Starting from the folklore forum, making up town objects

Chapter 364 Cleanup Mission in the Underworld
Before the town of Zhuyeshi was made public, the Bureau of Investigation had contacted the Underworld to inquire whether it was permissible to make Zhuyeshi public.

Previously, the Bureau of Public Opinion and the Underworld said that the talisman would be used by the Bureau of Public Opinion, not by the entire Great Xia Dynasty.

At first, Chen Xin thought the Bureau of Pollution was quite particular in this regard, but then he realized that the Bureau of Pollution wasn't particular, but rather cautious.

After all, the relationship with the underworld cannot be damaged during this period.

Chen Xin naturally had no objection to this matter.

Although it has only been publicly revealed for two days, the number of people in Candlestone Town has increased a hundredfold.

However, the Great Xia Dynasty had more than just this many people, but after reaching 500,000, the growth rate in Zhuyeshi Town slowed down.

The reason for the slow growth in the number of Candlestone Towns is not that the people of Great Xia do not want to do it, but because... there are no more materials!

One Zhuye Stone Town requires the combs of three to five roosters. In just the past two days, more than two million roosters have had their combs cut off because of Zhuye Stone Town.

This only applies to the rooster.

Some people who haven't carefully checked the requirements, or who simply can't buy a rooster, might try using a hen's comb to see if it works.

Fortunately, there are no taboos in Candlestone Town; otherwise, this wave of casualties would likely be even higher than the casualties caused by the Divine Envoy Organization opening the rift before.

Chen Xin conservatively estimates that more than five million live chickens have died in Zhuyeshi Town in the past two days!
These are live chickens, and they've grown to a certain size; they're not chicks, nor are they frozen zombie chickens.

It's easy to imagine that Daxia will definitely become a major chicken-raising country in the future.

Even for a long time, the price of chicken will not fall.

At the same time, among the wealthy, there is a high possibility that chicken will be extremely scarce.

Although the description of the Candle Night Stone Town does not say that the better the rooster comb used, the better the effect of the Candle Night Stone Town, in fact, the stronger the rooster, the better the effect of the Candle Night Stone Town after applying the comb.

Therefore, high-quality roosters will definitely become a scarce resource in the future.

This is only the rooster aspect. The introduction to the Candle Night Stone Town also mentions that it is made from stones with abundant Yang essence, or supplemented with other town-building items to enhance its power!
In other words, the stone material used to carve the Zhuye Stone Town had a significant impact on its quality.

Chen Xin had never used special stone to make the Candle Night Stone Town, but he had seen the Bureau of Investigation make the Candle Night Stone Town using Yang Stone.

Although the Yin-level Candle Night Stone Town made of Yang Stone is no match for the fierce evil spirits, it is much more efficient than the ordinary Candle Night Stone Town in dealing with vengeful ghosts, almost twice as effective!
Of course, Yang Stone is a very rare material, and ordinary people cannot obtain it.

However, other types of stone do not have this limitation. For example, among the more than 500,000 newly emerged Candle Night Stone Towns, more than a thousand of them are 10% more effective than ordinary Candle Night Stone Towns, and ten of them are even 30% more effective!
There is also a Candle Night Stone Town made entirely of cinnabar ore, second only to Yang Stone, and 1.5 times the size of an ordinary Candle Night Stone Town!
Chen Xin examined these stones; some were quite valuable on the market, while others were worthless.

Therefore, the choice of stone is not about whether it is expensive or not, but rather about following the concept of 'yang essence'.

As for what Yang Jing is and how to determine it, Chen Xin didn't know either.

However, once the base number in Zhuyeshi Town increases, someone will naturally summarize these points, so Chen Xin doesn't need to worry about it.

That said, although more than 500,000 Candlestone Towns were created this time, only about 50,000 were actually activated.

Not everyone who created Candlestone Town encountered paranormal events.

Chen Xin randomly examined a portion of the activated Candle Night Stone Towns; over 90% of them were wandering spirits and vengeful ghosts, and there were also some malevolent spirits, but very few.

All those who encountered the malevolent Candle Night Stone Town and those who created it perished.

Although Chen Xin had stopped his avatar from writing and focused his energy on the "Complete Guide to Town Statues," dozens of stone towns were being activated every minute, and even his avatar couldn't keep up.

Even if the Crow Prophet and Nine Suns were sent to deal with those evil spirits afterward, it would be too late.

This situation gave Chen Xin a feeling of being powerless.

However, there is only one illusion body, and the "Complete Guide to Suppressing Objects" cannot be given to anyone else, so this situation cannot be resolved at present.

However, although this problem cannot be solved directly, as long as there are no ghosts in the mortal world, it is equivalent to indirectly solving the problem of too many warding objects triggering the same thing and being unable to take care of everything.

To eliminate evil spirits in the mortal world, all the cracks in it must be repaired, and the gates of hell must be erected as a protective barrier.

Both of these things require a lot of good karma.

In the past two days, Chen Xin has gained 300,000 units of Yin virtue, but this is still far from enough to repair the rift in the mortal world.

Compared to those cracks, the millions of karmic merits required to elevate one from the Gates of Hell to the level of Yama seem insignificant.

