Xu Feng said, "My reputation is really worth that much?"
He simply had no idea what his reputation was worth.
Shen Jicheng explained, "Your name carries a great deal of weight now. Besides, the local gentry want someone from the Lower Nine Classes who can take charge.
"The Charity Nunneries and Charity Cemeteries need someone to oversee them too.
"You're the best choice. They get practical benefits, and according to them, so do you. You can keep any trouble under control."
The affair with the Li Brothers had shaken them all.
Xu Feng said, "I have no problem with it. It's a good chance to accumulate Yin Virtue. Do this sort of work, and even if people don't reward you, heaven will. Even if people aren't pleased, heaven will be."
These were fine sources of Yin Virtue.
As they spoke, Xu Feng's thoughts wandered again.
He thought of the Yellow River Demon Corpse, then of the Record Diagram from Three Shu Monastery.
If he followed what the Greater Calamity-Stitching Art said, would guiding and dredging the Yellow River, as Lord Wang Jing had done, count as restoring its meridians and sending away its Baleful Aura—the flowing water?
The Record Diagram came from Geomancy.
But Xu Feng could see that it had clearly been influenced by a great deal of Daoist philosophy and magic. That was why even a minor art, applied to Corpse Stitching, could produce a Stitching Calamity technique.
It could work on any scale.
But on the scale of Wang Jing's riverworks, even if Water-Walker of Three Shu Monastery came back to life, he probably could not accomplish what Lord Wang had.
And judging by On Corpses, Three Shu Monastery had indeed focused on situations like channeling Ominous Fiends.
Then there was [Greater Calamity-Stitching Art (Initial Exposure)]. This