I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

Guan Yi opened her eyes and glanced around casually.

Then she showed a surprised expression, because she was the only one left in the room. She immediately focused her attention on her formation and quickly scanned the entire practice room and the surrounding tens of meters.

Nothing.

This made her both surprised and angry. Ma En had quietly left here at some point, and had completely concealed it from her. In fact, she was not surprised that Ma En could display such abilities, but she did not expect that Ma En would ignore her warning and leave on his own.

If that's the case, he's likely gone directly to Yu Weijie.

Guan Yi didn't know if he was doing this out of arrogance, or if he didn't want to involve her, but in any case, doing so seemed particularly foolish in her eyes, and turned her hard-laid formation into a pure waste of resources.

She stood there and sulked for a while, and finally stomped her feet heavily in helplessness, deciding to go out and look for Ma En.

She casually reached into her Qiankun bag, took out a few pills and swallowed them directly, then stuffed three more under her tongue and in her cheeks, took out several kinds of talismans and hid them in her sleeves, and then took out four or five different defensive magic weapons.

After making all the preparations, she directly abandoned the formation behind her and stepped into the white mist without hesitation.

Guan Yi headed towards the library where her Third Senior Brother might be, using her spiritual power to stride through the mist transformed by her master, but after only a few hundred meters, she noticed something was wrong. It seemed that the further she moved away from the practice room...

The denser the surrounding mist became?

Although the mist created by the master was not the spiritual energy of the cultivation world and could not be permanently evenly distributed, normally there shouldn't be any particularly dense areas, especially now that he was in seclusion to refine a spiritual treasure for the new Senior Brother. The mist shouldn't be gathering.

Could it be that Yu Weijie has already taken action?

So worried, all the magic weapons around her began to operate, and she also raised her hand and slapped a talisman on her body.

Then, she quickened her pace forward, but the mist continued to become denser, which made the girl even more nervous and worried. It seemed that Senior Brother Yu Weijie had just used a lot of Xiaoyao Sect's techniques, but now she didn't hear any movement.

This was likely because the battle was already over, which meant that perhaps one of them had been defeated.

Maybe even one of them was dead.

Thinking of this, she became even more anxious.

But before she could find Yu Weijie, the surrounding mist began to thin again. After she crossed the densest dividing line and walked a few hundred meters forward, the mist almost completely dissipated.

The scene that appeared before her eyes made Guan Yi freeze.

Because not far in front of her was a wooden house that she was very familiar with, and a young, thin figure was standing in the courtyard chopping wood. After noticing Guan Yi's approach, he raised his head and then smiled at her:

"Junior Sister, I've chopped all the spiritual wood you need for cultivation."

Looking at the young man, she said in a low voice with some disbelief:

"Senior Brother Du Jin..."

This figure was the young Senior Brother Du Jin.

What's going on, a heart demon? Or am I caught in Senior Brother Yu Weijie's illusion?

The young Senior Brother Du Jin inserted the axe into the ground, stood up and looked at her, saying:

"Long time no see, you've grown so much."

Guan Yi took two steps back:

"No, you're not Du Jin, he's already..."

"Dead," the boy said first. "I also know. I originally thought you would avenge me. Remember, after you joined the sect, I was the one who took care of you the most. With me around, no one could bully you.

"But why did you stand in front of Yu Weijie when that guy wanted to avenge me."

The boy stared straight at her, his face full of incomprehension and doubt.

She explained with some guilt:

"I don't know, but he doesn't seem like a bad person, and the master has already accepted him as a disciple. I can't let Senior Brother Yu kill his other senior brother, that's not right?"

The boy sneered:

"Master? Do you think he really wants to take Ma En as a disciple? Do you think he really cares about his disciples harming each other? If he did, he wouldn't have let me go to him to die. He personally pushed me off the cliff."

Looking at the boy in front of her who was exactly the same as in her memory, the girl shook her head heavily, forcing herself to wake up.

