Epic-Level Upgrade for the Young Lady
... one hour later...
Feng Xue buttoned up her clothes, a slight smile playing on her lips. Looking at the limp, seemingly melting Ouija board, she took a small wooden plaque from her pocket and handed it over.
"What, what else do you want to do?!"
Upon seeing the wooden sign Feng Xue handed her, the school uniform-clad ghost shrank back twice. Although the Preservative Film had been removed, she showed no intention of running away, as if she had completely forgotten that she was a ghost.
"Good stuff, Temporary Worker contract. After all, there's no Heavenly Court here, and you're not from the Daoist system, so we can't directly confer an ordination upon you. Just make do with this for now."
Feng Xue casually offered an explanation and then tossed the wooden plaque toward the Ouija board.
The school uniform-clad ghost watched the wooden sign fly towards her and instinctively reached out to catch it. But the next moment, as if holding a hot potato, she tossed it high into the air, yet dared not drop it, and could only keep trying to catch it with her hands.
This scene, resembling a comedic animation, lasted for about fifty seconds before the "High Temperature" on the wooden sign seemed to finally dissipate. The school-uniformed female ghost, who was gripping the sign tightly, suddenly changed her expression. Just as she was about to speak, her unsightly school uniform was immediately replaced by a flowing, ethereal ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress), and her hairstyle also changed to a classic updo.
"The Waist Token of the Beneficial Calculation Star Lord is a license to work. It's for calculating people's lifespans. Once you're on duty, don't write anything carelessly. With your temper of writing 'death' in everything you do, you might get beaten to death again."
"Ah... this... the legendary unspoken rule?" The spirit girl tilted her head slightly, looking at the wooden sign with some confusion. Feng Xue's face darkened as she said:
"How can you talk like that? You're the one who insisted on possessing me, aren't you?"
Upon hearing this, the spirit of the Ouija board burst into tears. "Who would have thought you'd be so treacherous! I am the spirit of the Ouija board! You burned incense twice and then once, and didn't even send me away, you even lit White Candle, and in the end you blame me? Someone of your status should be able to divine the secrets of heaven directly, what kind of business is it to ask the spirit of the Ouija board for? And you know I can only write my own death, did you give me the job of calculating lifespan just to hope I make a mistake so you can kill me!"
"Good heavens, you dare accept the Star Lord of Life and Death? Do you, a schoolgirl, want to be the Emperor Wenchang or the Ziwei Star Lord? Or how about I make you a judge? And then you'll bring a Monkey down with you?"
Feng Xue rolled her eyes, then pulled out a few more wooden tokens from her pocket, looking like she was ready to give them to anyone who asked. The spirit girl, who initially had little understanding of the Star Lords, immediately cowered upon hearing these names, clutching the Temporary Worker Waist Token for the Beneficial Calculation Star Lord to her chest and weakly saying:
"This is good enough. I'm pretty good at math. Hmm, it's just calculating lifespan, does it really require calculus?"
"Alright, come back into the pen." Feng Xue waved the expensive fountain pen. The pen spirit looked down at her new clothes, and finally nodded, turning into a wisp of green smoke and disappearing back into the pen.
Believe it or not, the changes after being granted a divine position were immediate. For one thing, the chilling aura disappeared instantly, and even the special effects changed to wisps of smoke.
"By the way, where are your ancestral graves? I'll plant you in one of them sometime tomorrow; that'll be a sign of good fortune coming from your ancestral graves."
Feng Xue flicked her finger, and the pen spun nimbly at her fingertip. The spirit residing within the pen was annoyed by the spinning, but dared not speak loudly, and could only weakly say:
"What ancestral graves do I have? I don't even know who I am!"
"You're good at math, aren't you? Why don't you calculate your own results?"
Feng Xue pulled a bottle of Infinite City Phantom Object from her waist pouch and gulped it down. The Ouija board spirit, however, was completely taken aback by this remark and sprang out of the pen, half-floating outside like a genie, angrily shouting:
"Don't you know you can't ask about someone's past life or cause of death through a Ouija board? Don't think you can break taboos just because you're strong! Ouija boards have dignity too!"
"Oh." Feng Xue nodded indifferently. The spirit girl immediately lost her confidence, hesitated for a moment, and then said even more timidly:
"Hey, how about you give me something I can do? Like asking about tomorrow's weather? Or asking what's for lunch?"
"You can even predict what we'll have for lunch?" Feng Xue's eyes widened in disbelief. Seeing this, the Ouija board spirit immediately puffed out her chest, beaming with pride.
"I can't say anything about marriage or future prospects, but these things are quite simple. Let me calculate... Hey? Are you having hot pot for lunch today? Speaking of which, they have hot pot here?"
"Oh, then instant noodles will do for lunch today." Feng Xue shrugged, clipping her expensive fountain pen to her chest. Upon hearing this, the pen spirit immediately objected and retorted angrily:
"This is so pointless. Besides, I've already figured it out. You're bound to eat hot pot. Even if you want to eat something else, you won't be able to for various reasons. Even if you're determined not to eat, at least you'll get a bite of hot pot."
Feng Xue looked at the spirit girl with a slight concern. She checked the effect of the expensive fountain pen again, and after confirming that there were no new changes, she asked suspiciously, "Is it really that powerful?"
"Yes, my ability is divination. I'm either inaccurate or I'm wrong, but once I'm right, unless a power stronger than my divination ability directly intervenes, it will definitely come true. To put it this way, if I predict that someone will die on a certain day ten years from now, then before that day arrives, no matter if that person is beheaded, has their heart ripped out, is burned, drowned, or even sent to outer space, they will live until that day. Of course, most of the time I can't predict the exact date of death."
"It doesn't sound that strong, considering your strength is only so-so." Feng Xue pursed her lips, suddenly wondering if she should take out the Ghost Hand to show it off. After all, in the Supernatural World, the Ghost Hand, which can do anything, is incredibly powerful. The only problem is that it's not very easy to control.
"Don't underestimate me!" The spirit girl was furious. She glared and tried to make a terrifying face like a vengeful ghost, but she was now a member of the divine staff. Although she was Temporary Worker, there were still requirements for her appearance. No matter how fierce she Claim Life, she only exuded an aura of majesty, without any hint of sinister terror.
However, this Ouija board player clearly lacked awareness of this, and she forcefully adopted an angry demeanor, shouting:
"Although my strength is not that great, divination is not calculated according to the diviner's strength, but according to the divination system. In the past, I was a supernatural diviner, and the algorithm was the rule of the entire supernatural system, so it would manifest supernatural phenomena such as 'not dying even if chopped into mincemeat before death arrives.' Now that I have this, I also need to add the Star Lord system, so to break through my divination, I must break through the supernatural system and the astrological system of this world at the same time."
"..." Hearing the words of the Ouija board, Feng Xue did not refute them, but began to think about them.
He was certain that this was not the original setting of the Ouija board, or rather, the pen itself was actually a kind of death flag. As long as you played with the Ouija board, you would inevitably be attacked by it. The Ouija board was just a derivative without any special characteristics, and it was absolutely impossible for it to have such a priority that was almost "powerful". This could be seen from the fact that he couldn't even find a single drop of liquid after summoning the Ouija board in the Infinite City.
"So, the reason why the Ouija board can maintain such a high degree of personification even after I remove the Gynomorphic Filter is probably a problem with this world... or to be more specific, it's because some force in this world is giving the ghost its 'setting'."