After my grandmother called me home in my dream, my spiritual energy revived

Chapter 257 The Calm Period

Song Miaozhu only realized how much had happened during this time after reading the comments on the post.

She could imagine that undiscovered cultural relics exposed in the wild absorbed spiritual energy during this surge of spiritual energy and transformed into unclaimed spiritual objects.

With so much spiritual energy, cultivators won't have time to consume it all, so it will naturally gradually spread and be absorbed by artifacts in the wild, eventually turning into ownerless spiritual objects.

When Song Miaozhu told the Spirit Investigation Bureau about the unclaimed spiritual objects and spirits, she also mentioned that the Water-Suppressing Stone Rhinoceros had the ability to control water after it became a spiritual object, so that they could dig out the remaining Water-Suppressing Stone Rhinoceroses in advance and preserve them properly.

Unexpectedly, the water-suppressing stone rhinoceros in Jiangcheng Museum survived, but the water-suppressing stone rhinoceros in Yuncheng was still missing. After becoming a spirit, it caused a flood.

Fortunately, the spirit has now been dispersed and its soul extracted by the cultivators from the Spirit Investigation Bureau.

China is a vast country with abundant resources and a long history, with countless cultural relics. If these relics were to become ownerless and unclaimed artifacts, it would indeed cause considerable trouble.

However, because she informed the Department of the Spirit Investigation in advance, the department was prepared, and at least no major chaos occurred in museums across the country.

Unlike in other countries, when museum artifacts become ownerless and cause great turmoil, this is not the case here.

Currently, the various incidents of spirits causing trouble in Chinese news are all caused by cultural relics buried underground that have not yet been discovered, which have transformed into spirits and caused trouble.

The Bureau of Spirits also responded promptly, announcing information about unclaimed spirits and their spirits, and encouraging all cultivators to exterminate unclaimed spirits and collect their spirits.

In China, where everyone practices cultivation, there are many unclaimed spiritual objects. However, with so many cultivators, it is much easier to handle both escape and capture/eliminate them compared to other countries.

When the cultural relics were first discovered, several countries, including the United States, that had lost cultural relics felt fortunate that they had lost a large number of them. It was only after China announced that destroying unclaimed spiritual objects could obtain their spirits that they realized what they had lost.

It can be said that nowadays, unclaimed spiritual objects are both a headache for everyone and something that everyone is eager to acquire.

Overall, the trouble caused by unclaimed spirits is unlikely to completely disrupt social order.

Once Song Miaozhu knew this, she was relieved.

The artifacts she currently possesses are all exquisite, and the spiritual essences they have cultivated are of very high quality. They are more than enough for her to use alone, and she doesn't need to go around searching for unclaimed spiritual objects to destroy and extract their spiritual essences like other cultivators.

Compared to unclaimed spiritual objects, Song Miaozhu was more concerned about the spiritual energy tides.

According to what I read online, the surge of spiritual energy ended a month ago, and for the past month there has been a period of calm without any surges of spiritual energy.

But the spiritual energy of Xiaozhushan is still gushing forth.

Previously, the surge and calm of spiritual energy across the country were synchronized, so why did Xiaozhushan become an exception this time?
Although she hadn't figured out the reason yet, Song Miaozhu was extremely grateful that she had used the Nine-Turn Paper Spirit Cage to lock the spiritual energy of Xiaozhu Mountain on the mountain. Otherwise, the fact that the spiritual energy of Xiaozhu Mountain was still gushing out might have been exposed long ago.

At that time, Xiaozhushan will inevitably become the target of public criticism.

Song Miaozhu flipped through the Spiritual Energy Weekly Report issued by the Spiritual Energy Bureau a month ago, and after seeing the date, she suddenly realized something.

"At 4:34 PM on July 8th, the spiritual energy entered a period of calm..."

She drinks the "Scholar's Dew" from the blue-and-white porcelain bottle like water every day, and her memory is now vastly different from what it used to be.

This time point is clearly just one year after she advanced to the White Spirit Rank!

She remembered it clearly because a little paper servant had been keeping track of the time for her. "This unusually long period of gushing energy this year, could it be because I advanced to the White Spirit Rank?!"

Song Miaozhu subconsciously guessed this.

According to the ancient book on cultivation, this situation where spiritual energy tides are triggered by the advancement of cultivators usually occurs in the middle and later stages of spiritual energy tides.

At this time, the frequency of naturally occurring global spiritual energy surges begins to decrease, while the frequency of global spiritual energy surges triggered by advanced cultivators gradually increases.

Advanced cultivators will also receive additional spiritual energy as a gift.

Further on, it will develop into a situation where there will be no more naturally occurring global surges of spiritual energy, only global surges of spiritual energy triggered by the advancement of high-level cultivators.

When the world's spiritual energy can no longer sustain a cultivator's advancement to a higher level, the spiritual energy tide enters a permanent period of calm, and spiritual energy becomes increasingly scarce—this is what is known as the Dharma-ending Age.

"Could the spiritual energy tide have already entered the middle and late stages?" Song Miaozhu's heart tightened.

This period of calm lasted for a month and is still ongoing. The spiritual energy here is still surging, which is consistent with the description of advanced cultivators receiving extra spiritual energy.

Although Xiaozhushan currently has more spiritual energy than it can use, Song Miaozhu still felt a sense of urgency: "It seems I need to hurry up and earn money to save up spirit stones!"

Besides selling ancestral paper offerings and spirit paper offerings, she decided to explore a new avenue for making money.

She counted the extra spiritual energy in her spiritual space.

There are more than three hundred exorcising spirits and protective spirits in total. They are all leftovers after she researched the methods of exorcising spirits and protecting spirits.

She no longer needs to use spirit souls to make exorcising paper bells and peace paper gourds. These spirit souls are no longer useful to her, so she can sell them to others, earn money to exchange for spirit stones, and hoard them to prepare for the Dharma-ending Age that may come at any time.

Thinking of this, she had her little paper servant contact Zhao Huoyan through the green bubble.

Many people suspected she was the one who stole from the museum containing lost Chinese cultural relics, but she only admitted it to the Department of Spirits Investigation.

Since she had told them about the spirit in advance, there was little point in denying it.

As the official organization of cultivators in China, they will not break ties with her unless there are major problems with the management. After all, although she has not joined the Spirit Adjustment Bureau, she is still considered a representative of China in the global cultivator community.

Moreover, apart from the Spirit Adjustment Bureau, there is currently no individual cultivator who can consume so many spiritual souls in her possession.

There's no better buyer than the Bureau of Spirit Investigation than they would openly reveal that she possesses a large number of cultural relics, and they have enough capital to acquire the spirits here.

This is why she sometimes disagrees with the way the Bureau of Paranormal Investigations operates, but is also willing to cooperate with them in critical moments.

The most important thing is that she can obtain enough benefits.

It is precisely because she often provides the Department of Spirits with important intelligence and spiritual objects that the Department tolerates her sometimes tough attitude.

Through this back-and-forth exchange, a balance was achieved, and even though the relationship wasn't particularly close, there was a certain level of tacit understanding.

[Meow Bamboo: I have 163 exorcising spirits here, each costing 4 million contribution points, and 172 peace-protecting spirits, each costing 6 million contribution points. Do you need them?]