World Occult User Guide

The ancestor spirits did not dare to speak. In the silence, Lin An noticed something strange.

Something even more "lively" happened.

The scattered fireflies rolled and twisted, and the yellow tails on their backs seemed to have become corrosive.

The body first turned golden red, then turned black, and finally turned into pools of fluorescent juice, which dripped down the wall.

The tent where the ancestral spirits gather hangs alone in the jungle, and it is decorated like a normal place for people to live.

Lin An thought of what the great elder said, "The founder of the totem does not belong to any tribe and is alone." He felt that this was most likely the residence of "Zai".

Therefore, when he was invisible, in addition to listening to the six ancestral spirits discussing how to "slaughter the members of the Spotted Lion Tribe," Lin An was also observing the situation in the house, and finally discovered something unusual.

Although in the vent mode, the tent only has six visible strong light spots, there are vaguely strange energy fluctuations lingering in their centers, which come and go.

This strangeness is inseparable from the visionary Zai.

After some searching, Lin An locked the jar containing fireflies in the house. Either Zai's body was hidden in it, or he stored his energy in it.

The other party did not notice the invisible Lin An, so the latter decided to strike preemptively.

Lin An crushed the jar with his foot. The fireflies were frightened and panicked. Zai's energy fluctuations became more and more obvious, but they were still hazy and illusory, as if they existed in another space.

This surprised Lin An.

All the mystics he had seen before, regardless of medium or rating, had a lockable "body".

But Zai was a floating mass of energy, and Lin An wasn't even sure if he was a real living person.

Suddenly, a flash of light flashed through his mind, and Lin An thought of two possibilities.

Firstly, the mysteries of Nanzhou tend to be pure souls, and secondly, after Adelia's ritual in Ditri City, the chakras further expanded, raising the upper limit of the radiation value of all mystics.

Unlike the system that is slightly separate from Lin An, when the radiation value of the mystics increases, their essence will also change subtly.

The higher the radiation value, the more the molecular structure of the human body deviates from human physiology.

In layman's terms, you get more "passive abilities".

Zay’s ambiguous presence illustrates this pattern perfectly.

Lin An couldn't "see" him with his own eyes, but he was suddenly attacked and his strength suddenly weakened.

As the entire tent was transformed into a metallic mass by the Philosopher's Stone, Zay found that he could not escape.

In desperation, he had no choice but to launch an offensive against Lin An.

The folk tune sounded in Lin An's ears. Its performance was full of affection, and the sound was pleasing to the ear. The notes seemed to carry the heavy history of hundreds of thousands of years.

That history is unrecorded and unknown.

The song revealed deep depression, and Lin An saw a strange thing crawling out of the darkness.

His body was shriveled and slender, his ribs protruded abnormally, he had blind eyes like glass beads, his neck and face were covered with long feathers, with fireflies, earthworms and spiders crawling around inside.

The blind man has no arms and only a pair of bony wings, as if he is undergoing the process of transforming from a skeleton into a bird.

The founder of totem, Zai!

Lin An frowned as thoughts flashed through his mind.

"System, use the [Ritual of Expelling Souls] from "The Mysterious Encyclopedia Volume 1"!"

"The target does not exist. Do you want to move to the remaining targets?" The system's mechanical sound gave an incorrect prompt.

The so-called remaining targets were the remaining six ancestral spirits. Lin An narrowed his eyes and removed the activation of the He Antimony Ceremony.

Even if he comes face to face with Zai’s true form, he cannot “see” this dreamer with his own eyes...

Although he was unable to kill him, Zai, who noticed the aura of He Antimony's ritual, was so frightened that his feathers stood up and he struck at Lin An with a pair of wings.

"Wow!"

The cool breeze blew across his face, and Lin An felt a dull pain in the depths of his brain. He used [Unaffected Ship] as usual, and then the abnormal state was lifted.

With his vision clear, he looked closely and found a group of ferocious-looking soldiers standing in front of him.

The scene changed completely. The sun was blazing. The soldiers swung their sticks and hit the heads of a group of fleeing civilians without thinking. They beat the women until they turned into a swarm of worms rolling on the ground.

The men were tied to the execution pole, with the endless rainforest behind them and a row of soldiers with guns in front.

"Fire!" someone ordered.

The soldier pulled the trigger, flashing white light passed by and smoke burned. Lin An subconsciously blocked it with the back of his hand. When he took it away again, the scene changed again.

