I'm not a fortune teller.

Chapter 102 Weird things!

"Lord Shen, are you interrogating me?" Li Yu asked with a bad look on his face.

"I dare not." Shen Yuan said calmly, "To be honest with you, Your Highness, I have followed my grandfather since I was a child and have heard him talk about many strange cases. I have been very interested in these things since I was a child because of my grandfather's influence. The more unsolved the case is, the more it can arouse my curiosity."

"The case of Princess Jialin is the most suspicious and interesting case I have ever encountered, so I really want to find out the truth."

"Isn't it because Princess Jialin is your fiancée?" Li Yu said with a smile.

"I am not very interested in matters between men and women. My engagement with the county princess is just a family arrangement. As long as my family likes it, it doesn't matter if it's the county princess, the princess, or the daughter of another minister. It's all the same to me."

"Then Lord Shen, have you ever thought that this case involves the commander-in-chief and the princess, but there has been no clue for so many years. Maybe it is more dangerous than you think?"

"Dangerous. Wouldn't that be more interesting?"

Li Yu looked at Shen Yuan in surprise when he heard that. At this moment, a rare hint of fanaticism appeared in Shen Yuan's steady eyes.

"I didn't expect Lord Shen to have this side." Li Yu looked at him with a complicated expression: "Lord Shen's hobby is quite special."

Sure enough, none of these sorcerers are normal. I always thought that the Shen family might be an accident, but now it seems that this is not the case. It would be strange if these guys who deal with evil spirits all day long were mentally normal.
"So, Your Highness, are you willing to help me solve my doubts?"

Li Yu frowned. The other party was still polite, but he had a feeling that if he did not cooperate, the other party would not give up. He did not like these sorcerers, especially the Shen family, a thousand-year-old sorcerer family. He had no idea what methods they used and did not want to experience them at all.

"I don't know much."

"Your Highness is willing to share, and I am grateful to you."

There was a gloomy look in Li Yu's eyes. He hated such a passive situation, but he finally said what he knew.

"You should know that among all the princes, only the prince and I can come and go freely."

Shen Yuan nodded. Li Yu had a noble status and enjoyed treatment that other princes did not have, one of which was free entry and exit from the palace.

"My mother loves sweets. Whenever there are any new snacks outside, she will ask someone to bring them in. Many times, when I come across a new snack shop outside, I will also think of bringing some for my mother. Once when I returned to the palace, I heard that there was a cook who made snacks in the palace. My mother was very fascinated by her skills. She only ate the snacks she made for three consecutive months. Out of curiosity, I also asked her to make one to try what it tasted like."

"Cook? If I remember correctly, the Imperial Concubine loves sweets but she is very picky. No matter how good the dessert is, she will get tired of it after eating it twice. No cook has ever worked for the Imperial Concubine for a long time."

"Yes," Li Yu nodded, "That's why I was curious, so I wanted to try the taste."

"Then what?" Shen Yuan asked curiously.

"That cook was very ugly. I always hate ugly things, so I had no interest in what she served me at first." Li Yu recalled the past, a trace of solemnity flashed across his face: "But the moment she opened the basket of snacks, I changed my mind."

"Why did you change your mind?"

"I don't remember."

"Don't remember?" Shen Yuan was stunned. The other party shouldn't deliberately block him at this time, and the confusion on his face was not fake.

That means I really forgot!

"I don't remember what I ate or what happened afterwards." Li Yu took a deep breath. "I just heard from Qin Fang that I personally ordered the cook to go out of the palace to buy ingredients and make better snacks for my mother. Then I personally asked the nanny who recorded the trip to delete the record of the cook's entry and exit of the palace."

"Your Highness has forgotten everything?" Shen Yuan was suddenly surprised.

"It's not like he forgot everything." Li Yu smiled bitterly, "At least I remember the cook, but everyone in the palace, including my mother, has forgotten the existence of the cook, even Qin Fang!"

"Oh? There is such a thing?" Shen Yuan suddenly became interested. This thing can make people forget their existence and erase their own traces!
This kind of evil is really interesting.

Li Yu saw that the other party was not frightened but showed a fanatical expression. He sighed again in his heart that most warlocks were indeed a group of mentally abnormal people.

"But there is one thing I don't understand." Shen Yuan continued to ask: "The evil spirit is fine in the palace, but when it comes to entering and leaving the palace, it is different when facing the Four Spirits. Even if that thing has your help, it is unlikely to leave the palace, right?"

"That's what I thought, too." Li Yu covered his head. "So until today, I'm not sure if that experience was a dream or not. But later, according to the results of my own investigation, I did order someone in the palace to leave the palace."

So, it wasn't a dream.

There was indeed something that appeared beside his mother, and it could make everyone forget her existence, and it could also slip away from under the noses of the Four Spirits.

This made him realize that even in the palace, he might not be safe.

Of course, there is an even more terrifying guess that the Four Spirits are controlled by the Emperor. The fact that the monster was able to enter and leave the palace back then might have been the work of the Emperor!

