Cultivating Immortality from the Book of Life and Death

Chapter 465 Market Rules. (Second Update!)

As Zheng Que spoke, the black banner of the soul-summoning banner fluttered rapidly a few times, from which came a faint yet mournful cry.

Song Jiaoyin's expression immediately changed.

She wasn't afraid of being killed right away, but she didn't want to be enslaved as a ghost servant!
Moreover, the fact that she was able to mistake the other person's identity for that of a ghost servant shows that her current state is already quite bad.

She might not even need to use the Soul-Summoning Banner; if the opponent directly uses the Ghost-Controlling Technique on her, she would be in great danger.

Thinking of this, Song Jiaoyin immediately said, "Even if I were to tell you everything I know now, it would be meaningless."

"If you don't collect enough fragments, you will soon forget all the corresponding memories."

"Do you still think we've only just entered this 'strange' place?"

"In fact, we have been in the 'weird' for a very long time."

"And those who entered this 'strange' place were not just the ones we just saw..."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Que shook his head and calmly said, "I do remember that."

"When I first entered this 'strange' place, I saw the young master Yin Congyi from the Duke of Dingguo's mansion, with his four Foundation Establishment subordinates. Moreover, I also met Yan Dong, a fellow Daoist from Yinshan Prefecture in Hengzhou, in a medicine shop."

"However, there does seem to be a problem with my memories of my ghost servant, Xue Shuangzi."

Upon hearing this, Song Jiaoyin was visibly taken aback. Her gaze towards Zheng Que suddenly became incredulous: "You already have a 'law' on you?!"

Zheng Que remained calm. He did indeed possess a "law" within him, but he had never spoken of it to anyone else in this "strange" place...

In a flash, instead of answering, he asked, "I remember you said before that there are twelve fragments of 'Law' inside this 'strange' place."

"Everyone who comes in will get a piece."

"My current situation may be due to the fact that the fragments I was given were somewhat special, which is why I was able to remember those memories."

Upon hearing this, Song Jiaoyin immediately shook her head and said with great certainty, "That's impossible."

“The fragments inside this ‘strange’ object are related to the ‘five senses’, but they will not change our memories.”

"The reason our memories are lost or malfunction is because the fragments within this 'strange' thing are shattered and extracted!"

"When you first enter this 'strange' place, you will indeed receive a fragment."

"But from now on, everything you see and experience in this 'strange' place will only be recorded in this fragment."

"But you yourself actually have no memory!"

"Once this fragment is broken, you will lose the corresponding memory."

"If this fragment is extracted, you will lose all your memories of entering the 'strange' world!"

“You were a person just now, and you only had one piece of the fragment on you.”

Therefore, the fragments can only be extracted.

"Under normal circumstances, it's impossible to still have previous memories!"

"The only explanation is that you already possess a 'law' within you."

“The ‘law’ on you pieced together the fragments within this ‘weirdness,’ preventing that fragment from being removed.”

Break it?

Detachment?

Zheng Que's expression immediately brightened. He thought for a moment and then asked, "You mean, one person can only carry one fragment? If we want to collect all twelve fragments in this 'strange' thing, then we need twelve people?"

"If two people act together, it's like two pieces of a puzzle being pieced together?"

"If three people act together, then it's like three pieces being pieced together?"

"Now that we're all four of us working together, it's like we've already pieced together four missing pieces?"

"And if someone were to leave the group at this moment, it would mean that one of the four pieces of 'Law' has been broken?"

Song Jiaoyin's fingertips, hidden beneath her wide sleeves, twitched almost imperceptibly. She felt the inexplicable restraint loosen considerably, as if with the passage of time, the suppression of her by the [Ghost Control Technique] was beginning to weaken.

However, she showed no sign of distress on her face, and calmly replied to Zheng Que, "What you said is both right and wrong."

"Because it's not possible to piece together a successful whole just by having a few random people come together."

"Take, for example, the young master Yin Congyi from the Duke of Dingguo's mansion whom you met before. He and his men together numbered five."

"But their pieces were never pieced together."

"Otherwise, Yin Congyi's group would be the most difficult team to deal with in this 'strange' place."

Yin Congyi...

Zheng Que nodded thoughtfully. When he first entered this "strange" place, Yin Congyi and his five servants acted together. Later, Liao Zhanbo, a rogue cultivator who claimed to be looking for an opportunity to form a core, took the initiative to invite the three Qi Refining Level 9 candidates from Chongzhou to act together.

Finally, he, Song Jiaoyin, and Le Jingxuan formed a team.

Of course, this is his memory.

Given the current situation, Song Jiaoyin is not his ghost servant at all, so the ones who were truly acting with him back then should be Xue Shuangzi and Le Jingxuan.

Thinking of this, Zheng Que frowned slightly.

Liao Zhanbo, the so-called rogue cultivator at the peak of Foundation Establishment, refused Yin Congyi's offer to recruit him, but took the initiative to invite the three candidates from Chongzhou, and also invited Le Jingxuan... The other party probably also knew the secret of piecing together the fragments!
However, Liao Zhanbo never invited him from beginning to end, because he did not meet the other party's conditions for piecing together the fragments.

Zheng Que then asked, "How can we successfully piece together the fragments?"

Song Jiaoyin glanced around, her eyes flashing, and slowly said, "You don't need to know this question!"

"You already possess a 'law'."

"Therefore, you can use your own 'law' rules to piece together the fragments here."

Piecing together fragments using your own "law" of rules?

Upon hearing this, Zheng Que shook his head slightly.

His "law" could only piece together the fragments of Song Jiaoyin in front of him.

Other people's fragments, his "law," cannot be pieced together.

Moreover, if Song Jiaoyin knew what his "law" was, she definitely wouldn't have let him piece it together.

Just then, Song Jiaoyin spoke again: "In this 'strange' place, a fragment of 'law' is of little use."

"If the two fragments are successfully pieced together, we can obtain some of the memories contained within them."

"If more than three fragments are pieced together, one can use some of the power of 'Law'."

"As for four or more fragments..."

(End of this chapter)