Starting with the Earth God, the path to immortality is deduced!

A chilling, fishy-smelling wind swirled through the main hall of the mortuary.

Finally, it stopped at Zhou Yuan's feet.

In the past, Zhou Yuan might have cautiously drawn his sword.

But at the moment.

He smiled.

He laughed rather unrestrainedly.

Because he understood the sound in the wind.

That wasn't the enemy's clamor.

That was the lament of this land.

It is also the desire of this land.

"Want someone to be in charge?"

Zhou Yuan looked down at the floor tile beneath his feet, which seemed to have come alive.

A soft murmur.

"Then...as you wish!"

As that sound faded...

The [Lishe Land God Seal] within his body seemed to be on stimulants.

It started pounding violently.

boom!

boom!

boom!

Each jump is like beating a war drum.

The shock caused Zhou Yuan's blood and qi to surge.

But he did not suppress it.

Instead, he opened his arms wide, letting the restlessness assault his soul.

That feeling.

It's like a child who has grown up and can no longer fit into their old clothes.

It's so tight!

Since it no longer fits.

Then let's change it!

Get a bigger, more imposing one!

Zhou Yuan waved his sleeve.

The door, which had been blown open by the cold wind, slammed shut.

It kept all the darkness and prying eyes out of the door.

He turned and went back to the prayer mat.

Sit cross-legged.

Divine thoughts are like knives.

Cut directly into the "Tales of Gods and Monsters" that are floating in front of you.

slam-la-

The pages of the book are turned.

This time.

It did not dwell on any images of demons or monsters.

Instead, they flipped directly to the "Demon Land" chapter, which was still emitting a faint glow.

only.

The page now has a large blank space at the end.

That was uncharted territory.

It is also an opportunity for advancement.

"Deduction!"

"Explain the difference between 【里社】 and 【乡亭】!"

Zhou Yuan silently recited in his heart.

The Yin energy he had plundered during the battle at the City God Temple was now being poured into him as if it were free.

hum!

The pages of the book trembled.

Lines of golden ancient seal script began to emerge in that blank space.

[Li She is the leader of a ten-li society. 】

It is our duty to defend our territory and protect our people.

However, the earth varies in size, and the atmosphere varies in thickness.

[A village pavilion is a gathering place for various communities, governing a region of over a hundred li!]

[It needs the momentum of all rivers flowing into the sea.]

[It requires the offerings of incense from all the people.]

Furthermore... it is necessary to suppress the rebellious forces deep within the earth's veins!

Every single word.

It was like a heavy hammer blow to Zhou Yuan's heart.

He understood.

The previous village head was like a village chief.

Just mind your own business.

As long as the villagers don't cause trouble, everything will be fine.

But the land in Xiangting is different.

That's the town mayor!

Even the county magistrate!

We need to manage not only the city.

They also wanted to bring all the scattered villages and countryside around them under their control.

We need to organize those chaotic and disorganized local elements into a large network.

Take that step.

That's a qualitative leap!

"The rebellious spirit deep within the earth's veins..."

Zhou Yuan pondered the last sentence.

A fierce glint flashed in his eyes.

really.

Getting promoted and making a fortune isn't that easy.

Beneath this Fengzhou city, there is nothing but that dead ghost Lin Xuan.

There are probably still quite a few old monsters hiding there.

They are usually intimidated by the City God's majesty and dare not show themselves.

The City God Temple has now collapsed.

No new gods have been established.

These monsters and demons are definitely not convinced.

Want to be the boss?

Then we have to press these troublemakers into the ground and rub them one by one!

Until they submit!

Silent all night.

Early the next morning.

The genius was just beginning to emerge.

Then someone knocked on the door of the mortuary.

It wasn't really knocking.

It should be said that it was hit with tremendous force.

"Open the door! Open the door!"

"Boss Zhou, are you doing business or not?"

It is Uncle Wang.

He was a renowned coffin maker in Fengzhou City and also served as a de facto steward for the mortuary.

Ever since Zhou Yuan took over the mortuary, this old man has been busy with everything.

