"Corpse Dragon?"
"It seems to be a very strong Pollution Monster. We just entered the Reincarnation Game, so it's better not to act rashly."
Erza gently shook her head, placing her palm over Anya's head, stopping her hand from reaching out impulsively.
In the Fiore Kingdom, and even across the entire Ishgar continent, information related to dragons was classified as top-secret S-rank files.
Any magic or creature connected to dragons was considered top-tier.
For instance, Natsu's [Fire Dragon Slayer Magic], inherited from a true Fire Dragon; even if he hadn't fully mastered it, Erza could sense the terrifying heat contained within the magic.
If it were a true Fire Dragon, destroying an entire continent would be effortless.
This was simply not a task that could be touched at the current stage.
"Anya understands."
Although Anya was very curious, she also knew what was more important.
So she directly shook her head, her pink short hair swaying back and forth, refusing the Little Prince's good intentions.
"Anya is truly special."
It was the first time the Little Prince had met an opposite-sex individual who showed no pretense or flattery towards his advances, and he immediately blushed, just like the second son of a certain noble academy.
Just as he was about to speak again,
the black feather plume at the back of his princely hat suddenly began to sway.
A series of chilling winds swept across the sky, carrying strange odors.
At the very front of the funeral procession,
the figure who had been inseparable from the Borderland Royal Family's coffin stopped, looking up at the sudden change in the sky.
"Taoist Priest Qianhe, why did you suddenly stop?"
Wu Shi Lang pinched his nose, trying to fan away the corpse-smelling chilling wind with his hand, but it was useless.
Taoist Priest Qianhe, carrying a peach wood sword, dressed in a scarlet Daoist robe, and wearing a black cloth hat with a yin-yang tai chi symbol, looked extremely serious.
"This chilling wind is sudden; there might be an unforeseen change."
"What change could there be? Didn't you say your senior and junior brothers' Daoist temple is just ahead? Hurry up and get going. Once we're there, we can get some hot food. You commoners have sturdy bodies, but the Little Prince is of noble blood. Who will take responsibility if he gets hungry?"
Wu Shi Lang interrupted Taoist Priest Qianhe stiffly before he could finish speaking.
Taoist Priest Qianhe placed his hand on the coffin, saying worriedly, "But, the Yin energy is too strong and the Yang energy is weak, which could lead to a corpse transformation."
It had just been bright and sunny, so logically, the residual heat should not have dissipated yet.
However, this gilded bronze-horned coffin felt icy cold to the touch.
This was due to the overly strong Yin energy within the coffin.
Exposure to the scorching sun, heat absorption by the bronze and gold, and ink lines soaked in black dog blood—all were objects of extreme Yang.
Even so, they couldn't suppress the corpse energy.
This meant that the corpse of the Borderland Royal Family, who was a great general in life, had already completely transformed into a zombie.
And not just an ordinary zombie.
Under these circumstances, with a sudden eerie chilling wind, how could Taoist Priest Qianhe feel at ease continuing forward?
"During this period, for unknown reasons, the balance of Yin and Yang has been disrupted. Yang is weak, and Yin is strong. Vengeful spirits, fierce ghosts, and zombies are rampant everywhere."
If it weren't for the Qing Emperor's stern demand that the Daoist sect dispatch disciples to escort this zombie back to the Borderland for burial,
Taoist Priest Qianhe would definitely cremate this zombie on the spot.
After all, times were different now.
With the rampant Yin energy, even the Daoist sect's leaders had no good way to deal with it. Countless difficult-to-handle zombies and fierce ghosts had inexplicably emerged.
High-level zombies, which usually required hundreds or thousands of years of Yin energy accumulation to appear,
were now said to be born from just ten years of a reverse 'dragonfly touching water' formation, or by injecting some messy poisons from Western pharmacists.
Taoist Priest Qianhe couldn't imagine what the entire world would become if this continued.
Although Wu Shi Lang appeared effeminate, the official prestige he naturally exuded while accompanying the young prince made his tone unkind: "Don't tell me all that. Exorcising evil and killing ghosts is your Daoists' job. I only care about the Little Prince's health."