Zai scratched the Hebrew words that protected Lin An with a pair of claws, setting off a rolling heat wave. The two of them were suddenly in the clouds, and then suddenly fell. The world was strange and shapeless.

Lin An understood that this was an illusion that Zai had invaded and enveloped him. While maintaining the mysterious technique of the "Presiding Judge", he was locating the shattered and torn reality.

Time seemed to stand still, and the dull faces of the six ancestor spirits were cut into small pieces.

The light and shadow of fireflies flickered endlessly in their eyes, scattered like stars, unable to focus and difficult to capture.

The madness of the "Dreamer" continues, and Lin An is dragged into a world of violence by Zai.

Famine was rife, people died of hunger everywhere, and beggars were thick in the city centres.

Children are dying of hunger, flies gnaw at their wide-open eyes; road traffic is paralyzed, drivers die suddenly behind the wheel due to high blood pressure, car exhaust becomes an accomplice of the scorching sun; house building projects are a tool of corruption for unscrupulous businessmen , the people of Li were displaced; the soldiers went on a killing spree, aiming their guns at the students, massacring them wantonly.

There are frequent riots across the country!

The prison was overcrowded and the stench of feces and blood was unbearable.

Zai flicked his paws, flapped his wings, and came from the city to the city on the other side.

The powerful dignitaries feasted and feasted all day long, their sweat exuding the strong smell of alcohol.

The band performed hard and coquettishly incorporated the name of the sponsor into the song; the leftovers splashed on the shiny ground, and the guests trampled on them without restraint.

Armored vehicles loaded with soldiers rumbled into the city, coups continued, and a lull was followed by a new war.

"quack!"

Zay grew a beak and spit out an endless string of rosary beads.

Each bead represents a successful assassination of a head of state; a mysterious number of attempted coups; and a sentence of execution in the early hours of the morning.

He led Lin An into a history that was extremely absurd but extremely real. Like a madman with a machine gun, he mixed his past with mythology and drove it into Lin An's temple.

"Hiss la la...sss la la..."

With his sharp claws penetrating deep into the blue Hebrew protection, Zai led Lin An through countless hot and unbearable afternoons, and the years and months gathered together at this moment.

What a troubled place...

And if we continue on the normal track without making any changes, this kind of disaster will never end.

As soon as Lin An had an idea, the system immediately sounded a beep.

"The ideals of the Dreamer are everywhere in the Realm of Illusion. By empathizing with his dreams, you get the 'Dreamer' x1."

"Being irradiated by the 'Dreamer', your pollution level increased by 1%."

It seems the way to get a "visionary" is to embrace a visionary's ideas.

Now that Lin An has a way to reduce the level of pollution, he is not as nervous as in the past and limited his thinking to the behavior of a "knowledge seeker".

Rather, after witnessing so much tragedy and unfairness, no normal person would remain calm, and Lin An allowed himself to show a trace of compassion.

Fantasy can't solve any problems.

Lin An's eyes passed through the sea of ​​smoke and fire, watching the endless war cycle, forming a strange circle like an ouroboros.

The soldiers raised their bayonets and stabbed their compatriots in the eyes. The bombs exploded violently. Broken arms and limbs were scattered in all directions. Blood poured out in tears from the broken palm tree trunks. The limbs, intestines and eyeballs were mixed together in the wet bushes, creating a black afterimage. It disappeared in a blink of an eye.

The physical body was protected by the "Mishna", Lin An sank his consciousness into the statue of Hermes in the "Philosopher's Stone", and the sun and moon shone leisurely in the small world.

Pure alchemical energy swims against the current as Zai delivers the ecstatic vocals.

right here!

Lin An opened his eyes and grasped the corner of the illusion.

The air flow shatters the crescent-shaped curtain, the metallic color rises, and the reality of the tent is like a discordant note, forcibly inserted into this endless symphony of chaos.

"Oh!"

Zai yelled, and his wings were shattered along with the shattered illusion, leaving only half of his head.

The next moment, he aimed his double-barreled shotgun at his forehead.

With a "ping" sound, Zai's head exploded like a watermelon, feathers flew away, and the big bird died and deformed, turning into a puddle of twisted and squirming flesh, like a poisonous insect.

The baby is born from flesh and blood, returns to the human world, and begins to grow.

He looked at Lin An, with unconcealable frustration in his newborn eyes.

In the encounter with the mysterious man just now, Zai was obviously at a disadvantage, but Lin An couldn't kill him even if he tried.

"We just can't seem to do anything about each other."

