The copy has 0 error tolerance, and the last words on the ground are all wrong for me.

Chapter 140 Seizing the Wick
In the gravekeeper's wooden house, Wu Chang released the crow with an iron ring marked with number 44 on its leg according to Haner's instructions.

In less than an hour, the sound of horse hooves could be heard in the woods in the distance. Bells were hung around the horses' necks, and the bells jingled as the carriage swayed.

A carriage that was completely black, even the horses were black, appeared in front of the gravekeeper's cabin.

A man in black jumped down from the carriage. His arms were bare and a huge soul fire was tattooed on his chest.

The man in black is the recycler of the Soul Light Sect, specializing in recycling corpses awakened by the power of the blood moon.

Wu Chang lifted the felt cloth on the ground, revealing five zombies whose heads had been blown up but whose bodies were still twitching slightly.

"It's all here."

"So many?" The recycler was shocked. Normally, they collected corpses one or two at a time. To see three at the same time was a rare scene.

He resurrected five corpses at once. If they recovered halfway, it would be difficult for him to deal with them alone.

Wu Chang said calmly, "The cemetery has been busy these past two days, with a lot of things crawling out."

In fact, he found all five bodies one by one in the field while holding the Soul-Cleansing Banner. In order to get the full number, he even went to the neighboring Cemetery No. 45.

The five zombies were dug out and their heads were blown up before they even woke up.

The recycler took out a crystal, and when he placed the crystal on the zombie, the crystal instantly turned red.

It was obvious that the recyclers had their own way of doing autopsies, and using ordinary corpses to impersonate zombies would not fool them.

Seeing that all five bodies were glowing red, the recycler looked better. He looked at Wu Chang and said, "10 gold coins per body, a total of . Someone will deliver them to you tomorrow evening."

"Wait, this number is wrong, right?" Haner walked out of the gravekeeper's cabin.

The recycler saw Han Er and asked curiously, "Why haven't you left yet?"

Han Er approached and whispered, "The day after tomorrow is the agreed date. How can I leave now?"

The recycler nodded, thinking that Haner's reason was very sufficient, and said, "I didn't bargain for the price. The blood moon energy in these corpses is very weak, and they are all defective. But for your sake, I will charge 20 gold coins per corpse."

"It just so happens that you are here. There are too many bodies in the car. I am afraid I can't take care of them all by myself. Please come with me and send them back."

"No problem. Sean, you stay here to look after the house. I'll go with him." Haner waved at Wu Chang and began to help the recyclers move the bodies onto the truck.

When the two men finished loading the zombies into the car and drove away, the recycler didn't notice that there was an extra person in the car.

Wu Chang's true self had already activated his social phobia, and he followed the carriage to the city of Serina.

The carriage that went out to collect the zombies did not enter the Soul Light Cathedral directly, but circled the city several times, and finally passed through a small path and entered an underground passage.

At the end of the underground passage is a huge tomb-style crypt. There are seven or eight carriages of the same model parked here. They have just collected the zombies and are queuing up to unload.

Judging from the direction of the carriage's movement, they were currently located beneath the Soul Light Cathedral.

When Wu Chang used his spirit body to explore the Soul Light Cathedral, he searched the top floor and the basement in particular, and found a total of four secret rooms, two of which were located underground, and their confidentiality standards were better than the secret rooms on the top floor.

When he scouted the area earlier, he didn't find the way to sneak into the secret room, and he didn't expect that he had to come in through the tunnel outside the cathedral.

While the recyclers and Haner were unloading the goods, Wu Chang followed the other recyclers and slipped into the depths of the underground cave.

The dungeon was bustling with activity. Recyclers could be seen dragging the zombies to workshops, disassembling and reassembling them. After four or five processes, they were fired into special bricks.

These specially made bricks are the source of the soul-shaking power in the Soul Light Cathedral.

The special bricks are loaded onto carts and handed over to clergymen dressed in white clerical robes, who transport them to designated areas and gradually replace ordinary stone bricks.

As a new cart of zombie bricks came out, a shirtless recycler pushed the cart laboriously to the delivery point.

The pastor who took the bricks away was thin. He took the handle of the trailer and pulled it hard, but it didn't move at first.

"Doyle, why are the bricks so heavy today?"

The recycler called Doyle wiped his sweat and said in the same puzzled tone: "Maybe the bones in the bricks are heavy."

The pastor tried again, almost breaking his waist, and finally managed to pull the cart away.

The priest brought the cart to the edge of a lift, pulled the lever at the entrance, and rang the bell three times.

Three bells were also heard above the lift, and then the lift slowly rose with the sound of mechanical gears turning.

Ringing the bell three times means going up three levels.

When passing by the second level of the dungeon, Wu Chang felt a familiar breath, got off the cart, and jumped from the lift into the second underground level.

