My descendants burn incense and worship me as a real immortal

Chapter 631 Rat Shelter
"Holy crap? Are we just going to go all in like this?"

Number 9 came up and gave Yang Genshuo a big one.

The faces of the rat servants immediately darkened, and then the eyes of the rat-headed rat glowed red as it stared intently at the two of them.

"You two commoners, are you planning a rebellion?!"

A crimson aura emanated from the 20 rat servants, and their momentum steadily increased. Gone was their previous laziness; instead, they exuded the aura of experts.

Twenty rat minions pressed towards the two men simultaneously, creating a tense atmosphere!

A 2v20 battle for justice is about to begin.

Yang Qiangjin frowned.

The force these rats were unleashing at this moment exceeded her expectations, and they seemed unlikely to be easy to deal with.

However, thinking of Number Nine's certainty, she calmed down and prepared to fight back.

Even if she couldn't win, she was confident she could lead her people away from here.

"Hehehe~ It seems we were too lenient with Jiehu yesterday."

"I wasn't planning on doing anything to you, considering you cooked the food."

"Since you've come to us of your own accord, you might as well stay!"

The 20 rat servants, each now wielding a stick and their muscles bulging, charged fiercely towards the two!

"These rats are very strong. What should we do?"

A ball of flame appeared in Yang Qiangjin's hand. In this short time, she had already seen that the level of these rat servants had all reached the same level as hers.
Her original plan to suppress these rat minions with her cultivation level was completely unworkable.

"run!"

Number Nine dashed straight outside.

Yang Qiangjin: "."

She had always believed that Number Nine possessed a top-tier strategy that would allow him to take down these rats in one fell swoop and then divide the treasure among himself.
They just uploaded some coins and ran away?

The two fled outside one after the other, while 20 tall rat minions quickly approached them!

Number Nine is only at the Foundation Establishment stage; he won't last long.

A ball of flame appeared in Yang Qiangjin's hand.

"Fine, I'll take you away from here, Blazing Flame."

"Don't!"

As Number Nine said this, a giant earth beetle emerged from the ground and carried him directly into the sky!
This is the puppet he chose!
A demon of the Golden Core stage, the Earth Armor Demon, usually lies buried in the ground and has no presence whatsoever. People often overlook that he has such a helper.

"Ok?"

As soon as the 20 rat servants saw Number Nine take flight, a gust of air burst forth from behind them, and they instantly leaped into the air, chasing after the two of them!

Number Nine, riding an earth-armored demon puppet, pulled 20 people step by step into the jungle.
Number Nine landed at a pool of water.

Bang bang bang!
Twenty muscular rat servants descended from the sky and surrounded Number Nine.

"Hehehe~ Now let's see how you run away."

"Tear him apart!"

"tear!"

The rat servants charged forward in a frenzy, and Number Nine, seeing this, shouted:
"Wait a minute!"

"What do you see in the water?"

The rat servants couldn't help but look down, and the clear water reflected their enormous rat-headed, human-bodied images, their two small, scarlet eyes looking particularly eerie.

"what!?"

"Who is this!?"

"My head! How did my head get like this?"

Bang bang bang bang~
Many of the rat servants lost their strength and fell from the sky, fearfully touching their heads in the water, all looking terrified.

The danger to Number Nine vanished instantly.

This surprised Yang Qiangjin, who was about to intervene.

"How did you do that? What's wrong with them?"

Number Nine, with a smug grin on his face, looked up at the sky and asked in a manner that was both boastful and self-aggrandizing:
"Ancestor, what do you think?"

"It looks like a duck's head to me."

"?"

"Stop being so pretentious."

Yang Qiangjin urged her on, she was even more puzzled than Yang Genshuo.

You should know that Number Nine has been acting with her from beginning to end and has the same information. Why is that?

"Don't rush. Let me deal with them first."

Number Nine walked to the edge of the pool and chuckled at the group of drenched rats.

Do you still remember who you really are?

Upon hearing this, the rat servants were stunned.

"I am a yamen runner at the post station."

"Why did my head become like this? My own head?"

Why?!

The rat servants went mad, unable to believe they were in this state, and had no desire to attack Number Nine at all.

But this confused both Yang Genshuo and Yang Qiangjin.

"Wait a minute. Weren't the real constables being devoured by rats in that back room? Aren't these man-eating rats in disguise? Why are they afraid of me?"

"Strange"

In the previous analysis, it was Number Nine who led Yang Qiangjin to forcibly infiltrate and uncover the truth.

Number 9 shouted loudly:
"Guards! Think carefully! Who are you really?!"

Are you really here?

Upon hearing this, the constables were stunned for a moment, then looked at their hands, feet, and clothes, and then seemed to remember something.
In the blink of an eye, the twenty rat servants transformed into twenty red rays of light and flew towards the post station.

Yang Qiangjin mentioned number nine and quickly followed.

