Don't talk nonsense, this is the Emperor's Banner

Chapter 9 Desire
Seeing Shen Siyuan asking himself this.

Old Man Lu said with certainty: "No."

"Why do you think so?" Shen Siyuan was a little curious.

Old Man Lu didn't dare to hide anything and honestly told his guess.

He was very good at judging people. When he first discovered that Doudou and her daughter could communicate with each other, he guessed that the two must have met some master.

As for why it was an expert rather than a special opportunity, it was because he knew Doudou very well, who, like him, was wandering around his family.

The mother and daughter go to and from the same place almost every day. If there was any special opportunity, it probably wouldn't have happened until now. The most likely possibility is that they met someone.

The master was kind-hearted and could not bear to see the mother and daughter separated, so he allowed them to meet each other.

And just now, when he saw Shen Siyuan directly reject Jiang Wenxin's reward, he became even more certain that the master was a kind-hearted person.

Shen Siyuan smiled when he heard this.

"It's true that I'm a good person, but I'm not a fool. I help Doudou because she is innocent and kind, and her soul is pure. But look at yourself. Karma has aroused the desires in your heart, which makes you look so disgusting. So just because you say you are a good person, I will help you unconditionally?"

"But... no one is perfect... except for newborn babies, who doesn't have desires? And how many people have never done anything wrong?" Old Man Lu defended in a low voice.

"That's right. Everyone has desires. If you don't have desires, you can't be called a human. But the biggest difference between humans and animals is that humans can control their desires instead of indulging them. You are entangled in karma. It's obvious that you indulged in your desires too much during your lifetime. After death, you are entangled by karma, which arouses your desires and makes you look evil..."

Old Man Lu wanted to say more, but Shen Siyuan turned around and went back upstairs.

Old Man Lu didn't dare to stop him. After thinking about it, he could only wander downstairs.

In fact, although Old Man Lu was entangled by karma, which caused his face to show an evil look, his karma was not deep, which showed that he had not committed any serious evil in his life.

Shen Siyuan was also aware of this. On his way home from get off work at night, many ghosts could not even maintain their human form and looked very strange.

But Shen Siyuan is not a saint, and he will not help everyone who asks him for help.

He was already merciful by not directly waving the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to absorb the opponent into the banner, erase his mind, and either use him for his own control or use him as material to repair the Soul Banner.

Shen Siyuan returned home, took a shower and went to bed directly, without saying a word all night.

When I went out to work as usual the next day, I saw Old Man Lu still lingering at the door.

Seeing Shen Siyuan coming out, he greeted him from a distance but did not come forward.

"Good morning, Master."

Shen Siyuan glanced at him and didn't answer, but rode away on his bike.

Old Man Lu looked at Shen Siyuan's retreating back and did not follow him. He just sighed and continued to wander around.

When we are alive, we have no time. I didn’t expect that after death, the thing we lack the least is time.
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"Shen Siyuan..."

Shen Siyuan was riding when he suddenly heard someone calling him from the side of the road.

Shen Siyuan quickly braked and looked, only to see Lin Manzhi carrying a bag and jogging towards him from the direction of the bus stop.

Then he sat in the back of Shen Siyuan's car without any hesitation.

"Sister Manzhi, why didn't you drive today?"

"I went out late. I might as well take the bus instead of driving. Fortunately, I met you." Lin Manzhi said with a little excitement in her tone.

During rush hour, driving is not as good as riding an electric bike. Electric bikes are convenient and fast, and there is no traffic jam.

"Have you had breakfast?" Shen Siyuan asked.

"I don't have any either, do you want to come with me?"

"Sure, I was thinking of buying something downstairs in the company..."

Lin Manzhi seemed to be in a very good mood and kept talking along the way, but because of the wind, Shen Siyuan couldn't hear some of her words clearly.

Although Lin Manzhi usually speaks without thinking and dares to say anything, she is actually a very sensible person.

Although she was sitting in the back, she did not sit astride the car, but sat on one side, holding the corner of Shen Siyuan's clothes with one hand and holding the backrest with the other hand, keeping a certain distance from Shen Siyuan.

Shen Siyuan parked the car in front of a restaurant called "Xingchen Breakfast".

