Chapter 825: 431 Upgrade
Exploring another’s memories and soul to uncover their secrets and inner world.
This is Soul Search.
For those with a strong Divine Soul, targeting someone with weak soul Cultivation isn’t difficult.
One simply needs to infiltrate their spirit into another’s mind to rummage through their memories and seize their soul at will.
Many powerful individuals immensely enjoy Soul Search, never growing tired of it.
However, there are also many who view such Skills with deep contempt.
Using a knife to kill is like a white knife going in and a red knife coming out.
Now ask yourself, using your spirit to Soul Search, what returns from a pure soul?
Fang Zhixing, having a sort of spiritual purity, was unwilling to taint his own soul, thus he had never performed Soul Search on others.
But now, the situation had changed. He had mastered the wonderfully effective “Mystical Mechanism Finger,” which allowed him to perform Soul Search without infiltrating his spirit into others’ minds.
Simply put, the Mystical Mechanism Finger could open a window on another’s head, allowing Fang Zhixing to peer into their memories and soul from the outside.
This method, safe and reliable, was very much in line with Fang Zhixing’s style.
At this moment, Fang Zhixing pointed a finger at the Big Slicked-back Guy’s forehead.
The Big Slicked-back Guy became rigid all over, his eyes rolling back, immediately falling into a coma and losing consciousness.
Fang Zhixing opened a window on his forehead, through which memories flooded like a tide.
First, he saw the Big Slicked-back Guy on top of a cat-eared girl, pushing and pulling, and after twenty seconds, finishing.
This was his memory from last night.
The cat-eared girl was a genetically modified human catering to certain peculiar tastes.
Pa~
In the next memory, the Big Slicked-back Guy was having a heated argument with a woman, slapping her and then walking away in a huff.
The woman was his wife; their relationship was strained, and their marriage on the verge of collapse.
In the next scene, the Big Slicked-back Guy appeared in a casino, gambling away the night until he lost everything.
Soon, he entered a hotel, booked a room, covertly installed a miniature camera, then checked out.
He sat before a screen segmented into over ten frames.
Each frame corresponded to a room, streaming live in real time.
Several days later, he recorded a video of a man bringing two women to a room, laughing gleefully.
He sent a blackmail message to the man, who succumbed within ten minutes, transferring money to him.
With money in hand, the Big Slicked-back Guy returned to the cat-eared girl and the casino for more revelry.
Thus, his life cycled day after day.
Seeing this, Fang Zhixing tapped on the Big Slicked-back Guy’s skull, upon which another memory unfolded.
In a bar, the Big Slicked-back Guy sat drinking and chatting with several men and women.
A man wearing sunglasses chattered away, drunk, mentioning: “Have you heard? Ge Hongchun is searching for his father Ge Rongxing’s whereabouts and has offered a hefty reward.”
The Big Slicked-back Guy thought for a moment and replied: “Ge Hongchun sounds familiar, who is he?”
The man with sunglasses replied: “He’s the Red Robe Bishop of the Life sect, and his father Ge Rongxing is even more formidable, a Purple Robe Bishop, a Dharma Image Realm powerhouse!”
Fang Zhixing raised an eyebrow, suddenly recalling that when he first arrived at the Mechanical God Continent, he and the Great Black Buddha Mother met someone named Xiang Jihua.
This Xiang Jihua had invited them to join the Life sect and showed them some information about the Law of Heaven and Earth.
The protagonist was Ge Hongchun!
The Big Slicked-back Guy asked in surprise: “Where did Ge Rongxing go, how did he disappear?”
The man with sunglasses yawned in response: “Even his son doesn’t know what happened to him, do you think I would know?”
The Big Slicked-back Guy’s eyes twitched as if deep in thought.
The scene changed suddenly, with the Big Slicked-back Guy entering a secretive club, meeting a bald old man smoking.
“Did you bring the money?” the bald old man asked with a smile.
The Big Slicked-back Guy pulled out an envelope, opened it, shook it, then tucked it back in his pocket, saying: “Do you really have a lead on Ge Rongxing?”
The bald old man chuckled: “You know me well, I never ruin my own reputation.”
The Big Slicked-back Guy pondered for a moment, then tossed the envelope over.
The bald old man gleefully counted the money before slowly replying: “Ge Rongxing indeed vanished without a trace, living or dead. Current leaks from within the Life sect suggest he’s gone overseas on Treasure Hunting, possibly not returning for decades. But his son Ge Hongchun doesn’t believe this story.”
The Big Slicked-back Guy replied in displeasure: “These bits of intelligence, I don’t need you to tell me.”
The bald old man chuckled: “Don’t be hasty; I’ve uncovered a very valuable lead. Ge Rongxing was an old friend, bound by life and death, closer than brothers to someone.
After Ge Rongxing disappeared, that person suddenly joined under the Ancient Emperor’s banner and was granted the name ‘Playful Monkey’!”
The Big Slicked-back Guy gasped.
‘Playful Monkey’ was a Loose Cultivator; just like his name, he was extremely unrestrained and did not wish to be tied down.
For such a free-spirited Dharma Image Realm expert to suddenly work under the Ancient Emperor was indeed astonishing and puzzling.
“Playful Monkey…”
Fang Zhixing slowly withdrew his hand, leaving the Big Slicked-back Guy slumped over the table, lightly snoring.
Then, Fang Zhixing stood up and walked out.
Xigou and two young girls were having a great time, but suddenly saw Fang Zhixing leaving without a backward glance, mercilessly abandoning them as he ran.
“What did you find out?” Xigou caught up to him and asked.
Just as Fang Zhixing was about to reply, he unexpectedly looked up.
In the sky, two police flyers happened to be flying by as if patrolling, shouting: “Stop! We’ve detected you have no ID on you, immediately pull over for inspection.”