"How could it be that the offerings to the spirits of an ordinary village contain so many good things?"

"Could it be a trap?"

The six-winged golden cicada fell into deep confusion. If the sacrificial spirit of this village was really that powerful, there would be no need for it to live in a small mountain village.

It just so happened that recently two sects from the Great Zhou sent people here to wreak havoc, and only Dongshan Village survived. They even held a market with great fanfare. This went against common sense and was very wrong!

"Could it really be a trap? They want to lure all the monks in the nearby area over and then catch them all in one fell swoop?" The six-winged golden cicada was shocked by its own inference. Although insects cannot sweat, it still felt a chill down its spine.

"No, no, the Moon Shadow Palace disciples have already begun clearing out the surrounding threats. Even I can see through such an obvious conspiracy. There's no way those cultivators from the Great Zhou would be so stupid as to set up such a trap."

"Or did they think we'd see through the trap and not go into it, so they made it so obvious on purpose?"

"What exactly is the Dongshan Village Spiritual Sacrifice thinking?"

The six-winged golden cicada was so confused by himself that it couldn't analyze Lin Xiang's motives.

Curiosity made it want to find out the truth, but the cautious nature of insects made it cautious. If it really fell into an ambush, all his years of practice would be in vain!

In that case, let others explore the way.

The six-winged golden cicada was impressed by his own clever idea, and then he took out a communication talisman and passed the news that he had discovered the secret hidden in Dongshan Village to the disciples of Yueying Palace.

Since Yaowang Sect and Fahua Temple have caused destruction in this area, Yueying Palace, as the power behind Da Gan, will naturally not let them succeed easily.

So the disciples of Moon Shadow Palace rushed to the Dagan border area and began to eliminate the threats from neighboring countries bit by bit.

However, due to the limited number of disciples, they only distributed communication symbols to the town-level spirits and were unable to cover more villages.

Once the sacrificial spirit discovers something is wrong and uses a communication symbol to explain the situation, the Moon Shadow Palace disciples responsible for that area will quickly rush to provide support.

"Maybe I can even get a reward from the Moon Shadow Palace, and give me some spiritual honey or something."

The six-winged golden cicada had a wonderful idea. It was an outstanding graduate of a higher education institution and was well versed in the art of survival by keeping a low profile. Although it had the strength to be a county-level sacrificial spirit, it still stayed in Qifeng Town and refused to leave.

…

Lin Xiang on the other side didn't know that he had been reported by the Qifeng Town Spirit. He was flying in the sky with his sword, feeling the joy of speed and passion.

Although there was a spiritual shield that could block the oncoming strong wind, he chose to face the wind and waves head-on, and even began to use his spiritual sense to command the flying sword to fly up and down, practicing his flying skills.

It is said that kings do not meet each other. He did not go down to communicate with the sacrificial spirit of Qifeng Town because he had just met the other party before Jian Xiu Majia, and there was nothing to say if he went down now.

When he found Han Mu, Bingxuepiaopiao and others according to the green dots on the map, they were quietly approaching the human-faced spider, preparing for revenge.

Perhaps it was because the human-faced spiders caught the players yesterday and found only a pile of mud and sand. They were unable to fill their stomachs, so they had to go back to their old ways and continue to use cries for help to attract passing monks.

Every failure makes you wiser. This time, Han Mu, Yu Xiaoqi and others pretended to be carefree, but they were actually secretly investigating the surrounding environment to see how they could eliminate all these damn spiders and not let any one get away.

Zhenren Tai Er took this opportunity to pour some tung oil on the outside to make a big circle, and then block all the spiders with fire.

“Help!”

"Help!"

The human-faced spider only knows this one sentence. If you listen carefully, you can hear a hint of dissonance, as if it is a parrot mimicking a human voice.

Lin Xiang hid his figure and hid aside, his spiritual sense had already firmly locked onto the two human-faced spiders over there.

Neither the spider nor the player was a match for Lin Xiang in terms of spiritual awareness, and they were completely unaware that this person was using his spiritual awareness to survey the surroundings.

Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to the human-faced spider, Yu Xiaoqi immediately cast the Golden Light Spell, coating his body with a layer of golden light, and then swung the black snake sword towards the abdomen of the human-faced spider!

Yesterday, her weapon failed to break through the human-faced spider's outer defense.

This time, with the help of the Golden Light Curse, his strength increased a lot, and the Black Snake Sword was also a magic weapon. It could penetrate into any obstacle, and then the pure Yang spiritual power exploded in the body of the human-faced spider.

As a combination of a wronged soul and a demon beast, the human-faced spider was greatly restrained by the pure yang spiritual power. This power exploded inside, making it unable to resist at all. It could only quickly wave its eight spear-like legs to stab Yu Xiaoqi.

If it were normal, Yu Xiaoqi would definitely not be able to dodge the spider's leg spear attack. After all, the reaction speed of insects is much stronger than that of humans.

But she took the initiative and seriously injured the spider before it could make a move.

It's much easier to dodge attacks now.

Han Mu next to him was even more powerful. He used the Immortal's Guidance from the Nine Pure Yang Swords and stabbed his magic-level green light sword directly into the head of the human-faced spider.

The human-faced spider thought it was ambushing the two humans, but it didn't know that they had turned from hunters to prey!

If you plan carefully but not intentionally, your chances of winning are certainly very high.

A human-faced spider was dead, but its abdomen suddenly split open, and tiny spiders crawled out like a torrent, densely covering the entire area.

At the same time, the other spider that was seriously injured by Yu Xiaoqi made a strange cry, and a strand of spider silk suddenly shot out from its tail, trying to activate the spider web hidden on the ground.

In the distance, from a cave covered by branches, spiders began to emerge continuously.

They look much smaller than the human-faced spider, only the size of a millstone or a washbasin, but their numbers are too large!

"Tai Er, come quickly!"

Han Mu's scalp was tingling, and seeing so many spiders gave him goose bumps all over his body.

The smallest spider even began to crawl towards his feet, and the sight of it charging forward fearlessly without fear of life or death was truly frightening.

Yu Xiaoqi was wearing a pair of ordinary cowhide boots and kept attacking the spiders chasing him on the ground with the long sword in his hand.

Bingxue Piaopiao and Xie Longtao rushed over to help, suppressing their discomfort as they attacked the approaching enemies. The mountains were covered in spiders of all sizes, with varying patterns and colors. They definitely didn't want to be bitten.

Zhenren Tai Er jumped directly into the air and threw the tung oil to the ground, splashing the tung oil everywhere. Then he used the fire sword technique to directly ignite the tung oil.

Spiders have a lot of hairs on their bodies, and when tung oil is ignited, they catch fire immediately, and the fire spreads from one to another, continuously spreading around.

Sharp, low cries came from the mouths of the spider monsters as they were burned to charcoal.

As the fire grew bigger and bigger, these spider monsters were like the receding tide. They didn't care about killing the enemies at all, but retreated quickly towards the spider cave.

Only then did Bingxuepiaopiao hurriedly use the Small Cloud and Rain Technique to put out the fire to prevent it from spreading to other places.

The charred spider corpses fell to the ground with their backs facing up, and rare joy appeared on their faces.

Not only did all five of them level up at the same time, but all sorts of items and materials also exploded on the ground!

However, the tung oil had been exhausted, and they lacked sufficient long-range attack capabilities, so they could only move a large rock to block the spider hole.

Although it is not a real team, the cooperation between them is very good.

He did his best within his capabilities and killed so many spider monsters.

"Finally, revenge!"

"I told you to bite me, now bite, bite!"

"Hahahaha, it seems these social monsters are really worthwhile in earning experience points. I never expected there were so many little spiders hidden in their stomachs. Smash one and a whole bunch of them come out."

"Let's go quickly. The flames and the black smoke from the burning tung oil are too conspicuous."

"Yes, yes, let's complete the task first."

The five players simply cleaned up the battlefield and left in a hurry, not wanting to be discovered by others.

After they left, Lin Xiang, who had been standing next to them, slowly showed up.

The pungent smell of the burnt corpses was very strong. He came to the two human-faced spider corpses and used a soul-calling skill on them.

