Chapter 29: The Sun's Deceiver

"Ri Tian, look up at the sky. Is there anything strange?" Fang Xiu suddenly spoke up.

Zhao Hao was startled.

"Strange! Where is it!?" He hurriedly looked up, but all he saw was a bright moon, sparse stars, and a sky as dark as a curtain.

"Xiu Ge, there's nothing strange in the sky. Did you see wrong?"

"Hmm, maybe I mistook a bat for something strange."

Fang Xiu's brows furrowed involuntarily.

Even those who have awakened their spiritual abilities and become spirit masters can't see the eeriness all around them?

Is it because Zhao Hao is too weak as a newly minted spirit master, or because spirit masters simply can't see the eeriness all around them?

Fang Xiu hoped it was the former, because that would mean he wasn't alone—there were others like him in the world who could see the eeriness.

"Let's go home and sleep."

"Go home and sleep?" Zhao Hao exclaimed in surprise. "Xiu Ge, our colleagues are all dead, and we encountered the strange. You're actually thinking about going home to sleep?"

"What? Are you planning to call the security officer?"

"I... I guess so. Strange matters should be handled by a Taoist priest."

"No one needs to be called. Someone will come knocking on our door. Since this world has strange beings and spirit masters, there must be an organization specifically tasked with dealing with strange beings. Otherwise, this world would have already fallen into chaos.

Speaking of which, how did you break the dream?"

"Um…" Zhao Hao's expression immediately became awkward at a visible speed.

"How else could I break it? I just followed the method you taught me, ignoring everything else and immersing myself in the film with all my might."

"Then why were you touching and kissing the air earlier?"

"What!? I was making those gestures too?" Zhao Hao's face flushed red instantly.

"Yes, not only were you making gestures, but you were also making sounds, and your pants were wet..."

" Ah! Don't say anymore! Xiu Ge, I beg you, don't say anymore. If you do, I'll really die of embarrassment."

"Then tell me what you experienced in the dream. Of course, I'm not interested in your dream. I just want to know why you lack the ability. Could it be that something went wrong during your awakening?" Fang Xiu said calmly.

"Really, Xiu Ge? Alright, but you must promise not to tell anyone else besides the two of us. "

"Hmm."

"Actually... there's nothing special about it. After I entered the illusion, I kept my eyes closed the whole time, and my mind was filled with the teacher's lectures. Later, I heard all sorts of terrifying sounds, and even felt cold hands like those of a corpse touching me. I was terrified, so to distract myself, I... I..."

"Did you take matters into your own hands?" " Fang Xiu cut straight to the point.

Zhao Hao's face flushed red as he defended himself, "That was just a temporary measure to distract myself."

Fang Xiu nodded, indicating his full approval of Zhao Hao: "What happened next?"

"Then... then, the sounds around me changed. They became Li Feifei's voice, very gentle. The hand touching me also became warm and smooth, so I... ..."

"Opened your eyes? Do you like Li Feifei that much?"

"Xiu Ge, didn't you say that if you see Li Feifei, you should pinch her to see if she's real? That's the flaw in the illusion."

"Did you tell the difference between real and fake?"

"I didn't pinch either one..." Zhao Hao said with a hint of resentment.

"What happened next?"

"After that, Li Feifei kept tempting me. I couldn't resist the temptation, but it's not my fault. Who can resist a woman wearing a school uniform, with a black silk ribbon bell around her neck, and horse oil-soaked stockings? Which man could withstand such a test?"

Then she started giving me lessons. As she taught, Li Feifei's eyes turned blood-red, and her mouth began to split open on both sides, all the way to her ears. I was truly terrified at the time, my mind filled with nothing but fear."

Fang Xiu nodded, indicating he understood. At the time, Zhao Hao had indeed gone limp for a period, likely out of sheer fright.

"How did you manage to recover afterward?" "At that moment, Li Feifei was about to bite me to death with her blood-red mouth. I knew I was doomed, but I thought to myself, 'I'm still a novice. If I die like this, it would be a waste of my life.'

"Even if I die, I can't die in such a humiliating way. So I made up my mind. I didn't care if Li Feifei was a ghost or not. Even if she was a ghost, I had to fulfill my wish before dying."

Fang Xiu: "..."

At that moment, he finally understood why the demon hadn't appeared after the dream was broken. Perhaps it was too ashamed to show itself, afraid of Zhao Hao, the demon slayer.

Zhao Hao saw Fang Xiu's silence and felt awkward himself, so he hurriedly added, "If you're going to die anyway, why worry about so much? In life, the most important thing is not to leave any regrets, right, Xiu Ge?"

"I think you should go home."

Zhao Hao: "..."

After that, Fang Xiu briefly instructed Zhao Hao on how to respond if anyone came looking for him. After coordinating their stories, the two parted ways and returned to their respective homes.

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Upon returning home, Fang Xiu was greeted by his gentle wife.

"Husband, you're back. Have you eaten yet? Would you like me to cook something for you?"

His wife wore a gentle smile, dressed in her usual moon-white silk spaghetti-strap nightgown, her fair, slender legs exposed to the air.

Seeing his wife as gentle as ever, Fang Xiu felt a huge weight lift off his chest.

It felt so good to see his wife again.

Fang Xiu stared intently at his wife's exquisite features, finding her beauty breathtaking—so much so that even photo editing couldn't capture it.

"Hmm, I'm back," he replied with a smile.

The gentle smile on his wife's face vanished instantly, replaced by a savage expression filled with greed and madness.

The speed of her facial transformation was so swift it could be called the work of a master of facial expressions.

"Look..."

Before his wife could finish speaking, a flash of silver light suddenly appeared.

A surgical knife turned into a blur, violently piercing toward his wife's fair neck.

A surgical knife turned into a blur and stabbed fiercely toward his wife's fair neck, filled with Fang Xiu's dark spiritual energy, with the pain ability maxed out.

During the time he had been home, his spiritual energy had already recovered, allowing him to control the surgical knife.

Just as Fang Xiu's surgical knife was about to pierce his wife's fair neck, the next moment, his vision went black, and his consciousness plunged into darkness.

When he awoke again, he found himself back at the front door of his home.

"Am I dead? The location of the death reset has changed," Fang Xiu muttered to himself, his face cast in shadow by the dim light filtering through the old stairwell.

"Is this my wife's true power? I never expected that after awakening her spiritual essence, the gap between us would feel even greater. This time, I didn't even know how I died. Indeed, there is a gap between the bizarre and the bizarre, and that gap might be greater than the gap between people.

It seems I was right not to continue exploring the mental hospital."

Actually, after the female doctor was scared away, Fang Xiu had considered continuing to explore Qing Shan Mental Hospital, but after thinking it over, he decided against it. It was pointless.

His strength was too weak, and he knew nothing about the use of spiritual energy or anything related to spirit masters. There was too much room for error.

The female doctor was merely the weakest supernatural entity in Qing Shan Mental Hospital, and he couldn't even handle her. How could he possibly deal with the other supernatural entities locked in the rooms?

Don't forget that several doors were open, and the entity manipulating dreams was one of them. The others were hiding somewhere else.

This time, he was lucky to encounter a dream entity without offensive capabilities, allowing him to escape. If the entities blocking the doors were others, even with the death reset ability, he might have been trapped forever in the Qing Shan Mental Hospital.

In the face of absolute power, even if you tried again a hundred times, a thousand times, or ten thousand times, it wouldn't make a difference.

Therefore, Fang Xiu planned to first familiarize himself with his own spiritual abilities, understand the role of a spirit master, and make contact with relevant organizations. After obtaining more information, he would make further plans.