Innate Filth Saint Body

Chapter 21: Innate Filth Saint Body

Wu Xian paused.

"It's not over yet?"

Shi Ji nodded with a grim expression, "Yes, if I go to the toilet, evil spirits will still come looking for me."

Wu Xian narrowed his eyes. He had discovered a blind spot.

When he was cursed before, he only encountered one evil spirit, Mr. Wang.

Although Shi Ji's curse was a 'bestowal of evil,' it was a negative effect of the same level. It should have only affected one evil spirit. Why were more evil spirits coming for him?

"Shi Ji, Shi Ji, you must be hiding something from me."

Some were noticed by gods and spirits before entering the blessed land, like Wu Xian. Others were favored by spirits within the blessed land due to outstanding performance, like Shi Ji.

At this point, it was impossible for Wu Xian to abandon Shi Ji.

Although favored ones could retain their memories, they could not reveal any information about the blessed land to those who were unaware in any form.

"Tell me everything you know."

Actually, there were many suspicious points about Shi Ji, but his honest appearance and sincere words and actions had made everyone, including Wu Xian, overlook them.

"My first trip to the blessed land, I'm not afraid you'll laugh, but I just muddled through. If I hadn't gotten lucky and blown up a septic tank, I wouldn't have survived."

After Shi Ji worshipped the Heavenly Official, he was 'bestowed with evil' by the Heavenly Official, carrying a filthy evil aura. The effect of this aura was to attract attacks from filthy evil spirits more easily.

Even with this rush, by the time they returned, everyone else had already gone back to their rooms. No one was waiting for them in the first-floor lobby.

Every favored one would receive an ordination certificate.

Taking advantage of this anomaly.

The 'bestowal of evil' and the 'bestowal of blessings' combined, triggering a chain reaction. Shi Ji unexpectedly attracted several more filthy evil spirits. The ordination certificate informed him that six evil spirits would attack him!

Wu Xian was startled. This guy played so dirty on his first trip to the blessed land?

"After that, I received the favor of Empress Zigu, the Toilet God, and obtained this plague-ridden 'Innate Filth Saint Body'..."

Shi Ji became anxious and reluctantly took something out from his clothes, "Alright, I'll confess. I'm not actually a beginner in the blessed land; I'm a favored one."

Talismans, divine abilities, magical artifacts, encountered evil spirits, etc... had a higher probability of being related to filth.

The sky outside darkened. Sunlight retreated from the city. In the shadows, evil spirits once again became the masters of the city. The living could only hide behind their doors, hoping the danger would not strike.

It recorded the basic data of the favored one, including talismans, divine abilities, magical artifacts, etc...

Furthermore, after leaving the blessed land, the ordination certificate also provided the favored one with notifications about the time and location of nearby blessed lands, allowing the favored one to participate voluntarily or avoid dangerous blessed lands.

However, this did not mean that favored ones could forever escape the dangers within the blessed land as long as they had an ordination certificate.

If they evaded too many times, the notifications on the ordination certificate might turn into commands. Violating the commands of the ordination certificate would lead to something more terrifying than death.

The information on the ordination certificate could only be seen by the favored one themselves.

"Okay, I can save you. The condition is that you must listen to me completely during this trip to the blessed land, and I will decide on the distribution of spoils!"

Wen Chao and Fang Zhi had decent incomes, so it was normal for them to stay temporarily at an inn to avoid delaying their journey. But Shi Ji was just a toilet cleaner. How could he afford to rent a room by the hour to wait for a car?

As an ordinary person, how could he escape from a hungry ghost that interfered with perception? Was that hungry ghost really that bad at chewing?

What reason did he have to hide from everyone about being attacked on the first day?

And what about the child wraith last night? It should have attacked every room, but why was there no palm print on Shi Ji's face?

"Ah... this is a sin... why did I agree to you!"

Fighting to sustain the fight, not only was there no loss, but it also brought greater rewards for worshipping gods.

A person favored by gods and spirits is a favored one.

But this time, the trouble lay in this bestowal of blessings.

Shi Ji was counting on Wu Xian to save him, so he didn't dare to hide anything and began to recount his experiences in the blessed land.

From Shi Ji's words, Wu Xian finally understood the concept of a favored one.

According to Wu Xian's original plan, saving Shi Ji was simple. He just needed to wait in the toilet. Kill one evil spirit that came, and kill two if they came.

