"Exotic beast? I'm sorry, I don't know what you are talking about?" Zhang Rongfang remained calm, but he spoke without missing a beat.
The food stalls were crowded with people and there were many people passing by.
He didn't understand why the other party would deliberately say such troublesome things in this situation and environment.
"Little brother is too cautious, yes, yes. Compared with the old man, he is indeed much more cautious." The man nodded appreciatively.
"Let me introduce myself. My surname is Zhang and my given name is Yunqi. I am a native of Citong.
Now, it can be regarded as taking a group of friends, brothers and juniors to do something on this ground and make a living."
"Zhang Yunqi...I wonder what brother Zhang wants to do with me?" Zhang Rongfang didn't know how to express his words for a moment. This man suddenly came to the door inexplicably.
Then he opened his mouth and revealed that he was secretly checking on them to kill Ling Luo that day.
Is this a warning or a reminder?
"Sir, could you please take a moment to speak?" Zhang Yunqi invited.
"Why not?" Zhang Rongfang, a master of martial arts, is bold. When he was on the third level of external medicine, he dared to fight against internal medicine. Now that he has used external medicine seven times, his physical fitness has increased by several percent, his Golden Toad Skill has improved, and his overall strength has improved.
One step further before starting.
Naturally, he is not afraid anymore.
"What a courage. Come with me." Zhang Yunqi praised him and turned around and walked away.
At this time, Zhang Rongfang noticed that this man's right leg was lame. It was high and low when he walked, which was quite ugly.
Without saying a word, he followed closely behind.
The two walked through the streets and alleys and stopped in front of a teahouse with an old sign in the middle of the city.
There is a plaque hanging in the tea room that reads: Tea for one person.
"This tea should be drunk alone to appreciate the artistic conception and taste. So I usually come here alone.
But today is an exception."
Zhang Yunqi explained with a smile and walked in first.
The concierge is a fair-skinned little girl with a ponytail. She is about fourteen or fifteen years old. She wears a traditional long gray coat. When she walks, her knees keep bumping against the hem of the long coat, which makes her look a little funny.
The long coat didn't seem to belong to her, it was a bit too big, but the little girl didn't care and still tried her best to smile.
"Uncle Zhang, you haven't been here for a long time!"
"Well, give me a humble apartment."
"OK."
Zhang Yunqi took Zhang Rongfang, followed the little girl, and soon came to a quiet room made entirely of woven bamboo.
The walls, floors, tables and chairs are all made of bamboo.
Even the teapots and cups are wrapped with a layer of bamboo weave.
Zhang Rongfang took off his shoes and walked in wearing only his socks. He immediately smelled a faint fragrance of bamboo.
He walked to the futon, knelt down and stared at Zhang Yunqi opposite him.
At this time, Zhang Yunqi had already ordered the necessary tea and asked the little girl to close the door.
The room suddenly became quiet.
"Sorry for the long wait." Zhang Yunqi smiled kindly.
He opened the teapot on the table and smelled the tea inside.
"Many years ago, this was my favorite tearoom. It was not expensive, but very unique, and the tea was not bad."
"Indeed, this is the first time I have seen such a teahouse." Zhang Rongfang nodded in agreement.
"Okay, don't talk too much. Since you watched it yesterday, sir, what do you think of the monsters in the spiritual transformation?" Zhang Yunqi calmed down.
"Opinion? What opinions can you have?? I have no opinion. I just want to know what the weaknesses of Lingluo and Lingwei are. Can every Lingluo be able to kill them as long as you keep killing them?"
Zhang Rongfang asked bluntly.
Now that he was sure that the other party was the same group of people yesterday, he stopped beating around the bush.
"I'm afraid that sir will be disappointed." Zhang Yunqi shook his head slightly.
"Why do you say that?" Zhang Rongfang frowned, "I saw you surrounding and killing Lingluo with my own eyes, which shows that you have already mastered the mystery of Lingluo's immortality."
He now has some doubts about whether the Heavenly Lady's Secret Secret is a fiction at all, and the real secret is actually in the hands of the group of people in front of him.
"Sir, don't be anxious." Zhang Yunqi said gently.
At this time, the tea was brought in by the ponytail girl.
She put down the tea, set out the refreshments, bowed slightly, turned around and left, carefully closing the door.
Until the little girl was completely gone.
Zhang Yunqicai continued to speak.
"actually..."
He paused.
"What you saw, sir, is not everything."
"not all?"
"Of course." He nodded. "I wonder if Sir actually fought against Lingluo and killed him?"
"Yes." Zhang Rongfang nodded.
"That's easy." He smiled, "After Lingluo is killed, he will revive in a short time. Sir, do you know that?"
"Nature knows."
"The more complete the recovery, the more consumption it will have on them. Sir, do you know?" Zhang Yunqi continued.
For a moment, Zhang Rongfang fell silent.
He chewed this sentence carefully.
The more complete the recovery, the more consumption it will have?
So what counts as thorough?
"What do you mean by this? Could it be that...you insist on waiting for him to fully recover before taking action in order to increase his consumption?" Zhang Rongfang frowned and guessed.
