two golems

Chapter 12 Soul Lead
It was as if the person standing in front of him was not a 16-year-old boy at all, but a sixty- or seventy-year-old man of the same age who had experienced many vicissitudes of life.

"You are so young, why can't I see any passion in you that a young person should have? Instead, you look like an old man who has lived for seventy or eighty years and has experienced all kinds of life?" The old man finally couldn't help but express his confusion. .

Facing the old man's question, Zhu Youchen replied thoughtfully: "Maybe it's because I'm born with a poor ability to feel emotions, so it feels weird to others."

"The ability to feel emotions is very poor? What do you mean?" the old man asked in confusion.

"To be honest, I haven't been able to feel any emotions since I was a child. Later, when my soul was enlightened, I found out that it was because the human soul was born with a defect, and I was told that I was destined to be unable to separate the third devil in this life." It was obviously a very tragic thing. Things happened, but when Zhu Youchen told these things, he didn't feel sad or unwilling at all. Instead, he was surprisingly calm.

"Innate human soul is incomplete? Lack of emotional perception?" The old man was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but become more curious, "Strange, if that's the case, how did you survive until now?"

Zhu Youchen shook his head blankly. How could he know how he had survived to this day?Aren't you just living so plainly until now?
"Come, let me take a look." The old man seemed to be very interested in Zhu Youchen, and his fingertips were attached to Zhu Youchen's eyebrows, just like Yao Chan probed his soul.

After a moment, the old man opened his eyes with a strange expression, "The human soul is really incomplete, not too much, not too little, just the right amount."

"What do you mean?" Zhu Youchen asked in confusion.

"You should be able to feel your soul now. You'll know if you look carefully." The old man said meaningfully.

Zhu Youchen frowned without knowing it, then closed his eyes and sank his consciousness into the sea of ​​consciousness.

At first glance, the three souls and seven souls in the sea of ​​consciousness have not changed much. They are still functioning normally around the soul box as usual. However, after the separation of the two fat men, the light group representing the earth soul has also been reduced by half.

After careful observation for a moment, nothing unusual was found. The only thing that was special was that after separating Da Zhuang and Er Pang, the three souls, which were originally two large and one small, had become the same size.

Opening his eyes, Zhu Youchen said with some uncertainty: "It seems that the size of the three souls has changed."

"That's right." The old man seemed to have discovered something extraordinary, and he became inexplicably excited: "Do you know why you can still survive until now even though your soul is incomplete?"

Zhu Youchen shook his head blankly, looked at the old man suspiciously, and waited for his explanation.

"Because your human soul is just incomplete. If it were even slightly less, you wouldn't be alive until now." The old man explained enthusiastically: "Of course, this is not the point. The point is that your human soul is just the same as the others." The two souls are the same size, that is to say, your human soul is no more and no less than the size of a separated demon doll."

Zhu Youchen nodded thoughtfully and said with some confusion: "But does this mean anything?"

"Well, it doesn't seem to make any sense." The old man was a little embarrassed.

In fact, the reason why the old man was so excited was not because Zhu Youchen's soul had any special meaning, but because Zhu Youchen's situation was very coincidental and surprising. At least this was the first time in his life that he had encountered this. situation.

"In other words, in my situation, it is really impossible to separate the third devil?" Zhu Youchen confirmed again.

"Theoretically, it is true. With your current human soul size, even if it is missing even a little, the soul will collapse instantly. In this case, it is naturally impossible to separate the third demon, unless you no longer want to live." The old man nodded thoughtfully.

Zhu Youchen nodded expressionlessly, as if he had expected this result.

Although for him, there is nothing to be sad about even if he cannot become a real puppet master, but now that he has become interested in being a puppet master, he still hopes that he can continue to practice like other puppet masters.

It's just because of his lack of emotional perception that he doesn't feel the slightest regret or unwillingness.

"But..." Just when Zhu Youchen was ready to accept this fact, the old man spoke again, with an intriguing smile in his deep eyes: "Being unable to separate the third demon does not mean that you cannot continue to practice. "

Zhu Youchen was slightly startled and couldn't help but look at the old man in confusion.

"As I said just now, your human soul is just broken. The reason why others think you can't continue to practice is entirely due to inertial thinking." The old man's eyes flashed slightly and said: "In fact, the improvement of the realm of the puppet master, It has nothing to do with whether the soul is incomplete or not, otherwise, all puppet masters should be unable to practice after separating from the first demon puppet."

Hearing what the old man said, Zhu Youchen suddenly felt like he was enlightened. Isn't the process of the puppet master's separation of the demon puppet a kind of artificial soul mutilation?
The old man smiled meaningfully and continued: "The reason why other people think you can't continue practicing is because you have fallen into the inertial thinking of one person and three puppets. In fact, the improvement of the realm of separating the puppets and the puppet control master is completely They are two different things, they just happened to overlap during the first three realms."

"Are you sure I can continue to practice? But I have been separated from the second demon for more than a month, why don't I see any signs of breakthrough?" Zhu Youchen asked doubtfully.