"No, you're not Senior Brother Du Jin at all. You're Senior Brother Yu Weijie's illusion," she said in a low voice.

The boy raised an eyebrow:

"How do you know I'm really dead? How do you know the one in front of you isn't my ghost?"

Guan Yi firmly told herself:

"Your golden core has been crushed by Ma En, your soul has long since dissipated."

Hearing this, Du Jin's face also sank slightly, as if he didn't know whether he was alive or dead before Guan Yi said so:

"Is that so? It seems that my three souls have indeed dissipated, but my seven spirits may not have completely disappeared. If I remember correctly, the ultimate goal of cultivating the Xiaoyao Gong is to mix our souls, spiritual energy, and bodies into Xiaoyao mist.

"Just like the master, he no longer has a primordial spirit or soul that can be attacked or seen. His soul has completely merged with his spiritual energy and body into the same thing, and cannot be distinguished at all.

"And I have already reached the perfection of the golden core, only half a step away from the nascent soul. Although my three souls are still hidden in the golden core, my seven spirits should have also turned into a mist state, but they are still shaking in the golden core, not merging with my body.

"But when my three souls dissipated, my seven spirits must have been collected by the master, so you can still see me."

Guan Yi looked at him and said:

"Senior Brother, you and I both know that the three souls are us, and the seven spirits are just bridges. The three souls are gone, then you are no longer a person. What I see now is just a remnant of your struggle, but because there is spiritual energy, you look so lifelike.

"You are just a group of residual memories, not the real Du Jin, and there is no possibility of resurrection.

"Rest in peace, Senior Brother."

She sincerely persuaded.

Du Jin nodded:

"You're right, but my good junior sister, do you know why you can still see me?"

Guan Yi looked at him vigilantly:

"Why?"

Du Jin said with a smile:

"My already mistified seven spirits were collected by the master, and quietly sent to your side. You and the other two senior brothers and sisters have also reached the golden core, although not like me, only half a step away from the nascent soul, but perfection is only a matter of time.

"And at least four of your seven spirits have also completed mistification, and you may not know that the master once secretly passed on a technique to me, which is why I didn't learn other techniques, because just learning the master's secret technique exhausted my energy.

"The technique he taught me was to learn how to sneak into your golden core quietly, and how to merge with other people's mist."

Guan Yi looked at him in surprise and said:

"What?"

Du Jin said with a smile:

"That's right, Junior Sister, I'm in your golden core, staying around your other mistified four spirits, even entangled together. Without the three souls, I am indeed just some residual memories and consciousness, like the wild ghosts in those lonely ghosts, long since dead.

"If I'm lucky, I may have been reincarnated, or maybe I have nothing left, but as long as I stay in your golden core, merge into your four spirits, and stay around your three souls, I can still linger on."

Guan Yi said with a sad expression:

"Then what's the use? Senior Brother, you know that you are already dead. Even if your seven spirits have not dissipated, these remaining things are just memories and remnants. It's long since not the real you. How can we cultivators not see through the true meaning of life and death."

Du Jin smiled miserably:

"See through life and death? How can I see through? If you hadn't stopped Yu Weijie from attacking Ma En just now, then I, a wild ghost who is nothing, would have long since had no obsession to support me and dissipated, but you stood behind that murderer, firmly supporting him.

"What, did Senior Brother do something to offend you before?"

Speaking of this, his tone also became a strong questioning.

Guan Yi looked at him and said:

"But the master has already..."

"Still the master!" Du Jin looked angry, "Who do you think caused me to fall to this point? Now that you know that I am Du Jin's remaining seven spirits, not some illusion or heart demon, then I will tell you directly.

"The master knew long ago that Ma En would kill me. I'm not lying to you. In the sparring with Ma En, I did strike first, but it's not because your good senior brother is some kind of two-faced demon, but because I saw that Ma En had an outer path demon body at the time.

"Then I remembered the master's words. After I noticed Ma En's talent, the words he said to me privately before sending me to compete for the opportunity changed their meaning. Those words were no longer encouragement to me, but became blatant threats.

