Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 27 Things Blocking the Doorway

There are two types of ghostly corpses. One type is the corpse of someone who died unjustly, and when the environment in which the corpse was found has enough yin energy, a ghostly being born with only obsession and no consciousness. The other type is a ghostly being created through a series of methods after being tortured and killed, a ghostly being without obsession or consciousness. The latter is usually controlled by someone.

As the "deity" worshipped in Shixia Village, Huang Gong, who took it upon himself to protect the villagers, naturally went to "destroy the corpse and destroy the evidence" after discovering the wandering Yin Corpse. This kind of ghost was originally "dead," and it could only be truly "eliminated" by destroying its corpse.

Unexpectedly, these Yin Corpses were different from ordinary Yin Corpses. They were filled with resentment and malevolent energy. Even if the skin of a Yin Corpse was destroyed, the strange black phantom inside the corpse would enter the remaining corpse and become an even more powerful Yin Corpse.

Therefore, after destroying all the ordinary Yin Corpses, Huang Gong was helpless against the only remaining, most powerful Yin Corpse that was transformed from a Qi Refining stage cultivator.

In order to prevent the Yin Corpse from harming the village, Huang Gong had no choice but to use his small temple, which he had built over a hundred years ago, as a base to suppress the Yin Corpse beneath the temple, hoping to slowly wear it down with his own cultivation. However, he did not expect that the Yin Corpse would be more troublesome than he had imagined.

Left with no other option, Huang Gong had to use a strange wind to drive the villagers away.

Just when Huang Gong was prepared to risk all his cultivation, even his life, to fight against that Yin Corpse, Fang Xianyu appeared...

After that, seeing how powerful Fang Xianyu was who had easily sealed the Yin Corpse in just a few moves, Huang Gong knelt down without hesitation—strictly speaking, Fang Xianyu had saved Huang Gong's life!
Therefore, Fang Xianyu was quite willing to let Huang Gong serve as an NPC for hidden adventure quests, guiding players through these quests.

What danger could there be in guiding a group of cultivators who hadn't even reached the Foundation Establishment stage to play house? Not to mention, the "salary" the Taiyin Goddess (Fang Xianyu) gave him was condensed Taiyin essence! How could he possibly refuse such a good thing!?
It couldn't figure out, no matter how hard it tried, how a group of cultivators who had just reached the Qi Refining stage could possess such immense power that they could blow up its entire home...

Even the seal of the Goddess Taiyin was destroyed!

Are these lunatics really only at the Qi Refining stage?!
Of course, if things ended there, for Fang Xianyu, it would only be a minor accident caused by a player, not a big problem.

However, Fang Xianyu, who had observed the entire battlefield, noticed something strange about the corpse being walked like a dog!
A normal corpse should be filled with resentment. However, the shadowy figure of the corpse that the players were kiting and repeatedly slashing out of was not only filled with resentment, but also artificially infused with bloodthirsty energy. This made it more powerful and insidious, to the point that the black mist it emitted could cause people to continuously lose their life force!

In other words, this corpse was created by extremely vicious means!

It's even possible that they were deliberately placed here!

Because if Fang Xianyu hadn't intervened, Huang Gong would have been devoured and assimilated by this Yin Corpse sooner or later, becoming a new Yin Corpse!
If Huang Gong, who has already formed a subtle divine bond with the area around Lieshi Mountain, were to become a Yin Corpse, the mastermind behind him could easily obtain the divine position of the Lieshi Mountain God!

It should also be mentioned that in this world, cultivation level and divine office are not bound together.

Some mountain gods and river gods may have cultivation levels equivalent to the Golden Core stage or even lower, but due to various opportunities and fortuitous encounters, they have attained corresponding divine positions. In terms of position, even if their cultivation level is low, they can still be respectfully called "immortals".