In addition, Chen Xin discovered some other issues among all the activated town artifacts.

Of the more than 50,000 activated towns, more than 20,000 of them, the Candlestone Town, are located in rural areas.

Logically speaking, the last rift created by the Divine Envoy Organization was all within the city, so the impact outside the city shouldn't be too great. However, the rifts in Zhuyeshi Town were activated in many villages.

After careful observation, Chen Xin discovered some clues.

In the past two days, after the Great Xia Dynasty made the Candle Night Stone Town public, almost every village has produced at least ten Candle Night Stone Towns.

Compared to city dwellers, people in rural areas are more likely to believe this claim and are very enthusiastic about making it.

However, due to limitations in the craftsmanship of stone carving and the number of chickens, Zhuye Stone Town could not produce many.

Don't assume there are many chickens in the countryside. Only a few households actually raise chickens in the village, and they don't raise too many. Most chickens come from chicken farms.

As for the ghosts that were activated and destroyed in Zhuyeshi Town outside the city, although most of them were real ghosts, a considerable number of them were ghosts from the bodies of folk fortune tellers!
As for why, Chen Xin was speechless after learning the reason.

The group of fortune tellers has always been highly respected in the village, especially those who are truly skilled.

Therefore, many people take the finished candle-shaped stone talisman to fortune tellers, hoping they can see if the talisman is truly effective.

Then, the fortune teller regarded himself as a testing instrument to check whether the Candlestone Town was well-prepared.

After being shocked to see the fortune teller defeated by Zhuyeshi Town, the people who didn't know what was going on started pointing at him and cursing.

They say the fortune teller is unclean!

Even worse, some would say that all the things that happened in the village in the past were the work of fortune tellers.

Many fortune tellers who have lost the evil spirits within them and become weak are almost always taken advantage of when they are down.

Furthermore, the families of those who hadn't been able to resolve their problems in the past would directly blame the fortune teller for their family members' deaths, demanding compensation from the fortune teller, or in extreme cases, even offering their own lives in exchange for one's own.

Chen Xin never expected that the worst aspects of human nature would be revealed to him in this way.

In Chen Xin's observation, after the evil spirits inside their bodies were eliminated, 50% of these fortune tellers died directly, 40% became old and weak, and 10% did not suffer much damage.

Chen Xin mainly observed the fortune tellers who had not suffered much damage.

Basically, they've all been cultivating ghosts for no more than three years.

For fortune tellers who have been cultivating a ghost for more than three years, the longer the ghost has been cultivated, the greater the probability of death after the ghost leaves their body.

So far, Chen Xin has only seen one method that is not very harmful to Yin Xiu and can also eradicate the evil spirits in his body.

That is the [Night Walk] ability of the Yama-level Sorrow Staff, and Wang Zhibo is the best example.

Besides these folk fortune tellers, Chen Xin also saw something interesting in the village's activated spirit objects.

At first, Chen Xin regarded those Yin cultivators as ordinary fortune tellers, but after Chen Xin saw several Yin cultivators with the same ghostly body, he knew their identities.

Ghost slave!

Aside from ghost slaves, Chen Xin couldn't think of any other situation that would make all these Yin cultivators' ghosts look exactly alike.

However, Chen Xin did not find anyone of the Ghost Heart lineage among those Ghost Slaves.

Recalling the Bureau of Investigation's speculations about those who were creating panic in the city, Chen Xin came to a conclusion.

The Ghost Slave Organization split into two groups: Ghost Heart and Ghost Skin, two well-hidden Yin cultivators, were sent to cause trouble in the city, while the other members of the Ghost Slave Organization were sent to cause trouble outside the city.

After he found several members of the ghost slave organization who had been killed in Zhuyeshi Town, and obtained some of their memories using the mourning staff and the money to suppress evil spirits, he roughly confirmed his idea.

However, Chen Xin couldn't find the reason why the Ghost Slave Organization would do this in the memories of those low-level members. But whatever the Ghost Slave Organization's intentions, the Bureau of Investigation's move to publicly reveal the talisman disrupted their plans.

In this chaotic situation, the underworld officials were also driven into action.

Underworld messengers have already entered the underworld to complete a cleaning mission in the dark realms.

The reason is quite simple: to accumulate enough merit to bring people into the underworld and escape the chaos of the Great Xia Dynasty.

Chen Xin was quite pleased with this outcome.

……

The Underworld, the residence of the Three Mountains.

Bai Yongnian and Ji Mo stood in front of the task board.

How do I accept this mission to clean up the underworld area?

Ji Mo looked at the task bar, which only displayed tasks and didn't have any clickable options.

Bai Yongnian glanced around, thought for a moment, then cupped his hands and said, "We are Bai Yongnian and Ji Mo, messengers from the underworld, here to receive our mission. We request that you, Lord Xing, appear."

After he finished speaking, there was complete silence.

"Old Bai, is the quest giver not here? We didn't just waste two stickers, did we?"

I felt a pang of heartache at the end of the season.

These past few days, he and Bai Yongnian have been exposing ghosts and spirits in Mubei City for who knows how many days. He is now somewhat desensitized to ghosts and spirits.

