As the name suggests, the ‘Soul-Catching Book’ was a manual used by the underworld’s grim reaper to catch and capture ghosts.
Like Xi Haihong, who signed an extra-curricular agreement with the underworld, she also has a book in her hand, but it was only the most basic level.
Its book cover was light gray, and it usually only updates the newly dead souls in the area that she was responsible for, so that they can send these ghosts to the underworld one by one on behalf of their master’s rights.
The book held by Gu Zhisang has much greater authority, which was at the same level as the ‘Soul-Catching Book’ used by Black and White Impermanence, and covers the records of life and death in the entire Xia Country.
In addition, it also records those fugitive ghosts who have become fierce ghosts and resentful ghosts and were unwilling to return to the underworld, so that the ghosts can match the identity information of the fugitive ghosts and help the ghosts catch these ghosts once they find traces of certain ghosts haunting the world.
The principle of the ‘Soul-Catching Book’ was very simple.
It was assigned by the King of Hell, but it was according to the laws of the human world.
When each soul is born between heaven and earth, a strand of soul power will be extracted by the power of law and then sealed in the ‘Soul-Catching Book’, which is equivalent to what humans call an archive.
From then on, whether this soul is born, dies, or reincarnates, every change in the soul will leave a trace in the ‘Soul-Catching Book’.
The ‘Soul-Catching Book’, which has the highest authority in the hands of the Ten Kings of Hell in the underworld, can see the experiences, past, blessings, and sins of a soul in all reincarnations.
At the same time, when the ghost messengers were collecting souls, they relied on this strand of soul power sealed in the ‘Soul-Catching Book’.
Once someone in the world of the living dies, the soul would be completely disconnected from the body, and the record of this strand of soul in the ‘Soul-Catching Book’ will change, showing its specific date, place, and cause of death.
Then the ghost messengers and grim reaper can sense the specific location of the corresponding soul through the soul power sealed in the ‘Soul-Catching Book’, and then appear beside the ghost and bring it into the underworld.
But there were always some ghosts who were too attached to the human world or had great resentment and hatred, and they would gain extraordinary power because of strong emotions.
They can use these powers to cover up their breath.
Once the breath is hidden, the ‘Soul-Catching Book’ will naturally be unable to connect with the soul body, and the whereabouts of this ghost will be lost, making it impossible for the grim reaper to sense it.
Such ghosts will be marked as wanted.
Xu Youhan, who was mentioned by ‘Jasmine’ was such a fugitive ghost.
Gu Zhisang glanced at the record on the ‘Soul-Catching Book’, which was written in a short line:
‘Beaten to death.’
She thought about it, stretched out her fingertips to touch Xu Youhan’s name on the book, that was, to touch the soul power that was blocked in the ‘Soul-Catching Book’ by the laws of heaven and earth, and try to ’empathize’.
The “empathy” technique in the Xia Conytry has similarities with the “dream-entering technique”, “soul-searching technique”, and “telepathy” in foreign countries.
All of them were to temporarily put themselves into this power by sensing the soul power of the other party.
In a very short moment, the Taoist Master seemed to become the person involved, and the deep memories, emotions, and even thoughts hidden in the depths of the soul of the same origin would be sensed by the Taoist Master.
The more powerful the Taoist Master is, the more information he can see and grasp in an instant.
Gu Zhisang only said “Let me calculate it”, and then closed her eyes.
When her fingertips touched the soul power in the “Soul-Catching Book”, Gu Zhisang’s consciousness entered a misty space, as if wrapped in a layer of smoke.
She knew that she had temporarily sensed the origin of Xu Youhan’s soul and successfully established a weak connection with it.
Xu Youhan hid his breath very well, and there was no flaw.
She was not more concerned about the other party’s hiding place now.
When she tried to touch the memory deep in her soul, some extremely deep and indelible memory traces came into her mind.
At this moment, the ghost hiding somewhere noticed the connection established in the soul.
Its expression suddenly changed, and the yin energy around it suddenly became manic, directly cutting off the subtle and imperceptible contract in the soul. Its pale and transparent face was gloomy and ugly, and its eyes were gloomy with resentment.
Gu Zhisang, who was cut off from the “empathy” spell, opened her eyes, and only a few seconds had passed.
