Chapter 164 Zanpakutō

On the outskirts of Ming'an City, after being shocked by Lu Ran's "great ideal", Heiyu chose to come with Lu Ran.

It was dark, and a fat, cat-like mouse was gnawing on something in the weeds. Lu Ran and Hei Yu, dressed in black robes, stood in the distance. Lu Ran obviously regarded this guy as a

Name: rat beast

Attribute: Wei Awakening

Racial Level: Low Extraordinary

Growth level: Level 3

Well, he was so weak that Lu Ran didn't even bother to summon Mr. Ha to deal with this kind of guy. After estimating the distance and calculating the strength, Lu Ran directly picked up a stone and threw it with a bang. Under the stunned gaze of Black Feather next to him, the rock accurately hit the rat beast, knocking it unconscious. Lu Ran could only say that he was merciful if he didn't use the Crow Feather Bow.

"Let's go!"

At Lu Ran's greeting, Heiyu quickly followed. Soon Lu Ran came to the rat beast that was knocked unconscious. He took out the soul-suppressing brick and slapped it on the rat beast, and a ball of gray soul was smashed out. . Because the rat beast's consciousness had fainted, the soul body was also confused and unclear at this time. Seeing this, Kuroyu swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "How do you want to cook?"

"I have mastered a special beast-controlling skill. Let's try grilling souls first."

Lu Ran stretched out his finger and lit a flame. There are too many beast control skills that allow beast masters to master special abilities. Many cooks can control flames themselves. Kuroyu didn't think anything of it when he saw this. After all, Lu Ran had already revealed his identity as a chef just now. However, Lu Ran encountered a difficulty next.

Yanling couldn't play a supporting role, so Lu Ran could only rely on experience. He controlled the heat to the lowest level and started to roast his soul, but the outcome could be imagined. How could the soul be roasted like ordinary food? Even though Lu Ran's flame was extremely weak, the rat beast's soul was even more fragile. It was burned into white smoke by the flames in an instant, and the soul was wiped out/disappeared into smoke. The mouse's body also fell into a coma and became more peaceful, as if it would never wake up.

"..."

"It seems difficult." Lu Ran turned to look at Heiyu.

"……"Black Feather

"Just now I thought this idea was too whimsical. Black Feather said: "Maybe the starting point is good, but the problem that so many big figures in the Divine Religion, even the legendary necromancers, have not been able to solve, is it for us... "

"This is the beginning, don't panic." Lu Ran said, then fell into deep thought.

"Let's try other cooking methods..." At present, there were only the most rats in other Ming'an cities, so Lu Ran's hunting target decisively chose the giant rat beast. Next, Lu Ran tried boiling souls and steaming souls under the witness of Hei Yu...

But without exception, the fragile souls were instantly shattered.

"It's too weak, its soul is too fragile, and they can't accept slightly more violent cooking methods."

"There are no powerful souls near the key that can be used for experiments."

With Heiyu's silent following, Lu Ran finally found a cooking method that was not so easy for his soul to collapse. He made a half-cooked smoked rat spirit by lighting fresh wood to remove the fishy smell. The wood smoke was indeed inhaled by the rat spirit. Before anything happened to the soul, Lu Ran quickly asked Heiyu to try it.

Black Feather also helplessly summoned his pet beast - a dead fox spirit. The little fox happily ate the rat spirit, but after eating it, Black Feather shook his head and said: "It's no different from devouring souls in the past."

"My pet beast can also feel the residue of consciousness in the soul during the process of devouring the soul."

"What about the taste?" Lu Ran asked.

"Ugh~" The dead fox shook his head. It doesn't taste good. It doesn't taste good. It tastes better if you don't eat the soul directly.

"That means the taste of smoked undead has indeed changed, but the seasoning of fresh wood cannot remove soul impurities and is not suitable for undead." Lu Ran was very happy to get this point of view. This at least shows that the taste of the soul can change. Now that the taste has changed, as long as you find a special seasoning, it might be able to purify your soul of impurities.

