The afterlife blew up Gensokyo

"So, you see yourself as a monkey in a zoo, there for people to watch..."

Upon hearing Sally's rather unconvincing answer, Shi Bai's lips twitched involuntarily.

"It's not a monkey!! It's an angel!! An angel!!"

The fallen angel was inexplicably quite agitated by being called a monkey.

"Even a dead rat is still a rat, and a fallen angel is still an angel!!"

"So you've become so pathetic that you're comparing yourself to a rat...?"

Kazami Yuuka spoke with a rather subtle expression.

Sally: "..."

She felt that the two guys in front of her were a match made in heaven, even their speaking styles were so similar... So they were definitely deliberately trying to annoy her, right?

"Joining your Fallen Temple not only brings no benefits, but also costs you money. Do you think anyone would be willing to join your obscure Fallen Temple with such terrible conditions and treatment?"

Shi Bai spread his hands, his face full of speechlessness.

“I understand your eagerness to get your wages back from that God, but at this point, don’t you think it’s a bit too late to try to reach the same level as him through faith and godhood? You don’t need to do this at all. Didn’t I promise you before that I would help you get revenge in heaven?”

"...I will take revenge myself."

After remaining silent with her head down for a long time, Sally spoke in a muffled voice.

“You wouldn’t understand. Before the Lord abandoned me, He was the entire meaning of my life… He denied my life. That feeling of all my faith collapsing…”

"It seems she'll never get her revenge in this lifetime."

Turning to look at Yuuka Kazami beside him, Shibai looked regretful.

"……Hello!!!"

"Fine, if you want to take revenge yourself, then do it, but I don't think you'll succeed."

Shi Bai shrugged.

"Furthermore, even if you did manage to gather faith and become a god through such a foolish method, do you think your faith at that time could compare to God's? The religion he founded later became the largest religion in the world..."

"Constant dripping wears away a stone, and a rope can saw through wood. People should always have dreams; what if they succeed?"

Sally spoke up, somewhat indignantly.

"It's obvious you've never read 'The Rebellious Lu Zhishen.' Others like Lu Zhishen were able to rise from humble beginnings to achieve their lofty goals and ambitions. My starting point was much higher than Lu Zhishen's, so why can't I achieve it?"

Shi Bai: "..."

Well, it seems the main reason has been found... Seriously, what era are we living in? Are there still people who take things from novels as reality?

Oh, I almost forgot... In this day and age, novels are mostly based on factual literature... So, toxic positivity is that effective?

"The Rebellious Lu Zhishen? Who is Lu Zhishen?"

Shi Bai didn't respond, but Kazami Yuuka asked with great interest.

"The most popular serialized novel in the newspaper has recently been republished. However, it is said that it has been abandoned for a long time, and the last update was hundreds of years ago. Based on my guess, I think the author is probably dead. This is probably what they call the jealousy of the heavens."

Sally spoke quite seriously.

"Would you like to see it? Lady Shenqi has collected a complete set at the Temple of Ten Thousand Demons. I borrowed it from her before."

Shi Bai: "..."

...Serves this guy right for being so poor he can't even afford to eat!

"...Well then, since you're so eager to take revenge yourself, I can give you a chance."

A few coughs interrupted Sally's eagerness to spoil the plot for Kazami Yuuka, and Shi Bai spoke seriously.

"The way you're doing it now is absolutely impossible to gather enough faith. The reason is simple. Human faith has been almost completely divided up by the gods, and monsters would never worship gods. If we go back a thousand years or so, the idea of ​​gathering enough faith to become a god later in life might have been possible, but in the current environment, it's almost an impossible task."

"Let's take it one at a time, we'll get them all eventually..."

Sally muttered something under her breath.

"Gathering them all? Young people should just dream honestly and stop thinking about unrealistic things."

Rolling his eyes, Shi Bai spoke in a very irritable tone.

"It's impossible to become a god through faith in this world, but I can help you go to other worlds and gather faith there to become a god."

"Other...worlds?"

Sally was quite taken aback.

"That's right, it's other worlds. Anyway, when you get to that station, in those other worlds, you can even build yourself into a creator god."

