CHAPTER 36: CHAPTER 34: CAN’T UNDERSTAND +1

"This is a fruit mix I made after improving it with the Curse Date Technique. Eating it can strengthen the body, heal hidden injuries, and relieve fatigue."

Mu Lizhi said as he also picked up two pieces of fruit with chopsticks and put them in his mouth.

Lin Qianxuan felt inexplicably impressed.

"Xiao Mu, do you often come into contact with that kind of thing?" Lin Qianxuan asked.

"How could that be!" Mu Lizhi shook his head vigorously, saying, "Honestly, I’m not afraid of you laughing at me. I’ve only been enlightened for a year. Such things, I’ve only seen them discussed in the community before, and this is the first time I’ve come into personal contact with them."

"I see now." Lin Qianxuan looked understanding and then honestly said, "Actually, I haven’t been a Transcendent for long either. I only joined the Otherworld Bureau this year."

Regarding this point, he felt no need to conceal much. Not understanding means not understanding, and pretending to understand won’t work, so it’s better not to pretend.

After all, this doesn’t affect his hard power.

"This year? Even if counted from the beginning, you’ve only been at it for half a year? No, that would make me seem like a senior..."

Mu Lizhi, hearing this, now looked at Lin Qianxuan with an entirely different expression.

Previously, he felt the other person was an unfathomable old monster.

In that case, it made sense for Lin Qianxuan to have such strength.

But now it’s different. Lin Qianxuan has this level of strength in just half a year. A natural genius!

"Are there many such spirit bodies? How do they form?" Lin Qianxuan asked.

"Actually, you could say there are many, or not many. As it stands, only in several extremely yin places, places that sunlight rarely touches, plus places where large-scale deaths occur in a short time, do spirit bodies like this have a chance to form." Mu Lizhi patiently explained to Lin Qianxuan:

"It’s not a conventional ghost in our usual sense, just the union of dissipated spiritual energy and yin energy after a creature dies, forming a new spirit body life. The newly born spirit body’s consciousness is hazy, entirely yin, and to balance its yin and yang and accelerate growth, it must absorb yang energy. But it can’t withstand direct sunlight, so it instinctively approaches living beings to absorb yang energy. However, they don’t understand moderation, often causing some nasty incidents, so once discovered, we generally eliminate them."

"Was the one encountered this time considered powerful?" Lin Qianxuan asked.

"In your eyes, perhaps it’s not strong, but I feel generally that a Profound Rank master without corresponding measures would find it challenging." Mu Lizhi said.

Lin Qianxuan heard this and frowned slightly.

"Then isn’t there a problem with the Otherworld Bureau’s mission evaluation?"

"What mission evaluation?" Mu Lizhi asked, puzzled.

"I took on this mission before, but it was recommended that a Third Heaven Yellow Rank could handle it." Lin Qianxuan said.

"It’s not really a problem with the Otherworld Bureau’s evaluation standards; it’s because they might not fully understand the place." Mu Lizhi explained, "I also misjudged. The spirit body I saw half a month ago had just formed. It could likely be dispersed by a healthy man, but I overlooked that the place used to be a cemetery, now long deserted, with heavy yin energy, causing the spirit body to form quickly."

Lin Qianxuan expressed understanding.

Officials aren’t omnipotent; they can’t possibly investigate all details clearly.

So, task-takers themselves need to be cautious and cautious, understanding the situation on their own.

That’s the inevitable risk one has to bear if they want to make a living from this.

If they’re not cautious or lack strength, they shouldn’t touch such dangerous matters.

This time, perhaps it was also Mu Lizhi’s fate not to end so soon; Lin Qianxuan happened to be interested in taking on a task late at night, happening to save his life, indicating this person is fortunate too.

After finishing the meal, Lin Qianxuan also learned more about the local Transcendent community from Mu Lizhi.

The most important aspect is the sources and conditions of their various extraordinary abilities.

In general, it’s quite varied.

Crossing dimensions is a regular operation, so that’s not mentioned.

Someone going fishing and catching a strange fish, eating it, and gaining strength, and so on.

Others bought an ancient book, practiced the movements from it several times, and gradually discovered special changes in their body.

Longjiang City even has cases of gaining extraordinary abilities through dreaming.

As for Mu Lizhi, his abilities entirely depend on the statue of the Founder.

The power of the statue increases with incense offerings.

He can have his talismans blessed, and even fruits and vegetables can be given to the statue for blessing, and he himself can bless the statue.

Anyway, with the Founder’s blessing, those talismans and such have a real effect.

He has tried, and the Founder will not bless talismans drawn by others, only those brought by him as the nominal Temple Master are eligible.

According to his guess, the Founder awakened into a spirit through incense offerings, becoming sentient from a dead object.

This spirit is not much different in nature from the malevolent spirits in the academy, except one is born from the goodwill of people seeking hope, and the other from the chaotic world’s filthy yin energy.

Lin Qianxuan also asked Mu Lizhi for two talismans to take a look.

One is called the [Divine Movement Talisman], and the other is the [Five Thunders Talisman].

He usually sells talismans as a side job to group friends.

