The cold snowy wind blew the ends of Lu Qing's hair, and the wooden mask hanging on the Pope's waist kept shaking and touching each other.
If Lu Qing hadn't just seen the evil spirits floating behind the Pope with her own eyes, Lu Qing would never have imagined that there were such terrifying creatures living in these ordinary-looking masks.
By the way, are ghosts considered living things?
"Hahaha, don't be afraid. Although they look scary, they are actually gentle people." Seeing Lu Qing's frightened look, the Pope said.
"Are these all human transformations?" Lu Qing asked curiously.
Logically speaking, ghosts should all turn into humans, but sometimes she would come up with some strange ideas, such as animals and humans are both living creatures, so why can only humans transform into ghosts?
Is it because humans are intelligent and have stronger mental power than animals? Are there any other creatures with mental powers that far exceed humans and can become ghosts after death?
"Not just people, but also monsters, elves and so on." The Pope probably guessed what Lu Qing was thinking and replied:
"For creatures with relatively low spiritual power, their souls will dissipate directly after death and become part of the world, while for creatures with relatively high spiritual power, their souls will leave their bodies after death."
"Most of them have no consciousness and will continue to dissipate as time goes by. Only a small number of them can regain consciousness and move freely, but they cannot escape the fate of dissipation."
"However, some mages can meditate at this stage to consolidate their souls and become spirits that can communicate. There are also a very few lucky ones whose souls themselves will not dissipate."
"What about the ones you just summoned, His Majesty the Pope?" Lu Qing asked curiously.
The souls summoned by the Pope just now don't look like they can communicate normally.
"Those are the souls of resentment." After hearing Lu Qing's words, the Pope explained: "The souls of resentment refer to those souls that were full of resentment or obsessed with death during their lifetime."
"The birth of the soul of resentment is very strange. Some souls of resentment are linked to the strength they had during their lifetime, and some souls of resentment are completely transformed into ordinary people."
"But no matter what, these resentful souls are very powerful. Some resentful souls can even compete head-on with the kingdom's army!"
"..."
Lu Qing recalled the aura of the resentful souls summoned by the Pope just now, and felt that the Pope's words were a bit conservative.
"So, since these resentful souls are so strong, what can I do to conquer them?" Lu Qing looked at the Pope and asked.
It is impossible to fight with the spirit of resentment, severely injure it, and then throw the carved elf... wooden mask out.
If this is the case, it is not impossible, but Lu Qing feels that according to a normal, ordinary [Psychic] skill owner, he should not be able to defeat the spirit of resentment.
No, it’s not that it should be, it’s absolutely impossible to beat!
"Just give him a good fight and win." The Pope smiled and looked at Lu Qing and said.
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"Hahaha, you think you can encounter resentful spirits casually. It would be good to have two resentful spirits at the beginning." The Pope laughed loudly and said.
"What is a resentful spirit?"
"It is a spiritual body that is contaminated by void energy. Not only living things, but also spiritual bodies will be eroded by the void, but the degree of infection varies."
"Some creatures should have their souls dissipated directly after death, but if they happen to be contaminated by the void, their souls will remain, but what they will become in the end is unknown."
After the Pope finished speaking, he showed Lu Qing his hand again. He raised his left hand and slowly released his palm.
A translucent butterfly flew out of the Pope's palm and traced a blue path through the air.
"No, this path is..."
Lu Qing observed carefully for a while before realizing that this path was a new effect of her [Spiritual Vision], which allowed her to see traces of the movement of spiritual bodies.
"The soul of this butterfly should have dissipated after death, but it was contaminated by the void and the soul did not disappear."
"And because the degree of void pollution is not deep, it retains its original shape. On the contrary, it cannot have the slightest impact on reality."
The Pope stretched out his finger and saw the ghost butterfly in the distance struggling violently as if it was caught by something.
However, this level of struggle was like nothing to the Pope. In just a few breaths, the ghost butterfly returned to the Pope's hand.
"Concentrate, look at it, and let your mental power focus on this butterfly." The Pope moved his palm in front of Lu Qing and said.
Obviously, the Pope wanted Lu Qing to learn how to mobilize her own spiritual power, but...
"I've known it for a long time."
As her mental attributes get higher and higher, Lu Qing's ability to perceive her own mental power has also strengthened a lot, and she has long been able to control her mental power.
She didn't intend to pretend, so she directly mobilized some mental power and concentrated on the butterfly.
Suddenly, the ghost butterfly in the Pope's hand that had given up struggling began to flap its wings violently again!
Bang!
There was no sound, and the body of the ghost butterfly seemed to explode, turning into pure spiritual power and dissipating in the air.
"..."
The Pope looked at the palm of his hand speechlessly. He didn't expect that this ghost butterfly would be beaten to death by Lu Qing's mental power.
And Lu Qing didn't expect that he would kill this ghost butterfly with just a small amount of mental power.
"It seems that, Your Highness, your spiritual power is naturally relatively high." The Pope analyzed.
"Can it be lower? I've lost a lot of attribute points." Lu Qing glanced at her mental attribute of 50 and thought.
This situation is as if a university teacher met an elementary school student and thought that the other person only knew elementary school questions, so he took out a elementary school paper and asked him to do it, but he did not expect that the elementary school student had already learned high school courses on his own.
"Anyway, just remember this feeling. Practice more and it will be much easier to control your mental power in the future."
The Pope did not expect that the lesson that he thought would take more than half an hour of practice was completed by Lu Qing in just a few seconds. He was happy but also had a headache at the same time.
Subsequent courses...
There are less than forty minutes left before eating, and this time is not enough to complete the guided meditation process, so...
The Pope picked up the wooden board that he had taken out before, and then took out a carving knife from his arms and said: "Next, I will teach you how to carve a wooden mask. The specific details will be discussed later. You have to watch me first.
Let’s do it again and think about what to do.”
"So, whose face should we carve?" The Pope pondered for a moment, and then looked at Knight Myron, who had been sitting next to him silently.
"Forget it." The Pope shook his head inwardly, and then looked at Lu Qing.
"Huh?" Lu Qing tilted her head in confusion, wondering why the Pope hadn't started yet.
"It would be a bit rude to carve the face of Her Royal Highness," the Pope thought.
Charles didn’t want to carve. He had only met his daughter Fang Qingrou once and didn’t remember her clearly, so he would carve Irene’s wooden mask.
The pope nodded, and then scratched the wooden board with a carving knife.