This is not to liberate the spider, but to liberate the wronged soul that has merged with the spider.

The wronged souls of several peasant women were finally freed.

They were once ordinary villagers, but due to various reasons they lost the protection of the sacrificial spirits and were eventually eaten alive by spider monsters.

The resentment of death, coupled with the influence of the mysterious gray fog, caused their wronged souls to merge with the spider monsters, forming a new species.

"I hope you can be born into a good family in your next life."

They were all miserable people, and there were even one or two ghosts that looked like children.

The living environment for human beings is already so harsh, but wars are still brewing between these countries, and more and more ordinary people are being drawn into the wars.

Their lives are nothing but grass in the eyes of the rulers of Da Zhou and Dagan, and are even more like ants in the eyes of super sects such as Yueying Palace, Yaowang Sect, and Fahua Temple.

No one cares what happens to these people.

Living human beings are not weeds that can grow again the next year after being cut.

The reason why Lin Xiang became so anxious was that he wanted to help as many ordinary people as possible.

Dongshan Village and Huanyu Market are not famous at all. Even if the players come forward to help them move here, the locals would rather take their families to Qifeng Town or even to more distant towns and counties to beg for food than come to this unfamiliar little place.

That day, Lin Xiang sent the players out to see if they could shelter or help some refugees stranded in the wild. However, the refugees all despised Dongshan Village and refused to come no matter what, as if this was some kind of unforgivable place.

In fact, it is normal to think this way. None of them knows this small mountain village, nor do they know what it is like there. They even doubt whether it is safe or whether they will be forcibly taken away to be food for monsters and demons.

Even if Dongshan Village is safe for the time being, what about the future?

Would it face the same fate as the rest of the village, where its spirits were slaughtered? Then, they would have to embark on a new journey of escape.

Instead of gambling on this uncertainty, it is better to choose to go to a larger town or county from the beginning, at least you can survive there.

The humble people have only one thought, which is just to survive.

Therefore, Lin Xiang wanted to make Dongshan Village and even Huanyufang City famous in a short period of time, and gradually develop it into a comprehensive commercial city, so that it would be attractive and trustworthy to the surrounding people.

The reason why Lin Xiang chose Fangshi was that he wanted to separate it from Dongshan Village. After all, this village sounds very small.

As for the market town, it is related to cultivators, but it can also accommodate ordinary people and has strong strength.

Another thing is that a market town means there are more people, so there are more job opportunities and a greater chance of survival.

There are players on Lin Xiang's side, and establishing a sect would easily infringe on the interests of the monks in the nearby areas.

People can accept the rise of a commercial place, but cannot accept the rise of a cultivation sect.

Besides, his foundation is not enough to create a sect, so it is better to let players join other sects.

Lin Xiang’s logic is so simple. First, spread his fame, and then attract monks and refugees, so that he can have more believers and merits to improve his strength.

Seeing that the war may break out at any time, if we continue to drag it out and accumulate strength, the day the market opens may be the day when the war officially begins.

At that time, no cultivators would come to the market, as they would definitely not want to be affected.

One by one, the wronged souls entered the illusory gate of hell. Lin Xiang saved these souls and obtained some insignificant five virtues. However, the soul of a young woman was reluctant to go on the journey.

"Why don't you reincarnate? If you don't go now, you will just be a lonely ghost in the human world."

Lin Xiang was unwilling to perform another salvation for a willful wronged soul. It was obvious that he didn't want to leave.

The wronged soul is not afraid of the sunlight at the moment only because of the influence of its residual divine power. Once the divine power dissipates, the wronged soul will be wiped out by the sunlight before it can become a lonely ghost.

The wronged soul slowly floated down, bowed to Lin Xiang, and said, "Thank you, Immortal, for rescuing me from the demon beast. However, I am worried about my parents and do not want to be reincarnated as a human again. I would like to stay in the human world."

Although she looks like a village woman, you can tell she is not an ordinary person by the way she speaks in an elegant manner.

