Starting from the folklore forum, making up town objects

Chapter 406 The Underworld Messenger's Decree: Moving Mountains!

The headquarters of the Bureau of Polling.

Chu Xiu strode towards the director's office and knocked on the door.

"Enter."

Chu Xiu pushed open the door and placed a stack of documents on Feng Jin's desk.

"Director, there's new information about the underworld."

Upon hearing the words "underworld," Feng Jin put down what she was doing and picked up the stack of documents to read.

The document details the observations and experiences of Xiangzhu, the director of the Municipal Bureau of Investigation.

Upon seeing the words "Sword energy soars, annihilating dozens of fierce demons, no ordinary underworld official" written above, Feng Jin sighed inwardly.

He looked up and asked Chu Xiu, "Has Yunlongtian inquired about the situation with this underworld official?"

Chu Xiu shook his head: "I asked, but he doesn't know. Besides, he has already applied to leave the headquarters. He wants to go back and persuade his parents and family to take refuge in the Underworld. Should we let him go?"

"Let it go. If we don't, we might offend the underworld."

Feng Jin looked at the documents in her hand and murmured, "The underworld has too many secrets. Even if we study them as quickly as possible, we can't keep up with them using what they already have."

Chu Xiu frowned.

"Director, although the underworld is mysterious and powerful, how can the foundation of our Great Xia Dynasty, which has lasted for five thousand years, be taken lightly? As long as we unravel the secrets of the several times in the history of Great Xia that the connection between heaven and earth was severed, the underworld may not be so unattainable."

"Furthermore, even if there was an ancient era, did the underworld only exist in that era?"

"The underworld was silent in ancient times. Are other gods and mysteries also silent? If we can find those beings, we might be able to compete with the underworld!"

Feng Jin remained silent.

He naturally shared the same thoughts as Chu Xiu.

Leaving aside the connection between heaven and earth, and other ancient and extraordinary beings, the extraordinary power of his younger brother Fengyang alone is enough to prove that the ancestors of the Great Xia Dynasty were absolutely extraordinary!
He also longed to find the secrets of the Great Xia Dynasty and unravel those secrets.

But if we were to find an entity that is similar to the underworld, how would Great Xia cope with that?

The underworld has not shown any malice yet. If we find another entity with malicious intent, wouldn't that be even worse?

Chu Xiu looked at the silent Feng Jin and seemed to understand what the other was thinking.

"Director, I understand your concerns, but we can't be unprepared. We should at least have a backup plan in case the underworld suddenly changes its attitude. Even if we can't resist the underworld, other beings might be able to."

"Director, I suggest that the Bureau of Investigation intervene in the exploration of the imperial tombs, sacred mountains, and ancestral sites of religious sects in the Great Xia Dynasty. If we leave these matters to ordinary historical researchers to explore and develop little by little, it will be too slow. With our capabilities, we can explore those places and perhaps make discoveries very soon."

"Director, the current situation, whether it's the underworld, grassroots organizations, or those increasingly numerous ghosts and spirits, all tell us that we can no longer be conservative!"

“In the past, the Bureau of Investigation did not intervene because the situation in Great Xia was still under control. The leaders of Great Xia and the Five Elders of Great Xia did not want to relinquish power to the Bureau of Investigation for too much involvement. But if they do not intervene now, I am afraid that in the future, the power of discourse in Great Xia will be controlled by a crow or a chicken!”

Chu Xiu's last slightly sarcastic remark made Feng Jin's cheek twitch.

But isn't that the truth?

Once the underworld develops the idea of ​​controlling the Great Xia, won't it then have to obey that crow?

With this thought in mind, Chu Xiu had already reached a conclusion.

"You don't need to worry about this matter; I will make my own judgment."

Chu Xiu opened his mouth as if to say something, but in the end he just shook his head and left.

After Chu Xiu left, Feng Jin closed her eyes and sat quietly.

After a long while, he picked up the phone, the one he only picked up two or three times a year, and dialed the number.

"Mr. Zhang, I want to see you."

……

While Xu Zhiheng was sweeping away the ghosts created by the paper with the calamus sword, Chen Xin had already devised a talisman that could be used to ward off the Zhi ghost.

"Protective Yin Messenger Order"

Uses: self-defense, passage
Current strength: Underworld level
Current quantity: 0
Description of the talisman:

The underworld, which governs life and death, reincarnation, and the judgment of good and evil, has existed since ancient times.

However, its whereabouts are elusive and it remains unknown in the mortal world.

Later, a man of profound understanding, admiring the power of the underworld, modeled his system upon it and established the Underworld Court, recruiting underworld officials to patrol the mortal world and subdue demons and monsters.

He then cast a tally that read "Order of the Underworld Messenger"!
Its method of preparation is as follows:

Take the essence of the locust tree and cut it into a fine piece.

The back is engraved with the underworld and its territory, while the front is engraved with the real names and titles of the underworld officials.

If the underworld officials were human beings, they would be bound by blood and could freely traverse the underworld, protecting themselves and warding off evil.

If the underworld official is a ghost, the ghost's body can be taken into the token. In this way, one can travel freely in the underworld and protect oneself from the yang world.