Their pan-fried dumplings taste great, and their soups are also very good. On weekdays during work, Shen Siyuan basically eats at his house.

"What do you want to eat? I'll treat you." Lin Manzhi said.

"Six steamed buns and a bowl of spicy soup."

Shen Siyuan didn't bother to be polite with her and went straight in to find a seat to sit down.

After ordering, Lin Manzhi walked in and sat down opposite Shen Siyuan.

"You haven't answered my question yet." Lin Manzhi put her bag on the bench.

"what?"

"I just told you, do you want me to introduce you to someone?"

"Sister, how old are you to start being a matchmaker?"

"Why not? Save yourself twenty years of detours. Don't change the subject. Just tell me whether you want it or not."

"What do you want? I'm fine living alone."

"You're already 26, you're not in a hurry, and neither are your parents?"

Lin Manzhi hit Shen Siyuan's soft spot at once. If his parents were not in a hurry, they would not have called him to trick him into going home.

Seeing that Shen Siyuan didn't say anything, Lin Manzhi asked again: "Why, you still can't forget your ex-girlfriend?"

"That's impossible. I don't even remember what she looks like."

Shen Siyuan had a girlfriend when he was in college, but they broke up several years ago.

"You're not saying what you mean. Let me tell you, the sister I'm introducing to you is very beautiful." Lin Manzhi said.

"Are you as beautiful as Sister Manzhi?"

Lin Manzhi burst into laughter upon hearing this, revealing two rows of white teeth, looking extremely brilliant.

“Am I beautiful?”

"Aren't you asking knowingly?"

"It's a pity that I'm already married, otherwise I would definitely consider you."

"Sister, please let me go and don't make fun of me. If my brother-in-law knows what I said, I will definitely beat him up."

"It's not that exaggerated."

Lin Manzhi did not continue the topic, but asked: "How about it, do you want to consider it?"

As she spoke, she took out her cell phone and handed Shen Siyuan photos of her sisters.

It does look beautiful in the photos.

"You are beautiful, right? I won't introduce you to other people."

"Am I that good?"

"Of course, you don't eat, drink, gamble, or smoke..."

"Sister, I feel like you are scolding me."

After breakfast, the two continued to head to the company, but in the end Shen Siyuan did not agree to Lin Manzhi's introduction.

As for why he didn't agree, it was not because Shen Siyuan didn't like her, but because the girl was too beautiful.

Shen Siyuan is very self-aware. At the moment, he is not worthy of the girl.

He has no house, no car, and no savings. What can the girl want from him? So she rejected him directly to avoid being embarrassed.

When he arrived at the company, everything was calm again. He was lazy and slacked off the whole day, sitting there all day. If inner cultivation was not feasible, Shen Siyuan would definitely choose it.

Seeing that it was almost time to get off work, Shen Siyuan decided to leave work later and try out the Ten Thousand Souls Banner on the way, but not to repair it.

It's not that he doesn't want to, but that he can't do it. Because from the memory of Jiuyou Demon Lord, he discovered that the souls of the dead in the wilderness are basically very pure, and they have few desires. Even if they do, they are the simplest desires, such as being able to eat enough, have a piece of land, marry a wife and have children, etc. These are the most basic desires of human beings.

However, as modern humans live a better life, they have more desires. After death, their souls are polluted by various desires and become mixed with spiritual power.

These souls were absorbed into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner. Let alone repairing the Banner, it would be good enough if it did not pollute it.

Of course, if he had magic power and the Ten Thousand Souls Banner was not damaged, he could use his magic power to activate the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to refine these desires and obtain pure soul power, but the key is that he doesn't have it.

Of course, there are also souls that are relatively pure and can be used just by taking them in, such as Doudou's, but because of this, he cannot do this even more.

You can't just let someone be a good person when he was alive. Not only will he not be rewarded after his death, but his soul will also be destroyed. This is a hellish joke.

So Shen Siyuan planned to try the Ten Thousand Souls Banner. He was going to absorb a few souls to control it and serve as his eyes and ears. This was also a natural ability of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and did not require any magic power to drive it.

Although he was just an ordinary employee, being an informant didn't mean much to him.

But when you get a "new toy", you always have to try it out.

Just as I was thinking about it, Doudou, who I hadn’t seen for a day, appeared again.

(End of this chapter)