Zhou Yuan opened the door.

Wang Bo was carrying two steaming hot buns in his hands, looking anxious.

"Oh, my little darling."

"What time is it?"

"The line of people waiting to get things done stretches all the way to the street corner!"

"Why are you still sleeping?"

Zhou Yuan took the steamed bun.

took a bite.

Really fragrant.

Thin skin, thick flesh, and plenty of oil.

"Uncle Wang."

Zhou Yuan mumbled incoherently as he chewed on a steamed bun.

"I'm not doing business today."

Uncle Wang was taken aback.

The broom in my hand almost fell to the ground.

"What?"

"Aren't you going to do it anymore?"

"Boss Zhou, are you running a fever?"

"Those guys outside are all big spenders!"

"And that Master Zhao, he said that if you could look at the feng shui of his family's ancestral graves, it would be a huge deal worth a hundred taels of silver!"

Zhou Yuan swallowed the bun in his mouth.

He clapped his hands.

His eyes were clear and bright.

"I don't do small business."

"I want to do something big."

Uncle Wang blinked, looking completely bewildered.

How big?

"Bigger than Master Zhao?"

Zhou Yuan pointed to the ground beneath his feet.

He then pointed to the distant mountains.

"Higher than the sky."

"It's even thicker than this ground."

"Uncle Wang."

"I want to take over the eighteen villages and pavilions surrounding Fengzhou City."

"They'll all be under the jurisdiction of our mortuary!"

Uncle Wang gasped.

He subconsciously reached out to touch Zhou Yuan's forehead.

"Oh no, oh no!"

"This person is possessed by an evil spirit."

"Eighteen village pavilions?"

"That's hundreds of miles!"

"That's tens of thousands of people!"

"Our mortuary is only so big, how can it hold so many dead people?"

Zhou Yuan smiled.

Take Wang Bo's hand off.

"I'm not faking death."

"He's pretending to be alive."

"I want everyone within a hundred miles to know the name of Zhou Yuan."

"I want them to not think of praying to gods and Buddhas when they encounter evil spirits."

"They came to find me!"

Wang Bo stared blankly at Zhou Yuan.

He lived most of his life.

I've seen arrogant people.

I've never seen anyone so arrogant.

But he looked into the boy's eyes, which were burning with flames.

I don't know why.

The doubt that had been nagging at me suddenly became impossible to voice.

This boy.

Since arriving in Fengzhou.

Haven't we created enough miracles already?

Fight evil spirits.

Slay the evil spirits.

Even the arrogant Wukong Sect suffered a great loss at his hands.

perhaps……

Can he really do it?

Wang Bo took a deep breath.

A red glow suddenly appeared on that wrinkled old face.

"good!"

"Since Boss Zhou has this ambition."

"Then I, this old man, will go crazy with you!"

"Please tell me."

"What do you want me to do?"

"As long as it's not about catching ghosts, even running errands like handing out flyers is fine with me!"

Zhou Yuan patted Uncle Wang on the shoulder.

"You don't need to catch the ghost."

"You will stay here at the mortuary and oversee the operation."

"No matter who comes."

"Just tell them."

"The world in Fengzhou City has changed!"

"From now on, this area within a hundred miles..."

"His surname is Zhou!"

Reassure Uncle Wang.

Zhou Yuan went to the backyard.

Ma Ling'er was sitting on the stone table, feeding Gun Gun bamboo shoots.

The iron-eating beast ate with a crunching sound.

He seems carefree and thoughtless.

Zhou Yuan came in.

Ma Ling'er didn't even look up.

"Yo."

"Zhou Da Tu Gong".

"What brings you here to inspect our work?"

"That 'divine intervention' performance last night was quite convincing."

Zhou Yuan ignored her teasing.

He walked straight to her and sat down opposite her.

"Do me a favor."

Ma Ling'er paused in her movements.

Finally, he raised his head.

A sly glint flashed in those bright, watery eyes.

"help?"

"That depends on the compensation."

"My appearance fee is very high."

Zhou Yuan extended one finger.

"One hundred taels."

Ma Ling'er pursed her lips.

