Infinite Professions

Chapter 326 - 173: Planning

Regarding Chen Yi’s intentions, Shen Hex didn’t say explicitly, but he could perceive most of it.

Sometimes, there’s no need to spell things out; a shared drink can suffice.

Origin and means?

Shen Hex indeed has them.

However, his origin and means are not what Chen Yi thought, such as Divine Dao Magic or Divine Talismans and Artifacts.

The evil ghost woman’s corpse was vanquished under his "flying sword".

Sacrificial Demon-Slaying Sword Technique!

Although this world belongs to the Divine Dao Era, where Primordial Spirit Techniques cannot be executed, the Great Dao has three thousand paths, leading to the same destination. The fundamental powers may differ, but manipulation techniques can be shared.

Shen Hex studied for a while and barely managed to replace spiritual power with divine power, converting some cultivation system’s dharma gates and techniques, the sword-controlling technique was one of them.

Last night was real battle practice. He concentrated divine power into a demon-slaying sword qi, and taking advantage of the corpse woman’s entanglement with the filial son, pierced her skull from behind successfully vanquishing her.

However, he is after all just a twelfth-class Village Land God, and that female corpse was a Tier Three Evil Ghost reincarnated in a body. Though he seized the opportunity of her weakness and dispatched her with sword technique, his divine power was greatly depleted, and the incense consumed entirely.

Fortunately, this Cai Family Village Land God, Chen Yi, was very tactful. He immediately invited him to his temple, laid out an incense banquet, where the two enjoyed drinks, and Shen Hex’s depleted divine power received some replenishment.

During this, Shen Hex subtly inquired about Little Huang Village’s background.

But he didn’t know much, only hearing that Little Huang Village had suffered several evil ghost harassments, and even demonic massacres, but as for the reasons, no one knew.

Shen Hex was not surprised by this as a Land God, protector of a region, cannot easily abandon his post, otherwise they risk giving evil ghosts and demons a chance to invade and ravage the village, which is a significant transgression.

Chen Yi has served as Cai Family Village Land God for a hundred years. Regarding the affairs of Cai Family Village and a few surrounding miles, he is well informed, but beyond Cai Family Village, he knows nothing.

Not only him, but Shen Hex might also face such a situation in the future. Limiting his movement, he cannot act lightly. The reason he instructed the Song Family to relocate back to Dongping County was because he was in the process of taking up his new post.

Once officially in office, he cannot easily leave Little Huang Village, otherwise any arising problems would be a severe transgression, at least the severity would cause the removal of the divine position and official status.

"I’m grateful for Brother Chen’s hospitality, regrettably I must escort my family to the new appointment, and cannot stay long. Please forgive me, when I have free time in the future, I promise to visit, and celebrate with Brother again until drunk."

After a well-fed meal, Song Xiang stood up and bid farewell.

"Brother Song, what are you saying now?"

Chen Yi shook his head, took out a wooden box, and entrusted it to Shen Hex’s hand: "Cai Family Village is a remote place, and I don’t have much to offer. Only this to show my gratitude to Brother Song, you must accept it, and don’t decline!"

Shen Hex looked hesitant: "This..."

Chen Yi grabbed his hand: "If you don’t accept, I won’t be at peace."

"Then it’s better to accept it respectfully!"

Shen Hex sighed, then readily accepted and secured the wooden box, before bidding farewell and leaving.

Chen Yi also fulfilled his duty as a host, escorting him straight to the edge of the village, parting only when reaching the edge of the magic realm.

The Song Family was now back on the road, ten shadow soldiers secretly protecting them, with Shen Hex riding a paper horse closely behind, while opening the wooden box Chen Yi gifted.

Inside the wooden box was nothing but two ingots of yuanbao, each weighing about ten liang, precisely ten liang of incense silver.

Though an old Land God serving a hundred years, a village’s incense accumulation over a hundred years is not much, plus the consumption from resisting evil ghosts and the cost of the banquet last night, still, being able to offer ten liang of incense silver shows his good management and the depth of his resources.

Shen Hex was currently in dire need of incense, so he said no more and pocketed it straightaway.

After last night’s consumption, this ten liang was all his remaining stash.

But his gains last night were not limited to this.

Shen Hex used the Qi Observation Skill, looking at his own atmospheric phenomena above, seeing spots of golden light wrapped around a mass of white qi, within the white qi another point of golden light, forming into the shape of a seal, and below the seal, strands of azure brilliance emerged.

White qi represents a white body, common living beings or Yin Souls have such phenomena.

As a Village Land God, he is slightly stronger than ordinary Yin Souls, yet only has a little Divine Dao Golden Light condensed in white qi, nothing remarkable.

The layer of gold light wrapped outside the white qi now is the merit golden light gained from vanquishing the female corpse possessed by the evil ghost last night.

Evil ghosts commit murder, entangled with karma. When divine beings eliminate them, they naturally earn merit.

Simply put, after an evil ghost’s demise, its karmic sins are released, and through karmic retribution, they influence the deity, allowing the deity to receive equivalent wish power feedback, which is merit, human path merits.

The current merit transformed into golden light enveloping Shen Hex’s phenomena, being slowly absorbed by the inner Earth God Seal, converting into strands of azure divine light.

Village land gods are twelfth-class minor deities, whose phenomena resemble ordinary Yin Souls, except the core Earth God Seal, the rest represent a white body.

But reaching Town and County Land Gods is different, their divine power gradually increases, and their phenomena slowly transform from white qi to azure qi. Once azure qi is abundant, it turns into an official body, attaining a formal Divine Dao Grade.

Therefore, the Divine Dao ranks can also be divided by phenomena, with non-ranking being white fortune, ninth to seventh grades being azure fortune, sixth to fourth grades being crimson fortune, and third to first grades being violet fortune, with the Divine Dao Golden Seal serving as the core.