Transcendent Ember

Chapter 8 The Lantern
"He will definitely come to you!"

These words plagued Zhang Jichuan like a curse, making him restless, unwilling to eat, and not in the mood after he came out of the picket...

"Be sure to become an extraordinary creature as soon as possible!"

In the evening, he began to sit cross-legged, meditate, and practice the power of the soul.

This body has already cultivated the power of the soul, but it has not reached the standard for binding extraordinary items, and the instinct of meditation still remains in the body.After Zhang Jichuan learned the 'Yujing University Meditation Method' he got from Director Darcy, he quickly entered the state and started from the beginning.

But
"It's too slow to cultivate like this!" Zhang Jichuan was a little anxious, always feeling that there was a sword of Damocles hanging above his head, "We must find a way to speed up the cultivation."

He thought of holy soul water.
The next day, after helping Director Darcy prepare the class, Zhang Jichuan left the school and went to the place where the murder occurred that night.

The site has been cut and removed by the extraordinary creatures of the picket bureau with extraordinary abilities, leaving only a big hole.Zhang Jichuan could only hope to look around to see if he could find any clues.

He searched carefully for a long time, but found nothing, so he couldn't help but feel a little discouraged: "The whole area must have been plowed by the picket bureau. Even if there are any clues, I'm afraid it won't be my turn."

Although I had expected this situation, I was still disappointed.

"what?"

Suddenly, Zhang Jichuan stopped walking back to school, his eyes fixed on a piece of white cloth.

A collapsed wall may have been crushed by the Long Ci. Under the broken bricks and stones, a piece of ordinary and unremarkable cloth was exposed, as if it had been torn from some cheap clothes.
Zhang Jichuan missed a heartbeat. He vaguely remembered seeing thousands of white cloth strips when the black shadow smashed the freighter Changci.
He suppressed his excitement and stepped forward quickly, picked up the cloth strip, pulled out the dagger he bought for self-defense and cut it back and forth forcefully, but the cloth strip was extremely tough and remained unmoved.
"This is not a vulgar thing!" Zhang Jichuan's breathing became rapid, his blood flowed faster, and his heart was pounding, "Could it be that black shadow left behind?"

He called a car, went straight to the picket office, and handed the cloth strip to Yuan Xiao.

Yuan Xiao concluded that the cloth strips were left by serial murderers, and the entire picket office was boiling. Lodebar and other picket officers were alarmed and rushed over in a hurry.

The pickets wept with joy, and the mysterious murderer finally showed his feet and was able to report to the higher authorities!

Zhang Jichuan got the Holy Soul Water as he wished!

It was a bottle of about fifty milliliters of transparent liquid, colorless and odorless, and even looked a little illusory.

Zhang Jichuan invited Zhou Xinyi to protect the Dharma and drank the Holy Soul Water.In an instant, like rain after a long drought, the power of the soul increases at a speed visible to the naked eye
Director Darcy opened a note and asked Zhang Jichuan to go to the school's treasure house to pick out extraordinary items.In the dazzling array of treasures, Zhang Jichuan was dazzled, and finally chose a supernatural item called "God's Scale of Good and Evil" to bind
He became an extraordinary creature, successfully became a regular teacher, and became a formal teacher in the Department of Archeology of Yujing University, with a monthly salary of two Jin Tongbao.

He took his parents to Yujing, and the two elders were very pleased. His mother kindly said: "Jichuan, mother is worth it in this life."

"wrong!!!"

Suddenly, Zhang Jichuan roared and beat his head in pain.

"Jichuan, what's wrong with you?" His mother hugged him worriedly, not letting him hurt herself.

"No, this is not true! All of this is not true!" Zhang Jichuan was attached to his mother's arms, his eyes were red, and tears could not stop flowing.

"Jichuan, what are you talking about? I am mother, this is your father!" Mother said distressedly.

"Because it's you, all this is not true..." Zhang Jichuan closed his eyes in pain.

How could it be possible for parents from another world to receive Yujing?

all of these……

"All! Yes! A dream!"

Zhang Jichuan said it word by word, and suddenly, the expression of "parents" froze on his face, his body became stiff, and became a lifeless sculpture. The whole world seemed to be paused, and time was frozen...

Rumble!
A terrifying lightning tore apart the still world. In an instant, the whole world suddenly began to shake and collapse. All the buildings and people turned into burning ashes and flew into the distance...

"I thought you were just an accident..." A somewhat hoarse voice rang in his ears, and Zhang Jichuan, who was half kneeling on the ground panting for breath, trembled his eyelids and saw the darkness coming towards him.

Like a dark cloud covering the sun.

Da da da! ——

In the darkness, there was a sound of unhurried footsteps, and a brass glass oil lamp became the only light source in the darkness, and the oil lamp was held in a hand wearing a metal glove.

Zhang Jichuan squinted his eyes, trying to see the appearance of the visitor, but it seemed that thousands of rivers and mountains were separated, and he couldn't see clearly, even if the visitor was already standing in front of him...

"Now it seems that you do have something special..."

The man held an oil lamp and shone it on Zhang Jichuan's face, as if he wanted to see his appearance clearly.

The boundless chill engulfed him, and the oil lamp was close at hand, but Zhang Jichuan couldn't feel the light and warmth, as if he had fallen into an eternal night...

"You... who are you?" He asked with difficulty.

"Why do you always like to ask such old-fashioned questions?" The man was a little puzzled and sighed, and then added, "You can call me 'lantern'."

"Lantern..." Zhang Jichuan didn't expect him to answer at all, but got an answer by accident.But he couldn't be happy at all, a murderer voluntarily revealing his name means that he...

You must be ready to kill and silence!

