Starting from the folklore forum, making up town objects

Chapter 389 The Destroyed House-Protecting Medicine, Blood Shadow Inside the Building

Chen Xin was also stunned when he saw that the two reeds had been successfully sewn together.

He had only thought about sewing together different talismans, but had never considered sewing together identical talismans.

On the one hand, he only had one of each type of talisman; on the other hand, Chen Xin was blind to this problem.

Thus, Chen Xin became even more determined to continue recruiting people to fill the organizational structure of the underworld.

After that, Chen Xin watched as Bai Yongnian and the other three underwent multiple 'enhancements,' and his Yin Virtue was depleted time and time again.

If Ye Chang hadn't stopped them in time, preventing the already overconfident crowd from getting carried away, they probably would have had very few Yin Virtue Points left.

Nevertheless, each of the four people spent an average of 500 Yin Virtue on 'strengthening the talisman'!

In reality, the types of talismans held by the underworld officials are mainly concentrated on reeds, candlestones, nets, pots, and cloth dogs. A few may have mourning staffs, medicines for warding off evil spirits, or money for suppressing misfortune. As for talismans like sachets, they should be good choices for protection, but recently the officials have been accumulating merit to bring their relatives to the Three Mountains' settlement, so there are not many new talismans available for exchange.

Only people like Shen Zhihong, who are not lacking in good karma and do not have many relatives to bring along, exchanged for the method of making sachets to wear for their own family members.

Therefore, although Bai Yongnian and his group had strengthened their equipment many times, they basically only used a few items in combination: reeds, candlestone, net sieve, potted plant, and cloth dog.

Fortunately, the four of them still had a sense of teamwork and did not blindly open 'blind boxes'.

After some initial trial and error, the group actually managed to create a useful talisman.

First and foremost is reeds!

The object that was initially successfully strengthened was then further enhanced into a net after discussion among the group!

It's a net formed by arranging multiple reeds in a crisscross pattern!

The grid of this net is over a meter long on each side. It's not for catching birds, of course. It was prepared by the four of them specifically to deal with the big-headed, menacing creatures in the old neighborhood.

The reeds sewn together into a net did not lose their binding effect; in fact, because they were composed of multiple reeds, a single net could trap all the ghosts that made up the net at once.

The net, made by the four of them together, consisted of twelve reeds. Although they were all Yin-level reeds, Chen Xin had experienced that if he threw them at a fierce beast, they would be as effective as a Yin-level reed!
If the goal is not to kill, but only to trap the evil spirits, this reed net can trap 2 to 4 evil spirits for a certain period of time!
Chen Xin wasn't sure how long this period of time would be, but it would be enough for Bai Yongnian and the other three to do a lot of things.

If it weren't for the stitching, and it were just twelve Yin-Yang level reeds, even if they were all tied to a ferocious beast, they could only slow down its advance. They wouldn't have the same effect as the net formed by the stitched twelve reeds!
This is the result of combining similar talismans to enhance their talismanic power.

Although it cost 1,100 points of Yin virtue to create this net, Chen Xin felt that this net could bring Bai Yongnian and the others much more!

Besides the Reed Net, there are other examples of failure, such as the enhancement of Reed and Candlestone Town!

Bai Yongnian may not have many other skills, but this time he brought several Yin-Yang level Zhuyeshi Town soldiers from the Sanshan Garrison.

So he tried combining reeds and candlestone, and ended up with a candlestone with a rope tied to its ankle.

Although the effects of both items remained, they each continued to operate independently.

After the rooster appeared in Zhuyeshi Town, it did not have any reeds on its feet. The reeds could only exist on the stone carvings in Zhuyeshi Town, which can be regarded as a kind of protection for Zhuyeshi Town.

But this kind of protection doesn't require wasting a hundred merits at all. Just throw a reed next to the stone sculpture in Zhuye Stone Town and it will have the same effect!

After the enhancement failed, Bai Yongnian did not consume another 100 Yin Virtue to remove the enhancement effect, but instead continued with a second enhancement.

This time, his target is the two Candlestone Towns!

Believe it or not, after the two Candlestone Towns were sewn together, there really was a change.

The abilities of Zhuye Stone Town have actually merged!
When the two Candlestone Towns were activated, a rooster emerged, but this rooster was clearly stronger than a single rooster.

Unfortunately, neither of the two Candle Night Stone Towns had ever exterminated any ghosts or evil spirits, so even if the rooster was strong, it was still within the Yin-Yang level and could not compare to the rooster that appeared in the Yin-Yang Commander level Candle Night Stone Town.

