Chapter 221 - If One Is Touched Deeply, He Can See What He Wants (2/2)

“So weird.” gold finger said, rubbing his forehead. “I must be stimulated by the man yesterday. I just remembered that I was recalling the man’s tactics that I underlined on stones. I was thinking about how I could defeat him the whole day. And this morning, I realized that my life would end soon.”

Hao Ning and Xiao Hong looked at each other, confused. According to what gold finger said, it seemed that he knew when his life ended very well. But he did not care about it. Why?

“You are right.” silver finger continued to say. “It was us who got you out of the hospital. Your soul has ended, and you died on the street. We even had no time to use the standby soul to recharge you.”

“So, Mr. Yi is really a talented person!” gold finger said. He did not thank them. It seemed like that what they did was just a small thing. “He even can make standby souls for us. And he guides us to put them into these soul refrigerators. This way, we can fulfill our wishes in the stone speculation forever without worrying about insufficient souls for us. He is really a genius.”

“Yes, I agree.” brass finger nodded. “Only with personal experience can we know that the pleasure of life and Heaven lie in the stone speculation. Anyway, we should thank Mr. Yi. Ok, as you are alive again, we must leave now. We even have no time to cut stones today. I have suffered a lot. I must go there now!”

“Hey, wait for me.” gold finger smiled. “Let’s go together!” added he.

After saying this, gold finger stood up, walking along with them.

At this time, Zhou Yuan shook his body. They appeared in the original place with a bottle in their hands. And the men had been in the places respectively where they cut stones.

“You…” Liu Shuai looked at the bottle Zhou Yuan held, screaming, “are you out of your mind? You risked your life to get it?”

“This is what I should do.” Zhou Yuan said. He almost fell on the ground. Liu Shuai lifted him. Hao Ning couldn’t understand what Zhou Yuan did. He gave him a cup of water and asked Liu Shuai, “what happened to him?”

“He just went to the place where gold finger was saved and stole a bottle.” Liu Shuai sighed, looking at Zhou Yuan. “You needn’t risk your life for that.” added he.

Seeing Hao Ning was still in confusion. Liu Shuai continued to explain, “the video we are watching happened half an hour ago. Zhou Yuan tracked the place through his power. And he went there to get one bottle. The tracking spent his much power. And we don’t know what is happening now over there. If somebody is in that room, Zhou Yuan may be seen. If so, he will be in trouble.”

“We are lucky enough.” Zhou Yuan waved his hand, tiredly. “Nobody was there. Xiao Hong, Liu Shuai, please check the thing inside the bottle. I have to take a break.”

After saying this, Zhou Yuan drank some water and lied down the bed.

“Are you ok?” Hao Ning asked, covering him with the quilt.

Xiao Hong checked him carefully, shook his head and said, “he is ok. He just spent too much power. He needs a rest. Let’s go to Liu Shuai’s room. Leave him here for a rest.”

“What is the bottle for?” After entering the room, Liu Shuai hurried to put away stuff. Hao Ning smiled and said nothing. He checked the bottle up and down. Nothing was inside. “How could they spill over the medicine with a light out of it?”

“Let me check.” Xiao Hong was the last one entering the room. Hearing what Hao Ning said, he grabbed the bottle and checked. His face turned serious after checking it. “So weird.” he said. And then he closed his eyes and said a mantra. The bottle trembled in the air with lights shining on the body. The mouth of the bottle shined dark blue light.

Hao Ning looked at the inside of the bottle through the mouth. There was a thing shining light inside. Hao Ning said, “Xiao Hong, you are so powerful to find out this!”

“I did not find them out…” Xiao Hong rubbed his head. He did not feel happy by Hao Ning’s exaltation. “This is the soul protection mantra Bodhisattva uses for the kalasa. I just tried to use it. But it works…”

“Soul protection mantra?” Liu Shuai said. He already cleaned up his room. He patted his forehead after seeing the bottle. “Wow, you are right. Clear Glass Bottle has a special function. It can protect souls from decay. But this function is useful only to the Clear Glass Bottle. And why the soul protection mantra used by Xiao Hong worked for this bottle?”

“Why?” Xiao Hong echoed. “If the soul protection mantra works for this bottle, that means that this bottle can protect souls from decay? That may be the reason they called it soul refrigerator…”

Saying this, Xiao Hong became more depressed. Nobody was willing to see that his family’s treasures were stacked on the shelves like cheap things.

“If it were a glass bottle, it would be ok. Right?” Hao Ning said. He remembered that Yan had a glass bottle once. Zhou Yuan’s soul was stored in it before. “I thought that it can protect anything. I remember that Yan once stored Zhou Yuan’s soul in a glass bottle.”

“It’s not protection.” Liu Shuai shook his head. “That is a small container storing souls. For example, one bowl of rice, if you put it under the room temperature, it will turn sour. However, if you put it in Bodhisattva’s kalasa, it will maintain fresh even after thousands of years. Of course, we won’t put rice into the kalasa.”

“I know, you mean denotes souls. ” Hao Ning nodded. Trained by Xiao Hong that afternoon, Hao Ning improved his understanding ability. “But why does Bodhisattva’s mantra work for this bottle?”

The questions Hao Ning asked made Xiao Hong more depressed.

“I guess this must be a fake one.” Liu Shuai said. “And it is highly possible when they made fake kalasa, they did not know the mantra. They must load the mantra unintentionally. It was just like you disintegrate a torch and assemble it again. Even you don’t know how to use the new one, but the one who used it before can use it again.”

“They are stupid.” Hao Ning smiled. “If they don’t know the mantra, why did they make so many bottles?”