"Don't be nervous..." Lantern seemed to read his thoughts, and even comforted him, "Although I will definitely kill you, I won't kill you casually. You must die according to the requirements of the ceremony to be useful to me."

"ceremony……"

Zhang Jichuan has heard this word several times in the short time he traveled here.

He had read in the original owner's book that there were nine ranks of extraordinary items, which were divided into the upper three ranks, the middle three ranks, and the lower three ranks.

After the supernatural item is bound to the host, it complements the host.

They can improve the efficiency of the host in cultivating the power of the soul, and at the same time use the power of the host's soul to nourish itself. After reaching a certain level, the grades of the host and the supernatural items will both increase.

From the first grade to the third grade, it is only a matter of time, once the time is up, it will be a matter of course.

However, if a transcendent item wants to be promoted to the third grade, it must complete the corresponding ceremony!

The content of the ceremony needs to be analyzed by archaeologists with secret methods...

"Why did you choose me?" Zhang Jichuan asked with restrained anger.

"Maybe it's fate..." Lantern's tone was flat, but his voice was hoarse and it sounded creepy, "It's as if people can't choose their own origin..."

Zhang Jichuan didn't speak anymore, his brain was spinning rapidly, thinking hard about how to get out.

"You don't have to be nervous. Since you broke free from the dream today, I won't kill you." The lantern seemed to smile, and said, "Answer me a question, and I will let you go today."

Zhang Jichuan seemed to be grasping at straws: "What's the problem?"

Lantern: "I heard that you know a lot of supernatural knowledge and were selected by the Department of Archeology of Yujing University? Tell me about the supernatural item 'Morpheus' Silent Wing'."

Zhang Jichuan's pupils shrank: "What if I can't answer?"

The voice of the lantern was still flat: "What do you think?"

Zhang Jichuan's breathing was stagnant, he slowed down, and said: "Morpheus, the Greek god, the dreamer, the son or grandson of Nyx, the goddess of the night, is controversial. He has two wings on his back, which are a pair of soundless wings. , can quietly appear in other people's dreams, and transform into different images... that's all I know!"

Lantern: "Very good!"

Zhang Jichuan was about to ask him if he kept his promise, when suddenly the things in front of him became blurred, the darkness that filled the entire field of vision faded away like a tide, and strands of light came into the eyeballs with the outlines of things...

"Fortunately, fortunately, when I first studied Western history, I didn't ignore this part of the elective content because Westerners regard mythology as history..." Zhang Jichuan was very fortunate.

"Here?" After his eyes adjusted to the strong light, he looked around and found a solemn place.

Pickets!

Pounding!
He seemed to hear his own heartbeat.

"Since I left the picket office, have I already entered the dream he wove?"

He didn't dare to delay, he went back to Yujing University with trepidation, and went straight to Director Daxi's office.

"Huh?" Director Darcy was slightly taken aback when he saw him, "Mr. Zhang Jichuan, why did your soul power suddenly increase so much?"

"The power of the soul has been greatly improved?" Zhang Jichuan was not only not happy when he heard this, but his expression changed drastically, and he suspected that he was still in a dream.

"Mr. Zhang Jichuan, what happened?" Director Darcy saw his reaction and instantly realized that the matter was not simple.

"Director, please forgive my impolite behavior, but I have to do this..." Zhang Jichuan took a deep breath, first pinched himself heavily, and asked after feeling the pain, "Director, when I came to the school for an interview , How many questions did you answer in total?"

Director Darcy: "One, my question."

Zhang Jichuan felt relieved, and then asked: "Then Director, I came to report to your office yesterday, how many times did I fall?"

"Three times... No, once! There are also two times when I smashed my collection." Director Darcy replied lightly.

"Uh..." Zhang Jichuan was finally relieved when he heard this, and scratched his head, "I'm sorry, Director."

"It seems that you have encountered some troubles?" Director Darcy looked at him, raised his eyebrows, "Let's hear it."

Zhang Jichuan was about to tell the whole story about everything he had experienced.

"Lantern..." Director Darcy repeated the name, and said to Zhang Jichuan, "I know why your soul power has skyrocketed."

"what?"

Only then did Zhang Jichuan realize that if this hadn't been a dream, his soul power had really improved greatly.

Director Darcy looked at him in surprise and said, "You managed to break free from a dream woven by an extraordinary creature by your own will. It's not easy. Your soul power should be due to this incident. a great improvement.

"As for the lantern, if I guess correctly, it should be an extraordinary creature who is good at hypnosis and dream weaving.

"This kind of extraordinary creature is very difficult to deal with. It is true and false, false and true, and it is unpredictable. But he has a word that can be believed——

"He won't kill you casually, even if he wants to kill you, he must follow the requirements of the promotion ceremony of a certain extraordinary item on his body.

"He even said that if you are in danger, he will protect you. Because you have been involved in his ceremony, if you die for other reasons, the supernatural item on him will be stuck in the ceremony forever and cannot be promoted. .”

Zhang Jichuan had fun: "So, I have an extra bodyguard?"

"Don't be complacent!" Director Darcy warned seriously, "This extraordinary creature is very good at sneaking in, if you relax a little, he can drag you into an illusory dream.

"Furthermore, as his rank increases—don't doubt, he can use other supernatural items to improve his rank.

"At that time, the dreams he weaves will become more and more real, so real that it will be difficult for you to find the flaws.

"Even, when his grade reaches a certain level, he can kill you directly in his dream, and you don't have to indulge in it."

Zhang Jichuan was sweating coldly: "What should I do?"

Director Darcy stared at him, picked up a pen and wrote a note, stamped it and tore it to him, saying: "Go to the school's treasury to pay in advance for the supernatural items for the first year!
"Mr. Zhang Jichuan, welcome to the extraordinary world!"

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