Appraisal

After the Spring Festival, Wenren Sheng and his family began to get busy.

Most of them needed to accumulate merit in order to meet the Otherworldly Expert's new assessment standards.

This included Wu Shanshan, Zhao Han, Wang Wenwen, Ouyang Tian, Li Shuangyue, and Wenren De, all of whom needed to accumulate merit.

Although the hard requirements for becoming an Otherworldly Expert were now easier to meet, its prestige had not declined. Instead, it had risen sharply.

The reason was simple: Mysterious Disasters requiring experts to handle them had increased severalfold, even dozens of times over.

Yet the total number of Otherworldly Users had not explosively increased. It was still only trickling out year by year—an increase of a few, or a dozen or so.

The existing total of two to three hundred thousand had been accumulated over several thousand years of history.

Wenren Sheng did not have them help him resolve mysterious incidents, because the mysterious incidents he triggered now were, for the time being, beyond their reach in both danger and mystery.

They still needed to build themselves up.

Wenren Sheng himself continued browsing the incident list.

Perhaps it was the fresh air of the new year, but while browsing the Patrol Division's overseas incidents, he received a prompt for a mysterious incident.

"Severed Fragments: A Rift Valley Zone has appeared in the outskirts of Beiluo City on the Western Continent. Most people believe it to be geological activity caused by a Mysterious Disaster. However, they have no idea that the split earth and the lost land were not squeezed into the strata, but went to Another World."

"Mystery Points: 5000+???"

"Mysterious Components: World Severance, Spacetime Lost, ???"

At first, Wenren Sheng had been delighted to see the incident. But when he saw that its Mystery Points were at