Emily wanted to say something powerful and threatening to Zhou Ziwei, but she didn't know what to say. She knew she couldn't beat him in a fight, so what could she possibly threaten him with? Suddenly, Emily remembered how Zhou Ziwei would often turn red-faced and look embarrassed when she pestered him too much. A surge of joy filled her heart. She deliberately put on a stern face, biting her little tiger teeth fiercely, and said, "If you don't teach me your skills, I'll... I'll pin you down every day and kiss you to death... Hmm... I'll kiss you until you wish you were dead..."
Holy crap, no way!
Upon hearing this, Zhou Ziwei almost fell off the sofa, completely stunned by the little girl's words... Was this considered a threat? This girl's methods of threatening people were truly bizarre... Zhou Ziwei had recently been tormented by Emily's methods, after all, Emily was a perfect woman image that Zhou Ziwei had carefully cultivated.
Although everyone has different perspectives and preferences, while Emily is stunningly beautiful, she may not be universally recognized as the most beautiful woman. However, in Zhou Ziwei's eyes, she is almost perfect. This is because the standard of beauty is mainly based on Zhou Ziwei's own preferences, with Xiao Xin making the initial design and Zhou Ziwei implementing it, ultimately creating the Emily we know today.
For Zhou Ziwei, Emily's beauty was unparalleled, so... naturally, Zhou Ziwei found it even harder to resist Emily's seduction.
Although Emily herself was not aware of seducing him, the fact that she would often lie on top of Zhou Ziwei, rubbing her full breasts against his body, and even sometimes using her long, slender legs to hold him around her waist, and frantically kissing his nose, ears, and mouth, etc., were already somewhat beyond the normal behavior between men and women. In fact, Chu Qiutang had never been so intimate with Zhou Ziwei in public.
Zhou Ziwei wasn't exactly a saint either; he always had a weak resistance to beautiful women, especially since Emily was a beauty who was almost perfect in his eyes. So, several times, if it weren't for the presence of others, Zhou Ziwei would have almost succumbed to Emily's allure and collapsed. However... the thought that Emily's soul was something he had created, practically like his own daughter, immediately made Zhou Ziwei lose the courage to continue.
This feeling was really strange. Zhou Ziwei didn't want to ruin the masterpiece he had created himself, so... before he could get past that mental hurdle, he would never actually touch Emily, that little devil.
Therefore... while the kind of threat Emily mentioned was a wonderful enjoyment for Zhou Ziwei, it was also a terrifying torment.
So... Emily's threat was quite powerful.
Faced with the threat posed by the very humans he had created, Zhou Ziwei felt utterly helpless and also felt a sense of tragic irony, as if he had shot himself in the foot.
If I had known it would turn out like this, I wouldn't have let her pester Zhuihun to learn any kung fu back then, and things wouldn't have turned out like this.
Zhou Ziwei could have used the mysterious connection between his soul and Emily's to subtly influence Emily to stop bothering him.
But... this time it failed. The main soul had a very authoritative influence over the independent souls it created. As long as it sent a certain signal, it could naturally influence the independent souls to make some changes according to its own will.
But now... Emily's independent soul is clearly showing a strong aversion to Zhou Ziwei's influence.
After carefully observing, Zhou Ziwei finally understood... that deep down, Emily was actually quite intoxicated and infatuated with pestering him every day. That was why she was so happy to do it and why she completely ignored Zhou Ziwei's subtle influence.
This really frustrated Zhou Ziwei. Emily's subtle influence had failed, which meant that his main soul had become useless, unable to affect the independent soul he had created. But... this independent soul resisted the main soul's influence because it was infatuated with him, the main soul. So... Zhou Ziwei should actually be proud.
Then Zhou Ziwei thought that perhaps Emily herself, though unaware that she was created by him, felt this attachment to him because of the mysterious connection between their souls.
Will creating other independent soul entities in human form in the future have the same effect...?
God, if that's really the case, then we absolutely must never create male humans again. Being infatuated with by a girl he created... well, that would be a little guilty, but Zhou Ziwei could barely accept it. But what if the young man he created himself were so infatuated with him...
Zhou Ziwei involuntarily shuddered.