This is why he wanted to compete for the crown prince. His father was not a simple person, and neither was the crown prince. Not only for the queen, but even for something else, he should have taken some action. Otherwise, he might not know how he died in the end. "Your Majesty, the cook, and the four spirits can make people forget his existence." Shen Yuan's face became more and more excited, "Interesting, very interesting!"
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"I do not remember"

At this time, Zhang Rui, who rushed back home, also got the same answer from Hua Ling.

The painted spirit who looked exactly like Princess Jialin was also bewildered when faced with the questioning. It seemed that she had no impression of the Princess, Hong Lie, or Princess Yunyang mentioned by Zhang Rui, as if she had lost her memory after being thrown down.

No one even knew how she became a painting spirit. All she knew was that she looked like that as soon as she opened her eyes. Since she was born, she has always obeyed her master.

"Forgotten, forgotten your entire life experience?" Zhang Rui frowned.

The other party's confused look didn't seem to be fake.

"Then why do you want to escape from the control of the owner of the painting?" Zhang Rui asked curiously.

"I don't know. It seems to be because of fear."

"Fear?"

"There are very few painting spirits who can have their own scrolls. I have a very good talent, especially in copying. The owner of the painting wants me to paint the imperial study, but my heart keeps telling me that I can't enter the palace, otherwise something terrible will happen."

"So you ran away?"

"Um"

"How did you escape?"

“I drew an identical picture of myself.”

Zhang Rui: “.”

He stood up and observed the other party carefully. A painting spirit that was only born three years ago could actually draw a copy of itself to deceive the painting owner. This talent
He had seen the introduction about Princess Jialin in the files. Princess Jialin was intelligent and talented. She did not like martial arts, but was very good at calligraphy and painting. She was especially good at painting and had been highly praised by court painters. Perhaps this talent made her feel at home after she became a painting spirit.

If you have such a talent, it would be a waste to decompose it now.

The function of the Thousand Machine Box is to use the spiritual treasures of heaven and earth to make spiritual tools. In today's world, the greatest spiritual treasure of heaven and earth is evil spirits. The Thousand Machine Box has the function of dividing materials. In the eyes of the Thousand Machine Box, evil spirits are materials and can naturally be divided into several parts.

It is also the main means Zhang Rui uses now to improve his strength.

By dividing an evil innate ability and total spiritual power, and then loading them separately using mild materials, most of the warlock's functions can be realized.

As for the problems of spiritual power and Dantian, almost 90% of them have been solved through the Nightingale Girl Zhang Rui.

The sorcerers of this era used the foundation-building method of the former Qigong practitioners to operate, but because they had no spiritual power, they would coexist with evil spirits. The evil spirits were forcibly absorbed and turned into spirits, which circulated to the eight extraordinary meridians and formed a young fetus in the Dantian, which is what the sorcerers now call "guiding spirits."

Eventually, just like the Yuanying method of ancient Qigong practitioners, the evil spirit's infant body is formed in the human body. Between the two, one has the method of circulating spiritual power, and the other has spiritual power, they form a cooperation, and 99% of the evil spirits in the world will not refuse to cooperate.

This is the system of warlocks today.

But he is different. With the Heavenly Secret Box, he can directly decompose the evil spirit when it becomes an infant, and separate the evil spirit's abilities, while the spiritual power remains in his Dantian.

It's like a cleansing operation.

Only keep the good things in the body and eliminate the useless things, without being forced to coexist and grow with evil spirits.

In Zhang Rui's opinion, this method is the true path that Qigong practitioners should take after the spiritual energy of heaven and earth dissipates. Even without the Thousand Machine Box, a capable equipment refiner can do it. However, for some unknown reason, the equipment refiners' methods were almost lost later, which inexplicably led to the rise of such evil methods as sorcerers.

But this approach also has a flaw.

That would deprive the evil spirits of their potential for growth!
The growth rate of evil spirits is much faster than that of normal cultivation, especially when they can kill without limit. If a sorcerer encounters a highly qualified evil spirit and coexists with it, it will only take a few short years for him to possess the abilities that the qigong practitioners have practiced for decades. This should be one of the reasons for the rise of sorcerers.

For example, if you want to decompose the painting spirit now, you just need to take her into the Dantian and circulate her, and then directly peel her off when she becomes an infant. Then her abilities and spiritual power will completely belong to you, and you don't need to use jade separately to seal her abilities.

But the disadvantage is that she can only have abilities at her current level.

This is the shortcoming of weapon refiners in this era. Unlike sorcerers who can grow together with evil spirits when they are weak, if they want to obtain powerful abilities, they have to directly fight powerful evil spirits to obtain powerful abilities and spiritual power.

Evil spirits can improve themselves by absorbing essence, blood, energy and resentment, thereby increasing their spiritual power. Warlocks can also gain spiritual power through this, but you can only gain it by hunting and killing them.

From a certain perspective, evil spirits and warlocks are herbivorous and produce their own meat, so I am a carnivorous person.

The ability of the painting spirit is very useful. Zhang Rui originally planned to decompose her, but now it seems that it is not appropriate.
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