Eating bizarre things in public upgrades my status; the Special Affairs Bureau wants me to join them

On the dark stone tablet, blood-red cracks spread like a spider web from the broken top, and then, to everyone's astonishment, the tablet exploded...

With a soft hum, the stone tablet exploded, but it didn't release much energy to damage the surrounding area.

Countless fragments of black stone tablets...

It was as if it had fallen into water, suspended in the air, and slowly spread in all directions.

"What... is going on?"

"Did you break the stone tablet?"

Scanning the surrounding fragments of the stone tablet fluttering in the wind...

Situ Ji couldn't help but ask.

His eyes were filled with heartache, because it seemed that another treasure of his Emei had been lost.

He Li chuckled upon hearing this. He had simply found the stone tablet rather strange and wanted to see just how much force it could withstand, but who knew that after he unleashed a punch with all his might...

It just shattered!

However, the stone tablet was broken.

What's with these fragments? They completely violate the rule of universal gravitation.

How can stone fragments fly?

This is strange, really strange!

Thinking this, He Li couldn't help but reach out to grab the stone tablet fragment that floated to his side to see what was going on. The others present also thought and did the same.

They got the fragments, and nothing happened.

The moment He Li obtained the fragment...

But something went wrong!

Buzz! The fragment held in He Li's hand shattered into sand like burnt paper, and the surrounding fragments also turned into black sand at the same moment.

The black sand quickly converged on He Li.

And with lightning speed, it quickly penetrated into his flesh and blood, and even his meridians.

Everyone present could clearly see that He Li's meridians appeared as if they had been dyed black with ink, showing under his skin, making him look exceptionally sinister.

The crowd was surprised and hesitant, and involuntarily stepped back...

"What exactly happened?"

"What...what's wrong with him?"

"Is there something wrong with those fragments of the stone tablet?"

"But nothing happened when we got the fragments? This... his condition seems a bit bad."

"What should we do?"

"If something happens to He Li here, we can't afford to be held accountable by the higher-ups..."

"...There's no other way but to take a look first."

"I hope he's alright."

"Otherwise, none of us will escape unscathed!"

As they watched He Li, whose body was gradually enveloped in black mist and whose eyes emitted an unusual silver-gray light, Yang Jian and the others were filled with unease, fearing that something might happen to He Li here.

Seeing this, Situ Ji no longer cared about the stone tablet being broken by He Li.

After all, the stone tablet isn't important.

But if He Li were to get into trouble here, then he... and even the entire Emei Sect would suffer the consequences.

"Is this kid some kind of plague god?"

"How can they cause so much trouble?"

"How long has he been in Emei?"

"In less than half a day, he caused chaos in Emei, losing two treasures. Not only that, he might kill himself and bring annihilation to Emei..."

"Damn it... what a disaster!!!"

Situ Ji was devastated.

He no longer wants to curry favor with He Li.

He just wanted this plague god to get lost.

Let him stay in Emei any longer...

God knows what else might happen.

At this moment, He Li's body was somewhat dazed from absorbing the consciousness of the black sand.

In that daze, he seemed to see many monsters he had killed around him, the figures of Emei disciples swaying, and countless piles of white bones.

"What exactly is this...?" He Li frowned.

Before he could figure out what was going on, a whisper suddenly echoed in his mind...

The ravenous monster devoured the Soul Monument...

Your perspective will no longer be ordinary...

[Your supernatural power has changed; a new Great Dao supernatural power has emerged: Hungry Ghost Vision!]

"Hungry Ghost Vision: With this supernatural power, you can observe and trespass into the afterlife, touch the lingering consciousnesses of the dead, and devour them to strengthen your soul!"

Ok? ? ?

Can supernatural powers give rise to new supernatural powers?

The afterlife? A wandering consciousness?

This seems interesting.

As the whispers appeared and disappeared briefly, He Li's consciousness gradually returned to normal.

His meridians have also returned to normal.

When He Li came to his senses, he realized that everyone around him was looking at him with suspicion and uncertainty, and Yu Ji, Zhao Hu, Yang Jian and others were full of worry.

Seeing that He Li's abnormal state had subsided, Yu Ji, who seemed to have regained consciousness, hurriedly stepped forward, showing great concern...

"How are you? What happened just now?"

"Are you... alright?"

Others gathered around when they saw this.

