Huai Shi returned home earlier than most people expected.
It was also later than some people expected.
Fang Shu, who was waiting at the door, bowed and reported, "Miss Ai came to visit this evening. She left after learning that Young Master wasn't here. She just told you to go to the astronomy meeting when you're free."
Huai Shi paused and couldn't help but scratch his head. "She must have caught wind of something …"
It was a perfect plan, but it was full of holes.
Shouldn't he be hiding his achievements and fame?
"It's true that he's hiding his achievements and fame."
In the basement, Crow shrugged. "You see, Director Fu just wants to mess with you, and Ai Qing may only suspect you for the time being. So, don't worry, we did it cleanly. There's no evidence. If anyone talks nonsense, we can slander them! "
"Where did you learn such a TVB way of committing crimes?"
Huai Shi rolled his eyes and sat on the chair like a salted fish again.
He didn't even want to move.
In fact, Fu Yi just cried for a while and wiped her tears away. She didn't lend him a shoulder to lean on, nor did she look weak and helpless. After rubbing her eyes, she raised her head, finished her cigarette, and left.
But Huai Shi still didn't feel good.
"You have to think positively. You're not the only one who lied to her, right?"
Huai Shi couldn't help but want to roll his eyes again. "You can't think that trust is cheap just because there are so many liars, right? Besides, if I … "
"If you didn't do anything, Director Fu might have gone, and her mother still wouldn't have come."
Crow looked at him with pity. "This isn't something that can be changed with a dinner and a meeting. Many things can never be changed once they happen.
So, put away your sense of responsibility, kid. It's not time for you to be responsible for others. Or do you really want to marry her for the rest of your life? "
"…" Huai Shi was stunned for a long time. Then, he scratched his head and said, "We're too familiar with each other. I don't want to make a move."
"That's more like it. As my best friend and brother, you should just do your duty as a negative energy receiver. It's not like I'm asking you to be a goblin or a bootlicker. There's no need for such a sad drama."
Crow looked behind him. "Compared to this, shouldn't we … inspect the goods?"
She looked at the small box on the table and rubbed her wings excitedly.
"Let's hope it's worth it."
Huai Shi sighed, opened the box, and carefully took out the yellowed fragment.
It didn't look like paper, but more like some other material. After such a long time, it still hadn't been catalyzed, which was surprising. Could it be some kind of magical beast skin?
"Don't think too much. It's just plastic."
Crow looked at him as if he was looking at an idiot.
"Plastic?" Huai Shi was stunned and could not believe it. "Plastic already existed at that time?"
Although it was plastic, Huai Shi took a closer look and found that it really was plastic … a piece of plastic paper?
Crow shrugged. "Alchemists are always up to something. Count St. Germain said that this was the essence that he sifted out of oil. It can be used for convenient writing and storage, and it's more reliable than paper … "
"Then how on earth does this thing work?"
Huai Shi was amused. "Is it some kind of peerless secret manual that needs to be practiced? Or do we have to find the materials to make the things on it? "
"It's not that troublesome. It should be said that it's a piece of cake."
Crow flapped her wings and the heavy Book of Destiny appeared out of thin air. It fell on the table and opened on its own. The pages moved without any wind and directly flipped to the middle. Then, a few pieces of torn paper appeared.
It was like the traces left behind after being torn off.
Huai Shi tried to compare the two and found that they fit perfectly …
It was as easy as plugging in a USB drive to a computer.
He let go of his hand, and the formula automatically fell from his hand and was sucked into the Book of Destiny. The two pieces of paper merged together as if they were one.
Immediately afterwards, the cracks began to close up.
Huai Shi's vision went dark.
He instantly fell to the ground, his entire body powerless. He only had time to curse.
This thing was absorbing his Origin Substance!
In the blink of an eye, almost all of his Origin Substance had been sucked dry. Immediately afterwards, Crow, who had been prepared for this, opened the copper box that he had hidden somewhere. The Origin Substance that had been stored inside quickly poured into the pages of the Book of Destiny.
It could be said that there was an ocean of it.
The Origin Substance of more than a thousand people had been used up in an instant.
Huai Shi was even more curious about where Crow had gotten so much Origin Substance.
"Look, wasn't it the Purified Citizens who were causing trouble a few days ago?" Crow laughed embarrassedly. "You were busy, and I didn't want to disturb you, so I sneaked in a little … …"
So you were the one who secretly stole their spoils of war, right?
Crow shook his head and said seriously, "I just picked up a few things that I didn't want. How could you call that stealing?"
"… …"
Huai Shi was just about to say something when his vision suddenly went dark again.