Many cultivators, however, have toiled for hundreds of years, some with exceptional talent already halfway to the Golden Immortal realm, yet they can't attain any official position. As for being allowed to choose any mountain, river, or lake, they feel the divine office is too low-level, unable to gather enough incense offerings, and they look down on it—a dignified Loose Immortal, becoming a lake god or river god—a position that even a Golden Core cultivator could hold, associating with a bunch of cultivators who aren't even immortals, or even wild spirits? They can't bear the shame… no, they can't bear the shame of being an immortal!
Of course, more importantly, for some reason, most of those scattered immortals who had clearly cultivated to become immortals and had extremely high cultivation levels could not even attain the Dao by holding minor positions such as mountain god or river god!

Therefore, a widely circulated saying among cultivators was that this situation was caused by the gradual thinning of spiritual energy in the world. Although Fang Xianyu had stayed for over a hundred years, he hadn't noticed any change in the spiritual energy...

On the other hand, since Fang Xianyu got involved in this matter, whatever the mastermind's plan was, it has probably failed. Even after the players had worn down the Yin Corpse to the point that Huang Gong could easily capture the resentment within it, no one came to "get revenge."

Perhaps the mastermind behind it all doesn't care about these Yin Corpses, but the cost of creating Yin Corpses is not low. More likely, the other party is unwilling to expose themselves.

This is very interesting.

Having hired five workers to help look after the players, Fang Xianyu thoroughly searched the surrounding hundreds of kilometers.

Fortunately, her cultivation level has now reached the Foundation Establishment stage, which means she has truly entered the threshold of becoming a cultivator and has a certain ability to protect herself, so she dared to take the initiative to investigate something that looked extremely dangerous.

Of course, the puppet exploration method that I used to death last time still needs to be used. I have to play it safe. Before I can become an immortal and attain enlightenment, I will still die and my cultivation will be destroyed.

Once one attains immortality and enlightenment, one's life becomes bound to one's divine office. As long as one does not lose one's divine office, it is very difficult to truly kill one.

This is why so many wandering immortals are desperate to obtain a divine position—whether they are immortals or cultivators, they will die if they are killed, but they will not if they have a divine position.

However, these things are still a long way off for Fang Xianyu. Last time, it took him more than a hundred years to become an immortal, and even after attaining enlightenment, he still couldn't fully grasp the duties of the Taiyin God for decades. In this new game, he can forget about it for the time being.

At this moment, Fang Xianyu was controlling his newly created puppet, exploring the last area he planned to inspect, a secluded forest between the Guangcheng Sect's headquarters and the Taiyin Sect's headquarters.

This is a valley with a spring-like climate all year round, abundant trees, and beautiful scenery. Theoretically, it falls within the territory of Guangchengzong, but no one lives there.

As they flew closer, Fang Xianyu discovered that there was a small pool at the entrance of the valley. The pool was filled with yin energy and had a pungent, fishy stench. The surrounding area was barren and devoid of any vegetation, clearly indicating that it belonged to someone—and that this person's origins were probably extraordinary!
No wonder such a valley with such excellent conditions remains unclaimed!
As Fang Xianyu was pondering this, his spiritual senses suddenly went off like alarm bells!
She felt as if she were being stared at by something extremely terrifying, her hair stood on end, and she was almost scared out of her wits!
Fortunately, she was controlling a puppet; if her real body had arrived here, it would probably have been finished immediately!

There's something here that's incredibly powerful, far exceeding the Core Formation stage! It's at least at the Nascent Soul level! Or even more outrageous!
No wonder the Guangcheng Sect turns a blind eye to this place! The strongest warriors in the entire Guangcheng Sect are only a few True Persons. Those who can be called True Persons are at most at the Nascent Soul stage, or even less than the Nascent Soul stage!
This is similar to how someone with slightly higher emotional intelligence would address a deputy director as "director." After reaching the Nascent Soul stage, one can cultivate an immortal body, so Nascent Soul stage cultivators are often revered as "immortals"—although they are still human, they are about to become immortals! Therefore, those who are called "True Persons" are most likely cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage.

A cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage would really be at a disadvantage against this unknown thing!
But while Guangcheng Sect could ignore this, she couldn't! This place was only a little over two hundred li away from her chosen sect's headquarters! For a cultivator, it was just a matter of lifting a foot!

Isn't this blocking my doorstep?!

(End of this chapter)