with the practitioners in Shencheng, the practitioners in Shencheng agreed to abide by the rules of heaven and would never use extraordinary power to interfere in human affairs.
At the same time, the Seven Immortals Alliance will not set up any more temples, temples or academies in Shanghai, but will only send personnel to station here all year round.
Practitioners in Shencheng also have more rights to act freely than those in secluded places elsewhere.
In a sense, the entire city of Shen is a huge secluded place, a "special zone" for practitioners. The Seven Immortals Alliance has personnel stationed here to monitor whether these practitioners will violate the rules of heaven. In addition, In addition, they will not interfere with anything of other practitioners.
Compared with other places, the Seven Immortals Alliance's control over Shen City is naturally much inferior.
As for the personnel stationed in Jingcheng by the Seven Immortals Alliance, at the beginning, they were the ancestors of the land immortals. Later, because there were not many conflicts with the practitioners in Shencheng, they were gradually changed to The ancestors at the Nascent Soul level take turns to be on duty, and some outstanding Seven Immortal Alliance disciples from various places will also be selected as assistants.
And the old Taoist, old monk, and old scholar standing in this room are the three ancestors of the Seven Immortals Alliance who are currently on duty in Shanghai.
The old Taoist's Taoist name is Qingfeng, and he was once the master of Jinling Yiben Temple.
The old monk's dharma name is Daoji, and he was the last abbot of Haitian Temple in Qiongzhou.
The old scholar's name is Zou Zhen, the master of Chen Shanming, the headmaster of East Lake Academy in Yuzhang City, and the previous headmaster of East Lake Academy.
At this time, these three ancestors were all staring at the young man in the painting with serious expressions.
They already knew what happened by the river that day, and naturally it was Chen Shanming who told them.
But what Chen Shanming could tell several ancestors was only what he knew and saw. As for the rest, Chen Shanming himself knew nothing about it.
For example, the identity of this young man.
"This person... is very strange."
At this time, Daoji, an old monk with a very tall stature and kind eyes, said this.
Zou Zhen, who had a square face and an extremely solemn demeanor, raised his eyebrows and asked:
"What's the blame?"
"This man is very young, really young."
Then the old monk Daoji said slowly.
Zou Zhen did not question Daoji's judgment, because in this regard, Buddhism's wisdom and wisdom in observing people are indeed better than those of Taoism and Confucianism.
"In addition, this person indeed only has the cultivation level of the First Consciousness Realm."
Then Daoji said this again.
"But he carried that bridge. If we didn't rely on Taoism, none of the three of us could do it. Moreover, my disciple said that killing practitioners in the Fetal Movement Realm is like chopping melons and vegetables. The most important thing is What’s more, Master Daoji, who do you think among the three of us can catch the arrow shot from the water that day?”
"That's why I said this man is extremely strange. There are too many things about him that cannot be explained."
"From what Master Daoji said, this person is really strange. He is so young and I don't know how he developed his strength."
"If I'm not mistaken, what this man used to hold up the bridge was a fighting tactic."
"Fighting tactics!"
Zou Zhen's body suddenly shook in disbelief.
"Master, are you sure? There has been no one in the world who has practiced fighting tactics for thousands of years."
"Of course I can't be sure. This is just my guess. But apart from fighting tactics, I can't think of any other method in the world that can allow a practitioner in the First Awareness Realm to burst out such powerful physical power."
Zou Zhen and Dao Ji looked at the young man in the portrait and kept discussing with each other.
But Qingfeng, the Taoist veteran, had been standing quietly aside without saying a word.
At a certain moment, Zou Zhen noticed this and felt a little strange.
Because Qingfeng Lao Dao, although he is the oldest among the three of them, his usual personality is the most out-of-the-box among the three. The young disciples who jumped below all felt that this Qingfeng Lao Ancestor was a bit old and dishonest. through.
So Qingfeng's silence made Zou Zhen feel a little abnormal.
So he turned his head and asked strangely.
"Do you know this person?"
Qingfeng suddenly smiled, shook his head and said:
"I have never heard of such a person in the spiritual world."
Zou Zhen groaned, and then said something strangely.
"You and this person worked together very well that day. That old ghost Naito has been fighting with us for so long, but I didn't expect that he would be killed by you just by joining forces like this."
"At that time, I just had an idea."
The smile on Qingfeng's face remained unchanged.
Zou Zhen glanced at him strangely again, but didn't think much more, then frowned and said as if talking to himself:
"A few days ago, something strange happened in the Consulate of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun. The members of the Black Dragon Society's Ninja Killing Team who were in the consulate at that time, a total of sixty-three people, were all beheaded in the consulate."
"It's just that there's only so much we can find out about this matter. As for who did it, we don't have any clues. In Shencheng, our ears and eyes are not good after all."
Then he sighed softly.
"Do you think this matter has anything to do with that young man?"
"possible."
Daoji nodded and said:
"To kill all the sixty-three ninja killers and escape unscathed, without the strength of the Nascent Soul realm, it would be difficult to do it. Among the original Nascent Souls in Shencheng, I can't think of anyone who would do this. Something."
"So the person who killed someone inside the consulate must be an outsider."
"In that case, this young man may still be in Shanghai at this time."
Then Zou Zhen and Dao Ji started discussing again, while Qingfeng Lao Dao still stood aside without saying a word.
"But no matter who did this, it is still something that is of great benefit to us."
"Haha, according to our original knowledge, there are only about 150 cultivators from the Rising Sun Kingdom in Shen City. Sixty-three died this time, plus an old ghost Naito. Their strength in Shen City , which is almost half gone at once."
"Yes, and I am afraid that the Kingdom of the Rising Sun will not be able to send people to Shencheng for a while. The number of their practitioners is not even half of that of our Seven Immortals Alliance. In the past few years, they have just poured out the entire country's efforts to reach Shencheng. Most of the cultivators were sent into our Dahua to pose some threat to us."
"And now their manpower is basically concentrated in the three continents outside the Pass. Shencheng should not be able to take care of it for the time being. We can be clean for a while."
"In short, greed is not enough to swallow the elephant. With the little strength of the cultivation community of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun, it is impossible to really shake our Seven Immortals Alliance. Even if it is the national power of their secular country... they may be able to gain the upper hand for a while, but if they want to embezzle... ..., but it’s absolutely impossible.”
"What Master Daoji said is absolutely true. This is probably the reason why we seven immortals have never really taken... to heart. The king ancestor of my Confucian sect once asserted that the Xu Kingdom is not
It's just a scabies problem. What we really have to worry about are those people in the Western Continent. "
"According to Wang Zu's expectation, this time the Kingdom of the Rising Sun is facing off against Dahua... it should be a deliberate attempt by the false gods from the Western Continent to test us. It depends on how the follow-up develops. The people on that side , is the real enemy of life and death!"
The discussion has finally come to an end at this point.
Then the three ancestors turned around.
Behind them, more than 20 young people were still standing quietly, holding their breath and listening carefully to the conversation between the three ancestors.
At this time, in this room were all the personnel of the Seven Immortals Alliance in Shen City.
If we look at the number alone, it may not be as much as the number of disciples of a sect in a large city.
But in terms of strength, the strength of Shencheng Seven Immortals Alliance is definitely second to none among all the big cities.
Because in addition to the three Nascent Soul Ancestors who are in charge, these young people in the room are all the best and most outstanding second-generation disciples drawn from the Seven Immortals Alliance in the world.
Especially the four young disciples standing at the front are the first generation of "immortal seeds"!
