Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra

What did the Year Wraith look like?

What abilities did it have?

How could they avoid or deal with the Year Wraith?

There was no information at all. How were they supposed to deal with it?

Tang Zhixue kept complaining to himself. Unable to hold back, he opened the chat channel and started venting.

[Tang Zhixue: I'm seriously at a loss. I got Door God Protection, and then a Year Wraith that ignores Door Gods shows up. What the hell is this?!]

[Exactly, exactly. I got Door God Protection too. This is so annoying.]

[My reward was [Blessing], but the problem is that I have to sleep until tomorrow before I can receive the dream blessing...]

[Fang Yunxi: Has nobody noticed that the text for this second event is a little different in color from the first one?]

[What do you mean?]

[Is there a difference?]

"Hm? The text is different?"

Tang Zhixue suddenly remembered that he seemed to have seen a faint blue glow flowing across the text earlier, but the text describing this second event didn't seem to have that effect.

"Now that I think about it, this is starting to get interesting..."

[Yuan Lexian: I noticed that too.]

[Wen Yue: Unless my eyes are playing tricks on me, the text had a blue glow during the first event.]

[Tang Zhixue: I suddenly have a wild theory.]

[A wild theory? What theory?]

[Curious.]

[Curious +1.]

[Tang Zhixue: Well, you've all noticed that some things display [Blue Star's Gift], right?]

[Fang Yunxi: I did notice that.]

[Xu Muqiu: The Shelter Crystal, for one, displays [A gift from the Blue Star World].]

[Tang Zhixue: Then tell me, could what's happening now be a collision between two worlds? Could the two of them suddenly be fighting over the rights to be this world's principal entity?]

[Two worlds?]

[The rights to be the world's principal entity?]

[Well, I have to admit, that is a wild theory.]

[How can we be sure it's two worlds?]

[Tang Zhixue: Hehe, I've read a lot of novels, so my imagination runs wild. I was just throwing it out there.]

[Fang Yunxi: Then I'll keep this wild theory going and imagine some more. Could our current situation be because two worlds are merging? And the consciousnesses of the worlds are devouring each other?]

[Tang Zhixue: Haha, great minds think alike, miss.]

[Tang Zhixue: Haven't you noticed that the first event was basically just handing us a reward? There was no difficulty at all in putting up a Door God picture.]

[Xu Shi: Cousin, even if that's really the case, it doesn't seem like there's anything we can do about it, does it? Besides, that so-called Year Wraith is about to arrive...]

Xu Shi's message brought the channel's discussion back to the new Spring Festival event.

Tang Zhixue also furrowed his brows as he read everyone's complaints.

According to the event description, the Year Wraith was impossible to guard against and had no concrete form at all.

"A bodiless ghost... how can we... Wait, the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra?"

[Luo Hongcai: I saw a Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra online earlier. It said it could purify the environment, sweep away ill omens, and fill the world with righteous energy. Of course, I don't know if it actually works. We might as well try it and see.]

[Luo Hongcai: Heaven and Earth, nature itself; defilement and evil energy, disperse. The cavern's mysterious void, bright and vast, the Great Origin... Quickly, quickly, obey the command!]

[Xu Shi: Thanks, brother!]

[Yuan Lexian: Thanks, brother!]

[Tang Zhixue: Thanks, brother!]

[Fang Yunxi: Thanks, brother!]

[Xu Muqiu: Thanks, brother!]

Just as Luo Hongcai had said, they had no way to deal with the ghosts, so all they could do now was try and see.

Tang Zhixue carefully memorized the entire Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra.

"Whoa!"

He suddenly let out an exclamation.

[Obtained secret mantra-"Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra"!]

[Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra · Not yet initiated (0/1)]

Without the slightest hesitation, Tang Zhixue began reciting it aloud. "Heaven and Earth, nature itself; defilement and evil energy, disperse. The cavern's mysterious void, bright and vast, the Great Origin... Quickly, quickly, obey the command!"

After one recitation, he successfully entered the mantra's first stage, but he didn't feel any change in his surroundings.

"Did it not work? It must be because my proficiency is too low, right?"

Tang Zhixue wasn't discouraged. He continued reciting.

Once, twice...

Tang Zhixue had no idea exactly how many times he had recited it. He only knew that as he recited the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra, he gained new insights into it.

At first, one recitation took him about twenty or thirty seconds, but as his understanding deepened, the time it took gradually increased.

Time passed, and midnight drew closer. The Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra's proficiency also rose rapidly.

Suddenly!

"Let the baleful filth disperse; let the Dao's energy endure. Quickly, quickly, obey the command!"

As Tang Zhixue's voice fell, a flash of golden light spread rapidly from his body in every direction, then quickly vanished.

[Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra · Proficient (1/200)]

"So after the first stage comes proficiency? But does the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra only take effect once it's proficient?"

Tang Zhixue couldn't have mistaken what he saw. That flash of golden light just now couldn't have been an illusion.

"Right, I wonder if anything has changed..."

He hurriedly opened the Shelter panel.

Tang Zhixue had learned from everyone's chat earlier that the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra drew on the Celestial Venerable's divine power and the power of the Eight Directions' Divine Might to sweep away the evil filth between Heaven and Earth, filling it with righteous energy, thereby purifying the environment and protecting body and mind.

[Shelter: Blazing Sun]

[Level: Level 1 (1/100)]

[Function: Regional Trading]

[Building: Martial Arts Space]

[Effect: Door God Protection · First Tier, Purification · Temporary]

"It really worked!"

[Purification · Temporary: Dispels dark energy, slays evil and ghosts, and purifies Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy. A temporary effect of the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra. Lasts for one hour.]

Although it only lasted for an hour, Tang Zhixue was very satisfied with this effect.

Door God Protection merely kept ghosts from entering the door, while Purification could slay evil and ghosts as well as improve the surrounding environment.

Tang Zhixue opened the regional chat channel, found Luo Hongcai, and chose to add him as a friend.

[Tang Zhixue: Brother Luo, let's add each other as friends. I'll send you some White Melons.]

[???]

[What's going on?]

[Why is Cousin sending Old Luo White Melons?]

[Could it be...]

[Wow, I don't dare imagine...]

[Making things even harder?]

[Luo Hongcai: Uh, Cousin, I don't mind adding you as a friend, but I'm into women.]

[Tang Zhixue: ??? I'm into women too, okay?! I'm sending you White Melons because the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra you shared worked!]

[!!! That mantra worked?!]

[Seriously?!]

[No way. I recited it for ages and nothing happened.]

[Tang Zhixue: It really works. My Shelter has gained a Purification effect, though it's only temporary.]

[Holy crap! Cousin, save me! How do I recite the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra to make it work?!]

[Help, Cousin!]

[Cousin, teach me! I can give you flint.]