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Chapter 470 Yaksha Equipment Activation

After recruiting Wang Zhibo as a ghost messenger, Chen Xin observed Wang Zhibo for a period of time.

When he first arrived, Wang Zhibo kept a low profile, exploring everything about the underworld.

It's not his fault; before Wang Zhibo returned to Wangjiagou from outside, the underworld had not yet appeared.

After returning to Wangjiagou, Wang Zhibo basically had little contact with the outside world. He was single-mindedly focused on being a village fortune teller and spending the remaining three to five years of his life, which was being consumed by evil spirits.

If the Bureau of Investigation hadn't contacted him later and talked about things related to the underworld, Wang Zhibo might have thought he had joined some crazy organization like ghost slaves or divine messengers.

After understanding the situation clearly, Wang Zhibo began to act as a normal underworld messenger.

Wang Zhibo witnessed all the subsequent developments and actions of the underworld, and thus, he finally felt at ease and began to integrate into the underworld's officials.

Furthermore, Wang Xiang was brought in after the first reception mission began.

Wang Xiang has finally gotten his wish and experienced another side of the world.

In fact, ever since Wang Xiang learned that Wang Zhibo had real skills, he had been wanting to learn about related matters, but Wang Zhibo did not want to teach Wang Xiang.

After all, once you enter the path of Yin cultivation, there is no turning back.

Wang Xiang is still young. If he becomes a Yin cultivator, it's uncertain whether he can live to be forty.

However, the connection between Wang Zhibo and Wang Xiang was not shallow. Later, when Wang Xiang's sister went missing, she found Wang Zhibo. Although he was not the one who ultimately helped Wang Xiang's sister recover, he indirectly helped Wang Xiang.

From that time on, Wang Xiang would bring Wang Zhibo some homemade food almost every day, saving Wang Zhibo the trouble of cooking.

At this point, Wang Xiang didn't ask Wang Zhibo to teach him anything; he was simply repaying a debt of gratitude.

During this time, the relationship between the two deepened somewhat. Although Wang Zhibo did not teach Wang Xiang any methods of Yin cultivation, he did not shy away from talking about supernatural events and told Wang Xiang a lot about them.

After all, Wang Xiang has experienced quite a few paranormal events.

What truly made Wang Zhibo accept Wang Xiang as his apprentice was the time when Wang Zhibo had the evil spirits extracted from his body by the "Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts," and then Wang Xiang carried him home.

After that incident, Wang Zhibo's feelings for Wang Xiang changed, which led to the later situation where Wang Zhibo pulled Wang Xiang into the underworld.

After both of them became underworld messengers, Chen Xin also had his illusory body focus its attention on them for a period of time.

Seeing that the two were quite cautious, he felt relieved.

Finally, when Wang Zhibo was exchanging the cloth dog, Chen Xin secretly upgraded the cloth dog to the Yin Si level and had Jiuri control it to ensure that the two of them would not die in a desperate situation.

After doing all that, Chen Xin didn't pay much more attention to them.

To Chen Xin's surprise, when the divine messenger attacked the underworld officials and the underworld offered to take in the officials' families for free, Wang Zhibo brought his maternal grandmother into the underworld!

Not only Chen Xin's maternal grandmother, but also Chen Xin's aunt were brought to the underworld by Wang Zhibo.

Wang Zhibo naturally had no idea that the homes of Chen Xin's aunt, grandmother, and others were all under the watchful eye of Yama-level spirits, making them almost as safe as the Sanshan base.

Not to mention that Chen Xin had already sent crows to keep an eye on each of his relatives, and if they encountered any danger, the crows would step in to eliminate it.

But Chen Xin acknowledges this sentiment.

So after seeing that the two had applied for the title of Wandering Yaksha, Chen Xin gave them special treatment, raising the Possession Seal in their hands to the level of two stacks.

If the two still cannot win, Chen Xin will also manipulate a group of ghosts to 'send away good karma' at the last moment.

In short, the two of them had already passed the exam simply by registering for the position of the Underworld Patrol Yaksha.

However, neither of them knew this.

At this moment, they were still worried about how to complete the assessment.

……

"Master, how exactly do I use this thing? How can I use it to hunt ghosts?"

Wang Xiang stretched his body, filled with doubt.

Although his movements were unrestricted, Wang Xiang did not realize that he had been enhanced.

This layer of black substance looks like a piece of clothing; it looks magical, but it's completely useless!

Wang Zhibo did not answer Wang Xiang's question, but instead made his own attempt.

He felt that he should know how to use this thing.

As a former Yin cultivator, he often communicated with the ghost within his body, and now, the 'clothes' he was wearing gave him the same feeling.

Immediately, he calmed himself down and used the same methods he had used to communicate with ghosts to try and communicate with the garment.

Seeing that his master was not making any movement and could not see any expression under the black substance, Wang Xiang felt a little anxious.