"He actually told me at that time that he wanted to accept this Ma En as a disciple, and if he couldn't stop it, then it would be his last chance to break through to the nascent soul, and I also know the inside story that you don't understand, so I directly struck him with a deadly hand."

Guan Yi looked at the remnant of her senior brother with a somewhat uncomfortable feeling and asked:

"What inside story?"

Du Jin smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly:

"Look at me now, you can see me because I cultivated the secret technique he taught me.

"But guess why he taught me this secret technique."

Guan Yi's face instantly turned pale, because she had already thought of something.

Du Jin continued:

"Just as you think, the real purpose of this secret technique is not to send the remaining seven spirits into your golden core after I die. Don't you think it seems particularly foolish to do so? I would do this only because my three souls have dissipated.

"The real purpose of this secret technique is to plunder all your already mistified seven spirits after you reach the perfection of the golden core, and directly turn all your skills and Taoism into my possessions. This is the secret of the Xiaoyao Gong.

"The purpose of him wanting you to mistify your three souls and seven spirits is not to allow you to achieve immortality, but to turn your souls and the skills you have realized into a spiritual mist form that he has realized, so that he can easily control your souls.

"Didn't you ever think about why I was so focused on cultivation and never wasted my energy on other things? Because I knew very well that those so-called techniques and swordsmanship were meaningless. I just needed to get close to the threshold of breaking through the nascent soul.

"At that time, Yu Weijie's hard-cultivated techniques and Zhong Ruixue's realized swordsmanship will all be mixed in their seven spirits and swallowed by me. All their cultivation results originally belonged to me, so I didn't cultivate any techniques.

"In fact, I have basically cultivated the secret technique well, and I would have been able to start in a while.

"At that time, with Zhong Ruixue's swordsmanship and Yu Weijie's understanding of techniques, I will be able to break through the nascent soul in one breath."

Guan Yi looked at him as if she had never really understood him:

"So you and the master originally wanted to use us as pills for your promotion?"

Du Jin corrected sincerely:

"Not you, but Zhong Ruixue and Yu Weijie. Although I know you may not be able to believe it, I never thought about killing you.

"You can recall that I would not deliberately advise you to cultivate these less important techniques, and also deliberately let you disperse your energy on excessive roads, even to the extent that it would delay your cultivation.

"Because I just wanted you to cultivate into a form that would not be useful for me to break through, so that the master would not let me kill you. I have no feelings for those two, not because we are indifferent, but because they could not become friends with me.

"But you are different, you are kinder and simpler than them. I really treated you as a junior sister. We have lived together for so many years, you must know that I am not a cold-blooded monster and cannot attack you.

"It's just that I really didn't expect you to protect Ma En."

Guan Yi lowered her head with some shame:

"I thought at the time..."

Du Jin's words were right, the suggestions he gave himself in cultivation were indeed unfavorable to him, because the things he mainly learned were almost useless for breaking through to the nascent soul, and were techniques that were far from the right path.

Seeing this, Du Jin immediately said:

"Junior Sister, but I still have a chance. You know that people's memories will be mixed in the three souls and seven spirits. The master gave me to you to absorb my seven spirits, absorb my experience of breaking through the perfection of the golden core, and master this secret technique.

"You will also get my memory in this process, but you will definitely screen it out.

"But I don't want to become your nourishment, Junior Sister, I have never made any requests in my life. I only ask you this time."

Pa!

He knelt down heavily, looked at the girl and said:

"Let my seven spirits dominate your soul, let the transformed mist merge into yours, lend me your body and golden core, let me complete the revenge on Ma En, as long as I can kill him, I will return your body to you.

"I will never break my promise."

Guan Yi shook her head and stepped back:

"Senior Brother, cultivators should not create bloodshed again, and you are already dead."

Du Jin looked at him with a gloomy expression:

I know I'm already dead...

But I still want to 'live'. I'm sorry, Junior Sister.