Fellow Patients Compare Notes

"A force of destruction is inside me? What kind of joke is that?"

"How come I've never been destroyed?"

"Look at me. Watch me take a couple of steps. Do I look destroyed to you?"

After the Buddha's disciple told him everything that had happened the night before, Zhang Xuezhou felt his skin crawl.

He knew nothing of what happened at night.

For Zhang Xuezhou, it was always daytime when he awoke. He had no idea what happened after night fell.

And what he experienced when immersed in his own perceptions was something no observer could get involved in.

Zhang Xuezhou suddenly thought of Daoist Mu in Hibiscus City, and the little hussy in white who had sat on his bed. Daoist Mu had sworn up and down that he had sent a ghost to possess him, but after Zhang Xuezhou woke up, he hadn't seen so much as a ghost's shadow.

As a result, Daoist Mu had suffered a backlash from his Technique Method and had nearly burned to death in a fire started by the ritual altar.

"Could that little hussy in white have been killed by the force inside me?"

Zhang Xuezhou had only just achieved Realm Entry, yet Daoist Mu, who was in the Blood Penetration Realm, had treated him with the utmost respect. That was the sincere respect of someone who had come off worse in a contest of Techniques.

But Zhang Xuezhou really hadn't fought any such contest.

He thought over his past experiences. Though he denied the Buddha's disciple's words aloud, he had come to believe his account a little.

Compared with the female ghost Daoist Mu had refined, the Buddha's disciple was undoubtedly far, far stronger, which had also allowed him to escape.

"Be careful of that force. It could very well