"No," Hou Wenjie corrected, "it's just a weirdo that claims to be a god!"
Ma Jianguo sensed the contempt in his words for this "god," which was good.
So he asked, "What exactly happened?"
Noticing that everyone's eyes were on him, Hou Wenjie didn't keep them waiting any longer. He carefully considered his words before speaking:
"In ancient times, there were various Taoist sects, large and small, each with its own lineage and secret teachings."
The book "Preserving Spirit and Cultivating Qi" on the website of the Bureau of Strange Tales is very likely a secret transmission of a certain Taoist sect.
This practice uses the Ren and Du meridians as the pathways for ascending and descending, guiding the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to converge into the Qihai acupoint, allowing the spirit to be continuously nourished by the spiritual energy, and finally condensing into the Yin spirit.
The Yin spirit can greatly slow down the insidious invasion, and it can also leave the body to wander at night, and in ancient times it was also called the "Night Wanderer".
But apart from that, the Yin spirit has no other special characteristics.
Everyone listened intently, afraid of missing a single word—it was a secret they had never known before.
Hou Wenjie continued telling the unfinished story: "The Yin God has no other supernatural powers, which is unacceptable to those Taoists who cultivate themselves to become Yin Gods day and night."
Most importantly, Yin spirits cannot grant immortality. The cultivation world at that time devised a method to allow Yin spirits to control the supernatural.
Yin spirits, when imbued with a strange and immortal aura, can live forever.
However, even the Yin spirits could not escape being corrupted by the strange forces. Therefore, the cultivation world at that time came up with a second method, which was to confer the gods!
They had the emperor and officials of the time bestow divine titles upon them, build temples, and have the people worship them.
After the people worship, the power of incense and deity will be born.
This kind of incense and divine power can also suppress strange phenomena.
In this way, many Taoist priests obtained divine positions in the human world and became gods after birth!
Later, a foreign king entered Han territory. As the chosen one of the time, he possessed the dynasty's dragon vein and brought all these gods down from their pedestals.
Some gods, due to excessive backlash, completely transformed into monsters and were ultimately suppressed under the dynasty's dragon vein.
Some gods, after suffering a backlash, chose to seal themselves away.
The one that invaded my aunt Tu Cuiyun's spiritual platform was a deity that had chosen to self-proclaim itself.
After lying dormant in my aunt's body for two years, she entered Luomen Village and began her plan to reclaim her divine status.
She secretly bewitches people to believe in her with her strange powers. She regards the lives of ordinary people as worthless, yet she wants them to worship her as a god.
Then, I entered Luomen Village and completely killed the false god… but deeper within Luomen Village, there were still more strange occurrences that couldn't be eliminated in a short time.”
At this point, Hou Wenjie had finished recounting the entire incident.
Silence fell over the meeting room. Everyone present was carefully analyzing the meaning of Hou Wenjie's words.
This is simply because this passage contains so much information!
Cultivation! Yin Spirits! Conferring of Gods! Incense Offerings! Dragon Veins! Deities!
One by one, words from myths and legends have come into reality.
Even though the supernatural already exists in the world, the legends of gods and dragon veins still give everyone a sense of fantasy.
In this world of scientific explosion, people still prefer to use scientific methods to analyze the bizarre. They fantasize that one day, scientists will develop a magical laser weapon, or an electron collapse weapon, or a dimensional reduction weapon, etc., and use this scientific achievement that surpasses ancient civilizations to completely solve those resurrected mysteries.
But suddenly someone told them that dragon veins, gods, and incense offerings still exist in this world!
This was like a heavy blow, shattering their hard-won understanding of the world and their worldview.
Fortunately, the strange existence had already shattered their worldview, and accepting it again didn't seem so difficult.
After a long while, Ma Jianguo, the person in charge of the Bureau of Strange Affairs, spoke:
"The information you have received is absolutely the most valuable it has been in over a decade."
I will report this to the Bureau of Ghost Stories. If their review is ultimately approved, then you will definitely receive greater support in terms of resources!
In this time of crisis, the nation will not forget its heroes.
Hou Wenjie nodded, and then said, "For some reason, I am not worried about the invasion of the supernatural at the moment, so I will do my best to imprison as many supernatural beings as possible!"
At this point, Hou Wenjie paused, looked at Ma Jianguo, and said:
"Based on this matter, I need to unlock all the data on strange events in Chuzhou. I will handle them one by one!"
"What!" Feng Hongtu jumped up from his chair in shock. "Brother Hou, this is no joke! It could kill someone!"
Hou Wenjie smiled and looked at Feng Hongtu, saying, "Sweeping away the supernatural is the thing I want to do most in this world."
Hou Wenjie was not lying. He has now integrated multiple strange abilities, and he can easily suppress ordinary strange creatures.
Even the more powerful ones, by simultaneously using their clairvoyance and other strange powers, can suppress it.
His only concern now is the mysterious sea like Luomen Village!
Once trapped in the Sea of Devouring Things, even he would find it difficult to escape, because his dantian has not yet been formed and his heavenly eye cannot be used indefinitely. Once the light in his heavenly eye is exhausted, he will be in dire straits.
Ma Jianguo looked at Hou Wenjie with a mixture of pride in the young man's bold spirit and undisguised worry.
He realized that Hou Wenjie's ability to slay gods must be due to his unparalleled power, which even surpassed that of the ancient gods.
But can this power really be used without restraint?
Thinking of this, Ma Jianguo advised, "Wenjie, we have to take it one step at a time when detaining the supernatural. Look at Lao Feng, he only handles one or two cases a year. In just a few years, he has aged so much."
To keep the supernatural in captivity, cooperation is best.
Previously, Hou Wenjie went to Luomen Village to look for his missing aunt. Ma Jianguo couldn't dissuade him, after all, it was a heartache that Hou Wenjie had been carrying for more than ten years.
However, dealing with strange events is a long-term process; it cannot be accomplished overnight!
Having experienced the Luomen Village incident, Hou Wenjie was undoubtedly the greatest asset of the Yunmengze Mystery Bureau, and Ma Jianguo felt it necessary to persuade him to stay.
Hou Wenjie stood up, looked at everyone present, and said:
"I have made my decision. Doing this will bring me joy and clarity of mind! Here, I would like to share a poem with everyone here!"
Everyone present stood up and looked at Hou Wenjie with a hint of respect in their eyes, ready to listen to his words of encouragement.
Then, under everyone's watchful eyes, Hou Wenjie, taking advantage of a summer rain outside the window, modified the teacher's words and used them here.
Life is fleeting, but Heaven endures; year after year, mystery is sealed. Now, mystery is sealed once more, and the fragrance of rice blossoms fills the air.
The annual summer rain brings coolness, unlike the spring sunshine. Yet, it surpasses the spring sunshine, with the vast river and sky covered in frost.
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