Chapter 19 An Internal Strife

I was considering the meaning of Zhang Chi Hang's coy smile just and did not understand what these people were talking, so I pulled at Liu Shuai. Seeing that I did not understand, Liu Shuai explained to me, "if I'm not mistaken, in that plane just now, there are a few people who fell in the same status as Zhou Yuan.” "They also lost their souls?" I couldn't help but remember Zhou Yuan's current appearance and shuddered. Zhang Quan responded, “Not merely losing souls, those people have gone further than Zhou Yuan. Their souls have been exchanged for the souls of monsters or goblins. Though such things like goblins possessing human body have happened in the past, those souls did not belong to the bodies, and host bodies usually lost vitality and died not long after possession. Therefore such an evil technique has always been on prohibition. However, if they have a secret technique to achieve confluence of spirit and body, they should be able to exert some kind of limit, and at the same time, live normally for a short period of time. “ I faintly felt that there was a connection between Zhou Yuan's matter and what Zhang Quan described, “so that night, they planned to do something else on Zhou Yuan body?” “Probably. There should be a soul of an animal being inserted to Zhou Yuan's body within seven days. This way Zhou Yuan would be able to live on without anyone knowing. Originally, Zhou Yuan's soul should be devoured due to a false 'suicide' outside of this law, becoming the blood food of some devil cultivators.” "So you're saying that if we want to save Zhou Yuan, we simply need to find an animal's soul and merge it with Zhou Yuan’s body?" I suddenly felt some hope. “Dream! Not even possible! Don't say such words again! " Zhang Quan could not help but be furious, while Zhang Chi Hang's expression also instantly turned cold. I felt weird furtively, but I continued asking without caring about Zhang Quan's persuasion,“Why not? Those people in the plane are all in that situation, ain’t they? ” “Young man, don't just think of taking the chance and getting things without effort." Zhang Chi Hang looked at me with a smile. His attitude was much softer than that of Zhang Quan, "if the method was so simple, why didn't Brother Zhang Quan mention it when you met?” We looked at Zhang Quan whose Zhang Quan's anger alleviated slightly, then turned to Zhang Chi Hang. Zhang Chi Hang nodded, “just explain to these juniors. This is not a secret, after all, so there is no cause and effect for talking about it.” Zhang Quan thought for a while, then said, “just like the Black Dragon said, demon souls are not under protection and can be caught by some little deities wherever they go. Confluence of spirit and body between a human and such a soul is very likely to cause a violent death. Furthermore, since demon souls are cultivated, even if they left host bodies, they would still be contaminated with the bodies' aura. If such a soul possesses a human body, even if it uses some secret techniques to force the confluence of spirit and body, it would still be incompatible with the Yin and Yang of human body. After a long time, the body will not die, but personality of the host would probably changed dramatically. After that, the host would lose all the kindness and do everything evil, even killing his father or wife.” "The Zhou Yuan you want to save, does he want to become like this?" Zhang Chi Hang looked at me. I immediately shook my head. I really didn't know that there were so many strange things about souls, so I gave up on this idea. "Mankind is the essence of all living things in the world. Those who defy the heaven's will must undertake the effect." Zhang Quan explained to us as he picked up the Immortal Tying Rope s from the ground. Only then did we took a close look at the silver round plates on the Immortal Tying Rope, which made us stunned that the two plates were actually one Yuan coins. “Are you too poor to use nothing but such items to make magic tools?" Liu Shuai couldn't help but twitch his mouth. “Son, you know nothing about it.” Zhang Quan curled his lips. He did not care that he was even younger than Liu Shuai. "Do you know why the magic tool of Cao and Bao is called Falling Treasure Coin when they were in the Immortal Granting Age in Shang and Zhou Dynasty? I have studied it for a long time and finally solved the mystery within, and I got the skill to make copies of Falling Treasure Coin of the past. I figured out that it is not feasible to use copper coins as we usually do. Instead, we must use coins from the corresponding era. Only if people consider it as real money does the falling treasure works. This is called the connection between money and deity. “ “Connection between money and deity? It seems to make sense..." Liu Shuai and I looked at Zhang Quan and immediately felt that this dazed master's words were somewhat logical. “Regarding the raw materials of these two Falling Treasure Coins, I originally planed to use them, well,” Zhang Quan scratched his head, “to ride a bus. I didn't expect that today's subway was cheaper than the bus, so I saved two of them, and they happened to come into use.” Liu Shuai could not help but retort, “so that’s the rest after you bought a subway ticket. Could you be more reliable, master?” I couldn't help but laugh. This master truly had a carefree personality, so I planned to tease him, “so does it count as the knockoff of Falling Treasure Coin?” "What knockoff? This is called reference." Zhang Quan was startled. Obviously, he did not think that I would ask him that question, so he could only forcefully hold on, "you can create all kinds of treasures as long as you have the ability and make a proper reference. There was no term like ‘knockoff' in a Taoist’s