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Chapter 239: The Underworld-level Mourning Staff, [Spiritual Guard] entry (6k words long chapter, please vote at the end of the month~)

The changes in the banyan tree were beyond Chen Xin's expectations, and so were the real bodies of the ghosts tied to the reeds.

As the banyan tree gradually grew taller, the ghosts on the reeds suddenly burst out with a strong yin energy.

Not just one, but all!

Chen Xin quickly recalled the things related to the merger of the Yin and Ming areas in Zong Peng’s memory. This phenomenon is an inherent phenomenon after the fusion of the Yin and Ming areas.

Any ghosts existing in the two merged areas will be strengthened by Yin and Ming.

But this is not what made Chen Xin look sideways.

What caught Chen Xin's attention was that among the hundreds of ghosts hanging on the reeds, two had the most drastic changes, so drastic that they directly broke free from the reeds and fell to the ground.

As soon as they touched the ground, ghosts emerged from the two ghost bodies.

The bloody skin and the blood dripping on the ground all showed Chen Xin that they were no longer the same as before.

They are a bloody disaster!
'scold'

Suddenly there was a loud explosion, and the two newly promoted blood disasters and their bodies were blown into a cloud of green smoke.

This scene took no more than half a minute from the beginning to the end.

Even Chen Xin could only watch this scene with twitching eyes.

He really wanted to curse those two ungrateful water ghosts.

Can't you just stay on the reeds honestly? Why do you have to get down from them?
Now that it’s separated from the reeds, how could the half-body shadow on the house-guarding medicine be polite?
But then when Chen Xin saw the sudden increase of 3800 points of Yin De in the "Compendium of Town Objects", he was stunned again.

"Just now... I think we only killed two water ghosts, right?"

Chen Xin didn't even bother to check on the condition of the big banyan tree, and went straight to look through the historical records of the Yin De point.

The two water ghosts contributed over 500 points of Yin De respectively, but the bodies of the two water ghosts contributed nearly 1400 points of Yin De each!
After seeing the number of Yinde points, Chen Xin suddenly remembered the water ghost that disappeared after being killed seven times.

He seemed to have grasped something, but there was no time to verify it now.

At this moment, Chen Xin saw the roots of the banyan tree spreading into the Shuigui River.

Looking back, the crown of the big banyan tree in Sanshan Village has covered the entire village.

The big banyan tree is not a ghost and has no levels, but the feedback of Yin energy after this wave of regional integration seems to have brought the big banyan tree a lot of benefits.

After seeing this scene, Chen Xin knew that Sanshan Village was safer.

With the big banyan tree there, the scope of the house-guarding medicine will be expanded to the existing Sanshan Village. In this way, the "gate" leading into Sanshan Village will be completely under the protection of the big banyan tree and the house-guarding medicine.

After this, if the ghost officials from the underworld want to enter the underworld’s residence to take a look, they will no longer fall into the Water Ghost River and be dismembered by the water ghosts as they did before.

Thinking of this, Chen Xin threw the Yin Shuai-level mourning staff into Huang Ying's hand.

The mourning staff was waving, and the roots of large banyan trees rose from the Shuigui River and entangled with it.

Soon, a wooden platform of ten square meters in size, built with the roots of a large banyan tree, appeared above the surface of the Shuigui River and below the crack of the entrance to the Yinming.

The roots not only built a platform, but also a two-meter-wide path leading directly to the river bank.

Just when Chen Xin was satisfied with his approach, there was a sudden noise outside Sanshan Village, where the wall had disappeared before.

The range of the big banyan tree became larger, and the darkness near Sanshan Village was dispelled about two hundred meters away.

But despite this, there was still no idea what was happening two hundred meters away.

But under the net sieve of the underworld, Huang Ying saw the changes in the Yin energy.

In the distance, there was a large group of dense yin energy crowded together, heading towards Sanshan Village.

The amount of negative energy in that ball was much stronger than that of the water ghost in the Water Ghost River before!

Three times? Five times?
Chen Xin couldn't estimate it, so he asked Huang Ying to bring the hundreds of water ghosts on the reeds out of the effective range of the house-suppressing medicine and throw them into the water.

These ghosts can still accumulate some good karma, there is no need to "spray" them to death with the house-soothing medicine.

It won’t be too late to look for these water ghosts after solving the new problem.

Without the folding space, the Water Ghost River is only this small, and these water ghosts can't escape far even if they want to.

After that, Chen Xin asked Huang Ying to go to Sanshan Village and bring the underworld-level evil-suppressing money and the lucky basin with him.