"Okay, Miss Heiyu, thank you very much. That's it for today." Lu Ran said.

"Okay." Heiyu nodded. Although he hoped that Lu Ran could succeed, he also felt that he had little hope of success. (っ◔◡◔)っHowever, Lu Ran is really serious...

He was slightly silent as he watched Lu Ran carrying a bag of unconscious giant rat beasts. Later, if Master Gaoli asks me, how will I answer? She felt that even Missionary Gaoli would think Lu Ran was crazy.

In the other courtyard, Lu Ran continued to indulge in cooking rat spirits after returning. After coming back, Lu Ran did more sexy things. For example, he wanted to dissect a rat spirit and divide it into several pieces to study its structure. But it's a pity that the soul is gone after just a slight movement. It cannot be dissected at all. The soul is mixed with the life consciousness of the living body, which can also be said to be the soul memory. This is what the so-called soul searching in fairy novels should be searching for. The soul is essentially a body of energy, which is the necessary nutrient for the undead beast to maintain its life. The soul is poisonous, and what is harmful is only the consciousness contained in the soul. The gathering of these consciousnesses will cause the consciousness of undead pets and necromancers to be contaminated, lose their minds, and fall into madness.

It is possible to use seasonings to remove the fishy smell and purify the soul consciousness from the soul one by one, but it is too difficult. No less than creating a new recipe. Even if I have all the ingredients from the Star-Moon Continent in front of me now, I don’t know what year it will take me to experiment with the right combination. I can just let it happen and I can’t force it.

But in addition to this, it stands to reason that there should be another way to remove impurities from the soul. If the soul is regarded as an ingredient, and there are unnecessary parts in it, then simply cut it roughly. But ordinary extraordinary kitchen utensils have no ability to cut souls at all.

Lu Ran fell into deep thought as he watched the rat spirit whose soul was shattered by the touch of his kitchen knife. Using ordinary kitchen utensils will directly pass through the spirit body and cause no harm. Using extraordinary kitchen utensils will deform the spirit body as soon as it touches it, and the soul will collapse, but it cannot be cut. Ordinary extraordinary kitchen utensils should be used, which do not have the property of cutting souls, but if special kitchen utensils forged from soul-like ores are used, is there any hope of cutting the spirit body?

Lu Ran looked at the soul-calming stone again, thinking, can this thing be forged into a sword? No matter what, he must find a way to find a few more pieces in this secret realm. He needs a Zanpakutō, a sword that can smoothly cut the soul.

However, let’s not talk about whether or not a Zanpakutō can be forged. Even if there is a Zanpakutō, Qishi Lu Ran did not say that he can definitely separate the spirit and consciousness by swordsmanship. This thing is too abstract. Even if Yan Sizhen is reborn, he will probably have to figure out the difficult problem raised by Lu Ran. This probably requires a strong understanding and cognition of the soul.

Soul-type sword intent, to achieve this step, I need soul-type sword intent. If you master the soul-type sword intent, maybe even without a Zanpakutō, you can directly let the weapon cause cutting-like damage to the spirit. Soon, Lu Ran, who was researching, thought of a new idea.

But it’s still the same problem. Soul-type sword intent... This is an extremely abstract ability. For this research direction, Lu Ran chose to pass the buck.

"Boss Ha, don't you think you're pretty awesome? Take the Soul-Suppressing Stone and play with it. I'll give you a few mice. Go and comprehend a Zanpakuto sword intent. Remember not to eat mice."

Next, Boss Ha was summoned by Lu Ran with a confused look on his face. He howled a few times at the shameless Boss Lu, but Boss Ha was quite interested in the Soul-Suppressing Stone and the soul body, so he immediately went to try it. Of course, Lu Ran didn't expect Boss Ha to succeed. If Boss Ha had already integrated the awakening characteristics, if Boss Ha was a dead spirit pet, then Lu Ran might have some hope, but now, he could only let it get familiar with it first.

