Perhaps there really was something to the idea of people having compatible energies.
Zhong Xueran thought highly of Qin Manjiang but disliked Xu Yi. Yet when Xu Yi and Qin Manjiang met, they acted as though they had known each other forever, skipping even the most basic pleasantries to start planning some trouble together.
"Did you touch this Jade Cicada just now too?"
Xu Yi asked.
"Yes," Qin Manjiang answered, then asked, "Are you in the Modern Era?"
"Yeah, in the Mei Family's [Southern Branch Troupe]."
Qin Manjiang rubbed his chin. In that case, the logic allowing these two time periods to communicate should be that they had touched the same object at the same time and place.
Wasn't that far too difficult?
If solving this ghost story required cooperation between past and present, just contacting a companion in the other world was already an extremely chance-dependent affair. No wonder it had become an ultimate game.
Although a ghost was also appearing, Qin Manjiang actually felt that its ferocity fell short of the Sheep Immortal's. Moreover, this ghost seemed to possess some "humanity," further diminishing its terror. It was the bizarre rules of the [Southern Branch Troupe] that were truly a headache.
Rather than the ghost making [Yellow Springs Opera] an ultimate game, Qin Manjiang felt that the [Southern Branch Troupe]'s bizarrely disordered spacetime was the root cause.
"If I hold this Jade Cicada, will it look to you like a Jade Cicada flying through thin air?"
Xu Yi suddenly asked.
Qin Manjiang froze. He looked down at where the Jade Cicada had just been, but this time, he could see nothing.
"It's gone."
"Gone?"
Xu Yi's eyes lit up. "I can see it!"
Xu Yi looked at the Jade Cicada lying in his palm. Its complete form had actually