There was no point in carrying the Nether Raven figurine because it could not be triggered, so Chen Xin wore the paper-cut substitute close to his body.

It can be said that, except for the Nether Raccoon Figurine, seven of the eight underworld-level talismans have already been used.

In this situation, Chen Xin felt that even if five more blood disasters came, as long as they dared to step into the protection range of the house-stabilizing medicine, coupled with Huang Ying's talisman, they would basically have no way back!
Time passes by as we wait every minute and every second.

Five minutes later, Chen Xin finally saw clearly what was coming.

That huge mass of strong yin energy was none other than the giant worm-like ghost that appeared on the other three roads at the intersection when Chen Xin first stepped into the "wall".

However, compared to the worm ghost that was only two or three meters thick at the beginning, the diameter of the worm ghost now has suddenly increased to five meters.

It is highly likely that this worm ghost has also been fed back by the fusion of the Yin and Ming area, and the degree of feedback is not low!

Soon, the worm monster stepped into the area within a hundred meters of Sanshan Village.

The half-body shadow, which looked even more superior because of the changes in the banyan tree, immediately let out an angry shout!
But this time, the scolding did not have the desired effect.

The giant worm did stop when the roar sounded, but soon, after a wave surged through its body, it started moving again.

What made Chen Xin feel most helpless was that after the house-suppressing medicine shouted angrily and found that the worm did not respond, it ignored it.

This was something Chen Xin didn't expect.

When dealing with water ghosts before, he would just say "end the fight", but when he suddenly discovered this situation, Chen Xin immediately felt a little numb.

Fortunately, it didn’t take long before the angry scolding was heard again.

Although there was still no effect, at least Chen Xin felt relieved.

As long as it's not a one-off.

There is a cooling-off period, Chen Xin can understand and accept it!
At this time, the worm monster, which had been scolded twice and looked unharmed, had already begun its attack.

Its target is not Huang Ying, nor Sanshan Village, but the big banyan tree in Sanshan Village!
Not long after entering the range, the worm burrowed into the ground, dug out the roots of the banyan tree from the ground, and stuffed them into its mouth.

Chen Xin felt that he was not eating tree roots, but eating noodles!

Immediately, Chen Xin asked Huang Ying to use the mourning staff, which was still at the Yin Shuai level, to control the roots of the banyan tree and wrap around it.

Although worms feed on the roots of banyan trees, it does not mean that banyan trees are harmless to worms.

Worms are still ghosts after all, and even big banyan trees can restrain them!
But after the banyan tree entangled the worm, the speed at which it absorbed the Yin Qi from the worm's body seemed to be slower than the speed at which the worm itself absorbed Yin Qi from the air.

After two minutes of stalemate, a lot of tree roots were eaten, but the worm monster didn't get any smaller.

Seeing this, Chen Xin used his staff to move all the roots away from the worm's location.

The disappearance of the tree roots angered the worm that was feasting on the food. It opened its mouthparts and emitted an extremely strong suction force.

The tree roots that had already moved away were pulled back by the suction force.

Even the crown of the banyan tree more than a hundred meters away was sucked over by this suction force.

After a slight clicking sound, a five-meter-long branch on the tree crown was pulled down by the suction force.

Immediately, Chen Xin ordered Huang Ying to go out.

Dragging a reed, wearing a net sieve, holding a coin to ward off evil spirits, and hugging a lucky basin, Huang Ying walked towards the worm fully armed.

When entering the range of suction, Huang Ying's body shook at first, and then red mist spread over his body surface, offsetting the suction.

But it was visible to the naked eye that wisps of red mist continued to float out from Huang Ying's body and were sucked into the location of the worm.

At this moment, Huang Ying suddenly raised the basin in his left hand and overturned it.

The ashes were scattered, and not a single grain was wasted, as they were all sucked up by the worm in the distance!

That’s not all. Huang Ying threw away the basin, grabbed the coin in his mouth and threw it out.

Not only that, of the three sieves on the head, except for the one that could only detect the traces of ghosts which was still on the face, the other two sieves were all thrown away.

The three underworld-level talismans appeared at the same time, and in the blink of an eye, flames ignited at the mouthparts of the worm monster in the distance.

The burning worm raised its upper body in pain.

Then, a copper coin tied with a five-colored knot fell on the worm's head.

A suction force came from the square hole on the copper coin, and the worm, which had not yet made any subsequent resistance, was sucked into the copper coin in an instant.

A worm that was five meters thick and more than ten meters long was sucked away by a copper coin that was less than the size of a palm.

This scene is shocking and weird.

pat!

pat!pat!
Three landing sounds were heard one after another.