"How do you use it?" Coming to the backyard, Lin Qianxuan asked Mu Lizhi.

"Attach the [Divine Movement Talisman] to the calf and silently recite ’Mu Daoist urges as per the order,’ and it can be activated, effective for about thirty minutes. The [Five Thunders Talisman] is the same; just activate it and throw it at the target."

Lin Qianxuan placed the [Divine Movement Talisman] on his calf and silently recited.

Then he felt his legs lighten.

Lifting his legs slightly, he sensed carefully and felt about thirty pounds less weight on his legs. For an ordinary person, walking would feel like floating.

He didn’t know how it was achieved.

The abilities of Transcendents seem to have elements that are hard to analyze with the current scientific system.

Lin Qianxuan held the [Five Thunders Talisman], aimed at a metal figure five meters away, silently recited, and the script on the talisman lit up. Raising his hand, he threw it, and it automatically tracked to that metal figure.

Sizzle~!

The talisman exploded, releasing arcs of electricity on the metal figure.

From the voltage, an ordinary person would probably find it hard to withstand.

Although Mu Lizhi is only at the Third Heaven Yellow Rank, his actual combat power should be more than just that.

Lin Qianxuan guessed that the Otherworld Bureau evaluated based on the actual situation without external aids.

Otherwise, if trained ordinary people held guns, their lethality should reach above the Seventh Heaven of the Yellow Rank.

"How is it, senior?" Mu Lizhi asked Lin Qianxuan.

"Very good." Lin Qianxuan nodded.

He hadn’t seen many other people’s methods, and if Mu Lizhi’s skills had been seen by him before, he would definitely have asked to be apprenticed on the spot.

Hearing Lin Qianxuan’s affirmation, Mu Lizhi also smiled.

When others praise him, he wouldn’t be so happy.

But Lin Qianxuan is a master at the Fifth Heaven.

If he says it’s good, then it must be good.

The ancestor is indeed impressive!

"It’s so late, why don’t you stay here and rest for the night, senior? Tomorrow I can take you around the market in Liu County. There’s a pickled vegetable shop that’s very good. I can personally drive you home afterward, how about it?" Mu Lizhi invited Lin Qianxuan.

"I won’t stay, I still have some things to do." Lin Qianxuan waved his hand.

"Shall I drive you?" Mu Lizhi asked.

"No need." Lin Qianxuan shook his head and said, "I’ll walk back myself. Goodbye."

As he spoke, clouds and mist swirled around Lin Qianxuan, and his figure slowly rose into the air, causing Mu Lizhi’s eyes to fill with envy and longing.

"Goodbye, senior!"

Just as Mu Lizhi said this, Lin Qianxuan had already flown far away, leaving only a figure swiftly disappearing under the moonlight.

He stood for a while, then turned and left.

The events of tonight gave him a profound lesson, letting him put away his arrogance.

He had just stepped onto this path, his talent and abilities were not very high, and he truly needed to proceed with more caution and care.

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Lin Qianxuan didn’t know about Mu Lizhi’s self-reflection; he only took five minutes to rush back to Cai County.

Then he hurriedly opened his phone to find the task he had taken and clicked on task settlement.

The next step was to wait for the official confirmation of task completion and then receive his points reward.

That’s right, apart from reconnaissance tasks that require detailed information, most tasks are completed in this way.

The official verification methods of the Otherworld Bureau were many, such as satellite reconnaissance, drone scanning, and some transcendent methods, among others.

Anyway, according to official information, most abnormal situations within Xuan Country can be discovered immediately.

Only in a few deep mountainous regions or remote areas does the official struggle to have control.

Lin Qianxuan didn’t have to wait long, only five minutes, and the task feedback was completed.

Five points were directly credited to his account.

Without thinking, Lin Qianxuan directly went to the "Scripture Pavilion," searched for the "Little World Technique," and then clicked purchase.

After the purchase, the only thing left was to download it.

Lin Qianxuan’s phone could download it directly, and he was about to do so until a prompt appeared after he clicked it.

[The current document is too large; we recommend downloading and viewing in batches.]

Large?

How large could it be?

And then Lin Qianxuan saw its size.

135NB.

A very foreign data unit.

Lin Qianxuan had to search the web for information.

Then he fell into a long silence.

He could only say, it is indeed NB.

Fortunately, there was a batch download option for this thing.

Lin Qianxuan first downloaded a small document, about ten GB.

It was compressed.

The download speed was quite good, under the 6G network, it only took ten seconds.

After decompression, Lin Qianxuan opened it to view.

A dense array of patterns appeared in front of him.

Enlarge, enlarge, and enlarge again, he couldn’t understand, still couldn’t understand, yet still couldn’t understand.

It felt like children’s doodles, randomly scribbling with various colored pens.

Lin Qianxuan’s eyes were fixated.

He somewhat doubted whether this was truly some form of Extraordinary Knowledge?

Are there explanations?

Can someone teach a bit?

After a while, Lin Qianxuan roughly understood that he might not be an exceptional genius.

He silently went to the comments section for the "Little World Technique."

Then he typed a line there.

[Lin Qianxuan: Can’t understand +1.]