Beside the Nostalgia Platform, a lamp was set up to serve soup.

 

The lost souls drink and forget their past connections.

 

Meng Po, a well-known deity in the underworld.

 

Some say she was a scattered official from the heavenly realm when the three realms were first divided.

 

At the beginning of reincarnation, powerful lost souls often pass away with their memories, not only recognizing their loved ones from their past lives, but also revealing the secrets of the underworld, seriously disrupting the cycle of reincarnation. In the face of this extraordinary situation, Meng Po was given the task to come to the side of the River of Forgetfulness, brewing tea soup to help people forget their worldly past.

 

Others say that after Meng Jiangnu cried and collapsed the Great Wall, she saw countless bones under the city and could no longer find her husband's remains. In order to end her suffering, she painstakingly made Meng Po soup. Later, she was blessed by the heavens and freed from the suffering of reincarnation. The lamp was set up beside the Naihe Bridge and the Nostalgia Platform to serve the soup.

 

These are the two most widely circulated explanations.

 

In some modern times, she is also associated with a certain supreme deity in the underworld.

 

In any case, she is a mythical figure with numerous origins, much controversy, and great fame.

 

However, due to her only having "functional performance" in mythical legends and no "combat performance," Chronicle never thought of creating her as an independent summoning card.

 

After all, he was short on funds, and the cards he made had to be practical.

 

Take Ying Tai for example, if it weren't for the readily available materials, he wouldn't have had the opportunity to appear before him.

 

As for Meng Po, although she was not suitable to be made into a summoning card, she had more than enough potential to be made into a resource card.

 

Returning to the main topic.

 

As a well-known underworld cuisine in China, Meng Po soup has a single function but extremely high effectiveness.

 

Just one bowl can make people forget the troubles, grievances, and love and hatred of the mortal world.

 

To borrow a description from the Wu Xia Yan Lian: when you look up, the old woman and the three beauties are all standing like skeletons, the magnificent house is mostly in the wilderness, and everything from their past lives cannot be remembered. With a shock, one becomes an ignorant child.

 

In other words, it is a soup that confuses the mind.

 

"If it only makes people completely lose their memory and forget common knowledge, or makes the card spirit not recognize its owner, then it would be too limited."

 

"On the other side of the Earth, in the early 21st century, they had already mastered similar hypnotic technology."

 

"It just wasn't presented in the form of tea soup, but in the form of glasses, remote controls, mobile apps, and has been incorporated into various works of art multiple times, showing its infinite uses."

 

"In other words, this is a truly good thing, it all depends on how it is used."

 

"As for incense…"

 

On the surface, it refers to the incense and candles used by mortals to worship their ancestors, gods, and Buddhas.

 

In a broader sense, it refers to descendants, matters related to the belief in gods and Buddhas, and so on.

 

In some legends, it is even tied to "faith," which is mysterious and profound.

 

As the saying goes: "The incense of eating people can resolve calamities and disasters."

 

In stories like "Liao Zhai," various gods and Buddhas often manifest and dispel disasters, and the wealthy families who receive their blessings will build temples and erect steles for them, and even have to offer incense to their tablets for generations to come.

 

In these stories, "incense" has become the hard currency of the immortal and Buddhist worlds.

 

In later times, there were often stories about the rise of temples for the gods of the underworld, the establishment of the Hall of Impermanence, the City God Temple, and the Land God Temple, where the incense and merits of countless families were gathered to create divine statues.

 

Chronicle didn't think that far ahead.

 

He was just inspired by the fact that even the lazy old Zongzi, who didn't have a "formation," could become stronger by absorbing Yin energy. As a legitimate underworld civil servant, Seven Brothers, who had offerings on Earth, had no reason not to advance and upgrade by absorbing the incense of mortals.

 

There were no specific means before, and even if there were similar ideas, there was no direction to implement them.

 

Now that he heard the detailed information about resource cards, some highly feasible ideas instantly came to mind.

 

"Whether it's my Mountain Ghost Coin or Godly Index, they all have the function of condensing ghostly illusions and protecting against enemies."

 

"Can I create a City God Temple or Hall of Impermanence with similar effects… as long as mortals sincerely offer incense, they can condense the illusions of the Hall of Impermanence and deter or repel evil spirits."

 

"And the merits, faith, and incense they feedback can be used as 'experience' and nourishment to promote the growth of Seven Brothers."

 

"Everyone gets what they want, it can be considered a win-win situation."

 

Chronicle secretly calculated, the more he thought about it, the more feasible it seemed.

 

If this card could really be made, it would undoubtedly save him a massive amount of cultivation resources.

 

More importantly, as something that all gods love, incense likely had other uses.

 

"It's still a bit early to think about all this now."

 

"Seven Brothers are currently only blue-grade three-star card spirits. Dealing with ordinary evil spirits is still relatively easy for them, but if they were to separate their illusions… it can only be said that their deterrent effect is greater than their combat effectiveness."

 

Thinking of this, Chronicle couldn't help but sigh:

 

"This matter still needs careful consideration. At least wait until they are promoted to purple-grade four or five-star before it becomes feasible."

 

"But… I don't need to be too anxious."

 

"According to the previous speculation about the upgrade rules, as long as I put Seven Brothers in a moderately dangerous ghostly place and let them catch freely, their strength will increase rapidly."