He Li shook his head after hearing this: "It's nothing, not only is it nothing, but there was also an unexpected gain."

"An unexpected gain?" Yu Ji asked suspiciously.

He Li shook his head and didn't say anything more.

He simply asked, "Have you ever heard of the Soul Stele?"

"And...the lingering consciousness after death?"

"Soul Tablet? No!" Yu Ji shook his head, then added, "As for the lingering consciousness after death? I have heard of that... As far as I know, there used to be a theory..."

"After a living being dies, its soul ascends and its consciousness descends, corresponding to the heavens and the underworld."

"The soul dissipates and returns to heaven."

"It will transform into some kind of energy and give back to the world."

"Consciousness then sinks and reincarnates..."

"Wandering consciousness refers to consciousness that is not in the cycle of reincarnation or has no way to reincarnate."

At this point, Yu Ji seemed a little puzzled.

She didn't understand why He Li was suddenly asking this.

So after thinking for a moment, she added, "These are just extremely niche myths and legends and shouldn't be taken seriously, although it seems that the soul does exist now..."

"But the Heavenly Realm and the Underworld..."

"That's utter nonsense."

"If there really were a heaven, a hell, gods and immortals, there wouldn't be so many bad people in the world."

"There won't be that many disasters."

Nonsense? He Li squinted.

Whether it's nonsense or not is hard to say.

The existence of things like spiritual energy, supernatural powers, souls, and soul tablets, while not proving the truth of mythology, makes it difficult to guarantee that there is no connection between the two.

However, there are many things that even the top experts in Great Xia don't understand, let alone him.

With this in mind, He Li suppressed these thoughts.

He turned his head and looked at Situ Ji.

"About that broken stone tablet..."

"It's nothing!" Before He Li could say anything more, Situ Ji, who was relieved to see that he was alright, interrupted He Li and continued, "It's just a stone tablet for testing strength anyway."

"Even if we lose them, we can just find someone to customize other strength testing machines later."

Situ Ji spoke casually.

However, he knew that since He Li hadn't been negatively affected by the situation just now, he must have gotten some benefit from the stone tablet.

After all, he was the one who brought that stone tablet back.

As a result, it's been sitting in Emei for so long...

No one discovered the secret.

Now that He Li has taken the credit, Situ Ji is still a little jealous.

However, judging from He Li's performance just now, it is clear that the thing must either have the strength of ten thousand tons to shatter the stone tablet, or it must have other qualities to trigger the opportunity within.

If there's no reason behind it...

There's no point in leaving the stone tablet in Emei.

Thinking this way made him feel slightly better.

Seeing this, He Li took out the Qi Condensation Pill, the reward for winning the Five Cities Tournament, from the space of his ability "Purple Mansion" and threw it to Situ Ji: "This is for you as compensation."

"I don't want to owe anyone anything."

The Condensing Aperture Pill was useless to He Li.

Putting aside the fact that he's still far from condensing his inner core...

Even if it really requires condensing the elixir aperture...

He also had the Profound Aperture Pill from Kyoto, which was guaranteed to condense a pill aperture 100% of the time, making it many times better than the Condensing Aperture Pill, which only increased the success rate by 10%.

Therefore, Situ Ji didn't feel bad about giving this thing to him.

Situ Ji was quite happy to receive the elixir.

"Acupoint Condensation Pill? Not bad."

"With this, our Emei Sect might be able to gain another Xuanzhi Realm expert, in exchange for a stone tablet that serves no purpose other than testing strength..."

"Worth it!" Situ Ji thought to himself, and suddenly found He Li much more pleasing to the eye.

"This kid's got potential!"

Both sides were satisfied.

At this moment, Yu Ji spoke again...

"Shall we head straight to the city center now?"

"We've found out about the Tianshui club!"

"Master Mingxuan should be here!"

"Oh?" He Li nodded immediately upon hearing this, snapping out of his reverie.

"Alright, let's go!" With that, he used his spiritual power to wrap up Yu Ji, Yang Jian, Zhao Hu, and the others, and they disappeared into the horizon in the blink of an eye, eliciting gasps of surprise.

Looking in the direction they left, Situ Ji's smiling expression vanished instantly.

He glanced coldly at the Emei disciples and the elders, including Yan Qingsong, who had just been drawn over.

Although He Li has left.

But he still has to deal with this group of people...