Volume 3, King of the City, Chapter 624: Exchange
Just as Zhou Ziwei was being tormented to the point of ecstasy by the little devil Emily, the Soul Chaser finally couldn't help but speak up: "What's wrong, kid... My daughter has begged you so much, how can you bear not to teach her? Hmph... I know that each family's skills are closely guarded secrets, not easily passed on to others. But... Emily was someone you personally saved, you essentially gave her a second life. And these past few days I've seen that my daughter is clearly much more affectionate towards you, her older brother, than towards her father. Just for that reason alone, you can't just ignore Emily!"
Upon hearing Zhuihun's words, Zhou Ziwei said helplessly, "Senior Zhuihun, this... please don't misunderstand. It's not that I don't want to expose my secret techniques that I'm not teaching her, but rather... the skill I know... is not something ordinary people can learn. I only mastered this strange method by chance. Even if I really tried my best to teach Emily, I estimate that her chances of learning it are less than one percent... this..."
"We'll only know after we try!" Upon hearing this, Zhuihun immediately waved his hand and said, "Even if there's only a one percent chance, isn't there still a sliver of hope? In reality... the spirit control technique I've learned isn't something just anyone can master. According to the records in those books... it's considered good if one in ten million people is suitable to learn this technique. And if one can cultivate it to a high level... I'm afraid even one in hundreds of millions might not be able to achieve it. So, it seems... your skill has a one percent chance of being learned, which is much simpler than my spirit control technique."
"This...this isn't how it's calculated."
Zhou Ziwei quickly waved his hand and said, "I concluded that there is less than a one percent chance of learning it based on Emily's recent amazing performance and her physical characteristics. As for ordinary people, hmph... I'm afraid it would be quite good if we could find one or two people on the whole earth who could learn my technique."
Chu Qiutang, who was watching the commotion from the sidelines, heard Emily constantly clamoring to learn kung fu. She was also a little itchy to try it herself and was planning to ask Emily if she could learn some kung fu after Emily's matter was settled.
After all, anyone would be envious of such amazing skills, and Chu Qiutang was no exception.
When she was a child, she dreamed of becoming a female knight-errant who could leap across rooftops and roam the world with a sword. Otherwise, she would not have chosen to become a soldier.
As I grew up, those unrealistic ideas from before naturally faded away, and I realized that those fantastical scenes in movies were all created with special effects and were simply nonsense.
However, after she met Zhou Ziwei and went through hardships together with him and Wang Xuewei in the pilot dimension, she realized that there really were people in this world who possessed such amazing abilities. In fact, Zhou Ziwei's abilities seemed to be many times more powerful than those knights-errant in the movies.
Although Chu Qiutang was envious, Zhou Ziwei had never mentioned teaching her, so she naturally didn't dare to make such a request rashly.
Originally, seeing Emily making a scene with Zhou Ziwei today, she was also tempted to ask him for the same thing. Given her relationship and feelings for Zhou Ziwei, if he could teach Emily, he would definitely teach her too.
However, after listening for a while, Chu Qiutang learned that only one in ten million, or even one in a hundred million, people could learn the supernatural abilities that Zhuihun cultivated. Her heart sank immediately.
Upon hearing Zhou Ziwei say that only one or two people on Earth could learn her technique, she immediately gave up completely.
Seeing Zhou Ziwei's helpless and troubled expression, Chu Qiutang knew that Zhou Ziwei was probably not lying. Only one or two people on the entire planet could possibly learn it, and now that Zhou Ziwei had already learned it, didn't that mean... at most only one other person could learn it? A one in billions chance, then... it probably wouldn't be her, Chu Qiutang's, turn out to be possible!
Chu Qiutang felt utterly dejected, and she no longer dared to have any hope of becoming a female knight-errant.
Although relatively speaking, the Soul-Chasing Technique seems to be simpler, with only one in ten million people having the opportunity to learn it, then spread across the globe, there are at least hundreds of people who have the opportunity to learn that Soul-Chasing Technique.
However... it's more likely that Chu Qiutang would shamelessly beg Zhou Ziwei, but asking her to beg Zhuihun... she simply couldn't bring herself to do it.