The first is the sound of the money used to suppress evil spirits falling to the ground. The second and third are the sounds of the net sieve falling to the ground after it expanded and lost its target.

With just two talismans, a ghost that could not be eliminated by the house-warding medicine was executed on the spot.

This scene made Chen Xin feel happy.

At the same time, Chen Xin's understanding of the talisman has become deeper.

A talisman that is very powerful in one aspect may not necessarily be able to dominate in other aspects.

Is the house-stabilizing medicine strong?
Very fierce!
When dealing with water ghosts, two blood disaster level water ghosts can be killed with just a roar!

But when dealing with the worms, there was no problem at all.

This is not a problem with the house-warming medicine, it is just the result of not using the right medicine.

Perhaps there will be a talisman that has the same power against any ghost, but at least for now, Chen Xin has not compiled it.

Whether it is Brother Ji, the house-guarding medicine, the yellow infant or the mourning staff, they all have their own areas of expertise.

If they are away from the direction they are best at, they are just ordinary talismans of the same level. If they encounter evil creatures like worms that can restrain the talisman, they will be half useless!

Overall, Chen Xin was very satisfied with this regional integration except for the loss of a folding fan.

At least, this fusion made Chen Xin see some shortcomings of the talisman!
This gave Chen Xin ideas for improving his future fighting methods and developing new town objects.

After thinking it through, Chen Xin asked Huang Ying to pick up the coin to ward off evil spirits.

Looking at the talisman money, Chen Xin suddenly thought of something.

At the original intersection, it seemed that there were three intersections and three worms?

When the thought arose, a strong suction force came.

Huang Ying's body trembled, and the talisman money in his hand was sucked away in mid-air.

Huang Ying steadied his body and turned to look in the direction where the suction came from. In the darkness in the distance, two other groups of thick yin energy appeared.

Then, the third group suddenly appeared.

At the same time, a reminder that the coin was damaged also appeared.

Chen Xin's face turned dark, and two thousand points of good karma were gone just like that!

But this was not the time for him to think about this matter. If he didn't get rid of these worms, Sanshan Village would probably be eaten clean by them!

"It would be great if that water ghost wasn't dead."

Looking at the current situation, Chen Xin once again thought of the ghost's original body that turned into green smoke and dissipated. If it didn't die, it wouldn't merge. If it didn't merge, Chen Xin would have enough time to familiarize himself with the talisman and compile it.

But now that things have come to this, there is no point in lamenting.

After giving Huang Ying an order to play freely, Chen Xin turned his attention to the three talismans in the "Compendium of talismans" that had not yet been upgraded.

Chen Xin understood that even if Huang Ying could rely on the reed and the net to deal with the three worms, he would still have to stop the attacks of the revived worms. Moreover, Chen Xin did not know whether there were only three worms in the fused area.

What if there are more, what if there are other blood disaster level ghosts?
Looking at the 9850 points of Yin De points in the Yin De points column, Chen Xin was eager to make a move.

Do you want to continue improving?

After taking a look at the battle on Huang Ying's side and seeing the stalemate, Chen Xin did not hesitate and summoned Brother Ji.

Holding the mourning stick, Brother Ji entered the town of Sanshan Village.

"Then let's upgrade one more, the last one!"

Chen Xin reminded himself.

The Staff of Sorrow is still 1% away from being upgraded to the Netherworld level. Adding the 2 hours required to enter the state of spiritual accumulation, it will take about 4 hours for the Staff of Sorrow to reach the Netherworld level.

Looking at the seven pieces of paper floating on the mourning staff, Chen Xin had high expectations for its promotion.

Time flies by.

In the blink of an eye, more than three hours passed, and there were only a few minutes left before Aizhang was promoted.

During these three hours, Huang Ying was beaten!

……

With reed in hand and two net sieves, Huang Ying was not at a disadvantage.

But the worm's ability obviously exceeded Huang Ying's expectations.

When the net sieve cast a green light, crystal white silk threads actually came out of the worms' mouths.

The silk threads intertwined to form a smooth, mirror-like shell on the surface of the three worms.

After the green light from the net sieve shot over, it was directly reflected by the smooth silk outer shell.

The dignified net sieve of the underworld level has lost all its function just like that. It is even more frustrating than the house-warding medicine!

Without the restraint of the two net sieves, no matter how flexible Huang Ying was, when the three-headed worms exerted suction at different positions at the same time, Huang Ying's body would feel torn apart by the three suction forces.

If it weren't for the fact that the reed with 108 barbs would attack a worm at this time, causing heavy damage to it and causing it to give up generating suction, the yellow baby might have been torn to pieces by the suction.

