"Mom, what's wrong?" Doudou went forward and asked obediently."No… It's nothing, Mom's fine."
Doudou seed to give Jiang Wenxin enough courage.
She stood up straight, pulled the girl into her arms, and sat down on the Sofa, holding her.
She took out her Mobile Phone, wanting to call her Husband and ask him to co back early, but she hesitated.
Because that old man was lingering outside their door. If Doudou's Dad ca back, would he be in danger?
The thought of being haunted by an Evil Spirit from the movies sent a shiver down her spine.
She looked down at Doudou in her arms and asked, "Doudou, tell Mom, after becoming a Ghost, can you… do bad things?"
Hearing this, Doudou scratched her little head, then said, "Mom, I'm a good girl, I don't do bad things."
It seed asking her wouldn't yield any answers, so she thought for a mont and asked again, "Do you see Grandpa Lu often?"
Doudou nodded at her words and said innocently, "Yeah, Grandpa Lu can't bear to leave Brother Zixu, so he circles around here every day."
Hearing this, Jiang Wenxin pondered for a mont.
She figured if Old Man Lu truly had the ability to harm people, he probably would have done so long ago. She hadn't heard of any family in this building having any trouble.
At this thought, she finally dialed her husband Tao Guangxia's number. Being a woman at ho alone, she was truly a bit scared.
Without a man, she felt like she had lost her backbone.
"Husband, where are you now?"
"On my way, I'll be ho soon."
Tao Guangxia's voice ca from the phone.
Doudou imdiately leaned in and called out "Dad," but Tao Guangxia on the other end didn't seem to hear anything.
"Then be careful on the road."
Jiang Wenxin urged him before hanging up.
However, she didn't put down her Mobile Phone, but opened Enterprise WeChat instead.
As an outsourced financial staff mber, her position was not high, but her authority was imnse.
In the company group chat, from the company's CEO to the ordinary employees, she could see everyone's information at a glance.
Although she didn't even know Shen Siyuan's na, she knew he was an employee of the Operations Departnt.
She opened the Operations Departnt group and scrolled down one by one. There were only about ten employees in total, so she quickly found Shen Siyuan's na.
How could she be sure it was him? Naturally, it was because everyone used their personal photos as their profile pictures.
As the largest Ga Company in Binhai City, all of Glorious Animation's managent was very standardized.
With a na, Jiang Wenxin could directly find Shen Siyuan's contact information and address in the company directory.
After finding Shen Siyuan's contact information, Jiang Wenxin dialed his number without any hesitation.
anwhile, Shen Siyuan was eating dinner while studying the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
Dinner was brought up from downstairs: a serving of beef and egg fried rice and a bottle of iced black tea, a very simple al.
One hand was shoveling rice from his bowl, while the other was twirling the tattered Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
Because he had devoured the Nine Nether Demon Lord, he didn't need to refine the Ten Thousand Souls Banner from scratch.
Using it was as natural as moving his own limbs, without any hindrance. It grew larger or smaller at his will, changing as he pleased.
The purple banner's surface was riddled with holes big and small, the edges of which were covered in scorch marks. Even the staff had a faint crack in it, looking quite miserable.
Shen Siyuan probed with his Divine Sense, trying to open the space inherent to the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, but it was like touching a black abyss, empty and seemingly wanting to Devour him whole, which scared him into quickly retracting his Divine Sense.
The reason Shen Siyuan had Divine Sense was also a power he obtained after devouring the Remnant Soul of the Nine Nether Lord of the Underworld.
It was similar to ntal strength or telekinesis, but it wasn't strong; at most, he could only roll a ballpoint pen on the table.
But it was very useful.
With Divine Sense, he could see everything within a three-foot radius around him in 360 degrees without any blind spots.
With Divine Sense, he could look inside his own body, at his organs, his ridians, and every part of his being.
This would be a great advantage for him in Tempering the Physical Body and walking the path of External Cultivation in the future.
Of course, it wasn't that Shen Siyuan hadn't tried the thod of Internal Cultivation.
With the cultivation experience of the Nine Nether Demon Lord, he was quite familiar with the process.
He could quickly enter a ditative state and absorb qi.
But when he took a deep breath, all he inhaled was Mundane Turbid Qi. It was like swallowing a mouthful of shit, nearly making him vomit out his internal organs.
He completely gave up on such a naive idea.
