Chapter 204. Undercover
Arc 7 : Last Nightmare
After Du Yan and the Ghost King left the ghost space, they arrived at a familiar place.
In front of him was a place with a dense yin aura that seemed to be solid. The black mist surges everywhere, and the mahogany pillar standing in the center indicated that the place where Xiao Lang lived was exactly where Sun Jin had imprisoned Celestial Master Tong Xuan.
But now this place is very different from before, it is no longer empty.
The two-story building not far away was where Du Yan and Xiao Lang once lived together, and the rest of the place was full of their memories.
Xiao Lang can now create such a large ghost domain, so it is not difficult to copy all the places he has been to here one by one.
Du Yan even saw a train parked not far ahead.
Xiao Lang stopped and looked back at Du Yan. The expression on his face was very unfathomable, apparently showing Ghost King’s posture.
Of course, if he doesn’t speak up.
Xiao Lang pointed at the buildings and scenery in front of him: “You are not allowed to enter those places.”
“……”
He thought about it. Maybe he felt that since he had brought Du Yan back, he still had to give him a place to stay.
“You are a gift from the priest. I have a nice display cabinet that would be perfect for you.”
After he finished speaking, black air surged on the ground, and then a large rectangular object appeared out of thin air.
Du Yan glanced at him but found that the display cabinet Xiao Lang mentioned was exactly where he was when he woke up.
Longevity wood coffin.
It takes a thousand years for the longevity wood to grow one meter. The section of the longevity wood that turned into ashes in Lingxing Sect was the section closest to the root. The section in front of him has a slightly smaller diameter and should be the section on the top.
It seems that the person who put him in the longevity wooden coffin was undoubtedly Xiao Lang, but Xiao Lang seemed to have forgotten this memory and only thought that he was a corpse with the same appearance refined by the Lingxing Sect using magic.
Du Yan frowned slightly, trying to connect the pieces of information together and find out the truth of these years.
Xiao Lang seemed to have misunderstood his meaning and said: “Don’t think I’m humiliating you. You’re just a fake item used to deceive my feelings. This wooden cabinet is the best for you.”
Du Yan entered the longevity wood coffin in silence. He was too lazy to argue too much with Xiao Lang, whose brain was short-circuited. The longevity wood in front of him was indeed the best place for him to rest and recuperate.
He still can’t speak at this time, which should be related to the connection between his soul and body. If he lies in the longevity wood for a while, he will probably be able to speak.
Although the longevity wood is an excellent place for self-cultivation, it is always a bit boring to stay inside for a long time. When Du Yan opened his eyes again, he didn’t know how much time had passed.
He pushed open the lid above, stood up, and left the longevity wooden coffin. The space was completely silent, and there was no sign of Xiao Lang.
Du Yan didn’t care where Xiao Lang went. Perhaps those ghost spaces needed the ghost king to enter frequently to provide sufficient yin energy, so it was normal for Xiao Lang not to stay there.
Du Yan looked around and then walked decisively towards the house where they once lived together. He didn’t take Xiao Lang’s words a few days ago about not being allowed to approach seriously.
The door was locked, but this did not stop Du Yan at all. When he entered the dream world, he remembered everything that happened here very clearly, and naturally, he would not forget the password that he had used for a long time.
Du Yan raised his hand and entered a few numbers, and the door opened.
The room was quiet. Even though this was just a scene created by Xiao Lang using yin energy, the decoration inside was no different from when they lived together.
Du Yan just glanced at it casually and went straight to the study on the second floor.
Du Yan’s purpose was to go to the study to find Xiao Lang’s diary. During the time they lived together, he knew that Xiao Lang had the habit of writing a diary. The frequency was not high, but important events were generally recorded.
As Du Yan went upstairs, he thought that writing a diary was a common feature of Shao Lingheng in these dream worlds. Perhaps he had this habit in the real world.
Du Yan didn’t have a special hobby of peeping into other people’s privacy. He just wanted to find out the reason for Xiao Lang’s strange condition from the diary.
Xiao Lang’s thoughts were in a mess at the moment, and he couldn’t communicate properly at all.
As the Ghost King, Xiao Lang can stay awake as long as he can not rest. When he lived with Du Yan before, he adapted to Du Yan’s living habits and was no different from an ordinary person.
Without this constraint, he naturally wouldn’t sleep like an ordinary person. If Du Yan wanted to enter the next level, he had to solve Xiao Lang’s problem first.
