Volume 2: Achieving the Nine Heavens and Breaking the Cage Chapter 513 Half Inch of Ash
Gu Xiaoxing was suddenly startled, partly because of the change in the expression on the paper doll's face, but more because of the voice that suddenly appeared in his mind.
He was so scared that he almost screamed!
It was a voice as tender as that of a little girl, very kind, but not familiar!
In the entire cultivation world, only Lu Linger called him "little brother", but Gu Xiaoxing was sure that this was definitely not Lu Linger's voice!
Suddenly, a strange and weird feeling rushed into his head, making him feel terrified and panicked!
"Who!? Who is talking?!"
Gu Xiaoxing stared at the paper doll of the girl in front of the brazier, while looking around out of the corner of his eye, paying special attention to the situation of the hunchbacked girl next to him!
But after waiting for a long time, there was no response, and the little girl's voice did not appear in my mind again.
There was only the paper doll girl in front of the brazier, with a smile on her face. In the dim light of the fire, she was glowing faintly, as if she was also looking at Gu Xiaoxing.
When Gu Xiaoxing was in Fulai Village, he was also afraid of ghosts.
But ever since he entered the Soul-Devouring Sect and understood the Tao, his horizons have been constantly broadened, and his cultivation has even reached the current level of Divine Transformation!
In fact, he was no longer afraid of ghosts!
According to the understanding of the world of cultivation, so-called ghosts are actually divided into many categories.
Most of them are ghosts left behind after death, but these ghosts cannot last long and will soon dissipate, and no one knows where they will go.
Some ghosts are special. Because of their deep obsession or heavy resentment, they will transform into evil ghosts for some reason, or even become powerful, enter the Tao and become ghost cultivators!
However, most of these ghost cultivators have only reached the stage of perfecting Qi Condensation, and very few can complete the construction of the Ghost Foundation.
Because they have no spiritual intelligence, the difficulty of practicing is many times greater than that of ordinary practitioners, so they are basically nothing to be feared.
Including other kinds of ghosts, they are actually no different. Most of them find it difficult to survive in the world for long, and very few can really become successful!
If mortals are afraid of ghosts, then for cultivators, what they tend to do is to refine ghosts into plaything puppets!
Unless it is a cultivator who has reached the state of Divine Transformation, or even a being above that, after the destruction of his physical body, his soul escapes and becomes a ghost. This type of ghost cultivator is more difficult to deal with!
But in fact, very few gods would do this. Compared to becoming ghosts, they would rather look for a new body to take over.
And if you go a little deeper, you will see the dark thoughts that Gu Xiaoxing can see!
This is the obsession of the strongest that lasts forever after death. In fact, this has gone beyond the scope of ghosts.
But even if the soul has long been destroyed, these dark thoughts can still unleash tremendous power.
Everything has a reason and basis. Those who know it have nothing to fear!
But what appeared before Gu Xiaoxing now seemed to have completely overturned his concept. There were no ghosts, no spirits, nothing at all.
But he felt that there was an unknown existence looking at him, and this unknown existence made him feel even more eerie and terrifying.
At this moment, Gu Xiaoxing seemed to have turned back into the ignorant boy he used to be, and he began to fear ghosts again.
"The paper money has been burned, can I get off the boat now?"
Gu Xiaoxing said in a trembling voice, his heart almost couldn't take it anymore and he just wanted to escape from the ship immediately.
But the hunchbacked woman did not answer him. She just raised her hand and suddenly .
The thin incense was burning, and wisps of green smoke were rising. The hunchbacked woman stood in front of the brazier, holding the burning incense and bowing deeply.
Although Gu Xiaoxing was already frightened, he didn't dare to escape until the hunchback girl said anything, so he could only watch the scene silently.
No one knows whether the hunchbacked woman was worshiping the fire basin, or the paper girl doll in front of the fire basin, or whether she was worshiping something else.
Gu Xiaoxing only saw that as the hunchbacked girl bowed, the burning incense in her hand suddenly burned out very quickly, and when the long incense ash fell down, the whole incense stick disappeared completely.
Then, the hunchbacked girl took a step back, turned her head, and looked at Gu Xiaoxing again, motionless.
Gu Xiaoxing held her mouth tightly and wanted to cry again.
Burning paper money was not enough, he also had to burn incense. Of course he was unwilling to do that, but facing the hunchback girl's empty eyes and seeing that she was about to speak again, Gu Xiaoxing was frightened and panicked, and he spoke quickly.
"I'll go...I can't go!"
As he spoke, Gu Xiaoxing took a step forward, came to the brazier, and when he raised his hand, a thin incense stick appeared in his hand.
He tried to use his skills to light the incense, but found that the incense... could not be lit!
Gu Xiaoxing tried various methods, but strangely, the incense could not be lit no matter what!
Even Gu Xiaoxing changed several kinds of incense. In his storage magic treasure, there were all kinds of things, including a lot of incense.
Moreover, most of them are not ordinary items. Some can help one calm the mind, some can attract spirits and gather souls, and some can even be directly absorbed after being lit, thus improving one’s cultivation like elixirs.
But no matter what kind of incense it is, Gu Xiaoxing can’t light it at this moment!
Finally, he turned his head with grievance and looked at the hunchbacked woman as if asking for help.
