"Young Master, I’ve recently discovered that our City God’s efficiency has greatly decreased. Clearly, Second Master has already righted most of those colluding with the kidnappers, leaving us with these people who should have high morale."
Zhang Yifeng, who was driving, was puzzled by the recent phenomena he had observed.
Zhou Xuan explained to Zhang Yifeng, "The stronger a person’s abilities, the greater their value, and temptations come at them like raindrops; there will always be a time when they can’t resist.
Are there those with strong abilities and firm resolve, not easily corruptible? Yes, but such people are rare,
which means that those City Gods tempted by human goods from kidnappers tend to be more efficient.
A large portion of those who could get things done were executed, so of course efficiency has suddenly dropped."
"Doesn’t that form a deadlock? If we don’t right those colluding with kidnappers, they remain a harm, but if we do, there’s no efficiency."
"There are ways to break the impasse, but Qing Feng is too firm in character. If he were a little more gentle, and cleansed gradually, it could allow the corrupt City Gods to exert their last remaining heat, while also most quickly setting the City God back on track."
Zhang Yifeng carefully listened, found it reasonable, and then asked, "Young Master, when will you come to be the overseer of the City God?"
"I’m not the overseer."
Zhou Xuan said, he didn’t want to take over a mess.
At Hui Feng Medical College, Weird Creature Research Institute,
since the Buddha’s Mantra appeared,
the Bone Elder Association acted as if facing a great enemy, recalling all You Shen without important tasks, imposing layered controls on the institute.
Fortunately, Zhou Xuan could now get in smoothly by showing his face at the research institute.
Zhou Xuan saw many corpses, controlled to sit on dissection tables,
each corpse was linked to a Bone Elder.
The linking method was not through perception, but through vascular connection—a purely physical link.
These corpses, according to Lv Mingkun, were flesh and blood substitutes, their spiritual communication characteristics were replaced by fragments of the Buddha’s Mantra,
but because the Buddha’s Mantra fragments were too tiny, they couldn’t make these corpses perform too outrageous actions.
To observe what changes the Buddha’s Mantra instigated in the corpses, a vascular link was necessary, allowing the Bone Elder and the corpses to "merge" and feel clearly.
"Young Master, you’ve come."
Li Chengfeng heard that Zhou Xuan arrived at the research institute and hurriedly put down his work to greet him.
"Old Li, when testing the power attributes of the Buddha’s Mantra using flesh and blood substitutes, isn’t three to four corpses sufficient?"
The power attributes of the Buddha’s Mantra are fixed, and even if comparison trials are needed, three or four test subjects should suffice. Isn’t this large-scale setup a bit exaggerated?
"That’s the principle. We’re unclear about the power attributes of the Buddha’s Mantra; all its powers are sealed, impossible to break through force,
so we gathered many people with different spiritual communication characteristics. These people exhibit varied life performances, all of which we’ve documented,
to see which spiritually communicating individuals display normal life performance after the fragments of the Buddha’s Mantra replace them.
Once normal life performance is evident, it indicates that Buddha’s Mantra’s power matches that spiritual communication characteristic,
and we can deduce the power characteristics of the Buddha’s Mantra."
This method is akin to password testing, using a sufficient number of attempts to find the correct password.
"What if the power attributes of the Buddha’s Mantra don’t match any spiritual communication characteristics in Jing Country at all?"
Zhou Xuan deemed this possibility to be manageable,
after all, it originates from outside, so having completely different power attributes than those of Jing Country people is quite possible.
"There will definitely be a match."
Li Chengfeng displayed his professional side and said, "For a being to descend to Jing Country, aside from using a vessel, there’s another factor... their aura resembles Jing Country’s, otherwise, this world would utterly incapacitate them."
Zhou Xuan asked Li Chengfeng, "Have there been any results from the current experiments?"
"There is an initial conclusion—Buddha’s Mantra’s power is multiple; it has already matched four types of spiritual communication characteristics."
Li Chengfeng counted on his fingers for Zhou Xuan, "Deceitful Eye, Qi Observation, Seeing Buddha, Dao Mark."
Fearful that Zhou Xuan may not know what these spiritual communication characteristics represent, he began to explain,
Deceitful Eye allows one to see ghosts after spiritual communication.
Qi Observation lets the eyes perceive fluctuations in human world auras.
Seeing Buddha means some people can see Buddha’s image after spiritual communication,
Dao Mark leads to Taoist marks slowly emerging on the surface of bones after spiritual communication.
"Buddha’s Mantra’s power possesses multiple spiritual communication characteristics. Once I’ve tested these characteristics one by one and merged them, forming a new power,
this power is the power of the Buddha’s Mantra."
Li Chengfeng explained his thinking.
Zhou Xuan sensed some issues and told Li Chengfeng, "How do you merge the four spiritual communication characteristics, Deceitful Eye, Qi Observation, Seeing Buddha, and Dao Mark?"
"Connect the edges of these four spiritual communication characteristics with blood vessels, similar to a Blood Well Human Brain, then nurture them in blood, dripping in a strong acid to stimulate the spiritual communication characteristics and unleash their power, which we can then observe."
"Then don’t wait, go ahead and merge the powers of the four spiritual communication characteristics now, and let me experience it."
If as per Li Chengfeng’s idea—the Buddha’s Mantra comprises multiple spiritual communication characteristics from Jing Country, with the four verified characteristics already part of Buddha’s Mantra’s power,
then Zhou Xuan would certainly be very familiar with this power—he had fought alongside the Nuo God against the Great Heavenly King.