Du Yan opened the door of the study room. The decoration inside was still very familiar. The only difference was that there were several more photo frames on the desk.
Du Yan walked over, picked up the newly appeared photo frames, and found that they were all photos of Xiao Lang and himself, and even a few photos of Du Yan alone.
In the solo photo, Du Yan did not look at the camera, and the angle was not very good, so it was obviously a candid photo.
“……”
Du Yan knew about the group photo, but he had never seen these secretly taken photos.
When they first lived together, Du Yan did not allow Xiao Lang to print out photos of the two of them and put them at home.
These photos are considered taboo in the profession of Celestial Master, especially since Xiao Lang was the Ghost King at that time. If these photos were available, someone with ulterior motives would cause trouble after discovering them.
Du Yan picked up a photo and looked at it carefully, and found that it was a photo of the two of them taken together ten years ago when they had just met in Shunping City.
That year, Xiao Lang took his college roommates to Shunping City for fun. After Du Yan joined them halfway, they all traveled together. When taking pictures, Xiao Lang always found various reasons to take photos with Du Yan alone.
This photo was taken at that time.
Du Yan had actually hardly looked at these photos carefully and only found them a little strange when they were placed in front of him.
In the photo, he was looking at the camera, expressionless, and looking as gloomy as usual. However, Xiao Lang next to him was not looking at the camera but tilting his face slightly to look at the person next to him, with his ears reddened.
At that time, Xiao Lang was still a youthful college student, which was very different from his pale and cold appearance now.
Of course, that’s provided he doesn’t go crazy.
Du Yan lowered his eyes and was looking at the photo intently when suddenly a hand reached out from behind him and snatched the photo away.
Du Yan turned around and saw Xiao Lang appear in the room at some point. In this domain, Xiao Lang really came and went without a trace, so it was not strange that he could appear silently.
Xiao Lang looked down at the photo in his hand and felt that the corpse-guardian in front of him seemed to have discovered that he was peeking while taking the photo. He felt angry and embarrassed for some reason.
Du Yan looked at Xiao Lang. Although he couldn’t speak, his eyes were full of doubt.
However, Xiao Lang, on the other side, misunderstood his meaning, thinking that he was just wondering if he had the same face as the person in the photo.
He felt that he had to help the corpse-guardian recognize his own position, so he said: “You can never replace his position. You are just a substitute!”
“？”
Du Yan felt that he should quickly find out the reason why Xiao Lang’s soul was incomplete. Otherwise, he was afraid that he would lose control and beat the stupid ghost king to death.
How capable is Shao Lingheng of coming up with strange plots? In the last dream world, he was jealous of himself, and in this dream world, he let Du Yan be his own substitute.
Du Yan even began to wonder if Shao Lingheng had seen too many of these bloody plots when he was selecting the script, and that was why he unconsciously brought them into his dreams.
He thought that after he woke up, he should ask if he could take over the job of helping Shao Lingheng to initially screen the scripts. He wanted to eliminate all these bloody scripts so that he wouldn’t always feel so helpless when he had a nightmare.
***
Du Yan lived with him for a few days and found some clues from Xiao Lang’s living habits.
Xiao Lang’s soul is indeed incomplete, and he has no choice but to stay here. Only in this place with the heaviest yin energy can he keep his soul intact despite his incomplete soul.
A few days later, Du Yan finally discovered the reason why Xiao Lang’s soul was incomplete.
When he came out of the longevity wood coffin, he found that he had regained the ability to speak, so he prepared to find Xiao Lang to communicate.
Unexpectedly, after following the familiar scent, he found that Xiao Lang was actually using the soul-splitting technique.
Splitting the soul is a very painful thing, Xiao Lang did not notice Du Yan’s arrival at all.
“What the hell is this you are doing?” Du Yan asked with a frown.
Xiao Lang turned around and said: “What are you doing here? Don’t interfere in my business.”
Du Yan looked at him, his expression unchanged, and he just asked again word by word.
“What the hell are you doing?”
Xiao Lang didn’t know why, but his momentum suddenly weakened. He turned his head away and said: “Create a ghost space.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Lang realized something was wrong: “Wait, when did you learn to speak? Aren’t you a refined corpse-guardian?”
“…” Du Yan was silent for a moment, but still answered the question: “I am not an ordinary corpse-guardian. As a Corpse King, my body connects the yin and yang, and except for the lack of body temperature and breathing, the rest of the body is not much different from that of ordinary people.”