He turned his head and looked at the others.

"Fortunately, the others don't seem to know what to do either."

"However, people from previous batches said that although it's difficult, it only takes about half an hour to try, so don't panic!"

Wang Xiang took a deep breath, looked at the house next to him, and then at his 'clothes'.

After thinking for a moment, he turned sideways and crashed into the outer wall of the house.

boom!
No pain was felt.

Wang Xiang was immediately overjoyed.

"As expected, this thing has defensive capabilities!"

Wang Xiang was happy to have found a pattern, but his smile soon faded.

"Defense alone cannot eliminate ghosts and spirits; at most, it can only make you more resilient. So how exactly do you use this thing to hunt down ghosts and spirits?"

Wang Xiang looked at his blackened arm and slammed his fist against the wall.

The wall didn't collapse, and Wang Xiang didn't feel any pain.

"Does this equipment of mine only provide an attack bonus against ghosts and spirits, and not any bonuses in other aspects?"

Wang Xiang thought of a possible direction.

The problem is, to verify this conjecture, we need to find a ghost.

This is where the problem lies.

What if the ghost is found, but the guess was wrong?
Among the previous batches of people, some were eliminated early.

If he's eliminated without killing a single ghost, then he shouldn't even dream of becoming a wandering Yaksha.

"What should we do? Should we give it a try?"

While Wang Xiang was hesitating, some of the others had the same idea as him.

Because there were so many of them, they left as a group and headed deep into this dark and mysterious city.

After they left, other people followed suit, walking out in twos and threes.

Three other people who were also independent individuals invited Wang Xiang, but Wang Zhibo did not respond at all, so Wang Xiang had no choice but to refuse them.

Once the three strangers left, only Wang Xiang and Wang Zhibo remained.

"Master, Master?"

Wang Xiang called out twice more, but still received no response.

Although he knew the underworld wouldn't allow anything to happen to them, Wang Xiang was still somewhat worried.

Immediately, he reached out towards his master's shoulder.

"Master, are you alright..."

He had only spoken halfway when Wang Xiang suddenly sensed something was wrong.

His gaze shifted downwards, and he saw that the hand he had placed on his master's shoulder was stuck!
Starting from the point where his palm touched the ground, streaks of black, viscous substance, like veins, covered and climbed up his palm like spiders.

Wang Xiang was startled by this sudden change and immediately tried to pull his hand back.

Yes, but the hand remained completely still.

Wang Xiang tried again, his face turning bright red, but he still couldn't remove his right hand from Wang Zhibo's shoulder.

What's even stranger is that such great strength seemed to have not been transmitted to Wang Zhibo.

Wang Zhibo stood there without swaying an inch!
Seeing his forearm covered in black slime, Wang Xiang panicked.

"Master, it's me!"

This call of "Master" seemed to awaken Wang Zhibo.

The black slime that had spread to Wang Xiang's shoulder paused for a moment before quickly receding.

Soon, the hand loosened.

After pulling away, Wang Xiang took several steps back. "Master?"

Looking at Wang Zhibo who had turned around, Wang Xiang asked.

"Yes, I'm fine. I've figured out how to use this thing."

Wang Zhibo's tone carried a hint of a smile.

This nearly five-minute conversation was not in vain.

Just as he guessed, the thing on them was similar to a ghost, but also different.

When he first became a Yin cultivator, it took him three days to communicate with the ghosts within his body for the first time.

And when he established a connection with the ghost within his body using his consciousness, he was immediately overwhelmed by the negative emotions emanating from the ghost and fainted.

But that was only the first time. After that, he had established a connection with the evil spirit within him, making communication much easier once more.

However, the Yaksha equipment he was wearing at this time was different. Compared to the ghostly one, this equipment was much easier to communicate with. After establishing a connection, he was not affected by negative emotions. Instead, he obtained some information about the Yaksha equipment from it.

Just now, Wang Xiang's hand was the result of Wang Zhibo subconsciously activating the Yaksha equipment.

"Really?"

Upon hearing Wang Zhibo's words, Wang Xiang disregarded the strangeness from before and moved closer.

Wang Zhibo didn't speak, but communicated with the Yaksha equipment directly through his consciousness.

Immediately, the black substance on Wang Zhibo's body began to change. In the blink of an eye, sharp spikes appeared at various joints on Wang Zhibo's body and solidified into blades!

Wang Zhibo raised one hand.

puff!
The spikes that grew from his arm shot out and punched three holes in the concrete wall.

Before Wang Xiang could be shocked, the three spikes were pulled back by the thin black slime threads attached to their tails and re-embedded into Wang Zhibo's arm.

"Fuck..."

Wang Xiang had only spoken half of his exclamation when he saw Wang Zhibo suddenly crouch down, revealing the sharp spikes all over his body.