"Yes!"
Taoist Priest Qianhe stiffened, bowing slightly and cupping his hands in response.
Never mind.
Even if something truly went wrong, as one of the contemporary [Four Heroes of the Daoist Sect] hailed as a great general of Maoshan, dealing with a mere mutated zombie wouldn't be difficult for him.
Even if the [Music Zombie King] wreaking havoc in the Jiangnan region came, with the help of his four disciples from the southeast, northwest, he would have no fear.
Unless there was a chilling wind to obscure the scorching sun, chilling rain to cut off the underground Yang energy, and chilling lightning to strike down and forge the Borderland Royal Family's body,
and combined with the Borderland Royal Family's great general having extremely strong Yang energy in life and extreme Yin after death,
and finally, drinking the fresh blood of Daoist sect practitioners.
Only then would he possibly be defeated.
However, this possibility was extremely low.
Currently, it was merely Yin energy obscuring the sky's Yang energy. To gather chilling rain, chilling lightning, and Daoist blood, unless the Heavenly Dao wanted him, Taoist Priest Qianhe, to ascend today,
otherwise, it was absolutely impossible.
Thinking this, Taoist Priest Qianhe's slight worry eased a little, and he reluctantly followed Wu Shi Lang's instructions, continuing forward.
Kikyo reminded softly, "Something's not right. Be careful."
She was a shrine maiden who fought against demons and monsters.
Her pure spiritual power, when placed in the [qing country ghost story] world, was also an energy that tended towards Yang energy.
Erza was slow to catch on,
but hearing the powerful Kikyo say so, a serious and vigilant expression appeared on her delicate face.
"Sister Kikyo, Sister Erza…"
Anya looked dazed for a moment, then showed an extremely frightened expression, whispering, "I heard Taoist Priest Qianhe say in his mind that the noble in the coffin has already turned into a zombie, and if it comes out, it will eat us."
Anya's world was a modern city, where legends of vampires, demons, and zombies were already commonplace.
Many horror movies were made.
When Anya heard the word "zombie," half her soul was scared away.
"Don't be afraid."
Kikyo gently comforted Anya.
Although she was as ethereal and otherworldly as a revered goddess, she was unlike most exorcists who were indifferent to commoners.
Beneath her beautiful, god-like exterior, she also possessed a gentle side.
Even if she couldn't integrate into the lives of ordinary people, she would maintain a faint smile and sit by their side.
This was also why Kikyo was so respected.
With Kikyo's comfort, Anya gradually relaxed.
As if sensing something,
Taoist Priest Qianhe turned his head, a serious gaze falling upon Anya.
"Little girl, it's not good to arbitrarily peek into others' thoughts!"
Taoist Priest Qianhe frowned deeply, his gaze sweeping back and forth between Kikyo and Anya.
"Huh?"
Anya was suddenly startled and quickly covered her head, like a pink-haired little ostrich.
She didn't want to hear it either.
It was just that her superpower was uncontrollable, like a passive ability.
"Buddhist mind-reading?"
From Kikyo, Taoist Priest Qianhe could sense a pure spiritual energy like a deep spring, indicating that the other party was also a cultivator.
As for Erza's magic, it was completely different from the energy of this world, so Taoist Priest Qianhe couldn't specifically sense it, but he also knew that she was not simple.
However, there were no spiritual energy fluctuations on Anya.
But there was a kind of psychic ability, brazenly prying into his thoughts.
"Miss, your spiritual power is extremely pure, so you must not be a wicked person. That's why I allowed you to temporarily join the funeral procession."
Taoist Priest Qianhe's expression was not very good. He said, "However, please control your junior and do not cause unnecessary trouble."
This ability to peek into minds, among cultivators, was a blatant act of provocation.
It was only because Anya was a little girl that Taoist Priest Qianhe didn't get angry.
"Taoist Priest Qianhe, you've misunderstood us. Anya's mind-reading ability is innate and uncontrollable, not an intentional provocation. Please forgive her."
