Mythical Card Creator: Myriad Ghosts Night Parade at the Start
Chapter 7

The Reintroduced [Taoist] Sequence Card

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A. Yes

B. No

C. Unable to answer

A series of questions involving ethics, logic, morality, common sense, faith, and memory finally came to an end.

After reviewing the answers, the woman in the black trench coat smiled at Zhong Yueming. "Test passed~ Welcome back, Xiao Ming!"

Zhong Yueming also smiled in relief. "Team Leader Yang! Why did you come personally to conduct my return inspection? I have so much intelligence to report. This dungeon was absolutely hair-raising!"

The woman called Team Leader Yang smiled and came forward, spreading her arms slightly as if to give her beloved subordinate a hug.

Zhong Yueming was flattered and alarmed. When had the famously aloof Team Leader Yang become so approachable?

But just as Team Leader Yang's hand brushed against Zhong Yueming's shoulder, she immediately twisted his arm behind his back and seized him, pinning him down hard!

A deep blue radiance flashed, and a tall Nun in black appeared, holding an Iron Flail. She looked down at Zhong Yueming with contempt.

This was the Executioner Nun, Team Leader Yang's blue-grade Rare Card!

The moment Team Leader Yang even summoned her card, Zhong Yueming realized that something serious had to have happened!

"What's going on, Team Leader Yang? Didn't I pass the inspection?"

"In the Forbidden test, you chose eyeball as a positive word. Your consciousness has already been corrupted, and you didn't even notice!?"

Zhong Yueming instantly broke into a cold sweat. His Sanity Value plunged. The corruption involving the concept of eyeballs could only have come from the Eyeless Ghost!

He hurriedly confessed, "I was physically touched by the Eyeless Ghost!"

Team Leader Yang's willow brows furrowed slightly. "Physical contact? Then you were probably parasitized!"

She swiftly stripped off Zhong Yueming's shirt, revealing the young man's well-built body.

An eyeball had grown abruptly from his shoulder. It spun around and around, greedily scanning the world of the living.

The Eyeless Ghost had actually not been completely destroyed! It had secretly parasitized Zhong Yueming's body, yet he had felt nothing at all.

"Nun, use Cleansing Baptism. Wash away his sin!"

The Executioner Nun pressed down with all five fingers, condensing a cold, silvery-white holy light that shone straight onto the grotesque eyeball.

The eerie eye writhed and spasmed on Zhong Yueming's shoulder like a slug covered in salt. In the end, it tore free from his body, ripping out several capillaries with it.

Before the eyeball could even hit the ground, the Nun swung her Iron Flail, wrapped in Purging Silver Light, and crushed the eerie eye in midair.

Zhong Yueming clutched his shoulder, writhing in excruciating pain.

But what frightened him even more was the Eyeless Ghost's parasitic method.

He had been infected silently and without the slightest warning. Not only had he himself felt nothing, even a green-grade purification spell had been unable to drive out the slightest abnormality.

Thankfully, Team Leader Yang had a sharp Mind's Eye and powerful methods. Only she had been able to restrain it.

Otherwise, he would have gone wandering around with an eerie eye sticking out of his shoulder, causing even more severe corruption!

The Executioner Nun once again coldly scrutinized Little Zhong, who lay on the ground. Zhong Yueming was terrified that the card spirit's next words would be, "Guilty!"

After a while, the powerful Nun shifted her gaze away, and the solemn, oppressive atmosphere at the scene dispersed as well.

"It should be fine now. But we still have to classify your corruption as deep green grade. As usual, you'll undergo a fourteen-day isolation period, with an additional assessment every three days and an additional review every seven days.

During this time, write your dungeon report properly."

"Understood. Thank you, Team Leader Yang."

After receiving simple treatment and bandaging, Zhong Yueming hurriedly submitted the green material, Forbidden Scripture.

Once all the necessary procedures had been completed, Zhong Yueming finally found himself alone—and suddenly began worrying about Lin Chen.

He, a beginner Card Master, had been infected. Could Lin Chen, a newly initiated apprentice Card Master, have been parasitized as well?

But first, Lin Chen had never been directly touched by the Eyeless Ghost. Second, Lin Chen had a purple God Card serving as his Guardian Card!

Recalling the imposing majesty of the two Door Gods, Zhong Yueming felt that he had been worrying too much.

How could any evil spirit possibly get close to Lin Chen?

At that moment, he noticed from the corner of his eye that a ticket had appeared on the table in his dormitory at some unknown point.

When he leaned closer, he found that it was a scarlet subway ticket. Written on the card were the words: "The Coffin Train welcomes you."

He remembered what the host of Midnight Caller Radio had said when the dungeon ended: "The production team will send you a return gift. We look forward to seeing you next time~"

Damn, the Myriad Ghosts Night Parade Dungeon actually has a continuation!