dictionary.” "I have been in Fu Tu Kang for many years, so I know exactly the meaning of monkey version. A small factory imitates high-end products of a large factory, creating a product of mediocre quality but extremely similar style. However, all of our products in Fu Tu Kang are authentic, just like the magical tools I referred—“ Zhang Quan seemed to be somewhat guilty when he said these words. He didn't want to look at me, while changing the topic as shifted his gaze towards the Immortal Tying Rope. Then he shouted as if he discovered something, “who did it? Who made this knockoff? Who?" Zhang Chi Hang followed Zhang Quan's gaze. He was surprised at first, but then he could not hold back his laughter, and laughed out loud, "Hahaha, Brother Zhang Quan, this is really an internal strife!” We stared at the Immortal Tying Rope as well, laughing in disbelief. On one side of the rope, there was a cloth with a few words impressively written on it: Made by Fu Tu Kang. Liu Shuai and I laughed until we fell. This time Zhang Quan had really made a fool of himself. He used his own knockoff versions of Falling Treasure Coin to take down a Immortal Tying Rope, while the later was also a knockoff. The most outrageous thing was on the item it said that it was made by Fu Tu Kang. I wondered, besides Zhang Quan's own work on his “Fu Tu kang third assembly line", was he aware that his own factory was producing such kind of thing? It was a joke, by the way. The point was, how could Immortal equipments like Immortal Tying Rope be faked by mortals, even mass-produced by a manufacturing company? None of us could believe it, and Zhang Quan even shouted that it was impossible. He insisted on letting Zhang Chi Hang call out the black dragon to get to the bottom of this. Zhang Chi Hang had no choice but to call the black dragon out. After entering Mountain Lojia at one moment and called out at another, the black dragon was ostensibly a little dizzy. When he saw Zhang Quan's fiendish look, he didn't know which sort of deity he was, but when he saw how arrogant the man was in front of Zhang Chi Hang, he knew that this guy was not to be trifled with. Thus, he obediently knelt on the ground. Zhang Quan didn't waste any words with the black dragon. He picked up the Immortal Tying Rope and asked, "What is your relationship with old Taoist Ju Liu?” Liu Shuai couldn't help but remind him, “hey, Ju Liu is not surname of the guy you mentioned. That’s his name.” But Zhang Quan completely ignored Liu Shuai's words. The black dragon was stunned by the question. “Ju what? Are you talking about the Japanese?” "Ju Liu Sun!" Zhang Quan took a deep breath and shook the Immortal Tying Rope in his hands, "only he has this rope. If you don't know him, how did you get this rope?” "Who is Ju Liu Sun?" I asked Liu Shuai. I seemed to have heard of it, but not familiar with it. Liu Shuai looked at the Immortal Tying Rope, then turned to the black dragon, and said, “do you remember a gold deity in Legend of Conferred Gods called Tu Xing Sun, a short guy who can make holes underground and travel hundreds of miles within? Ju Liu Sun is his master, and the Immortal Tying Rope is his treasure. “ "So that's how it is." I secretly shook my head. It seemed like Zhang Quan’s logic about issues in mortal world was slightly worse. I just told me that this was a knockoff. How could it be possible for it to be a belonging of Ju Liu Sun? It's as absurd as you seeing man with a knockoff iPhone and asking his relationship with Tim Cook. "But Ju Liu is not Ju Liu Sun’s surname —" Seeing that I did not understand these things, Liu Shuai continued his explanation. "When will you get free of external items?" Zhang Chi Hang shook his head as he interrupted Liu Shuai, "name is not important. Brother Zhang Quan is not surnamed Yun, but I still call you that, correct?” "What are you looking at?" Zhang Quan saw that the Black Dragon seemed to be deep in thought from our words, so he immediately waved the Immortal Tying Rope in front of him, "answer my question.” As expected, the black dragon took a look and said, “I am not acquainted with the person you talk about. I bought the Immortal Tying Rope you have in your hands from the almighty Taobao. “ I felt a little dizzy after hearing it. Was Taobao selling Immortal Tying Rope? I hurriedly asked Liu Shuai to take out his iPhone X. Then we opened Taobao and sure enough, there was a huge pile of them, but most of them were toys. No one would take it seriously, so we gave the phone to the black dragon. He then bit his finger and looked at each of the items on the list. I was wondering, how could there be such a cute black dragon? He even bit fingers when he watched something. After a few strokes, the black dragon points to an item and said, "that's it”. We looked at the picture. It seemed very similar to the one in Zhang Quan's hands, but it was written as 'No stock', and the owner's profile picture was black. We checked items in other stores and found that they were all toys. Zhang Chi Hang was a little impatient, "Have you finished reading? When you're done, go back and chop off the bamboo.” “Your Mighty ~” "That 's All ~” I couldn't help but feel sad for this black dragon that he met such a deity. Zhang Quan took the Immortal Tying Rope “made” in Fu Tu Kang and paced back and forth in the house, frowning. After a while, he said, “I have to go back to check.” With that, he took a step forward and disappeared, leaving Liu Shuai and I there. The two of us stared at each other. Zhang Quan's EQ was too low. It was him who brought the two of us to the Avalokitesvara. How could he leave on himself as he met with something, while leaving the two of us there to accompany a Bodhisattva? He hadn't even told him why we came yet. How could we talk about that?