Kikyo was a shrine maiden.
Their divine duties involved dealing with demons and ghosts. Even if the worlds were different, their general authorities were similar, so she understood the reason for Taoist Priest Qianhe's anger.
So she quickly explained.
Taoist Priest Qianhe's eyes narrowed upon hearing this, then he quickly walked over, his broad palm gently resting on Anya's forehead.
A faint energy fluctuation spread out.
"Anya feels seen through."
With the innocence of a child, Anya only felt a cool, spring-like spiritual energy flowing through her body.
It felt very comfortable.
Taoist Priest Qianhe withdrew his hand, his eyes slightly surprised, and said, "How strange, it's very much like an innate divine ability?… But it's very weak."
Such a talent was extremely rare.
They were excellent seeds for cultivation, like his own senior disciple, Shijian, who possessed an innate divine ability to be close to lightning, already showing extraordinary abilities before he even began cultivating.
Anya's innate divine ability was more akin to the Buddhist mind-reading or the Daoist mind-observing technique.
However… most innate divine abilities were very powerful, but the pink-haired little girl's mind-reading was very weak, only capable of reading thoughts.
He didn't know that Anya came from an Otherworld, and "Spy x Family" was a purely magic-less world. The world consciousness, wanting to advance, had pushed the limits to create Anya, a mind-reading anomaly, and a dog that could predict the future.
Therefore, if compared to spiritual roots, Anya did not possess innate spiritual roots but rather spiritual roots catalyzed by the world consciousness later on.
Naturally, they were slightly weaker.
Even so, it was enough to make Taoist Priest Qianhe incredibly excited. He couldn't help but reach out again, constantly rubbing the pink-haired little girl's head, mumbling, "Good, very good, excellent…"
To the side,
his four disciples from the southeast, northwest, clearly understood that their master had taken a liking to her talent.
Besides subduing demons and evil spirits, the most crucial aspect of the Daoist sect was finding successors to pass on their lineage of Daoist arts and their knowledge.
Innate psychics like Anya had always been the undisputed choice for inheritance.
What Taoist Priest Qianhe didn't know was that when he released his spiritual power to sense Anya, the Reincarnation Game had already captured his information through the emitted spiritual power.
Kikyo and Erza were equally shocked.
[Taoist Priest Qianhe Lv.40 (Gold)]: A contemporary general of Maoshan, skilled in Daoist arts and physical combat.
The four contemporary Heavenly Masters of Maoshan each had their specialties.
Senior Disciple Shijian was renowned for his lightning magic, Four-Eyed Daoist Priest excelled at summoning deities, and Uncle Nine was outstanding with talismans and spells…
But he, Taoist Priest Qianhe, was the most standard exorcist Heavenly Master.
His lightning magic wasn't as profound as his senior disciple's, his summoning of deities wasn't as good as Four-Eyed's, and his talismans weren't as miraculously drawn as Uncle Nine's…
But he was the most versatile one.
He was the youngest and had the strongest killing power when exorcising demons and killing ghosts, just like a general dominating the battlefield, which is why he was named "Maoshan Great General."
"Anya, are you willing to join Maoshan and become a disciple of my Qianhe lineage?"
As Taoist Priest Qianhe's voice fell,
Anya heard the prompt from the Reincarnation Game.
[Taoist Priest Qianhe (Gold) invites you to become a Daoist disciple. Upon acceptance, you will receive the [Daoist Direct Disciple] quest. Upon completion, you will join the Dark Gold-tier faction [Daoist Sect].]
Hint: Upon completion of the [Daoist Direct Disciple] quest, you will automatically join the Daoist Sect faction.
Hint 2: Upon completion of the quest, [Daoist Sect Shop] will be unlocked, and [Daoist Sect Character] favorability will be unlocked. You can consume favorability to learn the character's inheritance.
Hint 3: Upon completion of the quest, you will automatically transfer to a rare profession, [Maoshan Daoist Son], which is different from [Daoist Acolyte].
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