[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group":3,"chapter-infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-chapter-201":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Infinite Faith System: Join the Divine Chat Group",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1373365,1815,"Chapter 201: This Is the Tree Grandma? I, Yan Chixia, Didn’t Even Try—Why Did She Fall?","infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-chapter-201",201,"\u003Cp>Yan Chixia ate a hearty meal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came time to pay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He blew up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five taels of silver for one meal!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chicken, duck, and fish—his head went blank, and he started thinking he’d lost his edge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He even began hearing things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had planned to set off on the road once he’d eaten his fill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only now, at the moment of checkout, did he learn the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past two days, between lodging at the inn and food and drink, the total had run up to thirty-one taels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was gnawing away at his coffin money!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Honored guest, let me shave a little off—how about thirty taels?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faced with a heroic-looking sort like this,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the shopkeeper came out personally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the price sounded outrageous, a fellow like this might just chop you in half with a single stroke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These days were tumultuous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finding a corpse was nothing rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Didn’t they know that Lanruo Temple, just ten li down the road, had turned into a haunt for the sneaky and the damned?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the saying goes: if you’ve got no money, even the Buddha won’t step in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he could recover thirty taels right now,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that already felt like good fortune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh? Looking down on me, are you? It’s thirty-one taels—and for you...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What Yan Chixia hated most was the look in other people’s eyes—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that condescending gleam that said he didn’t understand anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slapped thirty-one taels of silver onto the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shopkeeper immediately started nodding and bowing, nearly crying out \"Grandpa!\" on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan slung his bedding over his shoulder, took his leftover wine gourd, and lifted his single-edged cross-blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bearded face was full of gloom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How was he supposed to make money?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alas... even though he had obtained the methods of those gods, he still needed to find a clean place to cultivate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was noon already.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had only fifty taels of silver left in his purse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Robbery... that wasn’t a trade he could do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget it. Find a ruined temple or something and practice a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked ten li, and sure enough—there was a ruined temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A large compound at that: not only were there quarters to live in, there was also a great banyan tree nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A fine spot, truly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bearded man smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He failed to notice that, as he passed beneath the banyan, a pair of strange eyes in the trunk gazed after his back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lanruo Temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten years ago, it had been a grand monastery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then a great fire had broken out here, and all the monks fled overnight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the tumult that followed,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it fell into ruin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, it had become an abandoned temple no one tended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Full stomach, wine in his belly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Chixia found a place, lay down, and fell asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He held his blade in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He feared nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, a martial artist’s essence and blood run strong; low-level demons and ghosts can’t enter the body at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Snore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Snore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without even realizing it, Yan Chixia, in his sleep, began circulating the method of meditation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body changed unconsciously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And as it happened, today was overcast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a short while, darkness fell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within Lanruo Temple,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as a chill wind rose, a cluster of female ghosts gathered beneath the great banyan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good Grandma...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Grandma, we greet you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Grandma...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Creak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A crack split open in the trunk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An old woman with red hair hobbled out on a crutch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She swept the assembly with a glance,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and snorted coldly: \"You failed yet again to find yang energy—what use are you to me!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that, a pretty woman stepped forward in a hurry and said, \"Grandma, please don’t be angry. There have been fewer travelers lately, and the sisters can’t help it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a trace of helplessness in the woman’s eyes,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and a flicker of cunning as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, she was lying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But why is it that I smell the breath of a living human in this temple, and you still haven’t brought him to me?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old woman’s scarlet gaze fixed toward Yan Chixia’s direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice was ice cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Grandma, it’s not that our sisters didn’t go—this human warrior is like a dragon. Before we even circled around him, we were forced to retreat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Exactly, exactly. Probably only Sister Xiaoqian or a few of the elder sisters could handle a man like that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman called Xiaoqian turned pale at that,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but did not dare to speak up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of her beauty, coupled with her innate yin meridians,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>her cultivation progressed quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she had never devoured a man’s yang energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then send Xiaofei.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, Grandma.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The female ghost in the yellow dress—Xiaofei—after receiving the order,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>arched her brow triumphantly at Xiaoqian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her body turned into a gust of yin wind and surged out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hadn’t even spoken yet\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>when a thunderous roar burst out from within:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What evildoer dares cause trouble for your grandpa!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thunder cracked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gathered female ghosts scattered in terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the Tree Grandma was taken aback.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That fierce surge of yang energy—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>her burning skin began to smoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of person was this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was clearly a sun!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The female ghost Xiaofei was burned to death on the spot, and then Yan Chixia strode out from the ruined temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, golden light flickered in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could see the difference in the Tree Grandma at a glance—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>black resentment clung to her as if made solid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless dead souls seemed to be roaring and wailing within her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmph... you wicked thing—you’ve killed so many! Seeking death...