Above the gray fog

Lin Shan stood in the crowd, looking towards the center of Eden Square.

There, a fountain stood, the water dancing in the air, catching the light.

In every corner of the square, creatures quietly set up stalls, like quiet statues in the square.

Lin Shan's eyes swept left and right, looking for the figure of the scarecrow.

Finally, in a corner, he found the scarecrow leaning against the wall in a trance, he was waving the broom in his hand again and again meaninglessly.

Lin Shan walked straight over.

He attracted a lot of attention on the way, and in the eyes of admiration and awe, Lin Shan came to the scarecrow.

He waved his hand.

The scarecrow slowly came back to his senses and looked at Lin Shan. His eyes embedded in the dry grass flashed with a puzzled look, "Who are you?"

Lin Shan was about to answer, but the scarecrow suddenly muttered to himself again, "Young man, it's you..."

The scarecrow sat on the ground and used his hands to smooth out the messy straw on his legs, "Want to buy something?"

"Yes, I want to buy some God-Pregnant Stones and ask some questions by the way." Lin Shan followed and sat on the ground, "You don't seem very happy."

"Unhappy?" The scarecrow was slightly stunned for a moment, then reacted and touched the position of his heart, "A heart woven with straw should not have such emotions. It seems that it has reached its limit and needs to be replaced with new straw."

"Change straw?" Lin Shan was puzzled, "There must be a fundamental reason for the emotion. What you call changing straw is just a temporary solution."

"The fundamental reason?" The scarecrow pulled out a straw from his leg and folded it into the shape of a flower. The next second, the entire Eden Square was suddenly shrouded in the fragrance of flowers. Everyone in the square stopped what they were doing and looked around, trying to find the source of the fragrance.

A faint flame ignited the flower woven from straw, and soon burned the straw to ashes.

"Even if I tell you the root cause, you won't understand it." The scarecrow shook his head slowly, intentionally changing the subject, "Don't you have questions to ask? Ask."

"You can tell me." Lin Shan sighed lightly, "You have helped me a lot, maybe I can help you too."

"Let me tell you a little story." The scarecrow looked up at the void above.

"Yeah."

The scarecrow's voice was a little hoarse, and the hoarseness revealed an inexplicable emptiness.

"In the middle of the night, a ghost hid in the quilt and tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep."

"The ghost mother asked: 'What's wrong, child?'"

"The little ghost asked curiously: 'Mom, do you think there are really people in this world?'"

After saying that, the scarecrow looked at Lin Shan, "What do you think of my story?"

"There are people and ghosts in this world. Souls and weird things can all be classified as ghosts." Lin Shan pondered the meaning of the scarecrow's words. No matter how you look at it, this is a very simple mortal story.

"Your answer is not what I thought." The scarecrow shook his head slowly, "You are sure that there are ghosts in this world because you have seen them and you know they are ghosts."

Lin Shan showed a look of realization, "You mean... as long as you are strong enough, there is no secret that cannot be solved? Does this have anything to do with your emotions?"

"What I mean is that when you know about ghosts, the ghosts in your eyes have already gotten rid of the meaning of 'ghosts'. The so-called 'ghosts' are things you will never understand. Even if you sit on the throne of rules, you can't understand what 'ghosts' are, just like ghosts can't understand us."

Lin Shan also looked up at the sky like the scarecrow. There was nothing except thin clouds. "There are things in this world that we can't understand, and things that we can't understand can't understand us, just like there are two worlds that can never blend, and the ghosts and people living in them can't be intertwined." Lin Shan also looked up at the sky like the scarecrow. There was nothing except thin clouds.

"You are very insightful." The scarecrow praised, "This is one of the things that makes me unhappy. When two things that cannot be connected are connected, I cannot understand it, and I don't even have the ability to understand it, but I know it."

"One? Are there other reasons?" Lin Shan felt that the scarecrow seemed to be reminding him intentionally. What does it mean that things that cannot be intertwined are connected?

But he didn't seem to encounter anything incomprehensible so far. Could it be related to the void? But the void is the void, it shouldn't be something incomprehensible. Could it be the game on the other side? But the scarecrow is unlikely to know that he has played the game on the other side...

Unable to associate more for the time being, Lin Shan could only write down what the scarecrow said. If he really encounters it in the future, it may be useful.

"You can't understand the rest." The scarecrow shook his head again.

"Is it similar to the topic just now?"

"No, the other reason is my personal matter, which is about human nature."

"You are very sure, I can't understand."

"Nothing makes me more sure than this matter. I knew it when I first met you." The scarecrow stood up slowly with the broom, "Let's stop talking, let's talk about your business."

Although Lin Shan was full of doubts, he saw that the scarecrow didn't want to talk about this matter anymore, so he didn't continue to ask, "I want to ask, is there a limit to the number of times the Pregnant God Stone can be used? I want to buy some more Pregnant God Stones."

Hearing that Lin Shan had come to buy the Pregnancy Stone again, the Scarecrow replied calmly, "The function of the Pregnancy Stone is to increase the upper limit of soul division. It is essentially an auxiliary tool. The Pregnancy Stone is very important to the transcendent beings under the gods. But you have become a god and can cut the soul by yourself. The upper limit varies from person to person, so there is no need to use consumables such as the God of Pregnancy Stone."

"You can cut it by yourself, how to cut it?" Lin Shan really didn't know about this. He always thought that if he wanted to increase the number of divided souls, he had to rely on the God of Pregnancy Stone.

"There are three simple methods, namely the knowledge of the past, the soul weapon produced by Yuanting - Soul Splitting Blade, and personal talent. Judging from your appearance, you definitely don't have the talent in this area. I recommend you buy a Soul Splitting Blade. Not only can it protect the safety of the soul, but it can also give the soul a certain amount of attack power. In other words, you are now a god in the lineage. You can directly ask the god who introduced you to the job, or you can use it from the particle network of Yuanting. You can find the answer without coming here to ask me.”

Lin Shan ignored the scarecrow's complaining words and asked directly, "How many points does the Soul Breaker have?"

"You do something for me, and I will give you one for free." The Scarecrow did not say the price of the Soul Breaker, but proposed a deal.

"What's up?"

"Go to the rice sea in Aita and bring me a bundle of straw." The scarecrow pulled out a straw from his body and handed it to Lin Shan. "Its carrying capacity has reached its limit. I need some new straw."

"Where is Aita?" Lin Shan asked.

"There are three tourist attractions in the gray mist universe, and Aita - the hometown of souls, is one of them, inside the core universe."

"I can go." Lin Shan nodded directly and agreed, not because the Scarecrow would give him a soul-breaking blade for free, but because of what he originally thought, the Scarecrow had helped him a lot and he wanted to give him something in return.

The scarecrow stretched out his hand, and streams of light intertwined to form a light blue transparent light blade. The whole blade looked like a dagger with no specific shape. Lin Shan felt the strong power of the soul on it.

"Take it, it's payment in advance." The Soul Splitting Blade slowly floated in front of Lin Shan.