The Executioner Nun makes her appearance! The author has brought the Executioner Nun along to beg for votes and follows! This is extremely important for this book's future traffic and recommendations!

The Executioner Nun sneered coldly. "If you don't vote, you are guilty!"

The Daoist Sequence Card That Has Reemerged

H City Security Bureau, Prevention and Control Department

It was still the cold-faced Team Leader Yang Moli in black. Her brows were tightly furrowed as she instructed the accompanying prevention and control personnel:

"Raise Zhong Yueming's corruption classification by another half-grade. Set it at Light Blue Grade."

"Team Leader Yang, did you discover another problem?"

"In Zhong Yueming's past files, he was an atheist. But this time, when asked whether he had Deity Worship, he answered yes.

"It's very possible that this dungeon caused him to become tainted by Evil God corruption.

"According to the principle of avoiding the names of evil gods, I didn't ask further.

"But Zhong Yueming must be placed under strict surveillance. The surveillance records must also undergo distortion processing to prevent Evil God corruption."

"Yes!"

After hearing the order, the team members immediately went to carry it out.

Team Leader Yang Moli looked somewhat weary and let out a soft sigh. "Where did yet another evil god come from?"

H City, Binjiang Street, Xin'an Residential Area

Lin Chen brought the two Door Gods back to the original owner's home in this world.

After returning to the living world and searching online, Lin Chen gained a basic understanding of this world's circumstances.

More than a century ago, the eerie forces launched a full-scale invasion of the living world, causing countless human deaths.

The surviving humans had concentrated their strength to develop card technology capable of housing spirits.

Using certain human heroes as their models, they visualized and replicated Heroic Spirit Cards from various sequences—Guardian Cards, Nuns, fighters, scouts, and more.

Relying on these card spirits, they had held back the invasion of the malevolent ghosts. However, humanity currently occupied only the territories of a few countries.

The rest of the world had already become one Ghost City after another, one dead land after another.

This had also caused most historical legacies to be severed and lost. Only a tiny amount of Deity Worship remained.

The humans of the present generation had survived the disaster. They were more convinced that the path to salvation lay in Heroic Spirit Cards and intelligent machinery technology.

Instead, only the harmful eerie creatures and cultists believed in gods, muttering about them in a "superstitious" manner.

As a result, the public had an extremely poor impression of mythology, believing that unknown gods were equivalent to evil spirits.

The previous generation's religious legacy had been severed, while this generation utterly loathed mythology.

Lin Chen finally understood why the Benevolent God had received no response: the soil for faith had already been lost.

He made another discovery. The original owner had actually been a wild, third-rate Card Master.

As a Card Master, he was bound to have card materials at home. Lin Chen immediately began searching.

The first thing he found was an especially conspicuous scarlet subway card on the table. It read, "Welcome aboard the Coffin Train."

"What terrible luck!"

Lin Chen also realized that this was the next dungeon after the Myriad Ghosts Night Parade Dungeon.

Summons from eerie dungeons were compulsory. No matter how one tried to escape, there was no getting away. Being given a preview was already a sign of a conscientious dungeon.

"So I'm supposed to thank them too, huh?"

The next dungeon hung overhead like a sword, ready to descend at any unknown moment.

Lin Chen could not rely on just one Door God Card. Raising his strength was urgent—he had to create more cards!

He finally found a card-making table in the workshop. Blank Cards and various materials were spread all over it.

Lin Chen's first thought was whether he could replicate another Door God Card, directly copying the ready-made answer he already had.

After all, Zhong Yueming had suggested it to Lin Chen in the dungeon. Once they returned to the living world, he wanted to replicate Lin Chen's Door God Card.

The replicated cards could be used by more people, protecting them from the eerie creatures' ravages. Lin Chen could also make a fortune from the card's royalties!

Now that he had the conditions, Lin Chen immediately gave it a try, repeating the previous card-making process and visualizing Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong...

But the replication failed.

Lin Chen then tried visualizing the images of other Door Gods, such as Zhong Kui and Shen Tu and Yu Lei...

The replication still failed.

"Then it isn't a problem with the visualized image. Why could I make it in the dungeon but not now? What conditions were different back then?"

After carefully comparing the two situations, he found the answer. It was the worship at the City God Temple!

Lin Chen concluded, "It's incense. I added the power of incense!"

At the time, Lin Chen had already felt that after the worship, he had received the blessing of the City God Temple's incense.

If the accumulation was counted from the beginning of the eerie invasion, then there had been more than a century of accumulated incense!

No wonder a few green- and white-grade materials had been enough to create a purple card!

Now that he had no incense, the replication of the God Card failed.

It seemed that incense was the key element in awakening a spirit and turning it into a God Card.

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