Remember, the token is invalid unless it is issued by the person in charge.

……

The Yincha Order was compiled by Chen Xin.

Originally, Chen Xin wanted to compile a protective amulet based on a folk legend about locust wood in a post on the "Night Talk Folk Customs Forum" that could contain and protect against evil spirits.

However, if the protective amulet falls into the hands of other ghosts, it would pose a threat to the underworld officials and their families living in the underworld.

Not to mention, there are also special beings like the Turbid Ghosts.

Therefore, Chen Xin abandoned the idea of ​​compiling this work.

Later, Chen Xin thought of the Gates of Hell.

When constructing the Gate of Hell, Chen Xin had considered whether he could create a talisman that could be used to ward off evil spirits at the Gate of Hell, but talismans could not be created by relying on other talismans.

Therefore, this idea had to be abandoned.

This situation made Chen Xin rekindle this idea.

Since we can't create a pass based on the Gates of Hell as a protective barrier, what about based on the Underworld?

The underworld is not a protective object; it is merely a low-quality imitation of the underworld created by Chen Xin.

Moreover, since the underworld has already appeared in the mortal world and is known to the Bureau of Investigation, folk organizations, and some ordinary people, the 'underworld' has actually become a kind of folk legend.

Therefore, it is perfectly acceptable to create a talisman based on the underworld.

This led to the existence of the Yin Messenger Order.

Although the Yin Messenger Token seems to be the most useless of all the talismans, it is actually the one that suits Chen Xin's needs the best right now.

Looking at the description of the underworld messenger's order, Chen Xin posted a task to obtain locust wood.

In less than half a day, Chen Xin paid off 100 points of Yin virtue and obtained ten locust trees, each two meters long and twenty centimeters in diameter.

After obtaining the locust wood, Chen Xin used his qi and blood to separate the five-centimeter core of the wood.

There are a total of ten two-meter-long wooden cores. Each core can be divided into twenty sections, so ten cores make two hundred sections.

However, Chen Xin couldn't handle the task of creating the token designs himself. He was afraid that if he did, each token would have its own unique design.

However, this matter cannot be assigned as a task. Otherwise, if the underworld messengers who accept the task discover that the token of the underworld is actually a rough prototype they made themselves, wouldn't they become suspicious?

So Chen Xin returned to Wangjiagou, found an old carpenter there, and used the Mind-Asking Mirror to control the carpenter, making him carve the heartwood into the shape of a token.

After all two hundred token blanks were carved out, Chen Xin had the carpenter carve one hundred of each of the two inscriptions, "Underworld Three Mountains" and "Underworld Zhouzhuang Ancient Town," on the back of each token.

Zhouzhuang Ancient Town refers to that nameless ancient town where Ai Hu once stayed.

The Wise Ghosts are still ghosts after all, so Chen Xin plans to distinguish them from the underworld officials stationed in the Three Mountains and let the Wise Ghosts of Zhouzhuang reside in the ancient town.

In this way, when new underworld messengers enter the Zhouzhuang Ancient Town settlement, the presence of the wise ghost will not be as abrupt as when it entered the Sanshan settlement.

After all, the Sanshan settlement has been inhabited by people so far.

anyway.

Chen Xin was initially worried that the carpenter's carvings would be different each time, but under the control of the Heart-Questioning Mirror, the carpenter became like an emotionless machine, and the differences in his work were almost indistinguishable to the naked eye.

This was an unexpected surprise.

After the words "underworld" were engraved on the back, Chen Xin wrote down the names of all the people in the underworld, as well as the names of the fifteen ghosts in Zhouzhuang.

The names of the fifteen ghosts from Zhouzhuang are engraved on the front of the "Underworld Zhouzhuang Ancient Town" token.

The remaining underworld officials, except for Xu Zhiheng, were all engraved on the token "Underworld Three Mountains".

After all the names were engraved, Chen Xin looked them over and nodded in satisfaction.

After leaving a stack of 10,000 Daxia coins on the table and releasing the control of the Mind-Asking Mirror, Chen Xin left.

When he returned to Zhouzhuang, Chen Xin was still thinking about whether he should learn carpentry, otherwise it wouldn't be right to control the carpenters every time.

If Illusion weren't too busy, it would be a good idea to let it learn carpentry. Unfortunately, the current situation with the Town-Suppressing Objects is too complicated. Illusion is now selective about how the Town-Suppressing Objects are used, let alone learning carpentry.

Shaking his head, Chen Xin walked out of Zhouzhuang and arrived at the cemetery where everyone in Zhouzhuang was buried.

He threw the Netherworld Fox puppets onto the grave mound and manipulated them to carry out the true forms of the ghosts from the grave one by one.

Picking up the corresponding body of Ya Ya, Chen Xin pressed it into a depression above the Yin Messenger Token.

Upon contact with the Yin Messenger's token, Ya Ya's true form was directly sucked into it.

In an instant, the ghostly messenger caused the original color of the wood to suddenly become deep.

Looking at the underworld messenger token that belonged to Ya Ya in his hand, Chen Xin was somewhat surprised.