However, at this moment, Chu Qiutang saw Zhuihun suddenly walk up to her. As if he had just met Chu Qiutang for the first time, he looked her up and down carefully for a long time, then chuckled and said, "I think your girlfriend is quite good. She seems more suitable to learn my spirit control technique. Hmm... how about we switch? You teach my daughter, and I'll teach your girlfriend. Let's see which of them has the opportunity to enter our circle of spirit warriors!"
"Really, you're really willing to teach Qiu Tang?" Zhou Ziwei perked up immediately upon hearing this. In fact, he didn't mind letting Emily try to learn his method of controlling natural energy. Zhui Hun was right about one thing: Emily's relationship with Zhou Ziwei was definitely much closer than her relationship with Zhui Hun. In fact, although Emily's independent soul body had fused with... and only fused with the memories of Zhui Hun's deceased daughter, in essence, she was still an independent soul body created by Zhou Ziwei.
Even without the memories of her soul-chasing daughter, she is still herself; even with those memories, she is still herself.
The unique connection between souls is ever-present. Although Zhou Ziwei deliberately avoided letting Emily discover that she was just an artificial soul, the intimacy from the origin of their souls was still irresistible.
So no matter how much Emily benefits, Zhou Ziwei would never refuse. But the problem is... Zhou Ziwei went to so much trouble just to get the Spirit Control Technique from Zhuihun. If Zhou Ziwei really teaches Emily, then Zhuihun will be even less likely to teach Emily the Spirit Control Technique. In that case, wouldn't Zhou Ziwei's efforts be in vain?
Because he still held onto this hope, Zhou Ziwei stubbornly refused to teach Emily. However, he didn't expect that although Zhuihun didn't want to teach Emily the spirit control technique, he was willing to teach Chu Qiutang. This was definitely a pleasant surprise for him.
Putting aside the fact that, given his relationship with Chu Qiutang, once Chu Qiutang learned it, it was as if he had learned it as well.
Even if Zhou Ziwei couldn't obtain the cultivation method of this spirit control technique from Chu Qiutang, he would still be very happy as long as Chu Qiutang really had the opportunity to learn this profound secret technique of spirit warriors, and he would be willing to pay any price for it.
"Of course..." Zhuihun nodded firmly upon hearing this, and said, "For high-level spiritual warriors like us, the most important thing is the way of inheritance. It is extremely difficult for a disciple to choose a wise master, and it is equally difficult for a master to find a worthy disciple. I, Zhuihun, have been practicing for decades, and I have seen countless young talents in the world, but I have never seen a good seedling suitable for practicing my Spirit Control Technique. Do you think I am not anxious? I don't want to be like my master from a generation away, who died without any relatives or disciples by his side. If I want to pass on the secret technique, I can only wait for a destined person to dig up my grave."
"Sigh... To be honest, although Miss Chu has the potential to become a Spirit Warrior, with her above-average talent, she might not actually be able to master Spirit Control. I'm doing this as a last resort, hoping she'll have a stroke of luck and actually learn Spirit Control! Otherwise... I don't know when I'll be able to find another suitable person to practice Spirit Control."
At this point, Zhuihun sighed deeply, then shook his head and said, "I've already told you the truth, and I hope you'll consider it carefully, Brother Zhou. But I won't lie to you. I can only guarantee that I will teach Miss Chu the intricacies of spirit control in detail, but whether Miss Chu can truly learn it... I can't guarantee that. As for whether you'll agree to teach Emily... that's up to you. I didn't make this exchange with you just so you could teach Emily!"
Zhou Ziwei rolled his eyes at Zhuihun with disdain, thinking to himself: If I really don't agree to teach Emily, do you really think you'll genuinely teach Chu Qiutang? Hmph... In that case, you might just symbolically teach her a couple of incantations and that's it, without any detailed explanation. When Chu Qiutang tries to learn something from those incomprehensible incantations but can't do anything, you can then claim with a straight face that Chu Qiutang's aptitude is too poor to learn your spirit control technique. Then... wouldn't everything be ruined?
