153: The world outside Da Yan
Seeing Granny Chen rush over to control the situation, Lin Chuping no longer paid attention to the outside and instead excitedly discussed his gains with Tong Ge.
“Cough cough!”
“Tong Ge, I must have earned a lot of Faith Value this time, right?”
“Ding! Congratulations, Host, for killing 8,308,940 Demon Soldier-level Ghouls! Rewarding 830 million Faith Value!”
“Wait… eight million?”
Lin Chuping's Divine Sense vibrated intensely within the idol. Eight million ghouls?
That number was enough to plough through the entire Yan Province's population hundreds of times over!
“Tong Ge, are you sure you didn't miscalculate?”
“Yan Province doesn't even have eighty thousand living people now, so where would eight million ghouls come from?”
This era of demon chaos was even worse than an era of war. Demonic attacks and their powerful destructive force led to a rapid decrease in population in a short period, with population loss occurring at an extremely fast rate.
Even more terrifying, this kind of disaster had no end. Ten years, a hundred years, or even several hundred years of continuous destruction meant that a province's population usually had less than 80,000 people.
Unlike his previous life, where a small county could have 100,000 people.
“Host, these are accumulated over many years. Many places in Yan Province are exceptionally dry. As long as bodies were buried and not destroyed or rotted, they all turned into ghouls.”
“Awesome!”
Lin Chuping sighed, never expecting that through such a coincidence, he would benefit so greatly.
Who would ever complain about having too little Faith Value!
“Tong Ge, display my personal information page.”
“Host: Lin Chuping”
“Level: Ninth-Rank Land Deity”
“Jurisdiction: Qing Province, Yan Province”
“Divine Power: 0”
“Divine Arts: Enter Dream, Blessing, Thunder Punishment Lv2, Rain Summoning Technique”
“Items: Amulet, Nine Revolutions Soul Return Pill, Star Isolation Grand Formation * 1, Thunder Talisman * 6, Eight Gates Locking Array * 1”
“Cultivation Technique: God Cultivation Art Third Layer”
“Believer Cultivation Technique: Faith Cultivation Art”
“Faith Value: -560 million (Can be used to convert Divine Power, purchase Divine Arts)”
“System Mall: Lv2”
“The harvest is very abundant; it wasn't a waste of effort this time.”
Now his jurisdiction had more than doubled, and he also had six Thunder Talismans and an Eight Gates Locking Array sponsored by the System.
Even outside his jurisdiction, Lin Chuping wasn't as timid now.
One could say he was an existence whose personal strength was comparable to an Innate master.
However, unless it was a special circumstance, he couldn't leave his jurisdiction.
“System, are there any similar missions, like reclaiming Xu Province or Cang Province?”
“I'm not afraid of hardship, not afraid of fatigue; I'm only afraid of having no work to do. As a rural deity, I truly want to progress!”
Having tasted the sweetness, Lin Chuping became more ambitious, eyeing the lands of Xu Province and Cang Province greedily.
The System was silent for three seconds: “Host, System missions are triggered by the main System. Before they are released, the System cannot predict them.”
Alright, so that meant no.
Lin Chuping's Divine Sense slowly circulated within the idol, then he suddenly changed the topic.
“System, since there are no new missions for now… why don't you tell me about the situation south of Qing Province? And the world beyond the Great Yan Dynasty?”
The System seemed unprepared for this turn, pausing for a few seconds: “Host, why are you suddenly interested in these things?”
“Nonsense!”
Lin Chuping's Divine Sense fluctuation showed excitement, “I'm in charge of two provinces now, after all. I should at least know who my neighbors are, right? What if one day my believers run south, and I don't even know what's there? Wouldn't that be embarrassing?”
“Host, you worry too much. Unless they want to die, who would run south? That place is where even sunlight is swallowed.”
The System's mechanical voice carried a hint of helplessness, “South of Qing Province is the Ten Thousand Mountains, stretching ninety thousand li. It is entirely the territory of demons. The Ten Thousand Mountains is also known as the Lost Land.”
An ink-wash style map appeared on the light screen, with the four blood-red characters “Ten Thousand Mountains” prominently marked on Qing Province's southern border.
What shocked Lin Chuping even more was that the territory of the Ten Thousand Mountains was much larger than his jurisdiction.
How to describe it? If his current jurisdiction was like an orange, then the territory of the Ten Thousand Mountains was equivalent to a basketball.
Such a large territory, how enviable!
Unfortunately, it was already occupied.
“System, what level are the demons in the Ten Thousand Mountains?”
“Compared to the Divine Dao System, their strength is all above the Innate realm.”
The System marked several flashing red dots, “The three strongest are: the Nine-Tailed Demonic Fox of Profound Yin Cave, the Mountain-Moving Ape King of Black Wind Ridge, and the Candle Dragon of Soul-Losing Abyss. All of them possess the strength of the Spirit Sea Realm.”
Lin Chuping gasped.
What was the concept of the Spirit Sea Realm?
It was an entire major stage higher than his current Innate realm.
Any one of them could crush him like an ant, let alone his believers.
It was terrifying; Lin Chuping was scared.
“Wait!”
Lin Chuping forced himself to calm down, “Will these great demons… come north?”
“Not at the moment. The current strength of Great Yan is not enough to attract the attention of these great demons. If your believers Breakthrough to the Innate realm, it might attract their attention.”
Hearing this, Lin Chuping didn't know whether to be happy or angry.
He was safe, but why did he feel so uncomfortable?
Were they so weak that the other side didn't even have the desire to devour them?
These great demons were too rude… ah no, too rude for demons. Even a small mosquito is still meat!
“System… what about… outside the Great Yan Dynasty?”
The light screen switched to a world map. The Great Yan Dynasty occupied only a small central portion, surrounded by vast gray, unexplored areas.
Western Regions Buddhist Kingdom, Penglai Immortal Island, North Sea Demon Abyss.
Hearing these names, for some reason, Lin Chuping had a very bad premonition.
Buddhas might not necessarily be Buddhas, and Immortals might not necessarily be Immortals.
But demons were definitely true demons, and very powerful ones.
“System, I wronged the Li Imperial Family. To establish a feudal Dynasty on such a peculiar continent is truly not easy.”
Based on his knowledge from his previous life, he had disdained the Li Imperial Family. Now, it seemed this precarious feudal Dynasty was preserved by countless people risking their lives.
This world was too difficult.