"Are you trying to appease a beggar?"

"A descendant of the Ma family of Beizhou is only worth one hundred taels?"

Zhou Yuan extended another finger.

"Plus ten jars of 'Drunken Immortal Brew'."

Ma Ling'er's eyes lit up instantly.

That's a specialty of Fengzhou City.

It is said that even immortals would get drunk after drinking it.

The key is.

expensive!

Exorbitantly expensive!

"make a deal!"

Ma Ling'er slammed her hand on the table.

His heroic spirit soared to the clouds.

"Speak."

"Who to kill?"

"Or who should we bury?"

Zhou Yuan shook his head.

His gaze drifted beyond the courtyard wall.

"Don't kill."

"Go sweep the floor."

"sweep the floor?"

Ma Ling'er was stunned.

"There are many dirty things outside Fengzhou City."

"They are hidden deep in the mountains and forests."

"Hiding under an ancient well in a deserted village."

"I don't usually go out."

"But as soon as I start disturbing the earth's veins."

"They'll swarm like flies that smell blood."

Zhou Yuan's voice was cold.

It carried an air of grim determination.

"I want you before I make a move."

"Swatt those flies first!"

"And spread the name of my god to every village."

"I need incense offerings."

"A massive amount of incense!"

Ma Ling'er stared at Zhou Yuan for a long time.

Suddenly he grinned.

She revealed a cute little tiger tooth.

"Okay, Joo Won."

"Quite an appetite."

"Is he trying to become a bandit king?"

She picked up the baby who was still munching on bamboo shoots.

He hoisted it onto his shoulder.

"Let's go!"

"Since you've already taken the money..."

"Then we need to get things done."

"Gun Gun, stop eating!"

"Get to work!"

"Awoo?"

Gun Gun looked aggrieved.

I haven't finished eating the bamboo shoots in my hand yet!

The next three days.

The area surrounding Fengzhou City has become lively.

day.

Ma Ling'er is with a panda.

Like a whirlwind.

It swept through the eighteen surrounding villages.

The old corpse that had been entrenched in the back hills of Lijia Village for a hundred years.

He was blasted into charred remains by a lightning talisman.

That fox spirit that's causing trouble in Wangjiaji.

It was pushed back to its original shape by a plop on its bottom.

Wherever Ma Ling'er went...

That was swift and decisive.

Talismans flew everywhere.

Lightning flashed everywhere.

After finishing.

He even stood on the big rock at the entrance of the village.

Shout loudly:

"Listen up, fellow villagers!"

"The one who's ridding you of this menace today is none other than..."

"It is Zhou Tugong of the Fengzhou City Charity Estate!"

"There will be some major or minor disasters in the future."

"Go to the mortuary! Find Zhou Tugong!"

"It works incredibly well!"

In a short time.

Zhou Yuan's reputation.

It's as if it has grown wings.

It flew all over the surrounding villages and towns.

Countless offerings and prayers.

It transformed into golden threads invisible to the naked eye.

They kept flowing towards Fengzhou Yizhuang.

At this time, Zhou Yuan...

They weren't idle either.

noon.

The sun was blazing overhead.

Zhou Yuan stood on the ruins of the City God Temple.

This is the hub of the entire Fengzhou geomantic system.

It was also the core of Shintoism back then.

"Daytime trip!"

Zhou Yuan gave a low shout.

A golden divine soul leaped out from the top of the head.

Bathed in the scorching sun.

Not only was it undamaged, but it was also completely unharmed.

Instead, it resembles a golden statue made of crystal.

It shines ever brighter.

He was suspended high in the air.

Looking down at the earth beneath my feet.

In his field of vision.

The earth is no longer soil and rock.

Instead, they are a network of intersecting veins.

Some are as thick and strong as dragons.

Some are as small as snakes.

Most of them were broken.

It's clogged.

He looked like an elderly person suffering from a serious illness.

"rise!"

Zhou Yuan made a grasping motion with both hands.

Ten fingers playing in quick succession.

Golden streams of magical power shot out like threads.

