Guardian of the Spirit

Bandage Gengar slowly flew to Crying Mask, and then a ball of light that only elves and superpowers could see flew out of Bandage Gengar's body and merged into Crying Mask.

Without his soul, the bandage Gengar was like a deflated balloon. His whole body collapsed, and the bandage fell down, covering an unknown object.

The light ghost was a little curious. It originally wanted to take off the bandage and take a look at the unknown object, but after thinking about it, it decided against it. It probably wasn't a good thing.

"If you store part of your soul in a puppet, it's no wonder that you can pass through space channels and perform cross-space manipulation."

Jiang Yuan looked at the crying mask.

This crying mask has extremely high attainments in soul and spiritual power.

Generally, there are two ways to control a puppet.

Method one is to directly control with mental power.

The controller can do two things at once, so that the main body and the puppet have the same consciousness and can launch attacks together. One elf can do two things.

However, there are two fatal shortcomings in using mental power to control. One of them is that there is a distance limit. Beyond a certain range, mental power cannot connect to the puppet, and you will lose control of the puppet.

Another fatal flaw is that if you encounter an opponent who specializes in spiritual power, the opponent can forcibly cut off the spiritual connection between the controller and the puppet, and the puppet will be given away for free.

The second method of controlling a puppet is to use soul control.

The operator cuts off his own soul, places part of his soul in the puppet's body, and uses his soul to control the puppet. The puppet body can inherit part of his own combat power, and his mental power will not be cut off or he will lose control if the distance is too far.

There are also disadvantages. If the soul stored in the puppet is exploded, you will be seriously injured and the game will basically be over, because the damage to the soul is irreversible and extremely difficult to heal.

Crossing space is equivalent to cutting off the connection with spiritual power. The way the Crying Mask controls the bandaged Gengar is obviously using the soul.

The Crying Mask can divide its own soul, which is enough to show that it has extremely profound attainments in the soul, even Jiang Yuan is not as good as it.

Jiang Yuan couldn't split his soul in two.

As long as the soul is slightly injured, it will be extremely painful. If the soul is cut, the pain is worse than death. People and elves who have not experienced it will not understand at all. It is simply worse than death.

Moreover, cutting the soul is very dangerous. If you are not careful, your consciousness will be strangled, which is equivalent to death.

After Crying Mask regained its soul, its aura increased a bit, and it was already stronger than Mimikyu who had just entered the junior trainer stage.

"Dahiss."

Crying Mask opened the door of the cabin and motioned for Jiang Yuan to come in.

The interior of this small wooden house is very luxurious. There are bookshelves on the wall, filled with books, and various instruments and potions on the table. It is like a small laboratory.

The light ghost floated to the edge of the bookshelf, reached for a book, and glanced at it a few times. It could only understand a few words, and the other words were indistinguishable from Martian script.

The Lantern Ghost only knows some commonly used Chinese characters. As for the characters in the elves world, it is still learning.

"preservative?"

Jiang Yuan unleashed his superpower and scanned the potions on the table. He roughly analyzed the ingredients of the potions and found that the potions in these bottles were very similar to preservatives, like formalin.

As expected, these potions are used to make puppets.

The Crying Mask didn't understand Jiang Yuan and the others. It pushed aside the wooden planks on the ground, revealing a coffin carved from special wood.

Jiang Yuan and Lantern Ghost looked over together. The coffin was filled with light green potion, and the body of an old man was soaked in it.

Seeing the old man's face, Jiang Yuan was surprised and said: "This is... Xiaozhou's grandfather?!"

Sure enough, he guessed correctly, the crying mask was related to Lu Xiaozhou.

Crying Mask stared down at Grandpa Lu, speechless for a long time.

"Is he in a state of suspended animation?" Jiang Yuan stared at Grandpa Lu, frowning slightly.

There is an extremely weak breath of soul in the body, Grandpa Lu is not dead yet.

To judge the life or death of a person, an elf, or a life is to see whether the consciousness in his soul has completely dissipated.

Even if the body is damaged and destroyed, as long as the consciousness in the soul still exists, it means that this person and this life are not completely dead.

Therefore, some people may wonder whether it is possible to achieve the legendary immortality by keeping the soul and not changing the body.

Unfortunately, the soul will remember its own body. Once the original body dies or is destroyed, the soul is like a fish out of water, and its consciousness will gradually dissipate until it turns into an unconscious soul and truly enters death.

The body cannot be replaced, but the soul can be preserved. As superpowers, the souls of people in the spirit world are stronger than the souls of ordinary people, so people in the spirit world came up with a way to hang their lives.

First, various medicines are used to preserve the body of the dying person to maintain the vitality of the body, and then superpowers are used to seal the soul and put the soul of the dying person into a deep sleep state, thereby forcibly retaining the soul that is about to disperse.

The body still exists, and the soul has a place to live, so it will not dissipate easily. The consciousness is sealed, and the soul almost stops life activities, and consumes everything to the extreme to maintain that little vitality, which is similar to frozen life.

Of course, this method is only suitable for people with powerful souls. Even if ordinary people are in a state of frozen life, they cannot maintain the vitality of their souls.

Being frozen and sleeping does not mean that time stands still. No matter what you do, your soul will disperse little by little and continue to die. Only people with strong souls will not die so quickly and can live longer.

The way Grandpa Lu survived, if nothing else happened, was to let his soul fall into a deep sleep.

"Are you Grandpa Lu's elf?" Jiang Yuan asked.

Crying Mask shook his head.

no.

The room was eerily quiet for a few seconds, and Crying Mask reached out and patted the coffin gently.

The coffin rang, and an extremely dim ball of light flew out of Grandpa Lu's body.

It's the soul.

The crying mask released its mental power and transformed into Grandpa Lu's body in mid-air. The light ball flew into the body transformed by mental power.

Later, Grandpa Lu slowly opened his eyes. It was obvious that the body was transformed by mental power, but the expression on his face could make very humanistic changes.

Grandpa Lu looked around at the strangers and strange elves in the wooden house. When he saw Jiang Yuan, Grandpa Lu paused slightly and then fired a super power.

Jiang Yuan reacted instinctively, and his telekinetic fluorescence surged, blocking Grandpa Lu's super power.

"This super power... is a bit familiar. If I remember correctly, you seem to be Xiaozhou's friend, your name is Jiang Yuan, right?"

Grandpa Lu is just a soul and cannot speak, but he can use the spiritual power of the crying mask to convey what he wants to express into the hearts of Jiang Yuan and all the elves present.

"Yes." Jiang Yuandao.

"Why--"

Seeing Jiang Yuan, Grandpa Lu thought of some sad past events and let out a long sigh.