Chapter 519: Chapter 372: 36 Fairy Islands Overseas (Seeking Subscription)
“Nonsense!”
Xu Yang took out the “altar of ritual” and items such as the incense burner and candles from his storage space. He fiddled with them as he spoke, “All humans have souls. When they die, they can turn into ghosts, provided that their soul hasn’t been destroyed.”
He moved quickly and skillfully, placing seven candles around Chris Smith’s corpse.
Flames leapt from his fingertips.
The seven candles caught fire.
Xu Yang arranged the ritual altar, lit three sticks of incense before it, and took out his peachwood sword. He then started performing the “Summoning the Soul” ritual, stepping on the Seven Stars and Eight Trigrams formation.
Wang Lin stood outside the cell and said, “Westerners believe in God and think that when they die, they either go to hell or heaven. Their myths are about angels, fallen angels, and hell messengers. I thought they were different from us after death.”
Whoosh…
Suddenly, a Yin wind blew through the cell.
Inside the cell, the Yin wind was whirling.
The incense flame in the burner burned rapidly to its base, visible to the naked eye.
The candle flames wavered in the Yin wind, as if they could be extinguished at any moment.
Wang Lin looked over, only to see a ghostly figure standing up slowly above Chris’s corpse.
“Goddamn!”
“Those Daoists are terrifying…”
“They don’t even let your soul go after they kill you!”
Wiping non-existent cold sweat from his forehead, Wang Lin felt a chill going down his spine.
The ghostly figure had blurry, confused eyes, seemingly without consciousness.
“Thousand miles away, the soul hurriedly enters… Return, soul!”
Xu Yang mumbled incantations under his breath, a “Soul Summoning Talisman” flew out from his hand. The talisman was picked up by the peachwood sword and burned directly on its tip.
The ghostly figure, identical to Chris in every way, began to solidify as clarity replaced the confusion in its eyes.
Chris: “……”
He lowers his head and looks at his own body.
“Ding!”
“The werewolf was startled, merit points +100.”
“Ding!”
“The werewolf was startled, merit points +100.”
“Ding…”
Chris went dumbfounded, sobbing, “Celestial Master Xu… I beg you, please let me go. My werewolf clan is too cruel to traitors. If I take you back, I’d rather be dead.”
Xu Yang put away his peachwood sword and smiled, “You’re already dead, what else are you afraid of?”
Chris: “???”
Ah, this…
Seems to make sense, actually?
Xu Yang continued, “Your clan abandoned you here in Da Xia for more than twenty years, never caring about your life or death. Besides, I’m just asking you to lead the way, not kill your own people. How can that be considered a traitor?”
Well…
That seems to be the case, indeed!
Chris fell silent.
“Your physical body is dead, leaving only a wisp of Yin spirit. If you want to survive, this is the only choice.”
“Think it over and tell Wang Lin, who will pass the message to me.”
Xu Yang flicked his finger, shooting out a tiny spiritual flame that incinerated Chris’s corpse. He then turned around and strode out of the cell. Since Chris was already dead, there was no point in wasting time on his body.
After leaving the cell, Xu Yang was taken by Wang Lin to visit the Spirits Management Bureau of Wu City.
Currently, the Wu City branch was thriving.
They had recently recruited a large number of “folk oddities” and experts. With their addition, the overall strength of the Wu City branch had greatly improved, and they had more manpower as well.
Most importantly…
There were now Daoist cultivators in Wu City, a total of three! All of them had been dug out from the public!
In the future, when they encountered supernatural cases, they would no longer have to solve them using the brute force of martial artists. They were delighted when they first recruited these three Daoist cultivators.
But soon, they realized…
There were no supernatural cases left in Wu City!
That’s right!
Supernatural cases had become scarce in the vast Wu City. Even when Yin spirits or fierce ghosts committed crimes, the cases would be solved and handed in by Wu City’s ghosts before the Spirits Management Bureau even knew about it.
This was good news.
The Spirits Management Bureau staff were delighted.
The main task of the Spirits Management Bureau in Wu City now was to deal with some disputes in the martial world. The rest of the time, they were free to practice cultivation at their leisure.
“Celestial Master Xu.”
Wang Lin called over the three Daoist cultivators and said, “Without hiding it… I brought you here to help guide these three colleagues in the bureau. They all come from rough backgrounds and have a shallow understanding of the Daoist skills. We, in the bureau, are all martial artists and quite rough… ”
The three Daoist cultivators appeared somewhat cautious in front of Xu Yang.
As Wang Lin said, they were indeed from “rough backgrounds.” To step into the cultivation of Daoism, they either had “secret manuals” passed down from their ancestors or ones found at a lucky market. These “secret manuals,” however, were incomplete copies.
Given that they had no guidance, being able to enter Daoism and achieve some progress was already impressive, indicating these three individuals had decent cultivation talents.
Xu Yang examined the three people.
Their ages varied. One was about sixty years old, hunchbacked, and his beard was slightly white. Due to his Daoist cultivation, however, he looked quite energetic, with his cultivation level reaching around the sixth stage of Qi Refining Realm.