This Yin Messenger Token, which absorbed Ya Ya's ghostly body, seems to have directly become Ya Ya's new body?

That's interesting.

The Yin Messenger Token is a talisman, so does that mean that when Chen Xin upgrades his Yin Messenger Token to the Yama level, the true forms of all intelligent ghosts will be in Chen Xin's hands?

What about other human underworld officials? Would they be in the same situation?
If that's the case, then the effect of this underworld messenger order is beyond Chen Xin's imagination.

Without rushing to test it, Chen Xin stuffed all the remaining ghostly entities into the corresponding Yin Messenger tokens, and then took the tokens of Ya Ya, Tie Zhu, and Gou Sheng to the Zhouzhuang Ancient Town headquarters.

Upon arrival at the destination, the three children, Ya Ya, Tie Zhu, and Gou Sheng, reassembled within the token.

Looking at the three children who had not been killed by Ai Hu's yang energy, Chen Xin nodded in satisfaction.

Of course, this effect is not the 'protection and warding off of yang' of the Yin Messenger Order; it's just that the true forms of these intelligent ghosts have become objects of suppression, so Ai Hu did not take action.

Just as the Nine Suns entered the Cloth Dog and the Yellow Infant entered the Placenta, they too will not be harmed by other protective objects.

As for the so-called 'protection against yang', it refers to helping the ghosts who hold the Yin Messenger Token to resist attacks of the yang attribute, such as the warm sunlight or the power of qi and blood.

The underworld messenger tokens held by humans are for resisting attacks from ghosts and spirits.

Yin and Yang have different functions.

Of course, the protective effect of Yin-Yang level is limited.

After the test, Chen Xin sent the three children back home.

Then, Chen Xin summoned his underworld messenger token.

"Let me see what the effects of the promoted underworld messenger tokens are."

The Yin Virtue Points were consumed, and the Yin Cha Level Yin Cha Order was upgraded to Yin Shuai Level, but no new characteristics were gained.

With another upgrade, the Yin Shuai level was upgraded to the Yin Si level, and a new entry appeared in the "Complete Encyclopedia of Town-Suppressing Objects".

[Move!]
It is still a support ability, and its effect is similar to Chen Xin's Netherworld Connection and Object Suppression, but it is not as powerful as Netherworld Connection and Object Suppression. It cannot enter the Netherworld, nor can it move to the target location simply by knowing the situation there.

The ability to "transfer" encompasses three aspects.

Firstly, it allows the underworld messengers holding the token to return to their underworld residence from anywhere.

Secondly, you can use tokens to mark three locations, and then you can move to the marked point.

Thirdly, it can be moved to the location of other underworld messengers within a kilometer radius.

It can be said that this ability was created entirely to facilitate the messengers of the underworld. With this ability, the sticker's teleportation ability is no longer so valuable.

However, while advancing to the Yin Si level was easy for Chen Xin, it was not so simple for the Yin Si messengers who held the Yin Si messenger tokens.

The underworld messengers cannot kill ghosts and spirits; they can only protect against them. Therefore, one cannot advance in rank by killing ghosts and spirits.

To get promoted, one can only seek help from the underworld.

Chen Xin plans to make the promotion of Yin Messenger Orders a reward. For example, whoever is the first to become a Good and Evil Rewards Envoy or the first to become an Inspector will have their Yin Messenger Order promoted to the Yin Si level for free!

As for Xu Zhiheng, as long as he gathers back the paper ghosts that have been scattered outside and eliminates the evil spirits that have arisen from them, Chen Xin will help him be promoted to the rank of Underworld Messenger and let all the Underworld Messengers know about the existence of the Day Wanderer.

After finishing his thought, Chen Xin continued to improve the Yin Messenger Order.

With the consumption of 100,000 units of Yin virtue, the Yin Messenger Token became even more ancient and weighty.

After examining it for a while, Chen Xin opened the "Complete Encyclopedia of Town-Suppressing Objects" and looked at the new entry for the Yama-level Underworld Messenger Order.

Like a mountain!
Chen Xin's eyes lit up.

After thinking for a moment, he took the underworld messenger's order to the Church of the Holy Infant and entered the Infant Well.

There is only one Blood Calamity in the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño, but there are still quite a few other malevolent spirits.

This time, Chen Xin did not hide in the underworld.

Neither his own physical strength nor his ability to suppress objects are afraid of the current infant ghosts.

When the infant ghosts in the well saw Chen Xin suddenly appear, they were stunned for a moment. Then, dozens or even hundreds of ferocious infant ghosts led the charge towards Chen Xin.

Chen Xin did not make a move; he simply threw out the token in his hand.

The palm-sized token, after being thrown, suddenly stopped a meter in front of Chen Xin.

Immediately, a phantom model of the Three Mountains' stronghold appeared in the Infant Well, and rapidly grew larger, pressing down.

Every ghost that entered the illusory area of ​​the Three Mountains' encampment was, without exception, firmly suppressed beneath the illusory image, unable to move an inch.

Including that blood-soaked infant!
The way he looks is like he's carrying a huge mountain on his back!
……

(End of this chapter)