But after the three worms became familiar with Huang Ying's routine, several times even when Huang Ying tightly wrapped one of the worms with the reed, the worm did not give up the suction.

In this case, the placenta sac on the body surface of the yellow baby was damaged in many places.

I estimate that if it can hold on for another ten minutes, the placenta will not be able to hold on.

Fortunately, this situation did not happen. After Huang Ying held on for another five minutes, the ninth underworld-level talisman, the underworld-level mourning staff, appeared!
The underworld-level staff of mourning has changed in appearance.

The seven pieces of paper that were originally separated have now been woven together, forming a thick paper banner that is two palms wide and two meters long at the position below the chicken head on the top of the mourning stick.

When seeing the new staff of mourning, Chen Xin felt that this talisman, also known as the soul-guiding staff, would be more appropriately called the soul-guiding banner.

As for what new abilities the Staff of Sorrow had after its promotion, it was difficult for Chen Xin to explain clearly.

After the Mourning Staff is promoted to the underworld level, the new entry it gains is called [Keep Guard].

After the promotion, Brother Ji ran around Sanshan Village holding the upgraded underworld-level mourning staff, and finally inserted the mourning staff into the trunk of the banyan tree.

The soul flag on the mourning staff fluttered without wind.

Immediately afterwards, a burst of wailing sounds gradually came out from the mourning stick and gradually spread to the entire Sanshan Village.

At the same time, Chen Xin summoned Huang Ying back.

The three-headed worm that lost its target hesitated for a short while before rushing towards Sanshan Village from three directions.

The big banyan tree attracts them all the time.

But when they entered Sanshan Village and heard the mourning sounds, they stood still.

At a certain moment, the three-headed worm ghosts climbed up the three peaks on the sides of Sanshan Village and lay down.

Everything returned to calm, and the sense of urgency that Sanshan Village was about to be destroyed disappeared.

When Chen Xin put Huang Ying in Sanshan Village again and climbed up the three mountains, the three-headed worm ghost never attacked Huang Ying again.

When Huang Ying caught a water ghost and came to Sanshan Village, before the house-suppressing medicine could utter an angry roar, a suction force sucked the water ghost up the mountain from the bottom of the mountain.

However, during this process, angry scolding came first.

The water ghost was crushed by the house-warding medicine before entering the worm's mouth!

This is the effect of [Watching the Vigil]!

Any ghosts within the range of the inserted mourning stick, after hearing the wailing, will regard themselves as the "people" guarding the body and guard the "tomb" where the mourning stick is.

So far, Chen Xin doesn't know if there is an upper limit to the number of people who can keep vigil.

But Chen Xin knew that as long as the mourning stick was pulled out, the "person" keeping vigil would no longer exist.

Although the underworld-level mourning staff cannot eliminate ghosts, its ability is, to some extent, the same as that of the "rule-based" talismans such as the substitute paper-cut.

Once the substitute paper-cut is exposed, the ghost can find the person it replaces through the substitute paper-cut, even if the two have never met before, it can find the person!

The same is true for the [Wake] of the Mourning Staff.

Even if a worm can resist the net sieve, the house-soothing medicine, and the soul-snatching reed, once it enters the [vigil] range of the mourning staff, it will have to become a guardian 'person' obediently.

Looking at the worm lying on the mountain, Chen Xin did not let Huang Ying attack it.

Compared to taking action, Chen Xin felt more at ease when there were three more blood-disaster-level ghosts guarding the three sides of the mountain.

However, not solving the three-headed worm does not mean that Chen Xin does not want to understand what the Yinming area looks like after the fusion!
Immediately, Huang Ying rushed to the place where the wall was before, holding the reed.

Soon, Huang Ying arrived at the location where the wall was originally located.

It was as if two neighboring families suddenly broke down the wall they shared, and the Sanshan Village area was closely connected with the intersection area on the other side of the wall.

Huang Ying once again stepped from the mountains into the city's concrete ground. This time, there were no worms blocking the three intersections. Chen Xin also saw the scenes beyond the three roads through Huang Ying's web sieve.

There are three roads, and at the end of each road is another crossroads.

One of the roads at the intersection is connected to a road at the intersection where Huang Ying is located, and the ends of the remaining three roads are blocked.

Under the sieve of the net, Huang Ying saw three groups of yin energy fluctuations at the end of the three intersections, which were exactly the same as the worm ghosts before.

There is a worm ghost at each of the three intersections.

Just what Huang Ying could see were nine worm ghosts!
Chen Xin doesn't think this is the end.