"That's right." Zhang Yunqi sighed softly, "Sir, you don't know that the strength and number of resurrections of a spiritualized individual are completely determined by the spiritual thread in the body.
The more spiritual threads you have, the stronger your strength will be and the more times you will be resurrected.
And if you want to kill a spiritualized individual, the first step is to consume the spiritual thread."
"Consuming spiritual thread?"
"Yes... the spiritual thread has the instinct to continuously connect itself and restore itself. If it is cut off once, it will frantically try to gather and return to its original state.
This process is very consuming." Zhang Yunqi nodded.
"So, you will wait for him to fully recover before taking action?" Zhang Rongfang suddenly understood.
"Yes." Zhang Yunqi affirmed.
He picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea for each of them.
The golden tea slowly evaporates water vapor, filling the air with a rich tea aroma.
For a moment, it seemed that the heaviness of the topic they were talking about was diluted.
"Then, how many times do you have to kill Lingluo before you can kill them completely?" Zhang Rongfang couldn't help but continue to ask.
"Actually, no matter how many times we try, we can't kill them." Zhang Yunqi shook his head. "Everything we do is just weakening their condition. Weakening the condition of the spiritual thread.
Make preparations for the final critical blow."
"...The last critical blow..." Zhang Rongfang suddenly recalled what the group of people shouted when they finally killed Lingluo in the forest.
The last time, that's when they had someone shouting.
Then everyone quickly dispersed.
"It seems that Sir must have thought of it." Zhang Yunqi nodded lightly in appreciation, "Yes, after a spiritual individual dies a certain number of times, the spiritual thread will be weakened to the extreme, and then a spiritual explosion will occur.
After the explosion, all the spiritual threads in its body will explode back, then kill all surrounding individuals, plunder their lives, and then return to the body to reunite and revive.
And this spiritual explosion phenomenon is our only chance to seize and kill these monsters."
"Spiritual explosion... did you take advantage of it to remotely attack the corpse itself?" Zhang Rongfang recalled the situation at that time and asked in a deep voice.
"Exactly. The spiritual explosion is the moment when the spiritual individual is at its strongest and at its weakest.
At that moment, they will explode with terrifying lethality, but they will also expose their fatal flaws.
And as long as we seize this flaw in time and use special weapons, we can kill it completely!
And this is the fundamental secret that we have spent countless lives exploring and researching.
It is also the fundamental secret that you, sir, traveled thousands of miles to come here to find."
Zhang Yunqi let out a long sigh.
"Sir, do you have the secret key with you?"
As soon as these words came out, Zhang Rongfang was suddenly shocked. He seemed to understand something.
"You are secretly hiding!?" He lowered his voice suddenly and almost stood up from his seat.
But even though he didn't really stand up, he still leaned forward and his muscles tightened slightly.
"To be precise, we are just the guardians of the secret, a part of it, and insiders who know some of its secrets." Zhang Yunqi nodded.
"Three keys correspond to three maps, corresponding to three secrets. And in each place, there is an absolutely secret secret."
These words made Zhang Rongfang feel shocked. It turned out that there were three copies of the secret.
"Did you recognize me because of the mask I wore?"
"No, because of the key. We have a special method to track the key on your body." Zhang Yunqi replied.
"Sir, there is no need to be nervous. The world today is full of monsters that are difficult to kill. Pure humans like us are far inferior in every aspect. Only by staying together to stay warm can we avoid being enslaved."
"I understand..." Zhang Rongfang took a deep breath, "I'm just... just a little surprised."
He carefully thought about and sorted out everything along the way.
"So, have you studied the number of times Lingluo died? How many times will they die before they reach their weakest moment?"
"The spirit guard usually needs to die forty-nine times. The spiritual line needs to die ninety-nine times. And each time, you must wait for its spiritual line to be completely restored before killing it to consume its origin.
Therefore, every time we kill these monsters, we need to work together and consume a lot of time and energy. If we are not careful, we will suffer heavy casualties."
Zhang Yunqi sighed.
"What if we don't wait until he recovers, but wait until he can move a little bit, and then kill him immediately? Wouldn't that be safer?" Zhang Rongfang asked rhetorically.
"It didn't work. We have tried this method before. I tried to kill him thousands of times with the spirit guard. But it was completely useless. In the end, he was still in good condition."
Zhang Yunqi shook his head.
"Only when the spiritual thread is completely connected and healed can consumption be caused."
"..." Zhang Rongfang was speechless for a moment. He only felt that this kind of spiritual individual was too abnormal.
and...
From the other party's description, he unconsciously remembered those completely unkillable liquid robots in the science fiction movies he had watched in his previous life.
"What about the high temperature? How about throwing them into the furnace or the crater?" He suddenly said.
"Sir, you don't seem to believe it. No matter what, after you and I open the secret, we will find out if we have the opportunity to try it ourselves. How about it?" Zhang Yunqi shook his head.
"I think so too!"
The two simply ate something, drank some tea, and exchanged various information.
Most of them were spoken by Zhang Yunqi and asked by Zhang Rongfang.
Many of the questions that have puzzled Zhang Rongfang have been answered here.