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Chapter 5 Fog Realm
  Realizing that I have returned to the starting point of my journey.

Ji Xiu's first thought was that there was a killer targeting him on the rooftop of the building opposite.

The fleeting reflection from the mirror proved his suspicion.

But Ji Xiu was not in a hurry to dodge. He knew that there was still some time before he would be killed by a sniper.

After last waking up, he moved around the room for several minutes before being shot.

It can be inferred from this that the killer on the tall building opposite is still debugging the firearm, and there is still a few minutes of buffer time before shooting.

He stood up decisively and went to the floor-to-ceiling window and closed the curtains.

After doing all this, he turned around and picked up the mobile phone placed on the sofa and dialed the law enforcement department.

A few seconds later, the call was connected:

"Hello, this is the Law Enforcement Department of District A of Starlight City. How can I help you?"

"There is a killer on the rooftop of Starlight Building who is sniping at me. Come and save me, otherwise someone will die."

"How do you know..."

"Time is of the essence, don't talk nonsense. How can I lie to you about a life-and-death matter? The penalty for making a false report is not light. There is no way I am joking with my future."

"Okay, your situation has been recorded, and we will arrange for the law enforcement officer closest to you to go check it out."

After hanging up the phone, Ji Xiu pressed the light switch on the wall, and the dark room was suddenly lit up.

Scanning the scene in the room, Ji Xiu still felt unbelievable.

He originally thought that after being killed by the man in black wearing a devil mask, he would take the body of the man in black, but he did not expect that everything would return to the original point, and his soul would return to Han Yun's body.

The same person was killed, but different results occurred. Ji Xiu thought of a possibility:
  "Red halo?"

There is one obvious difference between the seizure of the body after the previous two killings and this killing.

The killer wearing a demon mask has a red halo floating above his head. This may be a sign that he cannot take his body back after he is killed.

Analyzing along this direction, Ji Xiu thought of a possibility.

If he is killed by an ordinary person, he will take the other person's body and become the other person.

If he is killed by someone with a red halo above his head, he will return to the starting point, just like going back in time and starting from the beginning.

As for whether this conjecture is the answer, it cannot be proven yet.

After looking at the sacrifice ceremony formation on the ground, Ji Xiu was not in a hurry to find the answer. He stood up and went to the kitchen, took out a kitchen knife from the kitchen utensil box, walked to the door, and looked outside through the peephole.

If he guessed correctly, there was more than one killer who came to assassinate Han Yun.

He calculated that the time it took for the boy to be taken over after being killed on the execution ground was about one minute, but when he woke up from the body of the killer Li Tan, he had already heard the sirens coming from outside and quickly surrounded the building.

This proves that someone called the police in advance before the killer Li Tan fired.

Those who can know the killer's assassination operation in advance are most likely members of the Black Hole Killer organization who participated in the operation together.

The killer Li Tan who performed this mission has already become a victim of the mission.

So he had reason to suspect that someone outside was observing what was going on inside.

After scanning the corridor outside through the peephole and finding no one outside the door, Ji Xiu decisively locked the door, then pushed the dining table to the door and blocked the door.

If you go out at this time, you are likely to be killed, so indoors is the safest place.

After doing all this, Ji Xiu glanced at the clock hanging on the wall, then came to the sacrificial ceremony and squatted down to observe carefully.

In front of him was a strange circular pattern smeared with blood. The diameter of the circle was visually estimated to be about four meters. Complex patterns were painted inside the circle. There were eight symmetrical circles, and an extinguished blue stick was placed on each circle. The candle showed signs of being burned, and the smell of burned paraffin still lingered in the air.

This world is too dangerous. Ji Xiu just wants to return to the earth now. He decides to try to reactivate the sacrificial ritual, send his soul back to the earth, and live a happy life of lying down and collecting rent again.

Picking up the metal lighter that was thrown on the ground, he lit the eight blue candles in the sacrificial ceremony one after another.

Suddenly the candle lit up with a faint blue flame.

Arriving at the center of the sacrifice formation, Ji Xiu sat down on the ground and began to think about how to restart the ceremony.

There was no instruction manual, so he could only try it at will:

"The sky is full of spirits, the earth is full of spirits, all kinds of gods are about to appear, and they are as urgent as the law!"

"Om mani padme hum.!"

……

"Fuck, Avada chewed on the big melon!"

Combining Chinese and Western methods, he recited all the spells he could remember, and found that the sacrificial ceremony had not yet started. Ji Xiu turned his eyes to the scabbed left wrist.

"Excessive."

He directly scratched his wrist. Ji Xiu was afraid of pain, so he picked up the dagger on the ground and made a small cut on his index finger.

After looking at the formation under him, Ji Xiu didn't know where to drop the blood.

After scanning around, he decided to drop the blood at the center of the ceremony. In the novel, the position of the eye of the general formation is the core of activating the formation.

Ji Xiu pinched his index finger, frowned and squeezed out a drop of blood.

The moment the blood drops fell on the formation, energy rippled in the sacrifice formation.

Realizing that the sacrifice formation had been reactivated, Ji Xiu burst into tears with excitement:

"When I go back, the tenants in the three buildings will be free of rent for one month."

He was killed three times just after traveling to another world. He no longer wanted to treat anyone he liked in this world.

