manynovel Chapter 6: Advancement to Rank 9 True God!
Chapter 6: Advancement to Rank 9 True God!
Night fell silently.
The riverbank was deserted, and even the footprints had been washed away by a light rain after dusk.
After the eerie resurgence, the night was no longer human time. After dark, the streets of the old town were exceptionally quiet, with only the occasional bark of a dog, which would soon fall silent.
Those two people from the Bureau of Abnormal Affairs also left.
Mu Yuan sensed that they received a phone call before leaving. He didn't know what was said on the other end of the line, but the two men's expressions changed. The engine of the van rang for a short while before disappearing at the end of the street.
What's meant to come will come sooner or later.
Mu Yuan didn't think much of it.
He lay on his back in the middle of the stream, drifting slowly with the current, his body as light as a cloud floating on the water.
A small fish swam around his fingertip, curious yet unafraid of people.
Mu Yuan stared at it for a while without moving.
Time flowed quietly until midnight.
The water source book automatically turns pages.
[The host successfully protected the residents within its jurisdiction for a peaceful day, safeguarding over a hundred lives.]
[Merit +102]
Mu Yuan stared at the line of numbers, slightly taken aback.
The next line then appears.
[Current accumulated merit has reached 1000. Do you wish to advance to the ninth rank of Godhood, the Blasphemer?]
Staring at the 102 points of merit, Mu Yuan was stunned for a moment.
A 100-meter tributary, in a single day, more than a hundred lives are lost.
This number... is larger than he expected.
They quickly realized that it wasn't just people.
After the water was purified, small fish and shrimp swam down the clear water from upstream, and now the vitality in this 100-meter tributary is much stronger than it was last night.
These fish and shrimp are also lives under his protection. Although the merit he provides for each one is minuscule, the sheer number of them makes up for it.
Even the thinnest mosquito leg is still meat.
Mu Yuan murmured something under his breath, a slight smile playing on his lips.
"Promotion."
A thousand points of merit transformed into a torrent of gold, pouring out of the Water Source Book like a river bursting its banks, overflowing his soul and seeping into the deepest recesses of his consciousness.
Mu Yuan closed his eyes.
Deep within the spirit lies a golden platform upon which stands a figure shimmering with a faint light—himself, yet like a statue, solemn and dignified.
Inscriptions are carved at the bottom of the platform.
The spirit of the stream, a deity not associated with flowing water.
The golden light surged in like a flood over a reef, and the words began to tremble under its golden glow, the ink gradually fading away!
boom!
A silent shockwave exploded from the depths of consciousness.
The inscription on the platform disappeared, and after a moment, new inscriptions appeared on their own, each stroke carefully etched into the golden platform:
Ninth-Rank Orthodox Divine Official - Blasphemy
[Congratulations, host, on your advancement to a Ninth-Rank True God]
At the same moment, the plain white robes on Mu Yuan's divine body quietly changed!
Golden lines spread upwards from the hem of the robe, like the veins of a river, making the entire robe shine.
He slowly opened his eyes.
My first impression was that it was "stable".
The sense of elusiveness that originally depended on the position of Xi Ling has now completely disappeared.
He was like a tree that had taken root in this body of water, like a stone that had sunk to the bottom; he was truly the master of this body of water.
The Water Source Book then refreshed: [Cleric: Ninth Rank - Blasphemer (Orthodox Cleric)]
[Jurisdiction over waters: The entire tributary area of the old town (approximately 1 kilometer)]
[Merit: 2]
Incense offerings: 13
[Status: Soul complete, body solidified! Divine power abundant]
[Water Spirit Body: Second Realm]
[Protective Aura: Double Layer]
[Passive: Water Manipulation! Water Purification!]
[Skill: Protective Aura! Absolute Mastery of Water!]
【Mist Detection Technique: Can detect any hidden sources of malevolence within its jurisdiction】
[Deity's Exclusive Skill: Severing the Source - Returning to the Void! Suppressing Evil and Exorcising Demons]
After advancing, both of your original skills will be upgraded simultaneously!
With the second level of the Water Spirit Body, the condensation of the divine body is far more solid than before, and the speed and precision of the water flow driven by will have more than doubled.
The protective aura is doubled, with the golden light being even stronger and its suppressive power against evil spirits even greater. The situation last night, which required careful and repeated manipulation to dispel the yin energy, can now be cleanly and efficiently eliminated with just a wave of the hand.
There are two new skills that come with advancing to the next level.
The first reward is the Water Source Book.
【Mist Probing Technique】: Allows for complete control over every corner of the jurisdiction, and is extremely sensitive to all abnormal forces other than one's own divine power.
The second is the exclusive skill of the blasphemer.
[Suppressing Evil Spirits and Expelling Evil]: Suppresses evil spirits and expels malevolent forces. It has a natural suppression effect on all water-related evil spirits and can also expel evil spirits that are attached to living beings.
Mu Yuan glanced at it briefly, without saying anything more.
Then the Misty Water Probing Technique was activated.
My field of vision suddenly expanded.
The feeling was like climbing out of a well and suddenly standing on a mountaintop.
He could only perceive tributaries a hundred meters away before, but now the entire water system of the old city is clearly presented in his mind like an unfolded map.
Dark drains, deep pits, puddles, underground waterways... all the hidden corners in the darkness are exposed.
He saw it clearly too.
How dirty this body of water is.
Beyond the hundred-meter-long tributary, the remaining tributaries, culverts, and deep, stagnant pits are filled with scattered water spirits, the remnants of drowned souls, and the damp, eerie energy accumulated over the years... densely packed, like stagnant water covered in mold, everywhere.
If these things are left unattended, they will accumulate and eventually breed new evil spirits.
For ordinary people along the coast, it is a deadly threat.
For him!
This is tonight's resource.
"Since you hold the orthodox divine authority over this body of water..."
Mu Yuan's voice rang out from underwater, calm yet carrying an undeniable weight.
"Tonight, the purge will be complete."
With a thought.
To ward off evil spirits!
Splash!
The entire tributary of the old town flows automatically without wind.
Countless streams converge into fine, silvery threads, like thousands of swimming silver needles, piercing the riverbed, drilling into the underground channels, and seeping into every nook and cranny.
Evil spirits hiding in waters have nowhere to escape.
The water elemental energy was shattered, dissipated into black mist, and vanished in an instant.
The drowned soul let out a faint wail, and under the golden light, its resentment dissipated and returned to the void.
The damp and eerie atmosphere evaporated quietly, like morning mist meeting the sun.
[Merit +28]
[Merit +41]
[Merit +35]
The numbers kept jumping.
As each body of water is purified, the passive skill "Water Purification" is activated, and a sense of clarity permeates outwards from the purified area, its clean temperature spreading along every tributary.
Just half an hour.
Most of the waterways in the old town area have been cleaned up.
Only one place remains.
Mu Yuan followed the water flow quickly, and in the blink of an eye, his consciousness arrived at the very center of the old city's water system.
It is also the mother river of all the tributaries, and the largest main waterway in the old city.
What dwells there is far stronger than the vengeful spirit that drowned last night.