"What body?"
The Daoist did not immediately understand.
Ye Qianfan hurriedly climbed out of the well and said, "My prosthetic... no, my fake puppet body! You didn't think the me you see now was actually me, did you?"
"Is that a tongue twister? 'You didn't think the me you see now was actually me'?" After repeating Ye Qianfan's words twice, the Daoist finally caught on. "Holy shit! You mean your Paper Puppet body is missing? That's not just a Paper Puppet! Your two souls and five spirits are inside it!"
"What happens if it's lost?" Ye Qianfan's mouth felt dry, and he swallowed.
"What do you think?" the Daoist snapped. "They'll dissipate, of course! With your soul incomplete, even living inside Ye Fu's body won't help! As time passes, you'll gradually lose your mind and forget who you are, slowly becoming the real Ye Fu—or some monster that knows nothing but eating. In the end, your unstable soul will dissipate completely from this world!"
"Gasp!"
Ye Qianfan sucked in a breath of cold air.
Walking around this world in a Paper Puppet had already been strange enough. Now he actually had to roam the human world as Ye Fu, a puppet with a mass of tentacles. Hopefully, he would not scare anyone!
"But I think..." After turning it over in his mind, Ye Qianfan could think of only one person who would have taken his body. "Shen Lang probably took my body. Hopefully, he hasn't noticed anything wrong with it!"
"Then hurry up and find him!" The Daoist grew anxious too. "A Paper Puppet is made of paper. Carrying it would probably feel no heavier than carrying a paper effigy. It would be pretty hard for Shen Lang not to notice something wrong! I'm worried he'll burn your body. Then