As for External Cultivation, Shen Siyuan also found a thod in the mories of the Nine Nether Lord of the Underworld called The Great Arhat Eighteen Forms.
This was a cultivation thod obtained after the Nine Nether Demon Lord destroyed a Buddhist sect called Xiaonalantu Temple.
This cultivation thod was sowhat similar to modern yoga.
It consisted of eighteen sets of movents. With sufficient food, diligent practice without stopping could lead to physical transcendence.
And in modern society, the one thing not lacking was food, especially high-energy foods. So this technique was, for now, the most suitable for Shen Siyuan.
However, this technique could only be cultivated to the Marrow Cleansing realm. But for modern society, that was more than enough.
And these realms were also divided according to the cultivation realms of The Great Wilderness. The path of External Cultivation was divided into Whole Force, Muscle Growth, Tendon Refining, Bone Forging, Marrow Cleansing, Blood Replacent, Orifice Opening, and Earthly Immortal.
However, according to the realm divisions of The Great Wilderness, with the resources of the modern world, the last three levels were basically impossible to achieve. So for Shen Siyuan, it didn't matter whether he had the subsequent techniques or not.
Shen Siyuan tried the first movent, and sweat poured down him like rain. His whole body trembled, and he could barely catch his breath.
This body was simply too weak; he couldn't even perform the first movent.
There were two options now.
One was to persist with Exercise Training and improve his physical fitness. This would be a very long process, and the results might not be good.
The other thod was to repair the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, open its internal space, and obtain the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures plundered by the Nine Nether Demon Lord.
As Shen Siyuan was thinking, his Mobile Phone rang.
He picked it up and saw it was a call from his Mom.
"Xiaoyuan, have you eaten dinner yet?"
As soon as the call connected, his Mom, Huang Huijuan's, booming voice ca through.
This was his Mom's habit; she always spoke very loudly on the phone, as if afraid the person on the other end couldn't hear.
"I'm eating now.
What's up?"
Shen Siyuan knew that if his Mom had nothing important to say, she would definitely not call him.
"Are you free this weekend? Can you co back for a trip?" Huang Huijuan said.
"Is sothing wrong?" Shen Siyuan asked with so surprise.
Shen Siyuan's Hotown was not far from Binhai City, just over an hour's drive.
So Shen Siyuan often went back ho. Therefore, it was unlikely that Huang Huijuan was asking him to co ho just because she missed him.
"I pickled so salted long beans. Co back and take so to eat," Huang Huijuan said.
"You're lying, Mom. Tell the truth."
With his Mom's stingy nature, there was no way she would make him make a special trip for so pickles; it wouldn't even cover the travel fare.
"Is that how you talk to your mother? Would I lie to you?"
Huang Huijuan got agitated on the other end of the line, her voice rising an octave, making Shen Siyuan's ears buzz. She really had a strong voice.
"Tch~, the last ti I ca back, you tricked by saying the milk in the Refrigerator was freshly bought. I drank it and got diarrhea, only to find out later it was already expired."
"I just didn't want it to go to waste.
It was only one day past the expiration date. How was I to know it had spoiled? You can't bla ," Huang Huijuan said.
"Then why didn't you let Dad drink it?"
"I was afraid he'd get a stomachache."
"You're really… Am I your biological son?" Shen Siyuan was speechless.
"I don't know, you'll have to ask your grandma about that."
"You don't know if I'm your son, and you have to ask my grandma?"
"Because when I gave birth to you, it was your grandma who delivered you.
I've always suspected I gave birth to a girl, but your grandma likes boys, saying she wanted a successor for the Shen family line. I suspect she might have swapped you…"
"Why would you think you gave birth to a girl?"
"Because of the saying 'sour for a boy, spicy for a girl.' When I was pregnant, I loved to eat spicy food."
"That's because you always like to eat spicy food.
Don't give that, just be honest with…"
Before Shen Siyuan could finish speaking, the line on the other end went dead with a click.
Obviously, Huang Huijuan didn't want to say, and was too lazy to find another excuse, so she chose to just hang up.
Staring at the disconnected call, Shen Siyuan was speechless.
His Mom, Huang Huijuan, was an elentary school teacher, so her personality had a bit of a childish streak.
Even in her fifties, she could sotis be flighty. At ho, it was always he and his father who had to coax her.
Just then, the phone rang again. Shen Siyuan thought it was his Mom calling back to "repent," but he'd thought too much.
It was an unfamiliar number.
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