If one of the worm ghosts is killed, will there be another intersection at the end of the street behind it?
Are there three-headed worm monsters on the other three streets at that intersection?

Chen Xin felt his scalp tingling just thinking about it.

After taking a deep look at this street that seemed to be able to be nested infinitely, Chen Xin asked Huang Ying to retreat.

As long as those nine worms don't come out, Chen Xin believes that he can still coexist peacefully with them.

At least before Chen Xin has more Yinde points to gain, it is better not to disturb this new neighbor too much.

Thinking of this, Huang Ying returned to Sanshan Village.

The first thing to do when returning to the village is to dig out the house-warding medicine.

Immediately afterwards, Huang Ying grabbed the mourning staff and triggered the ability to control wood, allowing the tree roots in Sanshan Village to exert force again.

In just less than ten minutes, an expanded Sanshan Village 'house' was successfully built.

The house-warding medicine is buried in the four corners.

The Yang Stone came out, the wine was spilled on the ground, and the five-colored light slowly rose from the four corners of Sanshan Village and gradually spread upwards.

Compared with last time, the spread this time is slower.

However, with the wailing staff and the three-headed worm ghost around, Chen Xin didn't care about slowness or speed.

What Chen Xin cares about are the real bodies of the ghosts in the Water Ghost River!
After killing two newly born blood-disaster-level water ghosts with the house-protecting medicine, the sudden arrival of 3800 points of good karma allowed Chen Xin to grasp the signs of something happening.

At this moment, after solving the problem of the fusion of the Yin and Ming areas, he could finally verify whether his guess was correct.

Soon, Chen Xin asked Huang Ying to come to the Water Ghost River and capture the real bodies of several water ghosts.

The true forms of these water ghosts are similar to the blood-disaster-level water ghost before, and they have been killed at least five or six times.

If nothing unexpected happens, after being killed for the seventh time, the real bodies of these water ghosts will also disappear.

This was supposed to be the case, but an unexpected event occurred: regional integration!

Chen Xin asked Huang Ying to kill a water ghost, and the Yin De points he provided returned to the original number.

This made Chen Xin come up with a guess. Perhaps, the regional fusion would restore the Yin De points possessed by the ghost itself?

Later, Chen Xin's test also completely confirmed this.

After seven times, one of the ghosts finally disappeared, just like the fan.

In addition to this experiment, Chen Xin also conducted another experiment.

Chen Xin let Huang Ying tear it to pieces with his claws once. It was also because of this time that the ghost did not dissipate after dying seven times.

But on the eighth time, when Huang Ying used reed to kill the ghost again, the ghost's body... disappeared!

After all these things, Chen Xin finally figured out the reason why his Yin De points were decreasing.

It’s not so much that the Yin De points have decreased, but rather that the Yin De points that this ghost can obtain are gone!

The term "Yin De Points" is quantified in the "Compendium of Town Objects".

But for ghosts themselves, it might be more appropriate to call the Yin De points the 'origin of ghosts'.

The reason why the Yin De points are getting fewer and fewer is because the "ghost origin" in the ghost's body is becoming less and less after repeated consumption until it is completely consumed.

The external manifestation of the complete consumption of the 'Origin of the Ghost' is the disappearance of the ghost's body!

But this situation will only happen to ghosts that are eliminated by talismans.

The "Collection of Town Objects" will gain Yin De points by using town objects to eliminate ghosts.

To put it another way, the ghosts that were eliminated by the talisman were robbed of their "ghost origin"!
However, ghosts eliminated by ordinary means cannot plunder the "ghost origin".

This is why the Public Opinion Research Bureau says that "ghosts cannot be killed."

But in fact, ghosts are not impossible to kill, but in this world, apart from the talisman created by Chen Xin, there is nothing else that can consume the "ghost essence".

Only in this way can we come to the conclusion that "ghosts cannot be killed"!

In other words, before the "Town Object Encyclopedia" appeared, there was a 'bug' in this world.

This 'bug' is the ghost that can't be killed.

The emergence of "A Complete Collection of Town Objects" and the appearance of town objects are equivalent to patching the world.

The 'bug' that ghosts cannot be killed was fixed after the appearance of talismans.

To be more precise, "Zhenwu Daquan" is just a tool to fix 'bugs'.

The person who actually fixed this 'bug' was the one who compiled each of the talismans in the "Compendium of talismans".

That is, Chen Xin!

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PS: I caught up, but my head is a little dizzy. I have to go for a prenatal check-up tomorrow, so I’m not sure about the update... let’s see how it goes.

On the last day of the month, the monthly votes are still 200 away from 5000, which is the next update node.

There are still monthly tickets available for voting~
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