Chapter 151 The Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Wish-Fulfilling Beads Prepare to Completely Eliminate the Evil God

Upon hearing the system notification, Zhou Fangdong was stunned. Looking at the black bracelet on his left wrist that was gleaming, he belatedly realized that the [sandalwood prayer beads] mentioned by the system were the artifact given to him by the third main quest.

The bonus from embedding this rosary is that it allows him to contact the system while exploring the apartment at night and use the [Return] skill of the [Landlord Key].

Because the inlay bonus was so useful, he completely ignored the item's original effect and can no longer recall any hidden function of the [Sandalwood Rosary].

Zhou Fangdong found the reward pop-up for main quest 3 in the history of his chat with the system.

The first effect of this rosary is to increase mental strength by 50% and defense by 50%. After being inlaid, it provides a bonus effect to all landlord-specific items.

The second item has purification and salvation functions, which can eliminate the demonic state of humans and stabilize their minds.

The third feature is a hidden function that is triggered by a specific event.

After Zhou Fangdong reviewed the third clause, the text changed to:

③ A specific event has been triggered, and the hidden function has been unlocked.

[I will not attain Buddhahood until all sentient beings are liberated; I will not become a Buddha until hell is emptied.]

Hidden function of the rosary: ​​The [Sandalwood Rosary] can temporarily evolve into the [Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Vow Rosary]. Each of the 108 beads of the Sandalwood Rosary will display the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Sutra.

Using the [Ksitigarbha Prayer Bead] will activate an absolute purification domain, purifying all forces not belonging to this world and unconditionally eliminating negative statuses and curses on all humans within the domain.

Currently, the domain can only cover one city. Once activated, it will imprison all ghosts and outer gods in place and weaken all supernatural and void powers that do not belong to Liwan Apartment. However, it does not have a devouring function; please use other skills or items to manually devour them.

Usage requirements: 1000 reputation

Cost: The user will bear all the negative statuses and curses on the human being purified by the rosary.

(Note: Please ensure your stamina and health bars are at full before use, otherwise there will be strong side effects.)

The cost wasn't a big deal; the curse was better on him than on the citizens and tenants. He had plenty of ghost coins to replenish his health and spirit. Once he found that damned evil god, all curses would be resolved. His only fear was that the citizens would die from the curse before he found the evil god.

But when Zhou Fangdong saw the conditions for using the [1,000 reputation], he felt his vision go black.

Where is he going to get a thousand reputation points for this rosary? ... He certainly has plenty of negative reputation points.

The reputation value on the system's main interface stubbornly remained in a negative state; the bright red number -999 made it impossible to tell how much reputation I currently possessed.

Zhou Fangdong sighed and began to browse the system interface, checking his reputation points gain records.

The 300 reputation points related to the absolutely safe zone on the first floor cannot be touched; all other reputation points...

Zhou Fangdong opened his online store and checked the sales of his [lamp oil pendant].

The 90 newly listed lamp oil pendants all sold out. Since they had just been sold out, most buyers had not yet posted their user reviews. This batch of lamp oil pendants only increased reputation by 200.

In order to obtain those ten lamp oil pendants, the Supervision Bureau has had its paranormal investigators take turns making videos over the past few days, releasing ten videos related to the Liwan Apartment on their official account. The number of likes hasn't reached the target yet; currently, the combined viewership and reach only grant one hundred reputation points.

Yesterday, the reputation points for treating the 119 comatose patients at Liwan Hospital were also calculated, increasing by 340 reputation points.

By the way, the incense offerings from the City God Temple and the local temple can also be converted into reputation.

"System, is the conversion rate of incense points to reputation points one to one?"

【10:1】

That's really frustrating. The two thousand-plus incense points from the City God Temple can only be exchanged for two hundred reputation points, and even including the Jing Temple, it's only two hundred and sixty.

One hundred more...

Just as Zhou Fangdong gritted his teeth, preparing to deactivate the absolute safety zone on the first floor and allocate the three hundred reputation points, a system notification sounded:

[The first horror comic strip from Liwan Apartment has been shared over 10,000 times online, earning a reward of 100 reputation points.]

Zhou Fangdong was stunned for a moment.

He remembered that Tang Huili had only finished five pages the night before last, and just one day later, she had already finished the rest of the comic and posted it online. She truly deserved to be called a professional comic artist. The fact that it garnered 10,000 shares so quickly was probably due to the boost from her social media followers.

Thanks to Tang Huili, plus the 100 reputation points I earned from this horror comic, that's more than enough.

Zhou Fangdong silently counted his meager reputation points on his fingers, like counting copper coins, wondering if the few bushels of rice he could buy with that money could support a large number of children.

