Chapter 317: Chapter 281: Bountiful Harvest

After the battle ended, Sang Que began to clean the battlefield.

The villagers previously trapped in her Ghost Realm, Sang Que left none alive; she killed them all. The bodies were piled up in one place, waiting to be transferred to the Corpse Nourishing Land at Bright Moon Mountain after collecting usable items from the village.

Sang Que took out her phone to check the time; it was not yet 10 p.m. After the woman died, the Barrier on the mountain was deactivated, and the mobile signal returned to normal.

She called her mother, confirming that everything was fine on their end. Everything on the mountain happened within the Barrier, so even if gunshots were heard, the people below the mountain couldn’t hear them.

Moreover, Sang Que acted swiftly, so the people on the mountain had no time to send messages to those below.

Sang Que asked her mother to hand the phone to Wu Cheng, and she briefly explained the situation there. Wu Cheng said she would immediately pack her things, drive to the mountain path to wait for Zheng Xuan and Zheng Wujun, and leave the mountain village for the city embassy as soon as they met.

After warning Sang Que to be careful, Wu Cheng hung up the phone.

Sang Que summoned the Red Umbrella Ghost and four Headless Ghost Slaves, but this time not to carry a sedan chair; instead, they were to move bodies, transporting all the intact corpses from various places in the village to the center of the village.

The Five Ghosts, by nature, were the Five Ghosts of the Five Ghost Transport Technique; transporting was their primary job.

Sang Que recalled the Deceitful Bride and the Yin Child into her body, using the Ghost Eye of the Yin Child to look into the past of that woman.

Not until the usage of the Ghost Eye was exhausted, and her eyes felt sore and uncomfortable, did Sang Que release the Yin Child.

She tossed the copper mirror that could imprison ghosts face-up on the ground, instructing the Yin Child to capture all the baby spirits from various village shen kan, wandering baby spirits, and all kinds of souls, and confine them in the mirror as reserve food.

Special items were also to be taken and thrown in with the corpses and the mirror.

The Yin Child looked at the dried corpse wrapped in the red veil in Sang Que’s hand, seemingly waiting for Sang Que to say that she would be rewarded for completing the task. However, Sang Que remained silent, so the Yin Child left, turning back three times with each step.

Since realizing that her life was tied to Sang Que’s — if Sang Que died, she would also die — the Yin Child became honest, no longer daring to have other little thoughts except for occasional stealthy eating, and began to consider the fact that as Sang Que grew stronger, so would she.

Sang Que kept the Deceitful Bride at her side for safety; currently, the Deceitful Bride was stronger than the Yin Child, but the Yin Child’s potential was absolutely higher than that of the Deceitful Bride.

The dried corpse in Sang Que’s hand had been figured out; the original Golden Child had its roots in the history of the Southern Ocean, and this Golden Child in her hand was an ancient one. Who made it, even the Ghost Eye couldn’t see.

Sallya obtained it after killing her master who taught her sorcery.

This thing was somewhat similar to a Mother Gu and a Child Gu. The Golden Child in Sallya’s hand was the Mother Gu, and after making a new Golden Child Statue from a new infant corpse, it could be granted a Spiritual Blessing and become a ’Child Gu.’

A spiritually blessed Golden Child could keep passing on the blessing, layer by layer matryoshka dolls, but the further down it went, the weaker the power of the Golden Child.

The Golden Child held by the woman Sang Que met in Huaxia was directly blessed by this dried corpse of Sallya and was equivalent to being a child of the corpse.

Other people’s Golden Childs, like the one initially obtained by the two brothers at the watch shop, the one the original owner of her house obtained, and those held by other people within Huaxia, were all blessed by the Golden Child of the Southern Ocean woman and counted as grandchildren of the dried corpse.

The raw materials of all Golden Childs were various infant corpses, inherently longing for their Mother, therefore requiring sacrifices of women.

Including Sallya, all took themselves as the Mothers of dried corpses, using their bodies to nurture the dried corpses.

Sang Que’s current heart was formed by the Grandchild-level Golden Child, combined with the Yin Gathering Formation of the Skywell Building, and the intense resentment of those people inside, resulting in a mutation afterward.

