Yang-Gathering Spirit Aspect

Aside from the remnants of the Municipal Council, the report mainly discussed the Plague Cult.

Apart from its combat personnel, most of the cult's members were specialists and biotechnology engineers, with a small number of cult fanatics among them.

Through their research, they had realized that the biotechnology and equipment they currently possessed were hardly enough to overcome their technological bottlenecks. So they had taken another approach, seeking to create a god that belonged entirely to their own cult.

Their original intention had not been to make a god for themselves to worship, but to create a being that could offer unlimited possibilities on the mental plane and help them bypass technical difficulties and barriers.

Simply put, corporations could employ active consciousness entities to serve them. Without that technology or the vast logistical support system it required, they could only take an unconventional path and make up for that deficiency by sustaining an evil god.

Chen Chuan looked through the report. The plan had first been conceived twenty years earlier, and its implementation had begun in Jianzhi Year 79 after they found a suitable candidate.

The origins of the first ritual operator were highly mysterious. All they knew was the code name "Red Phoenix." According to the Plague Cult's testimony, she might have been a woman.

The Plague Cult had taken this matter very seriously and invested considerable resources in it, but the ritual had ultimately failed, and the woman's whereabouts had remained unknown.

Then came the events of three years ago. Painter had arrived in Central City and, through an introduction from a certain client, become the officiant of the Plague Cult's new ritual.

According to the investigation, Painter's real name was Ji Yueshan, and he came from Chuanxi Path. From childhood, he had studied some rites of the