Cyber Ghosts

Chapter 175 The Magic Weapon Recognizing Its Owner and the Unity of Heaven and Man
After saying, Hao Ning noticed Liu Shuai’s expression and found that he seemed to make a joke again. Hao Ning quickly gave Liu Shuai a dirty look.

Liu Shuai wanted to tease Hao Ning and had already opened his mouth. But after seeing Hao Ning’s threatening expression, Liu Shuai shrank his neck. At this time, he had to say something with words on the tip of his tongue. But if he made jokes on Hao Ning again, he was afraid that his pants would completely be unable to be protected today. He quickly looked at Hao Ning and immediately changed into an irrelevant topic: “Hey, Hao Ning, where is your Soul Cutter ring? Why didn’t you wear it today?”

“Isn’t it on my hand?” Hao Ning knew that Liu Shuai was trying to make a conversation. He used to wear the ring on his index finger, but today he changed it on the middle finger. He swayed his middle finger in front of Liu Shuai to show the ring, simply as an act of revenge. “You see, isn’t it?”

“No,” Liu Shuai did not realize that Hao Ning was teasing him. He looked carefully. “Don’t make a joke. Where did you hide it?”

“Who is joking? You are lying through your teeth.” Hao Ning thought that if he didn’t show two strokes, he would be unable to hold Liu Shuai. With his thinking, two little blue and ghost-like swords fluttered in the air, and there were a few times they flew close by Liu Shuai’s face. Were you afraid now? Just continue to pretend in front of me!

“Hehehe, I didn’t make a joke with you,” Liu Shuai didn’t seem to be shocked. He went slouched on the chair and the head almost hit the flying sword. Hao Ning quickly controlled the swords and made them fly back from behind Liu Shuai. While Liu Shuai still did not care, “Did you lose the ring? Or give someone as a token of love?”

“Lost your sister!” Hao Ning replied peevishly. But looking at Liu Shuai’s expression, he found it seemed that Liu Shuai was not joking. He also suspected and pointed to the two swords in the sky: “You really can’t see them?”

While saying, Hao Ning directed the two small swords to fly around the corner of the table. After a breath, Hao Ning looked at the corner of the table again. It was intact!

“Hey? Why did nothing happen on the table? Was this Soul Cutter broken?” Hao Ning looked at the two small blue lights flying in the air, and he was frustrated. He had thought that he had a new weapon, but now after he used it for only two days, the new weapon was even broken by himself! Was it used too heavily yesterday? Was it broken? No wonder that they couldn’t see the ring. Maybe the ring was gone, and it was the ghost of this ring that he saw!

Thinking of the ghost of the ring on his hand, Hao Ning was shocked and shook his hand, and then he was going to take off the “ghost” ring.

“Wait!” Xiao Hong stood up seriously and looked at the corner of the table carefully. “This corner of the table is strange!” Then, under the eyes of everyone, he reached out and touched the corner of the table gently.

Just with a bang, the corner of the table actually fell down. When people looked down at the corner of the table on the floor, they found that the thin shell outside was still in the appearance of the table shell, while the inside had all become fine powders, white powders!

“What is going on?” Liu Shuai also found something fishy, and quickly stood up and said.

“My God,” Hao Ning screamed in his mind, and then he was smug, “I said they are still on my hand!” Speaking of this, while secretly being glad that the Soul Cutter was not broken, he also felt strange, “but why can’t you see them?”

“Really?!” Liu Shuai looked at Hao Ning with his eyes widely opened, as if seeing a monster.

“It should be!” Xiao Hong nodded.

“Is it that one?” Zhou Yuan looked at Hao Ning enviously.

“Absolutely!” Xiao Hong spoke with curt finality.

Hao Ning was confused by these people’s strange reactions: “You, talk in the people’s way!”

Zhou Yuan did not speak, while Liu Shuai and Xiao Hong were all in the same voice: “The magic weapon recognizing its owner, and the unity of heaven and man!”

“D**n! So powerful?” Hao Ning was shocked by these words, and then he asked, “What is the meaning?”

“You don’t even know anything and why were you so shocked!” Zhou Yuan was amused by Hao Ning, and then he also asked, “What is the meaning?‒Well, I just know a little bit…”

“The new god always has a weak theoretical basis. Tut.” Liu Shuai found his field to show off, so he, proudly shaking his head, said happily, “This is the ultimate state of the magic weapon and its owner. Let’s take an example‒” While saying, Liu Shuai frowned and said to Xiao Hong, “You give an example.”

“Is this not your old business?” Xiao Hong was not clear, but he continued the topic, “Generally, the relationship between the magic weapon and the owner has not reached this level, so the owner has to carry the magic weapon with him or her. Even if for Uncle Sun and his Will-following Golden-banded Staff, he can only turn the Golden-banded Staff into an embroidery needle and hide it in his ear.”

