Terrible Compatibility

Si Ming pondered, "That old Daoist priest seemed to have said that if you fulfill your obsession, the other party's remnant soul will be absorbed by you. However, it won't improve your spiritual cultivation, but rather something like a talent. In the future, when you cultivate Divine Arts or Technique Method, you should be able to achieve twice the results with half the effort."

"I have a similar feeling; it's like I've suddenly become much smarter."

"Can you go back to your original body now?"

"I'll try... no, it seems too late." Liu Qingqing stopped her attempt to return to her physical body, as her eyes reopened.

Can you let me go now?

The second remnant soul took control of Liu Qingqing's body and spoke to Si Ming in a dissatisfied tone.

"Alright, looks like we have more customers." Si Ming had no choice but to let go of his hand.

The second customer slapped the parts where they had been touching with disgust, then said, "There's something I need to make clear to you. Even if you're very close to the owner of this body, please wait until I leave before you get intimate. I am the one in your body now, so don't be too familiar with me. I don't want to get involved with anyone."

"Looks like another troublesome guy," Si Ming sighed. "And your name, it can't be 'Wu Ming' too, can it? And your motto is 'Silence is golden, eloquence is a headache'?"

Fortunately, unlike Shang Yu, the other party didn't adopt an uncooperative attitude and stated directly, "My name is Wan Ziling."

"Wan Ziling? That name sounds familiar, like I've heard it somewhere before?" Si Ming looked thoughtful. "What's your wish?"

"Completely annihilate the Beast King Anye."

Chapter 572 Incompatible Personalities

After being reminded by Yuezheng Yao, Si Ming finally remembered that Wan Ziling was clearly the daughter of the Sect Master of the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect. Wan Yebai did mention that his daughter was killed by the Blood Abyss Sect. Now it seems that the Blood Abyss Sect used Wan Ziling's body as a sacrifice to refine the Myriad Filth Tainted Blood.

This also explains why the other party's wish is to completely annihilate the Beast King Anye, just like the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King's wish for the Glazed Temple. The Beast King Anye is the enemy of the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect for hundreds of years, and every disciple of the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect regards eliminating the Beast King Anye as their lifelong wish.

"However, completely slaying the Beast King Anye is no easy task. With my current strength, I would need to plan carefully even to kill him, let alone completely eliminate him. I have never heard of the Beast King Anye having any blood relatives still alive; there is no possibility of that even in theory."

Pushing it into the Sea Continent and using the Eternal Barrier to imprison the King of Monsters' immortality is not a bad idea, but it's just a conjecture without any evidence. No one can guarantee whether the Eternal Barrier can imprison immortality, especially since the Remote Heaven Society severed a Divine Pillar, weakening the power of the Eternal Barrier and making the outcome even more unpredictable.

Blood relatives can completely kill the King of Monsters; this has been proven. If it is possible to achieve this, it is certainly safer to use this method. After all, pushing the Beast King Anye into the Sea Continent is not an easy task. The other party is not a puppet that can be manipulated to go wherever you want it to go.

Currently, the only way to travel between the two continents is through the Flesh and Blood Wormhole. The passage opened by the Mohist School Sacred Sword does not allow experts at the Spirit Transformation Realm to pass through, while the Flesh and Blood Wormhole requires traversing a spacetime tunnel. Unlike the exceptionally convenient teleportation magic that can instantly transfer people there, the process of passing through the tunnel is enough to trigger various variables.

To be honest, sealing is more likely to succeed than pushing the opponent to the Sea Continent.

"Let's discuss this. Let's change your wish. Actually, there's not much difference between killing it completely and sealing it. At worst, after sealing it, we can throw the thing that sealed the Beast King Anye into another world. Even if it breaks free in the future, it won't be able to harm the Barbarian Continent. This is also a way to achieve world peace."

Si Ming tried to negotiate with Wan Ziling, but was met with a look that suggested he was mentally challenged.

"I am a product of my obsessions; I came into being because of my obsessions, not because of what I say. Of course, I know that completely killing the Beast King Anye is almost impossible, but if it could be changed, it wouldn't be called an obsession."

