Fengmen Village

Chapter 165 - Fengmen Village (The End) (Two Chapters Combined)

Chen Miao flipped to the designated page and went through the chapter content again.

If we were to calculate it, from the moment Chen Miao set off until the very end, it took a full week.

Therefore, this seventh chapter also contains a lot of content.

Every time Chen Miao saw a crucial scene, he could recall the ways he had died before.

After watching the whole thing, Chen Miao himself felt a bit unreal.

"You... survived?"

Shaking his head, Chen Miao looked at the end of the chapter.

[Chapter Seven: Fengmen Village (Completed), obtained 3.3 taels of Yin Virtue, obtained [Fragment of Feng Bujue's Memory], obtained "The Secret Record of Extreme Yin Corpse Refining".]

Chen Miao raised an eyebrow slightly.

"Three taels and three coins, compared to before, this is the most good karma I've ever accumulated, but compared to what I've encountered this time, it's a bit less."

"Even if that flying zombie didn't successfully advance, it would still be top-tier among jumping zombies."

"Was it because of Zhong Cai and Qi Ning's intervention?"

Chen Miao guessed, and then something else came to his mind.

"What about those feng shui arrangements?"

Chen Miao flipped through two more pages and saw the settlement section in the epilogue.

[Chapter Seven - Epilogue - Madness Unaware (Completed), Obtained 2.2 taels of Yin Virtue, Obtained [Feng Lao Er's Memory Fragment], Obtained "Soul Summoning Notes"]

"From this perspective, the negative karma of those zombies and ghosts should have been included in the epilogue, but based on the number of those ghosts and zombies, it shouldn't only amount to two taels and two mace."

"If we calculate it that way, the lion's share should go to Zhong Cai, but it's a pity Zhong Cai doesn't have the book..."

Chen Miao was stunned.

Does the absence of books mean the absence of virtuous deeds?

Chen Miao felt that he must have been prejudiced.

Perhaps the existence of books is just that he has another means to see and use hidden virtues. In fact, everyone has hidden virtues!
How can ordinary people use their accumulated good deeds?

Is there really an underworld where one can use their good deeds after death?
Shaking his head, Chen Miao stopped thinking about it.

The concept of "yin virtue" is something that he cannot possibly explore at this point in time.

"But why isn't there a feng shui arrangement yet?"

Chen Miao cares a lot about feng shui arrangements.

If there's only one flying zombie in this incident, then even if Chen Miao and his team can't defeat it, they can still call for reinforcements!

But after those two feng shui arrangements were added, everything changed.

If Chen Miao were replaced by a Class C investigator and placed in Qi Ning and Zhong Cai's team, there would be a 90% chance of total annihilation.

Therefore, the role played by the feng shui master in this incident was far more significant than that of a Class C investigator!

However, none of the rewards mentioned were related to feng shui.

This disappointed Chen Miao somewhat.

Nowadays, it seems that the only way to find out is to check whether feng shui arrangements are mixed in with "The Secret Record of Extreme Yin Corpse Refining" and "The Soul Summoning Notes".

Just like the other miscellaneous skills Chen Miao acquired.

With the mindset of opening a blind box, Chen Miao examined "The Secret Record of Extreme Yin Corpse Refining" and "The Soul Summoning Notes".

After receiving all the information, a smile finally appeared on Chen Miao's face.

Sure enough, the feng shui arrangement was there.

And not two, but three!

The "Secret Record of Extreme Yin Corpse Refining" contains two feng shui formations: the "Three Scholar Trees Gathering Yin Formation" and the "Wind Gate Concealing Yin Formation".

The "Three Scholar Trees Gathering Yin Formation" is similar to what Zhong Cai said.

The three locust trees are indeed the core of the game; if they are destroyed, the game will be broken.

In addition, the "Three Scholar Trees Gathering in Yin Formation" can also promote the growth and development of scholar trees, allowing them to grow according to the intentions of the arranger.

It must be said that this method of controlling plant growth is quite amazing.

As for "Fengmen Cangyin Ju", it is the second Ju that Chen Miao discovered.

