“Uh… a good person?”
Looking at Li Hai's fierce face and overly burly physique, the Daoist stammered, "You… you don't really look like one."
"Let's not get sidetracked."
Li Hai said directly, "What are you doing here? And…"
He grabbed a large handful of talismans and held them up to the Daoist's face: "What are these things?"
"Hey, hey, brother, let's not be so aggressive when we talk."
The Daoist smiled and explained slowly, "This place is haunted, you should know that."
"I know." Li Hai nodded, "It's already been destroyed by me."
"So I plan to… Huh? What did you say!"
The Daoist had just blurted out a few words when he was stunned by Li Hai's understated remark.
He then quickly pressed, "Brother, you said you have… killed the ghosts in this evil Yin place? Is that true?"
"It's true." Li Hai said indifferently, "There's nothing to fool people about."
"Hoo~" The Daoist let out a long sigh, "That's very good, very good."
After saying that, he straightened his clothes and respectfully bowed deeply to Li Hai.
"Huh?" Li Hai asked in confusion when he saw this, "What are you doing?"
"This humble Daoist is Zhang Miaoji."
The Daoist raised his head and said sincerely, "On behalf of the common people here, I thank you, brother."
"No need, no need~"
Li Hai waved his hand and laughed heartily, "Hahaha, I just happened to pass by and saw it, so I destroyed it along the way. I didn't think too much about it."
"Is that so? It seems there are many things you don't know, brother."
Zhang Miaoji explained, "As the saying goes, vengeful spirits are all malevolent. If no one provokes them and they never see blood, they will usually just stay in the place where they died and not leave for a long time.
But once they harm people, shed blood, or are provoked by living people, the ghosts' malevolence will greatly increase, and they will leave the place of death during the night when the Yang is weak and the Yin is strong, and go on a killing spree in the surrounding areas."
Then he pointed to the surroundings: "And in evil Yin places like the one we are in, it is even easier to breed a large number of ghosts.
If they stayed here all the time, there would be no problem, but today, the old man Guo who governs this Dock area somehow went mad and maliciously set fire to this Yin place."
Speaking of this, Zhang Miaoji couldn't help but shake his head and sigh: "All ghosts hate open flames. If a malicious ghost survives under the raging fire, with its terrifying malevolence that has been stimulated, it will be a great disaster for the people in the surrounding areas."
Hearing this, Li Hai said thoughtfully, "So, I basically eliminated a ghost disaster in advance?"
"Not only that."
Zhang Miaoji stroked his beard and said, "This humble Daoist made some observations earlier and speculated that the one who survived here is likely a ghost that retains specific consciousness. Such a conscious ghost is much more terrifying than a stupid ghost."
"Hmm~"
After casually stuffing the more than ten yellow papers into his pocket, Li Hai rubbed his bald head and said, "Okay, well… if there's nothing else, I'll be going."
Anyway, he had already learned the Daoist's skills, so what was the point of staying here?
He had learned quite a lot, and Li Hai was very satisfied.
"Hey, wait."
Zhang Miaoji quickly grabbed his arm and said with a smile, "Don't be in a hurry, brother, we still have things to talk about."
"Talk about what?" Li Hai pouted and turned back, "Make it short, I'm very busy."
"Easy, easy, brother, it's like this."
Zhang Miaoji explained, "You, do you want to kill more ghosts in the future?"
"Huh?" Li Hai raised his bald eyebrow, "What do you mean by that?"
"Hehe."
Zhang Miaoji smiled, "Although you look a bit fierce on the outside, I see that you have a righteous spirit in your heart, otherwise you wouldn't dare to break into this place alone to eliminate ghosts and benefit the common people here.
And your martial arts should have reached the Steel Tendons Iron Bones Realm, otherwise you wouldn't be able to defeat that fierce spirit."
"And then?" Li Hai said calmly, "You continue."
Zhang Miaoji straightened his clothes again and said seriously:
"This humble Daoist, Zhang Miaoji, is a non-staff recruitment officer of the Dajing Demon Slayer Division. I officially invite you to join our division, to slay ghosts and eliminate demons, and benefit the people of the world."
Saying that, he bowed again.
"Demon Slayer Division?"
Li Hai said in surprise, "Are you from the Jing Dynasty government? How did you come to Dragon Mountain? Isn't this a lawless area?"
To this, Zhang Miaoji just smiled:
"You don't know, brother, the lawless area is not that it can't be governed, but that they are too lazy to govern. If our Great Jing wants to govern, this Dragon Mountain… no one will not be governed."
Speaking of this, he added, "The most important thing is that the Demon Slayer Division basically doesn't care about worldly affairs. They don't care about border defense, military affairs, or official changes. They only care about slaying ghosts."
"Oh~" Li Hai suddenly understood and nodded, "It's a rather pure organization. Then you must have a lot of information about ghosts in various places?"
"Of course." Zhang Miaoji smiled, "We specialize in this."
"Hmm, what about the treatment?" Li Hai asked.
After hearing the Daoist's words, he was quite tempted, especially by the information about ghosts.
"Regarding the treatment."
Zhang Miaoji explained, "As long as you join our Demon Slayer Division, even the lowest Wood Rank Commandant will have a monthly salary of nine hundred Great Yuan!"
Li Hai had no idea what nine hundred Great Yuan represented, but seeing how proudly he spoke, he estimated that the purchasing power of Great Yuan was not low.
"Money is not important."
Li Hai asked again, "The most important thing is whether there are many experts in your Demon Slayer Division. I like to fight against experts the most."
Having experts means having new skills, which also means his strength will increase.
So Li Hai had to ask clearly, otherwise, if everyone inside was a rookie, joining would just be a waste of time and energy.
"Then you asked the right question."
Zhang Miaoji smiled proudly, "The Demon Slayer Division is the top martial arts organization in the world, with experts as numerous as clouds and people as many as mountains, completely incomparable to those martial arts sects.
Not only that, but for resources like Cultivation Techniques, armor, and elixirs, our Demon Slayer Division is also extremely abundant. As long as you can successfully slay ghosts, you can get all of them…"
"Alright! No need to say more."
Li Hai raised his hand to stop Zhang Miaoji's words and said decisively, "I'll join the Demon Slayer Division, is that okay?"
"Haha, good!" The Daoist beamed with joy, "It's not easy, I've recruited another great talent."
Saying that, he took out a letter that had already been written from his sleeve and handed it to the bewildered Li Hai:
"This is a letter of introduction. Brother, head southwest. Go eighty li to Niujiao Town in Zhou Family Fortress. There is a Mingtang Pavilion there. Go inside and find a person named Master Cha. Just give him this letter."
"Oh~" Li Hai took the letter, glanced at it, and put it in his pocket. Then he asked, "What about you? Where are you going?"
"As for me."
Zhang Miaoji tidied up his divination banner and smiled, "Of course, I'll continue to travel around, recruiting talented people."