On April 15th, you arrived in Linzhou City and, with extraordinary skill, made the two guards at the gate kneel down on the spot, repeatedly calling out "My lord."
One second they were arrogantly demanding entry fees, the next they were kneeling before you, the moment you displayed your extraordinary abilities.
“The class differences are huge.”
On April 16th, three people respectfully asked you to register your information at the inn where you were staying.
Upon learning that you are a wandering, unsettled individual from the desolate mountains, they immediately and excitedly invited you to join the Special Path Sect, the official supernatural organization.
[Their duty is to punish those who commit evil deeds as summoners of gods. Some summoners are inherently evil and require human sacrifices to advance. In the Great Min Kingdom, they are suppressed and regarded as evil gods.]
[Your current path as the River Lord is quite normal; you are undoubtedly a true god.]
[The path of the "swollen man" in his previous life was neither righteous nor evil.]
On April 19th, you only had one mission: to investigate a suspected case involving an evil god.
[After two days of follow-up, it was discovered that it was just a routine murder case.]
On April 22nd, you started dating a female escort from the Special Business School; she was the one who confessed her feelings to you.
Her skills are honed through countless trials, but not as good as yours.
The next morning, she broke up with him—or rather, severed ties—because her principle was that she wouldn't put all her eggs in one basket; she would only try each relationship once.
[You think it's a shame, you were originally planning to stay in this 'special industry' for a while, and you even thought you could find a long-term hookup partner.]
"It seems the only option left is to try the service technologies offered by local service industries."
On April 23, a colleague comforted you: "Don't be sad. That's just how Sister Zhang is. We've always wondered when she'll find a man who can win her over... You're not the first."
[If you were the innocent young Chu Nan, and took Zhang Pao Jie's previous confession seriously, hearing this next sentence would be like being struck by lightning: the pure love god would be heartbroken and driven mad.]
“I’ve seen any man I meet at the Special Business Gate, and we’ve all had a one-night stand together.”
[But you could see her "playing the gun" nature from the beginning, so you only considered her a teammate in friendly matches and never thought of using her for personal purposes. Playing with her was a win-win situation.]
"Byd, you have more experience, right?"
Not only do you benefit, but she benefits too; this is called a win-win situation.
[That colleague originally wanted to help you get over it, but when he saw you walk out alone, he thought you were having second thoughts and was afraid you might do something foolish because it was your first heartbreak, so he secretly followed you.]
[Then I saw you enter Xinyuelou and order eight items!]
"Damn it! You dead ladybug!"
He cursed inwardly.
[Until you looked up from upstairs and called out, "Old Song, come on up, there are two for you."]
"Here you are, Brother Shou!"
On April 27th, a wanted criminal of the seventh rank arrived in Linzhou City. You were assigned to a squad consisting of five ninth-rank members and an eighth-rank leader, tasked with searching the city house by house.
[A seventh-rank martial artist, judging from the level, is a Martial Master. The wanted criminal is a seventh-rank Overlord on the Path of the Overlord, known as "Steel Bar." If your squad encounters him, they probably won't last ten rounds before being wiped out.]
"puff."
On May 1st, news arrived that the wanted criminal had appeared in another city, leaving you slightly disappointed.
[On May 13th, you reached the ninth rank and one month has passed. The cooldown period has ended. Continue setting up the ritual resonance. Under the resonance, you feel a vast entity flowing in the endless distance.]
[You have advanced to the eighth rank on the path to becoming a River Lord: Flowing Wind.]
[At the same level as the Taoist priest from a month ago.]
This skill allows for precise control of a flowing, supernatural force, such as manipulating a sword to shoot a hundred meters, slit a throat, bleed, and take a life.
After successfully advancing, you will retrieve the compressed elemental crystal from your spatial ring and rapidly absorb it to replenish your energy.
"The next step, advancing from eight to seven, will require an interval of approximately seventy days."
"This will gradually increase to six months, one year, two years, three years..."
[Year 3084.]
Having lived in Linzhou City for nearly two years, you've handled over twenty cases related to summoning gods. Some involved individuals who mistakenly received a divine inheritance, collected materials to advance to the ninth rank, and later became your colleagues.
There were also two rather "dangerous" incidents. One was about an eighth-rank cultivator on the "Path of Blood Abyss" who had killed several villages in an attempt to advance to the seventh rank, but you arrived midway, interrupting his ritual and causing him to suffer a backlash and die.
[On another occasion, dozens of fallen beasts were roaming the wilderness outside Linzhou City, and you participated in their hunt.]
Last month, you used your own money and achievements to obtain the promotion ceremony and materials for the eighth-rank "Flowing Wind" from the Special Service Sect, thus transforming yourself into a high-ranking figure in this city.
[But in reality, you are already a fifth-rank "King of Sichuan".]
"Great beauty prospers, Trump is king."
[In this year, the Xianhua Cult caused unrest in the northern border of Da Min. Each city was required to send several eighth-rank officials to suppress the cult, and you were selected as one of them.]
The Moss Transformation Cult's doctrine is to live in harmony with light, which means transforming people into vegetative states capable of photosynthesis. Its leaders follow the "Path of Blessed Life."
[This cult was able to gain power because the Great Min Dynasty was so incompetent that the people were starving, especially in the northern border regions. In ordinary households, seven out of ten homes were empty, most had starved to death, and there were even cannibals.]
[However, the Moss Cult can implant a certain photosynthetic plant into human skin, forming a symbiotic relationship. It can survive simply by being exposed to sunlight. After the skin graft, the person looks like their entire body is covered in moss, hence the name.]
"Skin him alive! We can't let this cult continue to spread!"
[“My lord, please! My lord, we don’t want to become monsters, we just don’t want to starve to death…”]
[You've just arrived in Yansu City, the most rampant stronghold of the Northern Mossy Cult, with the main force, and this is what you see.]
Layers upon layers of dark green moss hung outside the city walls, dripping with green sap and red blood.
"Linzhou may be a small city, but it's a rare place of peace," you sighed inwardly. Elsewhere, hell was unfolding.
"Don't think we're heartless. At a time like this, we absolutely cannot be soft-hearted!" A local seventh-rank military officer stepped forward and said, seeing that some of you showed signs of reluctance or anger.
He told you that in critical moments, special measures must be taken. He couldn't bear to harm the civilians, but there was no other way. To prevent more people from going astray, they had to use cruel methods to warn the civilians.
"I'd almost forgotten that when I first arrived, this was a somewhat chaotic world, with a touch of the Konami (or Crusader) element."
You get up from the carriage.
...
(Four o'clock? (ˉ﹃ˉ?))
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