Infinite Professions

Chapter 317 - 169: Divine Art

Outside Jinyang Prefecture, on the official road.

"Whoosh!"

A sudden yin wind arose, eerie and mournful, with white mist surging, vaguely revealing a procession of horses and men.

A white horse led the way, mounted with a person wearing a square scarf hat and a yellow robe, surrounded by traces of incense smoke, appearing somewhat divine.

Following the white horse was a squad of shadow soldiers, each clad in armor, with long knives and iron chains at their waists. Though their faces were expressionless and their movements were stiff, they were still quite intimidating to ordinary people.

It was the newly appointed Shen Hex.

Seated atop the white horse, Shen Hex turned his gaze back, and a golden light flickered in his eyes. He then saw the Jinyang Prefecture City, revealing an extraordinary and colorful sight.

White qi soared to the sky, like smoke and sea, with golden light within, as if a resplendent sun, converging into a magnificent hall, resplendent and majestic at the center of the prefecture city.

It was the Jinyang Prefecture City God Hall!

The county city was called a temple, the prefecture city was called a hall, and the capital was called a palace.

This Jinyang Prefecture was a prefecture city, and thus established was the City God Hall.

And that smoke-like, sea-like, sky-reaching white qi was the living yin souls from the two realms of yin and yang in the prefecture city.

Qi Observation Skill!

This is a divine technique recorded within the Earth God Seal, consuming divine power to observe human power or geomancy, to navigate auspicious and avoid ominous.

Although newly entering the divine dao and not quite familiar with it, the grand path leads to the same destination with different routes; with several lifetimes of cultivation, especially the accumulation in Taiyuan Cultivation, Shen Hex quickly mastered this divine dao skill, having delved into this Qi Observation Skill thoroughly, only it was inconvenient to exhibit in the prefecture city.

Now coming outside the city, it was time to give his precious skill a test and see its efficacy.

After looking at the prefecture city, he also looked at himself, his white qi gathered into a mass, with a bit of golden light inside.

White qi represents a white body!

Ordinary living people or yin souls exhibit such a phenomenon.

Only through cultivation or receiving an official position will there be any change.

As for him now, having been conferred the position of a Land God, there was a little divine dao golden light condensed within.

Looking again at the white horse beneath him, and the shadow soldiers behind, they also had bits of golden light on their bodies.

These are divine dao methods.

This white horse and shadow soldiers, along with the weapons and armor on the shadow soldiers, were the supplies specially approved by the Jinyang Prefecture Civil Judge, to protect him in assuming office and rebuilding Little Huang Village.

The underworld is no more peaceful than the mortal realm, with many evil ghosts and monsters causing harm, devouring living people, yin souls, and even divine minister clerks, and even though there’s the City God and Six Departments inspecting, patrolling day and night, searching and seizing, it can only ensure general order without guaranteeing absolute peace.

The Jinyang Prefecture Civil Judge knew his background, that he was a scholar with no ability to truss a chicken, and even now as a ghost god, he could hardly resist those evil ghosts and fierce souls, thus he specially approved for him a paper horse and ten shadow soldiers, since he was also to assume office at Little Yellow Mountain.

These shadow soldiers and paper horse are all divine dao methods.

The paper horse is self-evident; previously when the junior clerk invited him for the examination, its performance had already been shown, able to consume the power of incense and traverse through the underworld at great speed, akin to a traversing dharma artifact, able to choose the better part of valor when encountering danger.

And these shadow soldiers, crafted as papermen, generally can only be used as servants, but the civil judge specially approved ten sets of armor for them, so once armed, they became shadow soldiers. As long as the incense within is unending, they can fight tirelessly, and their armor has divine dao methods that are particularly effective against evil ghosts and monsters.

Shen Hex compared them, and this paper horse was approximately at the level of a Tier One Dharma Artifact, the ten shadow soldiers were equivalent to accomplished inner strength martial artists. For a village land god, this configuration was considered luxurious.

Divine Dao official positions are divided into nine grades and eighteen levels, with village land gods belonging to the lowest of the third class, akin to a "Twelfth Grade" yin spirit. In the Immortal Martial System, it translates to a tier one inner strength martial artist, and a first realm gathering spirit cultivator.

With low rank and limited ability.

But as a yin spirit, unlike ordinary people, and equipped with shadow soldiers and horses, his traveling speed was remarkably fast, reaching Qinghe County from Jinyang Prefecture within half a day.

Within Qinghe County, there was a mountain, a branch of the world-famous Huangshan, hence named Little Yellow Mountain.

Though a small branch, it stretched a hundred miles, fostering several villages and towns that rely on the mountain, with Little Huang Village being one of them.

"Whoosh!"

With a gust of yin wind, Shen Hex rode forth, only to see a desolate village overshadowed by the mountains, though it was broad daylight, scarce sunlight reached, and not a villager was in sight, the deathly silence carried an ominous aura.

Shen Hex spurred his horse forward, arriving at the village entrance, first catching sight of a shrine, not large, just a common house-like structure, but built with brick and tile, rather than the usual mud hut or grass lodge.

Though separated by yin and yang, people inherently hold some awareness about matters of ghosts and gods. After all, even if gods do not reveal themselves, those evil ghosts and monsters will prey on people, and without the protection of deities, these villages and towns would become the food supply for monsters and evil ghosts, readily obtainable at any time.