Before he could react, the 'whoosh whoosh whoosh' sound kept ringing in his ears.

There were even seven or eight sharp spikes with black threads that shot past his face. After the black threads were retrieved, what Wang Xiang saw was the wall around him riddled with holes.

"This is just too, too awesome!"

Wang Xiang said, his voice trembling, his excitement barely concealed.

But Wang Zhibo shook his head.

"This is just one of the attack methods I can think of; this equipment is more than that."

As he spoke, Wang Xiang saw six tentacles, each as thick as an arm and covered with spikes like dart heads, growing from Wang Zhibo's back.

The black tentacles shot into the ground around Wang Zhibo as soon as they appeared.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Zhibo was lifted up by six tentacles.

Wang Xiang just stared blankly as Wang Zhibo rose several meters into the air above the ground. Then, two of the six tentacles were pulled out of the ground and stuck into the wall of a six-story building next to him.

Then came the third and fourth.

After all four tentacles were embedded in the wall, the last two tentacles also retracted from the ground and embedded themselves higher in the wall.

And just like that, right in front of Wang Xiang, Wang Zhibo climbed to the top of the six-story building, nearly twenty meters high.

"Fuck...fuck!"

Wang Xiang, looking up, was dumbfounded.

Just then, he saw something that made his eyes widen in disbelief.

His master, Wang Zhibo, jumped off a building twenty meters high!
click!
The six tentacles landed first, piercing the ground. Then, like six shock-absorbing springs, they gradually dissipated the impact of Wang Zhibo's descent.

When Wang Zhibo finally landed, the sound was like he had jumped up and landed.

"Fuck!"

"Master, teach me!"

Wang Xiang didn't want to say anything more and lunged forward, but was blocked by two tentacles.

"Stand still and do as I say."

Wang Xiang immediately stood up straight and looked at Wang Zhibo without saying a word.

"Close your eyes, don't think of that black substance on your body as something like clothes, just think of it as part of your body, and then try to feel it, try to activate this part of your 'body'!"

Wang Zhibo described it in the simplest terms possible.

Wang Xiang did as Wang Zhibo said.

One minute, two minutes.

Wang Xiang opened his eyes.

“Master, I’ve come to regard it as part of my body, but it doesn’t seem to want to consider me one of its own!”

Wang Xiang said, somewhat devastated.

Having witnessed the abilities of this black-clad warrior, he truly longed to soar through the heights like his master!

However, he couldn't feel the black gear he was wearing at all.

Wang Zhibo frowned.

He put it simply, but it's not so simple in practice.

If he didn't have prior experience with Yin cultivation, it would have been impossible for him to complete the communication in just five minutes.

If Wang Xiang were to rely on his own abilities to sense it, it would probably take him half an hour, just like the other underworld messengers.

That's still good. If you don't have that talent, you probably wouldn't be able to control that Yaksha outfit even after an hour.

"what to do……"

Soon, Wang Zhibo had an idea.

After examining his Yaksha gear, he gleaned some information from it.

Even when communication fails, the Yaksha equipment cannot transform, but it still possesses the ability to actively protect itself.

When actively protecting itself, the Yaksha equipment seems to awaken from a deep slumber for a moment.

It is naturally easier to communicate when awake than when asleep.

Thinking of this, Wang Zhibo looked at Wang Xiang.

"Close your eyes, don't worry about what's happening, just feel it!"

Wang Xiang nodded and continued with the previous operation.

On the opposite side, all six tentacles behind Wang Zhibo had been raised and were aimed at Wang Xiang.

After thinking for a moment, Wang Zhibo changed the six tentacles behind him into thirty-six thinner tentacles.

After finishing, he fired one, aiming it at Wang Xiang.

The moment the dart-shaped spikes at the tip of the tentacle touched Wang Xiang's body, they sent him flying, like hitting a billiard ball.

However, he had only flown a meter before his body was grabbed by six tentacles.

Then, a series of swishing sounds rang out.

The tentacles kept stabbing at Wang Xiang's body, causing him to tremble violently.

Wang Xiang kept his master's orders in mind, ignoring the swaying of his body and focusing wholeheartedly on feeling the equipment on his body.

At one point, Wang Xiang suddenly felt the equipment on his body 'move'.

Even though his eyes were closed, he still 'saw' it.

Before he could even wonder, the frequency of these noises increased, and the number of times they occurred became more and more frequent.

After being stunned for a while, Wang Xiang suddenly realized something and, when he 'moved' again, transmitted his consciousness to it.

On the other side, Wang Zhibo had been hitting Wang Xiang for a minute, stabbing him no less than three or four hundred times.

Just when he thought his method might be wrong, a tentacle got stuck to Wang Xiang's body!
After a moment of surprise, Wang Zhibo smiled.

At this moment, only twelve minutes had passed since the assessment began!
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(End of this chapter)