“Yeah, isn’t this normal?” Hao Ning knew about this, “What else?”

“But there will be a problem.” Xiao Hong continued. “This magic weapon will have troubles not only in carrying, but it also can be taken away by others, even being used to deal with the former owner. For example, during the war of the gods, Guangchengzi gave the Fantian Seal to Yin Jiao. As a result, Yin Jiao used Fantian Seal to deal with Guangchengzi after he defected. At that time, Guangchengzi could do nothing but escape, and finally, he borrowed the four holy flags, such as Plain Cloud Boundary Flag and Off-Ground Flame Light Flag, to deal with Fantian Seal. It was because this Fantian Seal had not yet reached the state of the magic weapon recognizing its owner and the unity of heaven and man.”

“I understand this,” Hao Ning nodded. He also knew about this incident. “If the magic weapon recognizes the owner and gets the unity of heaven and man, what will happen? Can someone else not take it?”

“Of course‒not only, but also free to use, and free to call out,” Xiao Hong shook his head, and on his face showed a slightly embarrassed expression, “Hao Ning brother, do you know brother Zhang’s jade kalasa?”

“Of course, I know the Clear Glass Bottle,” Hao Ning thought that the most famous magic weapon of this Buddha was probably the bottle in his hand. Thinking of this, he immediately replied, “Is his kalasa already‒”

“Yes,” Xiao Hong nodded. “Avalokitesvara had many trips in the world. He didn’t carry kalasa, but when it was needed, it could appear immediately. This was because the kalasa was already united with him. Others couldn’t see the kalasa, but the kalasa was actually around him all the time.”

“Isn’t this because that he hid the kalasa in the Void Warehouse? When he wants to use it, he just takes it out directly?” Hao Ning had doubts. “Isn’t all of this written in the novel? Well, Zhou Yuan just hid those gold bars in his Void Warehouse.”

“What nonsense!” Liu Shuai continued to laugh but still nodded. “You also make sense. But for the magic weapon of too high level, it is best not to do this.”

“Why?” Zhou Yuan and Hao Ning asked together. When Zhou Yuan found Hao Ning’s contempt for himself, he blushed and said, “What’s wrong? I don’t have a magic weapon and I don’t know it. Is this strange?”

“The reason is very simple,” Liu Shuai explained. “The void is broken by the great power, and the magic weapon also has great power. If the two are put together, it is easy to lead to a state.”

“The association between strong enterprises?” Hao Ning first thought of this phrase.

“Dream on!” Liu Shuai was mad at the habit of Hao Ning’s random guess and interposing. He said, “How could good things be all for you? If so, why does Monkey King still hold a stick? Doesn’t he know the association between strong enterprises?”

“It’s the power resonance.” Xiao Hong continued. “The outcome of this kind of resonance is uncertain. Sometimes it’s an association between strong enterprises. But more often, it’s the collapse of the void resulted from the power resonance. Isn’t there a story? There was a team of soldiers, and when they walked on a bridge, they marched in step and their pace seemed to be consistent with the resonant frequency of the bridge. As a result, the bridge collapsed. For similar reasons, the magic weapon and the space expanded by the power will influence each other, causing both the void and the magic weapon destroyed. And the more advanced the magic weapon is, the more serious the situation will be.”

“No wonder, no wonder.” Zhou Yuan understood this time, and he said to himself, “No wonder even for Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad with such a power, his magic weapon is also placed outside.”

“How do you know?” Hao Ning saw that Zhou Yuan immediately understood it and said this secret. He asked curiously, “Have you ever burned the furnace for Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad?”

“Go away! Burning the furnace? It’s good enough that I did not kick his furnace down. Do you forget? In the Journey to the West, it has been written clearly. After Sun Wukong dealt with the Golden Horn

and the Silver Horn, he wanted to keep those magic weapons,” Zhou Yuan replied earnestly, “but he was caught by Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad. Sun Wukong asked Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad to prove that the magic weapons were his. Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad said, “The bottle gourd is my bottle used to retain pellets; the kalasa is my bottle used to retain water; the sword is used for killing the devil; the fan is to fan the fire; the cord is my belt.” I used to be confused that Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad has such a big power, and how could he not even keep these things? Now, it seems that it is because these magic weapons have strong powers, and it would be more dangerous for Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad to hide them in the void, so he had to put them outside!”

“Probably this is the reason.” Hao Ning nodded, and then felt a bit disappointed, “It turned out that the unity of heaven and man is just one way to carry magic weapons and keep them invisible. It seems there is nothing remarkable.”