Having figured all this out, Zhou Ziwei could only let out a helpless hum and say, "Don't worry! I'm not that shameless. Since you're willing to personally teach Qiu Tang... I will naturally teach Emily my best skills with all my heart. Hmm... Regardless of whether Qiu Tang learns your spirit control technique in the end, I will do my best on Emily. I hope... she won't disappoint you, and she won't disappoint me either!"
"Yay...that's great! You've finally agreed to teach me, bro...ah...I'm so excited, haha..."
When Emily saw that Zhou Ziwei had finally relented and agreed to teach her skills, she was overjoyed, like a child who had received a long-awaited toy. She jumped up and spun around several times, and finally pounced on Zhou Ziwei again, pinning him down and leaving countless lip prints on his face without saying a word.
Upon seeing this, Zhuihun froze for a moment. His old face, whose muscles were already showing signs of relaxation, looked as if he had been punched in the face. The muscles on his face seemed to be twitching and jumping strangely.
"God... can you tell me? Was my decision right or wrong? I have this feeling... like sending a lamb to the slaughter." Soul Chaser muttered to himself, lamenting his family's misfortune. If... his only precious daughter really got... done to by some unscrupulous teacher, he, the King of Assassins, couldn't possibly let his daughter marry such a child! Although this kid was definitely older than five or six, even if he wasn't a child, he was definitely a dwarf... which was worse than a child... after all, children can grow up eventually, but a dwarf... even if he grew to be old and gray, he would probably only be this tall.
It's so worrying...
For the next two days, Zhou Ziwei and Zhuihun, along with their group, basically stayed in the hotel every day, carrying out the great work of passing on their skills.
As for rescuing the families of the three agents, we still need to obtain more accurate information.
As for gathering information, there was no need for these two top-tier experts and extraordinary individuals of the time to personally intervene.
Zhou Ziwei and his team only need to focus on rescuing people. As for intelligence work, Zhou Ziwei naturally doesn't need to worry about it; the military will definitely handle it well.
Previously, some news had come out about the families of the three agents. It was said that these three families were arrested almost simultaneously when Robert's family was rescued by Zhou Ziwei. It seems that the US military also realized that it was impossible to ambush Zhou Ziwei and his group in the city.
Even if they had prepared an ambush long ago, it wouldn't make a difference. After all, how many people could such an ambush possibly hold? And the military obviously couldn't control truly capable individuals with special abilities to lurk in the shadows like ordinary soldiers.
In addition, the last major battle in Motown also plunged the military into a storm of public condemnation and questioning. The military went to great lengths to come up with a relatively reasonable explanation to cover up the incident.
If something like this were to happen again, the reputation of the US military would be irreparably damaged, plummeting to the point of becoming an object of public scorn.
Next, the US military also guessed that Zhou Ziwei cared a lot about the families of these agents and would do everything he could to rescue them. Even if Zhou Ziwei and his men knew that the US military had set a trap there and was waiting for them to take the bait, Zhou Ziwei would not back down.
Since that's the case, they might as well lay their cards on the table and wait for Zhou Ziwei to fall into their trap...
The reason why we haven't received accurate information about the current location of those three families is probably because the M army hasn't made the most thorough preparations and hasn't dug a trap... Naturally, they have to strictly block this information, and no matter how hard their intelligence personnel try, they probably won't get any information at all.
Once they've dug the trap, even if Zhou Ziwei doesn't use his own intelligence agents, the M army will likely subtly leak the information to him.
Zhou Ziwei wasn't in a hurry about this. In any case, those three families would be used as bait to lure him in. They hadn't committed any crimes, and given the US's self-proclaimed democratic and free approach, they probably wouldn't do anything to them for the time being.
Zhou Ziwei kept his word and spent the last two days training Emily in the conversion of natural energy.
This transformation of energy inevitably requires the use of the soul and consciousness, and the most ideal carrier of the soul and consciousness is the power of the soul.
For ordinary people... the power of the soul is like a stagnant pool trapped in the sea of the soul, which cannot be mobilized for free movement.
So... Zhou Ziwei's earlier statement that there are probably only one or two people on the entire planet who can learn his supernatural powers is actually wrong.
Because if one cannot grasp the mysteries of the power of the soul, then one also cannot control natural energy.
