Chapter 715: Everything has its cause, man-made disasters are eliminated

the next day.

One by one, the foot soldiers woke up from nightmares, soaking wet and gasping for breath just like the night before.

I couldn't help but touch my chest.

The heart was swallowed, and the "crystallized bone marrow" filled the heart, piercing the internal organs, bones and skin, bringing pain that was worse than death.

A desperate plea for mercy, a humble implore.

As everyone looked at each other, their bodies and teeth trembled together.

Their faces were distorted with fear and anger.

They looked to the side and saw that the witches seemed to have just woken up.

These witches did not have nightmares.

"We failed!" The leading shrine maiden picked up the Kagura bell on the ground and said, "Ask the chief shrine maiden for help!"

In fact, they were quite dissatisfied with the shrine's oppression of foreign merchants, which led to the birth of evil spirits.

At this moment, a warning was given.

"After this night, the evil spirit's power is likely to grow again, absorbing more of the 'evil spirit's' aura, and gradually turning the nightmare into reality."

"Now, only Narukami Taisha can protect you."

The head of the Shengjia team had a gloomy expression on his face: "Let's not even talk about the distance from the outlying island to Yingxiang Mountain. Just considering our duties, we are not allowed to leave the outlying island."

"Is there really no way your shrine can do anything?"

The shrine maidens turned a blind eye to his ugly look. The shrine had a transcendent status, independent of the Three Bugyo and not under the jurisdiction of the Kanjo Bugyo.

The witch bowed and apologized politely, "It is very rare for an evil spirit to cause so many people to have nightmares at the same time and break through the exorcism ritual."

"We ordinary witches are not capable enough, so we can only ask the great witch to exorcise the evil spirits for you."

"Your Excellency the Great Witch is of noble status and is busy with important matters. I'm afraid it's inconvenient for her to come."

"You will have to go to Narukami Taisha to meet the chief priestess on your own."

Hearing this again, the foot soldiers were furious.

But they also knew that they could not vent their anger on these witches.

"It takes too long to go back and forth to Narujin Taisha. We don't know if the evil spirits can leave the island and torture us on the way." The head of the Katsuie team looked at the fox statue in the room and said, "I will report to the Kanjo Bugyo-sama. Are you willing to use the legendary psychic summoning technique of the shrine to ask the great priestess for guidance?"

The fox fairy psychic, the chief priestess of Naruto-jin Taisha Shrine, and the chief priest of Yae Palace, as an eternal dependent, has incredible magical powers.

A shrine maiden is a medium who can accept possession by gods.

Fox fairies are not gods, but they have the ability to possess things.

However, the Kanjo Bugyo may not be able to give him such face as to invite the unpredictable and changeable Yae Palace Chief.

"We can give it a try." The witches did not refuse, but agreed ambiguously.

In order to communicate with the fox fairy priestess, one naturally needs to prepare offerings.

In addition to the common fruits, a bowl of fried tofu is also required.

Choose the time.

The witch dances in front of the fox statue to communicate with the fox spirit.

In fact, the leading witch had already dreamed of the fox fairy last night and was just pretending.

"I have communicated with the fox fairy of the palace, and the chief priestess said so..." After closing her eyes and listening, the priestess opened her eyes and looked at the person in charge of Kanjo Bugyo.

"Everything has its cause. If you eliminate the cause, you can naturally eliminate the effect."

"If merchants have no hatred or resentment, the evil spirits will disappear."

"If cause and effect are difficult to break, then evil spirits will never die."

“Misfortunes are caused by humans, so we should eliminate them with human hearts.”

In other words, the power of the evil spirits comes not only from the evil spirit's aura of the "crystallized bone marrow", but also from the hatred of the merchants. If you give up oppression and the hatred of the merchants decreases, the evil spirits will lose a source of power and will naturally become weaker.

Ideally, the evil spirits would perish.

However, the source of the evil spirit is a dead merchant. The merchant was buried in the sea, and it is impossible to find his bones for salvation. The cause and effect are difficult to break, so the evil spirit can only be weakened to a state where it can no longer harm you, but it will not completely disappear.

If it gets hated, it's likely to continue to appear.

After conveying the chief priestess's words, the priestesses left.

The solution has been given, it depends on whether the Kanjo Bugyo will do it.

See whether money is more important or life is more important.

The foot soldiers were full of hesitation, but after interpreting the words of the shrine maiden, the answer became very clear: to reduce taxes, to reduce the unreasonable rules and deliberately increased taxes back to normal standards.

But this is not for them to decide.

Leader Katsuie also knew that the matter of crystallized bone marrow involved the cooperation between the Kanjo Bugyo and another force, the Winter Faints.

"The Fatui should also help in this matter and exorcise the evil spirit for us." This thought popped into his mind, and he went out to find the Kanjo Bugyo-sama.

"Descend a little first and see the state of the evil spirits tonight." After understanding what happened, the Kanjo Bugyo-sama did not want all his men to die, so he said so.

As a big shot, his subordinates would show respect to him for everything they did, and he also had a share of those Moras. It's a bit of a pity now.

Turn around and send someone to contact the Fatui.

However, he did not hold out much hope, as the Fatui, from the executive officers to their subordinates, were all arrogant and would never come to help with such a thing.

The most likely response is, "You can handle this kind of thing yourself."

Inazuma, the International Chamber of Commerce.

Jiang Yi, Ying and Paimeng were chatting.

"Did you see the chief priestess of the Naruto-taisha Shrine at the exorcism last night?" Paimeng asked curiously after listening to Jiang Yi's account of last night's experience.

