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Chapter 879 Huangfu Zuoren's Years

"Huangfu, how did you see Alice? I should have hidden Alice away. Besides, your body-swapping technique is different from what I know. You only transferred the brain, so how can you see her?" Xia Shou asked.

The body-swapping technique cannot change the recipient of the information feedback, just as the sense of touch is only transmitted to the original owner of the body, and the same is true for vision.

Last time, Xia Shou also took advantage of this pattern and used a head-swapping and eye-changing trick to sneak into the funeral home headquarters.

However, Huangfu Zuoren had only had his brain replaced, yet he possessed the vision of a werewolf's eyes, which was quite different from the body-swapping techniques he knew.

“The magic is also improving. I don’t understand the specific principles, but anyway, that female national teacher has improved some things in the body-changing secret technique. That woman is a genius. I often think she is even more terrifying than Sprite,” Huangfu Zuoren replied.

Xia Shou immediately grasped the significance of this improvement, his eyes gradually turning from shock to seriousness.

Huangfu Zuoren seemed to know what Xia Shou was thinking and said, "That's right. The Imperial Preceptor Yadel can adjust the feedback target of the Body Swap Secret Technique. If she can master the Body Swap Secret Technique, then this spell will become the most perfect possession, just like in cultivation novels."

“It’s even more perfect than that, because it can take away only one hand or one foot, perfectly piece together all the best organs, and transplant sensory links,” Xia Shou said in a deep voice.

"Don't worry, Adel hasn't mastered the secret technique of body swapping. The law of body swapping is an inherent law of the history of the underworld. She can only make minor modifications to this law after it takes effect."

For the demons of the Avici Hell, this modification was undoubtedly a brilliant optimization, but Adel didn't actually surpass Yama at all. This is because Yama developed this spell from the very beginning to create the Avici Hell, and this 'flaw' for demons was inherently part of Yama's design.

Therefore, Xia Shou thought that the imperial advisor had actually deciphered a piece of code in the program set by Yama, the King of Hell, and made some minor adjustments.

Even so, it is already incredible. If she makes good use of this, she could command all the ghosts in the underworld.

The clash of two eras...it's terrifying, all sorts of unbelievable variables will occur.

"There's one more thing," Huangfu Zuoren suddenly said.

"What is it?" Xia Shou looked up at the other person.

“Among the ghost kings who went to the mortal world, there should be a woman named Maha Youpuxi. She is one of our people. She was able to go to the mortal world by infiltrating among those ghost kings in order to help us stop Sprite’s conspiracy. You have to tell the Control Bureau not to hurt her. She will help us in a critical moment,” Huangfu Zuoren said.

"Aren't you coming back with us? You probably don't have anything else to do, right? Why don't we just go back together?" Xia Shou asked, puzzled.

Huangfu Zuoren took a deep breath: "I have to go back, I have to go back, but I still have some things to do. I have to steal her original body. I can't let her original body stay in Sprite's hands. Otherwise, I don't know if she will suffer endless torment after betraying Sprite."

"You..." Xia Shou had a vague premonition, but he didn't want to ask directly, so he went around in circles, "By the way, why did that Maha Youpu Creek help us?"

“I get along with her fairly well. The Avici Hell in the Yama Palace doesn’t only imprison evil people. When this hell is still operating normally, it only pulls people from the human world who have committed taboos according to certain laws. There are many people who have committed even greater crimes for a righteous goal. They just made some kind of choice in their lives,” Huangfu Zuoren said.

Xia Shou discovered that Huangfu Zuoren had not only grown older, but his personality had also changed, making him appear more mature and composed. It was clear that the decades of the Scarred Era had indeed changed him a lot.

Moreover, his attitude towards the news of his father Huangfu Buren shows that he no longer cares about his father as much as before. There is generally only one explanation for this situation: that over a long period of time, the other party has found something more worthy of his attention.

In this ghostly underworld, in this hell teeming with evil spirits, he too disguised himself as a non-human beast and lurked among the wild animals, spending his days with mindless monsters. Yet, after so many years, when he returned to his original body, he could still converse with him so fluently. This phenomenon speaks volumes.

The way Huangfu Zuoren and that female ghost king "get along" is quite intriguing. Is it because they've been together day and night for so many years that they no longer care about their father's affairs?

Huangfu Zuoren glanced at Xia Shou: "Why are you looking at me like that? Aren't you going to hurry up?"

“No, I’m leaving. Be careful too. Also, you can keep this notebook for now. You’re closer to Sprite and the others, so the notebook will be more useful to you. Give it back to me after this is over.” Xia Shou tossed the deduction notebook back to Huangfu Zuoren.

Huangfu Zuoren caught it, paused for a moment, and then looked away embarrassedly.

"alright."

He remembered that his relationship with Xia Shou was not that great. In the real world, they were just ordinary business partners and not friends at all. But this time, Xia Shou gave him a very close feeling.

He's not stupid; he knows what's going on.

In all those years in the Scar Era, he'd spent less than two weeks in the present world. The only reason Xia Shou changed his attitude towards him was that his decades of persistence in the Scar Era had finally been recognized.
Although he never thought about being recognized by Xia Shou, and never cared about being recognized by anyone, he cared a lot about his persistence over the years.

All a powerless person like him could do was hide in the shadows for decades, recording what he spied on. That was his only value. He never thought that people in the world could empathize with his struggles and perseverance over the years.

But now, he has been recognized so "easily." Is it easy or difficult to change someone's opinion of you in two weeks, after decades of effort?
But at least, Huangfu Zuoren no longer felt isolated from the world.

This gave him a slightly meaningless feeling of being moved.

“If you don’t take it now, I won’t return it later,” Huangfu Zuoren said. He was just trying to make a joke, but perhaps because he hadn’t talked to anyone in a long time, his tone was rather serious.

He was about to explain when Xia Shou shrugged indifferently: "Then you can keep it. I'll borrow it from you when I need it."

Huangfu Zuoren scratched his head and coughed lightly: "...I...I don't really need to keep this. After this matter is settled, I plan to ask the Control Bureau for a confidentiality fee and then retire. That's all for now, you should leave quickly, and don't forget to pass on what I said."

Xia Shou, who had been talking a lot, said no more.

The most urgent task is to report this intelligence to the control bureau immediately.

The first thing: The strongest Rift King in history, who has already integrated the "dividends of the times".

The second thing: the target of the demon kings sent by Sprite is the connection point of Earth.

These things must be reported to the control bureau immediately!

Although he already knew the path from the modern era to the Scar Era from Kehen, since Zhang Heping was Spreadt's mole, that path was no longer safe.

If you want to go back...

"Do we really have to go back to find Sparrow?" Xia Shou frowned.

(End of this chapter)