This time, it really was dark.
He couldn't see anything.
He had lost his heartbeat, and his pulse had stopped. He couldn't feel his breathing, and he couldn't feel his limbs or anything else.
It was as if he had been tossed into the deepest darkness.
Eternal oblivion.
Immediately afterwards, however, a spark shot out from the depths of the darkness. It stopped in mid-air and slowly grew in size.
It turned into a speck of flame.
The flame burned brightly, illuminating all of the darkness. Huai Shi was completely ignited.
He had turned into fire.
It burned vigorously.
The speck of flame grew in size countless times in the blink of an eye, then quickly collapsed and shrank. In the end, it was hard to tell whether or not it was actually fire.
It was just a speck of light, but it seemed to contain an entire world.
Countless changes emerged from it, constantly colliding with each other, bursting out bursts of light. It was as precise as a clock. Countless gear-like flames formed a mechanical phenomenon that was strict to every change. Tens of thousands of strands gathered in one place, finally forming a pure white flame that was so delicate and complicated that it was difficult to see through it with the naked eye.
It rose, extinguished, reborn, and even exhausted all of its changes.
It was as if they were drilling into wood, or as if they were being extracted by lightning from the sky, or as if they were rising after being ignited by a high temperature, or as if they came from a slight collision, or as if they were stimulated by chemical substances, or as if they were bursting out of the collapse of a star, or as if they were being ejected from the mouth of a dragon …
Huai Shi seemed to have been born countless times in an instant.
After exhausting the origin of all flames in the world, he became a part of the fire. He was a mass of plasma, he was an energy gradient field, he was an energy wave that radiated in all directions, he became a phenomenon after ionization … …
He seemed to be material, but also without a body.
He seemed to be a legend, but he spread in the mortal world, bringing light and heat.
In the end, Huai Shi finally understood how he should be named.
This was a miracle.
— — It was the embers left behind when miracles changed and were born.
In that instant, he woke up from the fire and opened his eyes.
He no longer needed to use the Dust of the Liberated. In an instant, he entered the form of a ghost and felt the flames of calamity spewing out from the endless darkness. But the flames that were usually untamed and difficult to tame now seemed to be a part of him, flowing tame and quietly in the crack in his chest, glowing with a magma-like light.
When he put away the flames, he finally completely transformed into the darkness.
Under the table where the light couldn't reach, he found that the outline of his legs began to gradually thin, like ink that was about to melt in water, gradually blurring.
The darkness became his coat, concealing his body.
"Good progress."
Crow nodded approvingly. "When you can stand in the darkness and disappear, the ghost's Divine Mark will completely become a part of your soul."
"Standing in the darkness, no one can see? What's the use of that? "
Huai Shi couldn't help but laugh. "As long as it's a little darker, no one can see it, right?"
"Then what about infrared night vision? Origin Substance perception? There were also countless probing methods available to them. The naked eye is just one of the most common and most easily deceived methods of observation. "
Crow's gaze became as if he was looking at an idiot. "Don't be so greedy, bastard. This innate skill is called 'Dark Cloak'. As you advance to the third step, you will become a Hell Walker. Once you reach the fifth step, you will become a Serene Sanctuary. As long as you want, the darkness will stand around you like a fortress, blocking all attacks for you … … "
Huai Shi was fascinated when he heard this, but this time he was more cautious. He asked, "Then when can I reach the fifth step?"
"That's hard to say."
Crow laughed awkwardly and looked away, changing the topic. "The Record Fragment can't only bring you so little growth, right?"
"There is more. Give me a Dust of the Liberated."
Huai Shi took the white crystal and threw it into the hole in his chest. The darkness that he was immersed in began to stir, as if an engine was roaring to life.
This time, however, not a single trace of flames leaked out from the Sacred Mark.
Huai Shi no longer tried to block it from the outside. He tried to suppress the scale of the reaction between the two — — in other words, the speed at which the Dust of the Liberated burned.
The originally uncontrollable reaction was now very easy to control.
He easily divided the Dust of the Liberated into sixteen layers, one layer at a time. The power was limited to a range that he could control, and the burning process was extended to its limit.
He estimated that the time limit was about half an hour.
Unless he encountered a large-scale battle, half an hour was more than enough for normal conflicts and encounters. The current him could even control the Dust of the Liberated to unleash half an hour's worth of firepower all at once.
More importantly, Huai Shi felt that the flames burning in his chest had undergone some kind of qualitative change, becoming something that he could not describe.
When he raised his hand, a pure white flame ignited in his hand.
From within the flame.
Countless pieces of iron that looked like dust slowly appeared, connecting with each other.
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