“You underestimated this state,” Xiao Hong continued to explain. On his face showed a quite coy expression. “You should still remember that there is a story in the Journey to the West that Uncle Sun encountered difficulty and asked Avalokitesvara to help him… er, defeat the devil. Avalokitesvara borrowed the water of a sea by his own kalasa and placed it on the turtle, and asked Uncle Sun to take it. Uncle Sun couldn’t take it‒”

“I know about this incident. It was to catch Hong Hai’er‒hey, isn’t that you…” Hao Ning wanted to talk about this story, but suddenly thought of the demon who had been caught and defeated was this Xiao Hong in front of him. Then he knew why Xiao Hong looked awkward. Who wanted to expose his or her own shameful history? So, Hao Ning comforted Xiao Hong by saying, “That is these two helped you to return to the right path, and it is a good thing!”

“Yeah,” Xiao Hong smiled slightly and was quite grateful that Hao Hing did not expose his unspeakable history. “At that time, Bodhisattva explained the reason why Uncle Sun couldn’t take the bottle was that the water in the bottle was the water of a whole sea. So, he couldn’t take it. Now I think about it carefully and know it’s more than that. For Uncle Sun with the ability to overturn rivers and seas, although to stir the water of a whole sea seemed to be laborious, it was not impossible. The fundamental reason was that this kalasa had been united with the Bodhisattva, and if Bodhisattva allows him to take it, he can just take it; if Bodhisattva does not allow him to take it, he can’t take it.”

“That’s it!” Hao Ning slapped his thigh, took the ring off his hand and put it on the table. With his thinking in mind, the ring suddenly appeared. Hao Ning said to Liu Shuai, “Try to take it. Can you get it?”

“Okay!” Liu Shuai excitedly spit out two spits, and then smashed his hands. As expected, even if he used all his strength, he could not pick it up. The more times Liu Shuai tried, the more excited he became. “Good job, Hao Ning. It is truly a unity of heaven and man! How did you make it?”

“I think it is because of the Soul Coin Material and the yesterday’s fight,” Zhou Yuan also tried and really couldn’t get it. He wiped the sweat and guessed. “Hao Ning just learned how to use this Soul Cutter at that night. And at that time, he used it to make the soul become the Soul Coin Material. The Soul Coin Material had a promoting effect on the magic weapon. And yesterday, Hao Ning used the Soul Cutter to fight against the group of people. Perhaps it produced some change?”

“But this Soul Cutter has also been used by Kong and Dao for many times before,” Liu Shuai did not seem to agree with this statement, “and why didn’t they reach the unity of heaven and man?”

“It should be that Dao and Kong did not know how to use it.” Hao Ning corrected while thinking, and the ring flew back to his finger and be put on itself. Then the ring became transparent again, and others could not see it again. “And I think there is another important reason. When using this ring, Dao could only use pure Yang and pure Yin the two kinds of Qi. But I used the Qi of Combining Yin and Yang yesterday. Perhaps because of this reason, the ring thinks I can use it more effectively?”

“It makes sense,” Xiao Hong finally nodded. “So, the unusual state of the table corner probably could only be caused by you, Brother Hao Ning.”

“Unusual state?” Hao Ning looked at the corner of the table on the floor and did not find any difference.

“You are so stupid,” Liu Shuai picked up the table corner. Actually, it was the “shell” of the table corner. He pointed to the white powders inside. “The Soul Cutter that we saw before attacked regardless of internal and external. But the Cutter that you just flew out did make the outside of the table corner look intact while the inside has completely changed. There was no one can use it like this before!”

“Oh, I see!” Hao Ning said to himself, “No wonder that the God of Wealth was so scared last night.”

“What God of Wealth?” Xiao Hong, enjoying an acute hearing, asked.

“Well…” Hao Ning thought about it and felt it was very strange, so he talked about the thing happened in the last night.

“So, there was a voice telling you last night,” Liu Shuai analyzed. “He could help you raise money. And in the end, he was scared away by you the black sheep?”

“You are the black sheep!” Although Hao Ning said this, he was also a little depressed in his heart, “Well, he did be scared away by me.”

“You see,” Zhou Yuan did not care about these details and he guessed, “Is this person the one whose soul has been broken by Hao Ning and turned into the Soul Coin Material two days ago?”

“Really?” Hao Ning stunned. “His soul was broken by me. Shouldn’t he die? Even if he didn’t die, this person did not take revenge on me, but wanted to give me the money? How can there be such a naive person ‒ or God?”

“It also makes sense…” Liu Shuai nodded and agreed. “It is impossible to have another god like Zhou Yuan.”

“Well, yeah,” Zhou Yuan also nodded. Suddenly he felt that there was something in Liu Shuai’s words, and he yelled at Liu Shuai. “What do you mean? Are you saying that I am naive?”