Before we even reached the post station, we heard a lot of coughing and exclamations coming from the locked house in the back courtyard.

"Cough cough! Get out of my way!"

"Dead rats! I'm covered in dead rats!"

"Ahhhhh!!!"

Squeak squeak squeak~
The sounds of gnawing and screams of the yamen runners could be heard coming from inside.

"Lord Jin, please open the door!"

"【Fire Sword Flying Star】!"

Yang Qiangjin unleashed her immense power, a crimson longsword materializing in her hand, carrying a scorching and violent aura as it charged into the room filled with rat filth.

boom! ! !
This was the first time Yang Qiangjin had used her full power to unleash her magic. Her strength as a half-step Nascent Soul cultivator erupted as she severed the seal with a single sword strike, blasting the entire room apart!
Inside were yamen runners covered in blood and rats burning everywhere.

"Help me! Help us!"

"Ahhh~ Help us!"

The constables pleaded for help, and Number Nine nodded.

Please save them.

At this point, the story had become completely incomprehensible, so Yang Qiangjin simply trusted Number Nine completely and let this young strategist guide her through the story.

At this stage, Yang Genshuo also had some questions.

But you can roughly tell.
"So, are those clerks or government officials? But why do they have duck heads? Ugh, rat heads!"

"But our real story is actually about discovering this place is controlled by rats, rescuing the bewitched officials, and restoring the post station to normal?" "Then, wouldn't the other groups miss this part of the story? Won't that affect the development of later events?"

Yang Genshuo considered many things in an instant.

The battlefield was changing rapidly. Yang Qiangjin's attack startled the man-eating rat burrow, and she cast a spell once again.

She stood proudly above the post station, a lotus flower appearing in her hand, its inner light swirling, and a little girl yawning inside.

"Sister, are we going to fight again?"

"Please save this person for me! [Nine Revolutions Fire Lotus: Rebirth from the Ashes]!"

boom!
A burst of crimson-gold flame shot out from the lotus in her hand, forming a fire shield around the 20 constables and pulling them out of the flames.

Within the flame shield, the bodies of the 20 constables rapidly recovered.

Capable of fighting, escaping, and healing—that's Yang Qiangjin today.

With a century of accumulated experience, she is now a top-tier Golden Core cultivator. Not only does she possess her own exclusive spiritual weapon, but she has also cultivated various fire-based techniques, making her a grandmaster of fire-based magic.

"Wow, Yang Qiangjin is really amazing now."

After the 20 constables were rescued, they lay on the ground, having regained their human form, though they were somewhat weak.

The burned rats scattered and fled, disappearing into the various holes of the post station.

The constables stood up and expressed their gratitude:

"Thank you both for your rescue. If we hadn't been lured into that pool, we wouldn't have known we'd been bewitched by the demon rat."

"Our true form has long been controlled by these demon rats, and we've been living in a daze all these years."

"You have woken us and saved this inn; please accept our gratitude."

The captain of the yamen runners took a token out of his pocket.

"This token is the exclusive token of all the post station guards along the grain transport route. With this token, you can avoid a lot of trouble. I hope your grain transport journey will be smooth."

Yang Qiangjin accepted the token.

Yang Genshuo glanced at it and immediately shared the information.

【Relay Station Access Token】

[At future post stations, you will gain favor with government officials, reducing the difficulty of passage.]

[Note: After completing the White Granary story, this token will transform into a magical artifact.]

"nice one!"

The journey to deliver grain is long and there will definitely be various post stations along the way. If you can gain the favor of the 'government officials' in the story, it will be a great help to them in the later part of the story.

"If the story ends and it can be transformed into a magical artifact, that would be even better. I've heard that the magical artifacts produced in the legendary land are all top-notch, the kind that modern weapon refiners simply can't create."

Among them, magical artifacts of the higher level produced in legendary lands often exist for thousands of years, and the strength of their spirits is mostly extremely powerful.

It is said that some top-tier artifact spirits can even reach the Nascent Soul stage!
Horror!
A single spiritual artifact can be equivalent to a Nascent Soul cultivator; this is an incredible opportunity.

This is also one of the reasons why countless people are so enthusiastic about the legendary land.

Once you get rich, it's a road to heaven!

Yang Qiangjing didn't stand on ceremony and put the token directly into her storage ring.

Upon receiving the gifts, the yamen runners bowed and took their leave.

"Please continue your journey, the road to delivering supplies is long. We need to be more careful in the future. We should go and thoroughly clean up the rat infestation at the post station."

"These damned rats should have been burned long ago."

"Farewell!"

Yang Qiangjin and Number Nine left the post station.

Number Nine is very satisfied with the result.

"The harder you work, the luckier you get. My efforts haven't been in vain; there really is treasure here."

Yang Qiangjin then asked:

"I'm actually a little confused about how you know these rat servants are actually people and not rats. This is different from what we saw last night."

