Cyber Ghosts

Chapter 143 Divine Power of the North and the Soul Cutter
“What happened? Why isn’t the stool broken?”

Hao Ning looked at the stool in perfect condition and exchanged a doubted expression with Long Fei. Shaking his head, he took back the small balls and walked over and touched the stool. Sure enough, it was still a solid stool. It didn’t change anything at all.

“It must be wrong,” Hao Ning felt a bit strange, who was like talking to himself or asking Long Fei. “When Dao and his fellows used this soul cutter, I remember it was hurtful.”

“It’s more than just hurtful.” Long Fei shook his head and said affirmatively. “They nearly dug out the land under the feet of those people. This soul cutter must be a fierce weapon!”

“Then why is the stool intact?” Hao Ning wondered. Was this stool too strong? Thinking about it, he used one-tenth of his inner force and patted at it casually. The stool was smashed into screenings immediately.

“F*ck! This cutter just looked pretty!” Seeing that the effect of soul cutter that he tossed for one night to learn was not as good as that unintended pat, Hao Ning was furious and couldn’t help but swear. “This is not even a weapon! Not even as good as the power of my palm! This soul cutter wasted my nighttime. Could it only have two small balls flying around me? So it was useful when decorating? In addition to its nice appearance that should be helpful in selling, what was so good about it? I was not Zhou Yuan, who was good at decorating oneself as an old kind magic fairy!”

“Atishoo!” Zhou Yuan was lying in bed with a red face, holding a mobile phone to read a novel. Around him was a lot of tissue papers. Suddenly he sneezed. He couldn’t help but asked himself, “Is it like what Hao Ning said that my body has become weak recently? The body gets cold after a few times at night.”

“Don’t hurry! Take your time. Are we missing something?” Long Fei calmed Hao Ning down and reflected, “I remembered when Dao was using the cutter, he said to Kong once, like ‘I know. Don’t destroy the body.’ Do you have any memory about that?”

“It seemed that there was such a sentence. What is the meaning of not destroying the body?” Hao Ning was not like the dragon god who was very sleepy at night. His brain almost stopped working. “Dao was trying to emphasize something?”

“When the first time Dao used it, he flicked the dust off the apricot bamboo hat.” Long Fei lowered his head, pacing in the living room and thinking carefully. “That is, at that time the soul cutter was harmful to object, and when the apricot bamboo hat was taken over by them, Kong then reminded Dao to not destroy the body. Didn’t destroy the body. The body was not destroyed, and then their souls were broken into pieces…” On this thought, Long Fei’s eyes suddenly brightened and looked at Hao Ning. “Are there two ways for the cutter to hurt something? One is to hurt the soul, and the other is to hurt the body? Dao firstly used it to do damage to the flesh, and then to the soul? And now the two little balls you summoned, they were likely to hurt the soul, so it was useless against the stool?”

“Well? Makes sense.” Hao Ning yawned frustratedly. Hearing what Long Fei said, he lifted his spirits a little. “It’s not impossible, but we don’t have a spirit or soul here, so how can we try to prove it?”

“As for this…” Long Fei frowned, thinking about it. He gritted and said, “Danger can never be overcome without taking risks. I can’t afford the house if I couldn’t risk my spirit into it. Whatever!” He said, reaching out his hand, and a tiny ball of shining spirit floating in the air. “Brother Hao Ning, you can try this!”

“Long Fei, where did this come from?” Hao Ning saw this group of light appearing from Long Fei. He began to feel hesitant, but understood it immediately with a little thought. “Is this your own soul? Are you crazy, using your own soult for experiments? Are you not afraid to be spiritually gone just like those three guys?”

“No, don’t worry.” Long Fei shook his head and explained. “This is just a small part of my soul. Even if it is broken, I will absorb them again. After a while, it can be turned into my spirit again.” Seeing Hao Ning’s hesitation, Long Fei urged promptly, “Don’t hesitate. Try it out. If you succeed, I will have a clue to study this ring in Qingbei University tomorrow.”

