CHAPTER 471: CHAPTER 471: SKY FULL OF BLOSSOMS

Originally, Master Sande had started his performance. He was sitting in the middle of the hall, eating a bun while boasting to the people around him.

The deputy factory director and secretary who had accompanied him yesterday were still by his side, listening to his bragging with pride.

They occasionally boasted about their courage and indispensable role in catching ghosts.

The guests in the shop, although most of them did not believe that these two portly men could help in exorcising ghosts, were firmly convinced of Master Sande’s abilities.

Master Sande had been a charlatan for so long that he had perfected his eloquence, painting last night’s ’ghost-catching’ actions as phenomenal.

The residents of the town had already believed in Master Sande, viewing him as a figure with immense divine skills and boundless mana.

Later, when they heard that the slaughterhouse had spent 100,000 yuan to hire him to catch ghosts and exorcise evil spirits, they revered him even more, treating him like a god.

Therefore, Master Sande’s boastful words not only didn’t cause any doubt among the people but increased their admiration and respect for him. Some even started to flatter him.

At first, Master Sande felt some guilt, but seeing everyone flatter him, he threw all his fears and concerns away and became more flamboyant.

The guests in the shop mocked Zhang Dadan when he came downstairs, saying: "Boss Zhang, you doubted him yesterday; how about now? He already killed the ghost!"

"Exactly... Master Sande’s high mana makes exorcising evil spirits for Boss Zhou as easy as eating a meal. You were worried about him wasting his mana, weren’t you?" someone echoed.

They did this not because they disliked Zhang Dadan or intentionally wanted to cause trouble for him, but merely to please Master Sande.

But what these people did not expect was that their flattery did not bring favor from Master Sande; instead, he scolded them.

Master Sande was afraid that these people would anger Zhang Dadan and affect him, so he sternly said: "Shut up! How can you speak to Boss Zhang like that?"

Zhang Dadan saw that Master Sande wanted to defend him and quickly rushed to him, smiling and saying: "Master Sande, everyone is right!"

"Yesterday, I didn’t recognize your greatness and acted small-mindedly. I’m here to apologize to you!"

Seeing Zhang Dadan apologizing to him made Master Sande nervous and jittery, even his hands trembled.

But Master Sande had been a wandering trickster for so many years and knew how to act. He couldn’t fail at a crucial moment.

"Boss Zhang, you are too polite... too polite! Yesterday, you were also considering the bigger picture; you have no fault!" Master Sande said, flattered.

The guests in the shop, including the accompanying deputy factory director and secretary, felt suspicious seeing Master Sande treat Zhang Dadan with such respect.

Luckily, these people already regarded Master Sande as a deity and dared not question him or ask him randomly.

Zhang Dadan knew his appearance might make Master Sande uneasy, so he casually said a few words before going upstairs again.

Bai Jie and Lin Wan, who were temporarily staying on the second floor, had just been woken by the cheers downstairs. Before they had time to wash up, they went downstairs disheveled, wanting to see what was going on.

As they stepped out, they bumped into Zhang Dadan and asked: "What’s going on downstairs? Why is it so noisy?"

Lin Wan, being a journalist with a super gossip mind, bypassed Zhang Dadan and rushed downstairs before he could respond. Zhang Dadan wanted to stop her but it was too late.

With a bitter smile, Zhang Dadan explained: "Sande is spreading the news downstairs that the evil spirit has been killed, and the guests are naturally shouting in excitement."

"Master Sande has already started working? Really an action-oriented person!" Bai Jie scoffed.

Zhang Dadan, fearing that Lin Wan’s sudden appearance might disrupt Master Sande’s performance, told Bai Jie to call Lin Wan upstairs while he claimed to go back to sleep.

Returning to his room, Zhang Dadan locked the door and recited a spell to enter the Jade Token.

With his current cultivation, the talismans he made could not completely eliminate those ghost children.

Although the golden light emitted by the Jade Token dispersed the ghost children, it was unclear if they were killed, so Zhang Dadan had to find another way.

Entering the Jade Token, Zhang Dadan began searching the demon directory in the "Longevity Scripture" for methods to deal with evil spirits.

According to the "Longevity Scripture," evil spirits in the world were classified into Wandering Soul, Resentful Soul, Fierce Soul, and Evil Soul, with Wandering Soul having the weakest mana and Evil Soul the strongest.

The evil spirit found on Ma Wenwen was of the Wandering Soul type, possessing low mana that could affect a person’s temperament.

The ghost children in Stone Town were of the Resentful Soul type, dying from grievances, and becoming ghosts for a long time, their mana had reached a certain level allowing them to perform instantaneous movement and hurt people with their breath.

Zhang Dadan was only at the Qi Refining Realm, unable to create talismans to deal with resentful spirits, meaning he couldn’t completely eliminate these resentful souls.

Since he couldn’t kill these ghost children, Zhang Dadan decided to imprison these resentful souls to prevent them from causing harm in Stone Town.

After searching the "Longevity Scripture" for a long time, Zhang Dadan finally found the most feasible and simple method: setting up an array.

The "Longevity Scripture" recorded many arrays to confine ghosts and gods, among which the Eight Yang Array was the simplest, requiring materials that were easy to find, and he could set up the array with his cultivation.

The original Eight Yang Array was used to prevent evil ghosts or animals from affecting the body, using eight people with Yang nature standing on eight array points.

In this way, each person had the power of the entire ’Eight Yang Array,’ using the Yang energy of eight people to protect the person within the array.

But it also had a variant, using eight Jade Tokens, refined with spiritual power to possess Yang energy, and placed at the eight positions of the Soul Tomb.

The variant Eight Yang Array could use the Yang energy of the eight Jade Tokens to deter the resentful souls within the Soul Tomb, preventing them from escaping.

Now, Zhang Dadan knew the location of the Soul Tomb was the slaughterhouse, and he only needed to place a Jade Token at each compass point of the slaughterhouse to trap the ghost children in it.

The slaughterhouse had changed greatly over the past twenty years, becoming wealthy. It no longer operated at night.

This way, even if the ghost children caused trouble in the slaughterhouse, they wouldn’t harm anyone.

Having made up his mind, Zhang Dadan quickly memorized the method to refine the Jade Tokens and then recited a spell to exit the Jade Token.

Not long after coming out of the Jade Token, Zhang Dadan heard Bai Jie knocking on his door, asking him to accompany her to collect rent.

"Are you kidding? Since when did you become a rent collector?" Zhang Dadan teased while opening the door.

As the door opened, Zhang Dadan suddenly felt a rush of blood, his heart pounded, and he became eager.

Swallowing his saliva, Zhang Dadan asked, "Can’t you dress properly? Are you going to collect rent or seduce wolves?"

"Bastard!" Bai Jie exclaimed coquettishly, covering her chest and complaining: "My coat got dirty yesterday, so I have to dress like this!"

Zhang Dadan couldn’t resist glancing at the thin fabric revealing spring scenery and advised, "You... you better borrow some clothes from the service staff! Otherwise, I dare not go out with you!"