I had to pull out all my hidden reputation points to barely scrape together a thousand, and those thousand reputation points are only enough for one use.

All the reputation I painstakingly accumulated was gone after I used it up, and it feels like Liwan Apartments can never escape that bright red -999 reputation.

He can only take it slowly. He can continue to accumulate reputation, but if he loses his citizens, then everything is over... If both his reputation and tenant sources collapse, he'll never be able to complete the main quest in this lifetime.

"It still hurts a little. If only I could use Ghost Coins... System, why does using this item require consuming Apartment Reputation?"

[This is a bit difficult to explain; you'll understand once you use it.]

[Note: Before using the hidden function of the sandalwood prayer beads, please ensure that your spirit and health are at full.]

“Yes, I know.” Zhou Fangdong glanced at the mini attribute panel in the upper left corner of his screen.

Your mental energy keeps dropping steadily, so you need to replenish it before using the rosary.

Zhou Fangdong is considering when to use this purification field.

Now that we have the rosary, we can remove debuffs from citizens with a single click. Investigating the medium that caused the debuffs to become curses is no longer important. What's important is finding the hidden evil god and other high-ranking members of the Heirs of the Bone Society.

This time he wanted to completely eliminate the evil god. If he allowed this rat in the gutter to burrow everywhere in the city, things like what happened today would happen again.

The evil god has completely given up and is extremely destructive.

If we don't clean up the mess now, we'll have to guard against both evil gods and the main god in the future, which will be exhausting.

After he stole the Nightmare instance from the main god yesterday, the main god has been silent ever since. Zhou Fangdong is afraid that this guy will do something behind the scenes like the evil god and then cause a big incident.

Zhou Fangdong's nightmare clone is currently in the agent's car with Miao Zheng, heading to the entertainment company.

In this company, you can probably only find some clues about the medium of the curse; the cultists wouldn't still be here.

These guys have gotten smarter now and they don't hold rituals anymore, making it hard to track down the cultists.

As long as he can capture a high-ranking member of the Bone Society who is connected to the evil god... no, as long as he finds a cultist involved in this matter, he can trace the high-ranking member of the Bone Society through the cultist's causal link, and then use that cultist to capture the hidden evil god.

Zhou Fangdong pondered for a moment, then teleported to the apartment garden.

In the garden, He Yansheng was still hoeing the ground.

A whole morning had passed, and he had only dug out a small hole; the rest were dug out by Xiao Di.

Although the amount of exercise was very small, He Yansheng was still exhausted. He was panting heavily, holding his waist and leaning on his hoe, looking like he might collapse at any moment.

Zhou Fangdong told He Yansheng to put down his farming work, told him the location of the entertainment company, and told him to take the ghost bus there.

He Yansheng has a buff that attracts cultists, and Zhou Fangdong plans to send him out to lure the cultists out.

Upon hearing Zhou Fangdong's request, He Yansheng hesitated for a moment, then weakly said, "Sigh... I... I need to talk to my wife about this..."

This was the first time he had left the apartment since moving in, and the thought of being separated from his wife again made He Yansheng very anxious.

“It’s alright, you’re an apartment tenant, I’ll ensure your safety.” Zhou Fangdong took out a bracelet and put it on He Yansheng’s wrist.

The bracelet was much thicker than He Yansheng's wrist, but it shrank automatically after being put on his wrist.

This bracelet is the [Seven-Star Black Heart Stone Bracelet] obtained when unlocking Chen Agong's profile.

Wearing it can calm the mind and spirit, allow one to sense the presence of evil spirits in the surrounding area, and resist attacks from evil spirits below Grade A seven times.

There's a bus stop near the entertainment company, so He Yansheng doesn't need to walk too far.

Even if He Yansheng is particularly unlucky and is attacked by cultists as soon as he gets off the ghost bus, this bracelet can still allow him to safely escape to the company.

Zhou Fangdong's nightmare clone and Miao Zheng are about to arrive at the company and will not encounter any major problems.

"Sigh... Mr. Landlord, are you entrusting me with something important?" He Yansheng's mood suddenly turned unusually low, as if he had thought of something. "I'm afraid I won't do it well. After all, I'm just a useless good-for-nothing, I can't succeed at anything. The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment... Alas, from love comes sorrow, from love comes fear, this world..."

"Okay, stop." Zhou Fangdong quickly interrupted his negative ramblings. "You don't need to do anything, just go out for a walk."

Hearing him say that, He Yansheng visibly breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, I'll give it a try."

After watching He Yansheng board the ghost bus, Zhou Fangdong opened the special tenant watchlist and focused on He Yansheng's movements.

[Tenant in Room 202 leaves apartment]

[Room 202 tenants board ghost bus]

The tenant of room 202 got off the bus and arrived at the bus stop.