She slightly raised an eyebrow. She didn’t expect that Xu Youhan was more cautious and smart than she thought, and could discover and cut off the spell so quickly.
But it was too late. Some of the leaked memories were “seen” by her for a moment.
After sorting out these messy fragments, as well as the various situations that happened to the husband of “Jasmine Fragrance” and his face, Gu Zhisang deduced the cause of the whole thing.
She looked at the camera with a complicated tone and said:
“In the middle of the previous month, you received a taxi order in the middle of the night and went to a vocational and technical school to pick up three students from the school and go to the new suburbs in the north of the city.”
“One of the three students was Xu Youhan.”
Recalling the appearance in the clip, Gu Zhisang described: “He should be thin, medium-sized, white-skinned, wearing glasses, and has a clean and handsome appearance. In short, he is out of tune with the other two.”
“When the three people got in the car, there were some conflicts. You noticed this, and you should also know clearly that the relationship between them is not good.”
Listening to Gu Zhisang’s description, the face of Jasmine‘s husband which was already a little blue, became even uglier, and his pupils trembled.
Why can this woman describe what happened that day so carefully?!
It was as if there was a fourth person in his car at that time!
He began to feel panic.
The double torture of physical and psychological torture these days has made him miserable. As he listened to those descriptions, the scene of that afternoon involuntarily emerged in his mind.
Everything was just as Gu Zhisang said.
It was almost five o’clock in the afternoon, and this order was his first order of the day. When the three students got in the car, he found something wrong.
The boy in the middle was fair and clean, but his hair was a little messy and his face was not very good. The young men on both sides were much stronger than him, and they almost carried him and dragged him into the car.
As soon as he pushed him into the car door, he glared at the other party and wanted to cling to the door to get out: “Are you mentally ill? I said I won’t go…”
But then one of them raised his hand and hit him on the side of his face and ears, and the crisp sound of the hit directly knocked off his glasses on his face.
“Don’t be shameless, you are nothing, inviting you to attend the birthday party will open your eyes, you are still putting on airs?”
After the young man cursed, he said the address of a villa in the new suburbs of the north city: “Driver, drive faster”
At this time, Jasmine‘s husband who was sitting in the driver’s seat had already frowned.
He knew very well that the boy in the middle was being bullied.
He could see from the rearview mirror that the boy’s face was red after being slapped, and the attacker had his arm around his neck in a coercive posture.
“Have you ever drunk wine? Have you ever eaten white truffles and Kobe beef? Brother, you look as pitiful as a frog in a well, so please be merciful. Don’t be ungrateful.”
The other young man was grinning and holding his mobile phone, watching this bullying farce.
The more Jasmine‘s husband watched, the angrier he felt in his heart because the bullied young man in the middle looked only 20 years old, the same age as his son.
At this moment, the boy silently broke free from the grip of the abuser, clenched his glasses in his hand, and said to Jasmine‘s husband with suppressed anger:
“Sir, please pull over for a moment. I don’t know these two people at all, and I’m not going the same way as them. They forced me to get in the car.”
“What the hell are you doing?”
The hot-tempered young man jumped up and punched and kicked the boy. He looked so fierce that he didn’t hold back his strength at all, and he wanted to beat him to death.
Jasmine‘s husband was frightened by the movement behind him. He couldn’t sit still immediately. He stepped on the brake and turned his head to say:
“Hey, what are you doing, young man? You can’t bully people like this. How can you invite me like this?”
“Who are you meddling in? An old poor driver is here to teach me a lesson?” The hooligan turned around, grabbed the back of the passenger seat, and glared at Jasmine‘s husband, spitting all over his mouth, pretending to beat him.
“Who told you to stop the car? Believe it or not, I will beat you too!”
Jasmine‘s husband was so angry: “How can you talk like that, young man? Do you have any manners?”
At this time, another young man who was watching the show jumped out to play the good cop, patted his friend on the shoulder, and said: “Uncle, don’t mind it, he is just a person with a loose mouth. We are classmates in the same class. We agreed to celebrate a friend’s birthday today. They had a little conflict and quarreled.”
“Don’t worry about them and drive quickly. We have to arrive before the scheduled time. We will complain if we are delayed.”
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