The surrounding space was twisted and swaying like waves, and white light came from all directions, wrapping his body.

The scene in front of him was distorted into a world shrouded in thin gray mist, and his body also turned into a thin spirit body.

Looking up, there is a black token hanging in the sky in the gray fog world. About one meter above the ground, there is a curled up spiritual baby suspended. Three white energy balls are floating around the baby, passing through what looks like an umbilical cord. Clear energy tubes are connected to the baby's body. The unfamiliar environment in front of him made Ji Xiu a little confused.

The plot did not develop in the direction he planned. He did not travel back to the earth, but appeared in this strange space.

What surprised him even more was that the spirit baby hanging in the air looked exactly like himself in the photo when he was a child.

With doubts, he came to stand in front of the spiritual baby.

He reached out and poked the baby's little one, and found that the baby had no response. He looked at the three white energy balls floating next to the baby.

The moment his eyes came into contact with one of the energy balls, a large amount of information poured into his mind.

Then, there was a familiar figure that came to mind.

This figure was none other than the law enforcement officer he had captured before, Tong Wan.

【Tongwan】：
  Redeemable basic abilities:

Firearms Mastery (Level: Proficient): Master the use of various mainstream firearms, understand the relevant principles of firearms, and be able to quickly disassemble and assemble with bare hands.

Upload your natal soul: 40 points of will power

Mastery of Cooking Skills (Level: Entry): Simply master the cooking and preparation techniques of food, and understand the use of some tableware and kitchen infrastructure.

Upload your natal soul: 5 points of will power

Hand-to-hand combat (Level: Proficient): Yu Jing's law enforcement trainees teach combat skills to quickly subdue targets by grappling.

Upload your natal soul: 15 points of will power

Investigation mastery (proficient): Proficient in investigation and counter-investigation techniques, investigating answers through clues, or using natural conditions and various technical equipment to disguise themselves to deceive investigation targets.

Upload your natal soul: 40 points of will power

……

In addition to more than ten basic abilities, Ji Xiu discovered that there was a special ability exchange at the bottom.

Special Ability: Mimic Clone (Trick)

Status: Inactive (the promotion path will be opened after activation)
  Ability details: Replicate the appearance of the original body and create a clone that can control the actions of the clone with consciousness within a range of 800 meters from the original body.

Activation cost: 300 Willpower (can only be used when the soul seizes Tongwan’s body)
  Uploading the natal soul: 500 Willpower (special ability: After uploading the natal soul, body changes are ignored, and the ability is directly imprinted on the soul)
  ……

The information that emerged in his mind made Ji Xiu realize that he seemed to be able to control the abilities of the person who had been taken away from him by consuming his will power.

The previous abilities are easy to understand and are all acquired through experience accumulation.

The last unactivated special ability puzzled him.

After thinking for a while, Ji Xiu thought about the specialness of this world and the earth. There are people with super powers called cursers or saints.

When learning about the world through the Internet, he looked up relevant introductions to superpowers.

There are two ways to acquire superpowers, neither of which is inherent.

The first is to obtain superpowers through the blessing of the Yujing Church. The specific method is not introduced on the Internet. The explanation given by the Yujing Church is that the power is given by gods.

Ji Xiu's understanding is that the Yujing Church has mastered a certain way to stimulate the human body's potential and bring extraordinary power to ordinary people.

The second type is natural activation.

This situation has only arisen in the past hundred years or so, when ordinary people suddenly acquire some extraordinary power as they grow up.

Since such extraordinary powers are not under the control of the Yujing Church, humans who master such extraordinary powers are called cursers. After discovering that they have acquired extraordinary powers, they must register with the Yujing Church, otherwise they will be severely punished.

Ji Xiu felt that perhaps everyone in this world had some kind of power hidden within them.

However, only a small number of people have activated the abilities hidden in their bodies in some way, and the vast majority of people will never have the opportunity to activate extraordinary powers in this life.

The "inactive" mark appears, which can be understood to mean that Tong Wan's body contains extraordinary power that has not yet awakened, and can be activated by consuming willing power.

Thinking of this, a new question came to Ji Xiu's mind.

What is willingness and how to obtain it?

Literally understood, "wish" can be understood as desire, willingness, wish, etc., which are generally related to the goals we hope to achieve.

After the information in his mind dissipated, Ji Xiu looked at the other two white energy balls.

You don’t need to guess to know that these two white energy balls represent the sacrificer Han Yun and the black hole organization killer Li Tan respectively.

Looking down at the spiritual baby floating in front of him, Ji Xiu was basically certain that this floating baby represented his own soul body.

After any ability is uploaded to the natal soul body, he can understand the relevant skills.

Focusing on the baby, Ji Xiu analyzed the situation in front of him.

At this moment, the black token above the baby seemed to be stimulated by some external force. The surface glowed with spiritual light, and a beam of light connected with the natal soul body. Then a series of information poured into Ji Xiu's mind.

[Native Soul Body]:
  Status: out of consciousness
  Soul strength: 8 (only the target’s soul strength 8 and below can be captured)

Soul strength upgrade: 100 points of will power.

Special abilities mastered: None

Remaining willingness: 2 points.

……

At the bottom of this information, there is an information box.

【Wish Force Collection Summary】:
  Latest: Completed the goal of wish power, placed tick poison, and obtained wish power: 2 points (Tong Wan)

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