Lin Xiang is not the Bodhisattva Guanyin who saves people from suffering. He cannot fulfill all of everyone's wishes. Moreover, even if the wronged soul survives by chance, it will be affected by the gray fog and become a murderous ghost.

By then, instead of saving people, you will end up harming them.

"You've been dead for many years. Even if your parents are still alive, they've already gotten used to life without you. Now that you've become a ghost, go and reincarnate well, or wait for your parents in the underworld."

Lin Xiang didn't want to be morally kidnapped by her, so after he finished speaking, he walked straight towards the stone covering the spider hole.

He easily moved the stone away, then threw the Golden Spirit Sword Ball into the cave. The sword energy suddenly flooded the spider cave, nipping the danger in the bud.

Although these spider monsters are relatively weak for the time being, they have eaten human flesh after all. If they become stronger in the future, they will also become man-eating monsters.

To cut the grass, we must remove the roots; to eradicate evil, we must do our best and not give the enemy any chance to make a comeback!

[Kill the lv.7 Red Spider and gain 7 experience points!]

[Kill the lv.9 Yin Fire Spider and gain 9 experience points! ]

[Kill the lv.5 wolf spider and gain 5 experience points!]

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Under the cover of divine consciousness, the spiders could not escape the sword attack and eventually turned into experience points to help Lin Xiang.

Although these spiders provide little experience, they are numerous.

Lin Xiang had already gained a lot of experience points through hard training and weapon forging, and now he successfully reached level 16!

The spiritual power that had been consumed was replenished at this time.

When he killed the spider monster and was about to leave, he unexpectedly discovered that the ghost of the wronged woman was still standing in the sun, and it did not seem that she was burned by the sun and her soul was scattered.

"Hey, you actually have some merits."

This was the first mortal soul with merit that Lin Xiang encountered.

Ordinary mortals are busy working and surviving every day. They just face the loess and back to the sky in their own three acres of land. They have no chance to do good deeds, so they have no time to gain merit.

The soul in front of him actually had a small golden edge, which was originally covered by the power of his incense and he didn't notice it, but he discovered it now.

"You have merits, so you will definitely be reborn into a good family in your next life. Maybe you can even have spiritual roots and become a cultivator." Lin Xiang persuaded her. He didn't expect that such a young girl could have so many merits. Good people don't necessarily get good rewards.

The woman spread out her hands and looked at them. She could not see the golden light of merit on her hands, but she remained firm in her thoughts and then knelt on the ground.

"I beg for mercy, Immortal. My father is Xue Yuanming, a doctor who travels to Guanlin Prefecture, and my mother is a lady from a prominent family. I have studied medicine since I was young, and assisting my father with his medical treatment may have earned me some merit. I only hope that I can repay my parents in this life, even if it's just to give them a thought or an explanation. I sincerely hope that the Immortal will grant my wish!"

It turned out to be the doctor...

Now the matter of merit and virtue becomes much clearer.

Guanlin Prefecture, the area where Qifeng Town and Dongshan Village are located, was vast, equivalent to a modern city-level administrative unit. It encompassed several prefectures, which in turn governed several counties, and below these were towns. Above the prefecture were the Dao (prefectures), such as Jiangnan Dao, Shannan Dao, Guandong Dao, and Lingnan Dao.

"Miss, Guanlin Mansion is so big, it's difficult to find your parents. I can't do anything."

Lin Xiang is the land god, not the kind of god who can tell fortunes.

Guanlin Prefecture is so big that unless he expands the area of ​​his jurisdiction to cover the entire Guanlin Prefecture and converts the common people there into his believers, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"Is there nothing the immortal can do?" The soul felt a little dejected. If even the immortal with supernatural powers couldn't do anything, what could a lonely soul like himself who knew nothing do?

Lin Xiang thought for a moment and replied, "If you can cultivate to a certain level, you might be able to locate your parents through blood connection. But you must cultivate faster, because time waits for no one. Your parents may have already passed away to the underworld before you can achieve success in your cultivation."

The son wants to support his parents but they are no longer around. There is not much time left for the woman in front of him.

Lin Xiang originally wanted her to reincarnate, but now that she is determined not to accept it, he naturally cannot force her.