Chen Xin roughly estimated that if ten Candle Night Stone Towns that had never been annihilated were joined together, a rooster comparable to a Candle Night Stone Town of the Yin General level could be formed!
When Chen Xin discovered this situation, he suddenly realized something when he looked at the reed netting that had been sewn together earlier!

His good deeds have always only enhanced the physical objects of the talisman, that is, the talismans condensed from the "Complete Collection of Talismans".

If you want to enhance the power of a guardian spirit, besides letting the guardian spirit itself suppress evil spirits and enhance its power, you can also utilize the "spirit-nourishing" effect of the guardian medicine.

But now, the emergence of the stitched seal has broken this situation, providing the underworld officials with a way to elevate the rank of the talisman using their accumulated merit!

With enough good karma and the same type of protective object, you can enhance it to a level comparable to a powerful Yin General!
Moreover, the strengthened talisman can continue to improve!
This was something Chen Xin hadn't expected.

However, the sewn-up talisman can only kill evil spirits and enhance its power; it cannot even enhance the spiritual energy of a house-protecting medicine.

This was found by Chen Xin among the few sewn-up talismans he had thrown away at the Sanshan garrison.

This problem is likely caused by the seams.

But it doesn't matter, it's not important.

Besides Bai Yongnian, the other three also made various attempts, such as using a mesh screen and a candlestone to join, reeds and a mesh screen to join, a mesh screen and a pot to join, and a pot and a candlestone to join.

Among them, the seam between the mesh screen and the pot, and the seam between the pot and the candlestone are quite good.

Chen Xin had tried the net sieve and the potted plant before, so he wouldn't go into details. As for the potted plant and the candle night stone town, the combination of the two was beyond Chen Xin's expectations.

Outdoors, the Candlestone Town, which was connected to the Wangpen, was not activated, but the fire in the smoke rising from the Wangpen was much stronger than before.

When the rooster is placed inside the house, it not only catches fire but also emits smoke!

The smoke billowing from those brothels can be manipulated by the rooster!
Furthermore, when the rooster flaps its wings at the bonsai pot, the pot produces smoke at an unusually rapid speed, and similarly, it consumes pine and cypress branches at a very fast speed!
If the fire goes out, the ashes in the bonfire will be stirred up by the rooster, creating an area-of-effect attack.

Although the fusion was effective, there was a problem: the underworld officials could not control the rooster's actions.

How to do it is entirely up to the rooster's own choice.

Chen Xin could control the male roosters through Brother Chicken and release their 'skills' in a targeted manner, but he didn't have that much time.

In short, this enhancement of the protective barrier has been beneficial to both the underworld officials and Chen Xin.

Just as Chen Xin continued to reward the underworld messengers with the 'Enhanced Suppressing Item' through various tasks, he was surprised to find that one of the messengers had proactively redeemed the 'Enhanced Suppressing Item'!
And once you redeem it, you get four chances!
Chen Xin immediately turned his gaze over there.

……

Li Gongyang has been traveling around the mortal world these days, with only one purpose: to deliver all the talismans he made to the home of his deceased classmate.

He originally planned to make 270 talismans before doing this, but the situation in Daxia has been too bad recently, and he was afraid that by the time he finished making the talismans, problems would arise in his classmates' homes.

Fortunately, he now has a raincoat with raven feathers, which makes his movements much easier.

However, the process of delivering the medicine to protect the house was not without its challenges.

At first, he would reveal his identity as a fortune teller in front of the students' parents and explain the purpose of the medicine he had buried to ward off evil spirits, which would be good for them.

However, not everyone believed him, and he couldn't directly say that the deaths of his classmates were indirectly caused by him, or that this was compensation. So after being rebuffed several times, he began to secretly carry out his plan to bury 'treasure-protecting medicine'.

After avoiding contact with classmates' families and only burying the talisman, things went much more smoothly. However, it was a bit troublesome to have to sneak into the house the next day at noon to activate the talisman.

But who knew that his secret planting of a talisman to protect the house would also cause problems!

One of Li Gongyang's classmates had a security camera installed in their home, which Li Gongyang didn't notice. However, after Li Gongyang left, the classmate's family saw the footage and called the police.

The existence of the home-protecting medicine clearly touched a blind spot for the police, so they reported it to the Bureau of Investigation.

It just so happened that a member of the Bureau of Investigation was on a mission nearby that day and happened to come by. As a result, one of the Yin Cultivation specialists was immediately killed by the house-suppressing medicine, which suppressed the evil spirits inside him and rendered him useless.

After that, the Bureau of Investigation found Li Gongyang through clues and took direct action against him.

If Li Gongyang hadn't demonstrated his ability with the Raven Feather Raincoat, he probably wouldn't have stopped.