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Chixia sliced out with his blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Golden lightning struck Tree Grandma directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oooh—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A harsh cry tore out from within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flock of female ghosts under Tree Grandma’s control were flung out of her body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Chixia moved like lightning, felling them with a single stroke each.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a short while,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>among the female ghosts, only Nie Xiaoqian remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because she alone among them had not been tainted by resentment!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s your name?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nie Xiaoqian!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thunder-lit blade flashed, flickering constantly above the female ghost’s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Chixia recalled the chat conversations he had read yesterday, particularly Ninth Uncle’s—words he admired greatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether ghost or human,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>so long as one was benevolent and could be invited into the sect,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they were all pitiable folk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll give you a chance—join my sect, and help me spread the doctrine from here on!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bearded man grinned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Nie Xiaoqian’s eyes, he was as terrifying as the old Black Mountain Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she had no choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she refused, she would most likely be erased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All right... so long as you don’t kill me, hero, I’ll do whatever you ask.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nie Xiaoqian knew which way the wind blew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She cleverly knelt,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>blinking rapidly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>putting on a lovely expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmph... put away that foxlike charm. I’ve seen you haven’t harmed anyone, and you’re joining the gods’ teachings—maybe one day you’ll even gain a physical body. Come inside with me, and tell me what’s been going on here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, my lord.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One person and one ghost\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>entered a room in the ruined temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Nie Xiaoqian’s account, Yan Chixia finally understood how dreadful this tree demon was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This had once been a fine temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the tree demon had listened to scripture as well; over time, a trace of spirituality had accumulated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, after the abbacy changed hands,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they abandoned proper practice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a time of turmoil, everyone wanted money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More and more travelers came to lodge here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the monks began to kill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chanting by day; by night, murdering travelers and splitting the spoils.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bodies were buried right here in the rear courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dryad is a very peculiar sort of being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strictly speaking, it is a spirit, not a demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such an existence, after long cultivation,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>under the right influences,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>can become quite powerful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But because the backyard brimmed with corpses, and blood and flesh brewed heavy resentment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Tree Grandma was contaminated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the women who died—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>she took control of them, turned them into female ghosts, and sent them out daily to absorb men’s yang energy, in hopes of purging the resentment within her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Drinking poison to quench thirst—how could that ever cleanse anything? Even the roots are black; there is no way to recover...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, my lord, you speak truly. But... that tree demon has treated me very well. She never forced me to actively absorb a man’s yang energy, and... and she has treated me as a daughter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wicked as the dryad might be,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>she had indeed shown kindness to Nie Xiaoqian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nie Xiaoqian had to admit as much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Chixia snorted. \"This is fate. Enough... we’ll end matters between you and the tree demon here. I’ll teach you the divine method. From today on, you’ll be a believer of the Eternal Faith in this world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you for the favor.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Golden light bloomed at the center of Nie Xiaoqian’s brow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The notion of Eternal Meditation sank into the depths of her soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the female ghost fall into trance,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the bearded man curled his lip. If he weren’t alone, he wouldn’t be recruiting people this casually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, hopefully this female ghost had some wit—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>enough to act as an assistant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise... it would be hard to accomplish anything big when it was just him, one man against the world!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wanjie Chat Group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bearded Swordsman: \"@Cutting Demons and Slaying Spirits Ninth Uncle, brother, how about building power with ghosts—does the world accept it easily?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ninth Uncle the Demon-Slayer: \"What’s wrong—are you also in a world of monsters?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bearded Swordsman: \"Yes. I just took in a female ghost named Nie Xiaoqian at Lanruo Temple. By the way, I destroyed all the ghost dens here. But because I’m alone, it’s really difficult to found a religion.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt helpless too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were otherwise, he could spread the faith as easily as the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even becoming a county magistrate would be fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But alas, he was just a rough man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tanjirou: \"The problem’s simple. If you don’t know how to build power, demonstrate miracles first and recruit people. What’s your world like—an era of peace and prosperity?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bearded Swordsman: \"On the contrary: it’s chaos. Word has it the emperor is on the verge of death...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Er: \"Isn’t that a god-given chance? First, approach a loyal minister of the court and claim you have a method to extend life. It’ll be easier to enter the emperor’s sight that way.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>General Yuwen: \"Or do as I did—choose a mysterious art, and directly control the emperor.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bearded Swordsman: \"...I feel so dim. How is it that a question that seems so difficult looks so simple in your eyes?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ninth Uncle the Demon-Slayer: \"They’ve all been at this long enough that they’ve nearly worked out a rapid way to preach. As for your situation, I can tell you this: as long as ghosts practice the divine methods, they can obtain the power of ghost-immortals!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ghosts in his world\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>could walk out and bask in sunlight by day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ha—what’s a ghost then?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And what’s a human?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the soul, when cultivating divine law, was no longer constrained by the rules! Place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1884,"2026-06-05T21:52:16.834Z",1,"novelbin.me","3c6eed91c978c51027843253a2e108fb9accd2b7d71031e4bcaeb11c0c4c37ce","infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-chapter-285","infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-chapter-284",391,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Finfinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-cover.jpg"]