It precisely wraps around those broken ley lines.

"Connect them for me!"

Rumbling--

Deep in the earth.

A dull thud was heard.

It looks like a giant dragon turning over.

Those once lifeless ley lines.

Under Zhou Yuan's guidance.

It began to move slowly.

Connecting little by little.

They blend together little by little.

Each connection to a ley line.

The divine light emanating from Zhou Yuan intensified.

That feeling of being in control of everything.

It's mesmerizing.

"Soon..."

"Just one last step..."

Sweat beaded on Zhou Yuan's forehead.

Although it is in a divine soul state.

But that kind of weariness comes from the depths of the soul.

But it is absolutely true.

He has already completed the analysis of the geomantic veins of the seventeen surrounding villages.

Only one remains.

It is also the most remote and desolate one.

Black Stone Ridge!

That place is the edge of Fengzhou territory.

It is also a legendary place of extreme yin.

Zhou Yuan's divine thoughts.

It extends along the earth's veins.

The moment his divine sense touched the Black Stone Ridge's earth veins.

A sudden change has occurred!

Roar--

A roar filled with savagery and antiquity.

It suddenly rebounded along the earth's veins!

"roll!"

That voice.

It doesn't sound like human language.

It sounded more like a strange noise from stones rubbing together.

boom!

Zhou Yuan felt a booming sound in his mind.

His soul trembled violently.

The magical threads connecting the Black Stone Ridge veins.

It broke instantly!

A thick, black mist, as black as ink.

It gushed forth from the direction of Black Stone Ridge.

Following the earth's veins.

They launched a frenzied counterattack towards Fengzhou City!

"How dare you!"

Zhou Yuan was so angry that he laughed instead.

He regained his balance in mid-air.

In the eyes.

The price of gold surged.

"If you won't listen to reason, you'll have to suffer the consequences!"

"I don't care what you are."

"Within the territory of Fengzhou."

"If you're a dragon, coil up for me!"

"If you're a tiger, lie down!"

The black aura came on fiercely.

Wherever they went.

The vegetation is withered and yellow.

The earth is cracked.

Even the air was filled with the stench of rotting corpses.

Zhou Yuan saw it clearly.

Within that black mist.

It was wrapped around a broken skeleton.

The skeleton was three zhang tall.

It was completely black, like ink.

He was still wearing ancient armor that had long since rotted away.

He was carrying a broken greatsword.

"The murderous aura of an ancient battlefield?"

Zhou Yuan's heart stirred.

It was recorded in the book of gods and monsters.

Fengzhou.

It was an ancient battlefield three hundred years ago.

They massacred 100,000 surrendered soldiers.

This skeleton.

It's probably a monster formed from the 100,000 vengeful spirits of that year!

It is also the biggest malignant tumor in this earth vein!

"Die!"

The enormous black bone general roared.

A sword was swung out.

The black sword energy swept in like a tsunami.

Even the sunlight in the sky was blocked.

This strike.

It is comparable to the pinnacle of the Night Tour Realm.

They even touched the threshold of daytime travel!

If it were the Zhou Yuan of the past.

Perhaps we should avoid their sharp edge.

But now?

"You ignorant fool!"

Zhou Yuan snorted coldly.

Instead of retreating, they advanced.

He flipped his right hand over.

An ancient bronze lamp.

It appeared out of thin air in my palm.

Blue Ghost Lamp!

"Awesome!"

call--

Originally a light the size of a pea.

The wind blew the water.

In an instant, it transformed into a blue fire dragon.

It roared as it charged towards the sky filled with black mist.

Ghostly flames.

It's designed to burn away the soul!

blah-

That seemingly terrifying black sword energy.

Before the blue light of the underworld.

Like snow piled up under the scorching sun.

Melted instantly!

"ah!!!"

General Blackbone let out a piercing scream.

The blue flame.

Following the sword energy.

It burned directly onto its body.

A deep-seated carbuncle!

It's a fight to the death!

"impossible!"

"What kind of fire is this?!"

"I am the Black Fiend General!"

"I am immortal!"

General Blackbone struggled frantically.