To imagine controlling the power of the soul as freely as Zhou Ziwei, one must first become a ghost and become accustomed to being a being that exists in a soul state before one might be able to comprehend the mysteries of the power of the soul.
Otherwise... even the Six-Syllable Mantra cannot help a person comprehend the true essence of soul power.
Coincidentally... Emily herself was a life controlled by an independent soul created by Zhou Ziwei, and all of Emily's memories came from a soul that had existed as a ghost for more than ten years after death.
In this way, Emily could be considered to have barely met the prerequisite for mastering the mysteries of soul power.
Furthermore... Emily's soul was created by Zhou Ziwei using over 600,000 units of soul power. Although most of this soul power was used to create the Sea of Souls within Emily's body, only a small portion remained in Emily's Sea of Souls as mist-like soul power.
However, even that very small portion would be more than enough to serve as a vessel for the soul's consciousness, enabling it to harness natural energy.
Zhou Ziwei had originally considered teaching Emily his greatest secret, the "Six-Syllable Mantra," so that Emily, like him, would not only possess the ability to manipulate natural energy but also master spiritual powers.
Although the Six-Syllable Mantra is Zhou Ziwei's greatest reliance and he would not easily share it with others, Emily is an independent soul created by Zhou Ziwei, so he has no worries about her.
At most, after the message is passed on, a strong psychological suggestion will be secretly given to Emily through a mysterious soul connection, so that Emily must never reveal anything related to the Six-Syllable Mantra to anyone else.
Volume 3, King of the City, Chapter 625: Springtime Splendor
Zhou Ziwei spent almost half a day teaching Emily the Six-Syllable Mantra. It wasn't that Emily's learning ability was poor, but rather that the ancient Sanskrit pronunciation was too strange. Zhou Ziwei felt that the pronunciation of this ancient Sanskrit could not be wrong in the slightest, otherwise, even the slightest mistake would render it completely ineffective. Otherwise... why is the Six-Syllable Mantra a mantra known to all Buddhists, yet no one else has cultivated supernatural abilities?
However, the result was both a relief and a source of considerable frustration for Zhou Ziwei, because... despite Emily's repeated corrections from Zhou Ziwei, which allowed her to master the pronunciation of the six-syllable mantra perfectly, and even to the exact same intonation as Zhou Ziwei, there was still no effect whatsoever when she actually recited it or silently in her mind.
Zhou Ziwei was already mentally prepared for this outcome. He guessed that the reason why the Six-Syllable Mantra could only absorb and purify soul energy on him was not just because of the pronunciation, but there must be some reason unknown to outsiders.
As Zhou Ziwei's clone, Dwight can also use the Six-Syllable Mantra. Obviously, the reason why he can use the Six-Syllable Mantra to absorb soul power should be that it directly affects his soul. As for the specific reason, Zhou Ziwei can't figure it out for the time being.
The inability to use the six-syllable mantra is merely a regret for Emily; it does not directly affect her learning and mastering the methods of converting and using natural energy.
This time, Zhou Ziwei took direct action, first outputting a wisp of heat energy, which slowly penetrated into Emily's palm, then climbed up along the meridians in Emily's body, finally flowing directly to the Tanzhong acupoint on Emily's chest.
However, this energy exists in the form of heat and cannot reside directly in the middle dantian. Therefore, after traveling to this point, it quickly dissipates within Emily's body.
Zhou Ziwei, however, did not stop. He continued to input a wisp of heat energy from the same point, flowing along the previous route again and again, repeatedly clearing and exercising Emily's meridian.
Although Zhou Ziwei only channeled a small amount of heat into Emily's body each time, after he endlessly channeled hundreds of strands of heat into Emily's beautiful body, the slowly rising heat finally became unbearable for Emily.
Poor Emily's shirt was already soaked through with sweat, and she was panting heavily, her breath coming in short gasps, with occasional suppressed groans escaping her throat... Finally, unable to bear the increasingly unbearable burning heat that was building up in her chest, Emily ignored Zhou Ziwei's warnings, let out a muffled groan, and then reached out with her free hand to grab the front of her shirt and tug it hard.