The purpose of this formation is to conceal Yin energy and to suppress it underground using the 'wind gate'.

The "Fengmen Cangyin Ju" does not have the ability to allow yin energy to circulate underground.

The function of the wind gates is similar to that of the soul-suppressing field; each wind gate can hide a portion of the yin energy beneath it.

However, if the "Fengmen Cangyin Formation" and the "Sanhuai Juyin Formation" are arranged together, the Fengmen Village situation will occur.

As for the things needed to set up the "Wind Gate Hidden Yin Formation", they are not actually those houses, but... doors!

Throughout Fengmen Village, the doors of all the houses are constructed according to the method of the "Fengmen Hidden Yin Formation".

The reason Chen Miao found the house structure in Fengmen Village strange was that those doors were also part of the scheme.

Moreover, the windows on the houses in Fengmen Village are also 'doors'!
Windows and doors together form the "doors" of the bureau.

However, neither "Fengmen Cangyin Ju" nor "Sanhuai Juyin Ju" has the ability to confuse.

The "ghost wall" at the entrance of Fengmen Village is actually a product of a scheme.

That incident was recorded in the "Soul Summoning Notes," under the title "Covering the Ghost Eyes."

It's not "ghostly illusion," it's "The Ghostly Illusion"!
"Covering the Ghost Eyes" can confuse ghosts and spirits!
The unique feature of this game is that the strategist can establish rules through strategic planning.

Once the authorities have set things up, the shady characters involved will act according to the rules established by the planners.

These rules serve as both guidelines to restrain evil spirits and taboos for intruders.

Therefore, the so-called Fengmen Village custom is actually the rule of the "Covering the Ghost Eyes" game!
For example, you can't go out at night or light a lamp in the early morning. If you violate these rules, you'll be targeted by the bureau's undercover agents.

For example, some people believe that a threshold must be placed in their house. As long as this rule is not broken, no evil spirits will be able to enter the house.

For example, you shouldn't put a threshold in an empty house; if you do, ghosts won't be able to enter and will instead wander around the village.

Anyone who breaks or violates the rules will be targeted by evil spirits.

Anyone who is targeted will be haunted by those evil spirits and have their eyes covered when they leave the village!
After seeing the results of this scheme, the first place Chen Miao thought of was the Tianmen Funeral Home.

If such a setup could be arranged at the Tianmen Funeral Home, and then some "Funeral Home Rules" could be published for everyone to follow.

So even if ghosts are born in Tianmen Funeral Home in the future, they will not harm others due to Chen Miao's negligence.

After all, with Chen Miao's current abilities, ordinary ghosts and spirits are unlikely to be able to trigger the new chapter ahead of time.

The inability to trigger it, while acknowledging Chen Miao's strength, is not a good thing.

Now that this arrangement has been made, the problem has been solved.

After understanding the three feng shui arrangements, Chen Miao turned back to review the things he had previously skipped.

First up is "The Secret Record of Extreme Yin Corpse Refining"!
In this secret manual, feng shui arrangements are merely an auxiliary method; the true value of this manual lies in the techniques for cultivating flying zombies!
According to the "Secret Record of Extreme Yin Corpse Refining", this is a technique that the compiler imagined and created based on a method that has never appeared in the world and is only a legend.

The legendary method is called the "Taiyin Refining Technique," which is said to absorb the essence of the moon, temper the Yin spirit, and achieve the status of a Corpse Immortal!

Unable to obtain the technique, the compiler eventually created the "Extreme Yin Corpse Refining Technique" himself.

The Extreme Yin Corpse Refining Technique does not refine other people's corpses, but rather refines the practitioner's own body!

Through the steps of the "Extreme Yin Corpse Refining Technique," the practitioner will be refined into a half-human, half-corpse being.

This half-corpse is different from the half-corpse that Chen Miao used to perform the substitute corpse technique.

