The game comes true, starting with the wandering spirits and gods.

"魙?"

Zhang Wenhao had never heard of this name before.

The fox demon's alluring eyes stirred up some unpleasant memories, which surfaced like bubbles on the water's surface.

"When people die, they become ghosts," she said, emphasizing each word. "When ghosts die, they become demons."

"Ghosts can die too?" Zhang Wenhao frowned.

"Ghosts aren't immortal; they just live longer than humans," the fox demon said calmly. "When their resentment dissipates, their obsession fades, and their souls can't hold on any longer, they die. What ghosts transform into after death is called a '魙'."

"But the '魙' is different from a ghost. At least a ghost still has a wisp of obsession to hold on to, and still knows who it is and what it did in its previous life."

"But the demon is different. It doesn't recognize anything, has no memory, no thoughts, and doesn't even know it exists."

"They just keep eating, they're never full, and they want to swallow everything they see."

Zhang Wenhao remained silent for a moment.

So, are the people in the provincial capital worshipping a monster that only eats?

What good is feeding a monster that has no independent consciousness and no thoughts?

What's even stranger is that after the fox demon finished speaking, there was no narration indicating that the mission was completed.

This shows that I am far from being able to find out the truth.

"I understand." Zhang Wenhao nodded slightly.

Seeing Zhang Wenhao's unusual reaction, the fox demon quickly offered a friendly reminder: "It's best if we don't provoke him."

She felt like she was extremely unlucky.

After a long slumber, her physical body had long since vanished, leaving only a wisp of her consciousness left behind as a result of her promise to the scholar.

But after waking up, everything went wrong.

Upon waking up, he discovered that the era he was in was a full century apart, and the person who carried the Wenqu Shusheng destiny had long since been reincarnated in some obscure corner of the world.

Who should she turn to?

He had only intended to grab any ordinary person to make do with for now. Little did he know that behind that ordinary person stood a god who could transform and possess him.

Having finally humbled himself and managed to carve out a way to survive, this local deity turned his attention to the beast that had been fed for a long time in the provincial capital.

That's a demon, a demon that can eat even ghosts and devour even souls; even the mountain winds don't want to blow that way.

The fox demon felt increasingly suffocated by the thought.

She looked down at her translucent hands, which had no flesh and were as fragile as a candle in the wind.

Looking at the new top-ranked player, just from his aura, he doesn't seem like an ordinary person.

Unfortunately, they also obeyed the local deity's every word.

Zhang Wenhao did not respond.

He understood that since the game had chosen to send him to this provincial capital, he would most likely be unable to avoid all the evil conspiracies and schemes.

Just like the Medicine Village mentioned earlier, even though it was located on a dirt road, it eventually ran into the treacherous village chief after going around in circles.

Everything seemed like a preordained arrangement within the game.

If it weren't for the fact that A-Yun and Zhao-Cai are both living, breathing characters, he would even suspect that they were created by the game's controllers to trigger the plot.

You can run away from it one day, but you can't hide it the next.

Since that's the case, instead of waiting for that monstrous creature to grow fat and come knocking on our door, we should find out its true nature before it becomes too powerful.

Know yourself and the enemy, a hundred battles will never end.

"No matter what, we must find out the truth about this."

He spoke casually through Ah Yun's mouth: "What if it poses a threat to the entire city's population?"

Upon hearing this, the fox demon fell silent.

She wanted to say, "What's it to you?" and "You may be the local deity, but this provincial capital isn't your territory."

But seeing that the local earth god would still help a little girl who had left the village and married into the provincial capital, one can tell that such words are useless to him.

It's clear that he wasn't a cold-blooded wild god; he probably genuinely cared.

But what does all this have to do with her?

Whether the provincial capital is being ravaged by monsters or all the people in the city are swallowed up, she doesn't care.

All she wanted was to live, find the reincarnation of the scholar Wenqu, and then personally understand her own karma before embarking on the broad road of cultivation.

"Lord Earth God," she lowered her head, her tone pleading, "I am but a lowly demon, with no great ambitions, and I have no desire to join this conflict."

"Please return the jade fragments to me and set me free."

Lacking ambition?

Zhang Wenhao looked over subconsciously.

Those hazy gray eyes followed the gaze and landed on the fox demon.

Isn't that big?

He looked away, too lazy to waste any more words.

Previously, they were wary of the fox demon and had kept a backup plan, but now that A-Yun has arrived, keeping her around is no longer of any use.

"Alright, I can set you free, but how can you guarantee you won't do anything immoral or unethical?"

He asked rhetorically.

Of course, this was just to scare her.

As a wanderer, he had long since transcended the cycle of reincarnation, and the merits and karmic debts accumulated by a fox demon through her misdeeds posed no threat to him.

Upon hearing this, the fox demon hesitated and struggled for a moment.

Her lips moved twice, as if she had made up her mind to speak:

"I hereby swear a solemn oath that if I ever do anything immoral or immoral, may my cultivation never progress further, and may I remain outside the path to enlightenment, never to be liberated."

Her vow was ruthless, which surprised Zhang Wenhao.

Just to be on the safe side, he silently asked A-Yun, "Since she's a demon who cultivates, is this kind of oath valid?"

Ayun nodded inside her body: "Such a solemn oath is imprinted in one's destiny. If it is broken in the future, it will surely be unforgivable by Heaven."

Can you do this?

In this world, scumbags can no longer casually make oaths that are destined to be struck by lightning.

Zhang Wenhao nodded and walked up to Wei Hongyao.

The little girl was quite perceptive; she took out several fragments of jade from her sleeve.

"Take it."

The fox demon nervously and carefully took the fragments, and using some kind of sorcery, swallowed them all.

With a complicated expression, she said, "Lord Earth God, until we meet again."

He then gave a curtsy, but it was impossible to tell whether it was genuine or just a polite gesture.

After sitting down, she turned around, her white skirt swaying gently in the dim light, and walked towards the door.

Just as they were about to open the door, they suddenly stopped.

Something was blocking her way.

A paper crane.

The paper crane squeezed through the crack and staggered around the room once.

Just as it was about to land, it would flutter twice and rise up again.

Zhang Wenhao's pupils contracted.

Such a flight trajectory is completely contrary to common sense.

Suddenly, A-Yun's voice rang out from inside her: "Temple God, this paper crane has been imbued with life!"

He manipulated A-Yun's hand, secretly using his inner energy to protect himself, and reached out towards the paper crane.

"laugh."

The paper crane suddenly caught fire without any wind.

In the blink of an eye, it was reduced to ashes.

It's getting even stranger now!

The alarm bells in Zhang Wenhao's mind kept ringing.

The fox demon at the door suddenly spoke, his voice filled with annoyance:

"Where did this Taoist priest with the bull's nose come from!"