Yang Keun-suk is also waiting for the revelation on the 9th.

He roughly figured out part of it, but he didn't understand why Number Nine was so confident.

"Because our reasoning yesterday was incorrect from the start. The yamen runner's true form was trapped in the back. At the time, we thought we were witnessing a switcheroo, a rat's head swapped with a human head, but the truth may not be so."

"Based on the story's emphasis on 'characters,' and the information provided by the ancestor about the 'rat servant,' which is about this post station and its servants, if it really is a rat in disguise, then it should be about rats. Unless the information the ancestor saw through is false, which is of course impossible."

Yang Genshuo suddenly woke up!

Yes!

[Character Card] Ah!

He saw that the character card for the "Rat Servant" clearly described him as a yamen runner, so how could he possibly be a rat in disguise?

If that's the case, then the rat will be the strongest enemy his system has ever encountered!

The sect leader of the Heavenly Mystery Sect could only let him see information marked "???", but the rat directly tampered with his information display interface!

To call a rat a government office!

This is obviously impossible!

These man-eating rats don't have that ability.

In other words, his and many other puzzle solvers' speculation yesterday about the man-eating rats and the cats swapping the crown prince was wrong!

They fell into a misconception yesterday!
Yang Qiangjin nodded: "And then?"

Seeing that Yang Qiangjin understood, Number Nine continued:
"In other words, these rat servants outside are actually government servants! So, there are two groups of government servants in the post station. One group is the meat-eating government servants being eaten by rats, and the other is the rat servants maintaining the operation of the post station. But coincidentally, they are the same number, and the government servants in the back hardly resist. They are parasitized by a group of rats like 20 soulless lumps of meat."

"At this point, I made a bold assumption. What if the constables in front and the constables trapped behind were actually the same group of constables? Their bodies were trapped, but their souls were still doing what they used to do, making the post station look normal."

What a bold assumption!

Upon hearing this, Yang Genshuo immediately thought of a movie!
The Matrix

It's practically the exact same plot!

The aliens there kept humans captive and constantly extracted their essence from their spinal cords. To prevent them from committing suicide and dying, they placed their spirits into a virtual world, allowing them to live in that virtual world indefinitely.

In order to continue feeding on the flesh and blood of the officials, these man-eating rats used some means to allow the officials' souls to continue doing what they used to do, pretending that everything was normal.

hiss~~~
This number nine is really something!

Yang Genshuo is certain he has never seen "The Matrix," but his ability to think outside the box and boldly conceive of the relationship between rats, meat spirit mushroom servants, and rat servants is truly genius.

"Of course, any assumptions are just assumptions until they are proven, and it's even possible that I'm just making things up. That's why I didn't say anything yesterday to confuse you, but instead I was gathering information from other people and trying to get more verification."

"Next, the ancestor indeed brought several pieces of information that supported my deduction."

At this moment, Yang Genshuo thought of the time yesterday when he solemnly told Yang Qiangjin on the 9th that he must get the ancestor to share the information with him.
Presumably, he had already begun to deduce the truth by then.

"The first piece of news came at just the right time. The fact that even the rat servants eat roasted rats almost directly confirms that the souls of these rat servants belong to the officials, not to the rats."

"The second piece of news is another seemingly unimportant but actually very crucial piece of news. As the ancestor said yesterday, a team used their own spiritual food to feed the rat servants, and they accepted it without showing any abnormality. This roughly makes me understand that these rat servants are not physical entities, but a kind of soul that does not need to eat in the first place."

"The third point is based on the Rat Servant's ability, [Gnawing]. We've seen how man-eating rats gnaw on people's hands, chewing them up and swallowing them whole. This Rat Servant's [Gnawing] attacks the soul, further proving that this Rat Servant is actually just a soul entity controlled and influenced by rats!"

Yang Genshuo gasped as he looked at the skill description for [Gnawing].

[Gnawing: When night falls, the rat servants will transform into mice to secretly gnaw on the souls of those who have entered their dreams. Those who are gnawed will gradually lose their vital energy.]

The answer was actually hidden in a small skill description all along!

"So fine! It's even finer than the Taoist priest's!"

Number Nine gave a final, carefree laugh and bowed towards the sky.
"So, once the hypothesis is successful, all I need to do is wake up the rat servants! They must remember that they are being parasitized by rats! Otherwise, if we try to break through by force, these rat servants are too strong, and we simply cannot defeat them head-on."

"Ancestor, please tell the story of this post station to others so that they can obtain the token as soon as possible."

"it is good!"

If this works, every team is guaranteed to receive at least one treasure!

This unexpected event might just turn into an opportunity for the Yang family!
"Wow~ It's one thing for Xiao Jing to be amazing, but for someone you trained to be this amazing is incredible!"

But when he wanted to tell the news to others, he suddenly felt that something was missing from Number Nine's reasoning.
(End of this chapter)