After Chen Miao used the Substitute Corpse Technique, the proportion of 'human' in his body was far greater than the proportion of 'corpse'. However, in the half-corpse state of the Extreme Yin Corpse Refining Technique, the proportion of 'corpse' was far greater than that of 'human'!
If one is not careful and makes a mistake in the first step of practicing the half-corpse technique, the practitioner's body will suffer permanent damage, and in severe cases, it may even lead to death.

Even if the half-corpse transformation is successful, if the subsequent steps of the "Extreme Yin Corpse Refining Technique" are not followed in time, the practitioner will still become a real corpse.

After becoming a half-corpse, the next step is to raise a corpse.

The ordinary method of raising corpses only requires finding a shady place and going through a series of procedures to transform it into a corpse-raising ground, only then can corpses be raised.

This method of raising corpses is very stable, but it takes a long time to show results.

However, the method of raising corpses in "Extreme Yin Corpse Refining Technique" is different.

The practitioner can not only use traditional methods of raising corpses to raise their own corpse, but also absorb the corpse energy from other zombies to accelerate their advancement.

Most importantly, during the process of raising a corpse, the practitioner will not die, but will enter a state similar to a tortoise's breath.

This state of tortoise-like breathing can last up to three years, so even if the caster is buried underground for three years, they will not die.

Moreover, in this state, because the body is less strained, the practitioner's lifespan is indirectly extended.

Ideally, if the practitioner has fifty years of life remaining, they can be buried underground for a hundred years.

If the caster has ten years of remaining lifespan, then they can be buried underground for twenty years.

As long as one can transform oneself into a flying zombie before reaching the end of one's lifespan, one can permanently retain one's consciousness within the flying zombie's body.

In this way, one will become an immortal with the body of a flying zombie and the consciousness of a human!
This is the process of "Extreme Yin Corpse Refining Technique," but not the whole process.

Another method is to utilize feng shui arrangements.

The compilers felt that this method was not fast enough, so they later developed two more feng shui arrangements.

When Chen Miao saw this, he couldn't help but admire the compiler.

To be able to create a book based on mere imagination and to fabricate two feng shui layouts requires an immense amount of knowledge and insight!
He was even a powerful cultivator himself!
"A person like this is probably no weaker than a flying zombie!"

Chen Miao shook his head.

The more you experience, the more dangerous and intriguing this world becomes!
The two feng shui arrangements can not only accelerate the process of raising corpses, but also allow the practitioner underground to obtain a certain amount of oxygen.

Thus, as long as the feng shui arrangement is in place, the practitioner doesn't even need to come out once every three years.

These two feng shui formations are the "Three Scholar Trees Gathering Yin Formation" and the "Wind Gate Concealing Yin Formation".

Chen Miao suddenly had a question.

"How old was the village chief of Fengmen Village when he was buried?"

"Based on the timeline of Fengmen Village's relocation, the village chief should have buried himself underground fifty years ago."

"But how old was he at that time?"

"The fact that he was still alive fifty years later means that he had at least twenty-five years left to live back then."

"Based on the average person living to eighty, his age at the time could not have been more than fifty-five!"

"Given that lifespan is impossible to estimate, the village chief probably needs to be even more conservative, so he is most likely no more than fifty years old."

"But this is only an ideal scenario."

"If he buries himself and his descendants in the village do not follow the rules he established, he will not have enough corpse energy to accelerate his transformation into a flying zombie."

"In that case, he would have to give himself more time to make mistakes."

"Therefore, he was most likely under forty years old when he was buried!"

"According to others, Fengmen Village prospered under the leadership of that village chief, which enabled them to build those buildings in Fengmen Village."

"It takes time to rise to prominence."

"Could it be that the village chief of Fengmen Village is not only a genius in magic, but also a genius in business?"
"He led the people of Fengmen Village to prosperity in his twenties or thirties?"

Chen Miao sighed.

Are geniuses and madmen often the same kind of people?

Shaking his head, Chen Miao continued reading.

The "Secret Record of Extreme Yin Corpse Refining" not only contains the "Extreme Yin Corpse Refining Technique" and two feng shui formations, but also a body refining method called the "Extreme Yin Body Refining Technique".

