Chapter 1818 - 326:

Tan Wenbin: "But the fact is, a lot of Divination Children, like you back in the beginning, naturally feel that the Lord of Yin ought to sit high above everyone."

Lin Shuyou: "Yeah, including my grandpa and my master…"

Tan Wenbin: "That bunch never brought up any kind of reform theory; they just purely wanted to integrate the Official General Chief.

So the best way to get Divination Children to 'open a window and let in some air' is to act like you're about to tear the whole door down.

Then give that bunch some time to pull out all the thorns and finish all the dirty, exhausting work.

We'll show up again with a savior's posture, and bring better treatment reforms with us."

Lin Shuyou: "Mm, I'll stay in touch with the temple." ℯℯ𝑙.

Tan Wenbin patted Ah You's shoulder: "When you said 'I'll' just now, it surprised me a bit. But I know you definitely don't like doing this sort of thing in your heart. Let someone else handle it. Don't dirty your own hands."

Lin Shuyou: "Thank you, Brother Bin."

Tan Wenbin: "I'm not the one you should be thanking."

Just then, the brick phone in Lin Shuyou's hand rang.

"Hello."

"Ah You, it's me."

"Three-eyed."

"Has Grandma Liu Jinxia recently… huh, you ran into trouble?"

"No."

"Then you should be saying 'Three-eyed!' not just 'Three-eyed'."

"I'm fine."

"Then something's up at home. If it were a team problem, with that Li guy around you wouldn't need to worry about it."

"We can handle it."

"That Li guy's heading to your hometown?"

"I…"

"When's he leaving?"

Upstairs, in the second-floor room.

Li Zhiyuan spread open his right palm, blood mist billowing; within it a Jiao Spirit swam back and forth.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

The three sets of talisman armor laid out on the floor rapidly folded up, flying back into the boy's palm like playing cards.

The talisman armor was complete.

Beside him, Alii was busy insetting the newly finished painting into the frame of her sketchbook.

"Brother Xiao Yuan."

Li Zhiyuan walked out of the room.

Tan Wenbin: "Zhao Yi just called. Asked after Liu Jinxia's condition, heard some things from Ah You, wanted to come to Fujian with us, but Ah You talked him out of it."

Li Zhiyuan: "He's probably already lit a Heavenly Lamp for himself, sparing no cost to treat the Liang Sisters' injuries and make it up to them. His condition's very bad right now.

Otherwise he wouldn't ask Ah You that much; he'd just sneak off to Fujian by himself."

Tan Wenbin: "Asking that many questions on purpose is basically him wanting Ah You to refuse him."

Li Zhiyuan: "If we really need him, as soon as Ah You calls, he'll definitely come."

Tan Wenbin: "That I believe."

Li Zhiyuan: "Send him a message. Tell him we don't need him this time, let him settle down a bit."

Right as he finished speaking, the brick phone in Tan Wenbin's hand rang too.

Tan Wenbin picked up, and Zhao Yi's voice came through.

"Hello, Tan Daban, is Your Majesty by your side?"

Li Zhiyuan turned back into the room, accompanying Alii to set up the sketchbook frame.

Tan Wenbin walked a few steps out, answered into the brick phone:

"His Majesty says, this time we won't trouble Supervisor Zhao to return to the capital and come to the rescue."

...

After another night, the Daoist Field was finally completed.

Even though they didn't squeeze it into the shortest possible schedule, the efficiency was still frighteningly high.

Li Zhiyuan tried activating the built-in Array layer by layer; the patch of rice field was slowly shrouded in black mist.

This was absolutely the strongest defensive Array Li Zhiyuan had ever laid out since he began learning Arrays.

The tablets that had originally been placed in a small side room were moved out here.

The offering table wasn't big, and it wasn't tiered. On it sat a carved White Crane Child, with Zeng and Sun standing behind.

When Lin Shuyou's gaze swept over Zeng and Sun, a surge of intense excitement burst up from his heart. He couldn't hold it back even if he wanted to; his mouth opened and he straight-up laughed out loud.

This special treatment felt great to the White Crane Child. Back in the old government office, the child did the most and got the least. What it longed for most, in fact, was respect that matched its status and seniority.

Now, it felt that.

Of course, if that one cut on the carving of Zeng and Sun could be dragged a bit farther down and just chop off their posture altogether, that'd be perfect.

But since this had been personally carved by the "Little Mistress," the child could only think it in its heart, and didn't dare actually ask for something that suicidal.

Besides those happy emotions, the White Crane Child also saw the boy's deeper intent from how the offering table was arranged.

No tiers on the offering table meant the boy didn't plan to place any Yin God Divine Tablet here, which in turn meant he didn't intend to take any cut of the Merit from the future Official General Chief System.

Beneath the table was a ring of long-lasting lamps still extinguished, showing that the boy would seize all the divinity life-fires of the currently remaining and future-joining Yin Gods and confine them here.

Whoever disobeys, whoever commits a taboo—he'll pinch out their lamp and shatter their divinity.

Under the long-lasting lamps lay the Ghost Gate Eight Desolate Map.

Given the boy's special relationship with Fengdu, breaking their divinity only counts as minor punishment. The real heavy punishment is assigning them to Fengdu Hell, where they'll become Yin Officials forever shackled and chained.

By comparison, Zeng and Sun really are getting the better end of the deal.

Those two actually ought to thank the fact that I didn't chase them down and beat them to death back on Ghost Street; that's the only reason they still have useful bodies left, and got pre-booked by the boy as his upcoming enforcers.

"Huh?"

The White Crane Child, having asked Lin Shuyou's permission, took control of this body again and examined the damage on Zeng and Sun's carving.

The damaged area lined up exactly with the hands on its own carving.

Once they go out on the Jiang in the future, Zeng and Sun will be able to share in the Merit, but their Merit bodies are damaged, so every time a fixed portion will flow out and end up on itself.

Which basically means it gets a Merit cut from Zeng and Sun every single time!

In that instant, Lin Shuyou burst into tears, eyes brimming.