In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

Chapter 646: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Fairy 18

According to Old Lady Huang, there are two ways to collect the souls of the wrongly died. One is to go to the City of the Wrongly Dead in the underworld. According to legend, people who have not yet reached the end of their life span but are killed by others will become souls of the wrongly died. People who have died wrongly cannot enter the underworld directly, but must first enter the City of the Wrongly Dead. Only after their life span is over can they enter the underworld to be reborn. Therefore, the City of the Wrongly Dead is full of souls of the wrongly died.

However, the underworld is now in chaos, the various Yama Kings and the Yin gods have disappeared, and the Yama Palace and the underworld are occupied by the great demons of the world. Among them, the City of the Dead is right under the control of the Black Mountain Old Demon. The demons of the Green Mountain are the descendants of the monsters who fled from the Black Mountain and hid in the Green Mountain because they were unwilling to obey the Black Mountain Old Demon.

To the Black Mountain Old Demon, these demons are traitors. Although he does not eat them normally, it is only because he looks down on them. However, if they take the initiative to come to him and bother him, they will definitely be swallowed by him.

For this purpose, the only option left is the second method, which is to artificially create people who died unjustly, and capture them directly before their souls leave their bodies and are led to the City of Unjust Death.

However, this method is rather troublesome to implement. The three ancestors had to find suitable targets one by one, and then use designs to confuse the targets into being killed by others.

"Almost done. There are already more than 20 of them, and only half of them will be done."

Only half of the souls of the wrongly dead have been collected so far. Hu Meiniang felt disappointed when she heard that the little monsters from Qingshan were disappearing by the dozen every day, and they were almost gone. Hu Meiniang knew that this would not work, so she tentatively did not want to keep an eye on them anymore.

"Ancestor, that woman has been practicing in the dilapidated temple all day long. It seems that she has no intention of leaving Guobei County. Why don't we not send the little monster to keep an eye on her?"

"No!" Who would have thought that when Hu Meiniang said not to send the little monsters to keep an eye on Ruyi, Hu Siniang immediately objected. As a fox spirit, Hu Siniang believed that she was smarter than ordinary monsters. She felt that Ruyi's current situation was very much like a test. She would first test them by making the little monsters disappear. After they couldn't stand it anymore and withdrew the little monsters, she would secretly leave Guobei City.

"What if that woman leaves as soon as you withdraw the little monster?"

"Our most important task now is to collect the souls of the wrongly dead, and the other is to hold that woman back."

"Even if I have to risk the little monster's life to stop her from leaving, I will delay her!" For Hu Si Niang, as long as she successfully eats Ruyi, her cultivation will increase by a thousand years. By then, as a thousand-year-old monster, she can summon as many little monsters as she wants at any time.

Hu Meiniang didn't really want to part with those little monsters, but she felt that the continuous disappearance of the little monsters made her feel grieving. She was always afraid that if all the little monsters were destroyed by Ruyi, and the forty-nine souls of the dead had not been collected, would she be the next one to target Ruyi?

Although Ruyi had no idea what the monsters in the dilapidated temple were busy with, she knew very well that no matter what they were busy with, it must be something related to her.

Ruyi had no idea when those monsters would come again. The only thing she could do was to continue absorbing merits, continue practicing, and strive to improve her strength as quickly as possible.

These days, there are basically more than a dozen small monsters with a hundred years of cultivation appearing near the ruined temple every day. Ruyi is not picky at all. He kills one he sees. In just ten days, he has upgraded from the seventh level of the second stage of the immortal spirit to the fifth level of the third stage of the immortal spirit.

In addition, during this period of time Ruyi carefully studied the spells in the spell book, which not only simplified the casting process, but also strengthened the power of the spells through the combination of spiritual energy and the power of merit.

The only thing that bothers Ruyi now is that there is no other more powerful means. It is difficult for the Five Elements magic to kill a monster that has been cultivating for more than 500 years with one blow. Without using magic, just using fists and feet directly, even if adding spiritual power or merit, it will be the same. At most, it can cause serious injuries but not kill.

"I don't know when I can meet Yan Chixia again. The next time I see him, I must learn the Qiankun Sword Technique from him."

"After I deal with these monsters, I have to get a sword first!"

No one knew that Ruyi was staying in the dilapidated temple, but the legend of Ruyi spread throughout Guobei County. With the vigorous promotion of the innkeeper and the waiter and the real-name authentication of the inn guests, the rumor that Ruyi was a fairy sent by the heaven to slay demons and monsters spread throughout Guobei County like wildfire.

Especially after Ruyi came, there were no more heart-digging incidents in Guobei County. After Ruyi left, people started to die again. These two "obvious" evidences made the people who had seen Ruyi in person believe that Ruyi was a fairy. So gradually some people began to worship Ruyi. They hoped that by worshipping Ruyi, demons and ghosts would no longer enter their homes.

So this day, Ruyi once again felt the familiar power of incense while practicing. She frowned in surprise and wanted to blow away the power of incense like last time, but she suddenly stopped because of something she thought of.

"I wonder if it is possible to become a god through incense in this world?"

It was impossible for her to try to become a god through incense. Ruyi, no matter how inexperienced she was, knew that changing her ways midway was not a good thing. Although her path of merit had been bumpy, she had come this far, so she would not give up. It was just a pity to just give up the power of incense...

"I have it, why not try this!"

Ruyi thought about it and took out the clone pill that she had obtained from the dream-fulfilling system from the space. She took out a wisp of her own consciousness and stuffed it into it. Soon, another Ruyi appeared under her gaze.

But this Ruyi is just an ordinary person, with no merits and no cultivation. Ruyi injected the power of the incense in his hand into the body of the clone Ruyi, thinking it would be difficult, but he didn't expect that the power of the incense would melt quickly into the clone like ice meeting fire.

After the power of the incense had completely melted, the incarnation Ruyi in front of him opened his eyes again, and he had transformed from an ordinary person with no cultivation at all into a cultivator with ten years of cultivation.

"Is this... a cultivation bottle?"

The clone Ruyi in front of him had no consciousness of the original Ruyi. He looked like an empty bottle with a Ruyi appearance. After the incense power was melted into the bottle, it naturally settled at the bottom and became cultivation. This cultivation was like a temporary bonus to the original Ruyi, which could be used at critical moments.

To explain it in the terms of the game, the cultivation level that Ruyi practices is his own combat power, which increases naturally as Ruyi practices, while the cultivation level in the cultivation bottle is additional combat power that can be temporarily called upon but cannot be held for a long time. Moreover, when the number of believers decreases, the power of incense will decrease accordingly, and thus the cultivation level will decrease.

"Wow, I didn't expect this thing could be used this way." Ruyi was really surprised. The main reason why she didn't want to absorb the power of incense was that the power of incense was too closely connected to the believers, and if she wasn't careful, all her efforts would be wasted. Now that she has this clone cultivation bottle, she can increase her cultivation when she uses it, and it won't affect her original body when she doesn't use it.