Cecilia said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, the man I like should be the best. It would be abnormal if Chen Rong had no feelings for you."
Bai Xiaowen let out a small breath, thinking silently in his heart, if Shuyi had Cecilia's mentality, it would be so... boring.
The pleasure of a handsome man is so simple, boring and boring.
Cecilia returned to the topic: "In this heroic mission, even the Shangqing faction themselves can't find the murderer. Are you sure?"
Bai Xiaowen said with a smile: "First of all, regardless of whether I can complete this task, by accepting the task, I have already got the opportunity to open up the situation within the Shangqing faction, which is not a loss. Anyway, there is no punishment if the task is not completed.
, I will definitely take it."
After a pause, Bai Xiaowen continued: "As for whether this mission can be completed, I am certain. The soul of the slain disciple named Zhou Wu has been absorbed into the Black Soul Stone... Oh no, it should be called the 'Death God'
The appearance is inside the mask."
After killing Nigor, the lurking incarnation of Death, the function of the Black Soul Stone (Façade of Death) has changed greatly.
And one of its inconspicuous functions is that when absorbing the soul of a strong person, Bai Xiaowen is not limited to killing him himself.
Of course, this method of absorption also has certain limitations, that is, there is an instinctive resistance to absorbing the face of death.
Only souls who were weaker than Bai Xiaowen during his lifetime were unable to resist the attraction.
Those strong men who were stronger than Bai Xiaowen in life can resist the absorption of the face of death. Unless the strong man himself was killed by Bai Xiaowen, he cannot resist.
Bai Xiaowen has fully mastered the function of the black soul stone, so he can naturally consume a certain amount of soul essence to retain the memory of this strong man during his lifetime.
Of course, it was also because Bai Xiaowen rushed to the scene not long after Zhou Wu's death. If the time drags on for too long, Zhou Wu's soul will disappear on its own, and it will be impossible to attract him with the face of death.
Bai Xiaowen then chose to extract Zhou Wu's soul, and soon a confused-looking shadow appeared.
Note that what is absorbed here is only the residual soul, which is different from the soul of Kitz. Kitz was absorbed voluntarily, so his soul is intact and can communicate with the outside world through normal means; Zhou Wu is definitely not absorbed voluntarily, plus he
He had considerable strength during his lifetime, but his soul was broken due to the pulling.
Zhou Wu's remnant soul cannot see or hear real things or sounds. It is impossible to ask questions using ordinary questioning methods, unless you have Qiao Rui's soul whisperer ability.
However, Bai Xiaowen had his own way of communicating with the soul absorbed by the Death Face. He closed his eyes slightly, and a trace of spiritual consciousness came over and penetrated Zhou Wu's soul memory.
In Zhou Wu's sea of consciousness, memory fragments flew gently like fireflies. The bright fireflies were deep memories, while the dark fireflies were meaningless shallow memories.
Bai Xiaowen quickly came into contact with each memory fragment.
Zhou Wu's life gradually took shape in his mind.
I joined the Shangqing Sect as a disciple at a young age, first stood out among the outer disciples, and stood out from the competition among the outer disciples...
A senior sister from the outer sect admired Zhou Wu, but was rejected by Zhou Wu...
After entering the inner sect, Zhou Wu studied hard and became a new star of the Shangqing sect. He always made progress in every martial arts competition...
Daily life with fellow inner disciples, conflicts and frictions that arise during cultivation...
Bai Xiaowen quickly got rid of these memories that had nothing to do with solving the case.
Finally, a group of extremely bright memory fragments were captured by Bai Xiaowen's spiritual consciousness, and then penetrated into it.
[Well, this should be the last memory fragment of Zhou Wu before his death. 】
As before, Bai Xiaowen's "perspective" quickly changed to Zhou Wu's perspective. Just like watching a first-person perspective movie, no change in perspective can be made.
Moreover, the scenery from the perspective of the person is either clear or blurry, which is related to Zhou Wu's attention tendency at the time. The things he noticed will be remembered very clearly; the things he ignored will be remembered very vaguely.
At this moment, Zhou Wu should be concentrating on practicing in a quiet room.
Suddenly, the perspective turned to the door.
After a brief pause, the door opened, and a disciple of the Shangqing Sect with a long and thin face, resembling a monkey, walked in.
When the monkey was talking to Zhou Wu, Bai Xiaowen could only see the monkey's mouth opening and closing, just like watching a silent movie.
Later, Zhou Wu followed the monkey out of the door from the first perspective.
After three turns and two turns, he stopped in a quiet and dark place.
Then the monkey turned around, suddenly showing a look of astonishment, and pointed behind Zhou Wu.
[Such a clumsy deception can actually work?] Bai Xiaowen secretly complained.
However, Zhou Wu, as an elite disciple of the inner sect and a seed contestant in the Tao Discussion Conference, naturally did not be fooled and looked back, but immediately activated his Yuanli to protect his body. From the first angle of view, he could see the gleaming white light of Yuanli activated.
However, a hand was placed on the back of Zhou Wu's neck from behind, extending over as softly as if there were no bones.
The memory picture fluctuated greatly, and Zhou Wu was obviously in extreme shock and panic.
Then the screen suddenly went black.
Bai Xiaowen opened his eyes.
The remnant soul of Zhou Wu has disappeared and returned to the form of the God of Death.
"Have you found any clues?" Cecilia came over, "It took a long time this time. It's almost dawn."
Bai Xiaowen said: "There are not many clues. I only found a disciple who was suspected to be a ghost of the Shangqing Sect, but I didn't see the face of the real murderer."
Bai Xiaowen then told Cecilia the scene of the last memory fragment.
"The murderer is very powerful," Bai Xiaowen said. "Zhou Wu's consciousness is actually very good, and he has activated his Yuan Power to protect his body. But the other party seems to have ignored his Yuan Power and directly broke his neck... A conservative estimate,
You have to be at least a master of Elder Tang's level to be able to ignore Zhou Wu's body-protecting energy and directly kill him."
Cecilia said: "The disciple of the Shangqing Sect who looks like a skinny monkey should be the key. From the last memory, it seems that he was the one who tricked Zhou Wu out and asked him to kill him."
Bai Xiaowen said: "The murderer's motive is still unclear. And we need evidence... Zhou Wu's remnant soul is not suitable as direct evidence."
"Why?" Cecilia wondered, the Shangqing sect should have a way to communicate with the remaining souls.
Bai Xiaowen said: "Detaining souls is an evil method in the eyes of the famous sects of ancient China. Just like the Western magic world, necromancy is regarded as a taboo. Although I handed over the remnant soul of Zhou Wu, I can help the Shangqing sect find clues.
But what’s the benefit to me? Not only is there no benefit, I might even be regarded as a demon and be kicked out of the Shangqing Sect!”