He wanted to extinguish the flames on his body.

But the flames burned ever brighter.

It burrowed directly into its marrow.

It burned until its very soul trembled.

"Immortal and indestructible?"

Zhou Yuan took a step forward.

He appeared instantly above General Blackbone's head.

Looking down from a high vantage point.

His eyes were indifferent.

"In this world."

"There is no garbage that cannot be burned cleanly."

"If so."

"That means the fire isn't big enough!"

Zhou Yuan formed a hand seal.

The power of the soul was poured into the Azure Lamp without reservation.

"Get me... melted!"

boom!

The azure fire dragon swallowed the enormous skeleton whole.

A frenzied massacre!

The screams of the Black Bone General.

Its sound resounded throughout heaven and earth.

Gradually.

The sound faded.

That enormous body.

It also transformed into an extremely pure cloud of yin energy within the flames.

It's even purer than Lin Xuan's time!

"receive!"

Zhou Yuan waved his hand.

The Book of Gods and Monsters appeared out of nowhere.

It's like a greedy glutton.

It devoured the yin energy in large gulps.

[Sacrifice successful!]

[Gained a large amount of Yin energy!]

[Unlocking the book page: Hundred Battles, Ferocious Bones!]

[Gained supernatural power: Soaring malevolent energy!]

The notification sounds in my mind kept ringing.

But Zhou Yuan had no time to pay attention to that at the moment.

because.

With the demise of General Blackbone.

That last obstacle.

Disappeared!

The geological veins of Black Stone Ridge.

Like a wild horse that has lost its master.

Although it was violent.

But it was no longer possible to stop Zhou Yuan's will.

"Back to your positions!"

Zhou Yuan pressed his hands down sharply.

Boom!

Eighteen earth veins.

At this moment.

Completely connected!

Centered on Fengzhou City.

It radiates outwards in all directions.

This formed a huge, perfect network.

hum-

between heaven and earth.

Suddenly, a thunderous roar, like the sound of a great bell, rang out.

It is not a voice from the mortal realm.

It is the voice of the Great Dao!

A dazzling golden light.

It shot straight up from the top of Zhou Yuan's head into the sky.

The sky within a radius of a hundred miles.

It was dyed a golden yellow!

Inside Fengzhou City.

All the people looked up in astonishment.

Watching this incredible scene unfold.

"miracle!"

"This is a miracle!"

"The Earth God has appeared!"

Countless people knelt on the ground.

To worship.

Even Ma Ling'er, who was dozens of miles away.

They also stopped what they were doing.

Look in that direction.

stunned.

"This guy..."

"Wasn't that making a huge fuss?"

In the quiet room of the mortuary.

Zhou Yuan's body trembled violently.

The [Lishe Land God Seal], which was originally only the size of a fist.

A tremendous change is taking place right now.

The volume has increased.

The color has darkened.

The pattern on it.

It also starts with simple cloud patterns.

It transformed into patterns of mountains, rivers, birds, beasts, insects, and fish.

More complicated.

Even more majestic.

A few simple, ancient characters.

It slowly emerged from the bottom of the divine seal.

It is no longer 【Fengzhouli Community】.

But...

【Fengzhou Township Pavilion】!

boom!

An unprecedentedly powerful force.

It instantly filled Zhou Yuan's entire body.

That's not yin energy.

It's not simply magical power.

It is the power of incense and divine offerings!

It is the power of the vows of all sentient beings!

Zhou Yuan slowly opened his eyes.

This moment.

In his eyes.

It seems to contain the entire landscape of Fengzhou.

He can hear.

A hundred miles away, you can hear the sound of ants crawling across the leaves.

He can see it.

Deep underground, the trail of flowing spring water.

even.

He could sense it.

Life, death, fortune, and misfortune within a radius of a hundred miles.

It all depends on his single thought!

"Is this... the land of Xiangting?"

Zhou Yuan clenched his fist.

Feel the surging, ocean-like power within my body.

A confident smile curved his lips.

"Ninth Grade Divine Way."

"finally……"

"That's a proper introduction!"