“Well, I’ll try.” Long Fei insisted, and Hao Ning reluctantly agreed, with hesitation still remained in his heart. He deliberately slowed down the internal force, so those small balls also slowly entered the group of light, travelling back and forth.

“Is it working?” Hao Ning looked at Long Fei’s facial expressions, closing his eyes and frowning. He planned to take back the ball as soon as Long Fei had any problem.

“It seems…that I didn’t feel anything.” Long Fei felt for a long time, opened his eyes and said to Hao Ning, and then looked at the group of fine light and these two small balls as if they were two worlds, without having any influence.

“Eh…” Hao Ning took the ball back and let them sway only on the top of his head. “It seems that these two balls in my hands can only be decorations…”

Long Fei waved his hand, and the group of light returned to the body. Looking at Hao Ning, his tone was dull, Long Fei felt a little embarrassed inside. After all, he was helping him, but he made Hao Ning so depressed. So he comforted Hao Ning and said: “You can’t say that. We still have a lot of progress. At least you can use the inner strength to summon the ball, which proves the direction we are guessing towards should be correct, and we must have ignored some details.”

“What else can we ignore? We have excluded magical power, also excluded inner strength. Is there any other detail?” Hao Ning continued to yawn and said with tears, “Long Fei, think about it. I am already too sleepy to use my brain.”

Hao Ning didn’t lie. He had just practiced an hour of martial arts at home. Although there was unseen power as a foundation, it was somewhat overwhelming for his body.

“Well, I will think about it thoroughly again. We might as well start from the characteristics of their martial arts,” Long Fei nodded, biting his fingers and thinking carefully. “Assuming that Dao and his fellows used real kung fu, then they should be similar to those who messed up the restaurants. So, although you didn’t fight against Dao, the people in the restaurant actually fought with you. Was there anything special when you fought with them?”

Hao Ning frowned, “Anything special? The martial arts of these people seemed to have a gap between the names and the original Kung Fu skills, but the power was not small. If it were not for me to borrow a lot of kung fu, I would definitely have suffered a big loss…” When it came to this, Hao Ning suddenly thought about it. “Those who originally scuffled with each other didn’t care about me, but when seeing that I had made several kinds of kung fu, suddenly they said something strange…”

“How strange?” Long Fei asked quickly. “Maybe it is a breakthrough point.”

“They all just fought freely with each other,” Hao Ning recalled the scene of the night. The expressions of those people were still vivid. “But seeing that I used Sliding-over-the-water Art in a row and then used flaming knives. They began to shout, You learned so many kinds of kung fu?’ They stopped fighting each other and began to chase me violently. On the thought of that, Hao Ning couldn’t help smiling bitterly. He suddenly became a target of the public. It seemed that he was a locomotive, and behind him followed countless train compartments.

“So the reason they beat you was that they saw you used a variety of kung fu skills? So,” Long Fei seemed to become Yu Fei, a high IQ detective. He frowned and said, “The most likely situation is that, although they can practice martial arts, they still have a lack of ability compared with you. This kind of deficiency is not how to use kung fu, but the number of kinds of Martial Arts! Perhaps for some reason, each of them could only practice one kind of kung fu, you, on the other hand, could use a variety of them and stood out from the crowd, which led to their embarrassment and their attack to you together!”

“Er, what you said makes sense.” Hao Ning nodded. It was not impossible. At that time, Zhang Quan also raised this point when explaining the situation of Qili. He was likely to have a way to let Qili have a kind of kung fu. However, there might be some restrictions. He didn’t care about this point then. Now thinking about it, it was very likely that the number of kung fu was limited. Hao Ning could borrow many at the same time, so he didn’t pay attention to other people. From Long Fei’s reasoning, the possibility could be very huge.

Even so, Hao Ning still replied lazily: “But, even so, what does this have to do with the ball we are discussing now?”

