257: Paper control

Xu Le held the Beacon, and a lot of information naturally merged into his mind. With a thought, the Beacon turned into a ring and slipped onto his finger.

As for the overflowing Spiritual Qi, Old Ghost and Spirit Turtle watched eagerly. Although it was of great benefit to them, they dared not touch even a sliver of it. To avoid any suspicion, they even deliberately kept their distance.

Xu Le walked over and took a breath. Without a good way to refine it, and unable to meditate here, he simply treated it like oxygen and inhaled it into his lungs.

The cool Spiritual Qi circulated in his respiratory tract, and only an insignificant portion was absorbed. Fortunately, Ghost was able to refine most of it. As for the last remaining bit, Xu Le directly bestowed it upon Old Ghost.

"Thank you, Young Master. This old servant will surely work like a horse or ox, and will never forget this for all eternity."

Old Ghost wept bitterly, and after expressing his loyalty for a while, he went to absorb the last remaining bit.

Xu Le looked at Spirit Turtle: "I heard you can calculate everything in the world. You should know why I am looking for you, right?"

"I kn—I don't know!"

Spirit Turtle shook his head desperately. In his divination, if he answered that he knew, Xu Le would smile and ask him if he would die today.

Next, fate would split into two paths: In the first, he would say he wouldn't, then Xu Le would say "I don't believe you" and kill him directly; in the second, he would say he would, then Xu Le would say "Your calculation is truly accurate" and then kill him.

Are you a devil! Coming from thousands of miles away just to find me and kill me. There is such a boring human in this world! Humans are truly dangerous!

Xu Le frowned: "You don't even know this? Then there is no use keeping you, is there?"

Spirit Turtle was sweating profusely, secretly peeking at the river of fate. It seemed that every river ended in his death. Die, die, die, he was doomed! A mouthful of old blood sprayed out, and Spirit Turtle immediately wilted.

"No, it's not that every path is a dead end; it's that the other party's strength is far greater than mine, making them impossible to calculate. Believing in fate all day, how ridiculous that I forgot that the strong cannot be calculated. A tribulation! This is a tribulation!"

"Wait, I cannot calculate the strong, but the Life-Taking Ghost's strength is similar to mine, so I can calculate that! How ridiculous that I was blinded by the fate tribulation and forgot the optimal solution for a moment."

Spirit Turtle hurriedly calculated a way for the Life-Taking Ghost to survive. Compared to the future, the difficulty of calculating the past was one level lower.

Past events appeared before his eyes. Spirit Turtle fell to his knees with a thud and kowtowed repeatedly: "Young Master, this old servant is skilled in the Dao of calculation. Whatever you wish to ask, I will surely tell you everything I know without reservation."

This scene felt somewhat familiar! Xu Le realized, but didn't care, and said again: "Help me calculate a few Human Race strongholds."

"Ah?" Spirit Turtle's face immediately turned bitter. "Young Master, the Human Race in the Spirit Realm who dare to go out must carry an ancestral spirit or secret treasure to obscure the heavenly secrets. This old servant... this old servant's strength is insufficient."

After absorbing the overflowing Spiritual Qi, Old Ghost mockingly said: "You aren't even willing to try. This means you aren't sincerely working for the Young Master!"

Spirit Turtle's eyes widened, wishing he could spit on Old Ghost's face. I even learned to kneel from you, why must one kneeling spirit make things difficult for another kneeling spirit?

However, he dared not hesitate any longer and immediately began to divine. The backlash from the heavenly secrets caused him to spray another mouthful of old blood. His form dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye, even revealing a bit of his turtle appearance.

Seeing Xu Le's furrowed brow tighten even further, Spirit Turtle wanted to slap himself in the face: Isn't this confirming my own incompetence? Is there a need for something worthless to exist?

Seeing Old Ghost snickering on the side, Spirit Turtle's eyes lit up: "Young Master, I have the Beacon for Stone Buddha, and I also know about the treasures the Spirit Master hid privately."

Xu Le was moved, "hurriedly" helped Spirit Turtle up, and said gently: "Don't force it if you can't. Look, this backlash is too severe."

Spirit Turtle was "moved" to tears and snot, almost hugging Xu Le's pant leg to express his loyalty: "Young Master, as long as I can help you, even if this old servant ends up Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, I will not have a shred of regret!"

'There is actually such a shameless spirit in this world!' Old Ghost thought to himself that it was bad; his future status was at risk, so he hurriedly ran up to express his loyalty as well.

Seeing Xu Le start to frown again, Spirit Turtle hurriedly pinched his fingers to calculate and pointed to the peach forest nearby. "Young Master, all of the Spirit Master's treasures are hidden under that peach tree."

As he spoke, he moved quickly with small steps, seemingly fast, but not enough to cause any misunderstanding.

Old Ghost on the side was secretly shocked, thinking that this green-haired turtle was truly a green tea bitch. Those who compete aggressively don't get a house, but from now on he would also have to start competing, competing until he died!

The soil was turned over, and a stone box appeared. After opening it, inside was a thread-bound ancient book and hundreds of cut-out yellow paper figurines. The title of the book was "Paper Control Technique".

It recorded the methods for making spiritual paper, cutting paper figurines, imbuing paper figurines with spirit, and controlling paper figurines. It even contained a breathing technique for restoring spirit—the "Minor Qi Regulating and spirit Tuning Method".

Xu Le tried it out. It restored Mental Energy faster than his meditation method, as it was more compatible with this world; however, to use this to increase his Mental Energy, he would probably need three to five years to improve it by a little bit. It was better than nothing.

He also followed the method for controlling paper figurines recorded in the book. After failing once, he successfully activated a Paper Horse. It had some intelligence, but not much, and could follow some simple commands.

In terms of strength and agility, it was about the same as an average horse, but its advantage was that it did not know fatigue. It was far inferior to the horses in the Spirit Master's spirit domain.

"Do you need horses?" "No need, this old servant can fly." The essence of both Old Ghost and Spirit Turtle were spirits; they could float in the air and did not need to ride horses. It was a pity there was no spatial equipment.

Xu Le rode the Paper Horse, placed the stone box on the horse, and took out the Beacon for the Stone Buddha's location. The Paper Horse galloped forward, while the two spirits floated behind Xu Le, speeding through the wilderness.

"Hahaha, it's my lucky day, Old Dragon! Just taking a random turn and I actually run into a human." A fair-skinned, beardless man with an effeminate appearance jumped out from behind a large tree, very happy.

After seeing the two spirits behind Xu Le, his smile faded slightly: "Split half upon meeting, two brothers. I saw this person first; how about I take half, and the other half goes to you?"

The two spirits looked at him with pity. Where did this bumpkin come from? He didn't even recognize Spirit Turtle, yet he wanted to rob the Young Master. Isn't this just courting death?

The effeminate man thought the two spirits were unhappy with the amount, so thinking of settling things quickly, he hurriedly said: "Split into three, how about we divide it equally?"

"Sure!" Xu Le agreed. A black whip fell, and the effeminate man didn't even have time to blink before he was whipped into Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering. The whip twisted again, and the overflowing Spiritual Qi was divided into three parts. The largest part, occupying eighty percent, belonged to Xu Le and Ghost; the other two parts were divided equally between the two spirits.