Chapter 282: Excellent Faith Template
After learning about the faith in the so-called [Flying Noodle God], the greatest benefit was nothing more than ‘creating something from nothing’, summoning up to [52 barrels/year] of barrel instant noodles out of thin air, Yuan Zhu couldn’t help but feel greatly disappointed by this.
He couldn’t help but complain: “The other [deities] you believe in each have their reasons, I won’t say more about that. But isn’t this [Flying Noodle God] a bit too hasty? Just 52 barrels of instant noodles can be bought directly from the shop for only 13 yuan. Yet you [Noodle God] believers have to pay the price of persistent, endless prayers throughout the year. It’s way too not worth it!”
The brother and sister nearby listened in confusion, only knowing that without doing anything, just chanting the [deity]’s name a few times in their hearts, they could claim a free meal every week. This was truly awesome!
However, for any Du Ling commoner, this bit of minor favor was really not presentable. Even in Running City, where the living standards were far inferior to Taixi, who couldn’t come up with a mere 13 yuan?
Instant noodles were originally food for the poor, and just over 50 barrels a year couldn’t even attract the bottom poor people. Nie Yin choosing such a [faith] and persisting for 4 years seemed like a sign of dementia in his view.
Seeing Yuan Zhu’s intense reaction, Frog Killer Girl couldn’t help but explain a couple of sentences: “Believing in [Flying Noodle God], as long as you persist in praying for 1 month. In addition to the usual one barrel of noodles per week, you can also claim (summon) one free standalone [seasoning packet] every day. If you extend the prayer time by 4 times, you can claim two seasoning packets per day. The highest limit cannot exceed 3 (9 times prayer time).”
Yuan Zhu asked puzzledly: “Without the [noodles], what’s the use of claiming just a standalone [seasoning packet]?”
Nie Yin had a weird expression, her gaze flickering, looking left and right without meeting his eyes, weakly saying: “[Flying Noodle God] provides 36 different flavors of powerful seasoning packets. And [Frog School] produces a large amount of used-up ‘frog experimental waste’ every day. Just combine ‘experimental waste and powerful seasoning packet’, and you get a delicious and hearty [frog stew pot], with 36 flavors to choose from, no repeats even after eating for half a month.”
“Gulp, gulp…”
Nie Yin had just casually mentioned it, but Yuan Zhu heard the undignified sound of swallowing saliva in his ears.
Although he had never seen a [seasoning packet], nor knew what a frog was like in terms of texture, but being able to freebie precious spices every day, and pick up ‘meat’ ignored by others from the trash can, the material life in this upper realm was indeed extremely abundant!
Thinking of the previous [Tuesday Discount Alliance], combined with the current ‘free seasoning packet + experimental garbage = frog stew pot’. Yuan Zhu’s gaze toward her instantly became warm and pitying.
What a thrifty and good girl who knows how to pick up experimental garbage to eat, she seems very easy to raise.
Nie Yin instead couldn’t stand Yuan Zhu’s pitiful gaze and retorted: “Besides enriching meal flavors, I chose [Flying Noodle God] also because it is weak and newly born. Powerful [deities] are far from believers, and you can’t deepen the connection just because you want to. Whereas weak new gods like [Noodle God] allow for deeper research, exploration of equivalence, even transformation into one’s own ‘cultivation origin’. Forcibly extracting supernatural pollution through ‘faith connection’, treating the other as cultivation material.”
Hearing this, Yuan Zhu suddenly wasn’t sleepy anymore: “Mortals can also reverse-scam and hijack deities?”
Nie Yin: “Ordinary people can’t, but university students can. As long as hiding in the [Rain Courtyard] campus, one can borrow the academy’s status to counter such [business minor gods], explore and extract the other’s power. My connection with the other is already tight enough, but limited by my own strength, otherwise I could completely use ‘the other’ as the ritual origin to perform ‘summon demonic creatures’.”
Yuan Zhu asked curiously: “Mortal-level ‘daily faith’ can also summon ‘demonic creatures’? What monster is it?”
According to his understanding of the ‘supernatural world’, civilian-level [annual faith] could at most rub some mundane-level life benefits.
It was impossible to casually believe in a [new god] and jump to a higher level, summoning ‘demonic creatures’ to fight out of thin air. That was already the scope of ability users.
Nie Yin replied: “Ordinary people naturally can’t do it, this involves [supernatural ritual], requiring corresponding ‘supernatural knowledge reserve’ to achieve. As for the summoned ‘demonic creature’, it’s the one barrel of instant noodles per week. You can inject [divine power (pollution)] into it, temporarily activating it into a lump that can’t hit or withstand hits ‘noodle monster’. Many professors like using ‘small noodle monsters’ to chum in the lake… Although combat power can be stomped to death with one foot, it is a genuine ‘polluted monster’.”
Yuan Zhu: “…” What was I expecting just now?!
Snake Snake, who had been absorbing new knowledge, couldn’t help whispering: “A ‘demonic creature’ that ordinary people can stomp to death with one foot is indeed like a ‘trash’ that folk faith can summon! But the mystery behind it is not in the strength or weakness of the trash, but that ordinary people, without borrowing ‘supernatural power’, can summon demonic creatures from [deities] to descend to the human world.”