“I was thinking that you could summon small balls, and that proves that your internal force should not be wrong,” Long Fei continued to analyze pondering around. “But if they can only use one kind of kung fu, then Dao is likely, too, to have access to only this kind of kung fu, so as for why Dao can motivate the power of this ball but you can’t, it shouldn’t be that you don’t have much kung fu, but you had too much of them!”

“Well? So having too much becomes a disadvantage?” Hearing what Long Fei said, Hao Ning smiled helplessly. “You mean, too greedy to chew them down?”

“It’s not only about greed,” Long Fei frowned seriously. Obviously his mind was turning very fast. Hao Ning couldn’t help but admire Long Fei and his brain. Although in many things Long Fei was never good at it, in other terms of things, he seemed to be a genius. “You know more about martial arts than I do. So what if I ask you, in the case that we are right to choose the unseen power? If you were Dao, how would you use the inner strength of the unseen power just then?”

“No, there is no such thing as an inner strength of unseen power. Inner strength of the Minstrel members is from the same source. They are all Northern-ming Genuine Qi.” Hao Ning swayed his hand and tried to correct Long Fei. His eyes suddenly brightened and he started to slap himself. “I am so stupid, too stupid!”

“Hey, hey, hey, what’s wrong with you?” Hao Ning’s move shocked Long Fei. He grabbed Hao Ning’s hand hurriedly. “What are you doing? Why do you hurt yourself?”

“I am just so stupid! The kung fu of the Minstrel is all based on Northern-ming Genuine Qi, but more than one kind of kung fu can use Northern-ming Genuine Qi!” Hao Ning was quite excited. “If Dao has only one kind of martial arts, it must be only Tianshan Six-yang Press, or Baihong Press, but not two of them! Yes, yes, no wonder Kong has been putting his hand on Dao, it must be like this! I see!”

“What does this have to do with Kong?” Seeing Hao Ning suddenly mentioned about Kong, asked doubtedly, “Didn’t he seem not able to practice any kind of kung fu?”

“He can, but his kung fu is a very strange kind,” Hao Ning nodded and said quite affirmatively, “The martial arts of the Minstrel, based on the Divine Power of the North, can turn all his inner strength into Northern-ming Genuine Qi. Other martial arts of this school would need learners to develop their own inner strength. If a person learns the Tianshan Six-yang Press of Minstrel, you can no longer learn the Divine Power of the North. So how long will he have to wait for enough Northern-ming Genuine Qi?”

Long Fei listened to Hao Ning’s analysis and got confused. “Isn’t that normal? Just like whatever magic spells do you have, shouldn’t you slowly practice your own power?”

“Normally, yes, but it’s too slow,” Hao Ning nodded and smiled at Long Fei. “But if Kong mastered Divine Power of the North, he could absorb the internal force of others into Northern-ming Genuine Qi, then passing this Genuine Qi to Dao. Dao, therefore, he could have endless inner strength to practice his own martial arts!”

Long Fei, with his mouth wide opened, was marveling at this work. Hao Ning couldn’t help but awe at the effort of the Minstrel. For only their inner strength could be transferred, that they had such cooperation.

Thinking of this, Hao Ning also understood that simply Northern-ming Genuine Qi was not lethal. What was really lethal was the various martial arts based on inner strength. In this way, the respondents of the small balls seemed no longer surprising: The ball could be summoned because he used the right inner strength, but because the inner strength here was not combined with lethal kung fu, the ball couldn’t cause any damage to the stool.

The clever was mistaken by cleverness. He was used to simulating other martial arts by using unseen power, so as to have forgotten that the most basic rule. Simulation was, after all, simulating others. If he didn’t choose the right “external power” to combine what in the contrast to be his “internal power”, it could only be a similar paradox, never the right way to go through.

Sighing in his heart and Hao Ning said, “The reason is now clear, and the possibility is great, but what kind of kung fu will it be? The Minstrel has a lot of kungfu skills, which are all very powerful. How can we try them one by one?”