Because of the existence of the secret room, the guarding on the second underground floor was much stricter. Two strong guards could be seen every ten or so meters in the corridor.

There are a large number of guards, and their quality is also good. Judging from the momentum, each guard has a stat close to that of a level 20 player, and they all carry props to sound the alarm.

Even if Lei Hu came, he would not be able to force his way through the corridor without triggering the alarm.

However, the guards were physically strong but their perception was much weaker, so they were completely unable to detect Wu Chang, who had activated social phobia and advanced stealth.

Wu Chang swaggered through the corridor and hid behind the stone door in the corridor. Two minutes later, the stone door at the end of the corridor opened and a team of patrolling guards walked out. Wu Chang took the opportunity to enter the stone door and entered the formal area on the second underground floor.

Entering the second underground floor, his perception of the things stored in the secret room became clearer and clearer. Following the familiar feeling, he walked along the corridor and soon came to a ceremony hall.

In the center of the ceremony hall, there is a huge altar, on which is placed a brazier with a diameter of more than ten meters. Deep red flames full of vitality are dancing in the brazier like a living thing.

Wu Chang, who had witnessed the New Year's Eve celebration in the Sui Sui Ping An copy, was no stranger to the scene before him.

The dancing flame in the brazier is the fire of the year!
The formation on the altar is almost identical to the New Year's Eve formation set up in Huaigu Village.

In Huaigu Village, to maintain the New Year's bonfire, four-sided New Year's fire lamps are needed, and to maintain the New Year's fire brazier on the altar, corresponding props are naturally required.

And that prop should be in a secret room deep in the ceremony hall.

The ceremony hall was very empty, with only two priests sitting at the door, responsible for guarding the brazier. Their job was simple, just taking a look from time to time to make sure the flame was not extinguished.

It was two or three in the morning, when people were most sleepy. The two priests were dozing with their heads down, and they were completely unaware of what was happening in the ceremony hall.

However, to be on the safe side, Wu Chang stabbed each of them in the back of the neck to help them fall into a deep sleep.

He walked through the hall and came to the stone door that blocked his spiritual detection.

A rotary mechanical combination lock is installed on the stone door. The disk on the combination lock must be rotated and the disks must be turned to the correct pattern at the same time before it can be opened.

There are five roulette wheels in total, with twenty different runes on each wheel.

There is no keyhole on the door, and there is no magical aura or electronic components inside the door. This purest mechanical lock would make any locksmith scratch his head.

The password was designed to this extent. I think that in the entire Soul Light Cathedral, only the Fire Master should know the password. Wu Chang released his spirit and went up along the elevator. He soon found that the Fire Master was on the upper floor of the cathedral, praying with a group of nobles.

This meant that there should be no one else in the secret room in front of him, and it was a good time to enter.

It is not realistic to try out the password, but just because you can’t figure it out doesn’t mean you can’t guess it.

He took out an item from his personal space that he hadn't used for a while, the "Favor of the Goddess of Luck".

He activated the item skill that can be used once in each plane, the loaded dice.

Three dice are thrown and 1 is rolled at the same time. The dice result triggers another skill of the prop, Strong Luck.

"Item Skill: Strong Luck."

"Roll three dice. When the numbers they throw are all 1, you can get a strong luck state, which increases the success rate of the next luck-related choice. The effect of the increase depends on the inspiration value."

He held down the five wheels with his five fingers and moved them downwards at the same time.

I saw the five wheels rolling at the same time, and then stopped at the same time. The moment they stopped, the door of the secret room opened with a slight click.

No matter how good the combination lock is, it cannot stop someone from guessing the correct combination.

Just as Wu Chang expected, there was a small altar built in the secret room, with a strange flame of red and gold floating on the altar.

The feeling was similar to the fire of the year, but it was more intense than ordinary fire of the year.

Affected by the flames, the Four-Directions Sui Huo Lamp in Wu Chang's personal space became restless. He took out the Four-Directions Sui Huo Lamp, and a line of prompts popped up in front of him.

"I found the wick of the Four-Directions Fire Lamp. The Four-Directions Fire Lamp and the wick are attracted to each other. If you choose to pick up the wick, the two will be reunited."

"Note: The wick is already bound. Once it is picked up, you will start a contest with the original owner to compete for the ownership of the complete Four-Directions Fire Lamp. Both parties will compare their willpower and inspiration values. The one with the higher sum of the two attributes will erase the other's soul mark on the item."

"Do you want to pick up the wicks of the Four-sided New Year's Fire Lamp?"

Is there any need to think about it? Compared with other attributes, Wu Chang still hesitated, but when it came to will and inspiration, he was not afraid of anything in the wilderness.

"Pick up the wick!"

As the command to pick up the wick was issued, the Four-sided Sui Huo Lamp rose into the air, with the lamp body suspended above the wick and slowly rotating.

The red and gold flames danced happily, as if a wanderer was about to return home, quickly entering the lamp.