After a moment of silence, Zai revealed this helpless fact.

Lin An's mind was racing with thoughts, but he didn't want to alert the enemy, so he just asked in a calm tone.

"Why are you attacking me for no reason?"

"You broke into my dream."

Zay pointed to his blind eye, seeming to find a dreamlike home in the darkness.

"I was an ordinary carpenter until the warlord kidnapped my son. My wife was lying in the hospital and my daughter was talking crazy words in the streets and alleys."

"What does this have to do with me?"

"I originally wanted to build a paradise in the rainforest, with no propaganda posters, no ethnic boundaries, and no political leaders. Unfortunately, there are traces of outsiders here, so I failed."

As Zai said, the baby grew up and turned into a boy of twelve or thirteen years old.

"Even if the world is about to fall apart, I want to delay the end as much as possible."

Lin An was a little confused at first, but then he realized that Zai might have thought that he was with the group of Flemish people.

"You mean the [Red Poppy Chamber of Commerce]?"

Zai nodded: "Outsider, you bleed the blood of invaders, but there seems to be an ancient connection between us. This is why I decided to talk to you."

"I'm not from the Red Poppy Chamber of Commerce." Lin An spread his hands, "You hate killing each other so much in the illusion, but in reality you have established an enemy indiscriminately."

"If you are not my opponent, you might as well die in the shadow of happiness." Zai showed no regrets, "You will understand what I say, my wife has a thorn in her side."

shadow?

Zai's messy words reminded Lin An that the mysterious prototype of this person should come from a Bantu myth.

The man in the mirror, also called [the man in the shadow], pronounced "Kishi", is exactly the text engraved on the stone during the ancestral totem gathering.

[The Man in the Shadow] is a resident of Hades, a mixture of ancestors who cannot return to the earthly world.

After years of living a monotonous life, they learned the witchcraft of possessing insects, crossing the river between life and death, and hiding in the shadows of people in the world.

As long as the sun and moon shine, their influence will not disappear.

[The Man in the Shadow] likes to fill people's brains with evil and weird thoughts, and long-term exposure will drive people into madness.

Local people will wear a palm leaf amulet to prevent being corrupted by the "Shadow Man".

While Lin An was thinking, wrinkles gradually appeared on Zai's lustrous skin. As time passed, he aged until his body stabilized and returned to a half-human, half-bird state. All kinds of bugs shuttled back and forth in his mind.

It turns out that this person is hiding in the "Hades" on the other side of the Karenga Line, separated from Lin An, who is the "living".

While hiding in another world, Zai could not affect reality, but this master of shape-shifting put the mystery into the carrier of insects, crossed the Kalunga Line, and remotely affected the earthly area through the shadow.

However, the more dispersed the energy is, the weaker his power becomes.

After the jar was crushed by Lin An just now, fireflies were flying, and the shadows were weak and chaotic, so Zai could not exert any stronger strength.

He will never be able to perform.

Lin An did not have the means to cross the boundary between life and death and attack Zai's body for the time being, but he thought of a way to "pull Zai out" of the underworld.

Although it was just an attempt and might not be successful, Lin An still decided to take advantage of Zai's weakest state after spending a lot of energy to regain his original form.

The two [One Eyes of God IV] that were included in the [Philosopher's Stone] light up. They are quite similar to the amulets used to prevent attacks from the [Man in the Shadow], so they may have something in common.

Sure enough, Zai froze when he was stared at by two ferocious eyes.

Like a corpse floating in the water, a thin film peeled off his body.

The opportunity passed in an instant, and Lin An controlled the [Little Man in the Bottle] to pounce on Zai who was caught off guard.

"The Encyclopedia of Magic II-The Naming Rights of the Animal Kingdom"!

Zay was immediately split into two, with a small part spiraling and injecting its core along with the resonance of the little man in the bottle; the other part scurried away, quickly returned to the underworld, and sank deeply.

Yellow petals are flying all over the sky, like endless butterflies.

Darkness came, blocking Lin An's vision.

When the light reappeared, he saw the faces of the six ancestral spirits softened somewhat, and the intricate and arrogant illusory space faded away.

The ancestral spirits obviously knew nothing about the battle between the two.

Everything happened in a flash, and less than two minutes passed.

Lin An held up his palm, and one-third of Zai's mystery was trapped in the [Little Man in the Bottle], causing some changes in the clear and lifeless eyes of the white-haired boy.

His eyes were dark and unpredictable. (End of chapter)