"Ritian, do you see anything strange in the sky when you look up?" Fang Xiu suddenly spoke up.

Zhao Hao was startled.

"Strange! Where is the strangeness?" He quickly looked up, but all he saw was the bright moon, sparse stars, and the pitch-black sky like a curtain.

"Brother Xiu, where is the strangeness in the sky? Did you see it wrong?"

"Um, maybe I mistook a bat for something strange."

Fang Xiu furrowed his brow unconsciously.

Could it be that others who had lit up their spiritual senses and became spiritual masters couldn't see the strangeness in the world as well?

Was it because Zhao Hao had just become a spiritual master and was too weak, or was it because spiritual masters couldn't see the strangeness in the world at all?

Fang Xiu hoped it was the former because that would mean he wasn't alone, there were still others in the world who could see the strangeness like him.

"Let's go home and sleep."

"Go home and sleep?" Zhao Hao was surprised. "Brother Xiu, our colleagues are all dead, and we've encountered strangeness. How can you think of going home to sleep?"

"Why? Do you want to call the security officer?"

"I do. We should find a Taoist to deal with the strangeness."

"No need to find anyone. Someone will come to us. Since the world has strangeness and spiritual masters, there must be organizations specifically dealing with strangeness. Otherwise, the world would have been in chaos long ago.

Anyway, how did you break the dream?"

"Uh," Zhao Hao's expression suddenly became visibly embarrassed.

"How else could I break it? I just followed the method you taught me, didn't care about anything, and desperately immersed myself in the movie."

"Then why were you touching and kissing the air, and making sounds, and your pants were wet?"

"Ah! Did I make those actions?" Zhao Hao's face suddenly turned red.

"Yes, not only did you make those actions, but you also made sounds and wet your pants."

"Ah! Please don't say anymore, Brother Xiu. I beg you not to say it anymore. If you do, I'll really die of embarrassment."

"Then tell me what you experienced in the dream. Of course, I'm not interested in your dream. I just want to know why you didn't have the ability. Could it be that there was a mistake in your awakening?" Fang Xiu said calmly.

"Really, Brother Xiu? Alright, but you have to promise not to tell anyone else."

"Um."

"It's actually not that special. After I entered the illusion, I kept my eyes closed and my mind was full of the teacher's lectures. Later, I heard all kinds of terrifying sounds in my ears, and even felt a cold, corpse-like hand touching me. I was so scared that I had to find a way to distract myself, so I..."

"You took matters into your own hands?" Fang Xiu hit the nail on the head.

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Zhao Hao blushed and defended himself, "I was just trying to distract myself."

Fang Xiu nodded, showing his full approval of Zhao Hao's action, "And then what happened?"

"Later, the sounds around me changed, and became Li Feifei's voice, very gentle, and her touch became warm and smooth, so I..."

"You opened your eyes? Do you like Li Feifei that much?"

"Brother Xiu, isn't it what you said, if you see Li Feifei, you have to pinch her to see if it's real or not, that's the flaw in the illusion."

"Did you tell the difference between real and fake?"

"I didn't pinch her at all," Zhao Hao said with some grievances.

"What happened next?"

"After that, Li Feifei kept tempting me. I really couldn't resist the temptation, but you can't blame me, who can resist when she's wearing a school uniform, a black ribbon bell around her neck, and a torn stocking with horse oil? Which man can withstand such a test?

Then she started teaching me, and as she taught, Li Feifei's eyes turned blood red, and her mouth began to split open from both sides, all the way to her ears. I was really scared to death at the time, and all I could think of was fear."

Fang Xiu nodded, realizing that Zhao Hao had indeed gone through a frightening experience and was probably terrified for a while.

"How did you manage to pull yourself together later?"

"At that time, Li Feifei was about to bite me with her big bloody mouth. I knew I was done for, but I was thinking, I'm still young, even if I die, I can't die so miserably.

Even if I'm going to die, I can't die without a fight. So I made up my mind, and regardless of whether Li Feifei was an illusion or not, even if it was an illusion, I wanted to fulfill my wish before I died."

Fang Xiu: ""

At this point, he finally understood why the illusion never appeared after it was broken. It was probably too embarrassed to face Zhao Hao, the daily illusionist.

Seeing Fang Xiu's silence, Zhao Hao himself felt very embarrassed, so he quickly added, "Even if I'm going to die, why care about so much? In life, the most important thing is not to leave any regrets, right, Brother Xiu?"

"I think you should go home now."

Zhao Hao: ""

After that, Fang Xiu briefly told Zhao Hao how to respond if someone came looking for him, and after they agreed on a story, they went their separate ways.

When he returned home, Fang Xiu saw his gentle wife.

"Honey, you're back. Have you eaten yet? Do you want me to cook something for you?"

His wife's face was adorned with a gentle smile as she stood before him in her usual white silk camisole, her slender, fair legs exposed to the air.

As he gazed upon his gentle wife, all the worry in his heart dissipated. Seeing her again felt so good.

He couldn't take his eyes off her exquisite features, feeling stunned by her beauty, which seemed too perfect to be real.

"Mmm, you're back," he replied with a smile.

But in an instant, his wife's gentle smile vanished, replaced by a fierce, greedy, and manic expression.

Her ability to change her expression so quickly was astounding; she was a master of facial expressions.

"Look," his wife said, but before she could finish her sentence, a flash of silver suddenly appeared.

A surgical knife materialized, and with dark spiritual energy coursing through it, it viciously plunged toward his wife's fair neck, causing her immense pain.

During his journey home, his spiritual energy had fully recovered, and he could once again wield the surgical knife with ease.

Just as the knife was about to pierce his wife's neck, everything went black. He lost consciousness in an instant.

When he regained consciousness, he found himself back at the entrance of his home.

"Did I die? The location of my death rewind has changed," he muttered to himself, his face cast in shadows by the dim lights of the old hallway.

"Is this really my wife's true strength? I didn't expect that after activating my spiritual energy, the gap between us would become even greater. This time, I don't even know how I died. Truly, the difference between the strange and the ordinary is immense, perhaps even greater than the differences between people.

It seems that not continuing to explore the mental hospital was the right decision."

In fact, after scaring off the female doctor, Fang Xiu had considered continuing his exploration of the Qing Shan Mental Hospital, but he ultimately decided against it. It would be meaningless since his abilities were too weak and he knew nothing about how to use his spiritual energy or anything related to exorcists. There was too much margin for error.

The female doctor was the weakest strange in the Qing Shan Mental Hospital, and he couldn't even handle her. He could hardly imagine how he would fare against the other stranges locked in the rooms. Let's not forget that some of the doors were open, and one of the stranges was manipulating dreams. The others were hidden somewhere.

This time, he had been lucky to encounter a dream-manipulating strange with no attack power, which allowed him to escape. But if it had been any other strange blocking the door, even with death rewind, he would have been trapped in Qing Shan Mental Hospital forever.

Against absolute strength, even if he tried a hundred times, a thousand times, or even ten thousand times, it would be futile.

Therefore, Fang Xiu planned to first familiarize himself with his own spiritual energy, learn about exorcists and related organizations, and gather more information before making any further plans.