He's experienced all sorts of things these past few days: his face suddenly appearing, him hanging upside down from the ceiling, a grinning head popping out when he opens the refrigerator, and a hand scooping out feces when he goes to the toilet.

At first, when he was frightened, he almost always forgot to take action.

Fortunately, he has a Soul-Binding Rope, a powerful artifact that can be activated on its own. Even if he makes a mistake, few ghosts can get close to him. Moreover, he also has a Soul-Binding Rope at the Yin General level.

However, it's not true that having a Soul-Binding Rope of the Yin General level guarantees success.

During this time, he encountered a ferocious beast. Even with all ten soul-binding ropes on his body, including the Yin Marshal-level soul-binding rope, he could only stop the beast's advance.

In the end, it was only because Bai Yongnian brought his Yin General-level Soul-Binding Rope, along with the Shengyang Spirit Fire Basin, the House-Protecting Candle, and other protective objects, that the ferocious beast was finally killed.

It is said that fortune and misfortune are intertwined.

After the ferocious beast was destroyed, Ji Mo's second Soul-Binding Rope also reached the Yin General level.

The presence of three Yin General-level guardian spirits exceeded the requirements of the mission to 'clean up the Yin and Yang region,' but at the time they had no intention of entering the Yin and Yang region until the last two days when the Great Xia suddenly announced information about the supernatural events.

Using their identities as underworld officials, the two figured out the hidden crisis in this sudden incident.

At this point, they were still more than 2,000 merits short of their goal of bringing their family members to the underworld!
In order to give it their all, they returned to the underworld to undertake the task of 'cleaning up the underworld area,' which could earn them a lot of merit.

But now, the stickers are used, and they've arrived, but the underworld officials don't seem to be home.

A single sticker is worth a hundred acts of good karma, enough to make him feel bad.

Bai Yongnian, who was standing to the side, frowned when he heard Ji Mo's words.

But he didn't think Ji Mo was right. Even if the underworld's people went out, they couldn't possibly be unaware of their arrival.

"Just wait."

The moment Bai Yongnian finished speaking, he saw a giant beast leap down from the mountain on one side of Sanshan Village. Then, right before their eyes, the beast charged toward them.

He covered a distance of two or three hundred meters in just two or three jumps.

When the beast pounced down on them from the sky, both Bai Yongnian and Ji Mo were stunned by its imposing presence.

It's like turning your head to cross the street and suddenly seeing a speeding dump truck less than two meters away.

At this distance, there's nothing we can do.

But just when the giant beast was still two or three meters away from them, it suddenly shrank into a normal-sized black dog.

If it's not Jiu Ri, then who else could it be?
Tap!

Nine-day, with its four hooves on the ground, glanced at the two of them, then strolled over to the task bar and squatted down.

Immediately afterwards, an electronic speaker suddenly appeared in Jiuri's mouth.

Before Bai Yongnian and the other person could make a move, the speaker in Jiuri's mouth emitted a sound.

"So you're the ones who want to take on this mission?"

After a moment of surprise, Bai Yongnian immediately cupped his hands and said, "Master Xing, it's us! We need your help to take on the mission of 'cleaning up the Yin-Yang region'."

After he finished speaking, Bai Yongnian heard the electronic voice again.

"Bring out the talisman that meets the requirements, let me take a look."

Upon hearing this, Bai Yongnian and Ji Mo took out their respective Yin-General level reeds.

Jiuri glanced at the two people's talismans and nodded.

"Meets the requirements, you can accept the mission, but..."

The two, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, tensed up again upon hearing the last two words.

"However, before you, there was another person who came to the underworld. Because there weren't enough people, he couldn't take on the mission, but he was willing to join the team of other underworld officials."

"Would you be willing to team up with him?"

Bai Yongnian was startled.

Are there people who arrived even earlier than them?

After exchanging a glance with Ji Mo, Bai Yongnian nodded.

"We do."

The difficulty of this task has already been demonstrated, so the more people involved, the better.

Furthermore, given that the more raven feather raincoats they wore, the stronger the effect, they naturally had no reason to refuse.

As for the character of that underworld official, Bai Yongnian didn't care.

This isn't a treasure hunt, this is a mission to kill evil spirits!
Kill more or less, it all depends on your ability.

Furthermore, he and Ji Mo are currently the ones with the advantage in numbers and strength, while the other side is merely an opportunist.

If the other party is too arrogant, once he and Ji Mo leave, can the other party still be arrogant on their own?
With this in mind, Bai Yongnian was naturally not afraid of adding another underworld official.

"You wait here. I've already notified him. If he doesn't arrive within half an hour, I'll take you to the mission location."

……

At this moment, in the editor-in-chief's office of the terminal novel website in Xiangzhu City.

The palm-sized cloth dog on Ye Chang's desk moved slightly. Ye Chang, who was reviewing a novel on his computer, suddenly saw a dialog box pop up on his desktop.

"The teammate who cleared the Yin-Yang area has been found. Please proceed to the Three Mountains base within half an hour."

……

P.S.: There's one more chapter, it'll be later.

(End of this chapter)