The buff on the tenant in room 202 attracted the attention of a large number of cult members, with remarkable results!

[The cultists launched a preemptive strike, ambushing tenant 202!]

[The attack missed! The tenant of room 202 tripped over his own feet and used a flat fall, successfully dodging the cultist's stun attack!]

The tenant in room 202 tried a somersault, but nothing happened! He seems to have taken a pretty hard fall.

[The cult launched a vengeful ghost attack! The ghost was immune to the seven-star bracelet worn by the tenant of room 202! It had no effect!]

[The tenant of room 109 stepped in and used a sweeping attack to trip up three cult members!]

...

Miao Zheng and the Nightmare clone had already run down from the company building. Zhou Fangdong turned off the tenant movement tracking that was obstructing his view and focused all his attention on the Nightmare clone.

Five cult members were successfully captured, two of whom happened to be involved in the incident. They were attracted by the buff on He Yansheng while they were staking out the entertainment company.

...We found the mouse's tail.

Following the clues from the cause and effect of these two individuals, Zhou Fangdong successfully located the positions of the high-ranking members of the Heirs of the Bone Society and the hiding place of the evil god.

He glanced at his attribute panel, replenished his spirit and health bars, and then activated the hidden function of the [Sandalwood Rosary].

[One thousand reputation points deducted; the hidden function of the [Sandalwood Rosary] is now available]

Golden light appeared out of thin air on the black prayer beads on Zhou Fangdong's wrist, completely dyeing them gold. Upon closer inspection, it could be seen that this golden light was composed of countless tiny golden characters.

After the bracelet turned completely golden, a beam of light rose from it. The golden light, like the light of dawn, broke through the confines of the apartment, pierced through the black mist surrounding the apartment, and shot straight into the sky.

This beam of light, even more dazzling than sunlight, was like a sharp blade, tearing the sky apart. The boundless azure sky seemed to have had its mask forcibly stripped away, revealing its true, bloody and ferocious nature.

As the golden light swept across, the sky above Linjiang City was stained red. It was a murky, dark red, like congealed blood, making people extremely uncomfortable.

The crimson sky obscured the sun, swallowing its light. An eerie crimson curtain descended upon the city, casting an ominous red glow over everyone and everything.

As the crimson light descended, a dark fog unknowingly enveloped the entire city, bringing with it a chilling cold that pierced to the bone.

As the black fog spread, all the hideous monsters hidden in the city revealed themselves, appearing like eerie statues in the eyes of ordinary people.

Old, yellowed, and charred round paper money fell like snowflakes from the blood-red sky, accompanied by a light drizzle of blood.

The appearance of the blood rain brought no bloody smell, but rather a refreshing sandalwood fragrance. This rain was invisible and harmless to ordinary people, but when it fell on the manifested ghosts, it acted like sulfuric acid, corroding them and causing wisps of blue smoke to rise from them.

Seeing this apocalyptic scene through the Nightmare clone, Zhou Fangdong sighed helplessly, "Now I finally understand why this item consumes reputation with Liwan Apartments."

This was practically a projection of hell onto earth... a red sky and a black earth, exactly the same scene he had seen on the road to the underworld.

No wonder it drains reputation; this kind of area effect is so damaging to one's image. Who would believe this is about saving citizens? It's practically the prelude to the appearance of a world-destroying villain!

As the city changed, the system's electronic voice also sounded:

The purification field of the [Ksitigarbha Vow Bead] has been activated, and the binding effect has taken place. Do you wish to begin purification?

[Note: Before the purification begins, it is recommended that the host go to a high floor of the apartment building, above the fifteenth floor. After enduring the backlash from the purification, you can also cleanse the vengeful spirits on the higher floors.]

"We'll start the purification process later." Zhou Fangdong got into the elevator and pressed the button for the 15th floor.

Miao Zheng is rushing towards the location of the evil god.

Zhou Fangdong planned to use Miao Zheng to descend in his true form and kill the evil god as soon as the purification began.

As long as he is fast enough, he won't have to suffer too much backlash from the purified curse.

The reason for not killing the evil god first was that Zhou Fangdong was afraid that in the process of dealing with the evil god, this guy would directly detonate the debuffs on all the citizens, which would result in heavy casualties.

After all, based on the entertainment company's schedule, it's estimated that many citizens in Linjiang City have debuffs.

The domain confinement effect of [Ksitigarbha's Wish Bead] does not affect the ghost in the apartment. Although the evil god is hidden in the suburbs, far from the city center, Miao Zheng can take the ghost bus and arrive there quickly.

Now, it's time to finally put an end to this disgusting evil god.

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Author's Note: There will be an extra chapter at 9 PM tonight.