Xiao Lang suddenly showed some anger when he heard this and accused: “So you have been deceiving me? You are indeed a liar!”
Even Du Yan, who had a rather peculiar way of thinking, was unable to follow Xiao Lang’s train of thought for a while.
“Deceive you?”
“You can obviously speak, but you pretended to be mute to get my secrets. The taoist priests have been trying to kill me. Are you an undercover agent?”
Du Yan pinched his brows and explained: “I was refined not too long ago. I need to repair my body in longevity wooden coffin to recover the ability to speak.”
Du Yan felt that he could no longer get entangled with Xiao Lang on this issue, as the man in front of him was simply not in a clear mind.
It was futile to reason with him. Du Yan just said expressionlessly: “Don’t change the subject. Why do you use this soul-splitting technique to create the ghost space?”
Xiao Lang was really not prepared to answer this question. In his opinion, Du Yan was just a gift from the priest. As a gift, how dare he question what he did?
Xiao Lang decided that he must not let the substitute forget his identity.
However, when Xiao Lang saw the other party’s pale eyes, he couldn’t help but say: “I created the ghost domain to find someone. Since I want to find someone, I must make the entire ghost space within my perception. There is no other way to achieve this goal except to split the soul.”
As soon as Du Yan heard this, he knew that Xiao Lang was probably looking for him. The current situation must be related to the previous incident where the Ghost King was struck by lightning and finally wiped out a certain Tianshi sect.
He pretended to be clueless and asked: “Who are you looking for?”
When Xiao Lang heard this, his expression changed slightly.
He was silent for a moment, then said awkwardly: “I’m looking for a soul that looks similar to you. They thought I was looking for a living person, but they didn’t know that the person’s body had long been destroyed.”
After saying that, he glared at Du Yan again: “So don’t try to deceive me, that person has no body at all, you must be a fake.”
“……”
Du Yan finally understood why he appeared in longevity wooden coffin when he woke up. The longevity wood could nourish the body.
Something must have happened that caused Du Yan’s body to be destroyed. Afterward, Xiao Lang managed to find the wood of longevity, helped Du Yan rebuild his body, and then retrieved his soul to perform the resurrection technique.
This kind of forced reversal of life and death would naturally result in Xiao Lang being struck by eighty-one thunderbolts.
However, Xiao Lang has lost some of his memory due to the split soul, and he only thinks that Du Yan’s body is destroyed, so he is determined to find his soul.
Xiao Lang, who was not very clear-headed, was very stubborn and only thought that what he was looking for was a soul without a body.
So he stubbornly believed that Du Yan was just a fake, but his instinct prevented him from harming Du Yan, and he kept thinking about it, which led to the current situation.
“Did you divide your main soul to create the ghost space?” Du Yan asked again.
Xiao Lang was stunned and said: “I’m not that stupid. The main soul is not needed in a mere ghost space.”
“Then where did your main soul go? Was it shattered by the thunderbolts?”
Although Du Yan couldn’t tell how many parts of soul were left in Xiao Lang, judging from his incomplete memory, at least one of his souls was no longer in his body.
Xiao Lang looked confused, and after thinking for a long time, he shook his head: “I don’t remember.”
At this moment, a small black bird suddenly flew over.
Seeing this, Xiao Lang stood up and extended his hand.
The little bird landed lightly on Xiao Lang’s palm and then said: “You are late, have you found the person?”
After saying this, the bird turned into black mist and dissipated in the air.
When Xiao Lang heard this, he realized that he seemed to have forgotten this matter. He glanced at Du Yan and thought that it was all the fault of this substitute, who had actually confused him to the point of forgetting this important matter.
That person is Xiao Lang’s love rival. If he knew the reason why he almost missed the appointment, he might find the person and use the opportunity to discredit his image.
Xiao Lang thought about it and decided that it was best to take the initiative.
Xiao Lang raised his hand and blew a breath, and the same black bird took shape in his palm. Then he said: “I’ll be there right away.”
Du Yan heard something wrong in the black bird’s voice. Although the bird’s voice was a little hoarse, as if it hadn’t spoken for a long time, Du Yan could tell that it was clearly Xiao Lang’s voice.
Of course, he knew that this little black bird was just a means of communication, so could it be that the other party was Xiao Lang’s lost soul?
Du Yan was about to ask Xiao Lang to take him with him, but before he could open his mouth, he heard Xiao Lang say: “I’ll take you to a place.”
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