At the same time, Palm Fire, who was leading the nobles in prayer, suddenly stopped. His eyes widened as he looked at the prompt that popped up in front of him in disbelief.

"Attention, your Sui Huo Lamp Wick is merging with the Four-Directions Sui Huo Lamp. Due to the conflict of binding permissions, the permission contest will be automatically started in ten seconds. The final decision will be made based on the sum of the will and inspiration of both parties. If the judgment fails, you will lose the ownership of the Sui Huo Lamp Wick."

Several nobles looked at the Fire Master who suddenly stood still, not knowing what had happened. One of the nobles stepped forward and asked, "Fire Master Pope, you..."

"Shut up!" Zhang Huo had no time to deal with these natives at the moment. He turned half of his face and shouted coldly at the noble, instantly scaring the other party into silence.

The system gave him only ten seconds to prepare. He didn't bother to avoid the gazes of several people and took out seven or eight consumables from his personal space.

These include heroic potions that increase willpower and iron core solvents, as well as wireless puppet blood that can increase inspiration after use, and alchemical materials such as owl hearts.

Zhang Huo did not care about the value of these consumables, their side effects, or whether their effects conflicted with each other.

He had only one thought in his mind at this moment, and that was that he must not let the other party take away the wick!

In the eyes of the nobles, the usually mature, steady, elegant and easy-going Fire Master seemed to be possessed by a devil at this moment, madly devouring all kinds of strange things.

It would have been fine if he had taken potions of different colors in succession, but he could also stuff bloody animal hearts and sticky, smelly brown-green blood into his mouth and swallow them in big gulps without blinking.

The Pope, who always appears to be holy and merciful in front of others, seems to have a completely different side behind the scenes.

Several nobles subconsciously gathered together, trembling. They knew that they had seen something they should not have seen, and they wondered if it was too late to close their eyes and say they saw nothing.

Zhanghuo swallowed all kinds of consumables in one breath, and finally accumulated his inspiration to 53 points and his will to 42 points before the authority dispute was determined.

This number is very powerful even in the second level of the abyss, let alone in the wilderness.

Are you kidding? Don’t you know why he controls the fire?
Stupid guy, how dare you compete with the Pope of a sect in inspiration and will.

However, thanks to the other party's fearless sense of humor, his lost Four-sided New Year Fire Lantern was recovered. Ever since the Sui Sui Ping An copy was broken into that day, he spent a lot of time looking for the thief who stole his lantern, but he had never been able to find him. He didn't expect that he would find him today.

It is true that there is no place to look for after wearing iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it.

"The countdown ends, and the authority competition judgment begins."

Zhanghuo was rubbing his hands together, ready to strengthen his opponent, to seize his authority and cause some trauma to his soul.

But before he could gather his mental strength to deal with the impending collision of souls, he felt a sharp pain in his head, as if someone had inserted an egg whisk into his brain and started stirring it rapidly.

"The authority dispute is concluded. Due to the huge gap between the two sides, you have lost the ownership of the complete Four-Directions Yearly Fire Lamp and suffered a certain amount of soul trauma. The upper limits of your will and inspiration have been permanently reduced by 5 points."

"Dog thief!"

Zhang Huo's facial features were twisted together because of the severe pain in his mind, tears of blood flowed from his eyes, and he shouted in grief and anger.

For him, losing the Sifang Suihuo Lantern was not just a prop, it was a choke to his waist!

His name is Fire Saint, which is not only his name but also the name of his new job.

The Fire Saint is a profession that manipulates flames. The stronger the flame he uses, the stronger he is. Suihuo is the most suitable flame for him and the flame that can best bring out his abilities.

The loss of the Sifang Suihuo Lamp had already had a significant impact on him, but he could still comfort himself that what was lost was only the lampshade, and the real wick was still in his hands.

After he conquers the Soul Light Sect, he can take the wick and get a lampshade.

Who would have known that the thief who stole his square fire lantern would not wait for him to come to his door, but would instead follow him like a ghost and even snatch away his wick!

This is simply too much. Since the other party dared to show up, he swore with fire that he would fight to the death with that bastard!

"Somebody come!"

Hearing the firefighter's call, a team of patrolling guards came in.

"I have sensed the revelation from God. He told me that the holy object He bestowed upon believers was stolen by despicable heretics! Quickly seal all exits of the Soul Light Cathedral. Don't let even a fly escape. Then lead people to the Holy Fire Altar underground and catch the thief who stole the holy object!"

"Yes!"

Upon hearing that the holy relic had been stolen, everyone in the Soul Light Sect was in an uproar. You stole the holy relic, how are they going to perform the resurrection ceremony in the future?

You know, family members of staff members enjoy priority in the resurrection ceremony, but it is written in the recruitment notice!

We must catch that damn heretic and hang him on the Soullight Cathedral!
(End of this chapter)