Chapter 100 Devouring and Control (2/2)

”Every time he uses his ability,” Zhang Quan didn't even want to call Qili by his name but used ”he” directly. He said coldly, ”the part of the book spirit in his soul will become a bit larger. If he uses it a few more times, his soul will be gone.”

Then he turned to Zhou Yuan and said, ”at that time, your Theseus's ship will become another ship.”

”Gone?” Hao Ning asked in surprise, ”you mean, Qili's soul will be devoured by the book spirit?”

”Uh...” Zhang Quan muttered to himself, then looked at Hao Ning and nodded, ”You are getting the point. What a good method! Smart! I've never thought about that before!”

”What do you mean?” Liu Shuai asked.

”This man's original soul will be melted and devoured by the book spirit every time he uses his ability,” Zhang Quan continued to ponder, ”but the book spirit cannot ' digest' the soul, so it will inevitably gather at a specific place, and the soul can be extracted from there in some way.”

”Just like how alcohol and water fuse together,” Hao Ning's eyes lit up as if he had understood, ”and as long as this mixture is heated to 78 degrees Celsius, the alcohol will be purified out.”

”Err …” Zhang Quan was startled, then clapped his hands and laughed out loud. ”Smart kid! What a wonderful example you have given! I was thinking of how to explain the complicated process of soul fusion and conversion to you guys, but your metaphor is truly enlightening!”

”Smart kid?” Liu Shuai curled his lips with a face full of disapproval. ”He's the prince of chemistry. He got full marks in both the high school entrance examination and college entrance examination.”

”Please keep a low profile,” Hao Ning laughed, then asked Liu Shuai curiously, ”How did you know that?”

”You've always been showing off in the company. You even want the cleaners and the little kitty in the company next door to know about it!” Liu Shuai didn't want Hao Ning to have a sense of superiority, so he made a gesture for Zhang Quan to continue.

”After the fusion of soul and book spirit, the original soul's memories and consciousness would completely disappear if the mixture is purified by some means,” Zhang Quan pondered as if he was calculating, ”oh, the handler will get a completely pure spirit body! In the past, the cultivation methods of the demonic arts could only obtain the spirits of the wrongdoers. Although the progress of one's cultivation would be extremely fast, he had a great chance of going berserk during it. However, if one practice in this way, he will be safe and sound!”

”It's like a piece of salt melting in water, and then being purified,” Hao Ning thought along Zhang Quan's lines and described it with his understanding, ”the salt would be purer, and it would not even remember its original shape. It has been a completely new piece of salt, right?”

”Yes! What an intelligent young lad, ”Zhang Quan smiled as he looked at Hao Ning,” It's a pity that you can't cultivate mana, or else you would make even more achievements— ”Zhang Quan emphasized the word ”even more” deliberately. Liu Shuai looked out of the window and ignored him. Zhang Quan stopped for a while and then continued, ”and what is scarier is—”

Hao Ning and Liu Shuai looked at each other and hurriedly asked, ”Is there anything scarier?”

”If one's soul is completely devoured, he will either go insane, or become a vegetable, or a zombie.” Zhang Quan slapped the table as if he was both heartbroken and excited, ”at that time, the devil will be able to control this person with the source of the book spirit and accomplish his goals without being noticed. Then the devil will have endless pure spiritual energy for cultivation and have puppets controlled by him. It's an excellent way for him to achieve multiple goals at one stroke.”

”So, you are saying that the devil can control independent people with just a few books? How is that possible? ” Although Zhang Quan's deduction seemed perfect, Hao Ning still could not accept this conclusion.

”Hmph-hmph,” Zhang Quan sneered, ”it is said that books are the essence of the human mind, and at the same time, your society is built on what books describe. Law, economics, history, science. You think that you are learning the knowledge, but how do you know you are not constantly transforming your soul to adapt to the knowledge? You think that you improve after you study, but is it possible that it is just another kind of control?”