After figuring out the whole story, Li Gongyang felt somewhat helpless.

But this is not the end.

This time, when Li Gongyang arrived at a classmate's house, another problem arose.

This student's family lives in the countryside, but they are not poor.

His family built a five-story villa on their homestead, and such villas are rare in the village.

It can be seen that this student's family is well-off.

Fortunately, there were no other neighbors within a 20-30 meter radius of the building's location, so Li Gongyang's process of using crows to bury the talisman for protection went smoothly.

Just as Li Gongyang buried the house-protecting medicine around the five-story building and secretly sneaked into the house the next day to activate it, the Raven Feather Raincoat unexpectedly gave a warning!

The warning sign from the raven-feather raincoat indicates that this student's house is haunted!

However, it was already time to activate the house-protecting medicine, so Li Gongyang did not go to find the ghost.

Once the medicine for warding off evil spirits is activated, the evil spirits will naturally be eliminated.

However, things didn't go as planned. After he activated the house-protecting medicine and it was triggered, a problem arose.

The house-protecting medicine is useless!

The Raven Feather Raincoat is still under warning!

Relying on the raven feather raincoat, Li Gongyang boldly entered the building, intending to find the ghost and use the raincoat to deal with it!
As soon as he entered, less than half a minute later, he heard a muffled thud from the location of the talisman buried in the four corners of his classmate's house!

Before he could even check, the entire building went dark in broad daylight.

In an instant, it went from day to night.

At the same time, the crow feather raincoat on Li Gongyang's body immediately sounded an alarm. Before he could react, more than a dozen burning fire crows appeared around his body.

After the fire crow appeared, it illuminated the surrounding environment and allowed Li Gongyang to see the ghostly creature.

It was a figure covered in blood!
After the fire crows rushed towards the ghostly figure and detonated one by one, Li Gongyang activated the sticker and returned to the Three Mountains camp.

The reason for doing this was that the fire crows failed to kill the ghost!
After returning to the Sanshan camp, Li Gongyang was hoping to find other ways to deal with the ghosts, since besides the house-protecting medicine, he only had a few candle-night stone talismans and reeds that he had made before.

Because the effects of the house-protecting medicine and the Candle Night Stone Town are similar, he rarely used the Candle Night Stone Towns after they were made. He kept them in the house he rented in the Three Mountains. As for the reeds, they were all Yin-Yang level.

When he arrived at the exchange window, he saw the option to exchange for 'Enhanced Treasure'.

He has a considerable amount of merit points. After the house-protecting medicine is buried, it's not a one-time transaction. Any ghosts or spirits that are subsequently suppressed will be counted under his name.

So after learning about it, he thought he'd give it a try and see if the enhanced house-protecting medicine would work.

He only had one dose of the house-protecting medicine, so he chose to enhance the candlestones placed in the room.

Thinking that the more times he strengthened the items, the better the effect, he strengthened all four boxes of talisman medicine with a Candle Night Stone Town.

Fortunately, his four Candlestone Towns were made in a relatively small size, so after being enhanced, he didn't have too many problems carrying them.

After the enhancement was completed, Li Gongyang exchanged for two more stickers before leaving the Sanshan base.

When he returned to the living world, he was still in that haunted building, because the sticker he had replaced was still there.

Before the people inside the building could react, Li Gongyang had already transformed into a crow and flown out of the window.

It was already night outside.

When Li Gongyang, who had landed outside the house, looked up, he saw the blood-red figure standing at the window where he had flown out.

This discovery was significant. Li Gongyang found that there was a figure standing in front of one of the windows of the five-story building.

So... there's more than one sneaky one!
"What's the matter?"

Li Gongyang frowned.

What exactly happened in his classmate's home?
After hesitating for a moment, Li Gongyang did not take action that night.

Although the ghost in the building didn't come out when he buried the talisman, he still didn't bury it in front of the other party to prevent any accidents.

Li Gongyang waited until dawn before going to the four corners of the building and digging out the medicine that had been buried there to ward off evil spirits.

Without exception, all four boxes containing the talisman were broken, and the contents inside were charred black.

Li Gongyang put away the boxes of talisman medicine without handling them himself, and had the crow rebury the four boxes of talisman medicine that had been integrated with the Candle Night Stone Town.

After doing all this, Li Gongyang didn't just wait around idly. Instead, he went to find the neighbors around him to ask about the building.

Li Gongyang set his sights on the household closest to that building.

But when he knocked on the door and explained his purpose, all he received was a loud slamming sound as the door closed.

This reaction made Li Gongyang realize what the villagers should know.

He went from house to house asking, and after being turned away seven or eight times, he finally managed to get some information from an old man.

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(End of this chapter)