Chapter 273: The Ritual Begins

After fusing with the ghosts, the Zhiren soldiers appeared to possess the characteristics of those ghosts, such as having thick scales, growing wings, or sprouting multiple arms or horns.

Lin Feng did not care much about these changes; he was always concerned with the improvement in combat effectiveness.

The strength of the Iron Tower Zhiren was already significantly higher than that of ordinary Zhiren, but they were still far from being true Zhiren Generals.

However, after fusing with those special ghosts, the strength of many Zhiren soldiers and Commandants was directly elevated to the level of Fierce Ghosts, which was clearly a huge breakthrough.

The only pity was that the number of these ghosts was limited, totaling no more than a hundred. While they brought some improvement to the entire Zhiren army, they could not cause a qualitative change.

As for the ordinary ghosts in the other hell cities within the domain of the Qianmian Zhi Gui, their strengths were not uniform.

Some ghosts were relatively strong, while others were relatively weak. Overall, none of these ghosts exceeded the level of Fierce Ghosts.

These ghosts were, after all, a far cry from those on the scroll of the Qianmian Zhi Gui. Their only advantage was their sheer numbers; each hell city contained thousands upon thousands of ghosts.

In the end, Lin Feng still fused these ghosts into the Zhiren army, which counted as a certain degree of modification and improvement for some of the military units.

Currently, the number of troops in the Yinjian Junying was about twenty thousand. Ten thousand of them formed a cavalry unit, whose main task was to leave the camp to strike in all directions, actively hunting Guiyi and collecting various resources.

The other ten thousand troops were responsible for guarding the camp, maintaining its normal operation, and assisting in the construction work.

Soon, all the Zhiren completed their upgrades and modifications, and then they began to return to the Yinjian Junying one after another.

"Click, click, click, bang!"

After doing this, Lin Feng directly closed the Ghost Gate and then offered sacrifices to the other Guiyi in turn, until finally, he had offered sacrifices to all the Guiyi in his hands.

Next, he released the Tou Gui and the Shuangzi Gui to continue today's lessons. Over these past few days, Lin Feng had combined the abilities of the Shuzhuan Gui to specifically compile some basic knowledge, which was then directly formed into their knowledge through the Shuzhuan Gui.

The benefit was that their learning efficiency increased several times over, but the downside was that they were not yet proficient in application.

Therefore, Lin Feng still needed to teach them personally. As soon as these three Guiyi appeared, they immediately bowed to Lin Feng very sensibly.

"Greetings, Master!"

"Master, I—I didn't slack off today!"

It had to be said that even Lin Feng found these Guiyi, with their soft voices and delicate appearances, quite pleasing to the eye.

"Today, we will continue to learn new content. Although I know that this knowledge is already in your minds, you still need to learn how to use it and what to do when facing other situations; these specific circumstances still need to be studied!"

Seeing them being quite well-behaved today, Lin Feng spoke directly about what needed to be done today.

"Yes, Master!"

Hearing Lin Feng say this, the three Guiyi agreed in unison. After these days of learning and contact, they had a relatively good understanding of Lin Feng's character.

That was, what must be done must be done honestly; otherwise, there would inevitably be punishment. Especially the punishment of being locked in the 'small dark room' was truly tormenting for these Guiyi whose minds had only just opened.

But as long as they could obediently complete the tasks Lin Feng assigned, there would definitely be corresponding rewards. For example, they had basically received some fragments of Yin God Dharma bones or other things.

Soon, the new lesson began. Lin Feng wanted to cultivate them, so naturally, it was impossible for them to only know how to read.

According to Lin Feng's plan, they would at least need to be able to manage the Yinjian Zhiren army for him in the future, or be able to lead a unit independently to complete some difficult tasks.

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The next day, the corpse-collecting Zhiren that Lin Feng had distributed across the eight provinces controlled by the Incense Temple sent him some special information again.

"This is?"

Lin Feng, who had just finished breakfast, was sitting in front of the stove boiling tea and reading when he sensed the information from these corpse-collecting Zhiren and was instantly shaken!

Through the vision of these corpse-collecting Zhiren, he saw that in the eight provinces controlled by the Incense Temple, large numbers of common people were gathering in groups toward the various Incense Offering Towers.

Among these people, regardless of gender or age, everyone was braving the wind and snow to gather around the Incense Offering Towers; it was no exaggeration to call it a sea of people.

Such a grand scene had not even appeared during the previous God-Offering Festival. Lin Feng instantly understood that the time for the Incense Master to harvest had arrived!

"I'm going out for a while. You keep an eye on the stove; don't burn the house down!"

Lin Feng immediately stood up and said this to Lao Quezi, who was dozing off nearby, and then turned and left.

"Don't worry, I'm watching it here!"

Lao Quezi, who was sleeping groggily beside the stove, replied without even opening his eyes.

"Whoosh~"

As soon as he opened the door, the cold wind outside poured into Lin Feng's clothes, but this level of cold wind had basically no effect on him.

"Woof, woof, woof!"

Wangcai, who was guarding outside the door, saw Lin Feng come out and immediately rushed out of its doghouse to Lin Feng's side.

"Let's go, we're going out!"

Stroking Wangcai's thick fur, Lin Feng took a step forward, and the Shadow Ghost Domain surged in front of him, enveloping him and Wangcai.

The next moment, when Lin Feng appeared again, he was already in Xinglong Ling. This place was also covered in white snow, but because this area was often subjected to the ravages of various Guiyi powers or the influence of Lin Feng practicing martial arts, the large mountains that originally existed here had already disappeared.

After being repaired and leveled by the Heavy Armor Zhiren, a relatively flat area appeared deep in the mountains.

At this time, a magnificent stone building stood in this place; the whole structure looked somewhat like a palace and somewhat like some tall temple.

However, this stone building was not ordered by Lin Feng, but was built by the Tou Gui and the Shuangzi Gui when they had nothing to do.

According to them, their master was clearly so powerful, yet the place he lived in was too shabby, so the three Guiyi directly directed the Heavy Armor Zhiren to build such a place.

Lin Feng did not mind this. However, with such a stone palace, he would not need to temporarily build tents when meeting his subordinates from the Yinjian in the future.

Entering this building, Lin Feng immediately came to a wide stone table, on which lay a very clear map of the Great Xia.

This was a map of the Great Xia drawn by Lin Feng through the Zhiren scattered in various places combined with the abilities of the Shuzhuan Gui. The precision of the entire map reached the level of marking towns.

In addition to the normal roads, villages, and cities, the Incense Temple's Incense Offering Towers were also marked on the map.

These Incense Offering Towers were connected by thin lines by Lin Feng, and all the Incense Offering Towers vaguely formed an extremely huge array in the eight eastern provinces.

Looking at this map and combining it with the information sent back by the corpse-collecting Zhiren in various places, Lin Feng knew that the Incense Master would inevitably start a bloody and massive harvesting operation next.

If he wanted to completely eliminate this hidden danger, then this should be the best time to act! ===== CHAPTER 274 =====