“Don’t forget that.” Liu Shuai said, recalling what he had seen on the TV. “They don’t know the mantra, but they have the Soul Coin Material. I guess they added something special to it. As long as they added the Soul Coin Material, the soul inside the bottle would appear.”

When they were talking, a sound “Shh…” came out of the bottle. A crack appeared on the body of the kalasa. The crack became bigger and bigger. And then, the bottle broke into halves.

“Oh, it is just a once-only use fake kalasa!” Liu Shuai smiled, patting Xiao Hong’s shoulder. “Now don’t worry. We can say that Bodhisattva’s kalasa is much better than this one. It can be used for thousands of years. It integrates Sky and Man!”

Hearing what they said, Xiao Hong turned happy. He said proudly, “of course, it is made by Mountain Lojia Purple Bamboo Forest. It is not a common thing made by those common persons?”

Saying this, the soul went out of the bottle, falling on the ground. They looked at it. It was a naked silver finger’s soul.

“Err?” looking at the naked white soul on the ground, Hao Ning was shocked to step back. “It is a shameless soul.” he condemned.

“What are you saying?” Liu Shuai said. He did not understand what Hao Ning said. “What do you see?” added he.

Looking at Liu Shuai, Xiao Hong understood what was going on here. Liu Shuai had no power at all now. So, he couldn’t see the thing. To let him see the soul, Xiao Hong touched his head with one finger. “Ok now, you can see souls from now on.”

“Thank you.” Liu Shuai thanked Xiao Hong. Suddenly, he saw the naked soul on the ground. He was shocked, “hey, why is there a naked soul on the ground?”

“Soul with clothes?” Hao Ning asked. He wondered, “Liu Shuai, what you said is not right. Only people can dress themselves. How can a soul get dressed?”

“They don’t wear clothes.” Liu Shuai smiled and continued to say, “if one is touched deeply, he can see what he wants.”

Hao Ning, of course, could not understand what he said. “Tell me in one sentence…”

“Well, I just learned this sentence from others…” Liu Shuai felt embarrassed. “I just heard that there are similar concepts documented in Surangama Sutra. Zhang Quan also explained it to me in my dream. The clothes of a soul are related to this concept. But I did not learn much about it. Xiao Hong, can you explain it for us?”

“No. Leave me alone.” Looking at the naked soul on the ground, Xiao Hong smiled bitterly. “I even can’t understand the math in middle school. How can I explain the concept of inner value?”

“One of you is a child of an Immortal, and the other one is an immortal. You don’t know about this?” Hao Ning mocked. “Shame on you two.”

“Ha, ha. Hao Ning, what you said is nonsense, but it is a truth!” Liu Shuai laughed. “As we are immortals, it is natural we don’t understand our nature.”

“What?” Hao Ning couldn’t understand again.

“…” Liu Shuai intended to explain it in a simpler way for Hao Ning. “For example, you are a person. All your moves are driven by your cells and all your thoughts come from your brain. But do you understand how your cells move and how your brain works? How does your consciousness come into being? Or let me ask you a simple question. Do you know how your inspiration come into being?”

“My inspiration comes from a flash…” Hao Ning stopped. “You are right. Where does my inspiration come from? Many inspirations are unrelated to logic. They seem to come from nowhere. I have them when I am walking… What a weird thing it is.”

“Well, well, well. Forget it!” Liu Shuai stopped Hao Ning. “This is the thing Psychologists are interested in. They put forward many concepts like inner self, self, and super self. I just gave you an example. Sometimes, the thing bewildered us most is ourselves. So do immortals. So, leave it alone. What we need to understand is what souls are indeed and its transformation. You can see that a person, after he separates from his soul, still wears clothes. And his look is the same as the man.”

“You are right!” Hao Ning smiled. “I always have a question. If one did cosmetic surgery, what will she look like? The look before surgery or after?”

“This is not a big deal.’ Liu Shuai continued, smiling. “If one has a haircut, what will his hair look like after he dies? Ha, ha, ha. Only scientists like us will ask such stupid questions. Because what we ask really destroys the romantic mystery in theology!”

“No, I disagree!” Hao Ning continued. He insisted to find out the answer. He asked seriously, “I don’t care about romance or not. Now answer me, how long his soul’s hair will be after a person dies?”

“Err…” Liu Shuai bitterly smiled, rubbing his forehead. “I just told you. If one is touched deeply, he can see what he wants. From my point, it is about your soul that will turn into the way how your subconsciousness understands yourself.”

“This is idealism…” Hao Ning shook his head, unbelievably. “You mean that I can be what I want to be?” added he.

“What you want to be is not controlled by you. It is controlled by your subconsciousness instead. It is out of your control.” Liu Shuai shook his head. “Ok, that’s enough.” He turned to the naked soul and asked, “hey, there. Wow. I think this soul is a little stupid.”

Liu Shuai greeted this naked soul many times. No response from it. It just stared at the distance, saying nothing.

“It did not see us?” Hao Ning said, waving his hand before it. The naked soul stepped back a little. “It can see us. What’s wrong with it?”

“Well…” Liu Shuai and Xiao Hong looked at each other. Liu Shuai couldn’t believe it. “Is it like a baby written in Taoist Tao Te Ching?”

“Stop your nonsense!” Xiao Hong shook his head. “It is a high-level sense. It can be as delicate as a baby. But you look at this stupid soul. Is it delicate? Stupid soul!”

“It can be as delicate as a baby?” Hao Ning seemed to hear this sentence before. It was a sentence written in Tao Te Ching, describing something like the state. The concept of the primary baby was invented by a later generation based on this sentence.

“What you said make sense.” Xiao Hong checked the soul carefully again, leaving Hao Ning saying to himself. He continued to say coldly, “is it a baby body preparing for reincarnation?”