The hunchbacked girl just looked at him quietly without saying anything.
So Gu Xiaoxing had no choice but to ask, "Senior, can you give me a stick of incense?"
The hunchbacked girl still didn't react at all. She just looked at him without saying anything.
The helpless Gu Xiaoxing had to turn around and look back at the brazier, and then he waved his hand, and the burning incense appeared in his hand.
Finally, he had no choice but to take out this treasure that he had kept in the bottom of his box. If he couldn't even burn Taoist incense, he would be really helpless.
The moment the burning incense appears, there will be a wisp of green smoke, and there is no need to light it.
Or rather, it has always been burning!
Gu Xiaoxing glanced at the burning incense in his hand, and saw no sign of it going out.
“It really works!”
Gu Xiaoxing breathed a sigh of relief, then holding the incense in both hands, he bowed deeply to the brazier and the paper girl doll!
boom……!
Suddenly, the world roared and deep space shook violently!
As Gu Xiaoxing bowed, the whole world in front of him seemed to be split apart, revealing another world that was deeper than the deep space and darker than the darkness!
Immediately afterwards, Gu Xiaoxing saw that in that deep world, a huge skeleton hand was reaching out from a distance, and in an instant, it was already very close!
The huge skeleton hand covered the sky and the earth, it was so big, so infinite, as if it was bigger than anything Gu Xiaoxing had ever seen!
The moment he saw this huge skeleton hand, Gu Xiaoxing felt a huge shock in his heart!
He had seen this hand before!
It was the giant skeleton hand that once took the old village chief away!
The only difference from last time is that the bones of the index finger of the skeleton hand have become complete, and the only thing missing is half of the thumb bone!
At this moment, as the skeleton's huge hand grabbed over, Gu Xiaoxing had no power to resist and was completely frozen on the bow, as if he would be crushed in the next moment.
However, at this moment, the paper money that was originally burning on the paper money tree on the old boat suddenly went out, making the old boat that was flickering with fire dark.
The next moment, the skeleton's huge hand grabbed the entire old ship in its palm, and then quickly retracted it, as if wanting to take the old ship away.
But the strange thing was that the entire old ship, including the people and objects on it, seemed to have suddenly become illusory, and passed through the skeleton's hand, leaving it with nothing, and unable to take anything away.
The skeleton hand came and went quickly, then retracted in an instant and disappeared into the deep world.
The separated worlds closed again, and the deep space world returned to peace again.
When Gu Xiaoxing suddenly came to his senses, he found that he had gotten off the boat without knowing when and was floating in the deep space. Everything that happened before seemed like a dream.
It was as if he had never encountered any old ship, nor a hunchbacked woman, nor any skeleton hands!
He even had the illusion that he had accidentally fallen into an illusion because he had activated the hallucinogenic crystals!
But when he subconsciously turned his gaze to the burning Taoist incense in his hand, he was stunned again!
I saw that the burning incense that had been burning for decades without getting shorter was actually... a little shorter!
It doesn't really become shorter, but there is a small section on the incense head, about half an inch, which turns into light white ash left after burning!
Gu Xiaoxing suddenly turned around and looked behind him.
An old ship was slowly sailing away, with paper money on the paper money tree on it burning, making the whole old ship glow with a yellowish light. A hunchbacked woman was squatting in front of the brazier, burning the paper money one by one.
Until the old ship gradually disappeared from Gu Xiaoxing's sight, he suddenly realized that there was no such thing as dreams and illusions.
Everything is true!
Gu Xiaoxing slowly turned his head, looked at the burning incense in his hand, and the half inch of ash on the burning incense. For a moment, his thoughts were in a tangled mess!
He thought of the big skeleton hand and the old village chief.
Why did the skeleton hand appear again, and why did the burning incense suddenly burn out?
Where did the old boat come from? Where did the old village chief come from? And where did I come from?
Gu Xiaoxing didn’t know, but there must be some connection between them!
At this time, the half-inch of ash on the burning incense slowly fell off, and the entire burning incense also changed from the original three feet six inches to the current three feet five and a half inches.
Gu Xiaoxing looked at the fallen incense ashes and an inexplicable desire arose in his heart!
Almost subconsciously, he reached out and caught the incense ash.
Then, a strange scene happened!
The moment that half an inch of incense ash fell into his palm, it was like a drop of water falling into a lake, and it directly merged into one with Gu Xiaoxing.
Suddenly, a wonderful feeling appeared in Gu Xiaoxing's heart, as if what was blending into him was not incense ash, but something that was extremely compatible with Gu Xiaoxing !
Gu Xiaoxing only felt an unprecedented sense of comfort coming over him, spreading to his body and mind, and even to every corner of his soul.
This feeling was just like when he absorbed the first wisp of green smoke from the burning Taoist incense in the Black Wood Forest, only even stronger!
It seems as if everything in my body is being nourished and becomes more complete because of the integration of that half inch of incense ash!
I don’t know how long it took, but when Gu Xiaoxing slowly opened his eyes, his cultivation had improved again, and before he knew it, he had reached the peak of the early stage of the Spirit Transformation!
It is only one step away from the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation!
What changed even more was his life level, which went directly from the 80th level of Ancient Spirit to the 90th level of Ancient Spirit!