The heart shared a lineage with the power of the Golden Child, and after merging into Sang Que’s body, it became a part of her, needing no sacrifice.

For Sang Que, this dried corpse in her hand was like an experience package; she could directly absorb its power to strengthen her heart, enhancing her capabilities, such as the range, intensity of the Ghost Realm, recovery speed from injuries, etc.

She estimated that after consuming it, she could progress from the Early Fourth Layer to near Mid-level Fourth Layer.

But this matter couldn’t be rushed; she needed to first verify the state of her Heart Lamp before deciding when to consume it.

In the future, when she gets stuck on the Deceit Dynasty’s upgrade, she could also go back to the Southern Ocean to find other ancient Golden Childs. At least before she reached the Fifth Layer, this thing would be effective for her.

Sang Que squatted down, rummaging through Sallya’s body. Sallya had hurriedly come out, carrying only a strangely shaped ivory-handled dagger and a bunch of keys.

Also, the Yin Child had first used dismemberment on her, removing a Yin Talisman from her body, which was a pendant with a transparent shell containing oily substances and a black, grim little figure.

With Wu Cheng’s previous information, Sang Que knew the dagger was called ’Ghost King Demon Slayer Sword,’ a common Magic Artifact in the Southern Ocean, capable of warding off Little Ghosts and preventing being targeted by sorcery.

However, the ordinary ones bought by households lacked Mana, whereas Sallya’s dagger surely possessed the power she imbued, safeguarding her against sorcery and harm from evil spirits.

Sang Que didn’t draw the knife, as according to Southern Ocean customs, once the Demon Slayer Knife was successfully imbued with power, it could only be worn, with the blade not seeing light or blood, or else it would lose efficacy.

The pendant was a Yin Talisman, containing corpse oil. The black part was a mixture of coffin nails, grave soil, and similar items, crafted into a ghost figure.

Allegedly, it could attract love, enhance fortune, improve gambling and wealth luck, etc.

Sang Que suddenly thought, what if she used this Yin Talisman while throwing the Human Bone Dice? Could she throw a four by investing a small amount of money?

Next time, she’d try it on someone.

The Five Ghosts were still moving bodies, and the Yin Child was still capturing baby spirits, occupied for some time.

Sang Que took the set of keys from Sallya’s body, finding a stilted building in the depths of the village adorned with various human bone wind chimes and decorations.

The interior was filled with Southern Ocean-styled occult objects, even the clothes rack at the door was a skeleton, and there was no electric light inside, just candles placed on skulls.

In each corner of the room stood a wooden bucket full of blood and various insect corpses, exuding an intense stench. Clusters of red thread were soaked inside, extending out from the four corners of the room, distributed throughout the village.

These four buckets were the source of the village’s Barrier.

Sang Que moved one of the wooden buckets aside, and beneath the floorboards found a box wrapped with red thread, sealed with coffin nails and locked.

This box was, apart from the dried corpse inside her, Sallya’s most important asset.

Sang Que released the Deceitful Bride, having her stand by to keep watch. Only then did she pry open the coffin nails with the knife in hand and use Sallya’s keys to unlock the box.

There were quite a few things inside the box, including a small iron box containing twelve glass bottles, each the size of a finger, filled with oils of varying colors.

There was also a box with neatly arranged Yin Talismans, a total of eight pieces.

A book written in Southern Ocean script, tattered and falling apart. Sang Que couldn’t read it, but from the feeling in her heart, she figured it was about ’sorcery.’

Besides that, there were things she had seen before and was very familiar with.

Coffin nails inscribed with Southern Ocean scripts, each as thick as a pinky finger, could be counted as a yin object, able to temporarily pin a Fourth Layer ghost without adverse effects. Once the power was exhausted, the nail would break.

Sang Que counted them; there were twenty-five in total.

At the bottom of the box were five Curse Dolls, identical to the one she had used to curse Wan Xiangtou before. They required a true name, along with blood, hair, or a nail, to inflict extreme pain upon the cursed person until death.

This box of goods, what a bountiful harvest!

Sang Que closed the box, thinking the night’s haul was that much. However, seeing that the bodies outside weren’t all collected yet, she searched around Sallya’s house again.

Unexpectedly, under a hidden compartment under the bed, she found another good thing.

A box of gold bars!

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