The compiler of "The Secret Record of Extreme Yin Corpse Refining" did not initially intend to transform himself into a being that was neither human nor ghost.

He wondered if he could absorb the moon's essence like in the legend of the "Taiyin Refining Technique," but not after death, but while he was still alive!
But in the end, he never found a way to absorb the moonlight.

In the end, he only managed to develop a method for tempering the body using yin energy.

The author states in the book that if he were a child, he would have chosen this method to lay a foundation for himself before seeking other methods and pursuing immortality!
But he was too old, and in the end, he could only record his regrets in a secret book.

Chen Miao was very interested in this "Extreme Yin Body Refining Technique" because after reading it, he found that this method was completely different from the "Extreme Yin Corpse Refining Technique".

There's no need to make yourself look like a monster.

Although it is called 'extreme yin', the real tempering is actually under 'extreme yang'!
The "Extreme Yin Body Refining Technique" is a technique that allows one to absorb Yin energy into various parts of the body at night through specific movements, and then, when Yang energy rises each day, take advantage of the time when Yang energy is at its peak to dispel the Yin energy within the body!
Such a balance of yin and yang, cold and hot, will produce a great stimulation to the body.

Furthermore, since both Yin and Yang are special spiritual energies between heaven and earth, and are present in the human body, the tempering of the body will not leave any incurable hidden injuries.

In the author's words, this one rule of "leaving no hidden injuries" alone is better than 90% of body-refining techniques!

The only downside is that it's painful.

After all, it is a collision of extreme yin and extreme yang, just like when a red-hot knife is quenched.

Quenching makes the knife harder, but only if the material of the blade can withstand it.

"Let's try it later. Absorb less yin energy each time, try it little by little, it should work, right?"

Chen Miao admired Qi Ning and Zhong Cai's skills, but he knew that he could hardly reach their level by training on his own.

Needless to say, Zhong Cai had lived for nearly twenty years longer than him and had followed his master since childhood. If he wasn't skilled, he would easily die.

Qi Ning's success was due to the training provided by the Administration Bureau, which, according to Zhong Cai, followed the path of Yangxiu.

Chen Miao didn't know which path Yang Xiu should take, nor could he possibly fully join the Management Bureau.

So it seems that this is the only opportunity that will allow Chen Miao to catch up with the two of them.

After glancing at some miscellaneous notes in "The Secret Record of Extreme Yin Corpse Refining", Chen Miao turned his attention to "The Soul Summoning Notes".

Compared to "The Secret Record of Extreme Yin Corpse Refining", "The Soul Summoning Notes" contains very little.

Aside from a Feng Shui arrangement called "Covering the Ghost Eyes," there is only one "Soul Summoning Technique."

The so-called "soul-summoning technique" allows the practitioner to summon the soul of a person who has died within the last seven days.

Chen Miao had previously heard Zhong Cai mention a profession called the "Questioner of Rice" in the underworld.

This profession mainly involves summoning and questioning the soul.

The method of summoning a soul by asking the spirit medium is somewhat similar to the "Soul Summoning Technique".
When a spirit medium summons a soul, the soul will retain its memories from its previous life, allowing the medium to fulfill the employer's requests.

The soul summoned by the "Soul Summoning Technique" also has memories, but not many; it only contains the most recent and deeply ingrained memories, and the summoned soul cannot possess a living person.

The Soul Summoning Technique has a probability of success, with only about a 30% chance of success.

If the deceased has strong obsessions, the success rate of the ritual will be higher.

The ghosts and spirits in Fengmen Village must have been summoned using the "Soul Summoning Technique".

However, Chen Miao didn't quite understand why the success rate of the Soul Summoning Technique in Fengmen Village was so high.

How many people will die in Fengmen Village in fifty years?

But Chen Miao saw seventy-eight ghosts!
If the success rate is only 30%, does that mean that the soul-summoning operation has summoned at least two hundred corpses?
Are there that many corpses in Fengmen Village?
Just as Chen Miao was wondering about this, Qi Ning's voice suddenly rang out from outside.

The investigators are back!

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(End of this chapter)