Soul Lost Cloud, Essence Lost White
The hanged woman hung above the round table in the center of the Living Room. No one tried to save her, because no one knew whether the Hanged Ghost had been eaten by the murderer's ghost, found a substitute to be reincarnated, or was still residing in the corpse, waiting for the next unlucky person to approach.
Aside from Feng Xue, who was holed up in her room, the remaining six people were clearly divided into four factions. The Student Kid with the only woman, the office worker was with the blue-faced man whose neck marks had deepened, and the previously arrogant Red Face- faced balding man stood alone to the side, trying to win over the equally lonely fat man, but was ruthlessly rejected. After all, the Red Face man was being ostracized, while the fat man simply didn't want to be in a group with anyone else.
Watching the fat man, covered in sweat, crawl back into his room, the Red Face man's expression grew increasingly grim. He tried to analyze the current situation using the information he possessed, but found that none of it applied to the current scenario.
As the people in the Living Room gradually disappeared, Feng Xue finally stepped out of the room. He took a bottle of Eye Cream and applied it to his eyelids. A peculiar coolness spread along his eyelids, and everything before him immediately changed.
It's not that Feng Xue, this immortal and Heavenly Emperor, is so low that he can't even see ghosts; it's just that ghosts from different worlds have completely different settings. Just like how mechs from the Cyberpunk World become False Thing when brought into the real world, even if the names are exactly the same, different settings will cause various strange errors in non-authoritative abilities.
While it's not that Gynomorphic Filter can't be used, Feng Xue hopes to see the real scenes more directly, rather than images that have been modified into a suggestive style by Gynomorphic Filter.
Therefore, Feng Xue simply used Eye Cream mixed with Ox Tear, thus giving the character the ability to see spirits from the setting.
Heart Over Matter + Make the Best Use of Everything + Item Master, that's how useful it is.
As for where Ox Tear come from...
Don't ask, I bought it at the Tower of Tower of Babel department store.
In short, thanks to the effect of the Temporary Phantom, Feng Xue gained a spirit vision that was universal across all planes, and from this perspective, the entire Living Room underwent subtle changes.
The table was still the same table, and the corpse was still the same corpse, but what was chilling was that next to the hanged woman's body, a ghost that looked like it had eaten Fat Tongue Toffee was sitting on the edge of the table, hugging the woman's corpse and gnawing on her stomach.
No, to be precise, it was gnawing on something inside her stomach.
Soul?
Or perhaps something else?
Feng Xue wasn't very familiar with the ghost system of this world, but judging from how the ghost was eating so enthusiastically, it was clearly something good.
Feng Xue reached out and gently stroked the body of the expensive fountain pen. The spirit of the pen immediately leaned out halfway, looking drowsy, and said:
"What's up? I'm currently learning job skills."
"What job skills?" Feng Xue raised an eyebrow in surprise. The spirit lady retrieved the wooden Waist Token from the pen and waved it around.
"The skills required for the position of the Beneficial Calculation Star Lord include how to calculate a person's Bad Cause, how to adjust a person's lifespan based on this data, how to communicate with the underworld, and how to show mercy to the second generation of immortals..."
"Good heavens, this kind of thing is in this Waist Token?"
As the Heavenly Emperor, Feng Xue was completely unaware of this matter. Upon hearing the Ouija board mention it, she was quite surprised.
"It's not in the Waist Token, but it is in the spirit tablet. Even if you're Temporary Worker —no, it should be said that precisely because you're Temporary Worker, you have to study hard if you don't want to take the blame." The spirit lady took a deep breath and then steered the conversation back on track:
"Anyway, what do you want from me?"
"Oh, look at that thing, what's that? What's it eating?"
"I'm not a ghost of this world..." the spirit muttered, but still followed Feng Xue's directions. However, the moment her eyes focused, she exclaimed in surprise:
"Oh, I actually know that."
"If you know, just say it." Feng Xue rolled her eyes. The seemingly dim-witted spirit, upon hearing this, explained somewhat aggrievedly:
"It's devouring the corpse's 'soul'."
"The 'po' in 'soul'?" Thanks to the effects of Translation Konjac, Feng Xue immediately understood what the spirit meant. The spirit nodded and continued:
"What I am is the soul, and what fixes the soul to the body is the spirit. You can imagine the spirit as a cage, with the body enclosing this cage, and the spirit is locked inside the cage. When a person dies, the spirit shatters, and the soul floats out. Some souls drift away and become ghosts."
"Losing a cloud, is that alright..." Feng Xue concentrated her fairy power at her fingertips and flicked the spirit of the Ouija board on the forehead. The spirit of the Ouija board immediately became unhappy, looking aggrieved, and said:
"It's hard for me to explain in words, but basically, if the soul is missing something, it becomes a ghost. I don't know what it's missing, but to put it simply, it's like the 'soul' is missing the 'cloud'."
"If the 'soul' loses its 'white,' will it also turn into a ghost?" Feng Xue casually tossed the salt to his feet and made a pointless remark, but to his surprise, the spirit of the pen actually nodded seriously.
"Holy crap! Are you serious?" Feng Xue stared wide-eyed, her face filled with disbelief, while the spirit of the Ouija board pointed at the ghost and said:
"A ghost formed from the soul is Yin Ghost, and a ghost formed from the spirit is Yang Ghost. Yin Ghost cannot exist independently; they must possess an object or a living person. Yang Ghost, on the other hand, possess a corpse directly, which is commonly known as Corpse Transformation. However, Yin Ghost can also gain yang energy by devouring spirits, allowing them to exist independently. That ghost is doing just that. This person has just died, and the spirit within the body has shattered. It will first devour the spirit to free itself from its Possession Item, and then devour the soul to increase its power, so it can continue to harm people..."
"How did you know?" Feng Xue stared at the Ouija board lady with a strange expression, while the Ouija board lady replied matter-of-factly:
"Isn't this something a ghost should know?"
"..." Upon hearing this, Feng Xue frowned even more deeply. After pondering for a moment, he asked:
"Will that ghost devour souls?"
How would I know?
Upon hearing this, Feng Xue's expression changed drastically, and she immediately said seriously:
"You do not know?"
"Huh? Should I know about this? I'm not a ghost of this world!"
The Ouija board fairy answered matter-of-factly, but Feng Xue felt a chill run down her spine, and then hesitated slightly before saying:
"Then how do you know about the phenomenon of souls turning into ghosts?"
"Because that's common sense!" The Ouija board girl still seemed completely oblivious to the seriousness of the situation, which made Feng Xue's scalp tingle. He took a deep breath and asked again:
"Is your common sense from the old world?"
"I'm just a spirit using a Ouija board; there's no such thing as a previous world!"
PS1: The protagonist can see the spirit of the Ouija board because the spirit has already possessed him and he can sense it. He can rewrite his perception through the Gynomorphic Filter. He can see it now because he has been granted the title of Star Lord, which is equivalent to giving the spirit of the Ouija board a "system" that the protagonist can understand.
PS2: Is the idea of Empty House hard to understand?
The opening of the story hints that to survive safely, one must either cooperate or find a new house for their partner. The partner refers to the ghost, so the house represents the possessed person. Is this really that hard to understand? Everyone else appears to have undergone abnormal changes, except for the protagonist, who looks perfectly normal and clean. Therefore, it's speculated that Feng Xue is a special individual who isn't possessed. Is it really that hard to understand using Empty House as a metaphor?