Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 195 Soul Fiend Holy City
I have the aura of an ancient god within me!?

I do not know how! ?

What kind of melodramatic, Mary Sue plot is this? Am I a god?
Fang Xianyu's face darkened. He thought to himself, but said aloud, "What, am I some kind of reincarnation of Nuwa or the rebirth of the Thunder Ancestor?"

"Oh, no, that's not it,"

Jun Chou seemed amused by Fang Xianyu's reaction. He patiently explained, "It's not about you, but rather that you seem to have something on you that carries the aura of the ancient gods, or even 'the power of will'."

"Willpower?"

Jun Chou nodded slightly, then added, "By the way, if I may remind you, you are not human."

"what!?"

Fang Xianyu was stunned for a moment.

But then she brought up the attribute panel she had deliberately generated. In the [Race] column, which had once puzzled her, there were indeed two large words: Unknown.

Her memories of living on Earth were somewhat hazy, but she still remembered that she did have parents. How could she have been stripped of her human status like this?!
"Or rather, you are not a 'human' from the Guixu Realm," Jun Chou said slowly and with certainty. "You do not belong to this world, yet you can reverse the universe and connect with other worlds. Such power is something even Dou Xuan Gong could not achieve, unless several ancient gods worked together, or there might be some possibility. And this can only be a gift from the gods to you."

"Of course, perhaps... it's still their expectation."

Fang Xianyu suddenly realized something.

What Junchou is talking about must be the system?
This cheat system is so powerful, it might be something created by some ancient gods.

Moreover, what the system actually uses for her is energy points, which aren't free! To be honest, even now, she still doesn't quite understand what she got them in exchange for.

Merit? Incense offerings? Neither seems pure.

So, what exactly does the system want her to do?

In her first playthrough, she followed her heart, founded Zhongzhou City, and attained enlightenment in Taiyin, resulting in a surge in her points.

What if this time...

Fang Xianyu thought of the players and also of China, the land of flowers on Earth, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

What if the date changes this time?
Upon seeing this, Junchou realized: "It seems you are not entirely ignorant."

“I understand,” Fang Xianyu said, as if he had figured something out. “Then let’s do them one by one.”

"The primary task is to gain more population."

……

To the northeast of Wankuzhou, above Soul Fiend City, a sky-covering flying ship hovers silently.

The ship was decorated with a female totem with a human head and a snake's body, and the merchant's name, Fu Lu Shou, was written in multiple languages, including Zhongzhou, Xuanzhou, and Changzhou.

A long gangway was set up on one side of the airship, crowded with ragged, numb-faced people, while at the bottom of the gangway, there were cries and pleas.

"Auntie! Auntie!"

A little girl, barely clothed, was shoved and crying onto the gangway, while her screaming mother was blocked from entering the crowd, being held back by a gaunt man who was already sobbing uncontrollably. "You damned monster! You beast! Let me go! My baby! My baby!"

The woman cried out and struggled desperately.

Just then, a cultivator standing not far away spoke up: "That's about enough, there are already more than two thousand people!"

Some well-dressed people wearing crowns and hats began to push and shove the surrounding crowd.

The woman, however, somehow found the strength to break free from the man's grasp and rush into the crowd being held back as they were being led onto the gangway.

The man panicked, but hesitated to follow. Just as he gritted his teeth and was about to run a few steps to pull the woman back, the better-dressed men blocking their way glared at him and said coldly, "What, you want to go and die too?"

The man quickly shrank back, filled with regret.

On the other side, the woman squeezed through the gangway and, through the crowded throng, took the little girl's dark, thin, and small hand—

"Mother is here! Mother is here!"

Soon, as the remaining hundred or so people were pushed into the gangway, the gangway slowly rose, and people poured into the boarding gate of the airship like dumplings.

After everyone had been thrown onto the boat, the woman finally pushed through the crowded people, hugged her daughter tightly, and comforted her, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Mother is here. Father doesn't want you, but Mother does! Mother will always be with Bao'er!"

The little girl was trembling uncontrollably, crying sobbing uncontrollably: "Mother, waaaaah..."

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's alright now, it's alright!"

More than two thousand people were crammed into the small deck of the airship, and as far as the eye could see, there was a sea of ​​people, all crying.

This is a merchant ship belonging to the Fu Lu Shou Merchant Guild. After circling around Wan Ku Zhou and filling its cargo, it "bought" a lot of ordinary people from the Hun Sha Sect and is now preparing to transport them to the Tai Yin Sect.

The Soul Fiend Sect has a small number of cultivators, so it is not well-known, but it has a large number of ordinary people under its rule.

Because most of the cultivators in the Soul Fiend Sect are soul cultivators, and they follow a path that is despised by many sects—using the souls of ordinary people to nourish the souls of cultivators.

However, they also knew that they could not exhaust the resources, so instead of killing the people and taking their souls like the fox demons and python demons that kept Shenyou Village, they carefully designed the Soul Demon City and used its grand formation to slowly extract the three souls and seven spirits of the mortals living there.

The lowest-class people will gradually become mentally impaired due to incomplete souls, dying like pigs and dogs in unknown corners.

Better-off people could afford to buy the Soul-Nourishing Soup sold in the city, which could help them cultivate their souls. If they were healthy and free from illness or accidents, they could live to be forty or fifty years old—of course, most people didn't live that long.

People of higher status could find ways to obtain various spiritual materials and secret medicines, and even learn the Soul Nourishing Technique, which all outer disciples of the Soul Fiend Sect knew, thus ensuring that their souls remained in a complete state.

Besides extracting the souls of ordinary people, the Soul Fiend Sect showed them considerable "favor," such as providing free immortal water to irrigate spiritual fields and maintaining stable grain prices. If anyone tried to inflate prices, they would be executed by the Soul Fiend Sect's cultivators.

However, this was not for the sake of social justice or the people's peaceful life, but to ensure that these ordinary people had enough food.

People who are always well-fed have a much more solid spirit than those who are sometimes hungry and sometimes full. The difference may not be significant in one or two people, but in a city of hundreds of thousands of people, the difference becomes very obvious.

Therefore, although Soul City is a well-known place where one must sacrifice their soul to survive, it is a "holy land" that many people in Wanku Continent flock to, simply because "they can eat their fill".

In fact, because of these three words, Soul City is also spontaneously called "Holy City" by many people, hence its other name: Soul City Holy City.

(End of this chapter)