Lu Ran also understood that he would definitely not be able to solve the drawback of the dead spirit system in a short time. This is a long-term job.

"Hmm?" However, Lu Ran, who had just driven Boss Ha away, actually thought of another idea that might cut the soul and consciousness.

"Am I really a genius?" Lu Ran took the sword grass out of the sword pot from his backpack, and he looked at the sword grass and fell into deep thought. By the way, does the sword grass have a soul? If there is a soul, whether it is conscious or unconscious, is it possible to directly create a soul sword grass by tapping it with the soul stone? Isn't this a natural Zanpakuto?

"Woof woof woof..."

The next moment, Lu Ran snatched Mr. Ha's soul stone again, and under Mr. Ha's shocked eyes, he used the stone to tap Mr. Ha's beloved weapon. As a result, it was naturally not as easy as Lu Ran thought. The sword grass that has not become a supernatural life is no different from ordinary plants. Perhaps after becoming a supernatural life, the sword grass has a chance to turn into a plant dead spirit, but the sword grass in its current state still has no soul.

All kinds of methods didn't work, and Lu Ran was stuffy in his chest and tried to cut the sword grass directly, but it didn't work. It's really difficult... No wonder so many beast masters on the other side of the Death God Cult can't solve this problem. Lu Ran had a headache. At present, the closest direction for him is to comprehend the soul-type sword intent.

Lu Ran chose to study Zanpaku Sword Intent with Mr. Ha. As for the breakthrough mission, Lu Ran was not in a hurry. His mission was to defend the city. Even if all the people of the Death God Cult were killed, as long as he defended it alone and killed the enemy, it would be a victory. The siege party should be anxious.

He didn't have the other party's intelligence either. He couldn't just go out and brush the other side alone! Even if he wanted to fight, he had to wait for the other party to show his head before going up. In order to complete the mission, the other party couldn't stay out of sight. At this time, Lu Ran understood the preciousness of the characteristics of the evil god's eyes even more. If this had already contracted Mr. Crow, and it had mastered the curse of all the enemy camps to die suddenly, then there was no need to be so passive.

At this time, Hei Yu was summoned back by the missionary Gao Li and asked about Lu Ran's situation.

"What?"

"Grilled soul? Steamed soul? Boiled soul? Smoked soul?" Missionary Gao Li was shocked. He was an old necromancer who couldn't do without souls for three meals. At this moment, he had a stomachache when he heard Hei Yu's report. He just felt perverted! But he smiled and said, "Forget it, let him go. This time I picked up a treasure." Now seeing that the King of Death is keen on studying the dead spirit system and wants to help the necromancers to eliminate the drawbacks, Gao Li was excited. It is common for missionaries to find a newcomer with excellent talent. But it is as difficult as ascending to heaven to find a newcomer who is not only extremely talented but also has such great ideals. He felt that if Lu Ran's situation was known by the headquarters, he would definitely be trained as a saint, and he would definitely be trained as a core member. Of course, if Lu Ran really got lucky and researched it, that would be a matter of another dimension. I am afraid that a group of gods would surround the King of Death as the successor of the leader. Gao Li smiled sarcastically and felt that he was whimsical. How could this be possible! "Keep looking forward to him" "Yes" Hei Yu nodded. Seeing the shocked expression of the missionary, she was satisfied. Sure enough, the veteran necromancer also thought that the King of Death was too crazy.

On the other side, nine trialists from various countries on Blue Star gathered again. Moonlight Knight from the Golden Generation said: "I have heard that the one who currently occupies Ming'an City is a necromancer cult missionary named Gao Li. He has three level 30 necromancer pets. They are all leaders of the race, but he is only a level 2 necromancer."

"He should be the strongest enemy in Ming'an City. Although he has many subordinates, there are no powerful people among them. If we can convince that empire to join the army and attack with us to take over Ming'an City, it should not be difficult."