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"": "On the outskirts, at the City God Temple.
Beneath the City God's statue, the offering table had been cleared spotless. A Clay Statue with joined arms stood upon it.
This Clay Statue was four or five times larger than the previous Day Patrol statue, about the size of a two- or three-year-old child.
The Incense Burner sat on the floor, holding three sticks of incense as long as a forearm.
Beneath the Clay Statue lay three documents, densely covered in writing.
Twisted limbs, heads, hands, and feet writhed incessantly on the Roof Beam.
Time crept by. After at least two or three hours, a larger Night Watch emerged, nearly filling the entire ceiling.
An ordinary Night Watch took the form of an evil ghost with joined arms.
This Night Watch was entirely different.
His upper body was bare, his skin wreathed in clouds of black energy. Faces could faintly be seen struggling to escape his body.
A head slowly emerged from his joined arms.
It was He Lianxin.
He Lianxin looked to be in unbearable agony. Streams of black energy bored through her head over and over, as though wearing away her will.
"The Grand Night Watch..."
Huang Zhili looked up, delight filling his eyes.
"Just as I thought... the Grand Night Watch, earth qi..."
He licked his lips, his face growing even more excited.
Earth qi came from a particular kind of ghost.
This ghost was extraordinarily unusual. Every sixty-year cycle, earth qi would surge, and the Plague Deity would burst into the mortal world.
The Plague Ghost could be called the foremost of all ghosts.
It could devour any ghost and make them submit.
A fully developed Plague Ghost could roam by daylight and command countless ghosts to venture out.
A single wisp