Yuan Zhu suddenly spoke up: “Wait! That’s not right, you said this ‘small noodle monster’ is a pure demonic creature but actually very weak. Why don’t you dare summon it? They shouldn’t threaten you at all.”
Nie Yin: “When stealing divine power through faith connection exploiting vulnerabilities, one will also be [polluted]. I have complete knowledge and full set of techniques, but that doesn’t mean I’ll summon a few meaningless [noodle monsters] just to satisfy curiosity, getting targeted by the ‘deity’, even eroded and marked. But now that I’ve signed the [Anti-Law], I can try it.”
Thinking of the ‘noodle monsters’ that mentors in the academy use for chumming, small lumps that are quite cute. She suddenly felt she should try it too.
Previously she only watched others play, now she also qualified to make others (brother and sister) envious.
After this exchange, Nie Yin’s faith list only had the last three left. Yuan Zhu also further analyzed and recognized her character from her faith content. A thrifty, down-to-earth, pragmatic, non-vain normal person.
At this time, Nie Yin habitually reported: “[Skilled Artisan] is a protective god presiding over: tailoring, carving, surgery… etc., all hand-related fields involving precise operations. Believing in [Skilled Artisan] can increase hand dexterity and stability, better completing work.”
Yuan Zhu immediately thought of Nie Yin’s near-Taoist skill, the [frog nemesis] skinning technique.
In the blink of an eye, she could instinctively sever the frog’s spinal nerves, the surgical knife quickly circling the neck once, smoothly twisting off the head (discard), and with the technique of turning a sock inside out, peel the frog’s bloody (muscular) body from the ‘skin’ clothing.
The whole process flows smoothly like water, you don’t even have time to react, and she only later realizes, lowering her head to look at the already headless skinned ‘frog’, and her clean white little hands unstained by a drop of blood, lost in thought:
Huh? What happened? Isn’t this the pet I was going to take home to raise? Why not wearing clothes (skin)? Where did the head go?
Under her introduction, not only [Frog School]. Other academies in [Rain Courtyard], such as [Gemstone System, Steam Alchemy School], also have students choosing [Skilled Artisan].
Through [Skilled Artisan]’s blessing, Nie Yin not only practiced a skill in skinning, but also greatly enhanced her ‘tailoring, tattooing’ and other talents. Clearly just an ordinary person, yet mastering [tattooing technique, frog skin wallet tailoring talent] stepping into the ‘supernatural domain’.
And recalling his predecessor’s experiences, the ‘deity believers’ around him were all ordinary people. He hadn’t heard of any who could break mortal limits through ‘faith’ blessings, displaying ‘extraordinary’ talents.
“[Blood Ink]…”
When chanting this name, Nie Yin’s voice suddenly paused, her expression toward Yuan Zhu full of hesitation, as if making some determination: “[Blood Ink] is an illegal ‘forbidden evil god’, existing in the [Bubble Layer], a dangerous target strictly prohibited by the academy and even Security Bureau.”
Hearing this, Yuan Zhu was slightly surprised at first, but soon felt this was right, fitting his stereotype of Nie Yin.
A thrifty, good housekeeper, hardworking, diligent studying ‘three good student’ didn’t match Frog Girl’s current situation.
She was withdrawn and isolated, ostracized by students. Due to unstable mental state, multiple interview failures. And showing strong ‘evil camp’ tendencies, with strong aggression toward frogs (torment violence, wielding knife at the weak, venting negative emotions, self-regulation).
For such her, how could she only be believers of [righteous gods]? Without some ‘stimulating minor faith’ matching her mental state, it would be unfair to the countless frogs dead by her hand. ([Frog God of Destiny]: I have no objection, kill as you please…)
Seeing Yuan Zhu had little resistance to her revelation, instead showing a relieved, ‘I’m finally satisfied’ mysterious smile.
Frog Girl’s affection level began subtly fluctuating upward, then quickly dived -1, -1… Yuan Zhu secretly thought, indeed an unpredictable mental illness.
He had [Anti-Law. Affection Level System], yet couldn’t grasp her. Thinking if he transmigrated with a [romance system] at start, he’d probably dog-die at lightspeed.
Candle: “How is this [Blood Ink] evil?”
“[Blood Ink] is an old-school evil god faith, also a classic faith object in the ‘evil supernatural camp’. For those supernatural beings stepping on the [forbidden path], [Blood Ink] is one of the basic faiths. Roughly one in every 100 has a believer.”
Yuan Zhu: “Is this one very strong?”
Nie Yin tried to summarize: “It’s not about strong or weak, but the ‘domain’ it presides over is very important to supernatural beings. [Blood Ink] as the name suggests, this demon likes brewing blood into [ink ingots] with vicious magic power. And in [Bubble Layer, Spirit Layer, Present World, Sea of Consciousness, Star Realm…] widely spreads [ink-making] methods.”