"Yes, one of her consciousnesses." Jiang Yi ate an apple. "After a friendly conversation, it was considered a success."

"The shrine is independent of the Three Magistrates and cannot interfere in government affairs, but now with the help of the evil spirit incident I created, I have a reason to ask the Kanjo Magistrate to reduce taxes on foreigners."

"But after all, it was me who plotted against the shrine. I don't know if the chief priest holds a grudge against me."

"Ah——!" Ying said worriedly, "Then the other party may not cooperate."

"No! Even if the other party wants to 'retaliate', it will be for other reasons. She will definitely cooperate in this matter." Jiang Yi shook his head, "It can be regarded as my affirmation of her character."

At this moment, the president of the International Chamber of Commerce, Hisashi, was delighted and ran over to say, "That's great. The foot soldiers who came today extended the tax payment date for us and also lowered the tax."

Paimeng and Ying also smiled. Jiang Yi threw down the apple core and asked, "How much has it dropped?"

Kurisu said a number.

Jiang Yi touched his chin: "Looks like we'll have to continue tonight."

The resentment of the merchants is not so easy to eliminate, at least it should be reduced to normal standards.

This Onmura demon will stay here and have some fun with those tax-collecting foot soldiers.

He took out the "Record of One Hundred Ghosts" and opened it.

The "Hundred Ghosts Record" records the existence of those who survive after death, the existence of the dead who have mutated, and the existence of dead things that have become demons and monsters...

Page 1,

Yasha of the Hundred Demons.

Among the fairies among the ghosts, the rock spirits are furious, the fire spirits are responsive, and the water spirits are in trouble.

Yaksha is a fairy beast of Liyue. It is fierce and fierce in nature, killing to protect the law. It has great power, but is trapped by karma.

Generals Heart Monkey, Fire Rat and Razuraki died and became spirits. They reshaped their bodies in order to subdue the demons.

Page 2,

The Demonic Sword Demon among the Hundred Demons.

An autonomous humanoid mechanical swordsman who inherited the memories of the first master of a kendo school in Inazuma Country that was famous for its secret sword "Tengu Sho".

After being out of control and damaged, it was repaired, and under the immortal magic, dead things came to life.

The sword ghost will wander in the place where karma is severed, drive away the face of unjust death, ride on the wind and ice, draw the sword and cut down enemies from all directions.

The third page.

The Yin Mara ghost among all ghosts.

The merchant died due to oppression of heavy taxes, and turned into a ghost out of hatred. He absorbed the breath and resentment of the "evil spirit" and became stronger. Because of homesickness, he possessed a seabird and wanted to return to his hometown, but was blocked by a thunderstorm. His form was distorted, and he lost his human body and turned into a ferocious bird with huge wings and sharp claws.

His appearance is strange and terrifying, his head often shows the face of an old man, but inside he has the appearance of thousands of merchants, his eyes are burning with blue ghost lights, the light of dew lamps, he can speak human language, and can spit out evil and ominous phantom blue flames.

Its body is between reality and illusion. It can create nightmares with magic and burn people's souls with fire, gradually turning illusion into reality.

It often appears with the sea fog, likes to eat greedy food, and likes to send heavy gifts of taxes to officials.

Enlightened by people and worshipped by merchants, it carries "the anger against unreasonable rules and the homesickness of merchants" and transforms into "a kind bird soul that warns officials, resists oppression, protects merchants, and guides hometown" before losing control and becoming a demon.

Jiang Yi copied a copy of the story of the Onmura ghost and gave it to Kurisu.

"You spread this story in the form of rumors in secret, and turn it into a legend that started from the outlying islands. This will ensure that your merchants will be protected for generations when they do business abroad, and will receive help from the Yinmo Luo ghosts when they are unreasonably oppressed."

The hatred towards officials and the devout belief in gods are essentially the same. They are both the power of human hearts, which can be transformed into substance and enable special beings to grow and become stronger.

Now that the Yinmora ghost has lost his own blessing, it is not strong enough and can only gain strength through this story.

It would be better if there were merchants offering sacrifices.

After reading it, Kurisu wrote down the words, bowed respectfully, and burned the paper.

The initial birth of rumors needs to be secretive, and no evidence can be left.

"Thank you, Mr. Jiang Yi."

It is a blessing for foreign merchants to have such a powerful and mysterious being to help them.

The Yinmara demon general will be a sword hanging over the heads of those officials.

"If you need any help in the future, just let me know," Kurisu promised.

"Well, if I want to buy something in the future, I will look for you, the president of the International Chamber of Commerce, to act as a go-between." Jiang Yi said with a smile.

Now, Inazuma is in isolation, and the president of the International Chamber of Commerce cannot do anything.

In the future, merchants will inevitably form alliances, and the truth of the story can be secretly passed on and turned into human feelings.

This favor is extremely useful whether you use it yourself or the Lingshan Sect.

Merchants from the seven countries represent the trade routes and connections of the seven countries.

Are you still worried that you won’t be able to buy things?

the next day.

After a night of torture, taxes were indeed reduced again.

The Kanjo Bugyo was compassionate and could not bear to see foreign merchants living in such hardship, so he adjusted the taxes.

The taxes were returned to Mora, and they had to purchase the "Crystallized Bone Marrow" themselves.

If we leave these ores with the aura of the "evil spirit" to these merchants, I feel that the evil spirit will become stronger and stronger.

Moreover, some foot soldiers suffer from a fear of "crystallized bone marrow" and need psychological counseling.

After drinking a sip of tea, Jiang Yi, Ying and Paimeng walked out of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Outside, Thomas was waiting.