Shi Bai pursed his lips.

"So, are you willing to agree? If you do, then from now on, you'll be one of the main forces in the otherworld exploration team!!"

"……what?"

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P.S.: The new book will be released soon.

Chapter Four: The Bodhisattva Riding a Motorcycle to Save All Beings

Without giving Sallyel a chance to refuse, Shi Bai immediately assigned her a position in the Future Fantasy Land Otherworld Exploration Team.

In his plan, the strength of this world is the primary element. Just as the three aspects that represent the strength of a world mentioned earlier are mentioned, the origin of the world is indispensable.

Compared to overt plunder and destruction, the clumsy but effective method of spreading and collecting faith in other worlds and using their power to improve oneself, though time-consuming, is undoubtedly a very useful solution.

The reason why there are so many time travelers lies in this. As the saying goes, cast a wide net to catch a lot of fish. As long as even one of the time travelers sent out by their own world can achieve success, then for that world, it is a sure-fire way to make money.

This method is usually the path to advancement for those in the lower classes, and it's also the main reason why the number of transmigrators is becoming increasingly rampant.

There are many ways that time travelers usually travel through time. Most of them are like trying to save someone on the street and getting hit by a car and dying. Of course, a more perfunctory way is that they might just go to the toilet, open the door, get struck by lightning, get electrocuted, and then travel through time.

However, if we discuss this comprehensively, the most common method is similar to being hit by a car while saving someone on the road. In some cases, certain worlds have even developed a profession specifically for sending transmigrators to different worlds. For example, a little girl who just happens to be crossing the road and is seen by the protagonist... Don't doubt it, that is definitely the work of the world's consciousness itself.

This is the common path to advancement in the lowest level of the world. Therefore, most of those transmigrators were ordinary people before they transmigrated. After inexplicably transmigrating, they were left bewildered, carrying the cheat codes that their own world had kindly gifted them, to seek survival in another world.

As for why most transmigrators are able to thrive... isn't that obvious? There are at least billions of humans in a world, so picking out a talented one from among them isn't difficult.

Although most of those transmigrators seemed ordinary and unremarkable before their transmigration, they were actually one in a billion chosen ones, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call them one in ten thousand geniuses in other worlds.

The world development plan that Shi Bai formulated was naturally not this kind, but a level higher than this, just like what he told Sallyel before, that she should collect faith in other worlds - in short, to go to other worlds and pretend to be a charlatan.

Given Sariel's potential, she might actually become the creator goddess of another world...

"That's all there is to it. Just understand it literally. If you really can't understand it, that's okay. You'll understand it eventually."

The fallen angel still looked completely bewildered when they met, and Shi Bai was too lazy to spend too much time explaining to him, since these things were really hard to explain nowadays.

"Oh...are you going to see Lady Shinki now?"

Nodding in bewilderment, Sally suddenly perked up for some reason.

"The Demon Realm has changed so much in the last few hundred years, you must not be able to find your way. Shall I lead you there?"

"We can talk about leading the way later. You haven't told me why those monsters would think of coming to the Demon Realm to do hard labor."

Shi Bai waved his hand and pointed outside the Fallen Temple.

"What's going on at the construction site over at the ruins of Vener?"

"That? Those were workers that Lady Shinki specially recruited from outside the Demon Realm because of the Demon Realm's large-scale development project."

After glancing in the direction Shi Bai pointed, Sariel replied, seemingly with a hint of resentment.

"According to the Succubus's plan, a resort city will be built over the ruins of Vena, and it will be used as a major tourist destination and residence when the Demon Realm is opened to the public... There is no need to pay attention to them, because they are all a bunch of idiots with problems in their brains."

"fool?"

"They can't even see my enormous, magnificent, fallen temple standing here? What are they if not fools?"

Sally pursed her lips.

"If the first one among them is willing to believe in me, I can appoint him as an archbishop. They don't even know to seize this opportunity that's fallen from the sky..."

"Hmm... I suddenly realized that you have many strengths and are a very outstanding person."

After folding his arms and pondering for a moment, Shi Bai nodded thoughtfully.

"Really?"

With her hands clasped together in front of her chest, Sally's eyes shone brightly.