“You should be able to imagine, this kind of [blood ink] containing super strong (pollution) magic power, in drawing magic seeds, writing scrolls, drawing talismans, writing articles…, how broad a role it plays? Therefore [Blood Ink] is widely believed in, without needing to deepen connection, can borrow the other’s [status] to ‘make ink’ for one’s own sacrifices.”
Under Nie Yin’s hint, those truly walking the evil illegal path [forbidden origin. ability users] usually go mad using kin to brew [blood ink]. Such ‘blood ink’ rich in ultimate sin has very cheap cost-performance, and can be widely traded in underground circles.
Although Nie Yin has long persisted in believing in [Blood Ink], she is undoubtedly a rare clean, just, kind variety. Her [blood ink] brewing always revolves around ‘polluted magic frogs, laboratory scraps’.
Because of long-term persistent [ink-making], though an ordinary person without deep contamination by certain [pollution]. But still through connection with [Blood Ink], self-taught the secret transmission 《Five Elements Ink Solution》.
Frog Killer Girl, after daily work (cleaning laboratory), would select some particularly special corpses (special pollution) from discarded ‘frogs’, as well as relatively clean ones.
Harmless frogs, used for double-queue with [Flying Noodle God], making delicious small hotpot.
Harmful frogs, further bled to collect blood. Then under [Skilled Artisan]’s blessing, precisely peel out the five organs. Clean them, ready for use.
Then according to own needs, ask for small amount of ‘medicinal herbs’ scraps from neighboring [School of Dangerous Botany]. Return and grind proportionally based on these herbs’ ‘five elements attribute’.
Next, mix different ‘five elements. compound herb powders’ with polluted frog blood, re-inject into five organs; and with [Skilled Artisan blessing] stitch the organs, install organs for frog corpses.
Finally, final stitching on the headless frog corpses. And based on the deceased (frog)’s death time birth chart, choose different ‘burial’ methods. With corpse-nurturing method, let blood ink, herb powder, and five elements organs fuse, settle, sun dry into ‘five elements ink ingots’.
When auspicious time comes, take out, each different frog’s ‘five organs blood ink’ as a set, mark them. When needed, re-grind and dissolve the ‘five organs blood ink’, possessing inconceivable ‘magic power’.
Nie Yin said, since being adopted and recruited by [Frog School], she started believing in [Blood Ink], earning living expenses and maintaining learning’s extraordinary material fees by making ‘frog blood ink ingots’ and selling on black market.
But she also couldn’t mass-produce, bulk sell to make big money. Because overly deepening connection with [Blood Ink] is not good, would be noticed by outside. Small quantity production won’t attract dual attention from [Blood Ink] and [Rain Courtyard].
Yuan Zhu intuitively felt this sneaky behavior style matched her mental state very well. Seems a bit mad, actually steady as old dog, timid as mouse, low-key and law-abiding.
“How did you hide your persistent faith in [Blood Ink] from the outside all these years? Annual legal faiths have to be submitted.”
Nie Yin counter-asked: “Haven’t you heard of [anonymous]? The federation must respect believers’ privacy, some deities are not suitable for public!”
Yuan Zhu immediately showed an ‘Oh~!’ I get it subtle expression. Just like some packages on Taobao need to be anonymous, same reason.
Therefore [evil faith] can openly mix in the ranks of various ‘anonymous benevolent gods’. Local residents’ creativity is indeed infinite!
Candle at this moment had learned to extrapolate: “The last [Crimson Ripper] as finale faith, just from the name sounds very fierce, right?”
Nie Yin gave the employer a meaningful glance, nodded and admitted: “[Crimson Ripper] is a horror legend that suddenly rose in the West Coast area. After years of precipitation, birthed the corresponding [Hell system. demon]. I’ve believed in this one since childhood, second only to [Destiny. Sheep Mother]. Not to become a believer, just as a ‘protective talisman’.”
“Under [Ripper]’s blessing, I can easily handle all kinds of experiments in [Frog School]. But more importantly, the continuously deepening ‘faith connection’. Once I choose to join [Hell system], and invest the accumulations gained from faiths in [Destiny. Frog God], [Sheep Mother], [Skilled Artisan], [Blood Ink] etc. into it, I can erupt considerable ‘power reinforcement’ in short time.”
Unlike Yuan Zhu who never considers long-term plans, changes faith list every year like normal residents. Nie Yin’s [faith list] has only a few, sometimes replaced midway, but shortest persistence is over 3 years.
And those long-term persistent faiths will accumulate five elements ‘points’ on different [deities]’ platforms. These blessings, when she chooses to step on some ‘supernatural system’ with relevance, will turn into fuel, greatly boosting her achievements in that [system].
Just like scholars in Yang God world, accumulating literary attainment daily, suddenly enlightenment, soul strength already meets standard. Quickly advance in short time.
Snake Snake: “Boss, she’s pointing at you! She’s using [Crimson Ripper] to warn you!”
Snake Snake obviously comprehended, the other had misunderstood their boss hinting at her staying overnight before. Now bringing up [Hell evil god]. Warning Boss not to mess around, otherwise she could also suddenly enlighten, ascend to [Hell]!