The old man smiled dumbly and said: "Although the incomplete human soul will not affect your continued improvement, it will still have an impact. For example, if you are missing an arm, although it will not affect your ability to continue living, your daily life will still be affected."

"You mean, my third realm is more difficult than others?"

"That's right." The old man nodded with a slight smile, "The difference is that your Sanyin realm only has Soul Yin, and there is no third demon."

Zhu Youchen nodded clearly, then turned to be confused and said: "But if there is no third devil, then what else can I use this extra soul guide for?"

"Uh," the old man looked at Zhu Youchen in a daze, and said with a strange expression: "Little guy, you don't think that each demon puppet can only correspond to one soul guide, do you?" "Isn't it?" Zhu Youchen asked in a daze.

"Of course not." The old man said with a confused look on his face: "If each demon puppet can only correspond to one soul reference, then what are the seven soul references in the subsequent seven realms for?"

Hearing this, Zhu Youchen couldn't help but be a little confused. He had always thought that the soul lead was like the umbilical cord when a baby was born, and each demon can only have one soul lead connection.

Now after some explanation by the old man, I realized that it turns out that the Puppet Controller not only has three soul guides, but also has soul guides in the subsequent seven soul realms.

"What is the soul guide used for?" Zhu Youchen couldn't help but become more and more curious.

The old man chuckled and said, "Have you ever played with puppets when you were a child?"

"No." Zhu Youchen shook his head silently, "But I've seen other people play with it."

"It's okay, as long as I've seen it before." The old man smiled hoarsely and continued: "Then do you think it is better to control the puppet with one string or many strings?"

"Of course it's better to have more lines, but the control will be more complicated." Zhu Youchen said thoughtfully.

"Isn't that right?" the old man said with a smile: "It's the same with a puppet master controlling a puppet. The soul guide is equivalent to the string of the puppet. The more soul guides assigned to the puppet, the more magic it can exert. The strength, of course, will be correspondingly more difficult to control.”

"So that's what happened." Zhu Youchen nodded suddenly, and then he clearly understood the training system of the puppet master.

Unknowingly, the pot of Early Spring Qinghu tea in front of the old man had bottomed out. In the past, as soon as the tea was finished, the old man would get up and leave immediately. But today, it has been a long time since the tea was finished, but the old man still didn't. means to leave.

"By the way, little guy, are you interested in doing me a little favor?" The old man spoke again, staring at Zhu Youchen meaningfully, as if he was thinking about something or examining something.

Of course Zhu Youchen agreed without thinking, "If you need anything, please tell me."

The old man smiled half-heartedly and said, "Actually, it's not that difficult. I just want you to help me pick out these metal particles of different colors."

As he spoke, the old man's fingertips flashed, and then he placed a large crystal bottle on the table, and the crystal bottle was filled with colorful metal particles the size of rice grains.

"May I ask, senior, what are these metal particles used for?" Zhu Youchen asked in confusion.

"It's a secret." The old man smiled mysteriously, and then asked expectantly: "You just need to help me pick out all the colors."

"But... there are a lot of metal particles, I'm afraid I won't be able to tell them apart for a while." Zhu Youchen said hesitantly: "And the shopkeeper's side."

The old man smiled dumbly and said: "Don't worry about the shopkeeper, I will say hello to him."

"Okay then." Zhu Youchen nodded thoughtfully, "Do you want to do it now?"

"That's right." The old man smiled and nodded.

Hearing this, Zhu Youchen stopped talking nonsense and went directly downstairs to find a few tea bowls. Then he sat opposite the old man and began to carefully sift through the metal particles in the crystal bottle.

I thought it was just a time-consuming job, but when Zhu Youchen started to screen, he realized that it was not the case. After a while, Zhu Youchen felt his eyes swell and his vision began to blur. Secrete tears.

Zhu Youchen has only cried once in his life, after his father passed away, but this seemingly simple commission from the old man brought tears to his eyes.

The difference is that Dad was really sad that time, but this time it was entirely because his eyes were unbearably dry, and it had nothing to do with whether he was hurt or not.

On the other hand, the old man waited patiently, watching Zhu Youchen carefully sifting through the metal particles, with a look of satisfaction and surprise gradually appearing in his eyes.

Time passed little by little, and half of the metal particles in the crystal bottle had been filtered out by Zhu Youchen.

At the same time, the joy and satisfaction in the old man's eyes became more and more intense, and he was even a little excited.

"It's true that the ability to perceive emotions is lacking. After so long, there is no irritability at all." The old man stared at Zhu Youchen with bright eyes, and his heart was no longer calm: "Tsk, tsk, he was born to be a magician~! "

But don't underestimate this "little game". It seems simple, but in fact it extremely tests people's patience and mentality. For a normal person, the mentality will have collapsed by this time, and it is impossible to calmly screen until now.

Especially for young people who are easily impatient, being able to persist for more than ten minutes is already very good.

(End of this chapter)