It just so happened that his own market was short of staff, so he tentatively tried to recruit her: "Young lady, I have a market for cultivating immortals that is about to open in Dongshan Village not far away. If you have nowhere to go, you can go there and help me. I can provide you with a place to stay and a position as a Yincha."

You can't start a business alone, you need help from others.

The woman before her was a person of merit, and knowing medicine meant that she could read and do math.

In ancient times, there were very few people who could read and write. Many villagers in Dongshan Village were illiterate and had only attended school for one or two years when they were just starting to learn. Therefore, the task of literacy was very difficult.

Players will eventually leave and explore a wider world, and being with NPCs like yourself is the long-term solution.

Lin Xiang has several monster subordinates. These subordinates are good at doing physical work, but they are not so good when it comes to management.

I will often wander around the world of cultivation, and I need an NPC to manage the market and the players!

As for the Yincha, it is his standard role as a land official.

Part of the land god's duties belonged to the underworld, overseeing the household registration of the deceased in the village. To liberate the souls of the deceased, Taoist priests first visited the land god temple to offer sacrifices and ask him to guide the deceased to the underworld, thus embarking on the path of reincarnation.

The skill of "Soul Guidance" that Lin Xiang had previously displayed was based on his own priesthood.

He didn't know what the rest of the land was like, but he currently had six vacancies for Yincha, who were equivalent to dispatched workers.

After the land god becomes bigger and stronger, he will have the opportunity to become the city god. However, now the city gods in each city are all occupied. Lin Xiang has no way to squeeze out the other city gods, so he might as well build a commercial city himself to become the city god!

Since the number of places is limited, Lin Xiang has always cherished these places and has not given them out casually.

He hopes that these six places can be reserved for useful people. One of them has already been temporarily planned to have a partner, and the other five are still vacant.

"I am willing!"

Lin Xiang used the detection technique to check the identity information of the woman in front of him, and finally knew her name, so he didn't have to call her "girl" all the time.

[Tan Mengru (spiritual body): The daughter of the miraculous doctor of Guanlin Mansion, blessed with virtue and skilled in medicine.]

After Tan Mengru agreed, the first subordinate finally appeared on his game panel.

Under the City God's command were the civil and military judges, the six great gods, the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Deity, the day-wandering god, the night-wandering god, and countless ghost messengers. He had been in the game for so long, and finally got a ghost messenger.

The duties of the Yincha are simple, which is to lead the souls and arrest wandering ghosts.

But this is just an official responsibility, and the specific duties of each land god and city god are different.

For example, on his side, in addition to protecting the safety of Dongshan Village and Xishan Village, the Yincha also needs to manage the operation of the market town.

A Yincha Order appeared in Lin Xiang's hand. He handed it to Tan Mengru and said seriously, "As long as you perform your duties well, we have a group of very kind-hearted young men in our market who will help you find your parents."

Missions like finding relatives are a standard feature of the game!

The key point is what rewards she can give. Players are unwilling to do things without rewards.

As soon as Tan Mengru received the order from the Yincha, her body became more solid. She no longer looked as ethereal as before, and she could live easily in the sun.

"This Yincha Order is your identity. It should contain a corresponding cultivation method. You have merit, so your cultivation will surely be very rapid. Take this magical instrument and use it. It happens to be quite suitable for you."

After saying that, Lin Xiang handed the other party a low-level magic weapon. It was the sunset ribbon used by female monks. Tan Mengru wore it behind her. The ribbon swayed by itself, looking elegant and agile, and at the same time, it had a fairy-like air, like a flying fairy.

The color combination of the setting sun ribbon is very eye-catching, with the golden sunset meeting the lavender sky and the reddish clouds.

Not every ghost messenger has to be ghostly, they can also be ethereal!

The author has something to say:

Have you ever seen the flying apsaras in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang?

The ribbons on their bodies are really amazing. Since I was a child, I have imagined that fairies must have such flowing ribbons, moving without wind.

I will update a 10,000-word chapter tomorrow~~~

My dears, you can guess who the other reserved ghost messenger is. There is a foreshadowing in the previous part.