"Of course, I never lie."

Shrugging, Shi Bai turned and walked out of the Fallen Temple, while Kazami Yuuka followed slightly behind him by about half a step.

"Although you're not smart, you're stupid; although you're naive, you're foolish; although you lack self-awareness, you have a high opinion of yourself. As long as you maintain this mindset, you will definitely succeed. Keep it up."

Sally: "??????"

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Beyond the Fallen Temple lies the Demon City, the main gathering place for demons, where almost all demons of the entire demon realm reside.

It has to be said that compared to when Shi Bai left hundreds of years ago, the Demon Realm has undergone too many changes. It is quite obvious that Shi Bai could see at a glance that the mental state of the people in the Demon Realm has changed a lot compared to the past.

Although the prohibition against leaving the Demon Realm still exists, with the opening of the Demon Realm, a large number of foreign monsters have poured into it. This is quite a big deal for the Demon Realm, which was originally a peaceful place where there was basically no major news or changes.

In fact, there were quite a few demons moving around in the ruins of Vina, on the bustling construction site.

"Did you introduce the underworld's currency system?"

After strolling around the streets with Kazama Yuuka for a while, and after buying a skewer of dango and handing it to Kazama Yuuka beside him, Shibai suddenly turned around and asked Sariel, who was standing to his side behind him.

Unlike humans, who have a widely recognized monetary system based on gold and silver, the so-called trade among monsters and gods is still limited to barter due to various factors.

After all, in the world of monsters, the strong are respected, and the strong can dominate everything of the weak. Things like so-called equivalent exchange currency simply have no possibility of appearing.

During the hundreds of years that Shi Bai served as the Grim Reaper in the Underworld, he was extremely dissatisfied because neither the Grim Reaper nor Yama received any salary and he was working for free every day. Therefore, he spent more than 100 years establishing a basic system for currency in the Underworld.

He even spent three months painstakingly studying financial management on his own because of this...

"That's right. It's not just in the Demon Realm; the monsters in the mortal world have also started using this currency system. The Demon Realm currency that Lady Shinki independently developed has completely ceased to be used."

Looking enviously at the string of dumplings in Yuuka Kazami's hand, Sariel gave a dry reply.

"I had worked hard in the Demon Realm for so many years and had saved up some money. But I spent all my savings to build the Fallen Temple and went bankrupt. There are still three whole months until the next payday."

"...So the reason you offered to lead the way was just so you could mooch a meal, right?"

With a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth, Shi Bai casually handed the other person another string of dumplings.

Perhaps due to the unique geological advantages of the Demon Realm, these dumplings, which looked very similar to candied hawthorns to him, actually tasted quite good, only a little pricey.

An ordinary Grim Reaper's monthly salary is 100 yuan, while this string of candied hawthorns costs a terrifying 1 yuan, which is even equivalent to two bowls of soul-snatching noodles.

If we consider buying a Kohaku for 100,000 yen, then a shameless shrine maiden would be worth 100,000 dango balls. A Shinigami would need to work for 1000 months to buy a Kohaku, making it incredibly expensive.

"What can I do? I have to make a living. I haven't eaten for months. You know, I almost started targeting those monsters..."

With lightning speed, Sariel took the string of dumplings and shook her head, her face filled with unbearable memories.

"If it were before, I could secretly manufacture some demonic currency for my own use, but I simply can't counterfeit this new type of currency that has spread from the underworld... Huh?"

Sally was completely dumbfounded when she saw Kazami Yuuka suddenly and quite naturally take the string of dumplings from her hand.

"This string is for you."

She took another string of dumplings from a roadside stall and placed it in Sariel's hand. Holding the string of dumplings, Kazami Yuuka calmly walked back to Tokihaku's side.

"……Uh?"

Sally was completely taken aback by Kazami Yuuka's actions.

"Can't you see something so simple? I saw it at a glance."

With his arms crossed, Shi Bai shook his head, seemingly with a sigh.

"It's obvious that the string of dumplings I just gave you is a year bigger... mmm!?"

With a blank expression, Kazami Yuuka stuffed the string of dumplings in her hand into Shi Bai's mouth.

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