"Brother Wu, I've told you everything I know. Please save me."

This could only be considered Shi Ji's bad luck.

The bestowal of blessings he possessed was called 'Innate Filth Saint Body.' Its effect was to make Shi Ji more likely to encounter filth-related events in the blessed land.

Wu Xian sneered.

"Fine, you accused me of playing dumb to catch the tiger, but it turns out you were the one hiding the most. If you don't want to talk, that's fine. We'll part ways here. I'll find my own place to stay tonight!"

This bestowal of blessings sounded demeaning, but its effect was actually very powerful.

But what no one expected was that after a day passed, they didn't encounter a single attack!

Unless Shi Ji's ordination certificate was wrong, or this 'bestowal of evil' didn't intend to send them to their deaths one by one like the Calabash Brothers, but was waiting to accumulate enough evil energy to unleash a massive attack on Wu Xian and the other guy!

Worse still, the two wasted too much time waiting for the evil spirits, leaving them no time to search for the god statues. They could only let Shi Ji quickly use the worship god opportunity gained from killing the Yisu and then hastily returned to the inn.

Soon, Wu Xian had dug up most of the information Shi Ji had, and then turned his attention to the crisis Shi Ji had encountered.

He could only squeeze into room 402 with Shi Ji, waiting hungrily for the changes that might occur tonight.

If he hadn't met Wu Xian, Shi Ji's fate would have been to drown in some cesspool. Thus, he shamelessly knelt on the ground, wiping snot and tears onto Wu Xian's pants.

That obese toilet wraith was merely the vanguard of the attack.

Wu Xian suddenly remembered that there had already been many unusual things about Shi Ji.

Shi Ji had already discarded his mop handle and was holding a katana with a red scabbard, giving Wu Xian an awkward, apologetic smile.

Inside room 402 of Ping'an Hostel, Wu Xian looked at Shi Ji helplessly.

Wu Xian closed his eyes in thought, weighing the risks and benefits. After a moment, he opened his eyes.

"I agree!"

Only the favored ones are true participants of the blessed land. Ordinary people, even if they survive until the end, will have their memories of the blessed land erased if they are not favored by the gods.

When he entered the blessed land, the information displayed on his ordination certificate also stated that he was a favored one. This suggested that Shi Ji might possess important information.

Favored One!

Shi Ji looked troubled, reluctant to answer Wu Xian's question.

The power gained by favored ones through worshiping gods tends to be random. Shi Ji's blessing, however, allows him to more easily obtain systematic abilities, making it more convenient to trigger combination effects and reducing the probability of obtaining useless items.

Wu Xian's eyes flashed.

Dream Stream Essays, Volume Twenty-One.

In the old custom, on the night of the first full moon, people would welcome the toilet god, calling her Zi Gu. It wasn't necessarily in the first month; she could be summoned at any time. When I was young, I saw children summon her casually, treating it as a game. Once, among relatives, someone summoned her and she refused to leave. I witnessed this twice, and after that, people dared not summon her anymore.

During the Jingyou era, Wang Lun, a scholar from the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, welcomed Zi Gu. A goddess descended upon his daughter, claiming to be one of the ladies of the Heavenly Emperor's harem. She was skilled in writing, and her prose was quite elegant. These writings are now called the Collection of Female Immortals and are circulated in the world. The book has several styles, with considerable calligraphic skill, but none of them are earthly scripts or seal characters. Her script names include Algae Paper Script, Sprout Gold Script, and over ten others.

Lun was an old acquaintance of my late father. I played with his sons and grandsons and personally saw their handwriting. Their family also saw her form at times, but only from the waist up, and she was a beautiful woman. Below the waist, she was always shrouded in clouds. She was skilled at playing the zither, her melodies mournful and enchanting, making listeners forget their fatigue.

She once said to the daughter, "Can you ride the clouds and travel with me?" The daughter agreed. Then, white clouds surged from her courtyard like steam, and the daughter stepped onto them, but the clouds could not bear her weight. The goddess said, "There is impure earth beneath your feet. Remove your shoes and ascend." The daughter then took off her shoes and stepped on, as if walking on silk or cotton, rising slowly to the roof and then descending. She said, "You cannot go yet. Let us arrange another day."

Later, the daughter got married, and the goddess no longer appeared. Her family experienced no fortune or misfortune.