Chapter 373: Insignificance (1563 words) |
The clerk did not truly understand the meaning behind Yang Haoran's words. Seeing Yang Haoran suddenly ask such a question, she couldn't help but show surprise on her face.
"Sir, how did you know? My performance is the worst in our shop. If I continue like this, I'm afraid I'll be fired." The clerk said with a worried look.
In response, Yang Haoran merely smiled, without offering any explanation. After wandering around the shop for a while longer, he left Yuan's Skin Emporium with Xu Meijing.
It was only after leaving Yuan's Skin Emporium that Yang Haoran learned from Xu Meijing how to wear this kind of skin.
This kind of refined skin is for the dead; the living have no way to use it. The method of using it is also very simple—the deceased simply needs to turn their soul body into Yin Qi, then merge it into the skin.
Once the Yin Qi merges into the skin, the skin will automatically swell up and become virtually indistinguishable from a living person. Of course, it only looks indistinguishable—if one were to seek pleasure from it, one would still feel the difference from a living person.
To put it bluntly, these underworld skins are somewhat similar to the inflatable companions of the living world. Before inflation, the companion is shriveled; after inflation, the companion becomes more three-dimensional. However, these underworld skins are far superior to any inflatable companion of the living world—the difference between them is vast.
The shop attendant Little Beauty they encountered at Yuan's Skin Emporium, including the two greeters at the entrance, were not living people, yet they looked no different from real people. This is something no inflatable companion of the living world could ever compare to.
In this underworld, in addition to numerous ghost attendants, there are also some ghosts who are temporarily unable to reincarnate. The value of these ghosts' existence is to serve the ghost attendants and the underworld.
However, they are only better than those ghosts—compared to the souls that can directly reincarnate, they still fall far short. Because they are a kind of ghost living at the very bottom of the underworld. Although they will receive the protection of underworld law, this protection is not absolute. If they offend an existence they should not, they will still meet the fate of their souls scattering.
No matter where one is, there are unspoken rules. The underworld is no exception. If one cannot make the rules, then one can only adapt to them.
However, what ability do those existences at the very bottom have to make rules? All they can do is adapt to the rules. If they do not want to adapt, then they can only be eliminated.
Xu Meijing's explanation gave Yang Haoran a detailed understanding of the skins sold in the underworld. This made him think of Xiu Juan—if he could bring a skin back for Xiu Juan, it would make caring for Xiaokang much easier in the future.
The only thing that left him feeling helpless was that he had no hell coins; the New Genesis Coins of the living world were useless in the underworld.
In the time that followed, Yang Haoran and Xu Meijing wandered aimlessly through this underworld. Yang Haoran opened his eyes to many strange and curious shops, as well as other Underworld Envoys like themselves and ghost attendants wearing skins.
Without exception, every ghost attendant they saw was wearing a skin. Here, ghost attendants wearing skins was like living people wearing clothes—a ghost attendant going out without a skin would be like a living person streaking naked on the street.
Because they were all products refined through special methods, as long as the ghost attendants wearing skins were young in appearance, they were virtually all handsome men and beautiful women—it was rare to see an ordinary-looking existence.
However, occasionally they would encounter one or two with identical appearances and figures, clearly having committed the fashion faux pas of picking the same skin.
The reason the two had time to wander the streets was that they had arrived in the underworld ahead of schedule, so neither was in much of a rush.
However, while Yang Haoran wandered to broaden his horizons and gain a deeper understanding of this underworld, Xu Meijing showed little interest, merely accompanying Yang Haoran and seeming to already have a profound understanding of it all.
After wandering for an entire day and visiting many streets and shops in the underworld, they had only explored an extremely small portion of the area.
If Xu Meijing had not become truly unwilling to continue wandering, Yang Haoran might have wanted to see a few more unique shops.
In the underworld, there is no alternation of day and night, so there is no concept of daytime and nighttime. The only way to judge how much time has passed is to look at the time.
Since Xu Meijing was unwilling to continue wandering, Yang Haoran naturally would not force her, nor would he wander off alone, as he knew without thinking that Xu Meijing would be unhappy about that.
At Xu Meijing's request, the two stopped wandering the streets and headed to the square instead.
The square was large, but at that moment, there were many people. At a glance, it was a sea of Underworld Envoys, some of whom were gathered in groups of three or five, chatting and laughing, apparently familiar with each other.
There were also Underworld Envoys who were levitating three feet above the ground, meditating and oblivious to the outside world. This type of Underworld Envoy was more numerous than the former group.
Yang Haoran and Xu Meijing were not the only Underworld Envoys who had arrived early in the underworld. The square was densely packed with Underworld Envoys who had arrived ahead of time.
The reason they chose to settle in this square was that the designated location was above it.
Xu Meijing and Yang Haoran found a secluded spot, and like the other Underworld Envoys, they levitated three feet above the ground and sat cross-legged.
Xu Meijing closed her eyes and meditated, keeping herself in peak condition.
Yang Haoran, on the other hand, did not do so. He acted nonchalantly, his gaze sweeping over the Underworld Envoys in the square. His face showed no change in expression, but his heart was deeply shaken.
From the bodies of these Underworld Envoys, he sensed powerful waves of force, far surpassing his own. Some Underworld Envoys even emanated a force that not only left him shaken but also filled him with an irresistible sense of danger!
Although they were all Underworld Envoys and Burial Masters, the gap was so vast that it dealt a significant blow to his inner self.
In Lecheng, there were not many people who could threaten him. However, now, he could not threaten many, yet those who could threaten him were everywhere.
Among the Underworld Envoys he could potentially threaten, there might be some who were hiding their true strength. If those were excluded, the number of people he could threaten would be even smaller.
Just because he could hold his own in Lecheng did not mean he could do the same throughout the New Genesis World. Lecheng was merely a small county town, and there were tens of thousands of such small towns across the Four Continents, let alone the entire New Genesis World. A tiny place like Lecheng meant nothing.
At that moment, Yang Haoran deeply felt his own insignificance and realized how weak his strength truly was.
However, he did not belittle himself. After all, he had become a Burial Master for less than a year, so it was natural for veteran Burial Masters to surpass him in strength.
Instead of feeling dejected, he felt motivated. These powerful Burial Masters were his current targets to surpass, and he would achieve this goal in the shortest possible time.
Taking a deep breath, Yang Haoran calmed his emotions and cleared his mind of all distractions. Finally, like Xu Meijing, he closed his eyes and maintained his peak state.
Time ticked by, and the number of Underworld Envoys in the square grew. After an unknown period, a disturbance suddenly emerged in the space above the square.
The appearance of this disturbance immediately caught the attention of all the Underworld Envoys. Those who were conversing fell silent, and those who were meditating opened their eyes.
Yang Haoran and Xu Meijing also opened their eyes at that moment and looked up at the space above the square.
Under Yang Haoran's gaze, the space above actually began to distort slightly, and the disturbance grew stronger.
A moment later, the space above the square was divided into four regions by a powerful force, with each region containing large characters formed by Yin spirit power, indicating the names of the Four Continents.
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