 

"By then, I can sell the materials and try to enrich my card deck."

 

"I can expand the underworld card camp by creating Ox-Head and Horse-Face, Shen Tu Yu Lei."

 

"I can also use Old Zongzi, Mountain Ghost Coin, and Godly Index as a foundation to create Taoist priests from Maoshan, money talismans, and extraordinary people who can ascend to the clouds, increasing my combat capabilities.""No, that's not right… At that time, my mental power level might have already reached the Silver level, and I could try to create a card with an initial rank of Purple…"

 

"Higher than Seven Brothers… a judge?"

 

"Unfortunately, the Silver level isn't much stronger than the Bronze level. The effect is far from a qualitative change. If I could break through to the Gold level and awaken some kind of card master ability…"

 

As he delved deeper into his thoughts, Chronicle's mind began to wander.

 

However, he quickly realized that he was getting ahead of himself. He shook his head and refocused on the present.

 

Fan Lei, who had been silently observing him, cleared his throat at this moment. "I think everyone has thought about it enough. I will now explain the details of creating this kind of card. You can verify it in your hearts…"

 

With that, he turned around and began to write vigorously.

 

To be honest, his teaching style was not as humorous and interesting as Xie Wenyuan and Su Wen.

 

But what he taught was easy to understand, he didn't beat around the bush, and he liked to give examples.

 

Overall, it was pretty good.

 

Chronicle listened attentively. Through the afternoon's lesson, he further refined his plans for creating the "Meng Po Soup" and "Incense Method" cards.

 

"Alright, that's it for today's lesson. Everyone go back and rest. Come here at nine o'clock sharp tonight, just like yesterday, Zi Liang will take you there."

 

"Oh, and don't forget to bring your cameras. I will be checking the results tomorrow. If you come back empty-handed… you know what I mean."

 

With that, Fan Lei tidied up the books in his hands and turned to leave.

 

But before he had taken a few steps, he turned back and reminded them, "The training points of each school are not fixed."

 

"Don't start slacking off with the thought that 'the training results are already set'."

 

"If a school has several people who can't submit photos, or submit too few or poor quality photos, we will deduct points from the school."

 

"You decide."

 

With that final sentence, he walked away without looking back.

 

Leaving the students wailing and complaining.

 

"No way, I spent all night playing Card Master League and Survival in the Secret Realm yesterday, and now you're telling me that I can't slack off in the last practical class… This is too much."

 

"We should have thought of this. This training group has always been unreasonable. They just used bio-chemical weapons on us a few days ago, how could they let up on this last class? Ah, we made a mistake!"

 

"But didn't they already send us a 'signal'? Did we overthink it? Did they not mean that at all?"

 

"Who knows, let's go back and research. We still have to take photos tonight."

 

As everyone discussed, they unabashedly turned their gazes to Chronicle.

 

Chronicle was quick-witted and could roughly guess what they were thinking.

 

However, he didn't mind. He dusted off his clothes and prepared to leave with Youyou and the others to scrounge a meal.

 

"Old Ji!"

 

Li Baitian called out to him at this moment, looking somewhat troubled.

 

Seeing her expression, Chronicle immediately remembered the matter of the ghost nest map.

 

He wasn't one to go back on his word over such a small matter. "Let's eat first. I'll go with you to check it out later."

 

"Okay!"

 

Li Baitian nodded, her face serious.

 

Everyone then headed to Youyou's house together.

 

After a simple meal, Chronicle followed Li Baitian to a certain part of the forest.

 

But halfway there, he suddenly thought of a problem. "Baitian, Teacher Su told me that the ghost nest only appears after ten o'clock at night. If we go now, we might come up empty-handed."

 

Upon hearing this, Li Baitian patiently explained, "My ghost nest… let's just call it a ghost nest, is a bit different from the ones you chose."

 

"A few days ago, I followed Youyou's advice and went there in the middle of the night. I waited until dawn, but I didn't see a single ghost."

 

"I thought I went too late, so the next day after class, I went there without even eating dinner. Around seven in the evening, I saw the 'ghost nest'…"

 

Upon hearing this, Chronicle couldn't help but frown. "It wasn't dark yet at that time, right? Even the sun doesn't scare it, how can a ghost be so fierce?"

 

This made him feel a bit strange.

 

Fear of the sun is a natural trait of ghosts.

 

Even the powerful Seven Brothers, with their Yin God bodies, are only not afraid of sunlight, but they still despise it deep down.

 

Seven Brothers can tolerate it a bit more.

 

After all, in some myths and legends, the Black and White Impermanence work in shifts. He, who is sympathetic to his brother and has a Yang body, naturally becomes the one who works the day shift.

 

But that doesn't mean he likes the daytime.

 

It's all for the sake of living.

 

This is also one of the main reasons why Chronicle changed his bodyguard to Ying Tai.

 

In terms of the card face, the little girl in the "Studying with a Sword" state is a "Spirit" type, not a "Ghost" type.

 

Although this type also belongs to the spirit body unit, it does not fear the sun.

 

Walking around under the sun is not a problem.

 

Old Zongzi can't be relied on for this.

 

It usually sleeps in a coffin and requires Chronicle to close the villa curtains.

 

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(End of Chapter)