"Of course I know that, but even with the same goal, there are different ways to achieve it. For example, if you want to find a job, you can apply in person based on your skills, ask someone for help or use connections, or bribe the examiner. All of these can achieve the goal. Think about it carefully: sealing the Beast King Anye and then throwing him into another world is no different from killing him completely. Your wish has been fulfilled in a roundabout way. Why be so serious about things?"

Wan Ziling raised an eyebrow, displeased, and said, "Do you think this is a vegetable market? Asking for exorbitant prices and then haggling? Besides, I'm not human anymore. Strictly speaking, I belong to the category of ghosts, and a vengeful ghost that's unwilling to die at that. Of course I'll take things seriously!"

Si Ming quickly advised, "Calm down, don't get angry so easily. The person is dead, the body is cold, what's there to be upset about?"

Wan Ziling angrily retorted, "It's precisely because someone is dead that you can't see things clearly; that's called being stubborn!"

"... Is this a sneer?"

"No, that's not true!" Wan Ziling turned around. "Enough, I don't want to talk to you anymore. You're rambling, glib, and frivolous. I hate people who don't take things seriously."

"I'm just worried that you might not be used to life right now, so I'm trying to lighten the mood and help you forget about all the unhappy things from the past. Besides, we'll be doing things together from now on, so it's also important for us to get to know each other better."

"No need, thank you," Wan Ziling said, adopting a distant expression. "I've already said, I don't want to get involved with anyone."

"Alright, let's get down to business then."

Si Ming wasn't one to fawn over someone who wouldn't listen. He had only tried to ingratiate himself with the other party because the other party was occupying Liu Qingqing's body. Since the other party didn't appreciate it, he saw no need to lower himself further. He asked seriously, "So, do you have any good ideas on how to completely eliminate the Beast King Anye?"

"No." Wan Ziling replied succinctly.

Si Ming frowned and said, "Your uncooperative attitude puts me in a difficult position. Even if we're not friends, we're still collaborators, not enemies. There's no need to give me that sour look, especially with my childhood sweetheart's face on it. It's really unpleasant."

Wan Ziling retorted, "Do you think I want to use this body? I also want to switch back to my old body, but I can't! There's nothing I can do about it. Just like I truly didn't intend to kill the Beast King Anye. If I had, I would have done it long ago. Why wait until today? You can ask me a hundred times, a thousand times, and I'll still give you the same answer!"

Si Ming was also a little annoyed and said, "What you said is not wrong, but you shouldn't use such a barbed way of speaking. Remember, I don't owe you anything, and I have no obligation to put up with your sour face. If you think I'm some kind of wish-granting machine, then you're very wrong!"

Wan Ziling retorted without backing down, "I never said you owed me anything. You asked me what my wish was, and I told you the truth. From beginning to end, I never asked you to fulfill my wish. You have a condescending attitude, do you think others can't tell?"

"You're being completely unreasonable!"

"Aren't you being unreasonable too?"

Where did I act unreasonably?

Where did you not act unreasonably?

Even if I were being unreasonable, I wouldn't be as unreasonable as you!

"I'm more unreasonable? You're the most unreasonable one!"

"You—forget it, I'm not going to act out this romantic drama with you anymore," Si Ming said, flicking his sleeve and calming down from his mindless state. "I don't expect you to readily accept other people's kindness, but is it necessary to stab their smiling faces with thorns? Compared to you, Shang Yu is practically an approachable living bodhisattva."

"I'll say it again, I don't want to have anything to do with anyone else. It's not that I pricked your smiling face with my thorns, but that you rammed your face into my thorns, and then blamed me for not warning you. Do I have to write the word 'hedgehog' on my face before you'll learn to restrain yourself?"

So, does that mean I'm the one who's cheap?

"Thank goodness, you finally understand human speech."

Si Ming was furious. It was the first time he had lost an argument, and he felt like his opponent had lowered his IQ and then defeated him with their rich experience.

Of course, in the past, even if he couldn't win an argument, he could simply teach the other person a lesson with his fists. But now that the other person is in Liu Qingqing's body, he can't reason with them.